>> there you go, chris, that's the latest from here. back to you. >> on the scene in austin. >> please, sir, keep walking. >> there is an explosion, as you heard. that will do it for "all in". >> thanks to you at home for joining us, we have a lot to get to tonight, a lot to get to over the course of this hour including this breaking news this hour from austin, texas where as you just saw with chris, law enforcement has been dealing with a series of scary and in some cases deadly bombings. the bombings started on march 2 2nd when a package exploded and kill a man on his porch. they have killed two and wounded four before tonight plus another person who was hurt when a package exploded before dawn this morning at a fedex facility about an hour south of town. well, now tonight, we have reports just within the last hour of another explosion. this would be the sixth bomb,

the sixth explosion. the initial reporting from the a.p. is that it happened at a goodwill store. a man in his 30s has been injured in this latest blast. he's been taken to the hospital with potentially serious but reportedly non-life tlhreatenin injuries. we'll talk live to a reporter on the scene in austin, texas in a minute as you watch this news unfold. you can tell this story is developing and we're just starting to get first information, first credible information from first responders and law enforcement on the scene. we'll be getting a live report on that in just a few moments with a reporter on the scene. now i should also tell you that we've got virginia senator mark warner here tonight for the interview. this is, i think, an important time to have senator warner here i . it appears to be a moment of crisis. senator warner will join us live for an extended interview coming up later on this hour. on november 9th, 2016, the day

after the trump clinton presidential election, the ceo of the data firm that the trump campaign used during the election, they put out a proud statement about what had just happened. they put out a statement that said quote, we are thrilled that our revolutionary approach to data-driven communications played such a big part in president elect donald trump's win. that statement in response to the news that donald trump had just won the presidential election from the ceo of the firm cambridge analytica. today alexander nicks was removed from the firm. the board of directors announcing they are removing him pending an immediate investigation into recent statements about the company's practices in recent election campaigns. this follows a third day of reporting from britain's channel four including tape where alexander nix explains what his

company's role was in getting donald trump elected. >> have you met mr. trump? >> many times. >> you have? >> all the data, all the analytics, all the digital campaign, television campaign and form a strategy. >> all the research, all the data, all the analytics, all the targeting, we ran all the digital campaign, the television campaign and our data informed all the strategy. we did it basically. that ceo of trump's campaign data firm is out of that company as of tonight. british investigators are seeking search warrants. here in the united states the federal trade commission announced an investigation into facebook because of its dealings with this company and in the context of the on going special counsel's investigation by robert mueller and his team of prosecutors, questions are now being raised about several aspects of this firm and its work for the trump campaign.

including this new revelation from a whistle blower from the former research director that says the core data that the firm was built around, the spine of the company was data obtained from facebook illicitly by a russian-speaking cambridge university professor getting research grants from the russian government. this same whistle blower from cambridge is reporting that a russian oil company close to the putin government also took meetings with cambridge analytica focused on techniques to influence american voters. why would a russian oil company care about that? so that's all sort of royal the background in today's news. the president reportedly approaching yet good republican super lawyer to try to add some talent to his russia legal team.

"the washington post" reporting that the president's request to former solicitor came as the president is feeling more vulnerable to the investigation led by special counsel robert mueller. the president said he wants to recruit top tier talent for his legal team, which is probably not a very nice thing for his existing, not necessarily top tier legal team to read in the washington post. but at least, ted olson turned down the president, turned down the president that requested he join his russia team. this comes after at least one other blue chip lawyer in recent days as also reportedly turned down the president. but the mere fact the president is trying to get lawyers on as of this late date, how newly serious the white house perceives to be. our closest overseas ally in the

