we're now joined by an old friend of ours, malcolm nance, who spent 35 years as a counterterrorism andficer for the government's special operations, homeland security and intelligence agencies. malcolm, why is it important if we're not doing an investigation designed to put someone away for life, why is the integrity of what became a battlefield, finding every round, finding every shell casing, why is it important if there's no perpetrator left, if we're mourning these lost souls and hoping for the very best for the wounded? >> well, it's important for not-only only forensic purposes, having to find evidence for each one of the injured victims, but most importantly for lessons learned, that the s.w.a.t. forces that came in and found him inside the room, the shooter's room, for the integrity of the investigation, it's important to know where did the blast land when he shot it from his weapon? which weapon did he use at the time? there are other legal factors here which need to be taken into account. lawsuits against the police department is quite possible. the hotel. so there needs to b

ron klain, david corn and malcolm nance is back. it's an obvious of what appeared to be tactics we should say to try to divert the investigation away from looking donald trump and looking at other things or exonerate him. do you expect that that body or others on the house republican side or senate republican side might try to go after robert mueller's funding even now with this new news? >> david nunez is trying to distract people. it's important to remember that the house intelligence committee's running two separate examinations. he was supposed to recuse himself and leave it to con way and congressman schiff who had done a reasonable job and being objective and working together and then nunez is running off into the middle of the might with the stories of unmasking that the counter part in the senate called ridiculous and then talking about this ukraine uranium sale. he's really trying to distract people from the issue so i would expect he would focus on the budget and then lose sight of how much exactly he's spent on this and s

malcolm nance, i want to bring you back into the conversation. to look at why it the wouldn't be looked at a high level, foreign based attack. other experts have said it is very early to make any such leaps. and as journalists, we're reflecting that guidance. that's where we stood as of a few minutes ago but there is one official who is not displaying that approach. let me read to you the latest state from the president of the united states which says, we must not allow isis to return or enter our country after defeating they will in the middle east or elsewhere. enough. that's from moments ago. that's the second tweet in an hour in response to what happened in new york. >> well, not extraordinary and should have been expected. for the most part, let me go back to the analysis. evan made a very good point about the question of organization. and whether this was supported. we just don't know whether there's a back story or someone who may have given this individual information. how do you even know about the west side highway bike path unless you'

naval intelligence officer malcolm nance and veteran major general robert scales. welcome. malcolm, i want to start with you. isis-gs, an al qaeda affiliate. this isn't a group i'm familiar with and a lot of other people aren't. do we know about them? >> well, it's a group that a lot of people aren't familiar with principally because they're very small. and to tell you the truth, we didn't think that -- or at least the assessments i've seen that they had a capability of this size. we've seen this from other groups that are al qaeda affiliated. aqim. but this group operated up there north/northwest of mali to have a 50-man ambush, that is an increasing capability for them. it tells us they're an insurgency we overlooked. >> are groups like this going to keep popping up? we have to look at what happened in raqqah this week. that is a significant achievement of this administration, but it doesn't mean that isis is going away. especial will i when you hear about things like this. it feels like it's popping up in unsuspecting places. malcolm? >> oh, i'm sorry. yeah. well, they ar

. >> malcolm nance, national security analyst. former senior chief petty officer in the u.s. navy. congressman ted lieu, democrat, holds the rank of colonel in the air force reserves. congressman, do you have reaction to the chief of staff for the president saying essentially that a democratic colleague of yours had violated the kind of sacredness of the grief of gold star families? >> thank you, chris, for your question. let me first say that in addition to la david johnson, three other service members gave their lives. staff sergeant bryan black. salve sergeant jeremiah johnson. staff sergeant dustin wright. i don't know what the president did or didn't say to their families, but i think one of the best ways to honor their sacrifice is to have the trump administration explain what happened in niger, how can we make sure this doesn't happen again, and why do we have 800 u.s. troops in that country? and that's why i wrote a letter today to the chair of the house foreign affairs committee asking for a hearing. and personally, i don't have any problem if a member of congress wants to

