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And it turns out donald trump knew and he knew weeks before the inauguration. listen to this opening for this article. two weeks before his inauguration, donald j trump was shown highly classified intelligence indicating thatvlad russia has personally ordered complex cyber attacks to sway the 2016 american election. the evidence included texts and e-mails from russian military officers and information gleamed from a top secret source close to mr. putin who has described to the cia how the kremli...

Intelligence committee who attended that intelligence briefing was one of the sunday talk shows and said there was nothing in that meeting to support the presidents claim. he attacked the administration for being complicit in trying to undermine the justice department. he also noted the presence of white house lawyer emmitt flood and chief of staff john kelly who attended part of that meeting. look at what he said. >> i told mr. flood that he had no business being there, that he was the presiden...

Assessment. they do not assess politics. they obtain facts and intelligence. >> its an impossible counter factual determination to make in any definitive sense anyway no matter who they were. obviously thats not going to an intelligence community assessment. despite saying that, hes watching this em spin that out. >> while hes in the room they were spinning this out. normally when you have a strategy session to figure out your spin, you do it outside of the room of the intelligence briefing. he ...

Has anything resembling a light schedule on his hands this week after axios reported that he has these large chunks of what they call executive time in the morning because as we know from seeing his public schedule that they released to the media, he usually gets into the oval office at 11:00 a.m. for his intelligence briefing. his private schedule has executive time sprinkled throughout the day. the white house is pushing back saying this is a ludicrous idea that hes not working hard. he has a ...

Thing with trump and russia is a made-up story. >> reporter: other parts of the presidents twitter attacks, "new york times", former president barack obama, pakistan, iran and the palestinians, who mr. trump threatened not to give future funding if they do not rejoin peace talks. president trump taking record for a record year of safety and commercial aviation without citing any measures his administration has implemented. >> it really doesnt matter what the president of the united states says a...

Security clearance. if they find that you have been misrepresented things on that form, you shouldnt have security clearance. if this was anyone else, would he lose his job? >> i dont know. it depends on what the underlying conversations were. if in fact he said i want to have a -- use the facilities of the russian embassy and ambassadors home because i want to shield it from intelligence, they would be scrutiny and possibly have clearances pulled, yes. >> remember the hubbub about unmasking, so...

We have. i want to play the full context of what you said earlier on facebook lives. >> i am director of the trump war room here at the dnc, over the last 48 hours, the press has confirmed what many of us already suspected. donald trump and his aides have continued to lie about their contact with russia. one of the biggest political scandals in political history. this is bigger than watergate. >> ed: he said president trump has repeatedly lied about contact with russia. when did the president li...

Youre relying on cnn, on verified sources -- >> i just watched the press conference. i dont want to misquote the president-elect. i assume you know what he said today. >> i sure do. >> he said he doesnt want to talk about -- he wont talk about what happened in the intelligence briefings. >> right. he shouldnt. its called an intelligence briefing. are you comfortable that -- >> if this didnt happen in an intelligence briefing then you can talk about it. if this wasnt a part of the briefing -- >> ...

>> that is a garbage document. it never should have been presented as part of an intelligence briefing. trumps right to be upset about that. if you look at the real chronology and the nature of the battle here, those intelligence chiefs who were the best weve had who were terrific and have done great work, made a mistake here and when people make mistakes, they should apologize. >> that was something mr. trump liked. he retweeted, it seems like each side is getting in their final shots in the fi...

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