world is great britain. i think -- i mean, they still -- i mean, at least that's what we thought for the past several generations. let's assume they are still the most important overseas ally. as such, it's important to us as a country that britain right now is dealing with an incredibly serious situation of their own. >> the attempted assassination of two people on british soil for which there is no alternative conclusion other than that the russian state was culpable. it is russia that is inflagrant breach of international law and chemical weapons convention. we will never tolerate a threat to the life of british citizens and others on british soil from the russian government. >> our quarrel is with putin's kremlin and with his decision and we think it overwhelmingly would be likely it was his decision to direct the use of a nerve agent on the streets of the u.k., on the streets of

europe for the first time since the second world war. that is why we're at odds with russia. >> the united kingdom will expel 23 russian diplomats who have been identified as undeclared intelligence officers. they have just one week to leave. >> those russian diplomats, undeclared intelligence officers, they got kicked out of the u.k. today. we've actually got footage of them leaving. these are the russian diplomats and their families. all together the russian embassy says it was 80 people in total bundled into vans and taken to the airport outside london where they boarded a russian state-owned plane which flew them to moscow. these diplomats were undeclared intelligence agents. they were expelled by britain today as punishment for the nerve agent poisoning sergey and his daughter in the british city of sales barry.

an attack the u.s. government agree was carried out by the russian government. now, one of the reasons everybody is so certain this poisoning was carried out by the russians is the nerve agent used was invented by the russians. it's a class of nerve agents dealing with a weapon one country has it's particularly scary to think about that being brought into a town in britain and used in an attempted assassination but even beyond the fear factor, just as a practical matter, we as the general public can't imagine what this particular agent might physically do to people when its used on them. since the skripals were attacked, it's striking how little we found out about the condition of the two people

attacked. we know they have been in the hospital in critical condition since they were both found slumped on a bench. we're told they are both still alive but that's it. today a russian publication called "the bell" ran an interview with a man that helped create this class of nerve agents for the russian military and if what this scientists says is true, it's a lot more information but it not the kind of information i'm -- i'm not sure i'm happy to know this i o informati information. it's unsettling. is there even a minimal chance the victims of this poisoning might recover. he replies quote, most likely they will suffer the same fate as earlier victims, there is no cure to the agents. if they are taken off life support, they will die but now they are technically alive.

this man says he's one of the creators. we posted a link to the bell's fair warning it will keep you up. that scientist says there are batches as large as several kilos, several kilograms. he has no idea what happened to the stockpiles. large doses were stored in a warehouse. i don't know what else happened beyond where they were stored. that's the situation in the closest overseas ally. two people remain in critical condition after an attack with a nerve agent. it's appearance on a british park bench. 23 diplomats and their families expelled as of today. the u.k.'s leaders condemning russia in the strongest possible terms. oh, and another death of another russian kremlin critic on

british soil being investigated by british counterterrorism police in a murder inquiry. his death eight days after the attack. it's very serious stuff in britain right now. meanwhile, here in the united states it was five days ago they finally enacted sanctions on russia in our election in 2016. after slow walking four months the sanctions that the trump administration was legally required to impose on russia. finally, five days ago the u.s. government under donald trump finally admitted the russians did mess with our election and yes, we will okay agree to do something about it and so they finally for the first time put these sanctions on. that was five days ago. also, five days ago the very same day the u.s. finally issued these sanctions on russia for actions in the 2016 election, at the same time, that same day we also got this very serious technical announcement from the

fbi and the department of homeland security about russian government attackers going after american infrastructure, specifically after u.s. power plants. this technical alert from the department of homeland security and fbi announcing that russian government entities have hacked into u.s. power plants, not just to mess with them or steal data but so they would have the ability to turn the american electric grid on and off at will. sort of intense couple weeks poisoning people with a previously unknown nerve agent. freaking serious, right? hacking into the american electric grid so as to have the power to turn it on and off at will also freaking serious. not to mention the election stuff. russia's behavior is a little off the hook right now. and this morning, this is what the president of the united

