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Alert that going forward. the same way you would be alerted if you used your credit card at a place that had identity theft. but its unclear at this point how specific theyre going to be able to be. if you think about it, a lot of the way these influence operations are done are over, you know, the platforms of private companies like facebook. is it to a point where they would be able to say, look, these specific ads are part of this influence campaign? or is it going to be more general to say be...

Thought about him and hopefully will think about him as the story continues to be told. >> other issues donald trump has had that played out in the press and that is this drip, drip, drip and the constant airtime for the attorney for avenatti. even on twitter, stormy daniels is fairly active. it is this constant drip of information where they are actually not letting up. and thats a change. >> yes. and this is so ironic. trump prides himself on using the media, telling the narrative, controlling...

Now a cabinet member who its discovered he has close russian financial ties due to leaked documents from his cayman island tax shelters he was trying to conceal. it could not be a worse look for this white house. a constant drip, drip, drip of tentacles of russian connections to the campaign. does this prove that russia had some influence over him? no. but it certainly proves that at the very least, the russian government and russian operatives knew how to get their tentacles into people who are...

>> rich, this seems to be sort of incremental. theres a constant drip, drip, drip. it never -- it never seems to stop, quite frankly. do you think this is potentially damaging to the president? do you think he is potentially concerned about it? >> he probably should be as he should be with anything with the word russia in it. i think the interesting thing would be as they track back and find out who wv is and find out what his or her attachments to this whole thing are. putin didnt send this e-m...

Of us so theres a disconnect. but in addition, this is a white house who has clamped down on information anyway. were not having regular briefings, we had the interruption of the foreign trip. that wasan oddity anyway. when you dont have that press line, youve just had this vacuum and as youve been talking about in the show, a constant drip, drip of new revelations. >> for those working in the rouse, ive talked to people from past white houses you dont know who you can talk to about it, you dont...

Education and reform for sex yale assault on campuses. betsy devos is looking at. so there is a lot of other stories that need to be covered that are important to americans and that are important to families. healthcare. abby: right. >> there is a lot of stuff thats not being -- abby: a lot of times we dont even know these stories are going on. we dont read about them. do you think the balance is right today with the stories that the mainstream media is choosing to focus on? >> the russia issue ...

The question will not go away today and thus the biggest failure in this circumstance. you have to muscle down on this thing, get everybody into a room if you need to, figure out who knows what, who did what, who said what, get it all out there seem to have this constant drip. >> harris: thats what americans have been waiting to see. i know youre watching that they do their own opposition research now. this white house press briefing will be off-camera. it will bring people the audio as soon as ...

Mary, the white house clearly in damage control mode. its been two weeks since the press secretary held an on-camera briefing. and now theres talk that could become the norm. >> tom, many are wondering how many, if any, briefings well get here this week. the white house are now retooling its communications strategy to deal with this constant drip of russia stories. one thing we know theyre considering, fewer on-camera face-offs with the press. tom. >> mary bruce starting us off tonight. next, ...

The black and white of has he disclosed everything or has he not but also, hey, is it a good idea that we have someone who did take a high-profile trip over to russia? is that an appearance issue or is there more to it? i think those questions should have been asked at some point. >> thats one piece of it. let me move on to the next piece. if the pentagon, if dia said that they warned flynn against taking foreign payments and that he still did it as these declassified documents apparently sugges...

Add credibility to the look. adds an element that wouldnt necessarily be there if we were directing the department of justice. >> bret: michael, your thoughts on this as we continue to get the reverberations from the weekend tweets. >> the wiretapping story depends on what the truth is. prudent to have the investigation and get the facts out there. if the relationship between the president and russia is anything near what the left alleges, it would be horribly concerning. i think part of the rea...