more on the developing story that we told you about last night surrounding former obama official evelyn farkas and the obama surveillance of the trump transition team. tonight, brand-new information on the shocking public acknowledgment that she made earlier this month on a tv show that former obama officials are now raising a lot of eyebrows around the country. that is tonight's opening monologue. last night on this program we showed you video where former obama official evelyn farkas said she urged her former colleagues and people on the hill to get as much information and intelligence as they could on the trump team before president obama left office. on march 2nd during an nbc interview, dr. farkas who served in the obama administration from 21232015 as deputy assistant secretary of defense for russia, ukraine, eurasia listen to these comments very, very closely. >> i was urging my former colleagues and frankly speaking to people on the hill. it was more actually aimed at telling the hill people get as much information as you can, as much intelligence as you can before president oba

last night on this program we showed you video where former obama official evelyn farkas said she urged her former colleagues and people on the hill to get as much information and intelligence as they couldgu on the trump team before president obama left office. on march 2nd during an nbc interview, dr. farkas who served in the obama administration from 2012-2015 as deputy assistant secretary of defense for russia, ukraine, eurasia -- listen to these comments very, very closely. >> i was urging my former colleagues and frankly speaking to people on the hill. it was more actually aimed at telling the hill people get as much information as you can, as much intelligence as you can before president obama leaves the administration because i have a fear that somehow that information would disappear. with the senior people who left. it would be hidden away in the bureaucracy. that the trump folks if they found out how we knew what wewe knew about their staff, the trump staff, dealing with russia, that they would try to compromise those sources and methods. we will no longer have access to that

in the obama administration's last days some white house officials scrambled to express information to undermine the presidential election and about possible contacts between soeshlgtsz of. are don't jvrmt trump and the russians. they had two aims. to make sure it isn't duplicated necessity lexes and to leave a clear trail of intelligence for government investigators. that headline was followed moments later by another one. this time from the washington post as we told you. sessions met with russian envoy twice last year and counters he -- encounters he did not disclose. he did not disdisclose contacts between members of president trump's campaigned and representatives of moscow during session's confirmation hearing to become attorney general. here is the moment from his confirmation hearing on january 10. >> if there is any evidence that any one of affiliated with the trump campaign communicated with the russian government in the course of this campaign, what will you do? >> senator franken, i'm not aware of any of those activities. i have been called a surrogate and i did not have co

gowdy ticked through a list of former obama officials who might have had access to that information.tarted by asking director comey about james clapper. >> would he have access to an unmasked name? >> in some circumstances, sure, he was the director of national intelligence, but i'm not talking about the particular. >> would director brennan have access to an unmasked u.s. citizen's name? >> in some circumstances, yes. >> would susan rice have access to an unmasked u.s. citizen's name? >> yes, in general. and any other national security adviser would, i think, as a matter of their ordinary course of business. >> would former white house adviser ben rhodes have access to an unmasked u.s. citizen's name? >> i don't know the answer to that. >> would former attorney general loretta lynch have access to an unmasked u.s. citizen's name? >> in general, yes, as would any attorney general. >> so that would also including acting a.g. sally yates? >> same answer. >> did you brief president obama on -- i'll just ask you. did you brief president obama on any calls involving michael flynn? >> i'm

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but democrats and obama administration officials say look, this stuff was there.as serious intelligence. we wanted to make sure other people knew about it, that it wasn't just sitting at a safe at the cia in langley. >> how many documents are we talking about, or do we know? >> reporter: we don't know. 234 gener in general, there are hundreds, if not thousands of intelligence reports related to the circle of information about the russian hack. >> how can we or can we at this point characterize the nature of these reports? what do we know about what was in this stuff? >> reporter: we know very little. just that it was based on classified intelligence, very sensitive intelligence about the russia hack. which, as you know, the investigation includes into whether trump officials colluded with the russians. >> ken, thank you. again, all eyes on the briefing room here. we are expecting that briefing to start any moment. for now, let's take a look at what we're seeing about microsoft's pulse question. should general michael flynn get immunity in exchange for testimony ab

