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Criminal activity. there are text messages between these people that have not been fully released to the public yet. another thing about the texts that have been released, sondland was at the center of that exchange with ambassador bill taylor. he was the one who famously put in writing something to protect himself perhaps but also to call out what we now know is a potential road to impeachment kind of act, that it was, quote, crazy to link the ukraine assistance to what donald trump wanted, inv...

Disagreed with or taken a different stance on, youre in danger of losing your access to him. he doesnt want to hear from you anymore. so the tough decision that all these people face and that the chiefs of the intelligence services faced when they testified last week on the hill, is do i tell it straight or do i try to maintain my access to this guy? jim mattis at defense had that problem, john kelly and h.r. mcmaster had that problem, and where are they now? >> but, john, on the intelligence br...

Services faced when they testified last week on the hill, is do i tell it straight or do i try to maintain my access to this guy? jim mattis at defense had that problem, john kelly and h.r. mcmaster had that problem, and where are they now? >> but, john, on the intelligence briefers, would they just be replaced? if an intelligence briefer tells president trump something he doesnt want to hear, and then maybe does it repeatedly a couple times, would that briefer be replaced by another briefer, or...

Owners have done. we shall see. >> okay. >> adrian, sitting next to roger, i have no idea what he says either. roger bennett, thank you very much. >> adrian is a huge fan she was telling me before i came on. >> sure she did. okay. "men in blazers" returns tonight at 5:30 eastern on nbc sports. still ahead much more on the presidents clash with the intelligence community. edition in as senior intelligence briefer speaks out. plus the governor of virginia clings to power over controversy ove...

Former cia daily intelligence briefer, and this was during the tenure of robert mueller as being head of the fbi. tell me what you thought of the filings on friday. >> it didnt surprise me that these filings were so meticulous. now, a lot of them was left out. the redactions were still severe, at least in the manafort case. but what we saw was a clear logic by robert mueller and those working with him in the special counsels office were laying out what they know, how they knew it and how it fit ...

This isnt good for the country. >> joining me now, david priess, author of "how to get rid of a president." hes also a daily intelligence briefer under robert mueller. david, welcome to you. you just heard the senator talking about nixon. is it too soon to make that comparison as similar, or are there tangible things weighing in on that? >> its the closest parallel in modern history to what were seeing now. weve had attempts at impeachment. some of them were resolutions that went nowhere. two pr...

Khashoggi, phil? >> i mean we at the "washington post," are certainly trying to get answers to all of those question, and do not have them yet. it is difficult to piece this time line together. and im not confident that the u.s. government, as of right now, has a complete time line in terms of what happened at the consulate, what was sort of picked up when, and what they knew about this plot as it went along. it is unclear, for example, as ann gaeren was saying at the top of shot whether there w...

Correspondent kristen welker, white house reporter ashlynn parker and washington correspondent greg miller. foreign special agent cliff watts and jeremy peters, as well as former cia officer and daily intelligence briefer, david preece. first, kristen welker, out there on the south lawn, it must have been very cold but the words were hot. tell me your biggest takeaways today. >> reporter: i think the biggest takeaway was the clip you just played, andrea. the fact that you heard president trump n...

Consensus intelligence product. when you have an intelligence briefing for a president where they are shading the truth, leaving out intelligence, changing the order so as not to offend him, thats not an intelligence briefing. that is story time. that is fiction. that is basically telling the president something he wants to hear, and i cant think of anything more dangerous during a time when we have crises in asia and the middle east, all around the world. the president needs the truth and embla...