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Derision and i understand why but exercise judgment the way most americans would want them to. >> when your paper, "the washington post" and "the new york times" and other papers went out, they went out with independently verified facts yesterday, talking about, again, the two-page addendum and did exactly what they had to do. i dont think, as we said yesterday, i dont think they had much of a choice. i do think, right now, the ball is in donald trumps court and he has had, we have seen, hes mad...

Mike rogers. the two-page synopsis included these allegations that there was a continuing exchange of information during the campaign between trump surrogates and intermediaries for the russian government. this according to two national security officials. cnn confirmed that the synopsis was included in the documents presented to mr. trump. we cannot confirm if it was discussed in the meeting with the intelligence chiefs as well. the transition team has not commented on this as have not the dire...

The two-page synopsis also included allegations that there was a continuing exchange of information during the campaign between trump surrogates and intermediaries for the russian government. this according to two national security officials. cnn has confirmed the synopsis was included in the documents that were presented to mr. trump. we cannot confirm it was discussed in his meeting with the intelligence chiefs as well. to be clear, the trump transition team have declined to comment, as did th...

Extraordinarily a completely unverified story that russia had their meat hooks in donald trump last five years. they have details about a hookers and ritz-carlton. brian: video. >> they dont have video. ainsley: they say there is. steve: we dont know. completely unverified. buzzfeed said we cant verify this, we dont know if it is true. why would they run it? >> they have a couple of intelligence officials said there was an addendum to a report given to president obama and president-elect trump. ...

About the president-elect and his campaign dealings with russia was prepared to be briefed directly to the president-elect? >> that is correct. chris. thats the significant thing and why we are reporting it. it was included, a two-page addendum, was included in the highly classified compartmented version of the intelligence report on russian hacking and interference in the election that was prepared for president-elect trump, president obama and leaders of congress. so highly classified stuff. s...

His other thing was a concern that many of the career attorneys in the department of justice were secular and this that was a problem so we explored that a little bit, but why an attorney general would care whether his attorneys, the career staff, are secular or religious as long as theyre doing their jobs and are capable its a strange place to go. >> senator, while i have you i want to get your response to the report that we led the show with tonight that is now being reported in a number of mu...

Expansion perhaps too much bureaucracy, that could be addressed. lot of critics internally and externally think that that is the real focus that he should be looking at once he gets into office but to raise that question, to talk about these leaks i think a lot of people, including myself last night on thir with you, questioned why there was that addendum of what most likely is unverified information that was attached to the classified intelligence brief. so those are the kinds of questions that...

Brian, has decades of experience in russia, and putting in even greater focus on his relationship with vladimir putin and russia is the controversy, the explosion of what is the potential bombshell, this unverified allegation in a nonintelligence document which has been circulating around washington, which, you know, as you know, we were talking last night, came out on buzzfeed and is now being circulated. officials are telling us it was a two-page intelligence addendum to the classified briefin...

National intelligence director, really steely eyed when it comes to facing russia and threat from russia. jim mattis, also had some really pointed things to say about russia and the threat. that helps donald trump. but, minus evidence, i wonder where this story goes. brian: it was flipping around last night to see where this, where the legs were, really at cnn they cite multiple intelligence sources that moved this story. >> right. but, only to the point where it was an addendum to the presentat...

And woke up this morning with the news media dominated by this potentially explosive story that broke last night. it was about donald trump being the target of compromising information that the soviets had on him personally and financially, and more than that, that there was some indication of continued contact between team trump and the russians. this was apparently a kind of addendum that was added to a briefing given concurrently but separately to both president obama and donald trump. our se...