karni of politico, charlie savage is coveraging sessions' hearings for "the new york times," and malcolm nanceyst. hold on, malcolm, for a second. i want to go to charlie about this sessions thing. what's this mealy the mouse thing going on here. this mousey, gee whiz, cute, i mean, he's a grown-up man. why can't he answer a question yes or no? >> there were a lot of weird moments in this hearing. and surrounding the weirdness was an unwillingness to answer questions about his conversations with mr. trump, both about russia and about other issues as well. >> how about with mueller? >> at first he didn't even want to say that. >> why?! >> you get the sense of is a man who's really being careful not to get tripped up. he said this thing about not having communications with russians that has really damaged his reputation when it turns out he had. and he said, i didn't understand the question to be as what you were asking. and now he's dancing around these things. and on top of that, refusing to say anything about topics like his conversations with the president surrounding the firing of jim comey

joining us now ken delaney, malcolm nance. ken, i'll go to you first on anything you've been able to learn, i know we're scrambling to try to confirm this news from cnn, what do you think is the import of it. >> we are not there yet, joy. we have not confirmed it to our satisfaction. i'm going to withhold comment on it. the times story was really interesting. essentially confirming what we had reported at nbc news after our interview with her on the telephone in september, which is that -- and she told us at the time that she was in contact with this prosecutor in moscow, very close to vladimir putin about these talking points. her story is that she got the russian prosecutor interested in this case. the point is she was in talks with people close to the kremlin, she brought that back to trump tower and handed damaging information on hillary clinton. i reviewed this information, it talks about contributions from hedge fund called the riff brothers. the point that the trump team was willing to take a meeting based on the promis

malcolm nance, who as the gunman had an amazing capacity for language and decided to hurt his country and realize both those talents navy.bitions in our after his time in service, he's continued to serve in the private sector due to variety of training and other forms of service to the cap -- intelligence and military throughy and emerging his media appearances and his 2016, a book on the islamic state and the struggle against i.s. and a book on the russian hacking of the election. if you stick around in the texas union building just behind us, after the panel, he will be there signing his book, so i highly recommend that to you. [applause] in.s die right we have identified a series of topics, that will not be comprehensive but will touch on many of the problems challenging our nation at this time and i want to begin with north rea. it's programs or to thought -- evolving rapidly. sanctions from our system in the human system have increasingly tighten, including over the past week or so and most notably colorful threats, military threats, exchanging back and forth, it's a frightening

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malcolm nance, an msnbc terrorism analyst. what did you hear there about this incident that you think viewers didn't hear? >> for the most part, the viewers have heard quite a bit of information, in fact. i think over this last hour, the details have been extraordinary. the mayor makes the most important point right off the bat. new york city is prepared to handled the overfaaftermath of attacks and we have to go on. this incident is over for the most part -- now, i know there were halloween parades planned for tonight. new york city's forces are going to be out on the streets in force and they really need to take stock in that. >> this is being investigated as an act of terror. in the last two weeks, we have made millitarily significant progress against isis in both iraq and syria. do you think this is connected in that -- in the sense that you have that they are losing grounds but they feel as if they need to send a message around the world that they are not? >> i think ices has been losing grounds for over a year now, i mea

david korn, and malcolm nance. i will go around the horn.avid, what do you glean as somebody who has been in the spy business, what do you glean from the idea that this early in the investigation we already have a sealed indictment? >> i think it's telling. it's incredibly fast. i worked under bob mueller. everything i know about bob mueller, speaking to people who know him closely, this is someone -- who is an introvert. he will not be pushed by public opinion if he's doing this, there's probably something serious. i think we can infer this is the beginning of a larger process. >> let me stay with you for one second. the question of how this would have gotten out. all of the news organizations, including nbc, are trying to confirm it. the idea of who would need to know necessarily. i know you on occasion do brief people on ap kcapitol hill aboue ongoing sort of russiagate information, typically only democrats show up to it. do you surmise people on capitol hill might know this is happening and who this is? >> we have to assume there's two p

