people that are locked out of the financial system. i don't understand. i'll see you back here at 3:00 p.m. eastern. >> he's alley velshi, i'm stephanie rule. right now we hand you off to andrea mitchell for "andrea mitchell reports." knock knock, fbi agents paying bannon a home visit trying to serve the former chief strategist a subpoena. this after bannon stone walled the house intelligence committee. he says at the direction of the white house. >> what did they ask you in there, mr. bannon? >> this is the broadest effort to effectively gag a witness that we have seen. >> enemy of the state. a former cia officer is arrested. suspected of spying for china and causing the deaths of secret cia informants.

>> several federal officials say lee is suspected of giving the chinese information about cia sources, and that at least ten of them ended up getting killed by the chinese. and house of cards. can republicans force through their deal to keep the government open without protecting the dreamers? >> i feel that it makes no sense for democrats to try and bring us to a shutdown, so i hope cool heads hopefully will prevail on this thing. >> thissi inwill be the last tr leaving the station, president trump needs to get on board. >> we'll talk to senator bernie sanders about that and a lot more coming up on "andrea mitchell reports." good day, i'm andrea mitchell back in washington where we are following big stories here. house speaker paul ryan's last ditch effort to keep the government open with republicans alone. steve bannon's interactions with

the fbi, all detailed on our nbc news exclusive reporting today. joining me now is kristen welker at the white house and nbc's casey hunt. before we talk about steve bannon, is the government going to stay open, neither of us know, casey, but it seems like a lot of positioning and a protest demonstration in the row tundra? >> that really underscores the emotional nature of this issue and why democrats are pushing so hard to make the end of this week is deadline, democrats want to see republicans attach a fix for daca to a must-pass spending bill and of course they do have to pass a continuing resolution if they want the government to stay open past friday. republicans have a plan to do it by themselves, as you alluded to, speaker paul ryan unveiling this plan to members last night.

it would include a fix for the children's health insurance program, and there are of course many children who rely on that program and typically it has been authorized, in a pretty bipartisan way, reauthorized regularly, so republicans are saying to democrats, we dare you to reauthorize this bill -- which republicans insist doesn't need to be made until later on in the spring, that deadline of course that they're setting is march. and the house speaker paul ryan, i asked him about this earlier and he said he wasn't going to put anything on the floor that the president wouldn't sign, that seems to rule out the bipartisan deal that dick durbin and senator graham. i just saw senator dick durbin walk by. >> there was a group of jewish groups, african-americans, groups of supporters of the

dreamers. kristen welker, the president's making a bet that he can try to blame the democrats for this shutdown, when he rejected a deal that we all know was presented to him by lindsay graham and dick durbin at 10:00 in the morning last week, and by noon, they say under the influence of white house staffers, jim kelly and others turned his back on it. >> reporter: it seems like going through the details of that bill changed his tune. when there was a press conference with lawmakers, he said i'll accept any deal that you bring to the table. that was a real pivot given that they had reached a bipartisan deal, one that was strongly supported by his close ally lindsay graham, so obviously those talks began to derail in the wake of the s-hole comments, and since then, a government

shutdown has seemed increasingly likely. i spoke with a top official here earlier today that said look, ultimately the belief here within the administration is that a government shutdown will be averted, but they acknowledge it's a real possibility and that the president's going to need to get engaged, to work the phones behind the scenes, he's going to be on capitol hill later on this afternoon, to former senator bob dole, i am told that on the sidelines of that he will be doing some arm twisting, so we'll be watching for that very closely. the president doesn't want a government shutdown, not only on his watch, but on the anniversary of his inauguration, andrea, it's coming just three days from now. >> and i want to ask both of you about steve bannon because we understand that he is going to be a cooperating witness, fbi agents tried to serve a subpoena, after he had stone walled the house committee yesterday we understand. and then he referred them to his newly hired attorney. so first to you, casey, and then

