Week after the Intelligence Community put out its report about the russian attack on the election. Less than a week after that report came out, there was a twoday long meeting that was held in the see she will islands by madagascar. It was a meeting in the shashs for a representative for Vladimir Putin and an envoy from the Trump Administration. According to the post, this reporting first week of april, erik prince maintained at the time of that meeting that was authorized to act as an unofficial surrogate for the president elect. He got that meeting and he spent two days in january in an island paradise meeting with a representative for Vladimir Putin. What did they meet about . What did they talk about . What took two days to get through . Why did they have to meet in this far away place . Who knows. Matters of mutual concern to discuss. Heres detail that carried forward to today. The person who set up that mysterious meeting in the islands in january, the person who set up what has basically been reported out as a back channel meeting between the trump folks and the putin folks, the guy who host ed the meeting was this man, mbz. They call him mbz muhammad bin za yesterday al in aian. Hes the crown prince of abdab by which is the capital of uae. Hes next in the throne in the uae. The Washington Post reports and pictures confirm that mbz met multiple times with Vladimir Putin. He flew to the United States in december without notifying the obama administration. Thats weird because National Leaders would usually notify the u. S. Government when they were coming in to this country for any reason. But in derks he flew into new york without telling the obama administration, without telling the u. S. Government that he was coming. They later figured out he was here because his name turned up on a manifest. What he was coming to new york for was to take a meeting with mike flynn, steve bannon and Jared Kushner. He met with them in december and then the following month in january, he set up and hosted these two days of meetings between erik prince and a russian emissariry who was there on behalf of Vladimir Putin. That was the host of the organizer of that meeting, the crown prince of abdab by, better known as m b zblnchts guess where he turned up today. Great honor to have chic muhammad with us today. A man that ive known, very special, very special person, highly respected, and loves his country, i can tell you that. Loves his country. And i think loves the United States which is very important. Thank you very much for coming. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Thank you. Very good. Its very good. How things are moving rapidly. The crown prince of ababout you dab by has a specific role in the trump russia story to the extent we know about any back choonl meetings after the election between the trump side and the putin side, it was organized by and hosted by the crown prince of ababout you dab by, and there is he is, randomly in the oval office today. Okay, hi. While the president answers questions about firing the fbi director who was leading the investigation into his connections to russia. The day after he fired the fbi director who was leading the investigation into trump and russia, the day after that firing, the administration welcomed to washington the Russian Foreign minister so he could throw the firing of the fbi director in the faces of american reporters with a sneer. Thank you, thank you very much. I want to i want to welcome foreign minister lavrov to the state department and express my appreciation for him making the trip to washington so that we could continue our dialogue and our change of views that began in moscow with the dialogue he hosted on a broad range of topics. Thank you. Does the comey following cast a shadow over your talks . You are kidding. You are kidding. [ inaudible question ] that same day, the Russian Foreign minister turned up in the oval office as well. U. S. Reporters and photographers were not allowed access to that meeting. We got photos because the Russia Foreign minister brought with h him a photographer. Thats how we found out they let a photographer in there just not an american one. The Russian Ambassador was in on that meeting too. The white house hasnt said anything about that. This is the same Russian Ambassador that mike flynn concealed his meetings with and who Jeff Sessions concealed his meetings with and Jared Kushner concealed his meetings with. Im not sure we would have known president was meeting with him too last week, but the russian state run news Agency Photographer let loose in the oval office while american reporters and photographers were banned. That guy ended up confirming the news. Look, the ambassador is there too. The white house later explained the presence of that russian photographer in the oval office by saying this, quote, they tricked us. We didnt know they were bringing a photographer. Former nationalist council official colin call said, quote, deadly decision was it a good idea to let a russian photographer and all their equipment into the oval office . Former Deputy Director of the cia responded with this, no, no, it was not a good idea. But they did it anyway. For some reason. And that was one day after trump fired the fbi director who was leading the investigation into the trump russia question. And that is unsubtle enough. But then we learned the very unusual origin of why that meeting happened. We learned who asked for the for the let those officials into the oval office. We learned who asked for that personally. When i spoke with putin, he asked me whether or not i would see lavrov. I said i will see him. Just put this together for a second. This is not like about the campaign and, like, carter page and moscow in july and the Republican Convention and what was going on. No. Its now mid may, right . On april 30th [ laughs ] this is happening now on april 30th trump depose on cbs and troefrts his old line that russia didnt hack the election, could have been china, could have been