interfered in the u.s. elections in 2016, and the fbi is investigating that. the fbi is also investigating whether any americans were wittingly or unwittingly involved in the russia operation. this is susan rice defending herself. she was on with her own andrea mitchell yesterday trying to explain how government works, for those that don t know. the notion that which some people are trying to suggest that by asking for the identity of an american person that is the same as leaking it is completely false. there s no equivalence between so-called unmasking and leaking. i leaked nothing to nobody and never have and never would. yet malcolm, you have a number of republican members of congress, including in the senate, people in government for quite some time claiming still, despite being in government and knowing commit add crime, three of them, rand paul, tom cotton, peter king, let s roll them. i believe susan rice abused
lot of big guy is publicly shopping the idea of immunity. real lawyers when they have a client with a real problem and has really salable information to trade for immunity, you don t have a press conference. you have a quiet meeting with the prosecutor and say i can give you this person. nobody hears about it. instead a press release is issued saying i got a story, give mow immunity. what it says to me is i don t think they have valuable information to sell or it would have been a quiet approach. david, you heard gem flynn in jeff s piece. nchts i did indeed. this might be the most played in the last 24 hours. i m going to play it again. when you are given immunity, that means that you ve probably commit add crime. it s a stunning thing to say now that he s the one asking for immunity. i think it s safe to say that
threat in europe, and also with those very large travel flows to syria and iraq. and back. it just costs millions and millions and millions of dollars to follow people 24/7 around the clock. you can t just put people in prison unless you can actually prove in a court that they ve commit add crime. sure, and if you can figure exactly who they are. it seems to be in this case. thank you both. i want to talk more about this berlin attack and the suspect. here with me is peter vittig, german ambassador to the united states. ambassador, thank you very much for being with us and our sympathies are with your country at this time. how is your country healing as they move forward from this attack? brianna, let me first of all say how overwhelmed and moved we were to see such an outpour of solidarity and support by our american friends, by citizens, by officials.
and stood way he took over both decision making and the communication in this case in july, which was carried over in october. i don t think he s trying to get anybody elected or not elected. he s concerned about one thing, he, james comey put it on himself to tell congress and american people that no further investigative steps were being taken. and in his view things changed in october and he s been scrambling to figure out how to deal wit. is it good judgment? is it the finest hour of the fbi? no, it s not. i don t think it s potential part of them manipulating. that essentially is what would have to be established to prove the hatch act violation. intent has been a huge part of the e-mail story whether or not hillary clinton intended to somehow evade foia laws or putting them on private e-mail server at issue whether or not she commit add crime having the server rather than poor judgment. we ll leave that aside.
duggar does not mention the website in this statement. david sweat, the former fugitive at the center of a 22-day man hunt was arraigned in court today. pleading not guilty to accounts of escape. along with richard matt from new york s clinton correctional facility. david sweat and richard matt commit add crime in clinton county. they commit add crime of escape in the first degree. it s my job to prosecute the people that commit crimes within this county. that is the bottom line. he committed a crime in this county and i am prosecuting him for that crime. joining us now from the courthouse is adam reece. good day to you. what else are we learning about the new charges being made against sweat? reporter: god afternoon, richard. three counts, two counts of escape in the first degree, one