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His follow-up questions werent about what can we do to make sure russia doesnt interfere in our elections in the future. they were more about what can we do to lift the cloud on the dossier. which is the stories of him allegedly with russian hookers doing unmentionables in a hotel room. and also, hes also concerned about making sure that the public realizes hes not under investigation in this. and to scotts point, with regard to his concerns, grave concerns about leaks, which is a serious matter...

Where do you draw the line? where do they start to take responsibility for meddling in our u.s. government? this evidence is top-secret, its illegal to leak this stuff. it should be illegal to report on it. >> it is not under the first amendment, it is not reasonable to expect organizations to refrain from reporting information. clearly this is intended to create a drumbeat, ratchet up the pressure and the speculation part has to do with -- there is so much we dont know, we dont know because we ...

Russia from carrying out another campaign like this in the future. >> kerr kari i want the ellen to bring us through the end of the time table the piece covers because i want to ask you, whats most concerning? to me this piece raised -- well it answered so many questions about what was happening during the obama presidency. it seems to raise so many questions that even more red flags about whats happened from election day forward. what -- what questions did it raise for you? >> well it does. one...

To -- to lay the groundwork for measures that would try to deter russia from carrying out another campaign like this in the future. >> kerr kari i want the ellen to bring us through the end of the time table the piece covers because i want to ask you, whats most concerning? to me this piece raised -- well it answered so many questions about what was happening during the obama presidency. it seems to raise so many questions that even more red flags about whats happened from election day forward. ...

Time table the piece covers because i want to ask you, whats most concerning? to me this piece raised -- well it answered so many questions about what was happening during the obama presidency. it seems to raise so many questions that even more red flags about whats happened from election day forward. what -- what questions did it raise for you? >> well it does. one thing it raises an issue of it really- piece demonstrated the limits of the intelligence community. the intelligence community exis...

Obviously, people are going to put puzzle pieces together because of attacks that have happened in europe recently. we dont have reporting information at this moment about who did this, what they are, what their molt vativation or c of responsibility. its also, true, europe has had a lot -- has had to deal with this quite persistently, particularly over the last few years, you know, other periods in its history in the 1970s from other groups and has had sustained counter terrorism successful whe...

With, does that change things in your opinion? >> its a huge if. the obama justice department said they had searched for evidence that indicated he did that and found none. even if he did, there are all kinds of ways that journalists constantly work with their sources in order to get information that they think that will help them report on stories. if we start criminalizing and turning into felonies the collaboration that journalists do with their sources in terms of reporting information, you ...

Helped edward snowden disclose classified documents. a lot to discuss. glen, if assange did more than publish this information, if he aided and abetted, does that change things? your opinion? >> its a huge if. the obama justice department said they had searched for evidence that indicated he did that and found none. even if he did, there are all kinds of ways that journalists constantly work with their sources in order to get information that they think that will help them report on stories. if ...

Fight for homeland security. theres a lot of intelligence professionals in dark little buildings with a little bit of light coming in analyzing these issues saying what are the threats in yemen and the united states and its very important to pay attention to these people who are doing this pain staking work and so far we have seen not as much attention being paid to these individuals who do this kind of work and do this analysis because it takes months and years to get the right data to protect ...

Saeed farouk, do we know if thats the person dead in the suv or if thats the person detained. do we know which person in that scenario that name pertains to? >> no, we dont, rachel, and back to you. >> pete williams, nbcs chief justice correspondent, reporting information, again, its law enforcement sources telling nbc news that a person who may be involved in this scenario is an american citizen, the name that we are hearing is saeed farouk, and the way that pete just described it there in that...