as late aside october and combine that, obama officialsre desiminating information about russia and will be used in the transsxigz uncorked in the first hundred days, it seemed like a systemic strategy to takedown president trump. pretty devious. >> let's take the second one first. the report ares that the obama administration officials took information about the context between trump campaign supporters or trump campaign officials and russian and disseminated it throughout the government in order that the trump administration would not be able to suppress the information, strikes me as paranoia and that is over the top lunatics saying we so distrust our successor and if he found information damaging to america's security risk that might reflect badly on someone who is on the campaign. that is how they view the current president of the united states. that is inappropriate and paranoid. and i have a general sense that the fbi, particularly when they go to get the fisa. national security warrant to tape conversations and intercept conversati

official with the obama administration, tell us more about what was said. >> well, like you said, fred, basically, the entire thing is false. this tweet, the former official is telling us did not happen. the information in the tweet, what donald trump is saying occurred at trump tower did not happen. and quote, this official as you said, said this didn't happen. it is made up. false. wrong. keep in mind, it was in october and november ait's still ongoin. there's ab investigation into russian's hacking, into the russians medicinin meddling int election. that investigation is still ongoing. people in the trump circle, the orbit, your names have surfaced as talk iing to russians, there have been all sorts of reports about that. and the fbi is still looking into that. they're still conducting their investigation and to think that trump, that the fbi would ask the department of justice for permission to go ahead and wiretap or to listen in on donald trump's conversations, this former official says is just not true. it's false. just not something they would want to do. it's not something the

president obama said no white house official ever interfered with any independent investigation led by the department of justice. as part of that practice, neither president obama nor any white house official ever ordered surveillance on any u.s. citizen. any suggestion otherwise is simply false. white house correspondent athena jones joins me now live near mar-a-lago. also with us, cnn crime and justice producer. athena jones, start with you here. a senior administration official told cnn that white house staff didn't learn of the president's tweets until after he sent them. what else are you learning from inside the trump team? >> we're still awaiting official statement from the white house, from the president's press team. we also asked for evidence, any evidence they can offer to back up the president's explosive allegations, but my colleague, senior white house correspondent did speak with the senior administration official who said as you noted that they weren't surprised by the president's tweet storm this morning. that's not very surprising because often the president does take

the reports that the obama administration officials took information about the contact between the trumppaign supporters or trump campaign officials and russians and disseminated it throughout the government in order that the trump administration would not be able to suppress this information strikes me as paranoia. a bunch of over-the-top lunatics who were sitting there saying, oh, we so distressed over successor that he found information that was damaging to america's security interests and mightgh reflect badly on someboy associated with his campaign, he would try to bury it. v it says something about how they view the president of theri united states. let me say something different here. i have a sense that the fbi, particularly when they go to get what is called a fisa a national security warrant, acting on the basis ofd need, and the judges who granted those requests would not act without some sense that something needed to be listened to. i don't think that was political at all. still want now, let me ask you this. if this had happened with george w. bush and you had former clinto

if those obama officials -- former obama officials have those concerns, it would be easy to stand upence like i'm doing now and talk about those concerns with all of you. i would suggest that you guys go chase them down, sit outside of their house and ask them if they have concerns about whether or not the fbi and other agencies were going to conduct an investigation. >> the white house has asked the staffers to preserve any documents that you all might need to investigate this. but the preservation order wasn't issued until a couple days ago. what happens to the information that was already out there? >> look, i am -- i am not -- i am not at this point, i would have no reason to believe that any information is going to ultimately be withheld from us. i will say there's a lot more information that the fbi and the intelligence agencies need to provide to our committee so that we can thoroughly go through all the information and process it and do an investigation. >> without get -- >> -- said the other day he wasn't really convinced. he hadn't gotten the assurances from the fbi that th

