much. he is nbc news intelligence and national security report. to a warning from the secretary of state, saying that russia will interest fear with our elections again and there is not much we could do about it. if it is their intension to interfere, they will find ways to do that. and we can take steps we can take, but this is something that once they decide they re going to do it, it is very difficult to preempt it. that comes amid reports that the fbi plans to alert u.s. companies and the public about efforts by russia or other nations to use disinformation and social media manipulation to interfere in upcoming elections. for more, i m joined by malcolm nance with more than 30 years experience in u.s. intelligence. also the author of the plot to hack america how they tried to steal the 2016 election. malcolm, on what date was your book published? september 23rd, 2016. how interesting. before the election.
be clear, i stand fully committed to our mission. i stand by our shared determination to do our work independently and by the book. i stand with you. and then in kind of a very interesting last line here, he says talk is cheap. the work you do is what will endure. and this message, i can tell you, ana, from talking to people at the fbi, was taken well. was well received. they were happy to hear from him. certainly, the statement that he issued, that the fbi issued against the white house, saying that they should not release this memo, all was sort of viewed as kind of a rally. this is what the fbi has needed. and they may finally have it now. all right, thank you. this memo also claims that in addition to using the trump dossier to get the surveillance warrant on carter page, officials also cited a yahoo news article. here s what the memo says. the carter page fisa application also cited extensively a september 23rd, 2016, yahoo news
the republican memo features a cast of characters that include two journalists. the memo cites an article by michael isikoff. first here s the reference in the memo. the carter page fisa application also cited extensively a september 23rd, 2016, yahoo news article by michael isikoff which focuses on page s july 2016 trip to moscow. this article does not corroborate the steele dossier because it is derived from information leaked by steele himself to yahoo news. david corn s work is also cited in the memo. he and isikoff are the authors of russian roulette that comes out on march 20th. michael isikoff joins me tonight. so, michael, first of all, did you have any idea that your name was going to appear in this memo? absolutely not. i was as stunned as anybody.
significant portions without getting into the contents. you just talked about steele and getting paid. let me read one part of the memo. the carter page fisa application also cited extensively a september 23rd, 2016 yahoo! news article. steele has admitted he met with yahoo! news and several other outlets he improperly concealed and lied to from the fbi about those contacts. steele had become a less than reliable source for the fbi. so in other words, congressman, as a prosecutor, what you are saying it was the duty and incumbent and mandate upon the officials to reveal that to the court. and reveal the payments, reveal that he was talking to the news media. isn t it appropriate for the federal government to use, you know, news report that s not done under oath for something as serious as a fisa application? well, practice law in any one of the 50 states you have to take a professional responsibility exam and everybody knows you can t
been damaged but he has said yes i met kislyak, i did have encounters with the russians, i did go there. a lot of this is verified. i think the slander suit is gone. shannon: he is denying some of the things alleged against him. he said they should have known it was a dirty dossier, here is part of his complaint on september 23rd, 2016, in perh s perhaps: that s a lot of adjectives the yahoo news department of defendant subsidiary yahoo chose to publish a highly misleading article. what are his best claim? his claim now, he does have to get rid of the defamation claim. because one of his points was he wasn t under investigation. now the we clearly know he was. there were warrants that got him wire tapped against him. shannon: what about his specific claims there were meetings and things they allege that he didn t attend and he had