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>> right now we're kind of keeping our eye on the door, lester. >> that was mark and deborah tice with our lester holt. jeremy bash is back with me now. jeremy, i understand from the national security council that at the highest levels, this white house is working on freeing american hostages. having been the chief of staff at the pentagon and at the cia, two agencies that would be intimately involved in trying to bring home someone like austin tice, withhat can america do in these situations? >> it's very difficult, nicolle. you have to rely on relationships between people in our government a...

Single signal they're sending is one that brings -- on themselves. the president's conversation with comey, the calls to the intelligence chief to ask for them to back him up, the weird strange handling of the general flynn appointment, the information that they got from sally yates that they didn't act on for a couple of weeks, all of this. and you know, i haven't mentioned the president's intermittent tweets, all of this has created a great deal, more suspicion. they are not acting like people who don't have something to worry about. they are acting like people who are trying to hide somethi...

Intelligence anymore because it could get leaked, specifically to the russians. that was the european fear. >> david ignatius, how much worse does this make it? >> well, this dramatizes precisely what people were worrying about. imagine for a moment what the cia chief of station in the country that was the source of this intelligence is having to do this morning or yesterday morning in talking to his counterpart and saying, sir, i have some terrible news. there's been a release of some information that came from the very sensitive -- just the most horrifying moment you could imagine for an int...

Comey. how do you ask when that? >> i would feel a lot better about all this if donald trump is morning wasn't meeting with vladimir putin's top aide and the person who supposedly helped run the interference campaign in the american campaign and the spymaster for the russian government and the united states. the optics of this, a private meeting with no photographs, somebody who -- right now, donald trump is morning met with the guy who is considered to be the intelligence chief for the russian government and the united states, allowed him into the inner sanctum of the white house. i wish that...

Administration is turning to congress for help. finding evidence to support his claim that former president obama had telephones that trump tower tapped during the election. we should point out that president trump has offered no proof so far. now, fbi director james comay is taking his concerns about it to the justice department. the new york times wants him to set the record straight because the president's claim imply the agency broke the law. president obama said intelligence chief says is is not truth. >> i will say for the parts of the national security apparatus that i oversaw is dni, t...