as part of that practice, neither president obama nor any white house official ever ordered surveillance on any u.s. citizen. any suggestion otherwise is simpsi simply false. a categorical denial he was in any way involved and other former obama administration officials made this on it that the president himself did not order wiretaps. we are still waiting official comment from the white house. you heard from my colleague, jeff zeleny, who did speak with an administration official was able to shed some light on where the president may have gotten this idea that somehow the former president was involved in wiretapping. he has returned to mar-a-lago and spent several hours at the trump international golf club in west palm beach where he played at least a few holes of golf. upon arriving there, we were told he would have meetings and make phone calls and may hit a few balls. we did get video of him on the golf course and now back to mar-a-lago but still waiting for any sort of proof or evidence to back up these explosive allegations. >> athena jones, thank you so much. appreciate that. so w

did obama officials commit a crime here and how did evelyn farkas, a former relatively low ranking obama administration official -- how did she know about all this surveillance? that brings us to another big story tonight. - from this program, sara carter and john solomon from circa news had been doing excellent reporting on the story. an fbi investigation into aa server that was being utilized by trump tower. that is where the campaign was. they also discovered a fisa warrant that alloweded federal officials to capture trump team communications. prior to the president taking office, all this occurred. now they have another bombshell report. it shows high-ranking officials with direct access to president obama may have had access to unmasked federal surveillance of the trump transition and their team members. and may have briefed president obama himself about the information they were collecting on then president-elect trump, my predictions is more information will be coming available and soon we are going to answer these important questions. joining us now with their explosive report fr

>> we saw reports last week that obama administration officials went to great lengths to collect and his intelligence against russia's alleged contacts with trump campaign operatives. but obama appointees were to keep the classification level a people as possible could have access to it. we heard reports that obama administration officials were planting questions during briefings that would lead to answers about russian intelligence knowing that they would be archived and sending reams of information to members of congress asking questions about this. the obama administration is not necessarily known for its speedy responses to congressional requests when it comes to other investigations that they would rather not have proceed like the irs investigation or the benghazi investigation. they were stone walling. they wanted to make sure that trump wouldn't run away with this once he became president. >> neil: thank, sarah. all right. i'm sure you heard what she's saying, i'm sure you heard the allegations that donald trump has that president obama himself personally authorized tapping tru

a need for trump administration officials, obama administration officials, the fbi to all come out ond say, here is what we know, here is what we don't know, here is what is fact, here is what is fiction. right now it seems there's a whole lot of distrust on both sides. if the fbi says there was nothing having to do with russia in the trump campaign, a whole lot of folks on the left who are going to say, no, i don't believe you. and if they do say there's a connection, there's a whole lot of folks on the right who say, i don't believe you because of that. isn't there a need in washington right now for everybody to come out and just be transparent and just be honest about what they know? and sort of put all these old notions, you know, we have to protect our sources and we have to protect our information to rest just for a moment? >> right, but that's what's so difficult. that's where all this tension is coming from like thebi and white house,n you have a commander in chief sitting there making it up as they go and demand his agencies come up with the rationale that they back him up. h

obama spokesman said neither president obama or any white house official ordered surveillance on any u.s. citizen. the white house hasn't said what prompted the tweet. >> i love being here with my people. >> a show of support today for president trump in our area and across the country. hundreds brave the cold to stand together in bucks county. it is the first nationwide pro-trump rally since election day. the initiative happening at the halfway point to 100 days in office. and those gathered had a message that not just president trump but america as a whole must succeed. nbc 10s sidney long reports from bensalem, bucks county. >> reporter: in what felt part rock concert and part prayer for american prosperity. >> i feel really enthusiastic about trump and what he's doing. >> reporter: all around patriotic. like a family reunion. >> reporter: hundreds of pro usa and people for trump supporters waved flags at the state park. in a crowd that hit nearly 700, marla brought her mom and daughter and daughter's boyfriend. the message, simple. >> greatest country on earth and donald trump ha

