. >> joining me now is nbc's ken dilanian. ken, good to see you. nbc has not confirmed the reporting from "the washington post" that was reportedly intercepted from this ball, the russian ambassador, sergey kislyak, made to russia. before i get to a question, i want to play more from national security advisor h.r. mcmaster in that briefing saying he's not concerned about the kushner report. let's listen to that. >> we have back channel communications with a number of countries, so generally speaking, about back channel communications, what that allows you to do is to communicate in a discrete manner so it doesn't predispose you toward any sort of content of that conversation or anything. so no, i would not be concerned about it. >> he says this is about discrete communication. what do you make of mcmaster's response there and what type of red flags does this report in particular raise in the intelligence community? >> yeah, jacob, i think many people are going to find that to be a remarkably incautious statement by a reputable national security exp

our own ken dilanian remains here with us in the studio. ken, you covered the 7/7 bombing.lways said i don't think -- well, 9/11 was known the world over, i don't think americans quite understood at the time or since what a colossal event 7/7 was, a punch to the british gut. >> shattering. it was july 7th, 2005. 52 people killed, 700 wounded. it was a bombing of the transportation system, both the tube and a double decker bus. and what remains with me to this day is i was running around london as a newspaper reporter for the philadelphia enquirer. by day's end, londoners were commuting back home from their jobs on that same tube. the tube was up and running. it was a story of resilience. when you talk to u.s. officials here, they will say privately these sorts of terrorist attacks against soft targets cannot be defended against 100%. some are going to get through. they'll stop a lot, but some will get through. the important thing is for western democracies to learn to be resilient, to learn to go on, to not be terrorized. i think we'll wake up tomorrow to some horrible stor

katy tur, ken dilanian, jay newton-small. the one guy that did do something to his son-in-law was mussolini. he executed his son-in-law for double dealing. the breaking news tonight, jared kushner is under fbi scrutiny in the russian matter. our coverage continues now with "all in" with chris hayes. >>> tonight on "all in." jared married to my daughter, ivanka. >> nbc news reports jared kushner, the president's son-in-law and one of his senior advisers has come under fbi scrutiny in the russia investigation. >> i actually think he likes politics more than he likes real estate. >> tonight, what we know about the fbi probe now reaching inside the white house. then -- >> get to the polls and vote for greg. >> election night in trump's america. >> i'm sick and tired of you guys. >> assault charges filed as voting starts

joining me now, ken dilanian. ken, what have you learned? >> chris, just now i'm looking at a letter from the chairman of the house oversight committee requesting from the justice department all memos and notes that former director comey wrote about his encounters with donald trump. and that's as expected. one of the interesting things besides the obvious, one of the interesting things about tonight is we're learning that comey memorialized all his conversations with the president according to a source close to comey telling me not too long ago. so what other memos are out there is one question we're wondering about. the second question really is, did director comey believe that donald trump was trying to obstruct justice when he suggested that it would be best if he shut down this mike flynn investigation, chris. >> and these documents, ken, just to be clear, these are documents that are essentially written as kind of deadman switches as for public consumption should something like this happen. >> absolutely. based on my conversation with a

. >> let's bring in ken dilanian, nbc news investigative reporter now. he joins us i believe on phone. ken, thank you for taking a few minutes. now, yesterday you reported for us here at nbc about jared kushner emerging as a person of interest in this investigation. now we have this "washington post" story tonight about jared kushner during the transition supposedly trying to set up a secret communications channel with moscow. what more can you add to this? >> steve, i really think this "washington post" story tonight is a game-changer. it is a devastating story because it casts these russian meetings in a new light. it suggests that jared kushner and potentially the trump transition was trying to disguise its communications with russia. until now, we had no real evidence of that. we had evidence that, you know, they neglected to report, but they always had a story about why that was. well, now we have, according to this reporting, you know, an active effort apparently to avoid detection, to have a secret channel. and let me just, you know, offer some con

