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Make a leaker or whistleblower disappear? nbc news put out this tweet, exclusive, putin does not deny having compromising information on president trump. but that was fake news. 40 minutes later they sent out this tweet. correction, putin denies having compromising information about president obama, calls it nonsense. it had already been retweeted 800 times so the damage was done.

Variety of reasons. we also were aware of facts that i cant discuss in an open setting that would make his continued engagement in a russia related investigation problematic. >> reporter: and comey making more news today saying that obamas attorney general loretta lynch seemed to insert herself into the clinton e-mail probe in a way that troubled him. >> at what point the attorney general had directed me not to call it an investigation and instead call it a matter which confused me and concerned...

From this what they hear. this issue is closed, that issue is closed. there are a lot of open questions still and it may not involve the president today. and to be clear we should be fair. comey said that when he left the job, there werent open investigations of the president. that is key. but if the dossier question is opened, if compromising information is open, if trump team collusion is still open, there are things that could touch the president that are still open questions. >> thats exactl...

Dismissed by republicans, its been discredited, it is not completely dismissed and comey said i captain comment in open session. but two, towards the end he said the issue of whether the russians have compromising information on the president still under investigation. still an open question. towards the end as well he said members of the trump team colluded with rush. on the issue of whether the president himself co sclalluded russia, but when cotton asked him about it he said i cant answer in ...

Inauguration. the "the new york times" reporting american spies collected information last summer showing top russian officials discussing how to influence trump through his advisors, the advisors named, paul manafort and fired national security advisor michael flynn. ken vogel is politicos chief investigative reporter and wrote that story on paul manafort. also shane harris with the "wall street journal." ken, i want to start with you. in your reporting, walk us through this. whats the update? ...

Notorious isis recruiter that operated in the manchester area and sent hundreds of britains to fight in iraq and syria. rafael hosi boasted of luring two teenage girls to go to syria to become isis brides. he was killed in a drone strike in may of last year, shep. >> shepard: remember the night of the bombing here in the united states, the american television networks had the information long before the bbc and sky news. american officials were working with the britts and leaking to our networks...

Politicizing the investigation into russias actions, james comey created unnecessary pressure on our ability to engage and negotiate with russia. the investigation would have always tenned and obviously the termination of comey would not have ended it. once again the real story is that our national security has been undermined by the leak go of private and highly classified conversations. this is a technique this administration has used when faced with compromising information. it is not about t...

Wolf. >> sure do. youre getting new information as well, jim? >> keep this in mind. we dont know that this firing is about the russia investigation. as a matter of background, keep in mind that attorney general jeff sessions had to recuse himself from the russian investigation. and he has now made the decision to fire the heard of the investigation. that is the fbi director. i would also remind our viewers of this. cnn you may remember reported in january that when the -- when then president-ele...

Comey. he said this several months ago. we expect i think in the next 15 minutes or so we will hear from chuck schumer, minority leader in senate. >> who is running the fbi right now? >> andrew mccabe, deputy director of fbi. that another issue. the ruepublicans have a huge problem because his wife ran as democrat in virginia. he didnt properly -- criticism is he didnt properly recuse himself in the investigation of the hillary clinton e-mails. theres also pressure for him to recuse himself from...

Details on why now the shocking development. jim? >> reporter: the shock extending from the hill also into the intelligence community, the former director of national intelligence james clapper who we saw on the hill just yesterday, this comment to cnn "i have deep respect for james comey. this is a loss to the phish and the nation." those are strong words saying this firing is a loss to the nation. of course director clapper and comey work very closely on the investigation into russian sblrchs ...