with that let s bring in our leadoff panel on a friday night. while there s plenty of time to talk about the politics, first let s talk about this investigation and this lightning fast arrest. jim kavanaugh is back with us a retired special agent in charge for the atf, the explosive experts at the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms. malcolm nance a special ops homeland security, 35 years on the job working in counter terrorism and intelligence. and ariana berg a former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york. jim, anytime you ve been on i ve listened carefully. you ve taught me over the years that every criminal eventually makes a mistake. we are thankful this criminal made apparently more than one. if there s a strange blessing to any of this, he left us with so much to go on. they had over a dozen pieces of hardware spread out in a lab to go over with a fine tooth comb, correct? that s right. he was better at leaving
to talk about the politics of right now, first let s talk about this investigation and this lightning fast arrest. jim cavanaugh is back with us from the atf, the explosive expert. nall come than is with us from homeland security, 35 years on the job working in counterintelligence and a former assistant for the southern district of new york. well, jim, any time you have been on i listen carefully and you taught me over the years that every criminal eventually makes a mistake. we are thankful that this criminal made apparently more than one. and if there s a strange blessing to any of this, he left us with so much to go on. they had over a dozen pieces of hardware spread out in the lab to go over with a fine tooth comb, correct? that s right, brian. i mean, he was better at leaving evidence than he was at making bombs and, you know, looking at
substance. here with me rachel with politico, jeff zeleny, and the daily beast . let s go back to the one yesterday. inside the cabinet room, when the president was asked this question, first let s just play it and we watch these events all the time. the president is asked the question is russia still targeting the united states? is russia still targeting the u.s., mr. president? thank you very much. no. let s go. we re finished here. now, the white house says he was saying no more questions. he said no. then after that he went on to answer another question. if he was done talking he could have stopped. the white house said he was saying no to more questions about three hours later after an alert went out on every major newspaper. we were broadcasting it. every other network was broadcasting it. the white house came up with the answer no he was not doing it
is all of this just sabre rattling? stay tuned. first let s get to breaki news now. i want to bring in matthew rosenberg who broke the cambridge analytica story. the gang is all assembled. welcome. good evening to all. matthew, i m going to start with you because your new reporting, you have learned that the justice departmentme and the fb investigating cambridge analytica. what are they looking for? this is very early days and it is opaque as these investigations are. what we know is you ve got a senior prosecutor who deals in financial fraud who is being questioning former employees and others. they reached out to the banks cambridge analytica did business with. there s also been an fbi agent involved who deals with cyber crimes. people who have spoken with the prosecutors as witnesses and others have said that all they were told was that there was an
watchdog that s supposed to be doing the monitoring under the 2015 deal. so the watchdog says there is no evidence that iran was trying to develop nuclear weapons after 2009. okay? that s going to be a big distinguishing point. so we re waiting for the prime minister. is the prime minister in position? good. israel s prime minister benjamin netanyahu joins us now. thank you very much for taking the opportunity, sir. we appreciate it. thank you. it s very good to talk to you. so, first let s talk about how this came about and then we ll talk about why you think it matters. this is described as unusually theatrical display for you and you gave this speech in english. why give this speech in english and do it in such a big way? well, because i wanted the world to hear it, all of it. there are only a few million