MSNBC’s Maddow to James Baker: Did the FBI Assess If Trump Tower Moscow Was Effort to Gain Leverage over Trump?

RUSH EXCERPT:

MADDOW: In fact, in that part of the report where they describe having other fbgents who were sitting in and gleaning anything that had intelligence, they say they weren’t part of Mueller’s investigation. Does that mean Mueller didn’t do a counter intelligence investigation? On Trump Tower Moscow, was there an fib assessment as to whether or not that was an effort to gain leverage over that presidential campaign?”
BAKER: “I don’t think I can confirm or deny that particular thing. But if the FBI is the entity that would be empowered to deal with counter intelligence aspects of this. Mueller is like, and he says in the report, he’s like — he was like a U.S. Attorney. So he’s a prosecutor. The FBI can investigate crimes, but it’s also part of the intelligence community and it has different authorities as a result of that under a different supervisory structure. So Mueller I don’t think it’s fair to think he was tasked with conducting a purely counter intelligence investigation. He was tasked with at least as I thought about it dealing with the criminal aspects of the larger counter intelligence investigation.”