but first, more on the developing story that we told you about last night surrounding former obama officialveillance of the trump transition team. tonight, brand-new information on the shocking public acknowledgment that she made earlier this month on a tv show that former obama officials are now raising a lot of eyebrows

in a statement released by his spokesman, "a cardinal rule of the obama administration is no white house official ever interfered well any independent investigation led by the department of justice." as part of that practice, it neither president obama nor any white house official ever ordered surveillance on any u.s. citizen. any suggestion otherwise is simply false. nbc's intelligence and national security reporter ken delanie, and nbc senior political editor beth fooley. thank you both for joining us today. appreciate it. ken, let's start with you. >> i was wondering to myself was president trump briefed on surveillance at trump tower? is that what he is trying to say? all reporting today is that's not the case. we can't rule it out completely. as you mentioned, a senior u.s. official has cautioned us against this -- against what trump charged. the way that he articulated this charge is just not how it works. we just don't know if that's happening here. it seems like it would be pretty extraordinary, and the then the question would become why would president trump talk about it because it's co

not on the fact it points out crimes were committed by obama official. if that's what happened. s to confirm that unmasking was a crime and it was done by a senior administration official. charles: we have been sidetracked. i think jim hits the nail on the head. to me the big story is the unmasking and the lack of faith we have in our intelligence community. >> i think they are both good stories. but people want to know why a private citizen who wasn't in office had their identity unmasked. that should be concerning for everyone. that story is not getting the coverage it should. the smainl stream of media wants top demonize donald trump. but they need to focus on who unmaxed those people and why it happened and if they are still there. >> even though the lot? keeps thickening i feel like we took one step closer today. we have got to get justice here and someone has to pay. thank you both have much. robert, you guys have a great weekend. the major averages ended the day from the red but posted a gain for the quarter. i'm going to set you up for the next square. my market commentar

senior obama intelligence officials have gone on record to confirm there's no evidence of a trump/russia collusion. the obama cia director said so, obama's director of national intelligence said so and we take them at their word. however, there was some new information that came from the hearing that we believe is newsworthy about the intelligence gathering process. and the unmasking of americans identifying in intelligence reports. and illegal leak of such unmasked individuals which is a federal crime. director comey told the house intelligence committee that certain political appointees in the obama administration had access to the names of unmasked u.s. citizens such as senior white house officials, senior department of justice officials and senior intelligence officials. before president obama left office, michael flynn was unmasked and then illegally his identity was leaked out to media outlets despite the fact that as nsa director rogers said that unmasking and revealing individuals endangers, quote, national security. not only was general flynn identity made available, director co

new york times" report on march 2nd this year, a "new york times" report that said a number of obama officials and intelligence officials were trying to get information out about the trump campaign's potential ties to russia, things that they had discovered. she was addressing these on "morning joe." i want to play that sound bite for you now. >> there is a total distortion of what i id and what i was talking about. i was talki abo the fact that -- i was outside of government. i had noack assess to intelligence on this whatsoever, but i was concerned because i knew how the russians operate, and i was reading these reports about them hacking into the elections and then giving the information to wikipedia and that trump people, trump team people, were going to moscow and, you know, there was a lot of reporting on this. and so i got worried that the process wasn't being followed with regard to capitol hill, with regard to congress. because it wasn't clear to me that the white house was keeping them in the loop. and that was really important, especially since we're about to have a transition in th

