the disclosure to the russians by the president prompted intelligence officials to renew discussions about the potential risk of exposure. this according to a source directly involved in the matter. at the time then cia director pompeo told officials that too much information was coming out regarding this asset. so, jim, what are you hearing about the fact that this was not the first time that there were concerns about this source, this spy being exposed? for sure. and to be clear, i spoke to multiple officials and these concerns were growing over months. at the end of the obama administration, u.s. intelligence officials expressed concern about the safety of this spy and other russian assets given the length of cooperation with the u.s. those concerns grew in early 2017 after the u.s. intelligence community released its public report on russian meddling in the 2016 election which said that putin himself ordered the operation.
very hard to know how this will play out at this point. relations between the two countries have been at a low point recently. a few weeks ago, a russian citizen in the u.s., maria boutina admitted to acting as a secret agent on behalf of the kremlin. some experts are now saying this arrest is in response to that. u.s. and russian relations have deteriorated greatly in the last few years after the former spy being poisoned. putin said russian would never arrest an innocent person. that seems to be exactly what happened here, trace. trace: thanks, benjamin. want to go back live to the white house. there s signals here as we told
papadopoulos bartok was never the precipitous moment for triggering the campaign, the election. it was the dossier and the dossier was fabricated by a british spy being paid for by hillary clinton and the democrats. where is jeff sessions and rod rosenstein investigating that? which is clearly illegal? sean: sean bigley, these documents will prove as such, correct? absolutely. let me tell you briefly what the show. number one, stefan halper colead his series of seminars with a noted putin apologist who spent a decade at the state academy in russia. number two, stefan halper cotaught the seminars at cambridge university with the former head of russian intelligence and number three and perhaps most damning, stefan halper accepted funds for a front company for the russian
because if they make it available publicly, they can only help potential targets of the special counsel investigation into collusion with the russians and obstruction of justice, and i hope my democratic colleagues and my republican colleagues will show the backbone and integrity that this kind of situation demands, but it s a dangerous precedent. i understand rosenstein may be under a great pressure but it s a risky and perilous step. i want to show you something paul ryan said earlier, and he did in some ways break with the president that he saw no evidence of a spy being placed in the trump campaign, and he did also say there was no solution. let me say one more point, in all of this, in any of this, there has been no evidence that there is any collusion between the trump campaign and the president of russia, and let s
frame the president of the united states. i want to pick up on what you just said when you asked steve the question. rudy giuliani, best known as america s mayor for better or worse, but he worked in the justice department in the reagan years and was a u.s. attorney. but this guy is claiming that the u.s. judicial system, is conspiratoral, part of a deep state and out to frame donald trump. this is what the far right has been saying for months, if not a year and a half. this is all some gigantic plot with james comey, fbi, fake news media, they tried to stop him from becoming president, no evidence of that. they followed trump s lead on wiretapping, unmasking, the spy being inserted by the fbi into his own campaign. so to use the president s own