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Was that we learned that the senate intelligence committee has requested from a treasury department anti-money laundering agency information about donald trumps business transactions and those of his associates. and thats significant because it shows that the senate is interested in whether trump associates were doing business with russia, whether russians were investing in trump properties and the backdrop of that is whether there was any collusion or any reason that trump was some howe indebte...

Impact on the election. but, honestly, it wouldnt change the decision. everybody who disagrees with me has to come back to october 28th with me and stare at this and tell m whatou would do. would you speak or would you conceal? i could be wrong, but we honestly made a decision between those two choices that even in hindsight, and this has been one of the worlds most painful experiences, i would make the same decision. >> joining me now is a former fbi double agent, now a reserve officer with the...

What you would do. speak or conceal? >> you took an enormous gamble. the gamble was that there was something there that would invalidate her candidacy. and there wasnt. >> one of my junior lawyers said, should you consider that what youre about to do may help elect donald trump president. and i said thank you for raising that. not for a moment, because down that path lies the death of the fbi as an independent institution in america. >> we have a team assembled to talk about this. andrea mitchel...

And nuclear weapons. they should get rid of him real quick. >> reporter: now what was interesting to me is that even though this is a place where, as you mentioned, ford shut down a plant in 2008, now ford has said they will reinvest, jobs wasnt necessarily top of mind for a lot of people we talked to. they, when i asked about how trump was doing generally, they talked about forei policy. so theyre takingotice and theyre paying close attention to these kinds of things that donald trump is doing....

"carl vinson" strike group was actually in indonesia, about 3500 miles away from north korea. the administration chalking this up to, quote/unquote, a miscommunication. admiral kirby is joining me. former pentagon secretary. cnn security analyst. press on occasion one misspeaks and there ises in communication. but how do you -- you know as a u.s. navy admiral, how a strike group goes one way and yet the president is saying its going somewhere else. >> look, if i had a nickel for every time i had...

Theres jups an acting president as the previous one has been imprisoned on a corruption scandal this is a very tricky situation that the vice president pence is arriving in. the fact that the people he will be meeting, the acting president, wont even be in power in a few weeks time. but certainly what the south koreans want at this point is guarantees, continued guarantees that we saw from the secretary of state, from the defense secretary in recent weeks, that the united states is going to stic...

Its "meethepress." kour >> announcer: the longest running show in history, its "meet the press." this is chuck todd. >> good morning and happy easter to those of you celebrating. we have a lot of politics, but first the tension in north korea. north korea launched a missile from sinpo, but the missile exploded just after its launch. this after vice president mike pence landed in south korea for talks on how to counter north koreas growing inhibitions and he spoke at a breakfast there this mornin...

Member at academy securities. also bob baer bear is here, our security analyst and former cia operative, and peter bergen joins us, our national security analyst. peter, lets begin with you. you wrote a fascinating opinion piece on this. you obviously spent a tremendous amount of time studying afghanistan in afghanistan. you, of course, interviewed osama bin laden. you write in this new opinion piece, the timing of this, that the war in afghanistan is at a critical point. what message did this s...

Asking and answering to the committee. >> and investigate. >> not to make the excuse because that is the one laser focus, investigate, investigate, investigate. >> anna has spoken, mark. >> i just think whether youre a republican or democrat or journalist or a security analyst it comes down to this. as anna says, investigate, investigate, investigate, however, do not conflate the investigation into a russian hacking is a lot different than the unmasking. >> all right, stick around, everybody, a ...

Why they wont discuss specific intelligence they continue to monitor all the threats that they see and that they will change security procedures as they see fit. barbara starr, cnn, the pentagon. joining now to talk more about this is bob barry, cnn intelligence and security analyst. always good to have you with us, bob. first of all, given the new information we have, how significant is the risk? >> were missing a lot of things in this report. but i would say they are closer to being able to ...