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Whether its on social media and we talk about -- >> what about in manchester? >> in man chest maybe just a local community. and i mentioned the cases where you see the individuals working alone, the family members. and it takes months to track down each of these individuals. sometimes theyre connected from other attacks in europe. sometimes they come abroad anded these attacks from somewhere else. sometimes we learn theyre on a terror list and we overlooked it. the point is its a needle in a hay...

These kinds of tragedies? >> thank you, senator. the central challenge is not just finding needles in a nationwide haystack, but trying to find out which pieces of hay might become a needle and that is which of the troubled young people or stipes itometimes it people, and some isis, some anwar awlaki and are moving toward a stabbing at a shopping mall is some way to achieve meaning in their lives and a huge part of it is building relationships with the communities you mentioned because those fol...

When they find a syringe in the prison system that works they tend to pass it from offender to offender. we run into the possibility of spreading several types of different diseases. >> correctional staff head to housing unit five for a surprise shakedown for the cell shared by inman and boltjes. >> all right. where do you want to start? >> tonights mission for lieutenant michael higden and brian scott is to search for a needle in a haystack of inmate property accumulated over several years. >> ...

Department of defense had. >> lets get to kristen welker at the white house. so you have accusations of stone walling here, the white house saying hey, dont look at us, we did everything well could. take us through both sides of it here. >> reporter: there are two key arguments that the white house is making. one, they say that the oversight committee requested documents related to the vetting process of michael flynn. they say that that process effectively took place under the obama administrat...

In the haystack is some donald trump communications with the russians. incidental collection. i think this is portrayed as conspiracy as it was on fox. that is entirely incorrect. it is intel sharing agreement that includes trump stuff. >> a simple sharing agreement. it means the british know that conversations were going on at some level between trump associates and russians early on. david drucker, this is more stuff. a fisa warrant and this british collection. you think more and more smoke an...

Know, how important ultimately are finances and financial movements in a situation like this? >> well, theyre what allow you to track and connect people. and when given the budget authority to do so, we have people at an agency called finsen who can literally find a dollar in a haystack scattered all over the world of billions of dollars. in this case, theres a money trail, and we keep coming back to the bank of cypress, to its chairman, who was the head of deutsche bank, the single biggest bank...

States of america. we have a republican campaign manager who is in the pay of a hostile foreign power? you know, connecting the dots here does not require some high level of sophisticated inking. >> and in your experience having been sort of an investigive reporter, particularly on both the tax and final side, you know, how important ultimately are finances and financial movements in a situation like this? >> well, theyre what allow you to track and connect people. and when given the budget auth...

You know what i mean? im easily influenced. ive done some [ bleep ]. but i aint the only one. this is the bay area. this is where crack was invented. im just a needle in a haystack. coming up -- ♪ just let me see girl who you be girl ♪ >> dru down keeps the inmates sbrand and talks about hi other career. >> its called eye candy. in l.a., i ran for like eight years. and later -- >> the truth is, theres four other killings out there that im suspected of. they can come talk to me anytime. >...

But i aint the only one. this is the bay area. this is where crack was invented. im just needle in a haystack. >> coming up -- >> just let me see girl ♪ ♪ >> celebrity inmate known as dru drown keeps the inmates entertained and talks about his -- >> in l.a. i ran for like eight years. >> later -- >> the truth is, theres four other killings out there that im suspected of. they can come talk to me any time. >> i dont care about suspected. did you do it? >> eugene protsmans homicidal confession...

Haystack. >> youre not a politics guy but intel and sniffing out politics how much of this might be -- one of the questions was about political cover for the presidents tweet, what is your sense? >> my sense is this could potentially provide political cover for the president and the reason is it gives them just enough information that something was going on, that something can be interpreted. >> thus the vindication. >> exactly. and thats why he says i feel somewhat vindicated because its fairly...