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The audience's likely feeling is somewhere in the ballpark. this feels like it's accelerating because it appears to be accelerating. and so the senate intel folks, on a bipartisan basis, have reached a point where they're not cherry picking or hand picking -- i don't mean that term with any significance, but they're not looking at just individual people anymore. they're saying the trump organization campaign as an entity needed to be searched. that again shows an acceleration. steve, when you go to how investigations work, that means you could be pulling multiple people's e-mail accounts, righ...

Talking about right now to see the political sensitivity of it. let's not forget these communications occurred through channels that were not secure, and that's the reason why we know about them, because the nsa and some of the officials who are in the u.s. intelligence community, who are monitoring russian communications between russian diplomats and officials with any number of people picked up some of these communications with trump folks, ended up leaking it out. maybe if jared kushner and kislyak had gotten their way and they had set up a secure method of communications, the nsa would not...

Nixon campaign. >> it's no secret that kislyak, who is a russian ambassador, they're phone calls are monitored. that's how flynn got caught. that's some of the information that's being reported. to twist it to say the obama administration was monitoring flynn? no. they were monitoring kislyak, who is an agent of the russian government. it's not the obama administration, or the fbi, or the nsa or the cia, monitoring donald trump. he got caught from the person who works for russia. that's the twist that these groups or media or whatever you want. that's how they're twisting it. but that's not ne...

Russian blackmail. we're joined now by the reporter who broke that story. walk us through how and why sally yates, a national security official before she became acting a.g. inform the white house about this and who did she consult onhether she should even do it? >> you have flynn and the fbi and the fbi is monitoring kislyak. they write an intelligent report based on the transcript and that finds its way to yates. when news breaks that there are these calls, it later in january, mid january, you know, that's when pence, the vice president-elect at that point, goes public and he defends flynn

All the other business that white houses are supposed to do. this latest "washington post" story is just another example of a really deepening headache, deepening problem for the white house, certainly political if not legal. >> just a few more details. again, i'm learning of this along with everybody else out there right now, but a few more details from this article, again breaking in "the washington post" right now, saying that on december 1st or 2nd -- again, this was in the transition period at trump tower. this is when ambassador kislyak, he reported to his superiors in moscow. they had a...