york. the idea that the fbi can do the investigation and nobody hears about it and maybe the person is not working for a hostile country. it goes on. in this case, everything became public. yes. it was much more difficult for the fbi trying to do what they needed to do. but, there are a couple of pushed the fbi over the edge and i think it has been lost on people that the obstruction and possible obstruction related to t firing comey, the object was, the investigation and the russian interference of 2016, that s a national security investigation. and so there were two episodes. how chaotic the period was following the firing of james comey. there were two specific episodes that alarmed some of these security officials and fbi agents in the wake of that. explain what they were. obviously the firing of comey
things represent serious over reach by the fbi. potentially and i love to hear josh s responses. he s not only working for the fbi but working for james comey. i think what is really an unknown here well, a step back. this is very explosive. it is obvious why the fbi did not want anybody to know about this at all. the notion as you were getting with adam of investigating the president of the united states to see if the american president is working for the russians is just, it is just too much to wrap your mind around and having said that, we don t know what happened. we don t know how quickly it wrapped up or if it is wrapped up. and obviously, it is connected to the much larger robert mueller investigation. this is before. it seems as though the fbi started this before robert mueller was appointed by rosenstein. mueller took it over and
stress enough, what a big story it is frankly. to think about the fact that we generally would make an assumption of the president of the united states that we know which side they are on and we don t have the fbi wondering whether or not they are working a foreign power, like i said knowingly or unknowingly, the reporting says it is just an absolute shocking thing. i think it says a lot about president trump. josh, last question we are running out of time. you said actually the bar is fairly low to start asking these types of questions. would it be the action of the president firing james comey and the lester holt s interview that would cause an investigation or other intelligence hiccups, other causes for concern that russia may have some level of influence on the president? so it becomes very important for an fbi agent, one of the phrases that they use that you
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nellie ohr. he signed the surveillance warrant renewal. he s a witness in any kind of obstruction case with james com comey. and they requested what he said on air force one to secure his job. shannon: well, catherine, thank you for staying late. we appreciate it. all right. voters head to the polls in just days. tonight we ll take a look at some key races. clear