And theyre being decent to the each other and creative. It kind of gives you hope. They are an amazing combination of good soldiers and leaders at the same time. Thanks, rachel. Vanity fairs contributing editor has been watching Donald Trumps moves for decades she knows more about donald trump than most of the political reporters who have only covered him a couple years. She said something this week, we should keep in mind about every trump story, in an interview with the british paper she said, everyone says he is crazy, which maybe he is, but the scarier thing about him is that he is stupid. You do not know anyone as stupid as donald trump. You just dont. And donald trump proves that every time he says this. Im like a really smart person. I have a very high aptitude and intelligence. I have the best words. I went to the Wharton School of finance. Trust me, im a smart person. No smart person has ever said any one of those things. So when donald trump gets caught doing something very, very stupid, he always has to publically pretend that its the right thing to do. Even when he privately realizes that it wasnt the right thing to do. So today the Los Angeles Times reports that President Trump was privately furious today, all day, just furious, that his white house leaked the fact that he was specifically told, warned do to the congratulate before he made a phone call to Vladimir Putin yesterday and congratulated Vladimir Putin for winning the rigged election of russia. Putin himself of course rigged the election by jailing his toughest opponent. Something no doubt donald trump would like to do. The white house leaked in the briefing materials given to donald trump before the phone call, it said in capital letters, do not congratulate. Theres more than one reason why donald trump then congratulated Vladimir Putin. But one of the reasons thats always present in what donald trump does, is what fran lieberman said about him, the scary thing about him is that he is stupid. That is deeply scary because that would mean even a well intentioned version of donald trump could make deadly mistakes as president of the United States. The Associated Press is reporting he has told confidants the leak was meant to embarrass and undermine him said white house officials. So donald trump thinks the leak was meant to embarrass him. How could it embarrass him if congratulating Vladimir Putin was the right thing to do, the smart thing to do. Unless after the fact donald trump realized how wrong it was to congratulate Vladimir Putin for winning an election rigged by Vladimir Putin. Unless he realized it made donald trump look stupid and incompetent and possibly a partner of Vladimir Putin or a servant of Vladimir Putin, a colluder with Vladimir Putin. So while he spent the day furious and embarrassed by the leak to not congratulate. We had to publically be proud of the thing that we know embarrasses him. So he tweeted i called president putin of russia to congratulate him on his election victory. The l. A. Times is reporting one person who speaks regularly with white house officials said the most recent leak seemed more geared toward infantilizing trump who has ignored numerous suggestions that he rebuke putin. Im sure theres going to be a scalping over this. How is the leakiest white house in history going to catch the person or persons responsible for this particular leak . We now know that all of the white house leakers have signed a completely ridiculous and unenforceable confidentiality agreement that they violate every time they leak something. It was the trump familys idea to force them to sign the nondisclosure agreements. Ivanka trump was a cheerleader of the idea. It was a stupid idea. In all of the reporting today, every account stresses, as the l. A. Times put it, white house chief of staff john kelly also is said to be infuriated, on a warpath according to the person in close contact with National Security officials. John kelly is, of course, on the suspect list for this leak. If not suspect number one. He does leak to the press. John kelly does speak off the record to the press. John kelly is unprofessional and incompetent when he speaks to the press. John kelly has lied to the press and been caught in those lies. John kelly has told reporters completely inappropriate things like exactly where in the bathroom Rex Tillerson was sitting when john kelly told him on the phone he was fired. The president is probably not entirely right when he tells people that the leak was meant to embarrass him. The leak was also meant to remove the embarrassment from the white house staff. The embarrassment that the president of the United States congratulated Vladimir Putin for winning the election he won. Most people have no idea how wrong it is for donald trump to congratulate Vladimir Putin for winning the election that Vladimir Putin rigged. Does the white house believe the election in russia was free and fair . In terms of the election, they were focussed on our elections. We dont get to dictate how other countries operate. What we do know is that putin has been elected in their country. And thats not something that we can dictate to them how they operate. We can only focus on the freeness and fairness of our elections. There is no publically Available Evidence that she is