just found out today that donald trump, republican presidential candidate is about to get his first official ciaiefing tomorrow. that means presumably that democratic candidate hillary clinton is about to get her first official cia briefing as a presidential candidate as well. although presumably she's had them before because of her time as secretary of state. candidates for president all get these intelligence briefings from the intelligence community. this is one of the first years anybody has ever freaked out about it. but the reason candidates get these briefings at all, turns out to be stunning and kind of funny and it involves a u.s. president using the word screwballs, in not a nice way. that screwball story and much more, straight ahead, stay with us. >>> fdr, president franklin dell no roosevelt was sworn into his fourth term as president in january 1445, world war ii still in full swing. by april of that year, the 12th, 1945, fdr was dead. he died in office while we were still at war. his vice president was, of course harry truman. truman became president the day fdr died on april 12th

just found out today that donald trump, republican presidential candidate is about to get his first official ciaing tomorrow. that means presumably that democratic candidate hillary clinton is about to get her first official cia briefing as a presidential candidate as well. although presumably she's had them before because of her time as secretary of state. candidates for president all get these intelligence briefings from the intelligence community. this is one of the first years anybody has ever freaked out about it. but the reason candidates get these briefings at all, turns out to be stunning and kind of funny and it involves a u.s. president using the word screwballs, in not a nice way. that screwball story and much more, straight ahead, stay with us. don't let dust and allergens get between you and life's beautiful moments. by choosing flonase, you're choosing more complete allergy relief and all the enjoyment that comes along with it. when we breathe in allergens, our bodies react by overproducing 6 key inflammatory substances. most allergy pills only control 1. flonase controls 6. and si

a first today for donald trump, as he receives his first classified intelligence briefing from washington officials. cia-trained intel op, tony schaefer, who spoke to one of the men inside that briefing will tell us what type of intelligence trump received. and mike huckabee is here to respond to the critics who say trump shouldn't receive that intel. >>> plus, congress finally getting its hands on the investigative documents from hillary clinton's e-mail probe, only to find huge portions completely redacted due to sensitivity. wait a second, i thought she didn't -- i didn't think she sent or received any classified information, right? congressman jason chaffetz is here exclusively on what americans need to know now. we'll see you back here, right after this. >> i did not e-mail any, um, classified material to anyone on my e-mail. there is no classified material. ♪ one day a rider made a decision. the decision to ride on and save money. he decided to save money by switching his motorcycle insurance to geico. there's no shame in saving money. ride on, ride proud. geico motorcycle, great rates for great r

. >> the former cia director hayden, one of 50 law enforcement officials that signed the letter. listen. >> when i heard that for the first time, that was more than a speed bump. that's a very arresting comment. if someone else had said that outside the hall, he'd be in the back of the police wagon now with the secret service questioning him. >> what's the next step for the secret service here? >> the next step is joe clancy has to really look at trying to help manage the campaign and try to tone down this rhetoric. because there are consequences here. people that make and act upon threats normally are not of sound mind. what joe clancy as director of the service has to talk to leaders of the trump campaign and say this rhetoric can't happen, there are greater ramifications. as this campaign moves forward, the secret service can't -- this is a unique situation. the secret service has to set a threshold here and stop this behavior. >> his supporters are quick to downplay this. gary tuchman talked to some people. there are other folks we spoke to as well. they were quick to sort of downplay. let's watch this. >> you know, y

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cia official who is now running as an independent bid for the white house. campaign headquarters, guess what, they're in utah. mr. mcmullin joins us for his first national tv interview since making the ballot in colorado. mr. mcmullin that news broke late last night. your campaign saying it's going to compete in all 50 states. if we look at the deadlines for the independent candidates, florida, georgia, new hampshire, they passed. how will you successfully get on 50 state ballots? >> thomas, great to be with you today. there's a lot of misunderstanding of how candidates can get on ballots. it's through petitions in states we haven't missed the deadline but there are many other ways. we're working with minor parties. we've had a number of minor parties reach out to us, they want to collaborate with us on that. we're preparing some legal action. there are a variety of ways. so we're going to pursue all of those. we are, as you pointed out, only four days into this and already on colorado's ballot, which is of course a very important place to compete. and we're going to compete across america in a variety of really important states. >> the califor

former cia official and counterterrorism analyst phillip mudd and retired general mark hurtling. i want it ask you about this firstften we talk about the politics of this. we will talk about the policy, which is a welcome discussion i think. when donald trump is talking about his plan and you listen to it today, how is his plan different than what the obama administration is already doing? >> i think there is one substantial difference. whether you like secretary clinton or mr. trump, one of the thing by should say he is put out thing very clear today. one on syria. that is talking about working with russia. what are the russians going to say? they have a client in the middle. that client is assad. i think they would say let's let our client say in power so we can concentrate power and firepower on isis. alternative would be, let's try to oust assad and allow instability to continue which isis benefits from. neither are a great solution but i think trump said i'm with putin which is with assad. >> and that makes it privately to russia about dealing with syria and does that give -- i guess does that sort of hugh wi

first interview together since he joined the ticket. that's a "today" exclusive next hour. >>> in the meantime, the clinton campaign is picking up new support from a former top official at the cia. he is making the case for clinton and against donald trump in a strongly worded op ed in today's "the new york times." nbc's andrea mitchell has more on that. andrea, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, savannah. with the candidates attacking former top cia official has endorsed hillary clinton with the startling charge that donald trump has let himself become the unwitting dupe of russia's president vladimir putin. donald trump attacking hillary clinton thursday for her private server, saying she shouldn't receive the classified briefing to be given to both candidates. >> hillary clinton, furthermore, can never be trusted with national security. you can't brief her. >> reporter: asked if trump should be trusted with the classified briefing, the president saying -- >> if they want to be president, they've got to start acting like president. >> reporter: in a searing "the new york times" column endorsing clinton today, mike morell, former deputy cia director, says trump would mak

the first one is this goes to exactly the kind of criticism of trump that you heard from former cia director michael hayden and the 49 other republican national security officialsho said on monday in this extraordinary letter that they would not support him, which is the idea they feel that he is simply not disciplined enough, that he's too reckless to execute the job of president, particularly in national security. i think this goes to that core concern about his temperament among many of those white-collar suburban voters who, by the way, are the reason he's trailing so badly in pennsylvania. his big deficit among college whites, especially compared to other republicans. the second point is leaving aside this issue of whether he was inciting violence or not, those remarks about the second amendment, that kind of absolutism on gun control, really reflects a kind of doubling down on a strategy of mobilizing nonurban, noncollege, culturally conservative voters at a time when he is really struggling in these big populous suburbs. mitt romney won three-quarters of the counties in america and lost by 5 million votes. how did he do that? he lost 86 of 100 largest co