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Erin Burnett stays ahead of the headlines, delivering a show that is indepth and informative. Also on this, just breaking tonight, minutes ago, the Associated Press is reporting that the National Enquirer kept a safe with documents on hush money payments and other killed stories that were damaging specifically to trump. A safe. Do you know anything about that . I actually dont know anything about it. I havent been at the company for quite a while. But then again, it wouldnt surprise me. Because ...

Operation that we were reporting on connected to an israeli private intelligence firm called black cube that was also singling out both ben rhodes and collin call, as being kind of the organizers of opposition to trump. >> how many staffers did you get a sense from your reporting were able to see the memo? i mean how widely circulated would you say it was within the trump white house? >> yeah. i dont know if the president ever saw it. you know, i know that it was circulated, you know, with -- pa...

>> right. talk to us about who was named. ben rhodes, for example, a very prominent figure in the obama white house was named throughout this and their response to this. >> yeah. so the, you know, names like you said,bo ben rhodes, it names collin call, and hes identified in this as the ops chief, an operational chief, again, using the language of a military analysis of an insurgency. their analysis was there was no organization and this was a fever dream by those in the white house. that said, ...

Republicans who made hillary clintons handling of classified informations a central issue in the presidential election. >> so i really believe that if we have someone who is so recklessly mishandled classified information, kind of stuff i get as speaker of the house, im in transition of continuity of government, we should think this through. the dni has an obligation given what we just learned from what the fbi has said that she should not get that classified information. >> and joining me now i...

Difficulty theyve had doing it without understanding the levers of power. the president wasnt happy with the level of briefing hes gotten on some executive orders, especially the one elevating steve bannon to the principals committee of the national security council. >> that was the big headline that the president was unaware of exactly what that meant. that he signed off on something without being properly briefed on how unusual it was for steve bannon to have a seat at the table. not to be an ...

What was discussed and i think collin call, national security adviser for the vice president during the obama administration reflected as well widely is that we looked at essentially in the deputys discussion that they referred to, that sean spicer referred to, a sort of general proposition of increased support to coalition allies in the context of yemen. in that context we made it very clear that the president was not going to be green lighting this or doing anything along those lines but, rath...

Endanger irans national interest and decide to do that, we will act without waiting for their actions. the white house continued to press israel not to strike first. >> theres time and space for diplomacy to work for the effective sanctions to result in a change in behavior. >> china, india and japan agreed to cut down on the amount of oil they import by 10 to 20% but skeptics dont think it would stop zin the obama administration, james clapper, testified to the senate two weeks ago all existing...

Endanger irans national interest and decide to do that, we will act without waiting for their actions. the white house continued to press israel not to strike first. >> theres time and space for diplomacy to work for the effective sanctions to result in a change in behavior. >> china, india and japan agreed to cut down on the amount of oil they import by 10 to 20% but skeptics dont think it would stop zin the obama administration, james clapper, testified to the senate two weeks ago all existing...