even 1 smarter than that answer. But some other people in the white house are, and they were no doubt embarrassed and infuriated that donald trump did congratulate Vladimir Putin after he was told not to. So they probably wanted to put the stain of that embarrassment where it belongs, which is entirely on donald trump. And they wanted to send the signal to the rest of us, and to the world, that not everyone in the white house thinks that Vladimir Putin should be congratulated for winning a fraudulent election. Thats a good thing to know. We are better off tonight knowing that not everyone in the white house is in putins pocket. There was only one way to communicate that, through this leak. Now in my experience in government i found that people who leak are often the ones who pretend to be the most infuriated about the leak. So john kelly, trying to get the word out to every reporter in every newspaper, that hes infuriated about the leak makes him no less a suspect. And another likely suspect is, of course, donald trump himself. Who we know is constantly complaining to people outside the white house, on the phone about his white house staff. And its entirely possible that donald trump himself told several people that they actually wrote do not congratulate on his notes. And that one of those people, or many of those people, might be among the leakers of this information. The weakness of that theory, of course, is that donald trump actually read any of the words that were written for him in his briefing materials before getting on the phone with Vladimir Putin because donald trump famously does not read. The president made the call to Vladimir Putin, not from the oval office where theyre made surrounded by experts, he made it from the residence. Its not clear who was present during the phone call. For those details we might have to wait for the next Michael Wolff book or the next Michael Wolff like book that will be supplied by all those people who signed all those nondisclosure agreements in the white house. Joining us john hileman and ted price. So john hileman, theres going to be a scalp, according to the l. A. Times theyre going to find the leaker and fire the leaker. How many leakers so far have been fired . There have been a lot of people fired. Some of them have been leakers. But how many have been fired for a specified leak. I believe that number had to be zero. Close to zero if not zero. I think theres a leaker might be h. R. Mcmaster, at some point kelly is going to get fired. The only person not fired by donald trump is donald trump. I dont think anything is going to happen in terms of personnel changes. I think there are interesting theories about what generated the leak. Go ahead. The two main competing theories, if its not donald trump, seem to be one the National Security establishment is upset about the fact that trump cozies up to putin at every opportunity. And the other is peoples vanity has been wounded by the notion they put this briefing paper in front of donald trump, they told him do not congratulate and then he disregarded his advise. Again, like you said, the people who complain about leaks are usually leakers. And its the argument on principle that hes too upset about putin, or the argument on vanity for ignoring my advice, its usually vanity. Or it can be both. Upset the advice wasnt followed but also believe it was good advice and they want to get the message out that there are people in the white house that dont think like donald trump. As we know this white house is a snake pit. Its hard to disentangle one leak from the next, especially when you look to motivation. Some days its vanity, fewer days i think its principle. This is interesting, though, because i think this may be one of those leaks of principles. When you look the Washington Post description, it describes them as two officials familiar with the note card. There was no den graduation of other officials. It was just a very simple leak that the president failed to heed the headline of that note card. When you read the headline, it doesnt seem they leaked any classified information. Do not congratulate is not classified. Theres no classified information there, especially when President Trump himself said he had spoken with Vladimir Putin before the story came out. I think like most leaks in the white house, there is a compelling case that maybe this was done on principle, people seeking to do right, to remember the oath they took, to protect against all enemies foreign and domestic. Let me go back to one point. There have been comments this is classified material, the president s briefing material for a call with the president of russia. So any leak of that could even be illegal. But were you making the point did i hear you make the point that there can be material within those files that is not classified . Especially if its a separate card that says do not congratulate. And since thats not classified material, that would not be a violation . Its a little bit complicated. You have a briefing package for the president and that package, the entire package is classified secret or top secret. But individual discreet snip ets within that packet can be unclassified. To me that headline seems unclassified. If they wanted this call secret, if they wanted the call