a source close to comey told our own ken dilanian that comey would be delighted for there to be a record of what he said at dinner with trump. this source told dilanian, quote, he hopes there are tapes. that would be perfect. either way, the comey pushback is under way on this day 113 of the trump administration because, again, those close to the man with the studied bearing of elliott ness found it so hard to believe that he would have reassured the president that he is somehow not under investigation not once and certainly not three times. let's bring in our kickoff panel tonight. the veteran "new york times" chief white house correspondent peter baker is with us, who we are happy to say also happens to be on our own most newly minted msnbc political analyst. we welcome back to the broadcast villi viv ya salah mow. we also welcome back political white house reporter matthew nussbaum. to a lot of people, that was chilling. i can't talk about that. i won't talk about that. you reacted in realtime, and the important, i thought, was appropriate. you think this is a very serious moment righ

i'm joined by ken dilanian, robert costa, heidi przybyla, and peter baker. i'm going to throw each one of these questions by you and i want to ask you. first of all, ken, what would you ask about the flynn matter? >> well, i would ask, you know -- >> if you got this guy in the box. >> look, i would ask is it true, did he ask -- did president trump ask jim comey to go easy on mike flynn. the larger question i would ask is did trump ask comey to put the kibosh on the russian investigation, and does comey believe he was fired because he didn't do that. >> heidi? >> what was his understanding of i hope you can forget about it, i hope you can move on. what more was said? >> what are the possible interpretations. >> according to the republicans, like it was just -- is it a suggestion, or was it an order? but to anyone who is looking at this and observing, he's the boss. anything that is said like that can be taken as an order, and so it is -- when we walk away from this after this testimony, are we left politically -- forget the legal stuff, but politically with th

joining us now, our own ken dilanian, national security reporter for nbc news, and julie heshfield davis who covers the white house for "the new york times." ken, you and i got on the phone earlier today when the news first broke and you sort of pointed out the drama of this moment. is some thought perhaps bob mueller in an effort to sort of turn the heat down on some of this wouldn't permit jim comey to testify in an open hearing but that's exactly what he did today. >> that's right, nicolle. the issue not only not turn the heat down but there was some speculation that mueller may not have wanted comey to alert potential witnesses to what his story is on some of these matters. after all, there's been allegations some people view as obstruction of justice. recall, comey is saying through intermediaries that president trump asked him to drop the investigation into mike flynn. that he called him to dinner and ask the him to pledge his loyalty. and so we have these other stories about trump asking other intelligence officials to say there was no collusion. so, there was some worry an concer

adam entous, thank you very much, ken dilanian and susan page. coming up, what's happened since president trump returned home? well, for starters, german chancellor angela merkel said her country can no longer count on the united states. how is that? we defended west berlin. we were the ones they looked out for, and now it's crumbling. the new french president shood up to russia now and compared trump to putin and turkish lead leader erdogan. trump has a history of rankling our allies. plus failure to communicate. e sean spicer's days numbers? and much of what we've seenn the last four months of the trump presidency mirrors another made for tv movie. frank underwood of house of cards. i'm telling you, it ain't much worse. the netflix show is back, and i'll talk to one of its stars tonight. finally let me finish tonight with trump watch. he might like this a little bit but not much. this is "hardball," where the action is. what if technology gave us the power to turn this enemy into an ally? microsoft and its partners are using smart traps to capt

nbc news investigative reporter ken dilanian is joining us. you've got all the breaking news on this investigation. where do things stand? >> well, nicolle, the big development today is we're being told that james comey asked for more resources for this investigation just before he was fired. and this information is coming out of congress. senator dick durbin of illinois just went on the record with this not so long ago. the odd thing about it is that the justice department is flatly denying it. they're not allowing for any nuance. they're saying it didn't happen and members of congress are saying it did happen. obviously more investigation needs to go on there, but if james comey did, in fact, ask to expand, you know, asked for more agents and more resources for this investigation just before he was fired, that obviously raises huge questions about why he was fired and where this investigation goes from here. now, the other development today was that we learned that the senate intelligence committee has requested from a treasury department an

i'm joined by nbc news justice and security analyst matt miller and ken dilanian. ken, go ahead with what you're thinking about this whole case. you had some very insightful thoughts in the beginning of this mess tonight. >> well, chris, thanks. i think what's important to explain to our viewers is they hear democrats criticizing republicans all the time, right? these people are really disturbed about this. this is heartfelt. they are apoplectic, and they feel it was deeply cynical for the trump administration to cite comey's handling of the hillary clinton matter as a justification for his firing. and they're really concerned deeply about what's going to happen to this russia investigation. now, i've been also talking to former fbi officials who have some insight into how these counterintelligence investigations work. i'm getting a mixed picture. one person i talked to said, look, the fbi is non-political. this is going to be a big story but at the end of the day, they're going to do their jobs. it would be politically suicidal for the trump administration to try t

