Intelligence Community Itself News Today

wish all of you have a good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late with us, i will see you at the end of tomorrow. of tomorrow. good evening chris, thank you my friend much appreciated. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. really happy to have you here. the basic plot is, that even though hes a good guy, even though he is our hero, he has to steal the declaration of independence. he has to break into the national archive...

Trump demanding the information be turned over? >> there was no doubt that he was and that he did. thats why his statement was rather cautious. he said he would hand over all appropriate information because when it comes to the intelligence agencies, those agencies safeguard sources and methods, information more tightly and more carefully than anything else and they are today extremely nervous about what the president has done. because never, mike, has a president delegated so broad a declassifi...

Challenges, a former national security adviser to president obama, and richard haas, president of the council on foreign relations. welcome, both. ben, first to you, this is the first time weve heard from the intelligence community itself, really striking back after the dismissive comments the president made on cbs, saying that his intelligence briefers need to go back to school. this was after, of course, they disagreed with many of his conclusions in their global threat warning. this is a dang...

They are doing is simply tit for tat. the russians believe that we have been heavily involved in their domestic politics and active in those areas for many, many years. they have complained about it repeatedly. and i think one of the things that they have an interest in doing is showing us that they can do the same things to us that they believe we have been doing to them. >> is it through weve been doing that to them? youre former cia chief. >> i would say that leaving as side anything having d...

Weve been presented with no evidence that an american was colluding with the russians to meddle in the election. this is something we also know. were still doing investigations. youve got to remember, in the house and in the senate, the intelligence committees have been investigating this. the intelligence community itself, not the committees but the community, did an investigation after the election and gave us the results of that investigation before the inauguration. the house intelligence co...

This. we have been presented with no evidence that an american was colluding with the russians to meddle in the elections. this is something we also know, were still doing investigations. in the house and in the senate, the intelligence committees have been investigating this, the intelligence community itself, not the committees, but the community did an investigation after the election and it gave us the results of that investigation before the inauguration. the house intelligence committee ju...

John mccain, marco rubio out there, you know, so vocally. >> and part of this here, bettina, is the intelligence community itself, these questions weve been talking about this hour, has really sort of poked him in the side and now theyve got an existential question. what will they be in this new administration? some of "the washington post" reporting saying even in a recent briefing with the fbi fick and cand cia on this issue they werent seeing eye to eye and they are asking themselves what wil...

Realtime was going inside the white house it spoke of a military-style attack in two ways and there was a claim of responsibility from ansar-al-sharia one of the groups implicated in the attack. if thats correct the statement we have over the weekend from the deputy national security adviser says the only change they made to the talk -lg points was benign from the word consulate to diplomatic facility. again, congressional sources says this appears to be an effort to parset the words white house...