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>> what was wrong was the way that other people, including yourselves in this room, were given that information. because that was classified information. it was given illegally. that's the real problem. >> there are reports of apparently illegal leaks. but it is a real problem if there are secret links to the russians or criminal collusion with them. and there will be a cloud over the trump administration until and unless the president releases his entire tax returns so that all potential russian connections can be vetted out in the open. joining me now for more is navid jamali, author of "how...

When you watched comey's first announcement. we were in headquarters and we heard he was going to make an announcement. we went out. as he was making his statement, we had no idea what he was going to say. >> 11 days out. >> oh, 11 days out. this was the initial announcement in late june, early july. 11 days out it was totally out of lft. >> both campaigns used this to their advantage when they could. the clinton campaign used his recommendation not to prosecute to say that this matter is closed, the trump campaign used the revival of it to say this matter is something that is very much not cl...

The question really is are we going to able to -- sweep it away as quickly a possible. because president-elect trump used it as a cloud over is value didity of his win. >> there's cabinet choices for trump, his first press conference in a very long time, and then you have president barack obama already giving his fair well address to the nation in his town hall address in chicago. we already know hundreds of people braved the refrigeratfri temperatures there. and you see people waiting to get tickets for this historic address. >> it's well worth it, i got my golden ticket and i can't wait to s...

They blew them off. part of it was the attacks were more effective. i don't think you can say that but for some of the podesta's e-mails coming out that somehow hillary would have won. the e-mails were embarrassing. at the end of the day, i don't think they were decisive. >> media coverage, i remember far more talk about donald trump and what -- the comments he made dwarfing whatever we had on the e-mail stuff. let me get your take on how this drip, drip, drip of information about russia's involvement, even if it didn't affect the outcome, that maybe it surprised people to the degree to which ...

Blown off congress and exmain what they met here. and today you went to trump tower and met with the president-elect. what's the latest? >> i discussed with him what i said on your show last night, there's no evidence that's been brought to our attention and the intelligence community has never shown us anything indicating that the russians, who i believe were involved in hacking, that they were attempting to favor donald trump over hillary clinton. they've consistently told us that the intention of the russians was to disrupt the election and put a cloud over whoever won the election. they're...