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Speak to the justice department pushing back saying they replied to the congressman letter and the white house signed up on it. that way thats releasing the letter they sent on thursday last week. it reads, quote - the department has determined that consistent with applicable laws and long-standing executive branch policy, it is not in a position to provide information responsive to your request regarding specific individuals. disclosure of responsive information could have severe consequences i...

Usually a period of many months, where youre getting -- whether its intelligence from our agencies, maybe youre digging through their trash or conducting physical surveillance, youre gathering a lot of information in order to show a court that theres probable cause to believe that as jeffrey said, this person is knowingly acting on behalf of a foreign power and engaging in clandestine intelligence activity. so they are -- they are looking like they are spying on behalf of this foreign government...

Paul manafort to attend. but now a russian american lob business is telling the associated press he was there, too. he served in the soviet military for a couple of years in the 1980s. he said it was routine service and denied any involvement past or present in intelligence activity. and trump jr.s attorney is telling fox news another person, an american citizen says he was at the meeting as well. bringing that total number to 8 people reportedly at this meeting. democrats and some republicans s...

With his governor that his state will not ask for a waiver. >> great. >> does the president have a preference as to whether or not states ask for waivers? >> the presidents preference -- the president believes in states rights. his goal is to make sure that the pre-existing conditions are covered, care coverage goes up and costs go down. those are the principles that continue to guide him. >> i want to go back to director comey and things he said about russia. one of the things he said is the ru...

A waiver. so does the president have a preference as to whether or not states ask for waivers? >> the presidents preference -- the president believes in states rights. number one. number two, not just preference. his goal is to make sure that he stated repeatedly that preexisting conditions are covered. care coverage goes up and costs go down. those are the principles that continue to guide him. cecelia. >> thank you. talking about russia. one of the things he said was the russian government is ...

Does the president have a. the president believes in states rights, number. . care coverage goes up and cost go down. the. >> i want to go back to some things that he said about russia. one of the things he said was the russian government is still involved in politics. is that the view of this white house? >> i think thats the view of the fbi. we rely on them and the rest of the intelligence community to provide the presidents with updates on what theyre learning. it doesnt go that way. the dire...

Short time after that, bloomberg suggesting that rice was the person who would request the identities of trump transition officials whose phone conversations of foreign officials were collected. joining me now is susan hennessy of the national security agency. all right, its very clear to me now youve got all of the parts of the lets say benghazi industrial complex working to send this idea that the real scandal here is the obama folks spying on the trump campaign, what do you make of it? >> rig...

Officials whose phone conversations of foreign officials were collected. joining me now is susan hennessy of the national security agency. all right, its very clear to me now youve got all of the parts of the lets say benghazi industrial complex working to send this idea that the real scandal here is the obama folks spying on the trump campaign, what do you make of it? >> right. so, again, again, theyre sort of trying to advance this narrative that the real story is something else, leaks, the fa...

That gives them 72 hours to leave the country and the government is shutting down two russian-government owned compounds, one in maryland, another in new york that were used they say to conduct intelligence activity. the government is also going to be releasing information, the department of homeland security and the federal bureau -- the fbi are going to be releasing declassified technical information on russian civilian and military intelligence service activity to provide those who try to hel...

Cha china, russia, al qaeda would follow suit. precisely because washington has to get its hands dirty, it should be smart about this. you dont stop terrorists in europe by listening in on angela merkels cell phone. the rewards of spying on friendly heads of government are probably outweighed by the risks. and most troubling, its not clear that many of these specific activities were clearly thought through and directed by the white house. nor do they appear to have been vetted by congress. in th...