states had to say about it. >> i had a call with president putin and congratulated him on the victory, his electoral victory. the call had to do also with the fact that we will probably get together in the not too distant future. we had a very good call and i suspect we'll probably be meeting in the not too distant future so i think probably we'll be seeing president putin in the not too distant future. >> president trump called moscow to congratulate vladimir putin on his big election win this weekend, which was easier to win because he wouldn't let opponents run but just in case you missed the important part, such a good call, such a good guy, did i mention we're getting together in the not too distant future? i think we'll be seeing him in the not too distant future. the reason we knew there was a

call, once again the kremlin announced it. quote, in whole the conversation was business like with a focus on overcoming the accumulated problems in russia american relations said the kremlin this morning and then a reporter asked trump about it because we had gotten word from the kremlin and that allowed him to deliver the great news about scoring a meeting with putin. well now tonight, "the washington post" has one of these scoops that sounds like it was made up for a movie about this kind of situation at the top of american political leadership. it is reported that when the president decided to make this call to president putin today, he sort of went rogue against his own advisors. here is the lead of the story. again, this is almost unbelievable. listen to this. president trump did not follow specific warnings from his national security adversaries when he congratulated russian president vladimir putin today

on his reelection. including a section in his briefing materials in all capital letters stating quote, do not congratulate. i'll just leave that up on the screen for a minute so you can let that wash over you. the national security advisors wrote him a note in all capital letters saying do not congratulate putin for his sham election victory. do not legitimize that fake election. do not say congratulations all capital letters and the president gets on the phone with him and says hey, congratulations. there is more. quote, president trump also chose not to heed talking points from aids instructing him to condemn putin about the recent poisoning of a former russian sky in the united kingdom with a powerful nerve agent. make sure you don't congratulate him and condemn him for the nerve agent thing.

earlier in the day we did have heads up somehow that difficult subject didn't come up. >> and you said election ma meddling didn't come up. did the recent poisoning in the united kingdom come up in the call? >> i don't think that came up in the call. >> uh-uh. i don't think that came up. well, now, thanks to this new reporting from "the washington post" we know that subject didn't come up even after national security aids at the white house specifically advised the president that if he was going to call putin, he really needed to condemn putin for that. remember, the u.s. government has joined the u.k. in concluding that that nerve agent attack was committed by the russian government and condemning that attack. so the president aids say if you call the person who we as a u.s. government have said is responsible for the attack, you have to bring up the attack. why would the president disregard that kind of advice?

why would the president blow off and there by legitimize a nerve agent attack that the u.s. government said was committed by russia? why would he neglect to mention that? why would the president ignore the all capital letters warning do not congratulate. when he never thele lneverthel t congratulates putin, what is driving his behavior that is so different than what his national security staff believe is the right thing for the country? explains the distance between when the president is doing and his own national security staff say the president of the united states needs to do? joining us now is carol.

thanks for joining us. >> thank you. >> these were warnings from the national security advisors. do you know what kind of advisors these were. >> so whenever the president has a call with a foreign leader, there is usually a lot of effort put into briefing him about the important hot topics in the region and what he's likely to be asked by the foreign leader and what issues that are really like the hot list that he should address with that person and there is a panel plea often putting together with this information and important call, each one of these calls is considered part of our foreign diplomacy. and index cards are provided to kind of guide this president and others in the past through the call and apparently these staffers felt that it was important to make clear that they were key topics that should

come up and key things that shouldn't be said and the president seemed to basically chose for himself what he should do, which is his right. >> is it clear that the president do accept some of the other advice of the national security aids and these were on this putin call in particular that this warning not to cong t congratwacongra congratulate putin and condemn the nerve attack in the u.k., were those the only things he shouldn't advised about. >> that's all we know other than what the president and sarah sanders and some sources said were topics that came up in the meeting for example syria and north korea but these are the two places where we know things kind of went off the script and the reason that it is concerning is not because the president has the right to make these decisions all on his own but there was a perception that it would not be very good given the