to christian about the importance of steve bannon, whether he may or, what he knows or doesn't know, but the whole drama of him on the hill leading up to the revelation that he was subpoenaed last week to testify to the mueller grand jury. >> reporter: this is something nine hours on capitol hill yesterday, paul rigly standing out in the cold to get a shot of him leaving in the middle of the night, showing that he basically stone walled all of the questions that the committee put to him. and there are some questions around his claiming of executive privilege here, the speaker paul ryan was asked about it at his press conference today, he said this is traditionally -- democrat and republican have used it. but at this point, it seems as though there's no cooperation pending for him up here. >> and to kristen, obviously

executive privilege could only apply to his time in the white house. but i am betting there is a lot of questions about his role during the campaign and his role at cambridge analytical, he was closely dedicated to the data mining for their campaign, before he came into the campaign itself. >> reporter: there's no doubt that congressional investigators and the special counsel will want to ask about all of that, andrea. i just spoke to an official here at the white house who provided a few more details about what happened on capitol hill yesterday, according to this official, the committee, members of the house intelligence committee had been working with the white house leading up to steve bannon appearing on capitol hill yesterday about the parameters of that hearing, and the white house believed it would be limited to steve bannon's time prior to the election. so solely focusing on the campaign and then at some point yesterday, as that line of

questioning was getting under way, the attorney for steve bannon alerted the white house that the questions were going outside of those bounds and so that's part of why you saw bannon and his attorney push back, based on my reporting, there are conversations ongoing about what might be a potential follow-up interview with steve bannon to get some of that critical information, andrea. >> many thanks to kristen welker and casey hunt, both of you for starting us off. now senator bernie sanders, senator from maine, joining us. we have never seen before where you have a specific group of 600,000 to 800,000 young people who have shown their dedication of this country through either service, military service, their college work, they had been promised protection and therefore identified themselves

and came out of the shadows and identified themselves with homeland security, now they face deportation. are democrats going to give up whatever leverage they have and agree to a short-term continuing resolution and push this down to february? >> andrea, i and i think i speak for the vast majority of members of the democratic caucus, we're not going to dessert these young people. this to my mind is one of the great moral crises of our time, as you have indicated, these are young people who were raised in the united states, they spent almost their whole lives here, they know no other country. and as a result of trump's precipitous action in september, when he rescinded the executive order that obama established, these young people, if we do not get our act together will be subjected to the possibility of deportati deportation. this is unspeakable. it is unacceptable. when trump rescinded the

executive order, he said to congress, you guys have got to fix it. we need legislation, well, there have been some serious people, democrats and republicans who have been working on a variety of ideas to fix it. and we cannot keep kicking this issue down the can. trump started this crisis, we have got to resolve it and we have got to stand with the dreamers of this country. and by the way, that's not bernie sanders, that is the vast majority of the american people in poll after poll after poll. protect the legal status of the dreamers, provide a path toward citizenship. >> is there a tradeoff in play among some of your colleagues, the chip program for children versus the dreamers as a bargaining tool? is there some sort of deal making, horse fraytrading going? >> andrea, the situation is so absurd, you've got a republican

party that in the last year wanted to throw 30 million people off of health insurance, give huge tax breaks to billionaires and net neutrality have net recognized the reality of climate change, and now 3 1/2 months into the new fiscal year, they have yet to reauthorize the children's health insurance program or the community health center program which by the way provides health insurance to 27 million people. this is beyond belief. what republicans must understand, is they have got to start negotiating in a bipartisan manner, they cannot have it all if they want 60 votes. and that means also, not only protecting the dreamers, it means parody between defense and nondefense spending. if they want to spend a zillion dollars more on defense, you know what? we have got to take care of the working class of this country, we ought to take care of veterans, we have got to make sure the social security

administration is adequately funded, we have to deal with the student debt crisis and child care and all of the issues that working class families are struggling with. and lastly, we have got to deal with disaster relief and make sure that puerto rico and the virgin islands who have no representation in the u.s. senate just as fairly as texas and florida. >> i want to relay to you, senator leahy, the questions he was posing to the homeland security secretary neilson, about what happened in the oval office, what she says she didn't hear, the vulgar or racist language that the president reportedly used according to multiple sources and especially dick durbin. let me play this exchange from judiciary. >> what does he mean when he says he wants more immigrants from norway? >> i don't believe he said that specifically. what he was saying was he was using norway as an example of a

