Ex-CIA officer perfectly explains why Trump's advisor shopping intel to the FBI is so sketchy

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1. *this individual was shopping information...to get the FBI..to investigate a political opponent*

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CNN commentator and former CIA officer Phil Mudd explained to Erin Burnett Friday that he doesn’t take issue with someone going to the FBI so much as he takes issue with a staffer of the president fishing for an investigation on his political opponents.

“That’s a tinpot dictatorship,” Mudd said. “That is not a democracy. If he wants to pass things over that he thinks is relevant, go ahead. The reporting is not that, Erin. The reporting is that this individual was shopping information around, including the FBI, to try to get the FBI to use its massive power to investigate a political opponent.”

Mudd explained that Trump’s campaign set the tone when it had Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, who became the national security advisor, take the stage at the Republican convention leading a chant of “lock her up.”

“We cannot have it here. I want to shop at Banana Republic, I don’t want to live there,” Mudd said about unstable countries. “Everyone is equal in the eyes of the law. You can’t say the president of the United States and his advisers can walk across Pennsylvania Avenue to the FBI and say, ‘We get to decide whether you investigate our political opponents or not.’ We don’t do that in this country, Erin.”