there were allegations that he was involved in illegally hacking a rival company and publishing the results of that. i think whether this person has an intel background or not, the message was very clear from the trump campaign. they welcomed the help of the russian government. that message was certainly sent privately by donald trump jr. in those e-mails where he said he would love to get their help. but it was also sent very publicly by the president himself, speaking quite openly, saying, hey, russians, if you re listening, hack hillary clinton s e-mails, you ll be richly rewarded and indeed the russians have been rewarded. but plainly, this russian attorney, this other third party, if they were present, they were there to both deliver a message as well as to receive a message and plainly moscow understood only too well that this is conduct that the trump campaign would really appreciate. reporter: do you know if this
security clearance, if he omitted key information, should be disqualifying. as well as mr. schiff responding that the house intelligence committee s investigation is moving frustratingly slow. schiff responding to that and calls for the former trump adviser to testify soon before his committee. congressman, what was your reaction to seeing these reports of this russian-american lobbyist being in the meet are at trump tower with donald trump jr. ? yes. another disturbing set of facts. it s alleged this additional person has backgrounds in russian intelligence. and was involved in litigation in new york where there were allegations that he was involved in illegally hacking a rival company, and publishing the results of that. i think whether this person has an intel background or not, the message was very clear from the trump campaign.
both in and outside of washington. reporter: there s also a lot of speculation that many in the cia are not going to welcome a military officer, even retired, into that organization. but if you look at general petraeus history, you find very little very few critics who will criticize his managerial or command or leadership style, and whatever general petraeus has to do to adapt to embrace the agency, i think he s goingwell-. as far as his experience and intelligence, he s been fighting the wars in iraq and afghanistan now for some ten years, heavily involving special operations forces, deeply involved in the intelligence of that aspect, so i think like panetta s move into the cia originally, which was a seamless transition for somebody who had no intel background, i think the petraeus takeover at