country that is, what he specifically was referring to was the prime minister saying that the people of norway work very hard. >> norway is a predominantly white with country, isn't it? >> i actually do not know that, sir, but i imagine that is the case. >> now secretary neilson spells her pittsburfirst name with a j following a consonant, which is a very common norwegian, like fjord, neilson is a very common danish and norwegian name, i don't know her background, but you would think she would understand that norway is predominantly white? >> let us agree, yes, norway is predominantly white. what is very interesting, andrea, is we put something up on our facebook in terms of

trump's racist comments and it turns out right now that more people are leaving the united states to go to norway than are coming from norway to the united states for good reason. norway is a strong social democracy, guarantees health care to all people, strong child care, strong pension program and that's that. but bottom line here, in terms of discussion in the oval office, i have known dick durbin for many, many years, he and i disagree on this or that issue. and nobody doubts the integrity and honesty of dick durbin. >> does she have a credibility problem going on with capitol hill? >> i think so, i think what she was there for is to try to protect president trump and that is something that's pretty hard to do. >> senator, thank you very much, thanks for being with us today. >> thank you. >> and coming up, double crossed, a former cia officer under arrest for giving highly classified information to the chinese government leading to

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in one of the worst intelligence breaches in decades, a former cia officer is now behind bars, charged with unlawful possession of some of the country's most closely guarded secrets.

53-year-old jerry chung singh lee is afound -- leading to the death of 20 u.s. agents. joining us is pete williams, nbc justice correspondent. pete, first to you, what do we know from this affidavit? >> you're right, the charges are that he illegally produced classified documents. what the fbi says is they searched his hotel room nearly six years ago when he was flying from hong kong where he lived to the united states. he stopped off in honolulu, and came to fairfax, virginia, which is just outside washington here, the same area where the krooici and while he was traveling, searched his hotel room. and in his luggage, they say they found two handwritten notebooks that the fbi says contain the names and phone numberings of covert cia operatives and in essence cia

operatives or informants and he had no reason to possess these documents outside of normal classified channels. that's all the the challenges say. but they say they suspect he is in essence a mole, someone who was leaking the names of these covert operatives, of these very closely held secrets to the chinese government and eventually up to 20 people disappeared, they were either impress son -- why if they searched his hotel six years ago, nearly six years ago, are they just filing these charges now? and what we're told is that the fbi was looking very closely into this, trying to figure out who was this mole, the fbi it turns out actually interviewed lee, five times after finding these documents.

he never once in any of these interviews, the fbi says that he disclosed that he had them, and finally they decided when he was going to travel the united states again, they decided to file these charges and arrest him, he arrived at jfk in new york on a cafe specific flight from hong kong monday night and shortly after that he was arrested. >> pete, hang on because we want to bring in john mclaughlin, who knows very well as a former acts deputy director of the cia knows that you have to have active espionage charges. >> they have sufficient information to put him in jail and to pursue this further, and to make some charges, but to actually charge someone with espionage, you almost have to catch them in the act, as we did with robert hanson, the fbi spy when we caught him putting a dead drop, that is a cache of

documents under a bridge in fairfax county, virginia. so we caught this man with possession of information that he shouldn't have. the next question is, what evidence do we have that he actually transferred that information to the chinese and someone is working on that, i'm sure, we know only the bare bones of this case at this point. >> and there's always a problem, isn't there, pete, with bringing some of these cases because a defendant is entitled to discovery, to know what the evidence against him or her is, and in cases involving highly classified information, often the government doesn't want to put it out there for everyone to see. >> right, to the logical question here is if he is suspected of giving this information to the chinese, why isn't he charged with it. you just heard mr. mclaughlin say one possible reason is they don't have that kind of smoking gun information. the second reason i heard from federal officials is that in a case like this the government

doesn't want to be forced to show all its cards and if they can get a serious charge against him and get prison time, that will do the trick and not have to make a full espionage case and lay out all their cards and look at the kind of secrets that they don't normally like to disclose, even if there are in criminal cases routes to protect classified information, it's still a road that the government doesn't like to go down. >> it could turn out that they're going to have a debate internally whether to retaliate against china if they do make that connection and realize na some of our assets were killed in china. >> retaliation in a case like this is tricky. typically it can amount to expulsion, it can amount to routine relationships that you have with another country, usually with the chinese, we're