of democrats new necessary canceled a public hearing scheduled for tuesday with three former obama officialsmocrat said he believes that was done at the behest of the white house to avoid the potential of any bad press. i think that hearing went so poorly for the white house, that there was a lot of push back in doing a second open hearing. honestly, john, because the other make sen. as for the white house on fox news sunday chief of staff continued to defense the president's claim on twitter that trump tower was wire tapped by president obama despite unanimous statements from the intelligence unity, democrats and republicans that there is no evidence to suggest that happened. the people in the trump transition were unknowingly surveillanced and illegally unmasked on documents which is what is being alleged out mr. . i think it's a big problem. i think ultimately president trump is going to be proven correct. > on tuesday the house intelligence committee will again meet with fbi james comey and the head of the nsa mike rogers, this time behind closed doors. in washington, i'm garret kenny, f

and suggesting that -- >> we now have the obama officials getting to investigate this because of jeff sessions recusal so early on in this administration and this issue, he doesn't have his deputy attorney general confirmed yet. the acting deputy ag, this was u.s. attorney promoted by president obama who went after the governor of virginia, republican governor of virginia and when he lost at the supreme court tried to get loretta lynch, the former attorney general to retry the governor of virginia. now you've got the obama officials in charge of the investigation of a campaign we know they didn't like. trish: meanwhile let's not foet -- hang on, guys. we've also been reporting he on fox that his son-in-law, trump's son-in-law actually participating in some meetings with the russian ambassador at the convention. so what do you make of that one, michael? how should people be adding all of this up right now? and as i said to be talking about potentially what the democrats are talking about, that's scary stuff. >> well, that's right. and that's why i think that in the interest of the unit

but the obama officials say they did not approve the raid. it was never green-lighted by the obama administration. >> with responsibility comes accountability. the president authorized that mission and it did not go well. i think that's fairly clear at this point. >> reporter: and second this claim. >> it was a very successful mission. they got a lot of information. a lot of different things that they really wanted to get. >> reporter: but nbc news has reported that senior officials say the raid has not yet produced intelligence of value. >> you have to understand whether you can do it better, literally, so that the sacrifice of this brave, young man does not go in vain. >> reporter: new questions about the president's first test as commander in chief. andrea mitchell, nbc news, washington. >>> tonight, federal investigators have arrived at the scene of a small plane crash in southern california in a heavily populated neighborhood. the tragic accident was caught on camera. incredibly, there are survivors. nbc's miguel almaguer is there. >> re

other obama administration officials have come out and said there is no there there. ssian ambassador -- this is what he had to say about president trump and russia. >> with respect to coordination about the campaign that's the number one question, okay? that's the watergate moment. that's when everything gets really serious. up to this points there is not -- especially "on the record" as we are here today i'm not willing to speculate about that because the date is not there. the evidence is not there. >> that is fascinating because i covered mike mcfall. i covered him in the obama white house i also putting aside par sanship is he widely regarded out in california now as an expert on russia. and somebody as you say worked in the obama administration. and he is saying listen closely, there is no evidence. he is to be clear leaving the door open. we may find evidence of a problem. but as an obama partisan and expert on russia he is saying very clear people, calm down, there may be some smoke here but there is no suggestion yet, yet that there is fire. that is a very imp

i would assume a senior obama administration official that handled russia -- >> former. >> all obama administration officials -- >> she wassen there in 2016. >> thank you. i appreciate the timeline. i'm well aware of when it was. you seem to be rushing to her defense. at some point she went on television and talked about actions that she and her colleagues took to spread classified information. and instead, jonathan, of defending her, it might be worth asking her what she is talking about, why she did it. was it appropriate? who cleared her to do it? maybe those are questions that you can ask, instead of asking me why that is concerning. >> one other question which is, are you more concerned about that or russian interference in the presidential election? >> i think if i'm as an american citizen, i'm very concerned about the fact that people potentially were sharing information about other americans for political purposes and using classified information to do so and leaking it. that should be concerning to everybody. >> russian interference? >> please stop trying to -- >> this is wor

