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Have to get into this to determine what happened, who knew what and when. >> jeanine: joining us now with reaction is larry elder and fox news contributor tammy bruce. all right, tammy, we have leon panetta. everyones giving him credit because he said obviously we have to look at it. but then he took the slant -- these are big operations. the left-hand may not know what the right hand is doing. what is your take? >> thats what they are always thinking. thats the dynamic. plausible deniability. w...

Know your commitment is beyond anybody i know. this i think is important though, why would any president in the case of obama ever telegraph what were going to do and he just promised overwhelming use of force and decisions made by the people on the ground by people who know best. >> absolutely the right thing to say not president obama but president trump. its right on. i hope the strategy allows room for, if you will, new ideas like the plan for putting non-u.s. advisors who live with the afgh...

Anybody i know. this i think is important, though, why would any president in the case of obama ever telegraph what were going do? hes not saying how many troops or what were going do. he just promised overwhelming use of military force and decisions made on the ground by the people who know best. >> the right thing to say and im not talking about president obama but president trump. i hope the strategy allows room for, if you will, new ideas for the plan of putting non-u.s. advisors who work wi...

Anybody i know. this i think is important, though, why would any president in the case of obama ever telegraph what were going do? hes not saying how many troops or what were going do. he just promised overwhelming use of military force and decisions made on the ground by the people who know best. >> the right thing to say and im not talking about president obama but president trump. i hope the strategy allows room for, if you will, new ideas for the plan of putting non-u.s. advisors who work wi...

Number one, this may call for a judgment. do you think he was read into the fact that this story was out there, that it was widely known to white house staff and attorneys linked by phone not on the plane perhaps that the president was in on drafting of this memo, number one, and number two, do you think the number of sources in this west wing has dried up at all in the past 4 hours? >> well, i do think that general kelly is going to be and was aware of whats going on. sarah huckabee sanders cam...

Chairman, and also an msnbc political analyst. good to have all of you with me on a friday afternoon. naveed, let me start with you. you are quite familiar with russian intelligence techniques. based on this newest revelation about precisely who was in the room for that meeting, what does that tell you? >> well, it tells me that it follows a pattern that makes sense. that this would be, in fact, a russian operation. and that pattern is the fact that they use what we would term a cutout. look, th...

And even in america, latin america. they can even be hackers, by the way, in the united states, who very skillfully and professionally shifted the blame, as we say, on to russia. >> russia is saying -- hes saying right there it was not us and it could be anybody, really, anybody across the world. and we heard president donald trump say yesterday it could be russia and there could be other players in the hacking. how does that bode for this meeting. what does that tell you? >> there are all forms...

President of the united states, donald trump, where he said the problem with the russians is they lie. this is absolutely -- when you have a covert action like this, the nice thing about it is it provides you with whats known as plausible deniability. you can look with your deep eyes into the camera and say absolutely not. why would i do this? its all simply not true. if i could add on to jeffreys comment earlier about the leaks portion, leaks of classified information are a bad thing. its all t...

>> strength through no matter what price. >> plausible deniability. thats the name of the game. deny, deny, deny. donald trump does that, too. in terms of approximately ticks, russiasosition on a gio politics is one of wanting to be a power player and a key power player on the global scene. its a politics presentiment you have there. while putin maybe was able to out maneuver barack obama the last time chemical weapons are used by bashar al-assads regime and russia able to step in, now russia is...

Atlantic. the white house press secretary reciting a claim from a fox news analyst that former president obama got british intelligence to spy on president trump. >> he didnt use the nsa, or the c.i.a., he didnt use the fbi and he didnt use the department of justice, he used gchq. >> britains equivalent of the nsa, a super secret eavesdropping agency with some of the worlds best technology. according to the fox analyst quoted by sean spicer, using the gchq to spy on president trump would have gi...