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201: Espionage w/ Fmr SecDef Bill Cohen

Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt

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The Importance of Intention in the FBI's Fire of Jim Comey

The day after he fired Jim Comey from the FBI, Donald Trump had Sergei Lavrov and Ambassador Kistak in the White House. He apparently gave information to the Russians that put something of a compromise on the Israeli intelligence service. But do we know what he intended to do? Could he have just intended to hold it close and say how important I am? Or could he use it for leverage with another leader on whom we had collected sensitive information?

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