current state of affairs. we're under investigation in the white house for potential campaign ties to russians, out reach for russians to the trump advisor team. it wouldn't look too good because really our ally, the united kingdom is now facing the attack on its own soil on not a citizen but a person who was in their country and that's considered very serious. one of our allies is struggling with that issue and believes the russians are culpable. it was not viewed as a good idea to congratulate putin on this moment but the president chose to do it. >> you seen and we mentioned this in the piece and i thought this was an important reference, we've seen the president hold handwritten notes giving cues to people before. this one famously with a fifth point, i hear you. this was for a meeting with shooting survivors after the

parkland, florida school massacre. we've seen the president get these notes before. what is particularly striking is we haven't learned about this all caps warning do not congratulate putin, the warning make sure to condemn putin over the nerve agent. we haven't learned this because somebody in the case of that shooting took a snapshot of the picture and we managed to get a glimpse of it. clearly, people familiar with the warnings from the president's national security aids wanted to make it known to national security reporters to you and your coal lelleagues at both the president ignored this advice. is it your sense and your reporting that this was an effort by the president's own staffers to kind of signal to him that what he did was wrong or that it was dangerous or to try to raise the alarm about the president's behavior. >> i'd be careful about the

sourcing. i will tell you, rachel, after the president's call with vladimir putin, there was quite a scuffle in the white house what had just gone down, sort of omg moment of what are we going to say about this call? are we going to say that the president congratulated putin? will the russians kind of took that choice out of the hands of the white house by announcing that trump had congratulated their leader. but there was quite a burst of activity trying to figure out what to do so this became fairly widely known pretty quickly. >> that's remarkable. national reporter for t"the washington post". congratulations on this scoop. this is obviously really important and also fascinating. thanks. >> thank you, rachel. >> again, just to under score what carol just said, her phrase exactly quite a kescuffle and o

moment to figure out how to make sense and explain this call between the president and vladimir putin today. we had not known in advance this call would happen. the kremlin was first to announce it and we're told that the president ignored his national security aids' direct advice not to congratulate putin. he went ahead and did it and make sure to condemn the russian nerve attack, nerve agent attack in the u.k. remarkable reporting, remarkable story. coming up next, we'll go live to austin, texas. we're getting some new and important information about the reported explosion that sent one person to the hospital tonight in a scity that is on edge afte a series of bombings in that texas city. we got the live report with senator mark warner. a lot going on tonight. stay with us. ams. ♪ we came with big appetites.

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>> we're looking live at the scene in austin, texas. this was reported as an explosion after five bombs exploded since march 2nd. austin authorities are saying

what happened at a goodwill store in south austin tonight wasn't the result of a bomb but instead they are saying it was some device. austin police put out a statement that says at this time we have no reason to beleiieve this incident is related to pre u previous package bombs. it happened at a goodwill store. it happened to man in his 30s. he was taken to the hospital with serious injuries that is not life threatening. austin, texas is a cultural capital that is unique and beloved and important at lots of different levels and austin has been in the grip of this bizarre string of bombings all this month. in the past 19 days, two have been killed and another five have been injured in five separate explosions before whatever this was this goodwill stone in brody lane in austin tonight. the first bomb in austin went

off on march 2nd. the package left on a porch exploded and that seemed like a bizarre stand alone story and it happened a third time then over this weekend a bomb was set off by a trip wire which made it seem like a different type of device, two people injured with the trip wire bomb then overnight in the predawn hours, there was an explosion of a package at a fedex facility and a second package at the same facility intercepted before it could explode. authorities believe those incidents are all related and we got word of another explosion tonight. again, this intriguing and interesting news just moments ago from the austin police department, austin police saying they don't believe the one tonight is related. their statement tonight says quote, there was no package explosion in the 9800 block of brody lane in austin. items inside package was not a

