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Russian government to get those lifted. >> we know now as soon as they arrived in washington, they directed the state department to start working on plans to lift the russian sanctions. senior department personnel pushed back alerting both capitol hill and the press. >> what was concerning to those state department officials who talked to our colleagues, they felt this was not in the best interest of the u.s. and was too premature to be concerned. >> steel's point two, the trump camp acting to help russia on both ukraine and on sanctions. point three, before u.s. intelligence agencies made pub...

Number one to the next piece, will you drop the investigation. that's how you look at this. that's how i would look at it. >> and to jeffrey's point, point three, when you don't, you lose your job. >> right. >> a ten-year term to insulated you from -- >> as a former fed, when i was at the executive level and said the president asked me if i liked my job, we'd be sitting here saying, you've got a ten-year term, dude. why is he asking you if you like -- is that a suggestion he's going to fire you if you don't go in the -- that's more interesting than it looks on the surface. >> do you feel like ...

We pointed out wonder woman's director was american and one of its stars and american pilot. we got that, said that. we never tried to hide that. point three, not once, not once did we compare this wonder woman to the linda carter version of the 1970s. plenty of other publications and shows did, including posts which did accurately note how in the 1970s series wonder woman's patriot tick roots down to the red, white and blue colors. they brought it up. point four. we agree to disagree whether it was a good movie or a good move. having seen this movie, i think it's a very good movie. we all agr...

I can't say it absolutely isn't but seems on the realm of plausibility way over on the implausible end of things. i think the most thing in that statement, wolf, there's no denial of the facts as the "new york times" reported them. one point on this meeting. three things donald trump did in this meeting. one, they let the russian news agency in to take pictures that the russian embassy then tweeted out, point one. >> no american. >> no american journalists, okay, and they why furious about this in retrospect. point two, he told information to kislyak and lavrov that was so top secret and class...

Energy lives here. big picture, there's a lot we don't know. i think three things are relevant immediately. the first is, sources and methods are the lifeblood of our intelligence community. number two, a lot of times media does kind of hyper ventilate real quickly and it's hard to calibrate which of these stories are a big deal. point three is, it's russia. and that's not helpful at this time, because they don't have our interests at heart. >> not helpful. joining me now is michael beschloss, nbc news presidential historian. i'm very happy to have you and a larger view of history here. you ...