this. after the election when the intelligence community started realizing the extent of the russian harking and leaking operation and the suspicions that trump associates were colluding with russians, they started scrubbing all of the intelligence and that is really what this the new york times story describes. but i m not sure our viewers are going to understand. you ve got the nsa has a vast eavesdropping operation, right? they are scooping up communications and monitoring particularly foreign diplomats and russian officials. a lot of that stuff never gets translated. and even stuff that gets translated never gets distributed outside of ft. mead. what happened is the investigators started looking for specific people and examining conversations and e-mails and they found things and they started writing up those intelligence reports and distributing them widely across the government as the new york times described. in a way to preserve them and to make sure that many different off
oligarch. but in our reporting has always been that these russians were not necessarily russian intelligence officials as the new york times originally asserted and scaled back kind of in this story. but merely russians, some with ties to the kremlin and some rur russians official. in the russian state these days a lot of people have ties to the intelligence apparatus. some official, some unofficial. but those questions are the crucial ones and it s not clear that they ever going to get to the bottom of this. former fbi officials have worked russian counterintelligence cases say they can t imagine that a russian intelligence agent would be silly enough to sit down with an american and say, hey, we are going to help you steer the election. that s not how it works. this may be a difficult case to unravel. ken dilanian, thank you. let s bring in congressman
recusal. compare this to loretta lynch having a 30-minute talk with bill clinton, and everybody claims it was about golf or whatever it was about. she had to recuse herself. and that really hurt the campaign. this is so much more significant than that. we all took it very seriously. took is very seriously. a strong case that a lot of people have made he should have recused himself before this story came out but he couldn t oversee an investigation of an administration that he worked to get elected. now with this story, i don t know how he stays on. maybe he remains as a.g. but i don t know how he stays on. remember, loretta lynch was able to recuse herself to the fbi who could handle this and nobody at the justice department at all at the moment. beds you would question whether a direct subordinate of sessions that does feel like you re heading for special prosecutor territory. i think a slightly broader context to think about this. yesterday on this show, all anybody was t
is the washington post story. the new york times reports the obama white house spent final days in office scramble to go spread information about russia s influence campaign in the 2016 election. the paper says officials were worried that intelligence could be covered up or destroyed by the incoming trump administration. mr. trump had accused the obama white house of hyping the russia story to discredit his administration. setting four current and four officials the report says officials began asking specific questions at intelligence briefings to archive answers in detail making them more readily available. intelligence agencies also processed as much raw intelligence as they could into analyses for low classification level reports available across the government and even european allies to ensure a wide readership and spread other sensitive materials beyond the executive branch into congress. the paper also says they were trying make it harder to find the most sensitive intellige
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