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Rather be with russia than where they were and you have to look at that also. >> well now in light of more recent developments, trumps past behavior toward russia raises serious questions. im joined by malcolm nance, msnbc sbenls analyst and author of "the plot to hack america" and tim winer is an investigative reporter and author of "enemies: a history of the fbi and legacy of ashes." the history of the cia. gentlemen, i want you both on to tell us what you know. act like youre being investigat...

Counterintelligence, where would you like to find out the dots connect? >> well, we already know fbi has pfizer warrants. i would be doing what weve seen. we are coordinating or they are coordinating with the national security agencies. theyre coordinating with the central intention agency, and however, getting that warrant also allowed them to take in intelligence from other foreign intelligence collectors. the ukrainians, estonia, french ghq in england. theres an enormous amount of collection ...

Good at connecting the dots. but what about when the dots are right up against each other. >> like googlely eyes and theyre right next to each other staring at others. yeah, sometimes its easier than others. >> for lawrence odonnell. doubling down tonight on a war with the intelligence community. he has accused them of being unamerican and breaking the law with leaks, but he continues to defend his ousted national security adviser. and calling the first victory of the resistance against presiden...

Raises questions. malcolm nance, and timhiner. gentleman, i want you both to tell us what you know and act like youre being investigators rather than journalists. malcolm, first of all, if you were heading up the fbi right now in terms of counterintelligence, where would you like to find out the dots connect? >> well, we already know fbi has fiezer warrants. i would be doing what weve seen. we are coordinating or they are coordinating with the national security agencies. theyre coordinating with...

Who were handled as assets or unwitting or wittingly for russian intelligence in order to affect an election of the president of the united states and disrupting the entire american electoral process to get that person elected. this is close to benedict arnold territory im afraid to say. >> let me go back to tim on this question. the number of dots is like the happy hunting ground. theres so many dots here. why manafort, why is manafort hooked up with trump, why is roger stones name showing up h...

News conference that struck me as unhinged. it was a canny reflection of counsel hes received that the most persuasive speaker on his behalf is donald trump himself. >> i found him hinged. [laughter] s the one you often dont hear that hinged. >> it was a stream of consciousness. it was a performance unlike any other. you think of the jfk press conferences or reagan or others. this is a performance art. i suppose im willing to be schooled on this. you have to judge him by his own terms. if you tr...

And that should be very easy to find out. and then you start connecting dots and people could go to prison. brian: anyone who says is he lying is not telling you the truth. lieutenant general michael flynn never said he lied to anybody. he could have given more detail to the vice president. he did talk to 30 different leaders before he became national security advisor. obviously yesterday the democrats who have been relentless targeting donald trump and the staffers saw this as opportunity to fa...

Explain? its all interesting. the dots are there. we need someone to see if theyre connected, dont you think? anyway, happy valentines day. and thats "hardball" for now. thanks for being with us. join me again tomorrow night at 7:00 etern. see you then. this is the silverado special edition. this is one gorgeous truck.

Note to putin, that they should hold off until the new team comes to town and makes things square for us. did anybody tell putin that his kindness would be rewarded by january 20? on that point, where was the russian benefactor putin? did he say something, send some note of gratitude that he might someday soon be called to explain? its all interesting. the dots are there. we need someone to see if theyre connected, dont you think? anyway, happy valentines day. and thats "hardball" for w. thanks ...

Investigation, we can uncover some of these anonymous sources and the names that were not known. i know a lot of kgb agents for instance, because of my time in the government. and for those names were exposed in an investigation, we might be able to connect the dots and then really understand whether there was collusion or not. and i would think mr. manafort would want that investigation, if indeed what he said to you is true. lets get it documented so we can move on. >> lets get back to somethi...