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I think have to ask, we thought that sally yates was fired she refused to defend the ban in court. but was it also an excuse to fire her, she was the agitant. by firing her, they made that go away. >> what do you make of -- i have to say as someone who doesn't spend his life intelligence, the idea that there's -- that flynn was compromised because of these calls, is a little hard to get your head around, we're talking about interactions, the content of which we do not know. as someone who is an career intelligence, what does that mean to you. >> i mean, we're talking about as mike flynn being ...

This case, and will agree on more is really a big change. because he was so disparaging. we never had a president come into the office saying such terrible things about the intelligence, very demoralizing, and upsetting to those of us on the outside that felt he needed to have that type of information. but now he seems to be gaining admiration and respect for the generals. but it's reassuring. >> andrea mitchell in moscow where it already has been thursday for quite a while. a career intelligence professional. john mclaughlin, and ap white house reporter, such thanks to our lead-off guests. we...

Illegal. reports this week suggested that rice asked to include the names of trump transition officials in intelligence reports before leaving office. requests that she and other officials have said were lawful. rice firmly denied leaking any information and claimed the pace of unmasking requests during the transition period were normal, noting they require the approval of career intelligence officials. early in trump's interview with the "times" yesterday the president abruptly changed the subject from the supreme court to say, quote, the susan rice thing is a massive story. a massive, massiv...

Reading. you're trying to understand what you are reading. so you need to know the context of what you are reading. and wonderful, it's not -- the process is not as if you pull off a post-it note and uncover the name of somebody. this has to go through a number of people, professional career intelligence officials, who will ask you why you need to know this, why they should grant it. and there's a whole legal process you have to go through. once that's unmasked, the number of people who actually see it, i was told, is maybe a dozen or two. so it's not as if this has been widely disseminated. i...

House intelligence committee. good to see you, thank you for being with us. >> good afternoon, thanks for having me back. >> your colleagues sending us a letter, are things moving along quickly enough for you? >> well, right now, we just begun or investigation. and what we want is to get to the bottom of what were the prior political, personal, and financial ties between donald trump and his team and russia. and right now, over the weekend, the president has tried to throw in a smoke bomb to distract us, but we're not distracted. we've seen this before. and i think we just have to follow the e...