a cardinal rule of the obama administration was that no white house official ever interfered with any independent investigation led by the department of justice. as part of that practice, neither president obama nor any white house official ever ordered surveillance on any u.s. citizen. any suggestion otherwise is simply false. very vigorous denial there. and we've had other former senior officials in the obama administration point out that a president doesn't order wire-taps. other officials have said this is nonsense and it didn't happen. >> we're hearing a last-minute addition to the president's public schedule today. what can you tell us about that in. >> that's right. couple of things, we knew he was planning to have dinner tonight with commerce secretary wilbur ross, but they've added a meeting at 6:30 on this official schedule that was put out, a meeting the president will have with the attorney general, jeff sessions and with the secretary of the department of homeland security, john kelly. an hour later the president will sit down with sessions and kelly, and also with the co

peter voser questions, instead of asking me to defend what a former obama administration official revealedngs that shld be concerning. question, are you more concerned about that or russian interference in the presidential election? >> as an american citizen i am concerned about the fact that people potentially were sharin informationbout other americans for political purposes, using classified information to do so, leaking it. that should be concerning to everybody. that's not what i said, please stuff tried to -- the answer is, if someone is interfering with our election tt is not good. someone leaking classified information is not good either. i don't think you should have to choose. you can have outrage and concern for both. i do not thinke should have to pick as an american which freedom we want to have underlined. we should accept both. the idea that we should have t choose whether or not we want -- interfere with our election or protect civil liberties is not one we should want or have questions. follow-ups.ic politically sensitive information, the others classified information when

a former obama official says the accusation is false and wrong. rtant to note here that these tweets cap off weeks of blaming president obama and his administration for leaking information about trump's campaign contact with russia. >> i think that president obama is behind it because his people are certainly behind it. and some of the leaks possibly come from that group. but i also understand that's politics. and in terms of him being behind things, that's politics. and it will probably continue. >> let talk more about this with cnn senior media correspondent brian stelter. he's also the host of reliable sources. you're been doing some digging. everyone is trying to figure out what the impetus of his tweets this morning? what information are you getting about what may have inspired him to tweet the way he did? >> our conspiracy theory president is at it again. whenever something like this happens i wonder what are the president's sources of information? where is he getting these ideas? it could be from intelligence briefings, classified intelligen

in that "new york times" story regarding the actions of obama officials to preserve evidence of russian activity, it was reported that senator ben cardin, was provided a classified cash of state department documents regarding russian efforts to intervene in elections worldwide. in this exclusive tv interview senator cardin joins me now. senator, first, please, react to the twitter rant of the president this morning including blaming president obama for bugging trump tower. >> michael, first, good to be with you. a couple points here, we need to first find out why attorney general sessions was meeting with the russian ambassador, what took place during that meeting that was right during the time that russia was very active of interfering with our campaign. senator sessions at that point was a surrogate for the trump campaign. it's important that we understand exactly what russia was up to in meeting with senator sessions and what took place at that meeting. it's also important to have an independent investigation. obviously the president is going to interpret things one way. i might inte

. >> reporter: tonight a former obama aid says some obama officials were so concerned what would happen to key classified documents related to the russia probe after president obama left in january they created a list of document serial numbers and gave it to congressional leaders. savannah. >> christkristen welker at the white house. >>> the mystery sources about the explosive surveillance claims made by devin nunes. now there are reports at least three white house staffers were involved raising the question whether this was all an elaborate cover for the president's discredited wiretapping claims but the congressman is pushing back hard tonight. here is hallie jackson. >> reporter: tonight more of a mystery than ever before, who was the secret source who told powerful republican devin nunes u.s. spies may have scooped up communications from the trump transition team. the head of the committee shouting down reports staffers played a role in the revolution. >> those reports are mostly wrong. this is something i've known about for a very long time from people who were not affiliated at a

