CHRIS CUOMO (HOST): Phil Mudd, to those who do not want to believe there's any collusion, they say [former CIA Director] John Brennan just said it. There is no proof. They've been investigating this forever, there are leaks all over the place, and no evidence of actual collusion. This is a hoax, the president's right. Your response

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PHILIP MUDD: Chris, let's watch this over the next day or two because Sean Spicer and the White House have consistently misportrayed what intelligence officials are saying. Let me give you a clear distinction between intelligence and investigations. The intel guys are going to get the intelligence. That is, for example, intercepts of Russian communications showing at most one half of the story, and more than likely, significantly less than one half. They do not have visibility -- that is intel guys like the DNI, the Director of National Intelligence, and the CIA director -- into the significant part of the investigation that's conducted by the FBI. Interviews of American citizens, looks into their travel, into their financial records. So of course the intel guys are going to say I saw some smoke when Russian people talked about their interactions with the Americans, but there's no way you can look at one half of the conversation and draw a conclusion about collusion. 

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