New York Times reported that the FBI sent an investigator posing as an assistant to meet

with a Trump A. George Papinopoulos in 2016.

Does that qualify as spying?

I'm not going to comment on a particular investigative step because that's for the Bureau to do and

I'm not in the government any longer.

But the FBI doesn't spy to begin with, the FBI investigates.

I don't know whether it's true or not.

It's a crazy thing to have to say because with any other leader, I would think I would

say that's preposterous.

It couldn't possibly be true.

There's a footnote in the Mueller report that actually makes potentially a bleak reference

to these tapes where someone in Russia is alerting, I think of Michael Cohen in October,

late October, we stopped the flow of the tapes.

I don't know exactly what he means by that, but Mueller seems to connect it in some way

to that allegation.

Again, Mueller didn't say it wasn't the case, he didn't disprove it, but he also didn't

establish that it was the case.

But sending an investigator undercover to meet with somebody who is connected to the

campaign, they claimed he was later on just a coffee boy.

That is an extreme step, no?

No, it's a reasonable.

That was the guy, Papadopoulos, who was the subject of the information we got from

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