former fbi and cia senior official phil mudd and steve hall, he ran russia operations at the cia as a member of the agency s senior intelligence service. steve, i want to start with you. as you look i m curious when you think russia was up to here. separate from trying to interfere in the election. do you see evidence they were trying to recruit people who may end up inside the u.s. government? certainly, jim what we ve seen with guys like carter page and arguably others are what we typically associate with russian trade craft when they are trying to identify people who might be close to incoming presidents and other people of power in the u.s. government. so this is simply standard operating procedure on the part of the russian government. you want to try to have people on the inside who are at the very least willing to talk to you off the record. maybe they re willing to agree to even more than that. in the best of all circumstances for russia, you could have somebody who would b
dnc before the election. it is russia s election-related hacking at the center of fbi and house and senate intelligence committee investigations that continue. perspective from a pair of intelligence professionals, former fbi and cia senior official phil mudd and steve hall, he ran russia operations at the cia as a member of the agency s senior intelligence service. steve irk want to start with you. as you look i m curious when you think russia was up to here. separate from trying to interfere in the election. do you see evidence they were trying to recruit people who may end up inside the u.s. government? certainly, jim what we ve seen with guys like carter page and arguably others are what we typically associate with russian trade craft when they are trying to identify people who might be close to incoming presidents and other people of power in the u.s. government. so this is simply standard operating procedure on the part
came out with lots of really unbelievable things. just minutes ago. in fact, i almost delayed this speech by two hours it s so interesting. by the way wikileaks walks like a hostile intelligence service. it encouraged followers to find jobs at the cia in order to obtain intelligence. time to call out wikileaks. a non state hostile intelligence service. phil mudd, i guess the cap to the week of policy u-turns. all of a sudden, they don t love wikileaks although he campaigned on it. i love this stuff. for an intel guy, this is better than netflix. let me tell you how to interpret this. there is a fundamental question when a politician becomes the cia director. that is can he exit from being a
during the probe. this information could be passed on to senators on capitol hill involved in the intelligence investigation right now. this is all classified. it would not necessarily be released publicly. it can be used part of the investigation. pamela, thank you for that reporting. let s bring back in our panel. we have abby philfilphillip and drucker and cia counterterrorism official phil mudd. the citing of the gchb the intelligence agency in britain. there was an issue of president obama went around the fisa order and used gchb. we now know it was british intel agency that tapped u.s. on the shoulder and saying we are
mudd s book there are only like two pages. there s four things. he knows these guys are smart in the ways of the world. he knows they have been educated and that they have gone around the world and dealt with other countries and they understand security and they understand the military. number two, they are all patriots. they will perform their duty according to the constitution. they will be loyal to him. number three, they re admired. the military has a very high admiration rate by the american public. it s in the 80%. congress is at about 13%. congress is lower than how the americans feel about president putin. number four, they get things done. there is a reason. i was hired by a hospital after i retired and it wasn t because i could do brain surgery. they wanted me to do other things that provided action for an organization. that s why he s hiring these guys. military leaders are often politically savvy and, just to be clear, all somebody has to do is google your name, gen