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Unconscious including a capitol police officer. case after case filing after filing. >> carol, i want to bring you in on this. i want to ask you to speak to what feels like increasing -- i dont know if pressure is the right word but maybe scrutiny of all of the evidence that was in the public square that christopher wray hasnt offered. the fbi director and other senior officials have consistently down played the intelligence value of social media posts by trump supporters prior to the january 6t...

Monetary sustenance. and now they want to say, were back. but it takes time. and now, looking back at the january 6th attack on the u.s. capitol, and looking at a fbi document, leading up to the day users in multiple platforms they discussed traveling to the capitol armed or looking at plans to start a revolution on that day. joining us now is nbc news national security and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian, and help us to understand why this is significant, because you and others have s...

The support of the people in the field. i do know after talking to quite a few people who were still serving that commanders have had to after this gallagher decision, the pardon, to reinforce concepts such as the law of land warfare to make sure that people in uniform understand their obligations of the uniform code of military justice to recognize that when theyre in combat their job is to kill or capture the enemy. but once the enemy comes under their control, they have an obligation to treat...

Kwietd quite a few people still serving, their commanders have, after this gallagher decision, the pardon too, reinforce concepts, such as the law-of-land war fare too, make sure people in uniform understand their obligations under uniform code of military justice too, recognize when theyre in combat, their job is to kill or capture the enemy. but once the enemy comes under their control, they have an obligation to treat that person hu humanely, especially since theyre of intelligence value. the...

That they have that phone call. >> i want to bring in mike rogers. congressman, do you agree with steve hall that there is no doubt that russia wasnt just listening into that call, but perhaps has a recording of that call? >> oh, absolutely. ukraine has been penetrated for years and is thoroughly soaked in russian intelligence officers and their agents sprinkled all across ukraine. any high profile person like sondland who were traveling through who was using his personal cell phone, i mean, eve...

John? alisyn? >> its always interesting. foreign actors know the intelligence value of social media here. all right, evan, thank you. trying to exploit it as well. if you want to know what your candidate thinks, start with their ads which are already numerous, expensive and, above all else, telling. john avlon here with our "reality check." >> follow the money. america is headed for the biggest, ugliest and most expensive election ever. less than 90 days out from the iowa caucuses, weve alread...

The worlds most wanted man hid, possibly for weeks. intelligence value whisked away, flattened by rubble of repeated airstrikes. we obtained these images from a local cameraman able to function in a region where al qaeda is strong but civilians long to be normal. shells littered the area perhaps from the eight helicopters that arrived here in the dead of night before u.s. commanders blew holes in the compounds walls. abu woke about 11:00 and was surprised to see helicopters. before long, a blast...

Himself and the three children. his body was mutilated by the blast. >> and this is where it happened, northwestern syria not far from the turkish border where he was able to live in anonymity. air strikes destroyed nearly everything in that compound. >> reporter: it was the hardest of places to get into and hardest to guess hed be hiding in. this is all thats left of where possibly for weeks.nted man hid- much of an intelligence value whisked away, flattened to rubble by repeated air strikes. c...

That came out of the white house, it seems very farfetched that this would reach the thresho threshold. imagine maybe a negotiation with the foreign leader where you are trying to reign something of intelligence value. this is not that. this looks like someone trying to get information on its political rival. where this breaks down as well in terms of classification, this is not a call thats encrypted and secured in between two protected parties in the way we may think of intelligence activities...

Of the president and vice president. your targets are foreign intelligence. but if you intercept for example two officials of a foreign government talking about the president, that may well be of important intelligence value. >> bob cant answer this, but two officials told me that the rule is if a u.s. official is on the line they are listening to, they stop. >> that is what i had always heard. is that not really policy but sort of a norm, john? >> it is certainly practice. you know, a lot of th...