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Accusing him of the russia probe. that has led him to bob mueller, and he has taken turns publicly and privately going after sessions. telling people around him if he had known sessions would recuse himself, he never would have appointed him attorney general. if he had never appointed him attorney general, he wouldnt have had the roy moore debacle. >> all of that is a 13-month stretch of that turbulence we saw in the first year. ned, let me bring you back into that. obviously youre a critic of t...

And thats the case in two different directions. one, we dont have the same authorities within our intelligence community to do the kinds of things that the russians did against us. its actually written into statute that a covert action cannot influence a u.s. person. and so when youre dealing in the age of twitter and social media and you put out, in the u.s. intelligence community puts out a covert influence operation, if that blows back and if that influences an american citizen, that violates...

Difficult problem to deal with within constitutional parameters. >> it absolutely is. and thats the case in two different directions. one, we dont have the same authorities within our intelligence community to do the kinds of things that the russians did dpeagainst us. its actually written into statute that a covert action cannot influence a u.s. person. and so when youre dealing in the age of twitter and social media and you put out, in the u.s. intelligence community puts out a covert influenc...

Election and they continue to this day. ned price is a former special assistant, national security spokesperson and senior director to president obama and one of the best guests we can think of to have to talk about this. so, ned, looking at that op-ed and mike morrell and mike rogers both saying that russia has not stopped meddling since 2016, theyre doing so right now. theyre going to do so in 2018. when you hear about that, why do you believe they are still doing it? >> katy, i think the answ...

Russian influence campaigns, so we can work together much the same way the government did with the private sector in taking on isil propaganda. we havent seen that, katy. because first and foremost, the president of the united states has continued to deny that this is taking place. and until that changes, well be left vulnerable to these russian efforts going forward. >> ned price, wish we could continue the conversation, because i find it fascinating. ned, thank you so much. happy new year. >> ...

Another part of this. which is nbc reporting on high ranking campaign official here that says basically e-mailed this official with a subject line request from russia to meet mr. trump. what robert was just talking about and official nbc sources identify as paul manafort and forwards it saying we need someone to communicate dt, presumably donald trump, is not doing these trips and not to send any signal. what are your ideas on what that means, that reference to a signal, ned? >> i have heard dif...

Expertise from cia and fbi, ned and ron, thank you so much. >> youre welcome. >> thank you. up next, donald trump lashing out saying the actual story is hillary clinton. long-time hillary clinton adviser, man who played trump in her mock debates with a view on how capitol hill on the world is feeling today. and this breaking stories of nbc news. astonishing new numbers breaking this hour how many americans were reached by russian facebook ads. im going to tell you the exact number after this b...

Press to know and the rest of us to know. i dont think there have been other arrests. my guess is he has his cross hairs on other expectant subjects and he is probably squeezing hard on other potential witnesses telling them what theyre options are and trying to get them on board. >> ned, when you look at that, can you glean, separate from the law, whether there is an emerging theory from bob muellers investigation about what hes looking at, or whether hes picking up lay-up crimes at the start? ...

George, someone whos more anonymous, someone to take a meeting and not be spotted and perhaps further that conversation in the hopes of getting the goods on secretary clinton. >> right. and that is something that i think is so interesting. it is at a level of a theory as always when we report on this. we mention that gates and manafort presumed innocence and maintain innocence and some of these lines are open to interpretation. but the circumstantial repeat status of the number of people in thes...

President. not the president himself. and that message was directed at the president, reassuring him he wasnt trying to control him. but it was also sort of a tacit admission that there is no controlling or changing the behavior of donald trump. and because of what that behavior is, thats a significant problem for this white house. >> daniel dale and ned price, thank you for joining us. ron klain, please stay with us. thank you. coming up, george w. bush and barack obama on the same day double...