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this counterintelligence is another aspect of that inquiry. a counterintelligence is not necessarily criminal in nature. according to reporting, investigators on the counterintelligence side of the fbi first had their interest peaked by president trump in july, 2016, calling on russia to leak hillary clinton s hacked e-mail. that s sort of the kind of thing they were looking at. all of this got folded into mueller s broader investigation of election meddling. so it is unclear how long the counterintelligence probe lasted, but clearly the white house lashing out at news that it existed in the first place. all of this comes as the white house legal team is preparing for what could be the release of the mueller report soon. sources tell cnn the white house legal team hired 17 new lawyers, ahead of what could be in the months ahead dramatic conclusion
disastrous a disastrous summit between putin and trump. president trump in july and intelligence agencies confidence that russia did meddle in the 2016 elections, some in both parties are now wondering allowed if that invite is a good idea. state department correspondent rich edson has our story. russian president vladimir putin may soon return to the white house. we have invited president putin to washington after the first of the year for basically a full day of consultation. traveling in the former soviet state of georgia, national security advisor john bolton says officials are still discussing the schedule. russian state media say secretary of state mike pompeo and russian foreign minister sergey lavrov spoke today to prepare for meetings between the two presidents. if president putin accepts the invitation, it would be his first trip to the white house since september 2005. presidents trump and putin last met at a july summit in helsinki. with a press conference where pre
no signs that they had gotten in the voter rolls or trying to effect the vote couldn t but trying to sow dissent in terms of the way americans view the issues, whether as catherine says it was on gun control or immigration or other explosive issues. just trying to set americans against americans. of course, what could be more threatening to the american democracy than the idea of foreign countries trying to do that? shepard: you wonder what you can do in response given the knowledge that most of the oligarchs, you allowed to be see by vladimir putin. it s all tied together. yeah. you know, i remember when i did my interview with vladimir putin in helsinki after the summit with president trump in july, at that time one of the things he would always say when he s came up, he would say look, there may be some private individual, some bad actor you have in your country but it s nothing official. just before the summit, the