do we know who other than then candidate trump was in that briefing? all we know is it would have been a very small circle. okay. this is not something where they want to spread it widely. they don t want to go to a middle man. they go to the candidate, himself or herself and just a small number of very senior advisers. all right. nbc s julia ainsley with great reporting. great to have you. thank you. thanks. for more on this latest twist on the russia investigation, let s bring in byron mcquaid and nick akerman, special assistant watergate prosecutor. it s always struck me as odd that at no point during the course of this year in which this was a front page top of line story that russia s possible responsibility for dnc hacks, that anyone from the trump campaign if i cans up the phone and says wait a second, what s going on here. how does this information add to your picture of what they were up to? yeah, i think it s a very significant piece of reporting because, you
for example, i think one reform that s going have to be put in place is a law that if you are approached by a foreign national offering information about your political opponent, there should be a duty to report. right now there is no duty to report. and we saw there was no report the big trump family or the trump campaign. and then also what role does social media play going forward if they see attacks happening on their platforms, or if coordination is occurring with campaigns. there is a lot we could learn if we were to run a thorough investigation. i m more optimistic what we could do if we actually were curious and wanted to make a difference. your colleague adam schiff, who is the ranking member on that committee, has shared his concerns that essentially the fix is in, that the republican
now that at any point the president, the now president reached back out to the fbi to talk about any of this. that s true, chris there have been no public records of and the white house has never said it did approach the fbi to report on anything, either before that briefing or afterwards. really, what this does it is kind of gives them a consciousness of guilt. if for example trump or someone else in that briefing had known than june meeting that you just cited with trump jr. and the russian lawyer to get that dirt on hillary clinton, they then would have been in a position where they needed to report that to the fbi. and the same goes forward. that would be trump jr. donald trump jr. s interaction was wikileaks in september. that was just a month after the briefing. also that september was attorney general jeff sessions and a senator meeting with sergey kislyak in his office. those things were not reported. and now that we know that they were given the specific briefing, it defin
because as we said, there is no collusion. there is no collusion whatsoever. but a lot of lawyers thought that was pretty sad. we already know there is something in those e-mails. according to the new york times that. include correspondence among top trump transition advisers, planning flynn s outreach to the russian ambassador. julia ainsley is a reporter for nbc news who broke the story today on trump s warning from the fbi. first, give us the context for this warning. so it s important to remember that when someone becomes a major party candidate, it s pretty much pro forma for them to be given counterintelligence briefings by the fbi and other members of the intelligence community.
role congress can play and the impact we can have, because first, mr. mueller, he s not charged with making political reforms so that this never happens again. for example, i think one reform that s going have to be put in place is a law that if you are approached by a foreign national offering information about your political opponent, there should be a duty to report. right now there is no duty to report. and we saw there was no report the big trump family or the trump campaign. and then also what role does social media play going forward if they see attacks happening on their platforms, or if coordination is occurring with campai campaigns. there is a lot we could learn if we were to run a thorough investigation. i m more optimistic what we could do if we actually were curious and wanted to make a difference. your colleague adam schiff, who is the ranking member on that committee, has shared his concerns that essentially the fix is in, that the republican majority is going to wrap