germ-o-phobe, by the way. nbc s ken dilanian joins us with the latest on what we know. run through this sequence of events, right? you got it right, chris. started with a briefing for the members of the intelligence committee and for the president of the united states and the next day, this past friday, where the president apparently, we re told, he was never handed any kind of attachment about his, perhaps, alleged misbehavior by some group pushing this stuff around. nor was he told about it. yeah, that s what we understand. he was not orally briefed about it but it was included in material that supported the briefing and this is the compartmented version given to whom? it was given to his transition office. okay. our understanding. we believe it was also shown to gang of eight, senior leaders in congress, to your point about who may have leaked this beyond the intelligence community. why didn t they tell whoever they were leaking it to, cnn, whoever else, why didn
trump at trump tower in new york but did not give him nor brief him at that time on the two-page memorandum. the agencies had already marked as disinformation. the agencies did, however, submit the attachment, the two-page attachment on the disinformation to trump s office in washington which was fitted to receive classified information. then yesterday, cnn reported that the president-elect had been presented with the embarrassing information describing it as intelligence. well, following the cnn report, the website, buzzfeed, published a 35-page memorandum setting forth all the salacious charges, themselves, that the intelligence officers had pointed to in their briefing materials as disinformation. but again, had not given to trump on that friday briefing either as a document to read on site or in an oral presentation. we should note nbc universal is an investor in buzzfeed. nbc s kristen welker was at trump s press conference today. she joins me now. a strong, i thought confident de