we will be happy to come back if you get more news or information out of the meeting. reporter: the justice department says its inspector general is looking into the president s claims about the informant as the tension between president trump and the intelligence community grows. hours after trump s tweet the justice department released a statement saying with regards to its ongoing investigation of russian interference in the 2016 election it would, quote, expand the ongoing review of the fisa application process to include determining had whether there was any improprietiy or political motivation in how the fbi conducted its counter-intelligence investigation. the new york times says quote fbi used informant to corroborate russia ties to campaign not to spy as trump claims. it goes on to say they sent in two informants after they had evidence that the pair had suspicious contacts linked to
what is the difference between iran and north korea? we are seeing or have seen this president make a lot of very public, very loud demands of north korea. and there have been marked signs of progress that some could argue. that clearly is not yet the case here with iran. why, in your view, are these two examples different. i think in the mind of the administration they are different because the president badly wants to make a deal with kim jong-un and he does not want to make a deal with the iranians. but if you look at the specifics, the exact same problems that the administration talked about with the iran deal, that it was too narrowly defined, it was just about the nukes, it was not about the missiles, it was not about iran s other bad actions they are making the exact same deal with the north koreans. they are telling the north koreans it s just about the nukes, you take the nukes off the deal and you have got a deal. so it is a complete
investigation to encompass the things that the president wants them the look about. now i can t be sure this is going to stay the course the next week or two. i suspect we might see in the next few days the president doing what he can to turn up the volume, turn up the heatan the d.o.j. people to do more. this was clearly a measured action. what other options does rose roz have? for one thing he could order a special counsel. right. he could order a separate special counsel. there are those who think that donl is not capable of internally investigating itself so that having an inspector general conduct this investigation is like letting the fox guard the chicken coop. this inspector general has shown he is independent, shown he is capable of doing this job. whether or not it s enough to satisfy the president and the folks on the hill who are beating the drum on this, that s anybody s guess. let s talk about john brennan and his potential role. you seemed to suggest base on wh
it seems like we may be on track. thank you both for your time today, i appreciate it. president trump s official demand of the justice department has reignited the debate on that deputy s independence. as the chairman of the human rights foundation put it, quote, trump is more outraged about the fbi investigating russian interference in his kpeen and the election than he is about the interference, personal interest over national security. joining me now is the man behind that kmantary, gary casse better ov, a long time putin critic and author of deep thinking. he has been participating in the common good forum this week. mr. casper ov, i want to get your take, to pick up on the conversation we were just having, which is the nature of the russian approach to these campaign operatives and american attempts to figure out what was going on. i mean, it seems like this is a pretty classic case of a foreign government in this case putin s
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