anyone. Im not so sure. Two days after that he has a personal call with Vladimir Putin, putin asks him directly i want you to bring lavrov into the oval office. Answer apparently is, sir, yes, sir, no problem, sir. Then the following monday we get sally yatess dramatic damming testimony about mike flynn being compromised by the russians and his unexplained and certify repetitious contacts with russian government officials. The day after that, the president fires the fbi director who it who is leading the investigation into possible connections between the Trump Campaign and russia during the russian attack. The day after that he hosts those russian officials in the oval office. Now today, after his Oval Office Meeting at lunchtime with a guy who host ed the two days of meetings between emissaries for donald trump and putin in january, now today, the Washington Post breaks this. Trump revealed highly classified information to Russian Foreign minister and ambassador. The story broke this afternoon by Washington Post reporters greg miller and greg jaffy and was confirmed by Buzzfeed News and the New York Times citing not only former u. S. Officials, but current u. S. Officials which seems important. The post says this, President Trump revealed highly classified information to the Russian Foreign minister and ambassador in a white house meeting last week. The information the president relayed has been provided by a u. S. Porn through an intently sharing arrangement that details have been held from allies and tightly restricted within the u. S. Government. Quote, this is code word information said a u. S. Official familiar with the matter using termnology that refers to one of the highest classification used. He revealed more information to the Russian Ambassador than we have shartd with our own allies. The partner had not given the United States permission, meaning the partner country, partnering nation. That country had not given the United States permission to share the material with russia. And Officials Say trumps decision to do so endangerous cooperation from an ally that has access to the inner workings of the islamic state. After they took steps to contain the damage, senior white house officials appeared to recognize quickly trump overstepped and moved to contain potential fallout. Thomas p. Boss certificate, assistant to the president placed calls to the directors of the cia and the nsa the services most directly involved in the intelligence sharing arrangement with the partner. One of the sboorts also called it to be stricken from internal memos and for the full transcript to be limited to a small circle of recipients, all efforts to prevent sensitive details from being disseminated or leaked. We know about it now. Now, the Washington Post tonight has been very careful to not describe the information that trump described, to not describe exactly what information trump leaked. They make clear in their reporting that they know that information, but theyve been very careful about what theyve published basically the implication is that they are trying to not compound the damage that he has reported to have already done by giving this information to the russians. And the white house tonight is furiously calling the reporting false, although it should be noted they are not specifically rebutting the posts actually reporting which is the president described to these russian officials something that was only known because of another country doing very sensitive intelligence operations that the United States was not supposed disclose to the russians. Why did he tell them that . This is going over exactly how you would expect it to go over in washington. Weve even had a peep from a republican chairman of the Foreign Relations committee, senator bob corker saying tonight, quote, the chaos that is being created by the lack of discipline is creating an environment that i think makes it it creates a worrisome environment. He says, quote, obviously they are in a downward spiral right now and have got to figure out a way to come to grips with all that is happening. A downward spiral. We do not know what the spirals down to. Anecdotally just discussing this news with people, people in my life, this is one of the first stories thats come out where people have responded to this news by telling me they feel afraid about whats going to happen next. In february this year, the wall street journal reported that u. S. Intelligence officials were with holding sensitive intelligence information from President Trump because they were concerned it could be leaked or compromised if they told it to him. That was incrediblies controversial reporting at the time it came out, almost unbelievable at the time. The administration said at the time that there was absolutely no way that was happening. And i, of course, dont know whether or not u. S. Spies were keeping intelligence from trump because of leak concerns as far back as february. But if tonights bombshell from the Washington Post is correct, any such concerns would have been very wellfounded. Julio jones is one of the Washington Post reporters who broke this story. Greg jaffy. Thanks for being here to help us understand it. Thanks for having me. Im not going to ask you to talk about your sources. But can you tell us about when you started chasing this story down, how long after the president s meeting with these russian officials did the work on this story start . You know, not that much long after because the meeting wasnt that long ago. But weve been working on it for the last several days. What is code word information . A u. S. Official familiar with the matter saying this is code word information. Thats supposed to indicate to us this is very highly protected information, for us laymen trying to figure out this out, can you explain that . Thats right. Very highly protected information they dont distribute to allies that is even restricted within the u. S. Government. This intelligence came from an ally, and that made it additionally