of the summers mayb summer, maye that in 2016. and why is that important? it matters because the fbi has doggedly stuck to this story that what launched the counter intelligence probe was a tip it received about a conversation that trump aide george papadopoulos had. they claim they got this tip in july and that soon after they started this counter intelligence probe. if it were to be the case, that they had a spy who was functioning, potentially prior to that date, then that would mean something else inspired them to do it and that they haven t been straight. paul: now i have to ask, kim, because you put it in your column, you said you think you know the name of who this individual, this sources. why have you decided first of all, if nobody in intelligence and government told you, how did you find how do you think you know and why aren t you publishing it? well, there s a lot of other
some american in a looks like an average person but who uses their credential or their job to gather information and report back. and this suggests that perhaps the fbi had a person who was in fact spying on the trump campaign. paul: when you say spying, you re not talking about somebody in the trump campaign. you re talking about somebody who was trying to engage with individuals associated with the trump cam campaign, people like- yes. paul: and was do we know, seeking information, we assume on the russia probe? probably seeking information to report back to the fbi that would have been used in conjunction with what we also know is the electronic eavesdropping they were doing as well on certain trump campaign members like carter page. paul: the timing matters here as well because we re talking about 2016. we re talking about the months of the summers mayb summer, maye