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>> right now were kind of keeping our eye on the door, lester. >> that was mark and deborah tice with our lester holt. jeremy bash is back with me now. jeremy, i understand from the national security council that at the highest levels, this white house is working on freeing american hostages. having been the chief of staff at the pentagon and at the cia, two agencies that would be intimately involved in trying to bring home someone like austin tice, withhat can america do in these situations? >>...

Single signal theyre sending is one that brings -- on themselves. the presidents conversation with comey, the calls to the intelligence chief to ask for them to back him up, the weird strange handling of the general flynn appointment, the information that they got from sally yates that they didnt act on for a couple of weeks, all of this. and you know, i havent mentioned the presidents intermittent tweets, all of this has created a great deal, more suspicion. they are not acting like people who ...

Intelligence anymore because it could get leaked, specifically to the russians. that was the european fear. >> david ignatius, how much worse does this make it? >> well, this dramatizes precisely what people were worrying about. imagine for a moment what the cia chief of station in the country that was the source of this intelligence is having to do this morning or yesterday morning in talking to his counterpart and saying, sir, i have some terrible news. theres been a release of some informatio...

Comey. how do you ask when that? >> i would feel a lot better about all this if donald trump is morning wasnt meeting with vladimir putins top aide and the person who supposedly helped run the interference campaign in the american campaign and the spymaster for the russian government and the united states. the optics of this, a private meeting with no photographs, somebody who -- right now, donald trump is morning met with the guy who is considered to be the intelligence chief for the russian go...

Administration is turning to congress for help. finding evidence to support his claim that former president obama had telephones that trump tower tapped during the election. we should point out that president trump has offered no proof so far. now, fbi director james comay is taking his concerns about it to the justice department. the new york times wants him to set the record straight because the presidents claim imply the agency broke the law. president obama said intelligence chief says is is...

Administration is turning to congress for help. finding evidence to support his claim that former president obama had telephones that trump tower tapped during the election. we should point out that president trump has offered no proof so far. now, fbi director james comay is taking his concerns about it to the justice department. the new york times wants him to set the record straight because the presidents claim imply the agency broke the law. president obama said intelligence chief says is is...

Tickets? >> would you sit down with congressman lewis? >> sure. were off to a bad start. what he did is a bad thing. notice for me. its a bad thing for the country. very divisive. >> we should point out its only house democrats that will be boycotting the inauguration on friday, not the senate democrats. president obama reiterated today at his press conference that he will be in attendance. >> shepard: what did he say if anything about his feud with john brennan? >> looks like hes tried to put i...

Neither did he say it was true and trustworthy. what he said was -- and we know this, you and i both know this because he released a public statement about it for the whole world to read -- what he actually said about it was this "the intelligence community has not made any judgment that the information in this document is reliable and we did not rely upon in the any way for our conclusions. so the incoming president is saying the intelligence chief has denounced this dossier as false and fictit...

That was illegally circulated, made up, phony facts, too bad." except that is not what the director of national intelligence, james clapper, said about that dossier. i mean, we werent in on the conversation but we can tell you, we know, you and me as citizens, we know james clapper specifically did not say that that dossier was false and fictitious. neither did he say it was true and trustworthy. what he said was -- and we know this, you and i both know this because he released a public statemen...

I mean, we werent in on the conversation but we can tell you, we know, you and me as citizens, we know james clapper specifically did not say that that dossier was false and fictitious. neither did he say it was true and trustworthy. what he said was -- and we know this, you and i both know this because he released a public statement about it for the whole world to read -- what he actually said about it was this "the intelligence community has not made any judgment that the information in this d...