this was all presented to president-elect trump in trump tower on january 6th, 2017. the director of the cia, john brennan, was there. james comey, director of the fbi was there. director of the nsa was there. it was a full intelligence community briefing of the newly elected president and the president has known beyond a reasonable doubt, having been shown absolute proof of this since january 6th, 2017, that the russians at the specific direction of vladimir putin did indeed attack and attempt to corrupt the american presidential election. joining us is frank, a former fbi assistant director for counter intelligence and a national security expert for msnbc and nbc news. matt miller and gene robinson are still it was. i want to get your expert view of what we have here, what this new york times breaking report
the juggling act just became much more difficult at approximately 9:45 p.m. tonight when this article came out because donald trump now and the white house press secretary in the future are going to have to contend with this report that the president was shown e-mails and texts that proved that vladimir putin personally ordered this and ordered it to sway the election. donald trump saying i don t know, could be other people is manifestly a publically proven lie now. yeah. and it will come out and lie about that lie and say that of course many times you have seen him do this in the past. he did it over the past several days. he has come out and publically said that the russians interfered in the election. they always leave off he then casts doubt on them with other statements about maybe it was someone else.
vladimir putin on monday. this explains much of the language and the outrage that we have heard from the former cia director john brennan who personally, personally briefed this president-elect on exactly what vladimir putin did in this election. so many of us have been talking for months now on this network about the tip of the iceberg and what s beneath the surface. and we have made references to the top secret intercepts and human sources that must be available to bob mueller. and now unfortunately, due to this leak, this is playing out as we suspected. many of us who have had to provide sensitive briefings to president-elects or candidates for president know that this is routinely given to those people to equip them to help protect the nation. so if you are sitting there as john brennan, you are sitting there as fired fbi director jim comey and you know the truth and
administration and everyone who might be talking to the investigators about this. yeah. i mean, look, if just lying per se were an impeachable crime, donald trump would have been gone after the first week, right? but this is in furtherance of what one could argue is an ongoing criminal conspiracy, right? because it is to obscure facts that he knows, that putin actually did meddle with the election and indeed is continuing to do so and you could argue, i think, that that is an ongoing criminal conspiracy in which the president on that level, at least, is participating. now, i don t know if you could prove that in a federal court, but, of course, in the house of representatives in terms of drawing up articles of impeachment, that s a different story.
donald trump standing beside vladimir putin on monday. this explains much of the language and the outrage that we have heard from the former cia director john brennan who personally, personally briefed this president-elect on exactly what vladimir putin did in this election. so many of us have been talking for months now on this network about the tip of the iceberg and what s beneath the surface. and we have made references to the top secret intercepts and human sources that must be available to bob mueller. and now unfortunately, due to this leak, this is playing out as we suspected. many of us who have had to provide sensitive briefings to president-elects or candidates for president know that this is routinely given to those people to equip them to help protect the nation. so if you are sitting there as john brennan, you are sitting there as fired fbi director jim