able to talk to them. and if you cut that off, like in the case of cia spy back in the '90s. i don't think we're at that point here. i think there's much more to learn about this case. >> and what about inside the agency, first of all there's the loss of 20 people who were putting their lives on the line for the united states who have been lost to us because of this treasonous act if it's proved. but secondly, you start a whole account of intelligence to make sure that this guy was operating alone. >> you do all of those things, andrea, this is probably the most serious thing that ever happened to an intelligence officer like the cia, because you lose sources that are valued and trusted and whose confidence they had in you, you lose all of that. and yes, it breaks the

fundamental thing that keeps an intelligence service going, which is trust. it's very hard counter intelligence work that is detecting this sort of thing, sensing when it's happening is the hardest thing we do, because as in your profession or other pr professions, you are close to your colleagues, you come to trust them, you do things together and to imagine that one of them is working for the other si side is always very difficult and if you inject too much of that into the culture, it begins to also poison the culture because it starts to work against the trust. so there's a fine balance to be struck here, which i think the agency and the fbi have learned to do. but it's the toughest thing we do. >> john mclaughlin, the voice of experience here as well as pete williams. thank you both so much. and coming up, mass exit, nearly all the members of a national parks service advisory panel hitting the road,

resigning en masse because of security secretary ryan zinke. stay with us on msnbc.

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frustration with interior secretary ryan zinke has sparked a mass resignation, nine of the 12 board members stepping down this week after they say secretary zinke refused to meet with them or hold a single meeting in all of 2017. gretchen long resigned after serving more than a decade on the national parks committee. tell me the importance of this board and your frustration at being rebuffed by the secretary of the interior. >> good morning, andrea, it is a pleasure to be with you, and i am in one of the country's beautiful places, jackson hole, wyomi wyoming. we tried very much, we tried and failed to get the secretary's

attention. chairman nulls of the advisory board and i both tried to reach the national parks service as well as the secretary's office over the last year to draw out of their attention that we exist and we have been doing very important work and we would very much like to meet with the secretary. we have received no reply, no answer. over the year, we're supposed to have two meetings, which we are supposed to have in the last seven i have served. no communication, no response, so clearly they're disinterested in the work that's been done so far by the advisory board and we felt as a group it was time to give our resignation and hopefully perhaps bring it to the public's attention the important role that the advisory board has in

theed advisory board is really board of national public engagement. thousands of citizens, of whom i am one, from different backgrounds and expertise are brought together in a unapproximaupublic process, in which the public is often involved and try to give our advice and guidance to the parks service on issues and challenges that they're addressing and that they would wish our advice and guidance on. that's half of what we do, but there's another half, if i may, that's critically important, we are the only group prescribed by law to designate national history landmarks and national natural landmarks. and without an advisory board, there can be no such designations. >> so do you think this is part of what we have seen with, of

course, reducing the size of the monuments, and we have also seen with the epa and other boards where the scientific boards have been ignored, disbanded, pushed aside, is this just part of the new regulatory climate, truck safety is another issue that's gone by the boards. >> we do see it part of that total package. the board was trying to address the challenges of the 21st century national parks service and that included new approaches to reach out to youth, new technologies to engage the next generation, how to increase private philanthropy, how to ensure the role of science in management decisions, and i want to speak a little more about that later. how to work with urban communities, how to consider financial needs and i think these are all items that are of particular interest to this administration and it is part of

