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megan murphy. jen psaki. alex castellanos. christopher ruddy. and charles blow.on it now so far if today's program. what is your read? >> several things are baffling about this. anybody knows when you two to be up vest gate bid the fbi. the first thing they tell you is if you lie in the interview, now we have twoed a mini -- people connected with the administration w done just that. i think dan was correct. there's plenty of evidence to show there was contacts. out reach after the victory with russian officials. but the issue here is not going to be a logan act prosecution. not looking at that. it will be on an obstruction case. that is the issue i think they'll be dialling in on is, after these contacts were revealed, what was done? what panic in certain level of the administration led them to lie or be disingenuous? >> it seems like, chris ruddy, so much is focused on the early days of the administration. a new administration coming in. on the same day, you have george. a dap louse saying he lied to the fbi, the president called in the director of the fbi and s

and at the table, jen palmieri and bret stevens, "new york times" op ed columnist and msnbc contributor and megan murphy, editor for bloomberg businessweek. ken dilanian, let's start with you and your piece today. some extraordinary reporting that now allows us to dispense with the notion that, one, donald trump wasn't made aware of just how aggressively the russians were pursuing both campaigns, not just his, but his and hillary clinton received the same briefing based on your reporting. but a new sort of chink in the timeline now. everything that happened after this briefing was done with the explicit knowledge that the fbi had warned them. and if you lay it up against testimony that we now know from brennan and others, the law enforcement and intelligence community was very much onto the trump campaign and their constant contact with russians. >> well, that's the interesting thing about this, nicolle. you had two things going on. right around the time of this briefing, which we believe was timed to trump's first intelligence briefing on august 17th, right around that time, the fbi was just starting u