sensitive because they had certainly expectations that we would safeguard it which we didnt deliver on in this particular case. In terms of those decisions, how did you as a news organization, how did you are make the decision as to what was where the line was for what was too sensitive to publish . Was it hard to figure out what you could say without compounding the problem of what the president did . You know i think thats a decision either or unfortunately that the post has had a lot of experience with over the last de decade or so going back to the disclosures and other things. Its something that happens in collaboration with the government as well, so we dont just gather this information, throw it up online and then contact the government. There were ongoing conversations over the course of today about what would compromise information when what needed to be held back. He held back information about the precise nature of the threat, the intelligence, and how it was gathered and the city involved. I noted in your sourcing on this that it was you mentioned both former officials and current officials as sources for this information. Is it fair for us to read into that there are people serving in government now, either in the agencies or in the administration itself who are themselves are concerned about this about what happened here even though we have the white house forcefully calling the story false . Yeah. There were a lot of people who were concerned, and i think alarmed by the lack of care with regard to classified information. In terms of not sticking to talking points, in terms of just kind of winging it once you get into the oval office. That was the nature of the concern that propedal folks to come forward. The National Security adviser mcmaster tonight said that the story is false and his leaks on that was the president didnt disclose any sources and methods. The story to be clear doesnt say the president disclosed sources and methods. What he disclosed was information about the intelligence that that day had been gathered by one of our partners with enough about the plot and the location and other things, that a smart ally or adversary could sort of reverse engineer and figure out where it was coming from and how it was collected potentially. The russians vernal a capable Intelligence Service. So just to be did you mean about this on purpose, just to bottom line this, the concern here is that by having told the russians about isisrelated information that was obtained in a specific city which the president actually named, the russians from that disclosure could conceivably discern who operating in that city was able to get access to isisrelated information and they could want to suppose that, could use that for their own purposes, to compose the people who gathered that information for russia knowing they are doing it. Thats right. Both the information about where and then the nature of the plotting that was going on is potentially troublesome. Thats exactly right. And in some cases in syria our transistor overlap with the russians in regard to isis. In other instances they diverge. Thats part of the reason we hold struf them. Greg jaffy one of the Washington Post reporters who broke this bombshell of a story tonight. I know this is a busy time for you. I appreciate you helping us understand your reporter. I appreciate it. Congratulations. All right. So we crossed a rube con when we became the first when this became the first presidency to have the president fired the fbi investigators. He immediately thereafter hosted russian officials in the oval office and gave them incredibly sensitive and damaging intelligence information they were not entitle to have and he hosted them at the oval office at the express personal request of Vladimir Putin which he says he feels like he couldnt say no to. 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With each new weird revelation about the Trump Administration and the Trump Campaign into the trump transition and now into the Trump Administration, what appear to be not just past unexplained contacts with russian officials but weird current ones too including tonights bombshell from the Washington Post about the president reportedly sharing highly secret code word intelligence with the Russian Ambassador and the Russian Foreign minister, with each new revelation about whatever it is thats going on with this president and russia, we as observers and people whove job explaining this stuff, we here on this show have been trying to keep increasingly close tabs on how were going to figure out whats going on with this president and russia. Were been keeping extremely close tabs on the active investigations into this matter. So the most high profile investigations are happening in congress. The house and the senate both leading trumprussia investigations in their intelligence committees. There are also subsidiaries which brought us the sally yates testimony last week and the house sight in the Oversight Committee which brought at us revelation that former National Security adviser mike flynn skreeld his framts foreign sources that led the revelations about further investigations. Confirming this area looking into at least the part of this scandal that concerns mike flynn. There have been multiple requests made to the independent Inspector General of the justice adopt investigate portions of this scandal although that office will not confirm nor deny to us any investigation that they may have underway. Theres also, of course, the confirmed fbi counterintelligence investigation into the russian attack on our election, and the question of whether or not the Trump Campaign was in on it. Now that the president has admitted that he fired the fbi director because of the trumprussia investigation, one might also guess that the fbi has now started an obstruction of justice inquiry into the president. But that too has to have a question mark on it because we do not have word one way or the other what everybody expects to be an