You're an FBI agent. You swore an oath to the Constitution to protect it against all enemies foreign and domestic.

You were given a badge, entrusted with great power, and the responsibility of protecting the American people from criminals, terrorists, and spies.

The pay wasn't great. You had to move to a new field office every few years, and put up with the FBI's legendary red tape, which you believed in the mission of the Bureau.

You kept your head down, focused on catching bad guys, and stayed out of politics.

In return, you had the gratitude of the public, and the backing of your government and president. Until now.

Far from supporting the FBI, Donald Trump has tried to undermine it and compromise its independence.

First, he sought a loyalty oath from James Comey, and pressured him to drop the Bureau's investigation into National Security Advisor Mike Flynn's ties to Russia.

Then he fired Comey, and later called him a nut job to the Russian foreign minister.

He's denigrated the entire organization, tweeting that his reputation was in tatters. Trump's Republican allies in Congress have gone along for the ride, calling the Bureau corrupt, and in the grips of pro-hillary Clinton's secret cabals.

Today, in the face of these political attacks on the FBI, polls show an increasing number of Americans are questioning the trustworthiness of the country's premier law enforcement agency.

What would that mean for this storied institution, and the 13,000 rank and file agents charged with protecting the security of the nation?

This week on Skoldoggery, the FBI under siege.

We'll talk to the former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, an ex-FBI agent himself, who was anguished about the future of the Bureau, and the damage his former colleagues on Capitol Hill may be doing to an institution he loves dearly.

And we'll also get the perspective of another longtime bureau veteran, Don Robinson, who served as the FBI's legal attaché in Moscow.

There is absolutely no collusion. I didn't make a phone call to Russia. I have nothing to do with Russia. Everybody knows it.

Because people have got to know whether or not their presidents are corrupt, well I'm not a crook.

I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my destined tension still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not.

I did not have sexual relations with that woman.

The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.

Many times I have to answer this question. Russia is a ruse.

I'm Michael Zagov, Chief Investigative correspondent for Yahoo News.

And I'm Dan Clyde, an editor-in-chief of Yahoo News.

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