between donald trump and Vladimir Putin to never see the light of day. Thats not the case. The kremlin, as it always does, went to the press immediately. Donald trump later gloated to the White House Press he had this conversation with putin. So theyre not trying to keep the call secret. So there seems nothing secret to me in the headline of that note card. Lets look at the reaction to this, which was stronger than usual. I dont agree with congratulating putin. You dont congratulate with someone for a fake election. Every time you talk to putin and give him a pass, that emboldens him. I see a lack of credibility, calling him now i dont know why the president felt like calling Vladimir Putin on a fake election. Poisoning people with nerve gas is a criminal activity, i wouldnt have a conversation with a criminal. Mitch mcconnell never criticizes the president. And the way he put it calling him wouldnt have been high on my list but for Mitch Mcconnell thats the anger equivalent of grassley saying i wouldnt have a conversation with a criminal. Or calling the president an idiot. The chorus of republicans here outspokenly saying it was a mistake for the president to call Vladimir Putin to congratulate him and to not raise any issues of contention, race the 2016 election meddling, the poisoning in the uk, that very chorus points back to the question of the leak. Which is that there is such a giant bipartisan establishment consensus on it being a bad idea for trump to have done these thing so you can imagine john kelly or h. R. Mcmaster or any other white house official wanting to broadcast to the world were with you, we know this was a bad idea. Dont blame us. Theres one culprit here, the guy in the big chair who couldnt read the big block letters that said do not congratulate. Im washing my hands on him. Ned price thank you very much, really appreciate it. Thank you so much. Coming up, he is afraid of the president of russia. And we already know, just by saying that sentence, we know who were talking about. But you might not know who said it this time. A lot of people have said it. And we now know that the man who Jeff Sessions fired last friday night had authorized an investigation of Jeff Sessions. What does it take to make Digital Transformation actually happen . It takes dell technologies, a family of seven Technology Leaders working behind the scenes to make the impossible. Reality. Were helping to give cars the power to read your mind from anywhere. 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He said i think hes afraid of the president of russia. The entire knows who the he is. Because the entire world for the last year has listened to the president talk like hes afraid of the president of russia. The first president of the United States in history to appear to be afraid of russia. As a former director of the cia john berman knows a lot more than he is saying all the time. Its one thing for you or me to say i think the president is afraid of the president of russia, which ive said many times, but thats nothing compared to the former director of the cia saying that. I think hes afraid of the president of russia. Why . I think one can speculate as to why. That the russians may have something on him personally that they can roll out and make his life more difficult. Clearly its important to improve relations with russia. But the fact he has this fawning attitude toward mr. Putin, has not said anything negative about him, continues to say to me that he does have nothing is fear. Hes acting more and more like a corn erred animal lashing out whatever he can and who knows what that corn erred animal can do. He began speaking on morning joe at 7 03, he was interpreted by the special break at 7 18, and then in the middle of what he had to said, President Trump tweeted a quote, special counsel is told to find crimes, whether a crime exists or not. I was posed to the selection of mueller to be special counsel. I am still opposed to it. I think President Trump was right when he said there never should have been a special counsel appointed because so stated by alan dershowitz. The misspelling of the council is not the fault of alan dershowitz, but is fault of the president. The editorial tomorrow is based on what john brennan said today in the new york times. The headline is why is trump so afraid of russia. It goes on to catalog a list of weaknesses in the face of putins aggression. The last line of the editorial is, if mr. Trump isnt mr. Putins lacky, its past time for him to prove it. This afternoon, four star general Barry Mccaffrey said this. Why is this president of the United States acting this way . Do they have something on him . Id say theres a significant they do. Putin is going to stick it to him for sure sooner or later. He has a rope around his neck if theres actually incriminating, embarrassing evidence. Joining us now is jim macina and john hileman is still with us. Jim, i wanted to get your reaction to what john brennan had to say, having worked in the same administration as he has. This is the former director of the cia talking about the president being afraid of putin. Its unprecedented. Lawrence, theres an old country song that says you got to dance with the one who brung you. And donald trump is dancing with Vladimir Putin. Theres no