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nbc news has learned that former trump campaign manager cory lewandowski will appear before the mueller committee this week. let's get the inside scoop from the white house correspondent for the "new york post" and the white house correspondent for the "new york times," peter baker. peter to you first, the insiders being questioned by the committees, we now know that steve bannon has been subpoenaed by the mueller grand jury and we confirm that she's indicating or people close to her are indicating that he's going to cooperate with the mueller investigation. what are the implications of that? >> apparently we're hearing about executive privilege with the special prosecutor and implications that he's going to

tell them what he knows. if you're the special prosecutor, you want to know what he meant when he told michael wolf that he actually had information on money laundering. what does he mean when he said that donald trump jr. was treasonous when he had that meeting with the russian lawyer in 2016. we don't know if he knows anything about money laundering, we don't know that steve bannon knows anything that would be in any way incriminating, but if you're the special prosecutor, you're going to want to ask about it because he was there during some pretty key moments including the fire of james comey and other things while he was in the white house. >> and he was very involved in cambridge analytical, that was not only involved with the campaign's data mining and social media presence, that is being looked at for any connection with wikileaks and other aspects of the russian

investigation. >> yeah, i mean his knowledge spans a number of areas and points in time that not only the congressional committee, committees, plural, that are looking into this, but certainly mueller is interested in. i mean, he is not going to be most likely a key decision maker about what meetings and, you know, who meets with who, and all of that that mueller is looking at from trump's time in the white house, but he clearly would know a lot about who was supposed to be holding meetings and why, and sort of, you know, he was a fly on the wall for a lot of that period and at one point he was on the national security council. >> and in terms of being a fly on the wall, peter, there was a time when he would be the last person self-describing himself as the last person to leave the oval office, knowing the president's predilection for

listening to whoever talked to him last? >> that's right and obviously the president and the white house have tried to downplay bannon's role especially since the book came out a couple of weeks ago, saying that bannon had nothing to do with the presidency. he seems to have his own point of view about things and he seems to obviously have broken on some level anyway with the president, the question then becomes does he have any actual information that might be in any way change our understanding of what we already know about what's going on. he said he had a reel in arguing against the firing of james comey as fbi director, for instance, does steve bannon have any more information about that that might pertain to a potential obstruction case that robert mueller might or might not be trying to build. he's obviously a pretty well

placed person and we don't know whether he will be important to the special prosecutor or not. >> a lot happening on that front. thanks to both of you. and executives from facebook and twitter are on capitol hill trying to stem the tide of the -- after the hacking of 2016. today facebook is facing new scrutiny after three silicon valley insiders spoke exclusively with business correspondent. >> facebook is a living, breathing crime scene for what happened in the 2016 election and only they have full access to what happened. >> reporter: from three silicon valley insiders. did facebook neglect it's responsibility to it's users? >> in retro spekt definitely. >> reporter: robin matthews to ceo mark zuckerberg, a former facebook manager and a former

design ethicist at google. together they say they prioritized profits over -- carried out in part through targeted ads on facebook. now speaking on camera for the first time, saying he sounded the alarm for four years before the 2016 election. warning senior executives during the arab spring that the social network could be misused by foreign governments. >> it makes me terrified that something that i had a small part in helping to build is being used by people with really bad intent against america. >> joining me now is democratic senator jeanne shaheen of new hampshire who serves on the foreign relations services committee. jeanine, welcome. i have spoken to former executives on facebook who are

horrified about what facebook enabled russia to do. only last week i was covering senator carden's report on what we have not done to protect against this happening again. >> well, that's right and we have known since we got the first report on russian interference in our election, we have known this is a problem, that we needed to do something about it. we have seen it not just in the united states but across europe, in england with brexit, in france and germany for their elections. and we have an administration that has refused ed td to ackn that this is a problem. we have got the ceos in some of our top social media companies who have also refused to acknowledge the extent of the problem. >> which have got a statement from facebook from joe lean kent's reporting, is that facebook is a vastly different company from when it was first founded, in the past year we have worked to destroy the business model for false news

and reduce its spread, stop fake news and find a new level of transparency. >> there is a new -- political ads to have the same kind of disclaimer that political ads on television have. we need to do that. we need to look at other interference and really disinformation that's being put out there, you know, i called very early for rt to be registered as a foreign agent. >> that's russia propaganda tv. >> because of their connections to russia and this disinformation that russia is spreading is, i think, of huge concern because which hae have population that is not prepared to understand that what they may see as a story on social media that they think has been shared by friends and so it's got to be true is really not true and we don't have any education yet designed to try and address this. >> i also want to ask you about

