No, I -- no, they were not. They were spying on -- a term I don't particularly like -- but on what the Russians were doing. Trying to understand, were the Russians infiltrating, trying to gain access, trying to gain leverage and influence, which is what they do.
Clapper clarifies that the FBI was not spying on the Trump campaign but rather investigating Russian activities.
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I think he's trying to erase any vestiges of as much as he can of culpability that people that were caught up in this investigation.
Well, no, it doesn't. And the fact that none of this makes sense, but most acutely, I think, nuclear-related information.
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