person in the intelligence report, it will just say, for example, in this case, probably something like transition official number one or something along those lines. 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
that the russians thought they maybe had something on flynn. by going to the white house, trump white house which is what they wanted to do but which comey initially did not want them to do, the fbi director, they were hoping to basically defuse the ability of the russians to use this leverage. adam, knowing there is a transcript out there, probably several, in someone s hands tonight, knowing that we have already seen leakers weaponized, the likes of which i don t think you and i have ever seen, how how do you go about reporting the what did donald trump know and when did he know it question? i don t know, i mean, that s a very good question. i don t know the answer to that.
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 knows the man who resigned from office 24 days into his new job and leaves a vacancy now in the trump white house west wing. that s when our coverage continues. we re back as we cover this still breaking news. the resignation just tonight of
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fisa warrants. they started wondering if devin nunes had disclosed classified information just by saying that something he had seen had been obstained through a fisa warrant. he s under investigate for potentioially disclose iing classified information. now a whole lot of information about its contents. that in itself is stunning. even before you get to the part about a campaign adviser to the sitting u.s. president being under fisa court surveillance as a suspected agent of a foreign 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