ken delanian. we have covered the white house intelligence committee for a long time, since 9/11, ever since the post-9/11 changes and the reporting in a unified way, it is always terrorism that has been the top threat. this year it's cyber and russia and russia's continuing threats. dan coates said as we played at the top of the show that the united states is under attack. under attack from russia and others trying to undermine our democracy and that there's still focus on the 2018 election. and as we also heard today, nothing has been done. there's been no briefing requested by the president about this threat. i think we have that bite, as a matter of fact. let me play that and come back to you. >> has the president directed you and your agency to take specific actions to confront and blunt russian influence activities that are ongoing? >> we're taking a lot of specific efforts to blunt comments. >> specifically directed by the president? >> not specifically directed by the president. >> ken, tha

approach to some of these oversight and partisan issues. >> also coming out today coming from ken delanianis reporting that democratic congressional source telling him fbi deputy director andrew mccabe did not say that the dossier was the pretext alone for the fisa warrant. again, that was the claim coming out of friday's memo. >> right. and that goes to show how the complaints are that the underlying intelligence that backed up this memo isn't really available to the public. that testimony that andrew mccabe gave to the intelligence committee is private. and so we don't know, we're basically being forced to take devin nunes's work for it. this is what andrew mccabe said in this politically polarized environment over half the people aren't going to believe that and paints the broader picture that this memo is part of the battle lines around the russia investigation. we're going to see adam schiff perhaps put out his memo. and devin nunes said last night on fox news that he's going to be putting out additional memos detailing misconduct at the state department and other places. so it seems

ken delanian. >>> now this memo will come on the heels of the other memo.epublican memo that was pushed by russian bots using the hashtag release the memo. now russian influence twitter accounts are test running other hashtags related to the deep state. an underground group working within the government to undermine the country's leaders. these -- that is not a thing. it is just an as youkation -- accusations. as mark warner dials up the pressure on facebook, twitter and google. he said he hopes to announce plans for the social media companies as soon as next week. now senator warner said the committee is discussing a wide variety of options with republican chairman richard bur. with me is roger mcnamee and an early mentor to mark zuckerberg. good to see you. >> great to be here. >> what is your sense of both what the social media companies are doing, are they moving toward greater cooperation in trying to solve this problem and what can be done if they don't? >> i think the problem here is they are not cooperating. i think they're doing -- treating this li

reporter ken delanian and national political reporter carol lee. i want to start with you, geoff.s juxtapose tap signatures, a joint press conference with the prime minister of australia. rick gates, his former campaign aide about to plead guilty. what are you looking for? >> as is always the case, the questions the president will get will focus on the day's news, even though this meeting comes as the u.s. is trying to play our larger role in the region to counter china ease influence. that's one of the things the president will be speaking about with prime minister turnbull. this is now the fourth former trump campaign aide to be implicated in criminal activity. there's a looming question about how much damage rick gates' testimony could do to the president. this all comes against a backdrop as the president garopless with what to do about the bigger issue of school violence. he's floated a range of proposals from raising the age that would be permissible to buy weapons to giving bonuses to teachers who pack heat in the classrooms. there's a range of seriousness with which the pr

>> ken delanian, thank you very much.bc news intelligence and national security report. >>> to a warning from the secretary of state, saying that russia will interest fear with our elections again and there is not much we could do about it. >> if it is their intension to interfere, they will find ways to do that. and we can take steps we can take, but this is something that once they decide they're going to do it, it is very difficult to preempt it. >> that comes amid reports that the fbi plans to alert u.s. companies and the public about efforts by russia or other nations to use disinformation and social media manipulation to interfere in upcoming elections. for more, i'm joined by malcolm nance with more than 30 years experience in u.s. intelligence. also the author of "the plot to hack america" how they tried to steal the 2016 election. malcolm, on what date was your book published? >> september 23rd, 2016. >> how interesting. >> before the election. >> how interesting. because we talk about this all of the time on thi

for more on this story now let's bring in nbc news national security and intelligence reporter ken delanian. ken, walk me through the activities that led to the indictments of these individuals and companies and try to explain the significance of mueller's indictment. >> the mueller indictment is hugely significant from both informational standpoint and legal standpoint, aaron. on the information side mueller told for the first time in cine d cinematic detail. we learned for example there was a budget of $15 million a month. we learned russian spies actually infiltrated the united states. we learned there was unwitting cooperation from americans. and then in addition to the social media manipulation we learned that the russians actually sponsored rallies in swing states. and on the legal side just as significantly we learned that mueller has laid out a criminal conspiracy at the heart of this. this actually violated u.s. law. because for a long time many people had said is it even a crime for americans to collude with foreigners interfering in the election? mueller answered that question de

ken delanian and national security reporter, jennifer rogers, former assistant attorney for the southern district of new york, now the executive director for the public advancement of integrity, and frank loozy, who in the past has worked for robert mueller. he is also an nbc national security analyst. there is so much to talk about with all of you tonight. ken, i want to start with you because you have been doing kind of the nitty grit fi day-to-day, your e-mails have begun guiding me through the afternoon and evening preparing us for the show tonight. can you walk us through what we learned tonight, what we should be paying the closest attention to? >> well, kasie, we have learned that a man who is essentially paul manafort's right-hand aide for years has now turned against him and is prepared, it seems, to go to court to testify that they together participated in some very serious crimes. and in order to get that deal, or rather rick gates has agreed to plead guilty to charges that could land him in some prison time, but could also result in probation if he offers substantial cooperat

