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Watkins with the new york times. it comes a year after jeff sessions said they would aggressively pursue leaks. >> those who would endanger our national security are in fact being investigated and will be prosecuted. >> reporter: this say -- is a fast-moving story and we expect wolf will make his first court appearance in federal court later this morning. sandra. >> sandra: catherine, thank you. >> reporter: youre welcome. >> bill: president trump departing washington en route to the g-7 summit ...

Watkins from "the new york times." she was notified in writing that the fbi had gotten her phone records. the indictment says that wolf used encrypted messages to communicate with the three reporters. one of the stories written by ali watkins said that carter page was summoned to testify before the committee. also watkins at wo-- and wolfe were dating. >> its interesting they caught a leaker and a very important leaker. its interesting. im getting information on it now. it happened last night. c...

Warning shot across the bough if you are violating that trust there are consequences. >> harris: what do you make of the encrypted messages going between wolf and his girlfriend? they were encrypted messages. >> sure. more and more people are using with all the things we learned from google and facebook and the activities of nefarious people trying to breach data in our cyber wars that continue to go on. people are looking for more secure means of communication back and forth. i use whats happen...

Heading to court charged with lying to the feds in the dojs massive crackdown over leaks. give jenkins live in washington with more on the allegedly carafes possible ties to a new york times reporter. >> reporter: the fbi has arrested james wolf, a long time staffer for the powerful senate select committee on intelligence whose job was to safeguard the security of classified information. we cannot overstate the importance of that job. accused of making false statements to the fbi during the leak...

Lie to federal investigators. i think the more serious question is not about the underlying charges against wolf but the tactics that the department of justice useded to build this case. weve seen doj do this in the past. it happened twice in the obama administration where the justice department seized reporters e-mails and phone records without notifying the reporter or the media outlet in advance. it was an enormous controversy. and the department sectionally ed essentially admitted it made a ...

Justice department launched this investigation into unauthorized leaks of classified information at some point in 2017. it was in october that they first approached mr. wolf about him being a target here and then in december, they interviewed mr. wolf. it was a voluntary interview. it was at that point that hes alleged to have made these multiple false statements to special agents of the fbi. >> two things. why did they suspect him? >> its interesting, because when we had this unusual vote in th...

Included escorting every witness, including michael cohen, seen right here, who testified before the committee in connection with the russia investigation. nbcs mike memely joins me now. and matt miller, former chief spokesperson for the justice department. mike, i got to go to you first. what exactly is wolf accused of doing? >> yes, stephanie. this really is an incredible story. important to say despite what we heard from the president this morn, the charges at this point do not involve the mi...

Was being held up but that the u.s., the argument is it was effectively giving it rathe ira a bribe to go ahead and work out this nuclear deal. >> your honor the ter >> under the term of the deal, iran had to give something. >> but they would lift this part of that sanction, a one-time only lift, before the signing of the agreement, which is part of the criticism that youre getting right now. it was a payoff. >> there was the interim agreement and there was a final agreement. but under the terms...

When the president says to his commerce secretary, secretary of the treasury, theyre going to uminum into the united states from canada and mexico, and they have the authorization to do so for national security concerns. you used to work on the national security council. explain their rationale. >> there isnt a rationale. its an entirely bogus argument that somehow these imports are damaging our industries and thus damaging with us. shoulder to shoulder. i see why he doesnt want to go to the g7....

Wanted before and now walking away from the deal, wolf, because they feel that the courts are protecting them. >> if you get what you want, will the president support a path to citizenship for the dreamers? >> that was on the table before. >> he is getting heat. >> if democrats will allow us to secure the border he is willing to make that transaction. >> all rightment let. lets see what happens. >> thank you for having me. top republican lawmakers are breaking with the president over his groun...