power. while that foreign power was affecting the u.s. election to try to elect our current president. joining us now is adam entes, a national security reporter for the washington post. he was on the team of reporters who broke this story. thank you for joining us on short notice tonight. i really appreciate you being here. no problem. happy to be here. first of all, let me ask you if you think it is appropriate for me to be putting this emphasis on the nature of this information that s the basis of your report tonight. it seems to me as a layman, observer that we very rarely get a leak, let alone a detailed leak of the contents of a fisa warrant. is that fair to say? you know, i haven t really looked back to try to get a sense of what other details about fisa warrants have been leaked. i think in this case, obviously,
coverage tonight. thanks, brian. i m sure we ll talk to you more as this thing develops. now to a journalist who probably gets most of the credit for the story we have been covering all evening tonight. adam entes of the washington post is with us by telephone. adam, i ve seen no fewer than three interviews with you earlier this evening as you were describing this story, you posted this evening for the washington post. one aspect i d like to walk back for our view e that is how was the now former national security adviser, general flynn, said to be vulnerable to blackmail? well, basically what happened here is he had a conversation with ambassador kislyak of the russian federation and at the end of the conversation being picked up obviously by the fbi that had a wiretap on kislyak and picking up flynn incidentally.
we ve got to tell the white house about this. you know, they wanted to talk to donald trump, themselves, about it before the end of the obama administration. our friend indira lakshmanan, thank you for being part of our coverage tonight. thanks, brian. i m sure we ll talk to you more as this thing develops. now to a journalist who probably gets most of the credit for the story we have been covering all evening tonight. adam entes of the washington post is with us by telephone. adam, i ve seen no fewer than three interviews with you earlier this evening as you were describing this story, you posted this evening for the woe washington post up. one aspect i d like to walk back for our view e that is how was the now former national security adviser, general flynn, said to be vulnerable to blackmail? well, basically what happened here is he had a conversation
and so, you know, that is done in order to protect the privacy of flynn in this case, but for senior intelligence officials, for the fbi agents, they can see who it is in many cases. they can identify who it is and often from the context of the conversation, you can tell who it is, for example, kislyak may describe flynn as the incoming national security adviser. and so it s pretty clear who he s talking to. adam entous who played such a huge role in breaking what became this big story we re covering tonight. really, as part of what is becoming a great era for, of all things, the newspaper reporting business at both the washington post and their rivals, the new york times. adam, my thanks to you. we realize it s very late at night on a big day for you. with another big day awaiting tomorrow. we ll take another break in our coverage tonight. when we come back, someone who
think it s eventually going to track its way back particularly when you had former cia director john brennan, former dni, you know, you had john brennan, you have sally yates, you had all of them coming together and saying we ve got to tell the white house about this. you know, they wanted to talk to donald trump, themselves, about it before the end of the obama administration. our friend indira lakshmanan, thank you for being part of our coverage tonight. thanks, brian. i m sure we ll talk to you more as this thing develops. now to a journalist who probably gets most of the credit for the story we have been covering all evening tonight. adam entes of the washington post is with us by telephone. adam, i ve seen no fewer than three interviews with you earlier this evening as you were describing this story, you posted this evening for the washington post. one aspect i d like to walk back for our view e that is how was the now former national security adviser, general flynn, sai