of its intelligence capabili capabilities, may be able to conclude with that information came from based on the nature of the intelligence. their denial tonight the white house did not mention that, their denial is a nondenial denial. let s get to this reporting and dig boo into it a little bit. the washington post first reported the story, said trump went on to discuss aspects of the threat the u.s. only learned through the espionage capabilities of a key partner. he did not reveal the specific intelligence-gathering, but the islamic state was pursuing elements of a specific plot. most alarmingly, trump revealed the city and territory where the intelligence partner detected the threat. how could this help the russians? this is what intelligence officials tell me, my phone has been lighting up in the last several hours as the story first came out, there are several areas of concern. one, classified information, under any circumstances you share that, that s a potential problem.
nbc s tom costello, thank you very much. earlier tonight on mtp daily chuck todd spoke with republican presidential candidate lindsey graham about the latest report. it could have been a bomb. it could have been by a group outside of isil. it could have been mechanical failure. but this i do know. that the desire of isil to kill people is only limited by their capabili capability. so if it s not isil, it s not like they don t want to do this. they want to do this and more. that s what i do know. nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel is in istanbul with more now on the capability of isis. richard. reporter: milissa, isis has once again claimed responsibility for downing that russian airliner, and today u.s. officials are increasingly suspicious that it was a bomb that brought down the plane and that the bomb may have been smuggled onto the aircraft at the airport either by baggage handlers or someone who had access to the aircraft. if isis did bring down the
content. but, maggie, that cannot be good for the paul campaign right now in iowa. no, it s a problem. people are just starting to tune in. what ron paul has been doing is steadily builting a base of support. he is not surging and fading back like we ve seen the candidates doing. he s expanding on what he did four years ago. this also requires on getting average voters. not just his ardent core of backers. this is the kind of stuff that does scare people. even when he said i disavowed this, it had his name on it. he s trying to explain away what this is. i have a video of a cnn interview where he literally took off his microphone. get your reaction coming back. all right. iran is not a physical threat to us and do not have the capabili capability, about men on the version of nuclear weapons is not true. if iran gets a weapon and they don t use it? that s what they re worried about because, then, iran would
the circle of life and it moves us all sunday, that decision, a gutsy one, a terminal one for the world s most wanted. tense hours in the situation room lead to a moment of triumph. at my direction the united states launched a targeted operation against that compound in abbottabad, pakistan. a small team of americans carried out the operation with extraordinary courage and capabili capability. no americans were harmed. they took care to avoid civilian casualties. after a firefight, they killed osama bin laden and took custody of his body. and the nationwide celebration. usa! usa! monday, the laurels from
capabili capabilities. we have degraded their training capabilities. what we have seen is increased focus on the part of terrorist groups to try to carry out some of the smaller scale attacks. so we are staying very focused on our ability to detect those types of attacks and stop them whether they are by individuals or a larger organizational effo effort. should your statement alarm americans or reassure them that they will be safe? i think what the statement is intended to do is reassure americans that there are fellow americans working in the homeland security, law enforcement and intelligence communities working around the clock to protect their fellow citizens. we will not rest because we know that al qaeda and other organizations are still out there. we will do our best to disrupt these plots and plans before they ever make it to the homeland. we want the american people know we are on the job.