breaking news of the washington post is reporting tonight that a secret report, in a secret report, the cia concluded that russia intervened in the 2016 election to help donald trump win the election rather than just undermine confidence. the trump transition team responded to the cia report with siply this. these are the same people who said saddam hussein had weapons of mass destruction. mike pompeo was named as nominee for cia director last month. joining us by phone is kim delany and nbc news national security reporter. ken, how is the intelligence community viewing this development? caller: lawrence, thanks for having me, nbc news has not independently confirmed the post story, although it s consistent with the plain facts of the case, the hack that the u.s.
warning up. baltimore county, flash flood warning. we have seen a lot of rain in isolated locations. i think we very likely will see flash flood warnings posted coming our way for the late afternoon, evening hours and early part of the night. a lot of the warnings are going to be over southern maryland. it s where you are seeing the heaviest of the rain right now. very heavy rain coming into the counties of charles county now. for st. marys, once again looking at the flash flood warning extended past 1:00. to the south, look at beaver dam and richmond. further south, more rain. it s the reason this is going to last for awhile. pockets of moderate and heavy rain. the entire area under a flash flood watch here through the overnight. a lot of rain is going to wind down and move east by 8:00 and 9:00. overnight, more fog forms. tomorrow, more rain but we ll talk about the probability of rain and how much more we could get out of it for the weekend. thanks. see you in a bit. p