she's denied leaking any of that information to the it works to bring forward another former obama official samantha power. she's agreed to come before the committee. the congressional scrutiny does not mean they violate the the law or internal regulations but we'll bring them in for testimony anyway. >>> in the meantime this is a hot topic around the area. ask yourself this. shd non-u.s. citizens have the right to vote in local elections? the city of college park, maryland is weighing the idea. there are six other communities in maryland that already allow noncitizens to vote in local elections. opponents say it's not fair to people who are citizens to have voting rights granted to people who are not. supporters say noncitizens who live in college park should have a say in the direction of the town. people in that area though and you can imagine on a topic like this had not been shy in weighing in on the matter. >> their experiences are affected by local politics. and while they still live here, i think it may be a have some say about politics. >> they're not citizens of the country or of the state

officials of obama administration. john brenon, susan rice, and samantha power, in what appears to be a reverend to power, nunez writes, one official made hundreds of unmasking requests during the final year of obama administration, and obama era officials sought identity of trump transition officials, however their was no meaningful explanation offered by the officials as to why they needed. during public testimony, an american who has done business in russia claimed lawyer at 2016 trump tower meeting was directly tied to moscow. >> she worked for the ffb, the successor organization to the kgb . reporter: bill toughers that natalia was moscow's point of contact for repealing u.s. sanctions. russia president putin retaliating. reportedly a subject of conversation at 2016 meeting. >> nobody was talking about adoption, they were talking about repeal of sanction so russian tortures and murderers could freely travel. reporter: saying that russian lawyer -- plant false story in media, same firm commissions unverified anti-trump des dossier. in a statement they deny spreading fall information about broader and his lawyer. to

learned last night that more obama officials are expected to testify about the allegations of unmasking by the obama administration against the trump administration. samantha power is the latest to agree to testify before the house intel committee. earlier i spoke with congress man eric a member of that committee. watch. >> martha: congress manuel come. good to have you here tonight. >> thank you for having me back. >> martha: what is your reaction to the news that we got first here last night and more detail on it today that in fact there's an expansion of those that the committee wants to speak to who may have been involved in the unmasking of trump officials from the obama administration side? we know of susan rice, samantha power and john writtbrennan. cia, nsa and now we learn there's at least six more people on that list. >> i think it's a false alarm. where i came from we send the fire department where the fires are. russia attacked us. we should be focussing on making sure that never happens again. there's been no evidence put forward that anybody wrongdoing was done by any obama administration official. until that is shown the trump administration

officials of the obama administration. a former cia director john brennan, former national security dump visors susan rice and samantha powersin what appears to be a reference to powers, one official with no apparent intelligence function made hundreds of unmasking requests during the final year of the obama administration. there were no meaningful explanations as to why they needed and how they would use this information. during public testimony in american who had done business in russia claimed the lawyer with donald trump, jr., jared kushner and paul mena fort was directly tied to moscow. >> she's worked for the fsb, the successor organization to the kgb. >> anticorruption investigator will browder testified that she was moscow's point of contact for repealing sanctions. president putin retaliated, at the 2016 meeting. >> nobody was talking about adoption, they were tugged by the repeal sanctions so that russian torturers and murderers could travel in america. >> and american opposition research firm to smear him, the same firm commission the unverified siliceous and i trump. >> spreading false information about browder

intelligence the agency received subpoenas in may, naming three top officials of the obama administration, susan rice, and a former u.n. ambassador, samanthars to be a reference to power, one official who had no appearance related tasks, made many requests during the obama administration. obama it era officials sops the identity with an intelligence report, however, there was no meaningful expo nations offered by these officials as to how they would use this information. in a written statement to fox, adding master power was also a member of the council, responsible for advising the president about the united states. any insinuation that the investor was involved in leaking classified information is absolutely false, the spokeswoman for rice referred us back to this april interview. >> this is not anything political has been alleged, the allegation is that somehow the obama administration officials utilized intelligence for political purposes, that is absolutely false. >> there is no immediate response from the former cia director. >> shannon: thank you very much. >> bill: breaking news, congress approving beefed up sanctions on north kore

officials writes as well as former john brennan and former u.s. ambassador to the u.n. samantha power. the source said more than a half dozen senior obamadministration officials are no of interest to committee investigators. it's important to note the congressional scrutiny at this point does not mean investigators have concluded that any laws or internal regulations were broken. >> martha: thank you so much. here now tonight judge napolitano, sr., judicial analyst, good to have you back. >> thank you. what you think about what you just reported there. i think catherine as usual has found something that is probably the tip of the iceberg. there's two kinds of unmasking, in the ordinary course of intelligence work the white house will receive a transcript of the conversation or some communication between an american and a foreign agent and it might be necessary for the white house fully to appreciate the content that we know the american's. that american is unmasked. that is a lawful unmasking. >> martha: if there's a compelling national security reason to do so. >> andrew: correct. if the unmasking was done for political reasons or to e

