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Reporting, although we have been hearing these names for days as likely suspects. and i've been speaking to a former national security council official bho explained to me the process of how this intelligence would be accessed. and it's really only a tiny number of people that would have access to signals, intelligence, intercepts that has incidental collection about americans and one would be ezra cohen-watnick, the head of the intelligence director. bottom line, whoever it was it's clear it came from somebody in the white house because this official also told me it's not like an official fro...

Melber. >> again, we live in a politics of culture of exaggeration but this was truly an historic and unusual hearing given what was previously public reports of russia meddling in the election. but no confirmation until today, in this hearing that we watched by the fbi director that this is being investigated for the trump campaign and russian side. the banner up on your broadcast, brian, the fbi director saying if he knew now what he knew then, he might have walked over to the dnc himself and walked on the door. that's essentially a statement of hindsight. jim comey is a steely prosecutor. h...

Brian: when james clapper came out and said i'm national intelligence director if somebody wiretapped the trump tower i would know about it and it didn't happen. >> he actually didn't say it that way. he chose his words very carefully. steve: semantic. >> he said if somebody got a fisa warrant about this i would know about testimony the president doesn't need a fisa warrant. the statute authorizes the president to bypass fisa. and quite frankly, brian, we are all skeptical of anything james clapper says because he lied under oath. when spying on tens or hundreds of millions of americans and he...

Reduce the role of the intelligence director of the joint chiefs chairman. "in crafting their organization order, trump's aides essentially cut and pasted language from an old organization chart. the trump team did not realize" who they were cutting out of the nsc by doing it that way. "as a practical matter, mr. trump's aides may not have intended a substantive change." so turning the national security council inside out, throwing out the military and the intelligence community in favor of steve bannon, that could be quite nefarious or might be they accidentally tied one shoe lace from the ri...

Leading the nsc. peter baker reports the very, very controversial decision by the trump white house to reorganize the nsc, to take out the chairman of the inr and the director of national intelligence, to take them all off the principals committee at the national security council and instead to put steve bannon on the principals committee, peter baker reports today that reorganization is something they might have kind of oopsed their way into. they may not have fully understood it when they did it. the president may not have understood it when he signed the order to make the change. "president...