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Public now about how our surveillance law works. they understood it and exploited it. >> they trace it back so they could look ultimately -- you read this indictment. they have the address of the office, evan, where this operation was operate iing. >> we know theres a lot more that the fbi has in its possession. some officials were ready in november of 2016, they thought they had enough information to try to bring some charges. clearly, there was additional information being done. now were seein...

Deputy attorney general rod ross enstein will talk about. it could be this is for something totally different. evan, youre with me right now, do you have a sense? >> look, we still dont have an answer as to what exactly it is. were just being told its a law enforcement matter. i can tell you right now a grand jury has returned an indictment against 13 russian nationals and entities apparently related to hacking in the election. so it might be related to that. which is something weve been watchin...

That the democrats they can go back and work with the democrats on purging whatever is for national security reasons shouldnt be in this. how long does that take? and was the last five days not long enough for that? >> i think were in a whole new world here, because this is not what we do, we dont release information like this selectively. i dont know if we can compare it to any type of standard because i dont think there is a standard. what i do think is that this does a disservice to the ameri...

House not to do, the white house went ahead anyway and the fbi made the rare public statement saying, you know, i dont want to misquote chris wray, but essentially saying there were material omissions of fact. >> no, youre right. again, i was not a fan of the gop memo. in fact, i think it was atrocious you would release this type of information, selectively cherry picking information, but still as a national security practitioner, i dont think that gives us the grown light to go ahead and say, w...

>> sean: i read it clinton friends and associates were feeding christopher steele information and he was running with it and that became the dossier which became the bulk of the fisa warrant? >> that appears to be the case, sean. this is very concerning. not only was christopher steele informing other reporters, talking to other reporters on back ground, lying the whole way through but he was collecting information. remember, by this point, the russians probably and i said this before, already k...

Same concerns. because again the problems with the memo are omissions not something that redactions will be able to cure, erin. >> all right. thank you very much, evan. material omission of fact make it inaccurate. christen powers is with me. and mike rogers former chair of the intel committee also here. mike, do you think the white house is taking the fbi warning seriously? because as you here its a matter of when not if. not going to change his mind right now? >> its a done deal. coming out to...

And lets see what happens. but a lot of people should be ashamed. >> lets go to cnns justice correspondent. evan perez has been carefully monitoring all of these late breaking developments. first of all, evan, update our viewers on what the memo actually says. >> reporter: right, wolf. this 3 1/2-page memo was released by the house intelligence committee, written by the gop staff that reports to devin nunes, the chairman that have committee. the basic point theyre making is that there was a brea...

The russians helped trump get elected and in return trump helps to lift sanctions. his downpayment was getting a negative thing about russian out of the platform at the republican convention. but there was also a promissory note that after the election, if they won, they would work to get these sanctions lifted. which they immediately proceeded to do to fulfill their end of this corrupt and illegal quid pro quo that will send people to jail eventually. >> evan, the meeting at trump tower with do...

Virginia. president trump was not among the people you just heard clapping because he was not there and did not hear that. joining us now is a former cia operative. also with us and an msnbc political analyst. evan, so judging by the applause, some republican members of congress seem to agree with nikki haley that russia is not our friend. >> thats good. to me the applause -- exactly. theres a question? the applause seemed cautious and reserved. having been in those rooms before, it was disappoi...

Pro quo that will send people to jail eventually. >> evan, the meeting at trump tower with donald trump jr. during the campaign and the russians and jared kushner and paul manafort was about sanctions. >> absolutely. so what they talk about is this adoption story. we were just meeting to talk about adoptions which, of course, is laughable, except when they say adoptions theyre talking about the magnitsky act and sanctions that come from that. but look, ill tell you this -- >> because within the ...