but you can't look at it without asking these questions about exactly what putin has up his sleeve to publicly announce with great detail exactly what the cia gave him. >> in addition, i spoke with malcolm nance, our msnbc terrorism analyst last hour, and he said it is most unusual to have the president of the united states call the president of russia or vice versa. in this kind of a regard, and to make a tip-off. this would be done through typical channels, you know, cia, fbi. they have very fast ways to get this information, so the fact that the president may have tipped him off, it just didn't make a lot of sense to him. that's just another thing that a cynic would say. what's that about? i do want to get back to the russia investigation. a couple new points to talk about today. the presidential transition lawyer firing off a letter to congress, not to the mueller team itself, accusing mueller of illegally obtaining tens of thousands of transition e-mails from a government server. so kelly o'donnell joins us once again about this. the white house is now responding, as you know, to the