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>> but the threat of violence also looms directly over the jewish community like never before in recent american history. attacks on jewish institutions, they are up 61% from 2020 according to the anti-defamation league. just yesterday, the fbi warned of what it describes as a broad threat to synagogues in new jersey. "the new york times" reports that as a result of a warning, the new york police department immediately announced it had stepped up its monitoring to ensure the safety of every area that encompasses our jewish citizens and synagogues. of course, we all know that none of ...

Maybe russia isn't interfering in our election, looking for intelligence that north korea is not continuing to build nuclear weapons, which they are. what concerns me is that this person, ratcliffe, does not have the experience of managing this degree of intelligence collection and analysis, and also he seems like someone, based on that mueller performance, who is going to go looking for what the president wants to hear. and that is the opposite of what you want in an intelligence leader. and i think it bears serious scrutiny from, obviously, democrats in the senate but also republicans, such ...

Be joining us here live in just a moment to give us his perspective on all of this, how this story may develop. what we should watch for from our own government and how serious this all is. ben rods coming up. we have also just tonight received the transcript of testimony before the judiciary committee in the house from hope hicks. hope hicks is the first trump white house official to have to testify to congress about the mueller report since it was partially published. we now know from the transcript of her testimony, which we've just received, that hope hicks was well armed in terms of legal...

Want to do this unprecedented thing and have these kinds of interactions with the leader of an adversary nation? >> ben rods under president obama. thank you very much for being with us tonight. it's been too long since you've been here. thanks for making time. >> thanks, rachel. always good talking to you. >> in the light of the way ben rhodes put that, the president has taken great pains to make sure there are no americans in the meetings with him and vladimir putin, nobody from the u.s. government getting any readout in every single of these meetings we know about, i think, they have taken ...

President is pretty good at puppet mastering, getting the news media having a new frenzy. that decent -- doesn't help us. >> donald trump didn't create this. he plays the fiddle better than anyone ever managed before. the new book "them why we hate each other and how to heal." a week from saturday, bethunbet cook is coming. >> brett stevens, former deputy national security adviser to barack obama ben rods and russian pro democracy activist join us when "morning joe" comes back.