also nbc national security reporter ken dilanian, who has been doing some remarkable reporting on this on his own. and frank montoya, senior official at the fbi. ken, i want to start with you because you've got more information about the timeline, when exactly president trump asked the fbi director over for dinner. >> that's right, katy. in the last hour, i've heard from a friend of comey's, a former fbi official who was there at the time, who recalls that this invitation came in at the last minute, either on the day of the dinner or the day before the dinner. so that would have been either january 27th, the day of the dinner, or the 26th, the day before. well, january 26th was the day that sally yates, the acting attorney general, came to the white house counsel to warn about national security adviser mike flynn. and to say that mike flynn could potentially be blackmailed by the russians for lying about his contacts with the russian ambassador. so this raises the question of did that issue come up in this meet something now, nobody i've talked to knows whether it came up. only jim com

joining me now, ken dilanian. you and tom winter have a piece up walking through essentially what the status of this investigation that bob mueller will now be inheriting is. what do we know? >> chris, this is a follow the money investigation so far. and it's in its early stages although it seems like it's been going on for some time. we know that there are grand jury subpoenas flying around, and we've learned that mike flynn and paul manafort -- mike flynn, the former national security adviser, paul manafort, the former campaign chairman, are key figures in it, not because any evidence has emerged at least publicly suggesting that they colluded with russia in this hacking and leaking campaign, but because of other elements of their business activity. you know, in mike flynn's case, he failed to register as a foreign lobbyist for turkey. he didn't tell the truth about his contacts with the russian ambassador. he didn't disclose that he was paid for a trip to russia in 2015. in paul manafort's case, there have been

well, ken dilanian is a national security adviser, reporter for nbc news, and ken vogel is chief investigativeporter for politico. gentlemen, first of all -- ken, where is this start something it seems to me we had word a couple of days ago that that committee on the senate side was flagging. that warner and burr weren't doing the job. now this looks pretty aggressive. what's going on with the speed change? >> that's exactly right, chris. i think we can read into this that there was some pressure put on these guys and they've accelerated their investigation. they spent weeks basically sifting through fbi and cia intelligence documents, and now they're into the information-gathering phase on their own. now, the interesting thing about this is presumably these are all records that the fbi already has. but the fbi is not necessarily going to share the fruits of a criminal investigation with this senate investigation. so the senate is now trying to get it on their own. this is a precursor to a subpoena. if these men don't comply, presumably the committee can issue a subpoena and demand these docum

joining me is nbc's ken dilanian.hat's most striking about this intel report and the origin of it? how trusted can kislyak be that this was an actual request? >> reporter: thomas, current and former intelligence officials are describing this as opening a disturbing new chapter in this whole trump-russia saga. nbc news was the first to report that jared kushner, the president's son-in-law, is under fbi scrutiny in the fbi investigation. this report gives suggestions as to why. you have to consider the context. the u.s. intelligence community in october issued a statement unanimous and with high confidence that russia interfered in the election. the obama administration was regularlyriefing the trump team on intelligence including that tter. the trump team had former intelligence officers advising them. here you have jared kushner seeking to set up a back channel communication in what my sources tell me can only be an effort to evade u.s. monitoring. it raises the question, why would he do that? we have an explanation o

news national security producer courtney kube whose byline appears along with peter alexander and ken dilanian on our nbc news report tonight. and courtney, what new developments are we reporting? >> well brian as you said at the top, jared kushner, the president's son-in-law is now the subject of fbi scrutiny. so what does that mean? it means that he has some information that the fbi wants to know more about. whether that surrounds perhaps meetings that he had with the russian ambassador at some point last year, whether it surrounds some meetings he had with the head of a russian state-owned bank is not clear. we don't know yet. what it does not mean is that he is the target of an investigation. he is not. he is not the centerpiece of any investigation, as part of this larger russia probe or inquiry. now keep in mind that jared kushner, he's already volunteered. he's already agreed to speak to leaders in congress about what he knows about this russia probe. so unlike other people who are involved in the trump campaign, mike flynn, who was the short nsa advisor, national security advisor, and

