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Investigation and also for the clinton email probe. when this memo was released tonight, we contacted david lofman, who was chief of counterintelligence at the justice department under president obama, who served at the beginning of the trump administration as well. he was there as the chief of counterintelligence at the justice department when the russia investigation was opened. david lofman tells us tonight that this new decision by the president is a grotesque abuse of the intelligence community to further his goal of political retribution, made worse by the spectacle of the justice depart...

At the airport. we learned is scheduled on a flight to cuba tomorrow. he requested asylum in ecuador. why ecuador, why cuba, why russia? those are some of the questions in the game of cat and mouse where so many u.s. secrets are at stake. i bring in david lofman, jamaal simmons and jonathan alter. thank you, gentlemen, for joining me this morning. so i want to start with you, david, because you know, it struck me, china essentially let snowden go. it felt like they just didn't want to have to deal with this problem. they could have stopped him from leaving the country. am i reading that correc...

After flying from hong kong to moscow. general keith alexander spoke about snowden in a new interview this morning. >> these are two of the most important things from my perspective that helps us understand what terrorists are trying to do. and if you think about that, what snowden has revealed has caused irreversible and significant damage to our country and to our allies. >> joining me now is lawyer david lofman who served as an attorney and was previously a military analyst for the cia. thank you for being here. >> good morning. >> where do you put the chances of the u.s. actually getting s...

Between him stopping off in cuba and ending up in ecuador, david? >> well, immediately, as we sit here, the united states government is putting trying to put pressure on the russian government to deport him. his u.s. passport is revoked. there is discretion to turn him over to the united states. that doesn't appear to be in the cards. so the question is how can he seek asylum in ecuador. how can the ecuadorians take physical control and how can he physically get to ecuador. that can only happen if the russians are the handmadens. if he gets there, the u.s. has very limited options. there is a ...

Than ever for us to -- for the government to learn about us, it needs to be easier for us to learn about what the government is doing in our name. so we need, at a minimum, much more transparency about the fisa court. much more transparency about what these programs do. that does not jeopardizes national security for there to be more information about these programs. >> i don't disagree with that. i think many of us are uncomfortable with the idea. snowden is now traveling around with four lap tops. and we're not the only ones he should be worried -- >> and it is very possible that he did get ...