one that keeps you connected to what matters most. we have learned that some fbi counterintelligence agents spent election day in a war room, looking for fake news. >> these are fishing expeditions. >> the russia story is a total fabrication. >> what is under investigation is trump campaign conspiracy with the russian meddling and possible obstruction of justice. >> investigators working for special counsel robert mueller asked the white house for documents related to former national security adviser michael flip. >> -- flynn. >> there is a fire somewhere. >> i have this morning for

would-be leakers, don't do it. >> the leaks are real. you know what they said. you saw it. >> leaks are concerning because leaks can often compromise national security. >> this must end this culture of leaks. >> announcer: this is new day weekend with victor blackwell and christi paul. always grateful to have you with us. we want to begin with breaking news this hour. after the man hunt, a northwestern university professor and oxford university employee have been arrested in california. across the country here. professor lathem a suspect. >> trenton was found dead in a chicago apartment with multiple stab wounds july 27th. just before his arrest, lanthem sent a video from friends and

family and it appeared he was apologizing for his involvement in the murder. the suspects are awaiting extradition to illinois. now to a cnn exclusive. the fbi enters what it calls uncomfortable territory. sources tell us that dozens of analysts monitored social media accounts on election day, tracking the suspected spread of fake news believed to be pedalled by russia in a risk to harm hillary clinton. they risked freedom of speech rights in the process. >> the white house is asked to turn over information related to the russia hacking of the 2016 election. robert mueller is reportedly looking into secret payments ousted michael flynn took from a foreign government while part of the trump campaign. >> meanwhile, jeff sessions is promising to shut down leaks by targeting, in part, reporters.

>> they cannot place lives at risk with impunity. we must balance the press's role with protecting our national security. >> sessions is reviewing policies on subpoenaing journalists. it prompted questions if he is considering taking legal action to appease the anger of the president after a couple of tense weeks. >> fbi analysts will, quote, wrote on the legality, when they monitored accounts for suspected russia propaganda. pamela brown is here with exclusive reporting. >> good morning. our team has learned that some fbi counterintelligence agents spent election day huddled in a war room, looking for fake news. what they could see was negative stories posted about hillary clinton. some having to do with her health that were fake stories generated from accounts with suspected russian links. this is according to multiple

sources we've spoken with. the fbi agents could see how the fake news was impacting the conversation online. the idea of monitoring for fake news was certainly uncomfortable and somewhat new territory for the fbi. as one official told me, quote, we were right on the edge of constitutionality because of, of course, first amendment protections. but it was something they believe they needed to do because it was important and better understanding how fake news played into this, what role it had and whether or not anyone in the trump campaign, in the trump world, worked with the russians in this disinformation campaign. amid all of this, we learned there was constant coordination between the fbi, the department of homeland security, as well as dni, holding conference calls every three hours with the team in the white house to discuss any possible problems. at that time though, during the conference calls, the focus was, of course, this notion that the vote could be tampered with, the machines could be tampered with by hackers. while the fbi says that didn't

happen, there is still this open question of whether the disinformation campaign by the russians, according to the intelligence community, impacted the outcome of the election. it is something we frankly may never really know. >> pamela, thanks so much. here to discuss, cnn political commentator and anchor for spectrum news. and kelly, deputy editor for the "weekly standard." good morning to you. >> good morning. >> let's start with the "new york times" reporting, that the special counsel here, bob mueller, is requesting from the white house documents pertaining to former nsa michael flynn. specifically going to find out if he received secret payments from the turkish government. what's the significance here? >> well, the significance here is if you go back -- and we have to keep in mind, it is less than 90 days since the order of creating this special counsel went into effect -- if you read it though, he's authorized, the special counsel, to look into

any violation of any federal crime. it so happens that certain forms of financial dealings overseas, even though it may not directly affect the u.s. government, are federal crimes. the brodmaad mandate that the special prosecutor has to look into this, figure out what other crimes may have been committed along the way, what it means is that they're going to keep pulling on this string. they'll find out more and more about possible kickback, possible money laundering and other federal offenses that really will push this investigation forward. >> kelly, you've heard the criticisms from some republicans, saying that bob mueller is going beyond his charge here. going beyond the mandate of this investigati investigation. >> yeah. you know, maybe he is. it is quite possible. you know, to that, i would say, well, if nobody did anything wrong, they wouldn't have anything to worry about. that's the problem. when you have a special counsel

