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Excuse coming from trump world as ludicrous. why did you say that? what were your thoughts there? >> well, i feel like as someone who worked on counterterrorism issues globally and homeland security, i would have probably been briefed about this blanket authority that existed. i think mike pence would have been aware of it, and the national security advisers would have heard about this, but thus far, you know, if that's the case, then release the paperwork. there's got to be a paper trail here. it doesn't just kind of happen overnight. you don't just wave a wand and say boom, it's declassified...

Security adviser under president obama, cnn national security analyst lisa monaco. what do you make of this decision? we saw tom bossert out on the sunday shows just two days ago. and today he resigns. >> well, good morning, john. good to be with you. look, i'm actually out on the west coast right now, and folks are literally waking up to this news. i'm at a conference with a number of former government officials and cybersecurity officials. and it is quite stunning, i think, to get this news. as you point out, tom bossert has been out in recent days and indeed through much of his time thus fa...

Will be damning in an indictment that robert mueller, the special counsel, will ultimately nail to the white house door. with that let's turn to our lead off panel on a wednesday night. julia ansley, nbc national security and justice reporter. jill wine-banks is back with us. attorney, former assistant watergate counsel and nbc legal analyst. and jeremy bash. former chief of staff at the cia and pentagon. former counsel to house intel. jeremy, i'd like to begin with you. talk about our alliance with israel. talk about its importance, how many shared secrets we've had over the years, and the da...

To what we have seen in france, and the problems we've seen in france, the problems we've seen in belgium, it seems like the british intelligence forces an also law enforcement have a better handle on things than we have seen in some other countries in europe. >> yeah, anderson, i think there's some consensus that the brits are best in class when it comes to dealing with these sort of counterterrorism issues. they've been dealing with it really all the way back to the ira threat from the 1970s onwards. that meant they had to get very smart very quickly when it came to dealing with terrorism th...

Person. >> it's not just flynn. this is a pattern of folks in senior -- a couple of feet away from the president who do not have the proper security clearances. they cannot be doing national security work. seb gorka is an example. he has nazi ties, sits in the white house right now. supposedly working on counterterrorism issues, but does not have the appropriate clearances and has raised flags for people. >> let's talk about the attorney general of the united states. because this is another unusual situation among many for this white house, one in which their attorney general had to recuse him...