In the Stormy Daniels saga. The lawyer for Stormy Daniels whos real name is clifford. This picture comes from a polygraph examination when she was asked about her relationship donald trump. All of this comes on a day when nbc news also confirms the administration is beefing up its legal team just as special Counsel Robert MuellerPresses Forward with the russia investigation. Reporter we have asked and there is no response, but it appears the president is in the mood to make changes to his legal team, as the russia probe continues to cast a shadow over his presidency. The Washington Post reported earlier this afternoon. To join the president s group of lawyers and as we were trying to confirm that, olsens legal partner tweeted that only less th than olsen would not be he was apprehensive at best. That was the phrase he used. Yesterday President Trump added the fox news regular to his press steam. He is the target of an elaborate fbi conspiracy and that in itself is a sign that the president isnt backing away on what are now personalized attacks on robert mueller. In yesterdays press briefing the Sarah Sanders was asked why the president didnt just shut d down the mueller probe. She was also asked why the president in his conversations today with russian president Vladimir Putin failed to bring up russias meddling in the election, instead congratulating him, putin, that is on his victory. Does the white house believe that the u. S. Election but free and fair . In terms of the election, theyre refocused on our elections. We dont get to dictate how other other councountries opera. That prompted this scathing response against john mccain. He put this on twitter. America does not lead the free world by congratulating dictators on winning sham elections and by doing so with Vladimir Putin. All right, jeff, bennett, thanks very much. As i mentioned, a former playboy model is taking the same route as Stormy Daniels and is suing to tell her story about her relationship with donald trump. The Company Reportedly paid mcdomcd mcdougle. Its a very well pointed out story, jim, that in this particular case, she thought she was selling her story to an organization in exchange for some things she was going to get plus money . Yeah, Karen Mcdougal, this is all in 2016, the context is the president ial election and she engages in talks with ami a couple of times, but the key in this lawsuit is, basically shes told by her own lawyer they are going to buy your story to not publish it. This is the leading tabloid company in the world, not to publish it and in return youre going to get a certain number of columns printed, youre going to be on the cover of some magazines and what she and her lawyer now are contending is that she was led to believe that that was absolutely an obligation and it was not the obligation she says she was led to believe. And she was represented by a lawyer whos in this type of business when youre trying to sell your story to a group Like National enquirer. And in the lawsuit, she alleges that she may not have gotten good advice from her lawyer at the time. Reporter her daughter, dala said interestingly, this same lawyer also represented Stormy Daniels in her initial deal with michael cohen, the president s lawyer for her silence, which shes challenging now in a suit as well with a different lawyer. What is likely to happen in this case . There are some similarities in the stories she alleges to be the case in her relationship with donald trump, what she says trump offered her and in terms of the money that was involved. There is also the question of michael cohen, whether he played a role in this deal with this playboy model. The suit alleges that mr. Cohen was in contact with American Media during these negotiations, we already hat the times had previously reported that ami did talk to her during the course of the reporting. We lost learned that there was some outreach between the lawyer and michael cohen. But where this goes from now, well see, like the Stormy Daniels case, the question is does it get into open court . Like stephanie clifford, there was an agreement to have this hashed out in confidential arbitration, in secret proceedings, shes taking it to open court, to the question is will the court hear this. What does this all mean for the president . Ari melber, msnbcs chief legal corporate and the host of the beat with ari melber and i know you were on tv when all this broke so i know you have chewed on some of this. Talk to me about what you think this means. The president , does he have to respond to this . Does this start to unfold the Supreme Court ruled that president s do have to respond to civil cases even while in office, and that was part of the scandal that bedeviled bill clinton. So he does have to response and he also entered the Stormy Daniels litigation under his own name on friday. The mcdougal case with an also known as . A. K. A. Donald denison. There was a suit that people may not have connected. It would seem to be in that case, and that goes against to how far and how fast we would move, because the white house was denying i think we have that point you raised, i can read from that, it says donald j. Trump, a. K. A. David denison, and it goes on to say that mr. Trump will pursue his rights to the fullest extent permitted by law, that yes, he would be part of the Stormy Daniels case. Whats most interesting about this breaking news today is the suggestion that maybe the deal was built on a die or a fraud, that would allow this new woman Karen Mcdougal to say she was miss l misled or didnt understand, maybe legally she gets to speak. The legally misled or didnt understand . Were getting into deep, and were getting into whether there was legal malpractice in the case we just received with the New York Times reporter. The bottom line for folks whose heads are turning is, today, all of a sudden, the president of the United States has three cases that are moving head. Stormy daniels, also known as Stephany Clifford and Karen Mcdougal. Some sort of evidence that a polygraph examiner said that when she testified or she spoke about her affair with donald trump, there was a 99 likelihood that she was telling the truth. Yeah, msnbc investigations obtained the photo youre looking at. Whats important about this is that its from to2011, and that goes to her argument that shes not just showing up while hes president or during the campaign but rather there was an earlier dispute and thats where this all started and second that she told the truth about these allegations which now are being held out of court based on what i mentioned, trump basically suing her on friday saying she cant talk. How accurate are lie detectors, theyre not allowed in court. Theyre generally believed to be 70 accurate. But would you want the biggest thing in your life hanging on 70 odds . Thats a 30 chance it could be wrong. Tonight be sure to catch a special edition of the beat. Ari is going to be reporting on the mccabe fighting as well as the comey firing a year after comey first revealed that the fbi was investigating the Trump Campaign. Thats at 6 00 p. M. Eastern on aris show. Ari, thanks very much. There are new details this afternoon about the scope and impact of russian meddling in the 2016 election