appointed, that person has a pretty, you know, wide berth to take a look at things. he can look at any evidence of any crimes he finds in the course of his investigation. if while investigating possible ties between russia and the trump campaign he finds evidence of other crimes, he can't ignore those. we wouldn't want him to ignore those. so if michael flynn has done nothing wrong, then he has nothing to worry about. if he has done something wrong, i certainly hope that law enforcement is going to take a serious look at that and investigate it and find out if there was a crime. if so, indict him for it. >> let's go to the cnn exclusive reporting. the fbi on election night monitoring social media in efforts to tamp down, as best they can, disinformation and fake news. the fbi called this a success. one white house source tells cnn this was a failure of imagination, and what the russians did worked. was this potentially one and done, considering that the

current president has really not been committal -- let's call him non-committal at best, or if russia really was involved in meddling with the election? >> let's put it this way, my sense of it, victor, my academic background is in political science. i think that this report and this incident is going to go down in the books, the history books. i think we're at a watershed moment. you'll see in the future national campaigns having their own war rooms that do this monitoring. i think congress is going to have to get into this and try to figure out where to put the limits on it. it is a little disturbing, that the fbi headquarters was full of dozens, not hundreds of people monitoring news reports and trying to figure out what impact it was having on election day. they appear to have done it with the best of attentions, according to cnn's reporting. but that's not necessarily good enough. i think we're at the dawn of the new age, about what is possible and what steps have to be taken to safeguard our democracy.

>> let's bring in joey jackson, cnn legal analyst, to this conversation. what we heard from our reporters who were on this exclusive report -- joey, good morning to you -- was that the fbi was uncomfortable with this territory because they were on the edge of first amendment protections, which even protect fake news. did they cross that line, and highlight the line for us. >> good morning to you, victor. good morning to the panel. i don't believe they did. let's talk and first address the issues of the first amendment. obviously, that's compelling here because you don't want to chill speech in any way. further more, the constitution protects that. even fake news, believe it or not, is protected. we are allowed to espouse opinions and deliver information and dialogue in general. to those who say it's dangerous, i'd agree. the issue becomes, how do you counteract that? what can you do? should we start placing, for example, a court to determine

what's fake and what's not? should we have a court to determine, you know, what opinions are just and what opinions are unjust, et cetera? so it is a line. i think what they were attempting to do, victor, is to see how far the russian government was going in the intermeddling. what kind of impact it was having. what information was being disseminated out there and who, if anyone, was coordinating with them to release that information, which the release in and of itself isn't illegal. but the other collusion issues are. i think that that potentially helps wrap up and tie in that information, which could be helpful to show a motive or otherwise intent to any other interference. >> uncomfortable or not, the fbi may find themselves in this territory again as we go to 2018 and 2020. joey, kelly and erlo, stay with us. more to talk about. tough talk from jeff sessions as the trump administration vows to crack down on leaks. will it be enough to get the

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>> here is what i want to tell every american today. this nation must end this culture of leaks. >> reporter: in an announcement friday, jeff sessions laid out potentially bold steps to crack down on leaks of classified information to the media. its first step, targeting the media and how subpoenas are issued to them. >> we respect the important role the press plays and we'll give them respect but it is not unlimited. >> reporter: while leaks of classified information are nothing new, they have been a source of aggravation for president donald trump and his administration since he took office. trump has repeatedly threatened action against those behind the leaks. reality winner, a federal non-contract co contractor, is the only one accused of doing just that so far. the justice department is just getting started. >> it is important for the american people and those who might be thinking about leaking classified or sensitive information, to know that

criminals who would illegally use their access to our most sensitive information to endanger our national security are, in fact, being investigated and will be prosecuted. >> reporter: i'm andy rose reporting. back with us here, aro the panel, thank you for sticking around. sessions has been called very weak by the president, as of late, in a tweet, regarding intel. do you get the sense that yesterday, his press conference was speaking to an audience of one, or was it speaking to doj protoc protocol? >> very much speaking to an audience of one. very noteworthy of all the officials that were standing next to the attorney general, did not include the fbi, of 16-year leadership. that's in part because if you're serious about it, the fbi is the bureau that has the authority to

