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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 stoies 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 can tell us whether we're at def-con four or not. historically, what does that tell you about where we are in this term? >> tells you that the president had some very bad...