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. >> i want to bring in hans nichols who has got details on the investigation and malcolm nance, a former u.s. counter terror and intelligence officer and msnbc analyst. guys, good to see you. hans, let's start with you. what's the latest on the ambush? in and amongst the other conversation which are really important there are increasing number of people saying what happened to these soldiers and why were they there and where else are there soldier? >> well, there are soldiers all throughout west africa working on training and advising and assisting local forces called building partnership capability. on the actual ambush, ali, i think one key part of the inquiry was were these green berets delayed when they were meeting with the triable elders and does that mean is that the elders were somehow in on the ambush. a larger force, some 50 came and attacked them. they were out of their vehicles, proops the most vulnerable moment. we've learned a little bit more in the last 24 hours about the medevac. it was a french hadn't and then it was the american contractor a separate helicopter that too

author of "the plot to hack america" malcolm nance. danny cevallos and senior national security correspondent mark hosenbaugh. the scene for monday, we're expecting news, something to be triggered on monday. there's also the possibility that nothing could happen. >> our sources saying an indictment will be made public on monday. it could be one person, more than one person. and the big questions that remain to be answered are the ones that kelly laid out which is will these charges relate to collusion with russia or will they be some other offense and are these targets in the inner circle of donald trump or are they not? both things are possible. if it is somebody like a paul manafort of a mike flynn, that will be a political earthquake of a story. if it's some lesser figure, still very significant, thomas. in terms of logistics, when somebody is indicted, danny can fill in the blanks. when someone is indicted, they either arrange for their arrest or our arrest are brought to a magistrate for an appearance and a bond hearing. generally

malcolm nance who had an amazing capacity for language and a desire to serve his country and realized both of those talents and ambitions in serving our anywayy and special glaze intelligence and crip tollingic matters and has been continuing to serve from the private sector through a variety of training and other forms of service to our intelligence and military communities, and then emerging as ally influential contributor to our national dialogue to his media appearances and recent books, in 2016 i think they were both 2016 -- a become on the islamic state and the struggle against i and a become on russian hacking of the election. speak offering that back, if you took around the texas union building behind us here, after the panel, into into the community hub, mr. nance will be there shines book and i highly recommend that to you. [applause] >> let's dive right in and we have identified series of topics that well not be comprehensive but touch on our most pressing champ lengths as a nation itch want to begin with north korea. north korea's nuclear and missile programs are evolving

joining us now nbc's kasie hunt on capitol hill, kara shisher and malcolm nance also msnbc terrorismnalyst and author of "the plot to hack america." i want to ask you but i will wait. first i want to talk about the news at hand which is social media testifying on capitol hill today. what did we learn? >> i have to tell you that first i want to talk about your marriage and congratulations to you and the newly minted mr. katy tur. congratulations to you both. >> welcome to the club. on the social media front this is something where the question and the evolution of what the social media companies have been able to do is an important part of this puzzle because they were unwilling to help in any way to turn over information. they were insisting that this is not something they could comply with based on privacy concerns. i think they realized that the political pressure was very intense. so i think that the way that this is going to play out, the more we learn and the numbers that you read through are just staggering the number of voters that came across something that was touched by the

and msnbc terror analyst malcolm nance. always good to have you. let me start with you, doug.f you had been in the room for the briefing garrett was just talking about, what would you be asking? >> well, i think the questions are obvious, but so are some of the answers. you want to ask, well, why are they there. the answer is essentially congress has authorized them to be there or at least the executive branch reading of what the congress has passed authorizes them to be there. now, what then the second question would be, why does the congress not know and why did it appear that large portions of the chain of command, the pentagon, the africa command, didn't know what was going on. that's a really good question. but we suspect the answer is something like, well, someone just decided not to tell someone or there was a communication breakdown. the third question is why weren't there essentially operations in place to support these guys, medevac, air support, a quick reaction force. and regrettably the answer to that is that's what the special forces units do on the periphery of

university of texas robert chesney and author malcolm nance at the annual texas tribune festival in austin. this runs one hour. applause] >> good morning. thank you for coming out to perhaps the most timely and serious and important session you will hear at the seventh annual texas tribune festival and of course, by this i mean the deadly serious topic of president trump and his views on professional athletes.