feels it s under attack like it hasn t been in generations. it fbi s relationship with other law enforcement organi organizati organizations. we tends to think of the fbi as investigating bank robberies and white collar crime. but the fbi has an enormous role in counterintelligence and counterterrorism. working with state and local governments all across it country and their counterparts across the world. and if those people think that the fbi s not going to get backed by the president of the united states, that s a problem. i m hopeful, especially in the united states, where those are built on long personal relationships between cops and local sheriffs and special agents of the fbi, that those relationships will in fact remain quite strong and i hope you see those law enforcement agencies saying they re really talented, they re really helpful and really qualified to do what
rattled given those feelings, were you lat rattled when he okayed the release of the fbi officials personal texts? i m not sure i d say rattled. i think with the dep outy iturny general what he wants to do is the appearance of impruprity. i think he understood it was going to be leaked in front of members of congress and to assure public confidence that there was a wrinkle. it was dealt with and to get in front of it to avoid an even larger story of a cover up of activity untoward or even a cover up. i agree with that but there s something about that that troubled me. let me tell you why. the way we view our justice system sort of turns on two factors. one is outcomes are fair and
feel free to fight it out if we find something we don t all feel the same way about. let s start with the way the president made news today. michael flynn has pled guilty to one count of lying to the fbi. the president said he did not want to talk about pardoning mike flynn yet. i m really interested in that yet as a mat of strategy. if the president were to pardon mike flynn now, what would happen to the testimony that mike flynn has presumably already offered it mueller team as part of coming to this plea deal and am i right in assuming he s already given information to mueller s team? i think you should assume he s given a lot of information to the mueller team. if the president were to pardon mike flynn, that doesn t preclude it mueller team from continuing to use information that general flynn has. in other words it gets him off the hook for any crime he may have committed but doesn t
jobs better and when it works well and it often works very well, are it iftelligence communities are enhancing each of their missions. so senior fbi officials would over see that process. it collection and disemination of intelligence. which is really gist a fancy word for information. but counterintelligence is about other countries, right? and i can t go into great detail but yes, it is and more than a responsibility for collecting intelligence from foreign governments. see this is important stuff. we ll be right back. barbara mcquaid, chuck rosenbering are here. you re not yet to your second year but we re getting there. when it comes to heartburn
how big a loss is it whether or not it was a good thingee was taking up the investigation. how big a loss is it? the fbi is a ulalso an intelligence agency. a lot of people don t appreciate they re dual hatted. they re also an intelligence agency. they re part of the intelligence community. they share that with other members of the intelligence community. so what does an fbi senior counterintelligence agent do? some of that. where do you get intelligence? lots of different sources. there s human intelligences. there s a bunch of different ways. and it job is to sinth size that intelligence. sometimes you give it to people in law enforcement to do their