richard nixon was the first candidate who roger ailes helped elect to the presidency and then he helped elect a bunch of the republicans. the circle has come all the way around. gabe sherman, thank you very much for joining us tonight. thank you. amazing reporting again. gabe sherman gets tonight s last word. the 11th hour with brian williams starts now. the breaking news tonight, this may indeed have been the most consequential day of the trump presidency thus far as now we know the details of the whistle-blower complaint alleging the president abused his power and further alleging the white house tried to hide it. in fact, trump s own man in charge of national intelligence today said this whistle-blower did the right thing. the president then caught on tape comparing this to a spy case, reminding his audience what we used to do to spice. the new focus tonight on attorney general bill barr and trump s own attorney rudy giuliani. and the new momentum tonight
the way we became engaged with this case, a woman who led part of the fbi investigation, took the initiative to set up the meeting. the fbi explained we ve heard you and your team are the best there are on cuban intelligence, and we are part of an fbi spy case that involved cuba, which had been dragging on for three years. we re frustrated. can you help us? i was so concerned about the damage that this mole could have already inflicted and would continue to inflict that i immediately called scott carmichael. scott carmichael was head of our investigations side. i loved being a spy hunter. i love the chase. nothing would make me happier than for somebody to say, well, scott, we know espionage is occurring. we ve got these few tidbits of information. can you help us out? you bet.
correspondent ken dilanian. what we had originally planned to talk about with both of you is this russian spy mystery. ken you were in the middle of it. let me go to frank. this is another issue, the relationship with vladimir putin front and center now as we talk about a highly placed former russian official brought back by the cia out of fear that there had been media reports in 2016 that the intelligence about putin s ownership of the plot against the american election came from putin himself. and that was based on apparently a very good source who may well have been this man. we don t know. that of course all called today by the spokesman of the kremlin as pulp fiction. frank, where do we stand with vladimir putin in the midst of this spy case, this spy saga. well, look, we can choose to
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which would be a major, major problem. look and i don t know if it s in there maria: [inaudible] i can t for the life of me understand well, why would you not be public about this? we ve had this special counsel now, it goes on and on and on, it never ends. they re getting people on process fouls, they put forth information that makes it look like it s nice storytelling maria: yeah. because when you read these indictments, it reads like a secret spy novel of all these characters hanging out with russia. but the truth is they re getting them for process fouls, and they re not there s no evidence of collusion with russians except for the obvious people that were colluding with russians which was the clinton campaign and the democrats. maria: let me move on to another investigation that your committee has been all over, and that is on what china s been doing, this most recent case of a spy case linked to the china raising red flags for, now, poland, one of the the u.s.