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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 ....
a rose beggarden event tomorrow are told. then later in the week the president will be going to ohio. and it is notable they are putting him on the road for this. because he is someone that does well pitching things to crowds and feeds off that energy. sometimes makes him go off script, but if he can deliver a solid pitch and a good message, i think it is a necessary piece of momentum for this administration that s been largely bogged down in controversy. now a little bit about what we have heard with his infrastructure plan is it involves a trillion dollars in public and in private investigation. and it is something that capitol hill should be able to get behind. but it is something we have heard about a lot from him. and it is important in the aftermath of the foreign trip. a lot of people said what worked is the administration gave people something else to talk about that was not russia or controversy. and this is a way that a lot of republican strategists said to me, you need ....
plus the president s latest hard right turn to try and sell trumpcare 2.0. nobody knew that health care could be so complicated. and from selling your internet browser history what the heck are you thinking? to rolling back protections for women. how trump s america is taking shape faster than you know. would you like to make a change, folks? when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. amid a steady drip of news about trump world s connections to russia and under the shadow of an unprecedented federal probe into possible collusion between a foreign adversary and the sitting president s campaign, the white house and the gop is in full change the subject mode. the scandal is not what we know, it s how we know it. in a throw back to the benghazi days, they ve got a familiar scapegoat. former national security adviser susan rice. i believe susan rice abused the system, and she did it for political purposes. she needs to be broug ....
with the russian story and found zero proof, so now they go for obstruction of justice on the phony story. nice. that s trump in tweet. joining me now are three national security reporters, charlie savage, adam entous and shane harris. shane, you ve got the story which follows up on what we had last night, that the special counsel is looking at the president for obstruction of justice. my question is how do you have to add to that? what you have now is you have the president both trying to convince director rogers of the nsa to come out and shoot down these issues of collusion, but also privately still continuing to doubt the very intelligence that the nsa collected that led to the conclusion that russia interfered in the election. we ve seen trump publicly talk about the fact he thinks they re nothing to russia, but to know that he s now saying this privately and continuing to argue with one of his intelligence chiefs about that, i think really reveals the degree to which this ....
confidence on where it lands. if you see fins on the nose of any of these things, they may have some sort of guided precision system inside and that s even scarier. question, two technical question. i love you re here to help us cover this. the distance, the range, the accuracy is one set of matters. perhaps the most important sensitivity matters is what they can put on that missile. whether or not they can bring it in successfully, right. you have the rv, the re-entry vehicle. that may 14th launch did successfully re-enter the atmosphere. we don t know if they miniaturizeed a nuclear war head. we don t know if it s small enough to put on the cone on the tip of a missile. talk to some folks in the pentagon they think maybe, perhaps. others in the general assessment within the intelligence community they haven t achieved that yet. here s the issue, the minute want to make sure that the united states and south korea and our allies aren t threatening the ability of this dynas ....