i want to start in the summer of 2016, okay, in your book here it is on the screen, one day in late august we re getting ready three months from an election. national security adviser susan rice called daniel prito demand he cease and desist in the cyber options. she said don t get ahead of him. daniel and his cyber response group were given strict orders. stand down and then you continue with the salty language where he felt where she was coming from was not correct. where does she give the stand-down order? good question. a slight garble it was michael daniel who was the cyber security coordinator who was given that directive. daniel prieto was the deputy.
and that will lead many to speculate that we re dealing with perhaps a very professional operation here that purposefully chose where to hide, exactly where it administered that particular poison. on a day of great diplomatic drama, we re also hearing how the investigation is progressing to some degree, but also struggling to answer some key questions. russia will not respond in and what will great britain do there, what will the uk do? nick paton walsh, thank you very much. more on our breaking news, rex tillerson has been fired as secretary of state. we re getting new information about the timeline of this breakup. global affairs reporter elise labott now with new insight. what have you learned? well, john, i mean it a real garble how secretary of state tillerson knew he was being terminated. he was in africa last week. we do understand that he got a call from the president s chief of staff, john kelly.
this is. i wonder how sure you are of the offer that s been made here. we learned about it through a third party. what has to be done between now and the meeting to insure that all of the grounds are met, or to the liking of the u.s. and north korea? well, that s exactly the point. and that s why i think the press secretary was hedging there whether or not this meeting will take place. because president trump said the goal of these negotiations are permanent denuclearization in north korea. i have never heard of a north korean leader ever agreeing that that should be the goal of negotiations. so maybe there s a garble here, maybe they re hinting at that for the future, but that creates a big disconnect between what president trump wants and what the north koreans are desiring from this meeting. and there s one other piece here, when the press secretary sanders said, we haven t given up any concessions. that s not true. agreeing to meet with kim
attempted reconstruction for the consumption on the right. and the alternative narrative is the dnc funded this thing and sent some garble to russia and got some garbled stuff. and that went to the courts and that went to the fbi and that proves the russia investigation. that s what you see being eaten up on fox and on twitter. and they re hoping maybe this one narrow aspect of the russia application which is the fisa application for carter page will look so bad that it will unpack. it s unlikely that he is so important or central to the investigation that that will happen. but they want to have something, anything to pull a leg out from under them. robert, i promise you d a rebuttal earlier in the newscast now. you can call it an alternative narrative. but the question at the end of the day is whether it has any merit. i think, my own view, separate and parrot from the environment we re in which makes it difficult to see its independent merits, i think in the ordinary course, this
socialist garble. it s nonsense and that is what these people believe. if you believe in the state, you believe in socialism then it killing somebody because they have a political difference is perfectly fine. greg: yes, exactly. asked stalin. greg: they don t think you re wrong, they think you re evil. terry, the one thing the democratic party and the campus have, and is a trading life experience in exchange for a person s identity so when identity is an achievement. if you re in the military had to start a small business, you re actually valued less that a 16 -year-old with a nose ring. that was a very long, well done, you cover the whole darn thing tonight. we almost don t need to talk but will anyway. greg: you can afford a jacket. [inaudible conversations] [laughter]