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James Clapper: I feel that way. Given the track record, the behavior of then-candidate Trump and then President Trump and then the…

On the recordJanuary 13, 2019
I feel that way. Given the track record, the behavior of then-candidate Trump and then President Trump and then the firing of Jim Comey and then the acknowledgment on television publicly that he did it because the investigation into the Russian thing.
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James Clapper
District of Columbia

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James Clapper discusses the justification for the FBI's counterintelligence investigation into Trump.

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