issue subpoenas. most of the other officials there cannot do the sorts of things that sessions was warning he might do. it sounded to me as if he was speaking to the president, trying to sort of threaten the press and warn people that they're really, really serious and they might come after you, which is very much a tactic that politicians use. certainly donald trump in his commercial life did the same. they would threaten to go to your boss, threaten to get you fired, that sort of thing. much of that is not how this is going to play out. there is a limited ability that they have to stop people from sharing information. >> speaker paul ryan spoke to this speech after it was done yesterday. let's listen to what he said. >> leaks are a bad thing. leaks are concerning because leaks can often compromise national security. but that's the problem of the leaker, not the journalist. >> little different from what we were hearing, obviously, from

a.g. sessions. joey, who does the legal risk fall on? does it fall on the person who leaks or the journalist who reports? >> good morning, christi. really, a precedent of any value and, of course, in law, it is, it falls upon the person who gets the classified information and otherwise leaks it. the press has an obligation, and that obligation is to inform the public. so historically, there have not been prosecutions in that regard. i'll say this, the best way to go and deter leakers is to prosecute them. certainly, this was speaking to an audience of one, but i also think it could speak to a broader audience. that is the leakers themselves. so, in fact, when you make the statement, we're going to come get you, it could have some deterrent value in people who otherwise would get the information and release it might say, hmm, let me think again. in as much as i know the president hates this, and i know with that attorney general interview, he wants to appease

his boss, and they may come after me. the deterrent value is substantial, but it mostly deters the people getting and releasing the information, not the fine journalists who have an obligation to give the public information as to what's going on. >> okay. kellyann conway said it is easier to figure out who is leaking than the leakers may realize. when she was asked if lie detecters will be used to try to determine that in the white house, she said, well, they may. they may not. how likely is that tactic to be employed? >> yeah, this is outrageous, isn't it? if they have to go to that extent, it really says something. i have to say, i find jeff sessions' comments outrageous. the veiled threat against journalists and the idea that he might go after them is just completely outrageous to me. if they're worried about leaks, maybe they should think about what the source of the problem is. i think anthony scaramucci, the

brief-tenured white house communications director said it right himself. he said there are people in the white house who think their job is to save america from this president. perhaps he's right. they might think, why are people leaking? maybe they're worried about some of the things going on in the white house. if the president doesn't want this information to be leaked, he might think about, why are people leaking it? why do they think it is important for america to know, for example, just how he spoke to foreign leaders and what he said to foreign leaders? they might start looking at themselves a little bit before, you know, giving the entire staff of the white house a lie detecter test. >> arlo, to that point, when they talk about, where are these leaks coming from, we're only six months in. the leaks have certainly been prevalent. is there any indication if the white house is looking within its walls, within the west wing, at any one department, at any one person? what do we know in that regard? >> unclear at this point.

we'll see if the justice department makes good on the threats that the attorney general was making publicly yesterday. i mean, look, the reality is, there are many, many -- i mean, we all know a lot of folks in the white house press core and they have a lot of contacts within that white house. there's a certain amount of hypocrisy involved, i must say. there are senior officials, including some of the ones you've mentioned, who are in the habit of talking with reporters. they talk on background. they talk off the record. they point you in certain directions. they provide you with certain documents or inform you of the existence of documents, and then turn around and look, is that a leak? maybe it is. maybe it isn't. there's a lot going on here. donald trump himself, of course, even before elected president, made extensive use of off the record conversations with reporters, sort of provided all kinds of confidential information, not under his own name. so if they want to try to shut all of that down, they are going

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i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. new details on the breaking news this morning. a northwestern university professor and an oxford university employee are in custody in california. police really searched across the country for wyndham lathem and andrew warren. they surrendered last night. >> they're suspects in the stabbing death of trenton cornell-duranleau. he was found stabbed to death with multiple stab wounds at an apartment. one of the suspects walked into this public library in chicago and made $1,000 cash donation in duranleau's name. police aren't talking about a motive. in ohio, police are searching for brandon powell, 32 years old, accused rapist. he overpowered a deputy and took his gun. this happened while he was being moved from a psychiatric hospital in toledo to the jail. he scaled a row of seats in the

vehicle while shackled and handcuffed. he put the deputy who was driving in a headlock. the vehicle crashed and that's when the gun and handcuff key was stolen. the sheriff is warning people that powell is very dangerous. let's get you to this exclusive cnn report. the fbi monitored social media on election day, trapping a suspected russian disinformation campaign, pushing hillary clinton conspiracy theories. certain social media accounts were identified from overseas. this was uncomfortable territory, as characterized, as they risked freedom of speech protections in the process. >> critical information related to the former national security adviser michael flynn is being asked for. robert mueller is looking into secret payments, potentially,