question that he is refusing to criticize him every single moment. I think the interesting thing about what trump did yesterday wasnt what he said in the congratulations, although thats unprecedented, its more what he didnt say. Ive been with president obama when he made these calls. And typically a president would say heres where we want to Work Together and heres our issues we have real problems with you that we want to get done in the second or third term. Didnt talk about the fact that donald trump was the only president who hasnt condemned Vladimir Putin for allegedly poisoning a spy in the uk. Didnt talk about the fact that russia is still attempting to affect our elections in the United States. He didnt talk about any of this. All he did with his moment with Vladimir Putin was say, hey, buddy, congratulations. Thats what you do when you are someones lacky. Jim, can you take us inside what would have been the obama phone call to putin in what is just weeks after the this case of a russian being murdered, attacked in england . How would the president of the United States talk about that to the president of russia when the president is suspect number one in this case. These things are carefully negotiated across agencies and there would be a discussion with the president beforehand saying do not congratulate him. We do not congratulate people who have rigged elections, where theres no opposition. It would have been i understand youve been reelected, heres what we want to do to Work Together. He would have mentioned the disarmament thing. And he would have had issues to walk the leader through that they wanted to fix. And would have had had in those things our biggest concerns. No question any other single leader in the world the first thing would have been the british poisoning and our own elections. The fact he didnt mention either one of those in that call and thanks to the unbelievable leaking in the white house we know exactly what was said. Its not only unprecedented, its inexplicable. The only thing you can conclude he doesnt want to screw with Vladimir Putin, that john brennan, who i worked with for two years, one of the single most nonpartisan people i ever worked with. The fact hes saying this has to be a siren call to the rest of the country to wake up. John, john brennan knows how we are all going to react to him saying these like things. He knows the importance of his words publically. He spent years weighing them as a cia director. We also know when a former cia director is speaking, its the tip of the iceberg of what he knows, hes suppressing most of what he knows. And you wonder when you hear a Statement Like that, what he knows that he cant tell us. I think theres a vast amount. One of the most interesting questions would be who knows more about the dark side of donald trump, Vladimir Putin or john brennan . They probably both know a lot of things. Think about the largest events of our time in the trump administration, the earliest inception of them. It was john brennan in 2016 started to get wind through intelligence channels there were funny things happening between people in Donald Trumps orbit and the russians. He knows about Donald Trumps complex financial history, most of which is under scrutiny by bob mueller. He had enough intelligence to go to jim comey and say we need to open a counterintelligence investigation into the Trump Campaign and its ties to russia. Thats where it all started and brennan was there throughout the fall. He was there at the first briefings for donald trump at the highest level. He was there when jim comey had to walk in the room alone and brief donald trump on the steele dossier. He knows Christopher Steele and has probably known him for decades. Knows of his reputation. If not the early phases of the dossier, we know he knows what was in the dossier. That leads to the funnel of what john brennan knows. So when he decides as he has, not just yesterday but the last couple weeks, to escalate his attack on donald trump the way he has on twitter, television, and today to say he thinks Vladimir Putin has something personally on donald trump. That doesnt mean his personal life, sexually, but it could. It could very well mean his personal finances, business. It is a matter of an enormous significance and a huge tell. A huge, i cant tell you what i know, but trust me, this is just a little tiny sliver of whats really there. Go ahead, jim. Heres the crazy thing, any other politician you and i have ever worked with, would go out of their way if donald trump to prove they werent beholden to the russian government. They would be the toughest person on the russian government, unless to johns point, they couldnt. The fact hes not pushing on the british assassination, the election stuff, is proof he cant and he cant because hes worried about what they know and what they have. Its unprecedented. Every other politician ive ever worked with, would go overtime to prove theyre not putins lacky. And all donald trump does is say great job, congratulations. Jim gets the last word on this. Thank you both for joining us. Coming up we know Andrew Mccabe was investigating Jeff Sessions for perjury. But Jeff Sessions said he didnt know that when he fired Andrew Mccabe last friday. For all the noses that stuff up around pets. Theres flonase sensimist. It relieves all your worst symptoms including nasal congestion, which most pills dont. And all from a gentle mist you can barely feel. Flonase sensimist. Weeds. Natures boomerang. At roundup®, we know they keep coming back. Draw the line. 