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Of facts. the biggest one to me, his main business is not being a lawyer, but the biggest one is hes been under surveillance for months. electronic surveillance. what does that tell you as an intelligence officer? >> it tells me that the fbi and department of justice would have had compelling evidence of potential criminal activity for them to conduct this type of surveillance against individual who has worked closely with mr. trump over the course of many years. the fact that he was going to be...

There was saying, the mission accomplished part of it was simply the military carrying out strikes on three location ands successfully het successfully hitting those. thats a very low bar, not from a military standpoint, but what the military says is the broader objective, which is to deter the syrian president, bashar al-assad from carrying out further chemical weapons attacks. thats what they said about the military attacks. if it is to deter the syrian regime from using chemical weapons, it i...

Whether they may know more. this is a president whos sensitive to his wifes experience of all this. >> reporter: trump biographers say its possible the president could personally go after mcdaniels or others hes had relationships with if they cross certain thresholds, if they produce photographs or documents embarrassing to the president. if they corner him somehow. if they cross the all-important threshold of humiliating donald trump. brian todd, cnn, washington. and a possibly significant de...

13 missiles. >> i cant tell you the results. the time on target was about an hour ago and we came straight up here to give you the best information. and tomorrow morning well give you more detailed operational update and some of the details, but the details arent available right now. >> and the wave of air strikes is over. >> this wave of air strikes is over and that is why were out here speaking to you now. >> secretary mattis, what you said about the legal basis for the strike. could you talk ...

Russia. and of course it comes against the backdrop of the evolving russia probe. that was significant as well. russia of course, warned earlier this week that they would shoot u.s. missiles out of the air. by all accounts that has not happened. and the president was, was very clear. he would be undeterred in that. back to what you and courtney were talking about. this notion of a sustained attack. of course, defense secretary mattis countering that in the remarks saying this was a one time shot...

Assault on the rule of law as firing mueller. she adds, you cant fire a prosecutor because you are unhappy he approved a search warrant that relates to your own conduct. no one is above the law. im joined by a former federal prosecutor and msnbc analyst. what do you think the is significance of miss yates, not a common tweeter, unlike the president, posting this tonight? >> you know, i follow sally yates online and she does post sparingly. i retweeted it saying what sally says. this is a signifi...

Literally, as you know, the time on target was about an hour ago and question came straight up here to give you the best information we have. tomorrow morning well give you more detailed operational update. but those details arent available to us now. >> this wave of air strikes is over? >> this wavov air strikes is over thats why were out here speaking to you have now. >> i wanted to follow up on what you said about the legal basis for this strike. could you talk more about that? because in you...

Talking to republicans who were actually not necessarily fans of the president, some who were in that camp, and they were taken aback by comeys attacks on the president. so maybe this may work to get headlines but maybe not to achieve his ultimate objective. >> theres sort of the substance of this, the substance of the problems of whether the president told jim comey to back off. thats all proceeding on a different track. jim comey doesnt need to talk about that as much. leaving behind the thres...

Saying, you know, its like -- we are asking ourselves that question. help me out here. what does that look like? what suddenly changes that republicans could suddenly hold the house. >> i dont know that its in their control other than making the democrats look bad. >> scorched earth. >> ryans leaving hurts their ability to the that. ryans pac, and other fun were counting on that money. republicans have to get the congressional national ballot to about a six-point spread. thats the threshold wher...

Especially if you already have the notion from the judge to say, were going to sign off, were going to have the threshold level of even having an attorneys office raided. youve gone above and beyond to show even more that the probable cause is just the base and not the ceiling here. i suspect they want to get everything they can related to a variety of issues. >> relets just say, john, say there are communications between trump and his lawyer trying to prevent the release of the tape. as long as...