committee s ranking member, adam schiff, said the investigation is back on track. another democrat on that house committee, mike quigley, recently traveled to cypress. remember paul manafort reportedly had bank accounts over there. cnn reported yesterday the fbi used that infamous dossier as part of the justification to monitor former trump aide carter page. according to cnn, officials familiar with the process say even if the application to monitor page included information from the dossier, it would only be after the fbi itself had corroborated the information through its own investigation. the officials would not say what or how much was corroborated. for more on this, i m joined by nbc news national security reporter ken dill anian, and grek miller, who wrote the story about the divide between the president and his aides had russia. greg, thank you for joining us. i read that piece this morning. i have to say, there is something interesting. i think the pattern that trump was on, h
investigation into russian interference is important. let s watch him. i think the broader context is this. we re in a new war of ideas globally. it s not communism versus capitalism anymore, but it is authoritarianism and oughtocracy against democracy and representative government. if you looked objectively at what s happening around the world right now, you d have to say the autocrats are on the march. in a real respect, i think the health and fate of liberal democracy is at risk, and i view what the russians did in our election as very much a part of that struggle. let me go this who question, ken, that is this. what do you make of this think piece coming out of a think tank over in moscow, in fact run by putin. is this something to do with what they did to help trump win, or is this something that was parallel to that? i ve been speaking to my sources and the consensus is this was considered the