been a deirelection of duty not to find out what was going on. counterintelligence and export control section, served first under president obama and for a year under president trump. his work at the justice department led to the high profile convictions you ve seen lately for unregistered foreign lobbying, overseeing the hillary clinton email investigation, and the trump russia probe. he was there from the beginning and joins us now. david laufman. sir, it s great to have you here. that is one of the sections of the inspector general report that discusses you and your involvement at the outset of the russia investigation. let me just ask you whether you take any issue with the way that you appear in this report and how you feel about it overall. i m fine with their mention of me. i think this is a prodigious piece of work that reflects
presented the question whether someone in the russian government was working with the campaign to influence the u.s. elections. laufman told us quote we certainly understood the significance of the matter and the need for further investigation, and he said that it would have been a dereliction of duty and responsibility of the highest order not to commit the appropriate resources as urgently as possible to run these facts to the ground, to find out what was going on. david laufman led the counter intelligence and expert control section at the justice department, served first under president obama, and for a year under president trump. his work at the justice department has led to the high profile convictions you have seen lately for unregistered foreign lobbying. he helped to oversee the hillary clinton e-mail investigation and the trump/russia probe. he was there from the beginning. he was there in the room, and he joins us here now. david laufman, former head of the intelligence sect