flynn might have taken from a foreign government while part of the trump campaign. >> attorney general jeff sessions promising to shut down leaks by targeting reporters. sessions is now reviewing policies on subpoenaing journalists, prompting questions as to whether he's considering taking legal action to stop the personal attacks from the president. we're learning disturbing details about new techniques that isis might be using to target the west. investigators learned of these from two men in sydney, australia, after they were arrested for plotting a pair of terror attacks. >> according to police, a senior isis commander sent the two men a, quote, do it yourself bomb kit, which they used to build a fully operational ied. they were going to use it to blow up a passenger plane. here's brian todd. >> reporter: two terror plots in australia connected to one

another show isis' ambition to strike western targets. two men in sydney have been arrested for trying to bring down a passenger plane with an ied. >> this is one of the most sophisticated plots that has ever been attempted on australian soil. >> reporter: australian officials say the plan was to place a bomb in checked luggage. the plotters, after getting to the airport, aborted the plan. authorities aren't sure why. police only got wind of the plan 11 days later. what's new and frightening about this plot is that according to australia officials, this was a do-it-yourself bomb. they say a senior isis commander sent part of the bomb assembled, along with other loose parts, including weapons grade explosives, from turkey to his contacts in sydney via air cargo. >> this is an ikea model of terrorism. the fact they were in touch directly to provide guidance with these plotters in australia. the complex logistics of the plot.

the supply of explosives. the imagination and ingenuity that went into it take isis into whole new ball game when it comes to international terrorism. >> reporter: officials say one of the suspects was going to plant the ied on his own brother, who was to be an unsuspecting mule in the attack. >> his plan was for his own brother to bring this device on board, not knowing what it was. the idea being that his brother would have been killed in this attack, sacrificed. >> reporter: when the bomb plot didn't work, australian officials say the alleged terrorists tried to make a device that would release a dangerous chemical in closed spaces, possibly public transportation fa scilitiefacil. a toxic substance that smells like rotten eggs. hard to make and difficult to deploy as a weapon, but potentially deadly. >> what does it do to the body? >> attacks the respiratory system and the nervous system.

40 parts per million would kill you in a few minutes. >> reporter: officials say there is no evidence the device was completed but a u.s. homeland security official says the australian plots show the need to ramp up security in america and not play whack a mole with each threat. the group loses territory on the battlefield. isis will continue to use ieds, laptop bombs, chemicals and other weapons on western targets. and they say isis will probably get better at evading security. brian todd, cnn, washington. >> terrorism gripped headlines in the united states and around the world since 2001, but a lot of people forget the horror and the rampant carnage of terrorist attacks in the 1980s. for example, here on november 23rd, 1985, egyptair flight 648 left greece bound for cairo, egypt, never reached its destination. on tonight's episode of

"declassified," we take a look at how fbi agents launched an international man hunt for the terrorist responsible for that hijacking. >> reporter: even within the fbi, the terrorism section was kind of a small group within the criminal investigative division. nothing to do with intelligence. nothing to do with security. >> that cia, the early days of the reagan administration, there was a position called the national intelligence officer for counterterrorism. one man. he was not in a position to get any intelligence from anybody but where the next attack is going to occur. it was all on the defensive side. >> terrorism was going virtually unchecked. >> in those days, there was never a heads up. now, we have the national security agency out vacuuming the sky. they're able to tell you that, gee, we think something is happening.

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cnn learned the fbi monitored facebook and twitter on election day last november, and they did so in order to track a russian-backed fake news campaign. >> the question now many have is did the trump campaign have anything to do with promoting those fake stories?

