Page 20 - Phil Mud News Today

Speaks for itself. so we have reports from the treasu treasury, we have reports from the state department that focus on our efforts. >> all right. well, i appreciate your time mr. ambassador. thank you so much. >> thank you, erin. thank you very much. >> former state department spokesman john kirby and phil mud, welcome. i want to talk about the koerp here. the corps is this is a country that the united states has when you look at treasury, you look at the words from danny kblazer has known has ...

Attorney general. can you come up with any good reason why the top advisor to the president-elect would want or need a secure system of communicating with the kremlin during the transition. >> its unfortunate you modify your question with any good reason, its tough to come up with a good reason. i think phil mud is on to something. he used to brief me every morning so i have a enormous amount of regard for him when he points out the atmosphere at the time, as candidate trump was saying, at the t...

Interactions. when kislyak came to the white house, it was normally to be reprimanded. in contrant, members of the trump campaign and transition appeared to be meeting with him on a regular basis, mory e y tsn with other foreign officials. it was puzzling, im told, that -- because it was not clear to those in the obama administration what the trump transition folks were trying to avoid, trying to do by avoiding regular channels. now the officials were also aware of the phone conversations from k...

Lets bring in our panel to discuss. we have david gregory and abbie phillip and phillip mud. phil, i want to start with you. you obviously spent some time in the fbi. the fbi and federal investigators cast a wide net. it is no surprise they would look at jared kushner, given his relationship with the president, given his own contacts with the russians. what do you see here? >> i see a complex investigation thats going to take a long time to develop. think of all the informs federal investigators...

Have been and may have been key things that are serious. maybe unserious. but as phil says, are about ways that are obvious and not so obvious how russians may have tried to compromise the campaign or attack the campaign. so hes necessarily somebody who would be the focus of an investigation because hell necessarily have so much information, which makes him so important. and his cooperation is important. there may be a point where his cooperation may not be forthcoming depending upon what invest...

>> straight from the horses mouth. you dont get that kind of confirmation outside of the nixon tapes. except this happening in realtime over and over again. you cant pretend that was an old news cycle. that there keeps being logs added to this fire and this is not going to go out on its own folks. >> phil, there was a moment when john brennan seemed to agree with the trump administration in terms of what was really pernicious in all this, the leaks. he said it is dangerous that people are leakin...

The 50 or so people who have been injured, wounded. certainly our thoughts and our prayers are with them and their families and obviously when its appropriate and we get the information, we will update you to give you a sense of what sort of injuries they have received and how most of them are doing. im joined by paul cruickshank and phil mud. we talked about what law enforcement is doing in terms of intelligence -- the intelligence community at this point, what are they focused on? >> the first...

Ride. they were sharing rides. localis turning off their meters and giving people rides. its a crime scene being investigated. we expect to hear from police hopefully very shortly for more information. we have been monitoring events with our phil black, steve hall, paul cruickshank, phil mud as well. thats basically -- i covered pretty much everything i can remember from the last two hours. theres still -- its important to point out all the things we dont know. i assume investigators do that as ...

Through in the months and years ahead. especially as isis loses ground in syria and iraq and more of these foreign fighters start gravitating back to europe. people who are trained killers coming back with an ax to grind against countries like britain who have been launching air strikes in syria and iraq. >> phil mud, in terms of an investigation like this, who would take the lead? is this manchester police at this point, or is this -- >> you should think of this in two parallel paths. the polic...

Phil mud. thats a good thing in that theres not -- it seems like -- more than the one particular incident or more than one attempt. >> sure. any time you are going down this road -- you heard this referred to as a potential terrorism investigation. its not a suggestion that practitioners believe thats what happened. you dont have time to waste in the event theres a broader network. you talked about one potential device here. you still have a lot of questions. what trained them? who radicalized t...