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trump's tenure in the run up to january 6th, particularly a meeting that occurred on december 18th, 2020, roughly six weeks after election and a few weeks below before january 6th in the oval office between donald trump and his most conspiracy obsessed outside advisers lawyers. it was just one of trump's last-ditch efforts to cling to power and overturn the election. >> on friday, december 18th, this team of outside advisers paid him a surprise visit in the white house that would quickly become the stuff of legend. the meeting has been called unhinged, not normal, in the craziest mee...

Imagine we wouldn't be sharing that with the justice department. it's amazing, knowing what i know now. there was no tiger team sharing the information. for me it was doing counterterrorism for a long hours looking at that is a terrorism investigation. i really felt there should have been -- the first day we started. in hindsight i think that might have been a mistake that kind of data sharing wasn't happening. >> to that point, there was a back and forth, both while you are working with committee subsequent to your departure from the committee, all the way to the end of the committee's work, ...

Own people and numerous, numerous war crime allegations, the u.s. policy that he's got to go, that is the policy. look at him now. >> looked, more importantly i don't know anybody, we could spend a decade and a half doing counterterrorism. i don't know anybody that thinks you can do to counterterrorism width requires a stablism or a place for people to go back to a light footprint conveys a place for people to be. if syria goes up in flames again, as they have, it's not that we don't care. it creates a whole set of problems for a bunch of the neighbors and also creates a large ungoverned space...

Wheat from the shaft. when i was at the white house doing counterterrorism, there was a group of analysts and reports i turned to every day because i trusted their judgment, i trusted their experience, and there's another set of auntil sis that was just warmed over, the type of stuff frankly that i would see in classified one day and i'd see unclassified the next day. so that was a problem pre- 9/11 and it's still a problem today. >> all right. nbc's counterterrorism analyst roger cressey. pete williams, we didn't even get into the whole issue of overclassification. >> i could stay. >> really,...