here's cnn's senior investigative correspondent drew griffin. >> reporter: there's no question according to the fbi that russia used fake news to try to influence the 2016 election. >> they also pushed fake news and propaganda and used amplifiers to spread the information to as many people as possible. >> reporter: what democratic congressional investigators want to know is whether russia colluded with the trump campaign to spread false information about hillary clinton through facebook. >> i commend them. >> reporter: senator mark warner, the top democratic on the committee, traveled to facebook headquarters in california. while he won't discuss specifics of the meeting, he tells cnn he wants to know whether the trump campaign helped russians to target fake news to specific facebook users. >> i'd like to look into the activities of the trump digital campaign. i will point out this, facebook, which basically denied any

responsibility around our election elections, by the time the french elections took place this spring, they took down 30,000 fake sites. >> reporter: fake sites spreading fake news, mostly negative about hillary clinton. the democratic theory, somehow, the trump campaign and russians colluded to do it. >> tell me what we're seeing right here. >> reporter: this is why it matters. look at this program that tracks social media. you can clearly see the explosion of completely fabricated stories, fake news, in the months just before november's election. >> in the fall, it just became so much of a problem. >> reporter: gabrielle, a content strategist, a social media analytics official, says fake news spiked in the months before the election. mostly fabricated stories about hillary clinton or democrats. with headlines like, donald trump protester speaks out. i was paid 35 -- $3500 to

protest trump's rally. it is made to appear like the real abc news. it was created by paul horner, who said he writes fake news to make money. it didn't stop the story from spreading through social media. there was this story. fbi agent suspected in e-mail leaks found dead in an apparent murder-suicide. this was 100% made up. released on a made up news site, the denver guardian. nothing about it was true. the author admits that to cnn. yet it had nearly 570,000 shares, likes and comments on facebook and published four days before the election. the questions democrats want answered are, how did fake stories from fake websites become so popular so quickly, and did someone pay to boost the fake news? facebook was a massive part of the trump campaign's online advertising efforts. >> i went to wall street.

>> reporter: 95% of trump's fundraising ads were placed on the platform according to campaign officials. but the trump campaign has flatly denied any russian collusion whatsoever. though not appearing on camera, the trump campaign official who oversaw all of the trump campaign's digital advertising is going on record at cnn to say it simply didn't happen. >> trump's followers got an amazing kind of engagement. >> reporter: gary, the former director of advertising for the republican national committee and the trump for president campaign, told cnn by phone, we'd never put money behind someone else's facebook page or source. and added, we did not back anyone's hillary stories. had nothing to do with fake hillary stories or any hillary stories that weren't our own. >> we'd produce content. >> reporter: brad, a lead contractor on trump's digital campaign, has also denied any involvement with russia. he's been called to testify before the house intelligence

committee to swear to that under oath. facebook has done its own internal review and has reported it did find malicious actors with fake accounts spreading misinformation during the campaign. but says in a statement to cnn, we've been in touch with a number of government officials, including senator warner, who are looking into the 2016 u.s. presidential election. we will continue to cooperate with officials as their investigations continue. as we have said, we have seen no evidence that russian actors bought ads on facebook in connection with the election. drew griffin, cnn, new york. >> thank you. still to come, a jobs report that exceeded expectations. president trump claiming the strong economic data is because of his policies. we'll talk about it. stay close. per roll

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the top of the hour. some economists say the u.s. is near or possibly at full employment. after the latest figures show the nation added more than 1 million jobs since president trump took office. the data marking a milestone for the president. >> it didn't take long before he basked in the glory. he tweeted this. excellent jobs numbers just released and i've only just begun. many job-stifle iing regulation continue to fall. movement back to usa. alison kosik has more. >> reporter: employers added 209,000 jobs in july. with july's gains, more than 1 million jobs have been created while president trump has been in office. we also saw that maze numbers were revised lower. june's numbers were higher. the overall trend of job additions is not enough yet to reach the 25 million job goal that the president had promised would be created in ten years. to get to that, we'd need to see

208,000 jobs added each month. some of the other take aways from the july's job report, unemployment falling to 4.3%. that's actually a 16-year low. getting to a level of what economists call full employment. the downside to that is we're seeing stagnant wages, despite seeing the higher demand for more workers. we're seeing a ton of job openings. more than 6 million openings in the u.s. the thing is, employers can't fill them. we're not seeing wages accelerate either. usually, you'd see the wages accelerate to try to get the people in those jobs. we only saw wages rise 2.5% from last year. we've seen that number hovering at that level for a while. so this is a conundrum the fed has been trying to figure out. where did employers add jobs? we saw job additions in health care, 39,000. those are higher paying jobs. food services saw a big jump. 53,000 job additions there. business services saw 49,000 jobs.

manufacturing saw 16,000 job bump for july. that can be credited to a lot of fundamentals happening in the economy. overall, july's job report is strong. it shows the labor market continues to charge forward. i'm alison kosik in new york. >> thank you very much. warriors star steph curry proving he's not just a single sport athlete. andy scholes here with details. trying to do the bo jackson, or is that a dated reference? >> he is trying to do the bo jackson, but not the same sports. curry, two-time nba mvp. he has game teeing it up. we'll show you how he did in his first ever golf tournament coming up next. and we don't want something like meningitis b getting in their way. meningococcal group b disease, or meningitis b, is real. bexsero is a vaccine to help prevent meningitis b in 10 to 25 year olds. even if meningitis b is uncommon, that's not a chance we're willing to take.

