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By the way, the attorney general himself when youre seeking those records on a reporter that its often not even done out of respect for journalism and because the case can be worked through parallel construction. you can get the phone records of the alleged leaker. you can see the reporter contacting various times and you dont need to infringe on the rights of the reporter. were not seeing that here, chris. were seeing a different twist here. and i think now weve got a line in the sand being dra...

Said they retreated thinking it had geone too far. >> thats part of the reaction youre seeing to this story. people are saying they are surprised it took this trump administration this long given they had the template from the obama administration and warned everybody they were going to do this. you look at what the obama administration did. they did this over eight years. they went after james rosen of fox news. they tracked his movement in and out of the justice department and my former collea...

Horse. >> phillip reines, thank you for your time. >> thank you, chris. >> still ahead, pulitzer prize winning journalist james risen and the question his latest piece poses, is donald trump a traitor? plus scott pruitts safe space is tonights thing one, thing two. its a good one. next. why create something this extravagant? or make a back seat that feels nothing like a back seat? why give it every feature you could want, along with a few you didnt know you needed? its simple. you can build a ...

Vladimir putin, give the guy credit. he didnt pick donald trump because he thought he would be great for america because he really wanted obamacare repealed or he really wanted tax cuts. he wanted someone that was going to do the most harm to his adversary. boy did he pick the right horse. >> thank you for your time tonight. >> still ahead, pulitzer prize winning journalist james risen and the question he poses, is donald trump a traitor. >> plus tonights thing 1 thing 2 is a good one. next.

Adversary. boy did he pick the right horse. >> thank you for your time tonight. >> still ahead, pulitzer prize winning journalist james risen and the question he poses, is donald trump a traitor. >> plus tonights thing 1 thing 2 is a good one. next.

James risen points out a stark truth about the man currently occupying the oval office. quote, one year after trump took office, it is still unclear whether the president of the united states is an agent of foreign power. jim rise en join joins me now. its a pleasure to have you here. you have been covering intelligence for literally decades. you have co written a book with someone who worked for the cia, specifically the kgb. this piece, start there. with your knowledge of how the kgb and succe...

The intelligence community has gone down so far because they have constantly leaked against him. yesterday there was another report on how the president received the presidential daily brief that was completely inaccurate and it was leaked by agency officers to embarrass mr. i dont think trump is prepared to give the cia the benefit of the doubt when it comes to stories like that. >> the cia has come out saying this, the people swindled here were james risen and matt rosenburg, the two authors o...

In and reporting on this intelligence area for a long time, james. have you spoken to anyone with credibility currently inside the u.s. intelligence community who disputes this january assessment? >> no, i think its widely considered the truth. the problem that comes from having this meeting between the director of the cia and binney is that it shows the potential for the politicalization of the intelligence process where information is coming from right wing sources to the president. hes then f...

With a conspiracy theorist some two weeks ago at the request of president trump. the sources say the president asked him to meet with william binney, who circulated a conspiracy theory about the leaked democratic e-mails last year. he believes the leak was an inside job not a cyber attack by russian hackers even though the u.s. intelligence community concluded that russia did interfere in the 2016 presidential election. the journalist who broke the story james risen is with us and chief security...

Orchestrated this interference in the election. so you have that. but he took the time to sit down at the urging more significantly you might say of the president with someone who many in the intelligence community view as a conspiracy theorist on this who proffers this idea the dnc hack was an inside job. im told a lot of people inside the agency were very uncomfortable with had meeting. im also told frankly director pompeo doesnt take his theory very seriously. this binneys theory this was an ...