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Ambassador at the end of summer. russias deputy foreign minister is expected to take his place. >> joining me now is eli sto stokels, and ned price, a former spokesperson for the national security council. also an msnbc national security analyst. is it now political political palet paletteable because he can try to blame obama? >> yes, this is a matter of convenience, you saw him trying to do exactly that, talking about hypocrisy. and sean spicer going as far to say if they knew about this, they...

Short-term assignments at russian facilities." that surge of requests for that super specific visa caught the attention of the who apparently put the kabosh of it. the state department delayed approving those visas until after the election. whats that all about? joining us now is ned price, a former spokesman and senior analyst at the cia. he was a spokesman and senior director of the national security council for president obama. ned, its nice to see you. thank you for being here. >> good to se...

Reportedly noticed something new. they noticed a big uptick in a certain visa request from a certain country. this is from "the washington post." officials at the state department and the fbi became alarmed by an unusual spike in requests from russia for temporary visas for officials with technical skills seeking permission to enter the u.s. for short-term assignments at russian facilities. that surge of requests for that super specific visa caught the attention of the fbi, who apparently put th...

Especially before the election when we have a growing body of intelligence indicating to vladimir putins plan to meddle in our election, that should accepted off red flags. growing intelligence indicating vladimir putin to meddle in our election, that should send off regular flegs. if it didnt, our national security community will be derelict. they flagged this trend and.stopped it before it could become a problem. >> ned price, thank you for being here on a friday night and helping us understan...

Plan to meddle in our election, that should send off red flags if it didnt send off red flags, our national community would be derelict but they were on top of stopped it before it could become more of a problem. >> ned price, senior analyst with cia. ned, thank you for being here on a friday night and helping us understand this. really appreciate it. >> thank you. >> you know, i read as many spy novels as the next guy, but some of this stuff, i had no idea this is the way it worked. i feel like...

Of us outside the business should expect? >> i think its certainly in our interest and americans should expect that the appropriate authorities are closely monitoring russias entering this monitoring russiamonitor russians entering this country on diplomatic visas. because the russians are singular in terms of their sophistication and hostility. so if we see an uptick, especially before the election, when we have a growing body of evidence, that surely should send off red flags. if it didnt send...

Security monitoring that those of us outside the business should expect? >> i think its certainly in our interests and americans should expect that the appropriate authorities are closely monitoring russias entering this country, especially on diplomatic visas. because the thing is, the russian intelligence services are singular in terms of their sophistication and hostility. if we see an uptick like that especially before the election, and if we have vladimir putin interfering in our election, ...

Have called james comey a liar. the president has said his story has always been straight, yet he had his team out in front saying the reason he fired james comey was because of hillary clinton. ned, you have said in the past that you believe the russian situation is a fairy tale. >> yes. >> ive spoken to people within the presidents team just a few nights ago that said were doing so well, look at these special elections. he needs to stop talking about russia and making it worse. so when you loo...

Be evidence. and they think that has been interesting is the major media has broadcasted this far and wide, and i think the next step is going to be obstruction. there is nothing there, and i think that trump will be cleared on all counts. the thing that is interesting to me about all of this is that these narratives, all these fairy tales are taking democrats away from very serious issues. the fact of the matter is russians did not cause them to lose all the seats. it caused the most that any p...

I think that is the first off, i also know for a fact that the vast majority of people who are working within the democratic party as operatives and officials are young and vigorous and believe in the party and love america, so i think that right now we need to evaluate kind of who is in charge and where we are going. with you exactly. that is kind of a different topic, but lets roll out this. i think he was on with marco last time when he said this. >> not only did they not cooperate with jay j...