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Reporter. She is the coauthor of our exclusive nbc news report from just last night on Robert Mueller asking witnesses if trump knew with these hacked democratic emails before they were released. Also back with us, jeremy bash, former chief of staff at the cia and pentagon. And we welcome back to the program, cynthia alneya, a federal prosecutor and a Justice Department veteran. Welcome to you all. Carol, about tonights story, what is its central impact the your view . Well, as you mentioned, th...

The probe at a certain date? >> no. that doesnt happen. so, the investigators will take their investigation where it goes and they are going to stay within the parameters of the regulations, but they are going to -- theres so many different aspects of that investigation. there is a money piece. there is the dnc hacking piece. there is the russian influence we already saw the indictment of russian nationals and russian entities for using social media and other mechanisms to try to influence u.s. ...

This hacking piece, that was discuss in the an october 2016 statement by the direct or of national intelligence that this was tunneled authorship of the russian federation. and unlike propaganda which happens, legal and illegal, hacking, only illegal. hacking only done by someone trying to do something improper during an election season. i think we are left with the quote, fundamentally a marine. >> appreciate all three of you being with us. and coming up as we continue, continued chaos, continu...

The hacking, the false information. in real-time, a lot of us, most of us, all of us didnt know what we were seeing online on the web. we knew a nakedly false story. when we saw it. but these were -- this was an interesting intervention into our electronics. >> and theres a lot of political noise. you can say it was drop in the ocean. it didnt affect the outcome. but again, this hacking piece, that was discussed in the october 2016 statement by the director of national intelligence and the secre...

This was an interesting intervention. >> and theres a lot of political noise. you can say it was drop in the ocean. this hacking piece, that was discuss in the an october 2016 statement by the direct or of national intelligence that this was tunneled authorship of the russian federation. and unlike propaganda which happens, legal and illegal, hacking, only illegal. hacking only done by someone trying to do something improper during an election season. i think we are left with the quote, fundamen...

The senator, bob corkell, says classified hearing will be in the matter. >> the hacking piece, i dont think well have a hair fire about that. i am sorry, thats what people do. at the end of the day, trying to understand what russia is doing and not only here in the united states but in elections around the world. it is an important thing for us to know, right? >> joining me now, maryland senator, ben cardin, one of the nine senators calling for that investigation. you just heard your colleague t...

The chairman promises to look into it. >> the hacking piece is -- i dont think we ought to have our hair on fire about that. but at the end of the day, trying to understand what russia is doing not only here in the united states and p but elections around the world is an important thing for us to know, right? >> with me, senator patrick leahy, democrat of vermont, senator leahy, are you satisfied with that response, are you satisfied that the senate foreign relations committee says its going to ...

And secondly to potentially take some type of retaliatory action to say to russia this is unacceptable for you to try to intervene in a presidential election. there was great debate internally, privately, within the administration. it went on for weeks and several months. it was not until just a month before the election they finally formally attributed this to the russian government and there still to this date has been no public retaliation. which would come in the form of, you know, sanctions...