Counsel. The man who made that call will visit the capitol. Rod rosenstein will brief senators behind closed doors. And next hour at the white house, President Trump will take questions for the First Time Since mueller ares s a point. But this morning on twitter, shear where we get to the word of date. He blasted the investigation as a wuitch hunt and deflected throwing out words like clinton and obama. And if all of that news wasnt enough, there is this. New report that fired National Security adviser Michael Flynn told trumps transition he was under investigation on january 4th. A week before the inauguration. It is a very different picture from the one painted by trumps ner circle. Michael flynn has filed with the department of justice as a Foreign Agent to making more than 500,000 as a lobbyist essentially for turkey. Hearing that story today was the first i heard of it. And i fully support the decision that President Trump made to ask for general can flyflynns resi. Are you saying
you know, as a tight team. he ran a very tight ship. it was not loosely run. he held people accountable. he put in a lot of the metrics systems that are there, he reform the the entire intelligence function. if you remember after 9/11, they wanted to take counterterrorism and intel basically away from the fbi and it s because of mueller are s success that that actually stayed. and he started just a couple days before 9/11.are s success actually stayed. and he started just a couple days before 9/11. tara, the one criticism that some have are is that ultimately he can can still be fired by the president. well, i think that is perhaps a legitimate criticism as can sort of many officials in government. but this is a good choice for three main reasons. what this individual needs is bipartisansh bipartisanship. he has people on both sides of the aisle praising him without even orchestrating talking points. you know you made a good decision when both parties are supporting it.
have integrity, there is nothing else in a matters. and if you don t have integrity, there is nothing else that matters. that was newly named special counsel for the russian probe robert mueller speaking fwhback 2013. lawmakers are in rare agreement. all of us have known direct are todirector mueller and are happy he is there. i have a lot of respect for counsel mueller. i think it was a good choice when i first heard it. everything we know about his portfolio thus far, i mean i think there is confidence that he may be able to get to where the facts lead him. with me now, clinton watts and tara maler. clint, you worked under mueller.
over here but isis finds a way to circumvent that to pop up elsewhere. and the cyber authorities are playing catch-up. isis has this jihadi help desk, this 24-hour hot line you can call in to get technical guidance on how to spread a virus. they say, for example, blackberry messenger is moderately secure. don t use the app used by facebook which is less secure. but a game of catch and they have a long way to go. for more on isis and the intelligence agencies that are tracking those involved with the paris attacks, i m joined by david lowe a former counterterrorism officer and tara maler, a fellow in the international security program at new america and former cia military analyst. david, let me start with you. how credible are these new isis threats, these videos that have come out trying to intimidate the people of rome and new york?
monitored that they have to use these sorts of encryptions to avoid law enforcement. these are the two ways that t b they ve been effect live and you see the coordination between french nationals, some who traveled to syria, some who had not traveled but were working with people who had. you re seeing a lot of sort of changes in some of their tactics and getting better at evading law enforcement. we used to be worried about lone wolf attacker s evade law enforcement. and you know, some of them have had points of contact with law enforcement over the years, but nothing in the lead-up over the past few days to the attack with specific pieces of signals or human intelligence tipping off law enforcement that something was in the works. tara maler and david lowe, thank you both for your time. in the past days that i ve been reporting here from pair i you can feel the tension.