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Wasn't the deputy national security adviser. it was one level under that, the press guy. he's got ben roads, he's got four or five people on the same level with him, who have subject matter experience. he's the guy that tries to figure out how to put these things in the best spin possible. it doesn't send a message of substance, it doesn't send a message of significance when you have the press guy go out and try to explain the big question of policy change like this. >> it would be different if we were renaming a post office, but something so important as to whether or not the american people ...

Will fall but when. administration knows asid regained the upper hand which complicates things here. none of the choices here are good. they say they range from bad to worse to very worse. you have a proxy situation, iran is invested, look at the map of this neighborhood. when you look at it you think it can't get worse and it does. the president right now is making an investment and the question is how deep is he willing to go? how much support is he willing to give? and when he sits down with those leaders at g 8 how much more at the brits, the french, willing to do? the president by making ...

To do about it. >> reporter: that's right. good afternoon, jon. ben roads, one of the president's top national security aides, had a conference call with reporters last evening and did say there would be military aid now given by the u.s. to those syrian rebels, but, you know, military aid could be all kinds of things that's not lethal. it could be communications equipment, etc. and so later in the evening white house officials started putting out the word, well, yes, we'll be arming the rebels, but they haven't spelled out specifically what we're sending. some reports suggested it'll be machi...

Timeline of the talking points, it shows that victoria new land, deputy nsc adviser ben roads and mike morel all requested changes to early intelligence drafts that had been explicit in naming al-qaida affiliates as being involved in the attack on september 14, just three days after the attacks the documents show cia stated the crowd almost certainly are was a mix of individuals from across many sectors of libyan owe site. that being said we know that islamist extremists with ties to al-qaida participated in the attack unquote. >> based on the initial, our initial information and that includes...

Attorney general jeff sessions. an investigation is to be opened into this unmasking and leaking intelligence scandal. why wasin samantha power -- the u.n. representative -- unmasking all the names of these people leading up to the election? nearly one a day?as was it politically motivated? it seems like it was a very good possibility.e was she weaponizing intelligenck in an election year to go after an opposition candidate? and your former obama national security advisor susan rice. according to the reports, she also was responsible for rampant unmasking requests in 2016. including the identi...