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ruhle starts right now. 11th>> tonight, tragedy after tragedy and california. barely three days after 11 people were killed at a mass shooting at a lunar new year celebration in southern california, seven others killed tonight in the northern part of the state. then, on the other side of the law, a former fbi agent arrested, accused of working for a russian oligarchy to help dig up dirt on his opponent. and the flip flop friendship on capitol hill. kevin mccarthy and marjorie taylor gr...

tragedy and california. barely three days after 11 people were killed at a mass shooting at a lunar new year celebration in southern california, seven others killed tonight in the northern part of the state. then, on the other side of the law, a former fbi agent arrested, accused of working for a russian oligarchy to help dig up dirt on his opponent. and the flip flop friendship on capitol hill. kevin mccarthy and marjorie taylor greenes new bff bond, and what it means for the future o...

Instituted rigorous security measures to try and prevent this kind of thing from ever happening again. i mean, rigorous measures. financial analysis of everybodys finances, disclosures required, all kinds of things monitoring the computer systems, whos looking where they shouldnt like. somehow, this evaded detection. i think when youre talking about somebody at a senior executive level of whos supposed to be looking at counterintelligence cases, theyre supposed to be directing the opening of cas...

And sometimes there are issues like, you know, the names of informants, stuff that is potentially life and death. so, judges and prosecutors and even defense attorneys have to 1/2 fwat this problem of disclosing information, but not seeing it put to bad use. here, apparently, it was put to inappropriate use. but the idea that you simply couldnt give these people information, thats just inconsistent with our laws, too. its a hard problem. >> asha, things like this part of why counterintelligence ...

Its a hard problem. >> asha, things like this part of why counter intelligent investigations rarely result in criminal charges? >> exactly. this is like a textbook case. people always ask, why arent there more charges being brought? and this is the reason why. counterintelligence cases use certain methods, sources that are typically highly classified. and you dont want your adversary to know what you know. the game is spy versus spy. thats how you have your advantage. as jeffrey just mentioned t...

You should stop, absolutely stop suggesting that muellers probe should not be protected by legislation, and we should stop having a conversation that suggests that it is somehow inappropriate for the congress to exercise some oversight to enable the american people to understand whats happened. >> joyce? >> so i think maya is absolutely right. and whats so startling about this new reporting over the weekend is that the fbi thought that there was sufficient predication to open a counterintelligen...

The meeting that jared kushner and michael flynn had with ambassador kislyak and then later the meeting with the banker was done without the knowledge of donald trump. he was acting on his father-in-laws and the incumbent presidents -- >> do you think hell go the way of flynn and manafort? >> well, jared has a lot of explaining to do. like flynn, he failed to disclose these meetings on his security clearance forms. they also went to great lengths. remember kislyak must have been brought in to tr...

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