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Ready, hold on to something. one of the people involved in the middle of this carter page. a conversation, he is known as male number one in this story she is reporter number two. carter page evidently was found to have gone to russian in 2013. that story ends up in buzzfeed. by the way, ali watkins was alerted in february they were looking through her stuff. she was in buzzfeed at the time. now she is with the "new york times." this is just beginning. stuff had access to over 29 years. steve: h...

>> so it fits very closely. there are four reporters named in that indictment, reporters number one, two, three and four. they arent named but we know the identity of one, ali watkins, now at "the new york times." they were focused on a particular article that she wrote about a year ago when she was at buzzfeed about carter pages involvement. carter page, of course, working for the trump campaign for a period of time. carter pages involvement with a spy based in moscow. they thought that she had...

Couch who in the deep state is leaking these things that are damaging to the president and his administration? and apparently now the department of justice, they were looking into it because the president made it very clear, find out who these people are, and in fact, he referred to them as traitors and cowards and we will get them. as it turns out, they have also, in figuring out who this leaker was, they have seized the phone records and other data of a "new york times" reporter. abby: tens of...

Endanger reporters ability to promise confidentiality to their sources and make it harder to shine a much needed light on government actions. but the case is complicated by watkins three year romantic relationship with james wolf who was arrested yesterday. she was a reporter for buzzfeed when she broke the story last year on carter page, a former trump advisor met with a russian spy. watkins and wolf exchange 124 electronic messages that day, the indictment said. this book for 7 minutes after t...

Named aly what thekins who now works for the "times," she previously worked for buzzfeed, she previously worked for politico. again, now she works for the "times." and she did not know i guess until recently that the justice department had seized her records, her phone and e-mail records. thats a big deal for anybody. its a really big deal, and it has really big first amendment implications if they do this to a reporter. continuing from the "times," "shortly before she began working at the "time...

Senate intelligence committee. this is a big deal. the senate intelligence committee has some of the highest level of secrets in our government. thats why they have those rooms that -- where the glass goes opaque at the switch of a button. where they have their own servers. this is really big deal, neil. >> neil: i like those offices with the glass opaque. i think that is so cool. leaving that aside, im wondering how it is they, a, discovered the leaks and then we keep hearing of them. i mean, i...

Leakers, trump wants to be tougher. they are going through metadata, apparently, of a former buzzfeed now "new york times" journalist to confirm that that person communicated with this senate aide who had a lot of this possibility ability over classified documents that went from the intelligence community through that senate community. i was struck by the muted response of the bipartisan leadership of that committee, ritual or to and mark warner. mark warner has been no shrinking violet about th...

Was not only involved in those secret efforts to pursue a trump tower moscow project during the trump campaign as part of that previously unreported involvement, quote, during the campaign ivanka connect herd fathers personal lawyer with a russian athlete who offered to introduce donald trump to vladimir putin to facilitate the trump tower moscow project. according to buzzfeed, details on ivanka trumps interactions with this russian have been scrutinized by the senate intelligence committee and ...

And all of the armchair psychiatrists among us have long argued that this president is particularly aggravated and can be particularly unnerved by any potential scandal or trouble involving his kids, particularly involving his eldest daughter ivanka. that expectation alone just puts kind of a silent exclamation point on a headline like this one today at buzzfeed. ivanka trump was in contact with a russian who offered a trump-putin meeting. but again, were not sure exactly what investigators migh...

Involving his eldest daughter, ivanka. that expectation alone just puts kind of a silent exclamation inoneaine ke this one today at buzzfeed. ivanka trump was in contact with a russian who offered a trump-putin meeting. but again, were not sure exactly what investigators might be doing with this information. weushat thve got it. there is a lot -- a lot of interest that has been breaking over the course of the day today, a lot of gobsmacking stuff. a the most gobsmacking news in american politics...