Counterintelligence Inquiry News Today

Well. Jon meacham, always such a pleasure to have him as part of our broadcast, especially on a consequential friday night. That is our broadcast indeed for this friday and for this week. Thank you for being here with us. Have a good weekend. Good night from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. A couple of hours ago, maybe even less than that, i was standing knee deep in a trout stream in tennessee. But now its mueller time and so im in a studio in the great state of tennessee. The trout ...

Theyre also going to give us something on the counterintelligence inquiry including the contacts and also another report on the obama administrations response. >> how does that work if youre chairman burr? how do you come out and say heres what russia did. a number of your colleagues are running around screaming about cr ukraine. >> hes not running for re-election. hes going to serve his term then hes fwoen. that plays larnlly into it. to attack this problem of attacking social media, which is s...

Some rules were broken. my question on that is, which rules are you talking about? the rules that govern a corrupt president that is trying to obstruct an investigation who is under a counter intelligence inquiry? who is about to fire the fbi director? i dont know what those rules are. and i was part of internal affairs functions in the fbi. so i dont know what the inspector general is doing except doing the bean counting that igs do and saying, you shouldnt have taken some memos home. were real...

Rules are you talking about? the rules that govern a corrupt president that is trying to obstruct an investigation who is under a counterintelligence inquiry, who is about to fire the fbi director? i dont know what those rules are, and i was part of internal affairs functions in the fbi. so i dont know what the inspector general is doing except doing the bean counting that i.g.s do in saying, yeah, you shouldnt have taken some memos home and were really troubled by the fact that you gave them to...

Counsel that pertain to criminal law, hes saying if there are counter intelligence findings from muellers investigation, counter intelligence findings about, say, foreign intelligence operations targeting or compromising u.s. persons in national politics and government, those counter intelligence findings by law, according to adam schiff must be briefed to the intelligence committees in the house, even if barr doesnt want to release the rest of the stuff to the rest of congress. heres the statem...

As a counter intelligence inquiry whether individuals associated with the trump campaign were compromised by a hostile foreign nation. by law, the evidence mueller has uncovered on all counter intelligence matters must now be shared with the house intelligence committee whether it resulted in indictment or not. this is him saying barr, you do not have that much leeway when it comes to deciding what to disclose to congress here. any intelligent matters must be disclosed to us. quote, we will insi...

But the lies that they told were connected to this attack on america. and the reason that this investigation began was a counter intelligence inquiry. that kind of counter intelligence inquiry is directly related to our responsibilities in congress, oversight responsibility and obligations to reform and enhance the law to better protect america from these kinds of attacks by the russians in the future. >> were going to see what happens. lets see if those principal conclusions are releeased as ea...

Adam schiff must be briefed to the intelligence committees in the house even if barr doesnt want to release the rest of the stuff to the rest of the congress. here is the statement tonight from adam schiff. quote, "today the attorney general informed the congress and the public that the special counsel has concluded the investigation and submitted a report of findings. that report needs to be released to the public." quote, "pursuant to the special counsel regulation, muellers report is likely t...

Nancy pelosi has no reason to negotiate. what is the most important thing for people to remember long term is the president of the united states isnt a strategic thinker. if it doesnt make sense or breaks the government in the process hes going to keep going. the interesting thing is, democrats are just as dug in on this issue as republicans are. nancy pelosis popularity has gone up since this happened. she is more popular than donald trump. she is more popular than brian kemp in georgia and in ...

The administration, am i target of the russia investigation, oh, you told me i wasnt a target. dont put that in a memo. lester holt, by the way, russia was on my mind and russian guys are in the oval office, i got rid of comey, you dont have to worry about this any more. as an fbi counterintelligence agent, i cant think of anything else that would come up that would not cause more alarm at this point. this is a year and a half of behavior. >> and this then pushes that faithful decision, matt mil...