ken delanian and national security reporter, jennifer but the most perilous thing in this is quid pro quos with russia or representatives of the russian government who are looking for policy changes like lifting economic sanctions in return for financial favors to trump or to members of his family, like jared kushner. to the extent manafort has knowledge of that stuff or has transactions that are parallel or touch on some of those things, that's dangerous to the president. a lot of this falls on manafort himself. this constellation of two-bit advisers around the president is perhaps the most felonious group of characters you've seen in an administration, certainly since the nixon administration. >> one of the ways manafort got himself in trouble is he didn't know how to convert word files to pdf. >> it looks like he was a money launderer, he was a tax evader, he lied to the feds. he's a pile of problems. >> stephen, you did this time line that is really great and i was wading through today trying to draw a chart of all the trump questions. i think to tim's point, the way that rick gat

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my colleague ken delanian pointed out it is not normal for the fbi and d.o.j. to reject a document that the white house said should be released. it is not normal for the gop chair of the house intel committee to refuse to share a classified document of mutual interest with the gop chair of the senate intel committee. it is not normal for the agency that was the source of the classified material in this case the d.o.j. to be excluded from the declassification process. and it is not normal for anyone in the government to expose secret material that sheds light on fisa surveillance. as ken delaney an also noted, when edward snowden did that, he was labelled a traitor. that will wrap things up for me this hour. follow the show on facebook, twitter and instagram or e-mail us at -- at this very long address. ali velshi picks things up right now in new york. >> and i have ken delaney an here so we'll go forward with that not normal situation. good morning, i'm ali velshi. washington on the heels about whether the controversial memo is going to be released. drafted by

. >> ken delanian, kristen well kerr, thank you very much. >>> how will the white house handle this new time line? the press briefing is less than an hour away. the question they've had a hard time answering for days just got even tougher. >>> also ahead, defining the witch-hunt. during today's hearing, an independent senator pleaded with the president to change his rhetoric on russia. and as we've been talking about, the fbi director taking a shot at the nunes memo as well in the russia investigation. a lot of news today. we'll be right back. >>> back now live on msnbc. another big headline from that senate intelligence hearing. nation's top intelligence officers all agreeing that russia will keep meddling in future u.s. elections. >> we had then and continue to have now grave concerns about the accuracy of the memorandum because of omissions. we provided thousands of documents that were very sensitive. and lots and lots of briefings. it's very hard for anybody to distill that down to 3 1/2 pages. >> robert costa, msnbc political analyst. and mika oyang, vice president for the national

i want to bring in nbc's kristen welker from the white house, ken delanian, national security reporter, nick acreman, an msnbc analyst and eli stockels, msnbc analyst and super star of "the wall street journal." two nights ago at the state of the union, caught on a hot mic, 100%, we're letting this thing out. >> and overnight officials here at the white house said it was likely that the memo would be released as early as today. now, the question becomes, does that stand, given all of those last-minute wrinkles, dispute, that you just mapped out very well? the fact that adam schiff has come forward and says look, the memo the white house has right now was altered, changed, from the one we approved out of committee. the big back and forth over how significant the changes are. the fact that nunes has said, hey, those changes are cosmetic. this is the other big issue. you have republican members of congress out of town now. they're at their retreat in west virginia. in fact, the president's going to go there later today to speak to them. there is a committee process that has to be followed

and with us on-set, nbc's ken delanian and republican strategist steve schmidt. jeremy bash, let me start with you on this idea that carter page, who we know was first surveilled in 2013, at least two to three years before he ended up in the trump orbit and years before the steele dossier ever existed, just talk about carter page being in the center of a big, big political distraction, a movement to smear the fbi which may have the effect of creating a smoke screen so he can do what he really wants to do, which is to get rid of the guy overseeing the mueller probe. >> i think it is important to call it, we all remember that the mueller investigation really had its origins in july of 2016 when after papadopoulos was basically approached by russian intelligence handlers, the investigation, the counter intelligence investigation of the trump campaign kicked off. so, the fact that a fisa application was made in october 2016 shows that that application was not the basis for the mueller investigation. i think it's important also to note, nicolle, that this memo release

ken dilanian for us. >>> all right, turning back to the president's budget, during the campaign there were certain things that then candidate trump vowed he would not cut. >>delanianor us. >> saved medicaid, medicare an social security. get rid of the fraud and abuse but save it. >> in the budget proposal however, those programs are on the list of cut in the white house's $4.4 trillion budget. a.b.ed ed tstoddard and mike pe joining us. a.b., he said he wasn't going do it. when the budget came up for discussion you started to hear from republican senator rubio, you heard from paul ryan, the president and the vice president about so-called welfare reform. the president made a speech in the midwest about how you might be working three jobs but the person next to you is working no jobs and on government assistance and earning more than you are which we have not been able to find that example. but the attack on the welfare state has begun. >> conservatives who wanted -- who knew the tax reform package was going to be deficit funded wanted some sort of deep cuts afterwards. the spending bill last week has made them furious. they talk about trying to sort of fire up the