. >> ken, dilanian, we'll talk mao about this more later.ect or's firing magnified for the first face-to-face meeting between president trump and top russian diplomats that took place just the day after the firing. the white house is now fighting back against criticism over the meeting photos released by the russian foreign ministry. the pictures were taken by a russian photographer given access to the oval office. american journalists were barred. let's bring in ambassador michael mcphail. he's at stanford and is an msnbc contributor. always good to see you, mr. ambassador. let's talk about the scenario i've described with the russian photographer. does that raise red flags for you? >> well, yes and no. the political piece is horrible. the diplomatic piece is horrible. i organized the first meeting between minister lavrov and president obama in 2009 and of course we had the entire pool there. that was just a huge mistake. they caused this problem for themselves. and, by the way, it's a sign of weakness, also, to the russians, and to putin.

>>> from the website of nbc news, i've just been handed some great reporting by our colleagues ken dilanian and pete williams. it's a narrative of the trump/comey dinner that the president kind of indicated might have been requested by comey, who wanted to stay on in the job besides being four years into a ten-year term. here's the first quote. the january dinner meeting between the two men, the sources said, was requested by the white house. and the former senior fbi official said comey would never have told the president he was not under investigation. that contradicts what the president said. quote, he tried to stay away from it, the russian ties investigation, says this former official of comey, who worked closely with comey, keeps in touch with him. he would say, look, sir, i really can't get into it, and you don't want me to on the subject of russia. here's another quote. the president is not correct, this former official said. the white house called him -- comey -- out of the blue. comey didn't want to do the dinner. he didn't even want the rank and file at the fbi to know about it.

>> ken dilanian, thank you. >>> hillary clinton's e-mails and revelations that her top staffer, humalassified e-mails to her husband, anthony weiner, so that he could print them out. >> what would you do at the dni if you discovered that an employee of yours had forwarded hundreds or even thousands of e-mails to a nongovernment individual, their spouse, on a nongovernment computer? >> well, you know, i'm not an investigatory or prosecutorial element, but if i were aware of it, i certainly would make known to the appropriate officials that that was going on. >> would that strike you as anything ordinary? >> hopefully not. >> clapp went ono say while the situation would be difficult to prosecute, the standard procedure would involve filing a crimes report if there was sufficient evidence of a compromise. >>> and kushner company the are apologizing for mentions kushner. at multiple events while promote ing eb5 visa program, widely criticized because it offers investors a path to obtain u.s. green cards if they invest at least $500,000 in projects that create american jobs. president tru

a source close to him telling nbc news's ken dilanian today, quote, he hopes there are tapes. that would be perfect. if there are tapes, house democrats want to hear them. they sent a letter today asking the white house to turn over any recordings the white house has made. trump and those close to comey are telling very different stories about their interactions. trump claiming that comey requested a dinner with the president, and comey's associates saying the fbi director would never do such a thing. >> he mentioned that he had been invited to the white house to have dinner with the president and that he was uneasy with that because of even compromising -- even the optics, the appearance of independence not only of him but of the fbi. >> according to the president at that dinner which took place a week after trump was sworn in, comey asked to keep his job and told the president he was not under investigation. comey's associates say none of that is true. they told "the new york times" that what really happen san diego that the president on multiple occasions demanded that come

. >> michael, this is a quote from ken dilanian, my colleague, from someone in intelligence. it's former senior intelligence official. the way this was done i think was done to send a message to the fbi agents left behind. it's not that they removed him. it's they did it in the thuggish and most humiliating way possible. instant execution. the bodyguard delivers the letter to headquarters. i think thats with designed to send a message. cut this stuff out, or this will happen to you. this is like a horse head in the bed. what do other politicians and other folks inside doj do with this? >> well, the thing about what they did yesterday is that comey was actually out in los angeles speaking to a group of his own employees when he saw on a television screen in the background that he had been fired. he thought it was a prank, and he kept on talking. it was only after his aides came up to him did he stop. and that has been very demoralizing at the fbi. but if you look back at the fbi's history, the investigators that are on the ground try and move forward and do what they can and t

