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What are you hearing on that front? >> yeah. that is just additional detail that confirms the plat line we knew was true all along. what happened after we began to discover what the russians were doing, they tried to cover their tracks, putting out this idea of trying to pivot off a hacker that did hack into american systems, who is now in a romanian jail. what they were trying to do is cover their tracks. but the russians didnt do it. now we know based upon "the daily beast" article that this i...

Persona is an officer in russias main intelligence directorate. special counsel bob mueller has taken over the probe and the agents who tracked down this operative are now part of the special counsels team. the one who broke this story, spencer, thank you so much for talking to me today. its my understanding the suspect sort of slipped up at one point in time and was it that mistake that blou his cover? tell me about that. >> thats right. this was a crucial, if fleeting, mistake in trade craft. ...

This is the trump idea that the world is reality television when there is actually reality outside of reality television. >> what a wordsmith you are. as youre speaking, everyone on the screen is oh, my gosh, did he really just say that? >> no, he is wrong. >> thanks, everyone. were going to talk about guccifer 2.0, the hacker who took credit for stealing e-mails from the dnc when we come right back.

This russian hacker. what are the implications for the criminal probe and potential collusion between trump and russia? >> for stone, theyre probably pretty serious. its perhaps likely that investigators working for mueller are going to want to talk to him. in the broader sense, there are going to be questions about who else connected to the trump administration, the trump campaign was this russian officer, intelligence officer in contact with. this basically puts the probe, if it turn outside t...

Welcome back. now time for your morning primer, everything you need to know to start you day. we begin with another administration departure. outgoing secretary of state rex tillerson bid farewell officially to the state department on thursday. his farewell address, tillerson urged his colleagues to maintain their integrity in what he called a, quote, mean spirited town. and the daily beast reports the supposed lone hacker of the democratic committee e-mails was actually a russian military intel...

Summer of 2016, was saying he was in touch with julian assange, in touch with guccifer. and in august of 2016, when everybody was basically saying guccifer seems to be a russian internet persona, not a real romanian hacker as he claimed to be, stone wrote an article for breitbart saying everyone was wrong, the hacker was real, he was romanian. of course, he was blowing smoke. what he was doing, as we see now, he was participating in a coverup to protect a russian military intelligence officer wh...

And in august of 2016, when everybody was basically saying guccifer seems to be a russian internet persona, not a real romanian hacker as he claimed to be, stone wrote an article for breitbart saying everyone was wrong, the hacker was real, he was romanian. of course, he was blowing smoke. what he was doing, as we see now, he was participating in a coverup to protect a russian military intelligence officer who is part of a plan to attack the united states. i mean, i dont like to use the words of...

The guccifer 2.0, the hacker that we know was working for the gru. he was hacking the dnc. >> i have to interrupt only for sound issues, well fix it. its television. joyce, ill put the same question to you, well come back to the ambassador, what do you think about these links? >> the linkages will be really interesting for the mueller investigation, because we have to remember that what mueller is looking at, these basic questions law enforcement tries to answer are who, what, when, where and wh...

So i think a number of these threads, to use the ambassadors metaphor are being pulled on and this is an extraordinary moment, not only do we see this international intrigue around our most fundamental democratic processes, but were also seeing at the same time, this amazing political theater of government by tantrum. >> you put it quite well, and something christina greer, who joins our panel has also discussed because shes talked about what shes characterized as a kind of young or adolescent e...

Mueller. after that happened i talked to dowd on the phone. dowd told me, hold your horses, im the decider. if trump is talking to him it goes through me and i havent decided. but now dowd is gone. who is going to be the person potentially standing in the gap saying dont do this? we dont know until we know what the presidents team looks like. it is higher. >> one of the controversies dowd sparked, that was a great conversation, betsy. jeremy, i want to quickly bring you in on the news we learned...