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the white house continues to role out these new theme weeks, but the headlines from the weeks keep overshadowing other things coming out of the white house. >> tom foreman has the story. >> reporter: the white house clearly wanted american dream week to underscore all the things it feels it is doing for the economy. they wanted to point out how they were cutting red tape and regulation for businesses, how they were working on better trade deals, how they were

supporting small businesses, how they hoped to rewrite the tax code and ultimately how they hoped it'd produce millions of jobs for regular people. look what happened. once again, they were derailed by their own problems. monday, all the news was about how the new communications director, anthony scaramucci, was fired after ten tumultuous days. tuesday, the news was dominated by the fact donald trump sr. helped his son, donald trump jr., craft a statement about the conversation with the russians that the white house previously said hadn't happened. wednesday, the white house rolls out its immigration plan, coming under attack, saying it is not under the american dream. thursday, the president had the phone calls, the transcripts released with the presidents of australia and mexico. then friday, how robert mueller was looking at president trump's

finances and how they were setting up a grand jury. since early june, the white house tried all sorts of themes here. time and again, they've been derailed. infrastructure week over here. they rolled that out. same week, james comey, the former fbi director, was in congress testifying about how the president fired him. energy week, that's when the president tweeted about those msnbc hosts. that story took over the headlines. over here in made in america week, the trump family businesses immediately came under fire because they outsource work and get supplies from other countries over there. the bottom line is, the president and the white house have tried over and over to say, let's talk about something else. let's set the agenda. their own actions and problems have derailed it over and over again. >> tom, thank you. listen, tom brady spoke with the media yesterday. didn't deny suffering a concussion last season.

>> andy scholes here with the bleacher report. >> earlier this off season, brady's wife gisele said he suffered a concussion last season. this was only news because the patriots never listed brady as having any type of head injury during last season. brady was asked yesterday to clear the air on whether or not he did, in fact, have a concussion. >> i don't want to get into, you know, things that happened in my past. certainly medical history and so forth. i don't think that's anybody's business. it is a contact sport, and i think we all understand that. there's a lot of great benefits football brings you. you can certainly be put in harm's way. >> brady turned 40 on thursday. he was also asked about a study that found 110 of 111 former nfl player's brains that were studied were found to have c.t.e. brady said, quote, i think you're not blind to it asa player. adding he is confident in his health regimen. he learned from former players.

steph curry proving he can hang on the course. curry playing in a web.com tour event. stop a 4 over 74 for the second straight day. he didn't make the cut but it was an impressive showing for his first ever pro tournament. veteran golfer told espn he'd eat his own golf bag if curry broke 80 two days in a row. he tweeted this picture after curry's round adding, hashtag, tastes terrible. we say good-bye to the greatest sprinter of all time. usain bolt set to compete in his final race this afternoon at the world championships. the jamaican qualified for the final heat, despite saying his performance was very bad. eight-time olympic gold medalist. i have to tell you, not looking forward to the 2020 summer

olympics. no bolt. no michael phelps. losing two once in a generation type athletes. >> 30 years old and has to retire. >> rough. >> 30. >> rough life. >> thank you, andy. >> have a good one. we have learned some fbi counterintelligence agents spent election day huddled in a war room looking for fake news. >> these types of endeavors end up beingexpeditions. >> the russia story is a fabrication. >> what's under investigation is trump campaign conspiracy with the russian meddling and possible obstruction of justice. >> investigators working for robert mueller asked the white house for documents related to former national security adviser michael flynn. >> with this much smoke, there's a fire somewhere. >> he's had a lapse of judgment and it'll get him in serious trouble. >> i have this morning for would-be leakers, don't do it. >> the leaks are real. you know what they said. you saw it. >> the leaks are a