republicans is that the official july 2016 timeline conflicts with records that suggest the fbi began gathering intelligence much earlier than publicly acknowledged. i think the american people are beginning to see what it is that we have been after for a very long time, and that is, is it common or does it ever happen that the counterintelligence agencies or capabilities of this country, are they used to target political campaigns? fbi agent peter strzok who will be deposed later this week wrote the fbi memo that officially opened the russia case on july 31, 2016. the records focus on intelligence activities and at the fbi use confidential human sources to investigate trump aids prior to that date. two letters delivered to congress that the fbi believes they substantially complied with the majority of the committee s request, and that the fbi use,
we re back, you re watching cnn, i m brooke baldwin, as the world counts down to this historic meeting. we cannot forget t state of president trump relationships with his key allies. his summit in canada may have more long term consequences than what happens in singapore. what was supposed to be a meeting of friends turned out was anything but. the president hit twitter lashing out at all allies in this ill tempered tweet storm. this after justin trudeau held a conference saying canada was insulted. trump stunned allies by refusing to sign this agreement. two trump aids joined the attack on trudeau. there s a special place in hell for any foreign leader that engages in bad faith diplomacy
the ends of the new president s first year in office? has there ever been a presidency when the national security adviser or somebody at that level flipped to become a cooperating witness? the possibility of a russia connection has followed this president since his election. which he repeatedly denies. there has been no collusion. no collusion. the whole russia thing was an excuse for the democrats losing the election. bob mueller is the top of the game when it comes to a prosecutor. in terms of judgment and ability. and maybe most importantly, the prosecutors you fear most. are the ones who aren t full of bluster, who aren t puffing their chest out. but going to quietly and single mindedly pick your case apart. and that s the kind of focus that bob brings to this job. special counsel. bob mueller is dialing up the pressure on two former trump
double push back, we re hearing that from the sources we have reported and we re hearing that from our washington bureau. if you have a russian expert and you have public criticism laying out why you have criminal exposure for obstruction, statements made not by the opponents, not by the enemy, but by other trump aids and you were planning this for a lot of reasons and not under a rush, why do you think this comes out in a rush without a specific reason? wouldn t all other messaging discipline suggest he would wait a week or three or six if this was just a long planned thing? i think you point to exactly why this is so perplexing. even the sources we have talked to have mentioned that, that if this was long in the planning, that it just doesn t make sense why was there not a successor lined up? the timing looks very odd, raises a lot of questions, but
requires a lot of time, but, in fact, robert mueller whose been on the case about half a year now, i think has made stunning progress with the guilty pleas two of trump aids including former national security adviser to lying to the fbi. and a very compelling money laundering case against paul manafort, trump s campaign manager, and had a lot to do with russia. a lot from russia. there are a lot of people who cannot accept the results of the election, and they re doing everything they can to discount the trump presidency, and now i think that s hold on, jack. that s an absurd spin. that is a ridiculous spin. they re also investigating how russia influenced the election. and it s not just collusion that they re investigating. if they bring up if information about russia or if someone committed an illegal act, as they re investigating this, what does that i don t understand your point here. well, my point is that what