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Erin Burnett stays ahead of the headlines, delivering a show that is indepth and informative. Also on this, just breaking tonight, minutes ago, the Associated Press is reporting that the National Enquirer kept a safe with documents on hush money payments and other killed stories that were damaging specifically to trump. A safe. Do you know anything about that . I actually dont know anything about it. I havent been at the company for quite a while. But then again, it wouldnt surprise me. Because when you have ammunition, it gives you a lot more ability to get to people who you want david pecker...

Operation that we were reporting on connected to an israeli private intelligence firm called black cube that was also singling out both ben rhodes and collin call, as being kind of the organizers of opposition to trump. >> how many staffers did you get a sense from your reporting were able to see the memo? i mean how widely circulated would you say it was within the trump white house? >> yeah. i don't know if the president ever saw it. you know, i know that it was circulated, you know, with -- particularly within the nsc and within steve bannon's former unit that was part of the white house. s...

>> right. talk to us about who was named. ben rhodes, for example, a very prominent figure in the obama white house was named throughout this and their response to this. >> yeah. so the, you know, names like you said,bo ben rhodes, it names collin call, and he's identified in this as the ops chief, an operational chief, again, using the language of a military analysis of an insurgency. their analysis was there was no organization and this was a fever dream by those in the white house. that said, in defense -- slightly in defense of those who believed what was in the memo, they -- you can under...

Republicans who made hillary clinton's handling of classified informations a central issue in the presidential election. >> so i really believe that if we have someone who is so recklessly mishandled classified information, kind of stuff i get as speaker of the house, i'm in transition of continuity of government, we should think this through. the dni has an obligation given what we just learned from what the fbi has said that she should not get that classified information. >> and joining me now is collin call, professor at georgetown university and former national security adviser to vice pre...

Difficulty they've had doing it without understanding the levers of power. the president wasn't happy with the level of briefing he's gotten on some executive orders, especially the one elevating steve bannon to the principals committee of the national security council. >> that was the big headline that the president was unaware of exactly what that meant. that he signed off on something without being properly briefed on how unusual it was for steve bannon to have a seat at the table. not to be an adviser wandering in and out. >> exactly. andrea, as somebody such as yourself who has institutio...