bringing in ken dilanian and former cia military analyst tara maller. nd back with me, of course, susan page and "new york times" jere jeremy peters. ken, in addition to sally yates' testimony we heard something interesting from james clapper. he was asked by lindsey graham about any kind of concern about trump business interests. anything from president trump's business that might have a tie to russia. clapper said he can't comment on that because that impacts the investigation. it was a moment that raised eyebrows. i want your take on that. >> my take, hallie, is we need to be cautious about that. clapper also said he hasn't been briefed on the fbi counter intelligence investigation and he only learned about it when comey disclosed it publicly. i am not sure what to read into clapper's statement there. there has clearly been a series of allegations that the russians have tried to influence trump through business deals. now, trump, of course, denies doing business in russia, but there are well documented instances where russians have invested in trump p

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. >> ken dilanian, thank you. also unrelated to this incident or we hope was the visual all day long until about dinnertime east coast time when we realized our news day and our coverage was about to change because of the breaking news out of manchester. but previously, all day long, the news was about the president's trip to the middle east. a trip that started in saudi arabia and a trip that took him top israel today. the problem is, the problem again, the news from us back home in the u.s. that continues to follow this president and this administration. and again today, it was "the washington post" that was out with another bombshell report. quoting from "the washington post" headline tonight, "trump asked intelligence chiefs to push back against fbi collusion probe after comey revealed its existence." this report says back in march, "trump made separate appeals to the director of national intelligence, former senator dan coats and to admiral michael s. rogers, director of the national security agency, urging t

. >> ken dilanian joining us from washington. you bring up three interesting points that we'll talk about coming up after the break. the real-world impact on the intel community. we're talking to insiders about what this all means and what the potential fallout could be. that's after the break. with unitedhealthcare, you can get rewarded for all kinds of things... like walking. hey, honey. dad, where's the car? thought we'd walk. he's counting steps. walk, move and earn money... goal! dad... hey, we wanna welcome everyone to the father daughter dance. look at this dad, he's got some moves! money you can use on out-of-pocket medical expenses. he's ok, yeah! unitedhealthcare hi, i'm frank. i take movantik for oic, opioid-induced constipation. had a bad back injury, my doctor prescribed opioids which helped with the chronic pain, but backed me up big-time. tried prunes, laxatives, still constipated... had to talk to my doctor. she said, "how long you been holding this in?" (laughs) that was my movantik moment. my doctor told me that

i want to bring ken dilanian back. walk us in one more time for anybody who is tuning in right now.ifically, this breaking news, jared kushner now under scru. walk us through the news that just broke and what led to it. >> you know, it's subtle thing, stephanie. what we're not seeing is that jared kushner is under investigation, is a subject of the investigation. what we are saying is that he is of interest in the fbi. they are examining -- they believe he knows things that are relevant to the investigation, may have records relevant to the investigation, may have been in meetings relevant to the investigation, and they want more information from him. and recall that he has volunteered to testify before the senate intelligence committee. he has not sought immunity as, for example, mike flynn has. and so, and his lawyer, as peter said, is saying we're willing to answer any question on this. so there's a -- you know, there's just a lot we don't know, what conduct or what in particular has drawn this fbi interest in mr. kushner. we're just going to keep reporting it out, stephanie. >>

our own ken dilanian in our washington bureau, covers national security, the justice department and so on. nicolle, you were just reading what he said on social media. it had to do with perhaps motive and the time -- oh, ken is with us. fantastic. >> that's magic. >> hey, ken, you can tell us what you just put out on social media, what you've learned about. we've got a minute and a half to do this. what you've learned about the timing prior to this. >> well, brian, i've been talking to former fbi agents who work counterintelligence investigations and getting very different takes on what they think this might mean. i spoke to a former supervisor, jeffrey harp, who said he believed, look, the fbi is not politil. this investigation is going to go on as before. it would be suicidal for the trump administration to attempt to quash it. but i spoke to another former, very senior fbi official, who is really depressed and thinks that the intent is to bring someone in who will close this investigation. and he said to me, i think this might mean the end of an independent fbi. so those are the kin