>>> right now at 6:00, some of the top officials in the obama administration are firing back after president trump explosive allegations about their former boss. >> reporter: live in wood bridge, police search for a man they say stabbed a store employee to death here at po patomic mills mall. >>> news 4 at 6:00 starts now. >>> a sad day in capital heights neighborhood. firefighters found a body inside the charred remains of a home. good evening, thank you for joining us. the fire started at 9:00 in the morning on crown street, and now weave learned the house did not have working smoke who actually called ç911. >> reporter: single story wood frame house smoldering hours after the fire reported, about 9:15 when neighbors realized it was burning. >> i smelled smoke. i checked around our house to see if it was inside our house. >> reporter: it was the naeb's house next door. >> it was dark smoke, the flames, and that's when i got concerned. >> reporter: diali ining 911, someone was inside. i looked in the window. i don't know if it was a neighbor, but they were trying to call somebody inside th

unmasking that chairman nunes brought out, has he shown you any of what caused him to suggest that obama officials are doing surveillance, captured some trump campaign associates and then unmasked them in the process of investigating? >> he has not shown it to me, johns, i am vaguely familiar with it, no more, no less familiar with it than adam schiff is. i will just tell you this. my understand is chairman nunes briefed the commander in chief on matters unrelated to the russian investigation, so if that is big deal in washington, then we have sunk to a new low. >> dickerson: well, i guess congressman schiff would say, but the president is the one that is a part of this investigation being done by the committee, so the chairman shouldn't be talking to him. >> well, then, let me repeat what i say. that chairman of house intel briefed the chairman in chief that has nothing to do with the russian investigation, so if the commander in chief cannot be briefed by the chairperson of the house intel committee on a matter that has nothing to do with the fbi investigation, then i don't know what they can ta

. >> and the president obama or white house official orders surveillance on in the u.s.a. think that kevin lewis comes in for the former president. john favreau, a former speech writer one day be careful about reporting obama said there was no wiretapping. the statement said neither he nor the white house ordered it. chris: just a few months ago, sean spicer, the white house press secretary engaged in a twitter storm of the sound posted four consecutive messages to the general thrust was the trump white house wants as congressional committees investigating the russia connections or allegations of russian connection to investigate this allegation as well. mr. spicer closed with neither the white house or the president will comment further until such oversight is conducted. chris: james, thank you. republican senator tom cotton of arkansas. welcome to fox news sunday. you are a member of the senate intelligence committee, the one the white house is not calling on -- now calling on to investigate whether the obama administration abusive executive role. are you going to do tha

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senior obama intelligence officials have gone on record to confirm there is no evidence of a trump-russiaia director said so, obama's director of national intelligence said so, and we take them at their word. however, there was some new information that came to the news that we think is not where there with the unmasking of americans identified and intelligence reports and the illegal leak of such unmasked individuals which is a federal crime. director comey to the house intelligence committee that certain political appointees in the obama administration had access to the names of unmasked u.s. citizens such as senior white house officials, senior department of justice officials, and senior intelligence officials. before president obama left office, michael flynn was unmasked and then illegally his identity was leaked out to media outlets. despite the fact that as nsa director roger said come the unmasking and revealing of individuals in dangerous -- endangers national security. not only was general flynn's identity made available, director comey refused to answer the question of whether

but i would assume that as a reporter that is interested in the story, a senior obama administration official that handled russia, all obama administration officials generally. >> reporter: she wasn't there in 2016. >> thank you, i appreciate the timeline. i'm well aware of what it was. you seem to be rushing to her defense. at some point she went on television and talked about actions that she and her colleagues took to spread classified information, and instead of jonathan, instead of defending her, it might be worth asking who she's talking about, who she spread it to? was it appropriate? who cleared her to do it? maybe those are questions to ask instead of asking me why a former obama administration official is revealing stuff that is extremely concerning. >> reporter: one other question, which is are you more concerned about that or russian interference in the presidential election? >> well, i think that if i'm an american citizen, i'm very concerned about the fact that people potentially were sharing information about other americanfopolitical purposes and using classified information t