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Together, were building a better california. Three sources tell nbc news tonight that fired fbi Deputy DirectorAndrew Mccabe had previously authorized an investigation into whether attorney general Jeff Sessions lied to congress about russia. Democratic senators referred a perjury inquiry to the fbi last year after information surfaced to the Senate Judiciary committee. If there is any evidence that anyone affiliated with the Trump Campaign communicated with the russian government in the course of this campaign, what will you do . Senator franken, im not aware of any of those activities. I have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign, and i did not have communications with the russians. After he said that, it was reported he met with the Russian Ambassador several times during the company and Jeff Sessions recused himself from the Russian Investigation for that reason. Its possible that it was referred to Robert Mueller. The mccabe authorized investigation of Jeff Sessions was not something that Jeff Sessions knew about last week when he decided to fire Andrew Mccabe. Tonight, Jeff Sessions private attorney released this statement, the special counsels office has informed me that after interviewing the attorney general and conducting additional investigation, the attorney general is not under investigation for false statements or perjury in his confirmation hearing testimony and related written submissions to congress. Joining us now is jill winebanks. Jill working backwards through what i just talked about. What do you make of the statement by Jeff Sessions private attorney tonight saying the attorney general now is not under investigation for false statements or perjury in his confirmation hearing testimony and related written submissions to congress. Its possible its correct. He quotes the Mueller Office and thats dangerous to do because they might contradict it if they didnt say that. So for now i guess we have to assume that mr. Cooper was repeating accurately what he heard. We have reason to believe now that Jeff Sessions was investigated for that or there was some investigation of it and Andrew Mccabe authorized that investigation. Thats an interesting thing. And whether he is currently under investigation or not, it is much more doubtful that he didnt know that he was under investigation. So if his lawyer could say today that he had already found out that it was over, it seems quite unlikely that last friday, a few days ago, he didnt know that there had been an investigation. So that part doesnt seem as likely to be true to me. And interestingly there, jill, its two different sources. So the private attorney is releasing that Public Statement tonight and its a Justice Department official who told nbc news that Jeff Sessions just didnt know about that, that Andrew Mccabe had authorized an investigation of Jeff Sessions when Jeff Sessions fired him. But they both work for Jeff Sessions, one in his government capacity and one in a private capacity. So theyre both likely to be saying something that Jeff Sessions wants conveyed. This includes the lawyers statement tonight includes the fact that Jeff Sessions has been interviewed by the special prosecutor. So as this investigation continues, is it possible that Jeff Sessions status in that investigation could change . Well, hes always been a likely witness, not necessarily a target. But he certainly is someone who had dealings with the russians that were undisclosed. And that made him part of an investigation of who worked with russia and what did they do and what did they know and when did they know it . So his status stays important to me as a potential witness, possibly against the president. Jill winebanks thank you for joining us tonight. Up next Mark Zuckerberg speaks finally. Hes sounding very surprised that anyone could use facebook to try to manipulate voters. 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If you told me in 2004 when i was Getting Started in facebook that a big part of my responsibility today would be to help protect the integrity of elections by interference by other governments i wouldnt have believed that would be something i would have to work on 14 years later. That was Mark Zuckerberg finally breaking his silence days after reports that the Trump Campaigns Firm Cambridge Analytica harvested the information of 50 million facebook users. This was a major breach of trust, and im really sorry that this happened. We have a basic responsibility to protect peoples data. And if we cant do that, we dont deserve to have the opportunity to serve people. He said facebook will investigate apps that have access to user data and restrict Developers Access to that investigation. 