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Guccifer 2.0, was a russian intelligence agent? >> joy, its basically out of a spy thriller. the russian operative in question, an officer for russias largest intelligence agency known as the gru slipped up in a crucial bit of trade craft. usually when guccifer 2.0 went on line connected to his twitter account, connected to his word press blog he secured his ip address, his originating location, so to speak, digitally, through a vpn, something that would prevent an outside observer figuring out ...

Politician with an international observer to the 2012 election through his ties to the nra. all mcclatchey is reporting is theyre looking into it. theres not been any money passed to donald trump. the federal election commission is looking into that. as a news guy, you have to listen to your sources. reminds me that its no different than when i heard from republican sources during the obama administration and they said hey, we want to look into the fast and furious and we would write stories abo...

Foreign policy on some of the issues that youve talked about,en north korea, on iran, perhaps even with trade with china? >> well, i would flag two things. one is in may is when the next deadline comes up for whether trump decides to waive sanctions on iran. i think any intelligent observer would have to say that the chances of him just effectively terminating the iran deal, putting heavy sanctions back on teheran have gone up dramatically overnight. john bolton believes this is a terrible deal....

Them up the users, but we keep the data to our self. its a fine line there. i have a question. zuckerberg is there talking about moving forward, you know, new chapter, all this stuff. ive got a question for him, which is the whistle-blower in this case, the guy who came forward, kind of exposed this all to us and to our partner at the observer was a guy named christopher wylie, a young data scientist for did help harvest this data for cambridge analytica. his reward for coming forward, going out...

To advertisers. isnt that selling to a third party, or are they just considered the advertiser their customer? >> so i think they probably qualify that and saying were not giving them the data. they say they want to market to this group, so we tell them this is how you do it or we serve them up the users, but we keep the data to our self. its a fine line there. i have a question. zuckerberg is there talking about moving forward, you know, new chapter, all this stuff. ive got a question for him, ...

Welker, thank you. ned price is an national security analyst. danny sevelos is an msnbc legal analyst. this reshuffling of the legal team tells you what? >> to an outside observer, it seems that trump has gotten rid of his sort of doj veterans like john dowd, people who are more inclined to try to negotiate with the special counsel. and hes bringing in people who might instead try to be more aggressive and maybe not be likely to agree to things with special counsel mueller. heres the thing we ne...

Might be dealing with somebody who has really planned this out and they have prior experience with explosives and will continue this for the foreseeable future until he is caught. >> tucker: and is taking risks by placing these. thank you. mark steyn is an author and columnist. a keen and wise observer of america. he joins us tonight. what do you make of this? >> its interesting to me becausee as buck was saying, the three different methods this guy has used, its the same guy, the fedex, aspect ...

Pitch deck that was about setting up disinformation and rumor campaigns? i mean why is it that he sends my white paper on the data harvesting capabilities of the company and what we were doing in america if it whats to do with turkey? i dont -- like how does that make any sense? >> when you spoke to the observer, you describe yourself as a gay canadian veegian who somehow ended up creating this psychological warfare tool for steve bannon. its the question i asked you before, do you regret what y...

Campaigns to luke oil as its then also telling luke oil, by the way, we have all these massive data assets at our disposal for an oil company in russia. it doesnt make sense. >> luke oil says, christopher, that they never hired cambridge analytica but dont deny receiving a presentation about the data firms capabilities. they say it was to promote their gas stations in turkey. do you think thats true? >> well, if thats true, why was he talking -- why did he create a pitch deck that was about sett...

Observer in all sorts of different ways. as you watch how the president is behaving now both his statements and his actions, is he making his political situation better or worse? >> overall hes making it worse. had he been more aggressive on pursuing the national security aspects of the russian involvement in our election, that would have taken -- been the high ground. as i said, you can take that position and still say there was no collusion. and look, calling for the end of the mueller investi...