Reporter. She is the coauthor of our exclusive nbc news report from just last night on Robert Mueller asking witnesses if trump knew with these hacked democratic emails before they were released. Also back with us, jeremy bash, former chief of staff at the cia and pentagon. And we welcome back to the program, cynthia alneya, a federal prosecutor and a Justice Department veteran. Welcome to you all. Carol, about tonights story, what is its central impact the your view . Well, as you mentioned, this hacking and leaking strategically is the worst part. So this is significant in the sense we knew this was happening. But if mueller decides to move forward with an indictment, to me the key question is whether or not there are any americans that are tied to this. Its one thing for him to indict russians who will probably never be extradited and come over and
stand trial in the United States. Its an entirely different ball game if there are americans named or unnamed should he decide to do an
more than enough to destroy each other, more than enough to destroy human life on this planet, and yet we keep building more. we keep having arguments. each one believes that they re responding to the other. so you heard putin, he s responding to our withdraw from the abm treaty back in 2002. you heard trump, he thinks he s responding to the new introduction of nuclear weapons by putin. in washington, nuclear hawks are already using this speech as a justification for a massive build up of our missile defense system. so yes. you remember, we have enough weapons to just bounce the rubble and we keep building them. and, rick, this is also what we mean when we talk about robust intelligence around the world, living in the time of the only president directly at war with the intelligence establishments. americans have to hope someone in the art department putting