obstruction of justice inquiry is already underway or not. There is also reportedly an investigation related to the trumprussia inquiry at the financial crimes unit in the Treasury Department. Senate investigators have requested documents from that unit for their own work which is how we found out that unit has those documents. These are all investigations that are either confirmed to be ufrts or believed to be underway at this point in time. But theres also this possibility. U. S. Attorneys. We got word last week that documents related to Michael Flynn were subpoenaed by u. S. Attorneys office in virginia. It was also reported on friday night by vanity fair magazine that the u. S. Attorneys office was investigating the prospect of russian Money Laundering through Donald Trumps real estate empire and that investigation was ufrts at the time the Trump Administration inexplicably fired all the u. S. Attorneys. Friday night vanity fair quoted was there Money Laundering going on, money from these resolution plutocrats thats been washed through trumps real estate and businesses, thats gotten overlooked but Preet Bharara were supposedly look sboochltsds weve got information tonight on that. On march 10th, the president did fire basically all the u. S. Attorneys, all the federal prosecutors operating in jurisdictions all across the country. That was surprising in particular when it came to Preet Bharara in the Southern District of manhattan because President Trump had gone out of his way to invite Preet Bharara to trump tower and to go public if the with it fact hed been asked to stay on as u. S. Attorney in new york. But without warning mid march he was fired. All the u. S. Attorneys were asked to resign. Preet bharara refused to resign and he was fired. No explanation, no warning, no replacement u. S. Attorneys at the ready. Why did that happen . It is particularly worrying and interesting when it comes to Preet Bharara because those personal assurance were made to him, his jurisdictions includes the heads of the Trump Organization and because the subsequent reporting from reuters and vanity fair now that he was working on possible Money Laundering or other trump russia connections at the time time he was fired. Factor this in too. A highranking former Justice Department official, Matthew Axelrod who spent more than 12 years in the Justice Department and was sally yatess deputy at the Justice Department at the time she was fired, he left that day too when they fired her. Matthew axelrod operated at the highest levels of the Justice Department and through the trump transition. He was at the very upper echelons of the Justice Department during the transition. He was involved in the transition. And he tells the National Law Journal that whatever happened with them firing all the u. S. Attorneys in march, that was a radical change in their own plans. He says, quote, this was an issue that was discussed during the transition. The Transition Team recommended to the Incoming Administration they not get rid of all the u. S. Attorneys at one time and that recommendation was adopted. Its not clear what changed and led the administration to get rid of everyone all at once. That recommendation was adopted. Its not clear what changed. So something happened in trump world between the inauguration, january 20th, and march 10th when they fired them all. Something happened that made administration throw out their own previous overt wellthoughtout plan. To instead decided they had to fire all those prosecutors, no warning, no plan to replace any of them, got to go including brar ra. Everybody out. Why did they change that plan . The administration obviously had a little bit of a melt down tonight. For the past week really over the trump russia story. When they started to unravel, coincidentally or not is also when we started to get detailed reporting on business ties and Financial Information moving to the center of these investigation. Documents related to mike flynn and his business transistor being subpoenaed by u. S. Attorneys office in virginia. Reports that the u. S. Attorneyss office in manhattan was pursuing trump russian Money Laundering inquiries before the administration reversed course and fired all the u. S. Attorneys even though they said they would not do that. Paul manafort banking records being requested by the fbi. That story being broken by the wall street journal friday night. 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Does that mean that with those financial records the investigators might be able to figure o figure that out . What type of information are we talking about here . And does this type of investigation explain why the white house was on the fritz since the investigation reportedly took this turn. Joining us is the wall street journal reporter who broke that story, shane harris. Mr. Harris, its really nice to have you here. Thanks, rachel. Good to be here. So the money aspect of this story, the part about business ties involving the president and the president s team, it feels just as an observer of the story, like there is an increasing focus or at least that investigations are driving in that direction over recent days and weeks. Is that your impression . Yeah, that is my kbrechlgts it felt like the investigators are coming button more potentially useful leads. Theres smoke thats feeling very hot, lets put it that way. What this Financial Information interest in its shows is that these investigators have particular questions that theyre trying to answer in terms of russian money and whether it is or is not flowing into Donald Trumps company or ones associated with him. Thats what we understand drove this interest in wanting to get aholed of this information from fin sat at the Treasury Department of they wrote in the request we want to see the same kinds of things the fbi is seeing. So youre seeing the senate trying to parallel or mirror if you like, the same kind of lines of inquiry the fbi is pursuing. Before comey was fired the committee was hearing