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Safe in the last 48 hours, we saw that knife attack at the louvre in paris and the president said a new radical islamic terrorist attacked the louvre museum in paris. locked down, on edge. get smart u.s. but heres the issue. when you look at the origin of the attacker, this was a resident of the uae, he had a saudi visa and an egyptian national and none are part of the travel ban. does that undermine the presidents argument in that tweet? what do you think he was saying in that tweet? >> im not ...

Likening this to richard nixon, 1973 when he fired an attorney general who refused to fire the watergate lawyers. the parallels completely off because as he just noticed, sally yates, shes not making legal arguments against the actions. she is saying it is a moral matter. the president coming back and saying this is your politics. some people will argue its the other way. >> tucker: that is the striking thing about sally yates statement that the adjusted up department under her would not be defe...

Out the numbers that have been radicalized? i dont quite understand. >> people that have been charged. >> they have to rely on their intelligence as well. >> not only charge, but also people they suspect are aiding and abetting terrorists. its interesting to me. >> it does say that this order shall be implemented applicable to all appropriate law, everything we are talking about. >> this is the initial framework. it doesnt mean they cant make subsequent additions or put an addendum to it and mak...

Two-page addendum in that friday report. >> well, did i question him that night. and, of course, they are going to play the game where they dont want to reveal their sources. correctly point out, there are only four intelligence members in that room that day. they claim multiple people. so either they have got all these intelligence folks on the hook, three of the four, which i dont think is true, or they have got people who werent in the room, which i do think is true. i think people who werent...

Officer, my spy handler, believed me, because clearly the way that he wrote that was going to include an assessment, you know, saying this source is truthful. >> did you weight it? >> important distinction. absolutely. we want wanted to get to the point where we would eventually do disinformation. one more step back. listening to the opening clip of trump kwloen -- and im lucky in i can share a classified story with the world -- but its the professionalism of the rank and file fbi agents that i ...

Three-page addendum with unsubstantiated allegations in it. with me now is jackie spierer of california. good morning. >> good morning, carol. >> theres an intel briefing with house members on this unsubstantiated report that russia has information on donald trump they could use against him. you were briefed earlier on that and i know you cant get into. but what can you tell us about the briefing? >> the briefing and as i member of the intelligence committee im continuously briefed on the issues...

Trumps team and the russian government exchanged information during the presidential campaign. multiple sources tell nbc news those materials were not presented to trump during the formal briefing but after ward james comey took trump aside and spoke with him one on one about the existence of the unverified allegations against him and told him a summary of those claims was included in an addendum to the top-secret report. today vice president joe biden said intelligence officials told him they f...

Existence of these unverified allegations concerning trumps ties and activiies in russia. u.s. officials tell nbc news the fbi director also told the incoming president that a summary of those claims was included in the addendum to his -- this top-secret briefing. at his press conference yesterday, the incoming president did not deny being briefed about this russian dossier but he didnt really confirm it, either. he said he wouldnt discuss classified information. at one point he said "i read the...

Multiple high level intelligence sources, after the president-elects formal briefing on friday was over, after that was over the fbi director james comey took the president-elect aside and spoke with him one on one about the existence of these unverified allegations concerning trumps ties and activiies in russia. u.s. officials tell nbc news the fbi director also told the incoming president that a summary of those claims was included in the addendum to his -- this top-secret briefing. at his pre...

Include that unverified two paged addendum even included in the briefing papers. >> we asked that question and their argument was that this is something that the press already had. not just here in the united states but other places. that it would be -- they would be -- they didnt use the word derelict but it was their obligation to inform not only us but the president-elect that this was out there. so that it didnt come out 206 blue and have any impact on the conduct of our foreign policy. they...