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People and appeared on sunday shows after the attack saying things that were completely false and untrue in terms of political manipulation of national security information. susan rice in my view has done it in the past. whether or not she did it this time i dont know but its something congress should look into. if she was involved in unmasking trump transition figures was there a reason and id like to get to the bottom of it. >> bill: she worked for the president. who would have told her to do ...

So in the universe of possible motives for felonious information we can rule out wanting to help the intelligence communities and the law enforcement communities. those are two motives that are gone now. that leaves some more nefarious motives. ishe investigation into the leak of classified information, has it begun yet? >> i cant say because i dont want to confirm that that was classified information. >> well, i dont want to quarrel with you, director comey, and i do understand that you cannot ...

Motives for the felonious dissemination of classified material, we could rule out wanting to help the intelligence communities and the law enforcement communities. those are two motives that are gone now. that leaves some more nefarious motives. is the investigation into the leak of classified information, has it begun yet? >> i cant say, because i dont want to confirm that that was classified information. >> well, i dont want to quarrel with you, director comey. i do understand that you cannot ...

It doesnt appear a whole lot of republican support for that. a couple republicans at the end of the week said maybe a special counsel is needed. lindsey graham is one of john mccains close friend just perhaps it arises to a criminal matter, we should follow the facts where they lead. right now i dont think any republican in congress think that the fact pattern has reached a threshold for special counsel is necessary. elizabeth: alexander, thank you so much for joining us. leland: congressional r...

Series of cyberattacks against the united states including hacking into john podestas e-mail and include taking down the dnc, including obvious fake news stories planned. wh -- planted. when you put that with the fact pattern that john and katy just described it is very disturbing. >> we have said all week you could look at these meetings in the vacuum but in the context in which they were taking place which is all of these questions around russia meddling in the election. >> right. when america...

These meetings were as a senator not a trump campaign. >> he was a close surrogate of trump. he met with someone at the rnc convention. dont try to parse this right now. he was asked on two separate occasions, two senators, once in writing as well as once verbally, had he had contact with russian officials. he said no. one of it was actually just -- that was two letters, no. it was not forthcoming. for someone who is a former prosecutor and who is now trying to be a -- the highest law enforcemen...

>> they have to change it to instead of they lost ryan, we lost ryan. >> we have two different accounts now. he quoted general mattis in his address to congress tonight but that is a different fact than what john mccain believes of this mission. >> and what nbc reported last night. >> and all of our reporting does not line up with what donald trump quoted his secretary of defense, very well respected general. so i think he opened up the issue. it was already opened. the father has asked for an i...

Instead of they lost ryan, we lost ryan. >> he quoted general mattis in his address to congress tonight but that is a different fact than what john mccain believes of this mission. >> and what nbc reported last night. >> and all of our reporting does not line up with what donald trump quoted his secretary of defense, very well respected general. so i think he opened up the issue. it was already opened. the father has asked for an investigation. but he presented something that is not in the curre...

Rahm emanuel are were having discussions and even the president himself that would be a huge scandal if rahm emanuel called the fbi and said just -- we need you to talk to the press about what you guys are finding in your investigation. >> again, that is the fact pattern. the same exact pattern that happened in 1993 in the travel gate dustup. >> it went the other way. the call came from the fbi. >> it wasnt even a call. >> it was -- >> right. >> they were in white house meeting. here is the ques...

The congressional door and saying congress passed this law, we have this authority open door. that could be true, craig, and they could still lose at the supreme court through the constitutional door, where the supreme court says yeah, maybe you and congress did this and said this, its gone too far. for example and this is an if, if the court thought there was enough evidence, a factual question, that this was discrimination, say i dont know, say a candidate runs on saying he wants to ban a reli...