i would assume that as a reporter that actually is interested in the story, a senior obama administration official that handled russia, that -- all obama administration officials generally. thank you. i appreciate the timeline. i'm well aware of when it was. my point is, you seem to be rushing to her defense. at some point, she came on television and talked about actions that she and her colleagues took to spread classified information and instead of depending her, it might be worth asking her what she's talking about, who she's spreading it to and who cleared her to do it. maybe you could ask that instead of asking me why a former obama administration official is revealing stuff that should be extremely concerning. >> one other question, which is, are you more concerned about that or russian interference in the presidential election? >> well, i think that as an american citizen i'm very concerned about the fact that people were potentially sharing information about other americans for political purposes and using classified information to do so and leaking it. that should be concerning to everybo

. >> if former obama officials have those concerns, it would be easy to stand up in front of a press conference and talk ab those concerns with all of you. i would suggest that you go chase them down, sit outside their house and ask them if they had concerns about whether or not the fbi and other agencies were going to conduct an investigation. >> dana: anchor of special report is here. i'm so glad you could join us. when you wake up in washington today after covering what was a great speech by president trump tuesday night, arguably the administration didn't want to be dealing with this issue but here they are again. >> pretty amazing, dana. i think there's some serious questions here, obviously. it looks like an unforced error. if you look at this, the testimony there, senator franken is not asking specifically about whether jeff sessions met with the russians. sessions offers that up. but it is in the context of the campaign as a campaign surrogate. so the trouble is that sessions doesn't go back and correct the record and say, i did meet with the russian ambassador as a senator.

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necessarily to any trump campaign involvement. >> when congressman doughty began name being normal obama officials, not only president obama, clammer and others, where do you think he was going with that? and that was all in relation to his final question about the leak and where it may have come from. i talked to congressman gowdy, we were going to play that in the sext negment hp he says he was not implying that any of those people were the people who leaked the information. i said it could have come from people in the trump white house. he said, yeah, it could have. everybody he named was a democrat. do you think that was what he was applying? >>. >> i think up until the last day of the trump administration, he will be blaming obama for something. the reality is we don't know where the leaks are coming from. they're probably coming from different sources and some of the sources may be in trump's own white house. so mr. gowdy could just as well have said did steve bannon know about this, did the white house know about this. he could have named anyone in the president's circle who were equally in

continue to say that this is a substantive matter in what continues to come to light in terms of obama officials admitted consistent with what they said. there is clearly a intent to do something. the question is why. was ordered by him. they are on the record by individuals. they continued to point to exactly what the president was talking about that day on march 5. we heard from the president this morning saying that they should ask for immunity we also have a long-standing views if you are guilty of a crime what do you need immunity for. does the president think mike flynn is guilty of a crime. >> he should go up there and do what he has to do to get the story out. that's up to him and his lawyer to decide. i'm not can give them legal advice. the president's view as he should go up there and he should testify. he gave legal advice from his twitter account. i think the underlying point that you are missing is go testify. until everyone exactly what we been seen for a long time. i get your point. if you actually stop for a second and realize what he's doing. he said do what you have to do to go

last-minute work by the obama administration. ( cheers and applause ) according to a new report, "obama officialsght to preserve evidence of russian election meddling." good idea. though i believe there is a large piece of evidence sitting in the oval office. ( laughter ) the obama folks were worried that after trump took office, "the intelligence could be covered up or destroyed." yes, trump could bury it where the public would never see it-- maybe with his taxes. ( laughter ) ( applause ) it was all an effort to "leave a clear trail of intelligence for government investigators." oh, it's a scavenger hunt with clues hidden throughout the government! the movie "national treasure" is finally coming true! nicolas cage, quick, check the back of the constitution. i knew it! vladimir putin's phone number! ( cheers and applause ) ( piano riff ) i knew it was something like that! also check the front of the constitution-- there's some writing on that side that's pretty damning to trump, too. ( cheers and applause ) now, congress has finally started its russia investigation, with house intelligence commi