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Government to steal information about the u.s. political process. >> malcolm nance is a former naval intelligence officer and msnbc contributor and he wrote "the plot to hack america" about russ russias meddling in the 2016 electi election. >> putin puts russia as the number one super power in the world even though it is economically on par with italy, but to do it, you can use soft power or use what we call the hybrid warfare which is a melange of the political warfare and propaganda and ununif...

Tape. >> this coming in the last few seconds. nbc news has just became aware of a video capturing donald trump making vulgar comments about women back in 2005. >> when youre a star they let you do it. you can do anything. >> then 30 minutes after that, wikileaks appeared to counter punch with the release of e-mails hacked from the personal account of clinton campaign chairman john podesta. >> this is another hack, a hacking organization that has alleged ties to the russians. >> in the middle of ...

In democracy. >> six days after the washington posts first story on russian hacking, christopher steele sent his first report to fusion gps. it was the very first page of the very first memo that set the tone for all of the memos and for all of the controversy that followed. steele wrote on that first page, quote, the russian regime has been cultivating supporting, and assisting trump for at least five years. aim endorsed by putin has been to encourage splits and dmiftion western alliance. accor...

>> its clear that from the beginning when donald trumps with running for president that he wanted to have a change in relations with russia. now some people believe there is nefarious reasons there and collusion. whether you believe that or he felt it was a bad policy, its something hes wanted to do for some time. the statements he made abroad, either interpretation, that what the president might have been saying is that he was saying that he believes that vladimir putin believes there was no ru...

And benny said the entire intelligence community needs to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. now the cia released a statement saying cia director pompeii yos stands by and has always stood by the assessment about russian hacking, and benny also told cnn in this meeting that pompeo wants him to meet with other people in the fbi and the nsa. where is this going from here? why this other investigation, or looking into other theories? the white house so far has not responded....

Otherwise? >> well, you know, if you ask the gop, they see this as a witch hunt. any see this as a waste of taxpayer money but if you ask some of the democrats and you ask the opposite side, they see this as a good use of spending taxpayer money to try to shut the president down. so you have got both sides. who is to say? you have to take a side on it, whether you like taxpayer money being spent on it or whether you dont. a lot of democrats say, i dont mind spending taxpayer money if it brings t...

It turns out they had nearly 3,000 of them, government records on the laptop. we will get access to them by the end of the year. >> tucker: they were government records? >> they were, they acknowledged that. based on the other abedin emails that we have which involved classified information, hillary clinton emails that we hadnt seen before that she didnt turn over and try to delete. i suspect there will be classified material among these new records. this is another example of top government off...

Remember, james comey was yelled at for highlighting the fact that they found this information that they needed to evaluate. it turns out they had nearly 3,000 ofof them, government records on the laptop. we will get access to them by the end of the year. >> tucker: they were government records? >> they were, they acknowledged that. based on the other abedin emails that we have, which involved pay to play, classified information, hillary clinton emails that we hadnt seen before that she didnt tu...

It turns out they had nearly 3,000 of them, government records on the laptop. we will get access to them by the end of the year. >> tucker: they were government records? >> they were, they acknowledged that. based on the other abedin emails that we have which involved classified information, hillary clinton emails that we hadnt seen before that she didnt turn over and try to delete. i suspect there will be classified material among these new records. this is another example of top government off...

Employee of one, the sputnik, was on "the beat" just last night in his first interview since he spoke with the fbi. >> did this new interview you had with the fbi suggest theyre looking at making sputnik potentially register as a foreign agent? >> absolutely. that was the purpose in the interview. >> it doesnt stop there. u.s. intelligence on russian hacking has already named sputnik and rt propaganda outlets. it is the russian outlet that paid mike flynn $35,000 to go to that gala where he infa...