bomb, rather an incendiary device. so, this is a still developing situation. let's go right to our reporter on the ground in austin tonight. nbc's gabe gutierrez who has been following this story. thank you for joining us. correct me if there is anything i said there that does not go with your reporting of events. >> reporter: no, you hit it spot on. you did mention there was a second bomb intercepted at a fete fedex facility. you said it was near san antonio but it was near the austin airport. in the past couple hours authorities linked all five plus the sixth package as being part of this serial bomber. as you mentioned, within the past few minutes we got word that the latest what we thought was an explosion being labeled

not a bomb but an incendiary device. here on brody lane, this is a massive, massive police spre presence. we got a few more details on what happened and he says a short time ago one of his employees in his 30s was actually looking through a bag of donations and that is when he noticed a flash of some sort according to the president of 2k3w50d wi goodwill central texas and that flash, people started moving away from the being of donations and this employee suffered minor injuries to his hand. initially we heard they were serious, according to the president of goodwill, he said they were minor injuries. as we spoke to him, he was getting updates from the staff and it appears to be a fluid situation and rachel, i think

this speaks to how much this city is on edge just a short time before, an hour, hour and a half ago, the initial call is this was yet another explosion and atf, fbi, austin police were responding to this as if it could be an explosion but again, within the past few minutes, breaking news that this is not believed to be related to those other explosions, the five other explosions, as well as the sixth package intercepted. >> gabe, in terms of the authorities saying those other bombs, those other packages, those other explosions are all linked, crucially we're talking about five ones that blew up and one that didn't from everything i know from talking to law enforcement sources in cases like this, having an unexploded de vic device, in tact device to do

forensics to find the bomber and what is going on. do we know anything how they linked the five bombs and concluded those were linked and whether this unexploded device has been key to their investigation? >> well, as you know, rachel, authorities have been tight lipped about the details but the fourth and fifth bomb at least is our understanding that it contained nails in order to inflict more damage. that's according to the fourth bomb, the trip wire bomb, we spoke with the grandfather of a victim that says that his grandson had nails in his and was seriously injured. in the fifth explosion, that one that happened overnight north of san antonio, in that case according to the dispatch logs, the initial report was yes, there were nails in that package, as well. we do not know in the sixth package, the one that went that was not the detonator or did not

explode, we understand there were about to detonate it later on in the day, at least authorities were. we don't know what type of forensic information they were able to get from that package but certainly rachel, today is a crucial day for investigators because they have been able to not only get that package but also surveillance video from that other fedex facility where the serial bomber is suspected of nailing two of those packages. that was another fedex facility also on brody lane that authorities are looking a t now to determine how this went down. >> gabe ambiguityier re ygutierr joining us. much appreciated, my friend. >> you bet. >> what gabe said is heartening. this is a long time to have gone and a lot of bombs for austin to have gone through and a lot of people hurt and too many people

killed to not yet be closing in on someone but again, interesting news tonight that although there was a sixth incident in austin, this incident at a goodwill store in the 9800 block of brody lane. in this case, they do not think this was related to the earlier five bombs and sixth unexploded device they were able to recore. s senator mark warner joins us next. stay with us. (bickering.) mom! that island without men or children would be nice to visit thing. buy at&t unlimited and get hbo included. $40 per line for four lines. more for your thing. that's our thing.

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credit for. >> when you think about the fact that donald trump lost the popular vote by all 3 million votes and within ton the electv you move more people out in those swing states on election day, that's how he won the election. >> have you met mr. trump? >> many times. >> you have? >> all the data, all the analytics, we want all the digital campaign, television campaign and our data will form the strategy. >> all the vergresearch, all th targeting, all the digital campaign, all the television campaign and we provided the data for all of it. more undercover video into cambridge analytica. alexander nix follows the footage they put out yesterday

detailing services that he said cambridge analytica can offer to help you, something involving ukrainian girls being sent to your home. at the heart of the reporting is the result they built the operation on facebook data that took from 50 million unsuspecting americans. well today, alexander nix got suspended from his own companyfecompan company fect effective immediately. the senate intelligence committee investigating russia's attack on the election took a piece of their investigation off the stove today calling it basically cooked. senate intel put out their list today of security recommendations for how america should sure up our elections against another attack that is surely comcoming.