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And a number of other elections that are going on this year that are really important. What does that mean dialled in. He said theyre taking steps to identify people behaving badly on their platform. So for example he revealed for the first time today that facebook had caught some accounts trying to interfere in the alabama special election last year by pushing false news on facebook. He uses the example of those kind of tools but hes talking about getting ready for all the way a foreign government, bad actor might try to gain facebook and its platform to tip an election. He said something tonight i mean, ive known mark since he was 22 years old. And the one thing i can tell you is that the issues hes talking about today have been on the table since 2011 when they signed the Consent Decree with the federal trade commission. They have essentially pretended as though that Consent Decree did not exist, they have not put in the keep of infrastructure necessary to protect consumer data, theyve not done anything to vet the people who have been grabbing the stuff. And this notion that somehow they should be allowed to have time now to figure out this out i think is laughable. And i look at the election stuff. And lets get real. All of these problems exist because of an advertising Business Model that creates perverse incentives and gives them the incentive essentially to create these bubbles around people where people person has their own set of facts and where theyre easily manipulated by backed actors. Roger, to stay on that, youre saying the Consent Decree required facebook to protect all of this kind of data that Cambridge Analytica obtained . Well, actually, it required them to have clear notification and customer approval for any use of the data. And they clearly did not do that. They buried things deep into their terms of service, which are buried deep in the site. They made no constructive efforts. They didnt have anybody on the team, as far as i can tell, to go out there and actually audit the people who were getting all of this data. And so if you look at this, the company was growing really rapidly. They viewed all of that kind of regulatory stuff as friction. And their strategy was just to ignore all friction and just assume none of it was going to be a problem. The only reason they feel sorry about it now is because they got caught. Kevin, Mark Zuckerberg has said repeatedly today, he keeps using they word certify, that Cambridge Analytica certified that they werent doing these things. What does he mean by certified . Its unclear, but theres been some reporting that what he means is that they sent a letter and said, check this box if you havent been done anything untoward with our data, and they sent it back, and that was the end of it. And i think thats sort of the approach theyve taken is theyve given away now data through millions of apps. Millions of apps have been built on top of facebook. I checked my open facebook to see how many apps i had been given permission to, 98 apps, some of which i havent used in many years. So everyone has been doing this for so long, giving permission for their data to be used by these apps that this is now trying to put Something Back in the bottle that escaped a long time ago. Theres so much data out there. And facebook has no real way of clawing most of it back. And roger, go ahead. Lawrence, the real problem here is remember that when Cambridge Analytica took this content from facebook, facebook should have had people monitoring at the time. It took them a year to find out. They found out because the guardian reported it. Worse than that less than a year later, facebook had embedded people in the Trump Campaign, working side by side with Cambridge Analytica people, who were trying to get trump elected, working together using the exact same data. You cannot convince me for a minute that the people in facebook headquarters did not realize that this is the same Cambridge Analytica that had they had punished less than a year before. I mean, all of this is just completely unbelievable. And kevin, you know, im no visionary in these matters. I never could have foreseen how facebook was used. But Mark Zuckerberg, hes thinking about facebook and its capacities and the potentials and theoretical potentials, hes been thinking about them since he was in college. And hes now going to act very, very surprised that this kind of thing was possible . Hes not wrong that facebook is a very different thing than it was in 2004 when it was a social network for college kids. Facebook is now this Global Platform for information and communication. They havent changed their approach entirely since they were that social network for college kids. And sometimes i think facebook is like the in old cartoons where the guys on the train, its going down the tracks, hes laying the tracks right in front of the train . It feels like that sometimes. New problems are hitting them every day, whether its foreign interference in elections or fake and false news or macedonians trying to interfere in alabama. And theyre just trying as hard as they can to catch up. And i dont know that theyll ever get there. I think it might be an insurmountable problem. Is there an instant angle here that would go along the lines of, yeah, they knew they should try to protect this data, but if they failed to protect this data, whats the worst that could happen . You could lose democracy in western europe and north america. 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