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>> you know, i havent spoken to anyone who says that happened. proving the negative is always a little different than saying what did happen. what i am told is that there is a real dynamic here of chris wray resisting outside pressure both from the white house and to some degree, definitely from attorney general jeff sessions, to make changes at the upper echelons of the fbi. he has resisted doing that on anything but his own schedule. >> devlin, thank you so much for waiting around with us. app...

Lost shane harris. the journal this week also lost paul sonne, whos the one who broke that remarkable story about kaspersky software. thats how we learned that before trump national security adviser mike flynn took money from kaspersky, his own agency, the defense intelligence agency, had published multiple reports and even a pentagon-wide warning saying that kaspersky was a front for russian intelligence. thats how we found out that mike flynn knowingly took money from a company that he himself...

House official thats coming to us in time or on a base siis. >> i am hopeful that well get there. >> as always and certainly heading into this weekend. devlin barrett, thank you for joining us on capitol hill tonight. >> reported from the white house right now while this is going on all day long, jeremy bash and news and finance anchor at yahoo and white house reporter for the wall street journal, good evening to you all and welcome to you all. hans, what was it like? i was watching live as ucon...

Thats how we learned that before trump national security adviser mike flynn took money from kaspersky, his own agency, the defense intelligence agency, had published multiple reports and even a pentagon-wide warning saying that kaspersky was from russian intelligence. now both paul sonne and shane harris are leaving "the wall street journal" as of this week. the journal has also shed devlin barrett who has been a scoop machine on a lot of stories over the years but in particular on this trump ru...

Nominee. the dossier was put together by a respected former british intelligence officer christopher steele who paid for it is one of the big mysteries during the campaign and transition. president trump retweeting a quote from fox news this morning, clinton campaign and dnc paid for research that led to the antitrump fake news dossier. the victim here is the president. brian fallon tweeted, i regret i didnt know about christopher steeles hiring pre-election. if i had, i would have volunteered t...

Campaign says that he didnt know about it at the time. if he had known about it, he would like to have had a press conference about it or dig into it more. he didnt know about it at the time. thats what he says. >> that remains one of the mysteries here, looking at the timeline. if the clinton campaign had access to this stuff, it sounds like they should have, they never made a public -- they never made a public story of it during the campaign, at least in the way that was trackable to them. one...

Mr. barrett, thanks very much for being here. congratulations on the scoop. >> thank you. >> i have to tell you, its bitter congratulations im giving you because we were chasing this story all day today and you beat us to it. when your story today posted on "the washington post" website, there was a great yell of consternation that went up in our newsroom here at msnbc. well-done. >> thank you. a lot of people have been chasing this for a long time and its sort of become what the house republica...

Devlin barrett from "the washington post." today voters in the state of arizona are reacting. i was there yesterday. i saw people from arizona cheering reacting to senator jeff flakes blistering criticism of president trump. and flake s announcement hes not going to continue. joining me now gadi schwartz. he joins us live from arizona. sorry i missed you when i was in arizona. but what are you hearing from locals there who have known jeff flake for years? >> reporter: yeah. well, this is the t...

Know, just as an example of that, a former spokesman for the campaign says that he didnt know about it at the time. if he had known about it, he would like to have had a press conference about it or dig into it more. he didnt know about it at the time. thats what he says. >> that remains one of the mysteries here, looking at the timeline. if the clinton campaign had access to this stuff, it sounds like they should have, they never made a public -- they never made a public story of it during the ...

Worst that the democratic donor who took over funding the dossier for the general election was a lawyer representing the clinton campaign and the dnc. quote, alias and his lawmaker retained fusion gps. prior to that agreement, fusions research was funded by a still unknown republican client during the republican presidential primary. the clinton campaign and the dnc through that law firm continued it to fund fusions research through the end of october 16, days before election day. gave steeles r...