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intelligence and heads of the cia, fbi and national security agency will brief the president-elect on alleged russian meddling in the presidential election, certainly he has called repeatedly challenged. he said, well, maybe it s not the case, maybe even sided with julian assange tweeting even last night questioning the validity of the information he s about to receive. well, we have it all covered for you from every angle. kristen welker, what do we expect will go down here? reporter: the backdrop to this briefing is very tense, that s for sure. you have the president-elect just last night again questioning the intelligence community. he was infuriated after details leaked out about the report and actually what s in the report and intelligence officials telling us that some of the details in the report include intercepts which prove that top russian officials were celebrating president-elect trump s win. we were also learning they ve identified some of the go-betweens who deliv ....
investigation of russian interference into the u.s. election and other matters. it s up to mueller to decide the other matters, to include the firing of the fbi director. michael flynn, a meeting between the fbi director and the president in the white house. just to be clear, the fbi investigation that s been going on, that was under director comey, that continues and that is what mueller is overseeing? he has oversight over the entire probe as it were. you re not going to stop any activity in the fbi anymore, you ve got a whole team there, and that s something you ve heard from the acting fbi director, as they search for a new director, that they re continuing their work. i have spoke to people inside the bureau, but this is a very independent-minded mueller. one other thing i ll note. i have been talking to people around washington in reaction to this, yes, comey s out, if you huge development today. just two days ago, white house press secretary spicer says frankly ....
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trust the president. new reporting on the president s humiliation of jeff sessions in the wake of the mueller appointment. and the treasury secretary s new excuse for asking the government to subsidize his honeymoon. they had to give up a lot to take these jobs. all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. the most prominent voices of the trump base discovered today what many of his business associates and customers learned long ago. if you re in business with donald trump, eventually you re going to end up on the wrong side of the deal. this afternoon in an off-camera session with reporters on board air force one, the president defended his decision to work with democrats on a deal to protect undocumented immigrants who came to the country as children. in exchange for increased border security. i m a republican through and through, but i m also finding that sometimes to get things through, it s not working that way. and, you know, we got ver ....
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