from him, getting updates about the investigation as well. Shane, does this mean that the Treasury Department that this financial crimes unit has been investigating the connections between trump and his Business Empire and his associates and russia . Or does this mean that part of the Treasury Department is sort of a repository of this kind of information and its where you would go to get it if you were an outfit outside the Treasury Department looking for that type of information . Its the latter. Finsa has this information and its there for investigative purposes. Bank transactions, suspicious activity reports, which banks are supposed to the fbi has access to that. It has technical access. When the senates asking for that, again, its trying to get access to the same pool of information that that the fbi would have access to. Your reporting, theyve said, yes they are making this Information Available to the senate . Thats right. The senate were told the committee worked this out with them on friday. There were some bureaucratic tussle over this. Were told that its been worked out in this information is now going to be provided to the Senate Intelligence committee. Shane harris, senior wire of nationalist at the wall street journal, very clarifying. Thank you for helping us understand. Thanks, rachel. Up next here tonight, somebody who has spent time in the oval Office Briefing the president on classified information and who knows specifically how youre supposed to handle classified information with foreign leaders. Ve very relevant information tonight. Stay with us. Very relevant information im dr. Kelsey mcneely and some day you might be calling me an energy farmer. Energy lives here. I needed something more to help control my type 2 diabetes. My a1c wasnt were it needed to be. So i liked when my doctor told me that i may reach my blood sugar and a1c goals by activating whats within me with onceweekly trulicity. Trulicity is not insulin. It helps activate my body to do what its suppose to do, release its own insulin. I take it once a week, and it works 24 7. It comes in an easytouse pen and i may even lose a little weight. 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Supra sensitive dont tell anyone or ill kill you information, thats not a reel one, but if i ever write a spy novel, it will definitely be in there. The idea of code word information is a term of art that turns up in this Washington Post bombshell tonight on President Trump reportedly revealing highly classified information to the Russian Foreign minister and the Russian Ambassador when they popped up in the Oval Office Last week the day after President Trump fired the fbi director. One u. S. Official telling the Washington Post, quote, this is code word information. The president , quote, revealed more information to the Russian Ambassador than we have shared with our own allies. Code word information, i know that sounds bad, but im still not exactly sure i understand just how bad that is. Joining us is david prius. Its a former cia intelligence officer. He was a briefer under president george w. Bush and bill clinton and wrote the book on president ial intelligence briefings. Nice to see you again. Thank you for being here. Hi, rachel. Im in fair consume of spy novels and i know absolutely nothing in terms of what the real work is of an Intelligence Agency other than what i glean from people like you and fiction. When an official says this is code word information that was given to russia, stuff we wouldnt even give to our allies, can you explain o us in lehmans terms exactly what that means . Sure. There are levels of classification that determine the type of classified information thats there. It starts with confidential information abbreviated with a c which Hillary Clinton had trouble knifing her emails meaning classified. Then theres secret, or s, or, thes or top secret and that the that is the highest level of classification. Beyond classification gets to code word information which means even people with top secret clearance cant see all the compartments of information. Its restricted. Those are given special names, the code words, and those are put into specialized compartments so that not everybody gets to see them. Back in the day, we often called them the secret squirrel compartments. Theres another one for your novel. Nuts. Let me ask you about this remarkle reporting from the Washington Post that there were high ranking foreign officials from russia, which is its own thing. Our relationship with them is not like any other intelligence relationship we have in anybody else in the world. If this had been done properly, if there had been a pror decision made according to channels to allow the russians in on some intelligence information that they didnt have before that meeting, something about isis or terrorism, whats the right way to handle that. Have you ever seen anything like that handled in previous administrations . There are two ways, someone through regular interactions of the intelligence communities of various countries, passing information after a thorough process off vetting whether its appropriate to pass that information in order to achieve a mutual goal. Thats not what were talking about here. Here were talking about the president of the United States personally deciding to give top secret information possibly code word information to another government. There is precedent for this. George w. Bush had several occasions where he would invite foreign leaders into his president s detail brief, the most sensitive Daily Briefing the president gechlts theres a difference. In those cases where held bring them in to make them feel important and to, in a sense, show them what the big leagues were like, thats what his nationalist adviser told me, to show them what the big leagues were like. But in that case, president bush asked the Intelligence Community to do it. His chief of staff told me he did not say were doing this. He asked the Intelligence Community can we do this . In