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With us, msnbc contributor mike barnicle, president of the council on foreign relations and author of the book "a world in disarray "richard haass who has some nice things to say about john bolton today. great to get to that. especially on his input on north korea, the situation there. former assistant director of the fbis counterintelligence division, frank biglusi. former chief of staff at the c.i.a. and department of defense, nbc news national security analyst jeremy bash is with us and nbc n...

The fbi saying i know these documents are stamped top secret, but i am hereby attesting that these are not classified documents. that for us was additional corroboration that these were in fact dana boentes handwritten notes from his conversation with james comey about on march 30th because the counterintelligence division at fbi had to step in to say this classification was improperly stamped on here. were trying to follow the clues to make sure what were looking at is what we think were lookin...

Donor who sent fbi the tip about papadopoulos. these fbi agents opened up the investigation. then, john brannan the cia director under president obama briefs harry reed about it. at the same time obama chief of staff at the white house, had been talking briefed by the counterintelligence division of the fbi about the trump campaign investigation and from what we believe he was urging it to move forward. the briefing from brannan to reid leaked and wound up in the isikoff article. it was used as ...

One of the deputy assistant director of the counterintelligence division that had been working on this for those five months, those texts have gone missing is saying his concern is there is no big "there" there? that is jaw-dropping. >> bret: when pressed, the senate minority leader today said this is all of it, the memo and this, part of a distraction effort by republicans to take away from the mueller investigation. take a listen. >> i think there has been a great deal of activity on the other...

Try to make things work. we will see if chuck schumer and nancy pelosi make it over to 1600 pennsylvania avenue, last week he didnt meet, we will see what happens. >> all the hype around this tax plan, so much hype in 10 minutes, thank you so much. >> explosive revelations about the fbi agent yanked from the russet investigation due to his anti-trump views. rob: how that agent helped to allow hillary clinton off the hook during the campaign. >> the plot thickening, peter struck served as deputy ...

The purpose of influencing our election. that is a fact, plain and simple. now the key question for the president and the congress is what are we going to do to protect the american people and their democracy from this kind of thing in the future? im pleased that this committee has undertaken this investigation. i welcome it. my sincere hope is that in bipartisan fashion, you find answers. >> julie: catherine herridge joins us now on capitol hill. >> im on the senate side where weve heard witnes...

Threat that we heard from the fbi director? >> look, as long as vladamir putin is in power, russia will continue to see the united states as their peer adversary. as such, theyre going to act in that fashion. look, craig, wim hopeful the investigation will come to some conclusion and blame will be assigned appropriately. but as a counterintelligence operation, this was a failure. we think about 2018, we think about 2020, the role of counterintelligence is to make sure that no adversary actually ...

The election. i think were not going to get as many answers as we would like. certainly the public would like. because the fbi is still very much very deep in the investigation but they are nowhere near the end of it. the counterintelligence division at the fbi, which is looking at this, can take years to come up with conclusions about what happened here. were looking for an interesting day. we may not get any answers were looking for. >> comey was asked to testify but not compelled to testify. ...

Direct sources that said the trump campaign had constant contacts with russian spies, basically treasonous types accusations. i can assure you, and ive been approved to say this, that the top levels of the intelligence community have assured me that that story is not only inaccurate, but its grossly overstated and it was wrong. theres nothing to it. >> pamela, is the investigation still going on? >> it is going on. the fbis counterintelligence division, also several members of the house and sena...

Overall was to bring him up to date on the findings of the russian interference in the u.s. presidential election. at the end of this, the four chiefs were finishing their work and comey decided to do a one-on-one with the president-elect. the chiefs had decided that comey should be the one to handle this. after all, its the fbi counterintelligence division that is doing the investigation to take a look at these claims, and its also their job to take a look at what foreign intelligence services ...