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Activity, including the arrival of helicopters, ground attack aircraft and fighter bomber jets at forward locations. joining us, forward chief of staff at the cia and department of defense, nbc news national security analyst jeremy bash. good morning, jeremy. that breaking report comes from state media about the roared pull back of troops. it conflicts with what a lot of people are seeing on the ground, what surveillance aircraft are showing as well. how do you square the two reports? >> i think it is way too soon, willie, to call this a deescalation. we don't have any information that russi...

Substantive things, they're not reading e-mails, to extent anything was going on has nothing to do with what we think of as communications. >> people had the analogy it was the next watergate. watergate involved people breaking in trying to go through filing cabinets. when you look at the analogy here, if you want to call it watergate it is that the security guard while being paid to do security, observing who was coming in and that person was then paid to send the information to somebody else. it doesn't mean they were asking what they were there for, it doesn't mean they were going through t...

Think, is also very important. and risky. let's be clear. it's also risky. but the biden administration has leaned in to declassifying information. remember, they have different leadership, the dni, hanes, used to work with the obama administration in a policy role. bill burns is the head of the cia, he used to work in the state department in a policy role so they have a different relationship right now in the biden administration about declassification. but let's be clear. there's a political risk to what president biden said today. if it doesn't come true, the whole world is going to say, oh...

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Exercise their oversight responsibilities and look into this. when we strip this down and look at what we actually know, this is not likely to be something that we can easily dismiss: we know that the president of the united states has wide authority to declassifying information. if he says something classified to another leader, he's declassified the information. this is not a complaint about classified information. when we think about what's left, people don't often make promises without getting something in return. i'd be interested in hearing not only what the promise was but what so conce...