one case, they even brought in Vladimir Putin at the flanch Crawford George w. Bush sat down for his session, he brought in Vladimir Putin. The sources that i talked to said they prepared a very special book that day. One of them called ate work of arrest. In that case you go through the process before talking about the Sensitive Information with the foreign leader. This reporting suggests that that process did not happen, that this was just done on a whim by the president. That makes this quite different. Let me just underscore what you just said. In the past, for example, they brought him in, let him sit on a pdb, didnt tell him it was a special one, but the Intelligence Community was advised we need a specialty one because were going to have a foreign leader, prepare something that is safe, and he can safely hear. The intelligence carefully did that and it was presented in that context as we will thoughtout package. Thats what youre saying you have that right. There was a no kidding classified intelligence briefing, but they skafrmd to get information that would be appropriate to have in a session with a russian leader there. So it was classified. It was Sensitive Information, but it was information that could be provided to the russians that would not open up new sources and methods. That it that is a line they didnt want though cross and thats a line the president didnt want to cross. Thats why he asked in advance and gave plenty of time for this briefing to be put together. Remarkable. Divest priest. Thank you. Really appreciate that, david. Youre welcome. Much more tonight. Stay with us. Oscar mawe went back toig the drawing board. And the cutting board. We removed the added nitrates and nitrites, byproducts, and artificial preservatives in all of our meat. Every. Single. One. Why . 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If i wanted to state it back to you, i couldnt. Its this issue of sharing of information. The Washington Post is reporting that the president didnt share sources and methods. He didnt give away the location of one of our spies or something. He gave the russians intelligence from which they could probably discern the origin. Right. And that violates a sharing agreement we had that got us access to that information in the first place. What how is that sharing arrangement work and why is this violated . Thats how it work there is a core assumption that undergirds our intelligence relationships the world over. Our information sharing relationships with friends, with allies, and frankly at times even with adversaries. We will share with you if you share with us with a reciprocal understanding that we will safeguard each others information. And there is not to be onward passage of that information without explicit consent of the country that gave us that piece of information. So if the details today in the Washington Post report are true, President Trump betrayed that core premise. That core assumption under which all of our intelligence relationships are forged. And of course it will infuriate this purport lid close ally. But thats in a way small potatoes. What is a much graver threat i think to the United States and to our people is that countries around the world, countries that perhaps have a better presence in places like syria or have more expertise in groups like isil or core al qaeda, they will think once. They will think twice. Or maybe they will stop sharing information with us to begin with if they cannot be confident that we can safeguard their information. Look, i cannot tell you how many as a cia analyst how many plots we learned of and ultimately thwarted because of valuable information from what we called foreign Liaison Services. In terms of the danger to the foreign Liaison Service that is involved here, what were told by the Washington Post is that President Trump named a specific city in which this information about a forth cop organize planned isis attack was being planned. Presumably, the Washington Post is not going to give up sources here. But what that means by telling the russians that, including the name of the city, the russians will be able to and will be able to share with their own allies information about intelligence operatives acting in those cities. Which they might previously not have known about. Now, will russia want to disrupt those intelligence operations . First, lets underscore the point that in a way the Washington Post showed more discretion than President Trump. By a mile. By not printing those details. But yes, absolutely. Look, if you had to choose the worst Intelligence Service in the world to share top secret code information it would be the russians. They have a singular combination of sophistication and hostility towards us, and especially in syria. You have to remember that their bedfellows in syria are the assad regime and iran, both of which are extremely adversarial to us. I think the danger is perhaps with those allies and the syrian context, they will seek to reverse engineer what President Trump revealed to them about this classified assessment, knowing these key details, the city, the nature of this threat, the operatives involved. They could go back, search their holdings and determine just exactly how our intelligence partner arrived at this information. Wow. Well, i understand it better now. I sort of which i didnt. Ned price a Senior Analyst for the cia, former spokesman and senior director at the National Security council. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Dark times. All right. Well be right back. Stay with us. Horseheadswivellychair. Com it could be the next big thing i should totally get that domain name. 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I dont know if there will be news from the white house tonight. But clearly its been a weird night there already. That does it for us for now. Now its time for the last word. Ari melber in for lawrence odonnell. More on the National Security story gripping the nation tonight. How President Trump repo