last night after the meeting, florida senator rubio i am now very confident will on which i serve will conduct thorough bipartisan investigation of putin interference and influence. while senators are listening to what intelligence agencies are trying to say, donald trump is trying to plug the leaks with a criminal investigation. i ve actually called the justice department to look into the leaks, so we are looking into that very seriously. it s a criminal act. joining me now or author of the plot to hack america and former cia jack rise. let s talk about this. you were great on bill mahr last night. you re national treasures, both of you. but rather to try and go after the leakers, what do you see happening here? this is a classic case of misdirection. donald trump is feeling the pressure and based on what we saw yesterday with the senators coming out of their debrief completely closed lip. they seem to understand they may have gotten information that indicates tt the r
they d been planning for this big rally due to happen the morning after boris got killed. ultimately it turned into a funeral march and ultimately they wouldn t even let alexei go to boris proper funeral. they locked him up and held him on charges of illegal leafletting on the day boris had his funeral and was buried. well, now as we have talked about before on this show, alexei navalny, the survivor of that friendship, he is running for president of russia against vladimir putin. they have election this is time next year and putin and his government, they do keep finding ways to put alexei in jail. the most recent rabbit they pulled out of a hat was they had him convicted on embezzlement charges against a state-run russian company, something having to do with timber futures? nobody believes it was a real case but it was a real conviction and technically that conviction disqualifies alexei navalny from rubbing against putin. keeps him off the ballot. that embezzlement convic
in line among the democrats on the house select committee on intelligence. in other words, he is among the members of congress who share in the secrets of our country, and one of those looking into russia s involvement in the presidential election. well, first of all, congressman, your reaction to these dual stories in this one area, and how do you think this will affect the conversation tomorrow, the scope, or the extent of your work? well, good evening, brian, yes. you know, the breaking story on the fact that the obama administration apparently worked very hard to preserve evidence and the work that had been done by them and the intelligence community at the time is actually a very good thing for the american people. i will tell you, i and many of my former my current colleagues were very concerned that with the transition of the administration, particularly if there was the possibility that this would be a difficult political issue for the new administration, or if th