officials of the obama administration. john brennan, susan rice and former u.n. ambassador samanthaat appears to be a reference to power. nunez says that one had no intelligence related functions made hundreds of unmasking request in the final year of the administration. the letter continues. obama era officials sought the ideas of trump transition officials with a transition report. there was no meaningful explanation offered by the officials as to why they needed or use this u.s. person information. in a written statement to fox, a spokesman emphasized powers unambiguous support for unbipartisan russian investigationing adding that powers was part of the security council, responsible for advising the president on full range of threats confronting the united states. any insinuation that powers involved in leaking classified information is false. a spokesman for rice referred us back to this april interview. >> this is not anything political that has been alleged. the allegation is that somehow obama administration officials utilized intelligence for political purposes is false. >>

samantha power. the source said more than half dozen senior obama administration officials are now of interest to house skresors. these subpoenas were issued by the house intelligence committee chairman devon nunez who took himself out of the russia investigation earlier this year after an ethics complaint was filed, that he violated federal rules when he confirmed at a press conference that trump campaign associates were incidentally collected by the intel jeans community. he disputes that charge. democrats criticized him for sharing this information with the white house rather than committee members. there's been a lot of anticipation that susan rice would testify behind closed doors on capitol hill as early as tomorrow before the house intelligence committee. but based on our reporting that seems to be off at least for now, shep. >> shepard: catherine herridge, thank you. >> a lot of stuff. >> shepard: job shurt. a lot of things. job security. more on latest defense of the meeting with the russian lawyer, offering dirt on hillary clinton and the white house trying to shift attention to the president

with documented fact and the fact that the obama administration had loosened the rules so much that they would allow them, their officials like suvan rice, samanthask john brennan to unmask. >> kimberly: this is unbelievable wide latitude, grotesque invasion of privacy, improper in every way and that increase that sara talked about, that is no coincidence given the timing of when this transpired. >> greg: apparently they have evidence the n.s.c. investigated and handed over to congress that while she was claiming that "i want these names unmasked for national security reasons," the documents on their face appear to be for political reasons. trump are transition plans. the people they're going to meet. the president-to-be's views on foreign policies. if the documents on their face have nothing whatsoever to do with national security, i don't know how she defends herself against the crimes i identified. >> i think you're absolutely right. this begs the question. what can we expect from her testimony? >> kimberly: she's agreeing to come forward. what do you think, sara? >> i think the testimony is going to be behind closed doors to a large extent wh

what is samantha powers, an implementer of foreign policy, not an analyst, why is she part of this unmasking? lou: we are also learning other top obama officialsapparently involved in the unmasking of american citizens in direct violation of law, and doing so in further violation of law for purely political purposes. it's interesting that the committees didn't get excited when they found out the obama administration in it final days expanded the distribution of law intelligence, and that could only be for one reason, and that was to expose the trump administration and it officials to open them up to public awareness of their moment. >> it sure look like it. this is the intelligence that has been unmasked which should have been close hold. but instead they spread it all over. what this is for is to get it out and maybe someone out there will leak it. and we found out they did leak it. it damaged the trump administration, it did damage to american citizens. like you said, probably illegal but totally unethical and inappropriate. lou: the idea south korea's moon has decided this week would be a perfect time for family reconciliation talks with ki

samantha power, the former u.s. ambassador to the u.n. has agreed to testify before the house intel committee at a date to be determined. among other top obama officialsppearing behind closed doors on capitol hill this week, over unmasking and the russia pro, former national security advisor susan rice is now slated to speak with the senate intel committee. i'm going to go to you, eboni, because i'm trying to figure out why the delays, why they're finally agreeing, and why in the world are they doing this behind closed doors question ? >> will start with that one. many people wanting to see them, just like we've seen several others recently out in front of the viewing public. but i think the goal is to get the most information and the most powerful information behind closed doors, that's the only chance. if they were in front of the american people you're not going to get anything. zilch, nada, from powers or susan rice. >> and kat, on march 22nd, nunez said that trump aides may have been inappropriately unmasked. also said susan rice may have broken the law by unmasking. it's the unmasking inappropriately of general flynn, that we're talking about. >

obama official, has agreed to testify before the house intelligence committee about russian election meddling. good morning and thank you for coming back on our program. what do you want to know from samanthaowers? >> i want to know exactly how much information the u.n. ambassador need to have? why would she need that kind of information, what were the topics? this is information that if it were collected inside the united states, it would be illegally collected. this is surveillance of americans. there is no warrant, i want to know what samantha power did and i want to know what's going on in the intelligence community. this surveillance state has been growing for the last several years. they believe they were surveilled, they want to know if they were unmasked. this question should be answered in 24 hours. i think they've asked this question over the last 4-6 week weeks. >> bill: the deputy attorney general is rosenstein. you will see the full interview tonight at 7:00. she was asking him about the relationship with comey and bob mueller. >> does his relationship give you any cause in terms of the appointment of that post? >> i made the decision to appoint director mueller. it was with b