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Congressman, you kind of look at this and we talk about the third attack in three months. two attacks in two weeks in the uk. what you make of whats going on over there? >> i continue to work for an organization called investigative project on terrorism. we completed a study about 18 months ago that has been tracing the upswing of terrorist activity that in 2001 roughly 3000 people. year were losing their lives as a result of radical islamic terrorism. by 2015, that number had grown to 30000 peo...

Colleague ellen in that case shima got it. it came in her mailbox. it was type it had no siature. it gave no means of tracing thi back to the source, but it had a lot of information in it about things that had been happening in trul tower. it appeared to be from somebody inside the transition or inside trump tower who was concerned about what this person was seeing. a lot of whats written or conveyed in this letter has sort of come -- become true over time. >> so this would also be the same time...

I studied history in college and i always wanted to see the primary source and i want to see these leaks and i think lawmakers want to see these leaks, these actual documents, where theyre coming from, because its hard to say you know the motive behind this and what exactly happened if you dont actually have the primary sources in front of you. and thats what republicans are saying, you know, just let this investigation take, you know, take its course and keep donald trump off the twitter going ...

Hes entitled to no more or no less on treatment on that. if hes done something wrong, he should be held accountable. >> congressman, appreciate you spending your saturday afternoon with us. good to see you. thanks again. >> good to see you. greg miller, one of the three reporters on the story, gave some insight to my colleague, chris hayes, last night. take a look. >> quite some time ago we got this letter in the mail, my colleague actually got it. it just came in her mailbox. it was typed. it...

It gave no means of tracing this back to the source, but it had a lot of information in it about things that had been happening in trump tower. and it appeared to be from somebody inside the transition or inside trump tower who was concerned about what this person was seeing. and a lot of whats written or conveyed in this letter has sort of come -- become true over time. its taken a while for a lot of this stuff to surface, including this detail about this discussion over a back channel or a pri...

Same front door that so many other people did to meet with this trump team. >> so what is the response from the white house or from the kushner attorneys? >> so a very limited response from the white house on this one. you see in our story there is no comment from the white house. i can only tell you that there was significant back and forth from the white house. we gave them every opportunity to provide an explanation for what happened here, and they declined to do so on the record. >> one real...

>> trace: you brought up the panoramic attack in scotland many years ago. in that time, in those tickets since then, my last question to you, i would come leaps in technology in the knowledge that we have these types of explosions? or has its just been baby steps? >> we have gone leaps to identify from the smallest particles of the bomb a great deal of information about some of the phones. the forensic science has increased greatly. that can be important and also finding out whether certain kind...

Thank you so much for being with us. the president of the united states has the absolute right to share this information with the russians. is he correct? >> yes. he has the legal right, john. but as a member of the house committee on intelligence, if i had done what he had done, i would be subject to prosecution under the elspionage act. whether it was mind numbingly reckless is another thing, and it was. >> why? >> because it compromises our allies, tracing back the classified information that...

It occurs shows the department of homeland security is tracing down these leads. >> a ban, of course, is a big move and al-qaedas chief bomb maker is based in yemen. hes been on passenger planes including the christmas day under wear bomb frer detroit. hearing a security concern is causing a ban on virtually all electronics coming on to flights from a dozen air liends coming to new york and chicago, that are feels very real and carry. >> absolutely. and when you look at how those who seek to do ...

Into office and as the administration gets into office that we can have a fact-based discussion. >> what that discussion looks like could determine the fate of the economy, here at home and around the world. >> lets talk more about this with ron brownstein. hes a cnn senior political analyst. good morning to you again. >> good morning. >> i want to start with you where i started at the top of the story, is this just political posturing or are we on the brink of a trade war? >> well, a tougher li...