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times reported several trump aides had repeated contacts with russian intelligence in the year run-up before the election. they cite electronic intercepts. just today a question along those same lines was asked of sean spicer at the briefing. back in january, the president said that nobody in his campaign had been in touch with the russians. now, today, can you still say definitively that nobody on the trump campaign, not even general flynn, had any contact with the russians before the election? my understanding is that what general flynn has now expressed is that during the transition period well, we were very clear that during the transition period he did speak with the ambassador m talking about during the campaign. there is nothing that would conclude to me that anything has changed with respect to that time period. a quick timeline with how we got here. december 29, the obama administration reveals new sanctions on russia. december 30. putin says russia will no ....
you can take a look. i will be on the daily show with trevor noah, if all my travel goes okay including the many flights i ve been taking just about every single day. i m looki ing forward to being back on trevor s show. if you re in the area, it would be great if you could come by. i might see some of you in a little bit in seattle. that is all for this evening. the rachel maddow show does not start right now apparently. so she is there. there you are. i am here, sorry. it was actually me and a member of our ground crew both here about to start the show together. perfect. go to it, then. thank you very much. thanks to everybody who works here who has such patient with me arriving at the set usually four seconds before this camera turns on, tonight, arriving four seconds after the camera turned on. very sorry about that. as you might imagine, as you might be able to tell from my composure right now we have a big show tonight. we have here tonight live the former se ....
question. why isn t adam schiff saying, yeah, let s go look at it? instead just like yesterday when he said he ll go look at it. let me finish. he was almost about to sign the invitation for comey to come testify, but suddenly, there are stipulations. there was no reason to have stipulations. same thing today. he was invited jack, you re rewriting jack, you re rewriting history. stipulations, what are you saying let me answer the question. i know this not because i ve talked to him, but because i ve read the documents and read the public reporting which you can read as well and you probably already know, which is that he was willing to sign the letter. in fact, he said today, he s willing to have comey and rogers come in behind closed-doors testimony, but he also wants a guarantee that clapper, that yates, and others are going to testify openly and that hasn t been assured. even today, he still hasn t gotten assurances from nunes that s going to occur. and jack, le ....
we appreciate your time and see you again at 6:00. bye-bye. tonight, breaking news. for the first time, former acting a.g. sally yates revealing how she warned the white house about former national security adviser michael flynn, saying he d been compromised, and that he could be blackmailed by the russians. tonight, how she describes her meetings inside the trump white house. also breaking, police just holding a news conference in boston. two doctors, engaged to be married, both found murdered. and new reporting tonight on what was found in their apartment. the college student who fell down the stairs. why did no one call for help for 12 hours? 18 frat brothers now facing charges and tonight, one of those students who was there comes forward. the headline just in. the serial sniper allegedly taking aim at drivers and at people in their front yards. what we ve just learned. and the shark alert tonight on the american coast. january 30th, the very day she was fired ....
today officials authorize today know. trump supporters complaining about the source of leaks rather than the substance of the leak, jim sciutto. reporter: a source close to ambassador susan rice tells me the claims she improperly unmasked u.s. citizens caught up in surveillance is in a word false coming from ambassador rice, but i ve also spoken to senior intelligence officials from democratic and republican administrations to ask them about the process of unmasking. is it unusual, illegal? and the answer is usually no, not unusual, not illegal. they say a couple of things, one the law allows it, two for it to happen the official requests, the intelligence community has to approve it, it is often times approved because that official wants to provide more information as they are reading intelligence report they want to know more about the significance, that is shared between the briefer. it s possible that official could do that him or herself but by nature of it it is only ....