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Individual, i would have been derelict. so there are certainly legitimate reasons and very routine reasons for an analyst or for a policy maker to request unmasking. unmasking is not akin to leaking, and in fact it is a routine process. >> ned price and david corn, thank you both for joining us. i really appreciate it. >> sure thing. coming up, the president made a huge mistake. unbelievable bad rookie mistake, and rookie speaker paul ryan made the same mistake with him after their health care...

With the republicans on capitol hill. except for mccain and graham. >> ned, quickly, before we go, assume for the moment that that report about susan rice is accurate, that she was asking for unmaskingsed on some of these things. what would that mean to you? >> well, lawrence, she was the national security adviser and had an intelligence briefing every day during which she reviewed dozens of reports. look, speaking from my personal experience, as a former cia analyst, i would have been derelict ...

Against us by "fox & friends." spied on before nomination. the real story. joining us now david corn, washington bureau chief for mother jones and msnbc political analyst. also with us ned price, former senior director and spokesperson for the national security council. he resigned from the cia when president trump took office. ned price, i just want to good to you for your general sorting out of everything that we have developed in this story today. >> well, thats a very tough task, lawrence. l...

>> ned, quickly, before we go, assume for the moment that that report about susan rice is accurate, that she was asking for unmaskingsed on some of these things. what would that mean to you? >> well, lawrence, she was the national security adviser and had an intelligence briefing every day during which she reviewed dozens of reports. look, speaking from my personal experience, as a former cia analyst, i would have been derelict in my job had i read a report summarizing the conversation of two te...

Highlighting one of the problems that donald trump and devin nunes both have. and those are problems named lindy graham and john mccain. lets listen to what they have to say about this. >> nunes, the house, theyre off in a ditch. i dont know -- i dont know where he -- who invited him to look at the evidence in the white house. all i can say is why do you show it to the chairman of the intel committee if youve got it yourself? so -- that never made sense to me. >> if we are really going to get to...

Count today. i mean, lets back up and recall where we have been. the president of the united states accused his predecessor, president obama, of wiretapping trump tower during the campaign. nothing of the sort occurred. so today i really dont know to what chairman nunes was referring. >> and david corn, what those reports that devin nunes has been talking about, he has indicated that those were intelligence reports during the transition. during the transition, when there is nothing that anyone c...

Legitimate reasons and very routine reasons for an analyst or for a policy maker to request unmasking. unmasking is not akin to leaking, and in fact it is a routine process. >> ned price and david corn, thank you both for joining us. i really appreciate it. >> sure thing. coming up, the president made a huge mistake. unbelievable bad rookie mistake, and rookie speaker paul ryan made the same mistake with him after their health care bill collapsed in the house of representatives. and now theyre...

[ speaking foreign language ] >> thank you. thank you, everybody. appreciate it. thank you very much. thank you. thank you very much. >> doesnt look like any questions are going to be answered. a few were asked. ned price is a former cia analyst, most of the likely the security spokesman in the white house and andrew weiss on the national security council staff during the clinton years is now the vice president for studies at the carnegie endowment for international peace. welcome both. thank yo...

Mr. cone watt nicks office is located to the oval office if they felt they had something important the president needed to see. instead, they laundered this information through devin nunes who has proven himself a pawn of the white house for a couple reasons. one he wanted to add credibility to the documents, and they wanted to distract from the unmitigated disaster that was the hearing last monday in which director comey admitted there was an investigation that could reach into the white house....

He did try to fire a man named ezra cohen-watnick, and the white house, including steve bannon, intervened to keep ezra cohen-watnick in his job. and now ez ka cohen wa cohen-wa the top lawyer to the national security council have been named as two of the people who took intelligence intercepts that may or may not be related to the potential collusion with russia. they took those intercepts and fed them out of the white house for political effect. its weird that steve bannons on the national sec...