The dni and the rest of the National Security establishment . A question a lot of people are asking this hour. Were going to take you through the much balihooed memo release, what it means for the russia investigation and discuss potential resignations or firings of senior d. O. J. Or fbi leadership. Lets get right to it with our experts. Jeremy bash, former Chief Of Staff at both the cia and pentagon. Now an msnbc National Security analyst. Matt miller, former chief spokesman for the Justice Department in the Obama Administration, now an msnbc justice and security analyst. Chuck rosenberg, a former u. S. Attorney who has worked on the staffs of both Robert Mueller and james comey at the fbi and is now an msnbc contributor. And with us onset, nbcs ken delanian and republican strategist Steve Schmidt. Jeremy bash, let me start with you on this idea that carter
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counterintelligence efforts. and, chuck rosenberg, that s how it was explained to me by a former top official in intelligence agencies in democratic and republican administrations. he said that revealing sources and methods is bad, that revealing and showing the machinations of one of our most effective tools is something far worse. that this really shows our hand. i want to get you to respond to that, but i want to ask you something else. on the dossier, it seems to me that the way trump s allies will use this is to make it about the dossier. but the truth about the dossier is that about a third of it has borne out. about a third of it is still being investigated. and about a third of it is, you know, the more salacious things that i think the fbi or anyone investigating or mueller, whoever is looking at it, would want to corroborate with multiple sources. but not one thing has been disproven. uh-huh, that s right.
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reauthorizations for carter page. james comey, fired. sally yates, fired. da dana boente, asked to accept down. andy mccabe, asked to step down. and rod rosenstein. can you tell me about the names of list that was acted upon. he s fired everybody who is investigating a man on his campaign, who was known to counterintelligence officials, a known russian agent. it s hair-raising to hear you tick off the names and think about where those people are. that s why we must protect him. also, nicolle, the d.o.j. and the fbi have to do something they re not comfortable doing. that s speaking up. they like to keep their heads down and do the work and stay out of politics. now is not a time to do that. i was so glad to see that christopher wray spoke up to talk about how destructive this would be. others need to do the same. we re going to need bipartisan
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