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Leaders to brief him and his new national security team on the findings of an ic assessment concerning russian efforts to interfere in the election. at the conclusion of that briefing, i remained alone with the president-elect to brief him on some personally sensitive aspects of the information assembled during the assessment. the ic leadership thought it important for a variety of reasons to alert the incoming president to the existence of this material, even though it was salacious and unverified. among those reasons were, one, we knew the media was about to publicly report the material and ...

Who's right, and who's wrong in this episode? >> donald trump is cherry picking when he wants to praise the media. and i think we have to be very clear on that. for him to come out and say the news media that did not report this -- >> the salacious material. >> now that we've risen in his esteem because of that and he wants to thank us and congratulate us for doing our jobs, tomorrow there could be a report -- >> so you don't want the pat on the head? >> no, i don't. tomorrow there could be news that comes out that he doesn't like and he will call it fake news. he's picking and choosing. >> th...

Germ-o-phobe, by the way. >> nbc's ken dilanian joins us with the latest on what we know. run through this sequence of events, right? >> you got it right, chris. >> started with a briefing for the members of the intelligence committee and for the president of the united states and the next day, this past friday, where the president apparently, we're told, he was never handed any kind of attachment about his, perhaps, alleged misbehavior by some group pushing this stuff around. nor was he told about it. >> yeah, that's what we understand. he was not orally briefed about it but it was included i...