with a great deal of confidence, it's clear they were looking at the vulnerabilities in our election system. so the ceo of the trump campaign's data firm is suspended. their investigations of the stolen data that flooded the election and the senate closed up a big chunk of their russia investigation saying it is complete and just a few day ago, the deputy director of the fbi was fired, andrew mccabe saying he was fired to discredit him as a witness in special counsel robert mueller's probe to shut the whole thing down. so that's three really big things going on same tan uimult. joining us now is senator mark warner. he joins us live. senator, thank you for your time tonight. i know it's an incredibly busy time. >> thank you, rachel. >> let me ask you first about cambridge analytica. you have a tech background

yourself and taken an acute interest in the data side and money side and the sort of not front page side of how the russian attack worked in our election. how concerned are you about the vent journal revelations? are these things reported about the firm and the way it operates or some of the stuff you've been able to figure out in the intelligence investigation? >> i had questions about cambridge since the beginning of this investigation. this is a sketchy firm that operated on behalf of mr. trump but a series of countries known for their ability to disrupt an elect elector process and explains why in so many ways, the trump campaign in effect crept up on a lot of folks because their ability to use data, to use our social media companies in ways prior to the last election. i don't think the united states

government and some of these companies were prepared for. there are a lot more stories to be told. >> when the firm does the sales pitch because of the undercover investigation, we've seen them marketing themselves and bragging about their capabilities to an under cover report who they thought was a potential client. when i look at that reporting and see the way cambridge describes it selself in private versus the way they played down their influence in the trump campaign in the public statements, part of me is left wondering is this just typical political v political strategy? is this the way firms work, talk a big game in private and play down the effectiveness. is it clear to you they were doing something substantially different than other public

political conusulting firms do? >> cambridge analytica said they had a new formula, a bert ability to really drill down on millions of americans in terms of personal wants and needs and i believe because some of this effort was supplemented by social media on facebook and twitter and this brew their claims are outrageous but mentioned by the former ceo or ceo was suspended, they were using other techniques with actually humans and other countries. >> is it clear to you that there is any link at all between cambridge anayltica and the link of 2016? >> that's a question that still 23450e 23450 needs to be explored.

how did they target swing voters better than any other campaign? part of this we found answers in the last few days, they used a so-called academic, russian british individual that solicited individuals, 275,000 that agreed to do a survey where they told this individual about their likes and dislikes. using that survey, they were able, this individual who had an affiliation was able to in effect penetrate not only those 275,000 who signed up but literally 50 million americans accounts on facebook and they were able to in effect leverage that information in ways that we need to get answers on that potentially affected the auction results because clearly, facebook knew this was happening before the 2016 election cycle. they said it was inappropriate. now i believe the lawyers are deciding and arguing about whether facebook had a legal

obligation to notify these 50 million americans their personal information may be used on behalf of the trump campaign. the lawyers can argue about that but i would hope a company that relies on the basic trust of so many of us, that they would do the right thing and notify those 50 million americans their personal information may have been abused. >> senator warner, i know you made important announcements today for part of the investigation into the russia attack. if you don't mind taking a quick break for a second, i'd love to talk to you about that when we come back. stay with us.

