Page 141 - Eli News Today

About after the fact with sergey kislyak as well as the foreign minister as well, he speaks outside the comfort zone. outside the comfort zone of the intelligence community around him and thats what makes the stakes so high. for all the meetings hes had he never had a meet like this. >> we have watching the motorcade which actually has transported on -- which is transported on a separate aircraft. there are bans in the motorcade for the press. but eli, i want to ask you about this question of, y...

Believes that is a direct threat to him. it will make him more erratic. make him more likely to lash out. >> eli, you cover this white house and on a day like last thursday when all eyes were on a war between the president of the united states and my colleagues, joe scarborough and mika brzezinski, the national security team was dealing with and analyzing information about the threat posed by north korea. talk about the parallel tracks that this white house operates on. >> well, youre talking ab...

Today is a unique day where people can actually go to july fourth parades and actually access republicans who are hiding from their constituents. although dean heller in nevada has chosen not to go to the parades in las vegas, but to go to eli, nevada, that has a p population of 4,000, thats three hours drive from reno. >> so then, particularly for those senators and represent toivs who are going to be at fourth of july parades, theyre going to come face-to-face with the sentiment from their con...

The risk is real today, it was real in 2016. the other note able feature is that jay johnseh johnson said t not want them to have any access to their systems after the hack. they chose to say no to federal help when they had a breach. >> and the president, president obama, could have gone out and tried to bring more public attention to this at the time, eli, this comes a day after sean spicer was asked yes or no, have you asked the president, does he believe that russia hacked the election, jeh ...

Go. >> okay, kelly odonnell, eli sto stocke stockels, thank you so much. michael, what we know from jay johns-- jeh johnsons testi is they targeted election processes in 21 states, break down the significance of that. >> we dont know what that mean by targeted. it could mean getting into them to access data, it could mean getting in to exfiltrate data. it could mean changing voter registration data, so when they go to vote theyre not on the list, or the record says they have moved.

Day. well update you when we get them. thank you guys both. meanwhile on capitol hill, russia was front and center again today. hearings held by the house and senate intell committees and witnesses testified that russia is not dont with their -- done with their questions. >> kelly odonnell is on capitol hill, also eli is joining us. kelly, lets start with you, what did we learn today? >> this was a way for those paying attention to this hearing to try to bring it back to the most basic thing, no...

Healthcare. and frankly, i realize that the first bill we passed was not perfect but it was a good first step. >> do you acknowledge maybe you guys should be doing this more in public? it looks like youre hiding for political reasons that its too painful to talk about the vilk aspects of the bill. i get it as a political tackic. do you think long-term you could pay a price for that? >> we had hearings in the house, and it senate is now drafting a bill. its hard to draft a bill in public, but the...

Those remarks ahead of a technology summit set to begin in the next half hour. it comes as he readies for a crucial trip to the middle east later this week and amid reports hes arming himself with a team of criminal lawyers in the face of the expanding russia investigation. for more on this, i have brought in ashley parker. eli and the gang are still here at the table. ashley, i wonder what you think from jareds sort of teams world view what they think when they see a legal surrogate whos not wo...

Eli -- im sorry, go ahead, nick. >> mike flynn didnt think theyd win because he published this op-ed that was the turkish talking points on election day. he clearly was making a lot of money and didnt think that he was going have to give that up. >> thats by the way something to think about in terms of all of the conduct here. trumps conduct. did he collude, did he do something where the russians, everybodys conduct was none of them thought they were going to win. >> they were looking at the sam...

A former democratic justice department is or was partners with bob mueller whos now gone in to run the special counsel probe. so i think your paper reports that abbe lowell is someone under consideration. can you talk about whats known about abbe lowell and i think youre talking about him as a possible candidate, someone with more trial experience. is that right? >> yes. thats exactly right. one of the reasons he has started to reach out to outside lawyers is im told by his team not because of a...