threshold, you kacan t go on fishing expedition, you have to have concrete to point so. the investigation is just that, you are gathering information of what happened. if you are looking at the impact here, let s take ourselves back in time to that place where you have the fbi director the president of the united states who was removing the fbi director, the person who was investigating him which he knew about because comey was on the record and public testimony indicating he was investigating the trump s campaign. this is something that the president knew about and people inside the fbi knew there was this russian investigation and the deputy attorney general themselves and knew that trussi was on the president s mind when he got rid of comey. it is not beyond a possibility that people inside the fbi saying there is a problem here as it relates to national security. that s their job to get through the bottom of that. the one thing that we have to
place about 1978. they know my life. there s nothing about my family or my history or my neighborhood that would suggest that these allegations could be supported by any activity whatsoever. i reject that ideology. i defend american civilization, which is an essential component of western civilization. all right. joining me now is representative eleanor holmes norton of the district of columbia. representative, thanks so much for being with us. i will ask you about steve king in one moment. on the breaking news we heard moments ago, the new york times reporting that the fbi back when the president fired james comey opened a counter-intelligence investigation out of concern that his actions were a security threat to the united states. your reaction? have we forgotten that for a very long time now, trump has seemed to be at one with the russians. he s been accused of being too close to the russians in the first place. and that s democrats who, of course, have been criticizing him a
then it comes out of that meeting and he says took the pressure off of comey. that itself was the people saw it is reactivation of the region opening on the president. counter investigation indicates that they were investigating whether the president was a threat, a security and intelligent threat to the united states. finally there are those within the community and you are right about this. i want to clarify something. go ahead. there are investigating. this is what was testified in a hearing. we had some of these testimonies, it is clear that whether the president s actions were correct. okay. it is not i don t think anybody is convinced that the president did this on behalf of russia, prior comey.
and the investigation of the president. the second half back to that was the next day of the lester holt interview. he said he did it because of russia. the fbi is watching this and they say and telling us why he did it. he did it on behalf of russia. they opened up his multi tiered investigation that has a criminal aspect and an intelligent aspect to it. and when the president had the oval office meeting with the russian ambassador where he bragged about firing james comey and calling him a nut job, that was in their mind of vindication for the investigation? yes, well, a vindication, they bolster the reason.
merged to an extent of the criminal investigation. josh campbell, you were there at the time. first of all expla, explain to verify what you can about the reporting. yes, john, obviously i have to be careful of information that i talk about that i knew when i was in the fbi. as you mention working for director comey after he was fired, i continued on as my role as a director. it is kind of hypothetically of the mechanic and the impact of such an investigation. i think first of all, it is important to understand the mechanics. for the fbi to open an investigation of any kind, the threshold is actually quite loyal. you need information or allegation that there is some type of violation of the federal law which is a really low