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reportedly told him in all capital letters do not congratulate vladimir putin. he congratulated vladimir putin on his election this weekend. he also reportedly ignored their direct advice that he should condemn putin for the nerve agent attack in the uk. first of all, i just wanted to ask your reaction to that news, and your reaction to the president's congratulatory call to president putin today. >> well, rachel, i think john mccain put out a statement today, and his words were better than mine. he says the leader of the free world doesn't call up and congratulate a dictator over a sham election. and clearly that's what happened today. and what is evident is that even mr. trump's own advisers say it's time now to stand with our closest ally, the uk. he chose not to raise that issue. obviously this was an election in russia where the candidates who had a potential chance of better contesting mr. putin

didn't even get a chance to win. america has always been about free elections and spreading democracy around the world. and here we're congratulating a leader who is against the principles that america stands for. and unfortunately, rachel, and before you went to the break, you're talking what we did with our committee, one of the reasons we acted today with the illinois primary happening, with elections already happening this year is we've had in the last three weeks public testimony again from trump advisers who were the fbi director, the director of national intelligence, the national security agency director, all saying that russia was going to continue to intervene. they did it at a very cheap price. they would continue to do it. they're intervening in other elections. and they all said they had not received any directions from the white house to make election security a top priority. so our committee came out bipartisan, virtually every member of the committee showed up at the press conference today and said hey, we need to do some

basic blocking and tackling. we need to make sure that election security officials have appropriate clearances so they can be informed if we see patterns of election interference. well need to make sure every voting machine has an auditable paper trail. even if they hack, there is a paper trail that we can audit. we need to make sure we provide very information sharing so we are on guard. because these russian tactics did not end in 2016, and they will continue unless we're better protected. that's why i thought it was important for us to act as a committee. again, i would point out in a bipartisan way on this topic of election security. >> as you point out, it is very important that those are bipartisan recommendations. there has been so little that is bipartisan in the public discussion about the attack in 2016 and the way to prepare for it. moving ahead, there a legislative vehicle, a funding vehicle for getting some of these recommendations accomplished and quickly? >> well, there is actually broadly based bipartisan

legislation which i agreed to co-sponsor today. three republicans, three democrats. it's common sense. this shouldn't require huge action. this is -- nothing is more basic than protecting the integrity of our voting process. and we've got to have that paper trail. we've got to have that information sharing. there is protecting the actual voting machines, protecting the voter files. i also frankly think we need to put out some good cyberhygiene practices for campaigns. campaigns are the ultimate startups, and they oftentimes may not have cyberhigh on their list. but we have to be protected because what we've seen, and not only in terms of intervention in our elections, but russia attempted interventions in the french elections, observations they intervened in the spanish catalan elections. the british have come and visited because they've seen intervention in terms of the brexit vote. we have to be on our guard. >> mark warner, the vice-chairman of the intelligence committee, thank

you, sir. i really appreciate the time with you tonight. thanks. >> thanks, rachel. >> all right. we'll be right back. stay with us.

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what happened between him and the president. as he says, the president tried to get him to pledge his personal loyalty. and as he says, the president asked him to back off the russia investigation involving trump's national security adviser. james comey has stuck to his telling of that story, despite attempts by the president to embarrass him or even scare him off. the president repeatedly calling him now lying james comey. and now playground taunting that james comey notes about his interactions with the president are somehow fake memos. this weekend james comey called that question directly, quote, mr. president, the american people will hear my story very soon, and they can judge for themselves who is honorable and who is not. part of that i believe is that mr. comey has a new book coming out. it's called "a higher loyalty: truth, lies and leadership." james comey's book comes out in mid-april. the other important thing to

know, though, that on occasion of that book, james comey is going to be doing interviews in public, including sitting down with me here on this show. that date will be april 19th, thursday, april 19th, 9:00 p.m. eastern. i am so excited about it that i'm telling you now. while we're just getting started on the prep work. that tells you how long it takes to do stuff like this. but it also tells you we're pretty excited. james comey, live april 19th. you can put it in your date book now. that does it for us tonight. i'll see you again tomorrow. now it's time for "the last word" tonight ari melber sitting in for lawrence. >> rachel, i visit. i have 4-19. i wrote it down. and i got to say as someone who is interested in your reporting and james comey's career, i could not be more interested in what you're going to do on april 19th. >> can you hold that up again? >> yeah, i have it. >> do you do little graffiti letter there's? you didn't just write that in a big sh