from the senate intel committee. As the chairmans indicated, there were 21 states that were attempted to be intervention in and at least one state that was full hacking, that got through the protections. That was democratic senator mark warner, speaking after members of the committee released a summery of its first report on u. S. Election security. Lets go to casey hunt who has the latest on this investigation. Reporter ari, in a somewhat amusing twist, one of the top recommendations is that perhaps states should return to simply using paper ballots. But in 2018, all these devices that run our lives, that really the safest way to keep our elections safe is to go to those paper ballots. I apologize about the noise behind me, theres a rally going on in the rotunda. But there was not necessarily a lot of blockbuster headlines out of this press conference, there was a reaffirmation on all members of the committee. That russia is the problem here. Take a look at what the chair had to say. Casey, im sorry, we cant hear you very clearly. Capabilities, and probably not the only one that has intent. It but clearly the russians had intent to cause chaos in the u. S. Election system and they had the capabilities to do it. And its all of the above, its a good defense that we work with states to try to implement the ability for the federal government to look inside the cyber system and to see when attacks take place. Reporter so alley i think its hard to hear me. Breaking this hour, cambrid cambridge an lit can has suspended its ceo. After a full independent investigation, hes the one secretly reported by channel 4 talking about the role that the company had in trumps election. Have you met mr. Trump . Many times. You have . All the data, all the an lit ticks, all the television, and i basically formed stratehis stra. Cambridge analyitca never claimed it won the election for President Trump. Now this is a complicated story, you want to statake a closer lo at the timeline of it all. It begins in 2013, it began when publish behavioral Science Company scl group. He financed a 1. 5 million pilot group led by scl elections director Alexander Knicks and that company would later become. This practice stopped in mid 2014, but some apps were given a short grace period. In june of 2013, then scl employee, found Alexander Cohen to develop a personality mapping app that wileys team deployed on facebook. About 270,000 users took the personality test. That month, Robert Mercer invested 15 million to formally create cambridge analytics by breitbart analyst steve bannon. Warning them that knicks was not a u. S. Citizen or green card holder and therefore could not be in active management. According to Christopher Wiley who left the company in late 2014, Cory Lewandowski visited cambridge an lalytics in 2015. Lewandowski denies that claim. But later that year, facebook discovered coburns app captured data from up to 50 million profiles. Cambridge said it destroyed the data at facebooks request. But the data still existed on the servers in june of 2016. They we asa a assange Trumps Campaign schedule was determined in part by Cambridge Analyticas data. In november, trump won the presidency over hillary clinton. Over the past weekend, facebook suspended Cambridge Analyticas profile for the date that that was taken nearly a year ago. This is new video from Cambridge Analytica executives. Channel 4 obtained it by having reporters pose as prospective clients in the undercover video. Executives brag about just how influential they were to the Trump Campaign and how congress doesnt understand their technology. But turning now to texas where residents are hunkering down in their homes as officials there search for a serial bomber. Overnight another bomb exploded at a fedex location in san antonio. In the latest atalattack, the suspect mailed the package via fedex. Reporter were actually here at a fedex location, we see a fbi Computer Analysis Response Team here just a short time ago, we saw investigators looking for fingerprints at that fedex store right there. Now fedex has released a statement that as far as this investigation, fedex sent two packages, a source who briefed us on the investigation said that two packages, one of them ended up at the facility in san antonio exploded overnight. Fedex would not specify what facility was were told by sources that have been briefed on the investigation that police were planning to detonate that explosi explosive. The source told us that the package that exploded near san antonio had nails inside the package, there was one worker who suffered minor injuries, just some ringing in her ears, but no one was seriously injured. But the concern is, could this bomber be trying different tactics here . We know in that fourth explosion that happened on sunday evening, that that one involved a trip wire, whereas the first three had been deliveries that were dropped off on peoples doorsteps, we are still awaiting the latest in this investigation from austin, police, right now, there have been hundreds of federal agents the atf and the fbi, and this is a very fast moving investigation, again, we are told that the bomber may have dropped off two packages at this fedex facilities and then at least one of them ended up at that fedex facility near san antonio on the Conveyor Belt and thats when it exploded overnight. Were there more packages that have been dropped off . Were looking at this surveillance video, the computer response Analysis Team looking at video from these cameras, perhaps looking at if they can find out who this suspect was. So far investigators are not been able to nail down a motive, but theyre working very hard to do that right now. This is a fast developing story, well stay on top of it with you. Up next, another shooting at a school in maryland, two students were injured and another one is dead. Well get the latest for you after the break. vo make her day with just one touch. With fancy feast creamy delights, she can have just the right touch of real milk. Easily digestible, it makes her favorite entrees even more delightful. Fancy feast creamy delights. Love is in the details. You know whats not awesome . Gigspeed internet. When only certain people can get it. Lets fix that. Lets give this guy gig really . And these kids, and these guys, him, ah. Oh hello. That lady, these houses yes, yes and yes. And dont forget about them. 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They think that the two had some kind of relationship, although thats something thats under investigation right now. Just that single shot set off pandemonium, one student described to me running for his life. Take a listen. I heard the shot, and i just we just was thinking we got to get out of the school. We ran away from the gunshot and i like glanced behind me and i saw a girl with like a blond pony tail, like, fall forward, im not sure if she like probably fell from panicking or something or if she actually got hit. Reporter other students we talked to hid in bathrooms, they hid in classrooms. The school went on lockdown, but it turns out the entire incident was over in just a moment. From the first shot to the last shot, likely less than one minute. 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