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wish all of you have a good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late with us, i will see you at the end of tomorrow. of tomorrow. good evening chris, thank you my friend much appreciated. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. really happy to have you here. the basic plot is, that even though he's a good guy, even though he is our hero, he has to steal the declaration of independence. he has to break into the national archives and steal it, but it's for a good reason. it's because he has followed the string of ancient, cre...

Trump demanding the information be turned over? >> there was no doubt that he was and that he did. that's why his statement was rather cautious. he said he would hand over all appropriate information because when it comes to the intelligence agencies, those agencies safeguard sources and methods, information more tightly and more carefully than anything else and they are today extremely nervous about what the president has done. because never, mike, has a president delegated so broad a declassification authority to an attorney general or to anyone for that matter. so yes, the intelligence comm...

Challenges, a former national security adviser to president obama, and richard haas, president of the council on foreign relations. welcome, both. ben, first to you, this is the first time we've heard from the intelligence community itself, really striking back after the dismissive comments the president made on cbs, saying that his intelligence briefers need to go back to school. this was after, of course, they disagreed with many of his conclusions in their global threat warning. this is a dangerous pass. what is your take? you're been inside the white house and you've been to all of these b...

They are doing is simply tit for tat. the russians believe that we have been heavily involved in their domestic politics and active in those areas for many, many years. they have complained about it repeatedly. and i think one of the things that they have an interest in doing is showing us that they can do the same things to us that they believe we have been doing to them. >> is it through we've been doing that to them? you're former cia chief. >> i would say that leaving as side anything having do with the intelligence community itself, the u.s. government has been very involved in russian do...

We've been presented with no evidence that an american was colluding with the russians to meddle in the election. this is something we also know. we're still doing investigations. you've got to remember, in the house and in the senate, the intelligence committees have been investigating this. the intelligence community itself, not the committees but the community, did an investigation after the election and gave us the results of that investigation before the inauguration. the house intelligence committee just finished coming up with its oversight plan to continue investigations. we will alway...