the nuclear posture review. because you're on armed services, this is being submitted to the president for his approval. it includes a very big change in when the united states would be willing to use a nuclear weapon. in the past, it's only been in response to a nuclear exchange, but here it's ill defined threats, fundamental threats to the united states could be cyber threat. >> right. >> and, you know, they talk about extreme circumstances, but those extreme circumstances are not defined well. >> they're subjective. >> that's right. and it also talks about an expansion of smaller nuclear weapons. it suggests that it's okay to have a nuclear strike and to have a first strike in response to something that's going on. and i think that's what i find so frightening about this policy. we should be focused on how to avoid a nuclear strike, how to

focus on ploem diplomacy, we ha done that despite the rhetoric from the department of state, we need to beef that up, we need work in conjunction with the military, we need to look at economic assistance and economic tools that we can use to achieve our goals. >> is this totally up to the executive, to the commander in chief? does congress play a locarole? >> congress needs to play a role, i think we need to speak out and say there are certain elements that are acceptable. there is a leaked copy, so we haven't seen the final draft. so this is an opportunity to let members of the administration, the secretary of defense know what our concerns are. >> senator, always great to see you. >> nice to be here. >> and senator jeff flake taking the senate floor to blast the president for his attacks on the media, comparing him to soviet dictator josef stalin.

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heading down stairs to testify to the house intelligence committee today. joining me now former congresswoman donna edwards and rick tyler, republican strategist. welcome both. so let's talk about the speech from jeff flake. he's a republican, but is leaving the senate. he gave a very strong speech on the senate floor today criticizing the president and his whole obsession with so-called fake news. his attacks on the news media. let's watch. >> it is a testament to the condition of our democracy that our own users words infamously spoken by joseph stalin to describe his enemies. so frout with malice was the people that even the key to choose. >> rick tyler, jeff flake have a point? or is this a case where the president is tapping into a lot of anger at the news media?

>> there's a lot of anger in the news media, but the knew media is a fact, it's not a problem. the news media is open and integral to a free society. it was in john mccain's interview over 260 journalists have been imprisoned in 2017. over 60 lost their lives covering the news. we are fortunate in the united states that our journalists are not imprisoned and most don't lose their lives from covering the news, but some do. it is important to our freedom is and to democracy and cannot have an open and free society unless someone who is disinterested holds them accountable and reports that to the people so the people put pressure to self-correct. if they don't do that, the result is tyranny. >> and john mccain with an op-ed today. let me share with our viewers. trump aes attempts to undermine the free press also make it more difficult to hold e repressive governments accountable.

congress must commit to protecting independent journalism, preserving media environment and defending the fundamental right to freedom of opinion ask expression. i have traveled with the secretary of state or chased after his plane since we don't travel on his plane in places like russia and turkey, where he does not speak out about the importance of the free press the way many of his predecessors did. this administration has not made that a high value. >> every year the state department actually issues a report on human rights. one of the elements that we examine in countries across the world is press freedom. and you cannot have a secretary of state or a president of the united states attacking the press in this way. then in other kocountries like turkey and russia, myanmar and places like journalists are being jailed, they use the

united states as a guide. we have repressive governments across the world who are now declaring what they are doing and what they are facing is fake news because they are replicating, dupe licating whatt is they hear from the president of the united states. this is a really sad day. jeff flake and john mccain both pointed to the danger in the world when that happens. >> rick tyler, it's when you hear and see the president of the united states praising president ird wan and others that crack down on a free press that that's send inging a clear signal. >> it does send is a clear signal. mexico is is now the most dangerous places to be a journalist. and every time the president says fake news you put not only journalists at risk, you put freedom at risk. in the united states, the moral authority to put pressure to

have open -- to awe low journalists to do their job. if they don't, then again, it leads to tyranny. that leads to more corruption, more tyranny, more people being poor in the country and losing their lives. it's dangerous. >> we're going to have to leave that there. thank you so much. we'll be right back. do you know how to network like a champ? and when is a good time to have some fun in the office? i've got some great answers that might help you run a better business. check out the your business page for an exclusive online video series to help you work smart, grow fast and go further. thank you so much. thank you! so we're a go? yes! we got a yes! what does that mean for purchasing? purchase. let's do this. got it. book the flights!

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