north korean officials reject the notion a nerve agent was used. they still refuse to acknowledge that the dead man is kim jong nam. >>> malaysia's state-run news agency reports that police have received a warrant to detain an employee of north korea's state-owned airline. police have wanted to question the employee of the airline as well as the second secretary at the north korean embassy in kuala lumpur. both men appear in security video taken at the airport on the day the killing took place, investigators believe the two men are still in malaysia. they've asked the north korean embassy for cooperation, but have no prospect of getting any help. the second secretary is protected by diplomatic immunity and cannot be detained. japan's air self-defense forces scrambled jets to intercept 13 chinese aircraft. defense ministry officials say it was the largest group of foreign planes to draw a response from japan since 2003. officials say the planes came from the east china sea and passed between islands in okinawa before heading toward the pacific ocean

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 we are hearing from other senior former officials under the obama administration who are also denying the phone wiretapping claims. one saying, quote, this did not happen. this is false, wrong, another telling cnn this is, quote, just nonsense. obama's foreign policy advisor ben rode slamming

, campaign officials and russian officials. so it's in that context that he's having these meetings with the russian ambassador. it seems to me unwise, to begin with, but also that he should have rend it. >> malcolm nance is with us. our viewers know him well. malcolm, i was talking in a break. what seems like hours ago about your appearance on bill maher's program and what's notable is from bill maher through the mainstream kind of news media, the same plotline, kind of the death of outrage, going deep, deep, deep into national security and intelligence gathering are asked to come on by hosts like us and kind of pinch us and say is this a new norm 58 that's being enforced? are we witnessing an attempt at the death of outrage? >> you are when you're talking about this russian connection to the 2ru6r7 administration. we're seeing something i've never seen in 35 years working in and around intelligence. we are seeing american citizens absolutely not care about a hostile intelligence operation against the united states. we have ma

, or are they working as an intelligence official or a former intelligence official? are they reporting up through the intelligence community? on both sides it's been hard to disentangle that. >> michael schmidt, you, of course, are one of the lead reporters from the failing "the new york times." a left wing publication that only attacks republicans and this is what upsets me. oh, wait. the two year anniversary of him breaking the clinton e-mail story. can you believe that? >> you will continue to fail, okay? >> you would be doing what tim russert always said. make people on both sides think you're the enemy. >> without fear or favor, we follow the facts. >> well, we are fearful and willie and i will basically sell our souls for a job at goldman sachs but that offer hasn't come yet. we thank you for holding it up for us. m thank you, michael. great reporting, as always. isn't that incredible? he breaks the clinton server story and he has been all over this too. i mean, on both sides. it's pretty incredible. >> mark's question is the critical one. in fact, who irm the

> translator: central government officials have often visited our prefecture's officials in charge of private school affairs. so we said we could accept an application if the government is selling the land. >> two years ago, a prefectural panel made recommendations backing moritomo mogaku's bid for an elementary school. matsui suggested the recommendation was in response to the government's request. moritomo planned to open the elementary school in april, but it withdrew its application last week after multiple cost estimates for construction were submitted. nhk took the public's temperature on the matter surveying about 1,000 people over the weekend. and results suggest 80% are not convinced by the government's explanation on the land deal. the opposition bloc now wants the school operator's head to explain the deal in the diet. but the ruling coalition is reluctant. asked whether he should be summoned, 55% said yes. while 11% said no. >>> japan's defense minister has also been caught up in the scandal. tomomi inada apologized for misleading parliament over her links to the school op

also confirm a meeting between that same ambassador official in the trump tower with trump officials, trump advisers. . tell us about that. >> this was first reported in the "new york times" but cnn has been able to confirm through a senior administration official, sara murray was able to confirm this that, yes, in fact, michael flynn who was a top adviser to president-elect trump back in december along with jared kushner the president-elect's son-in-law at the time met with the russian ambassador at trump tower in december. that is now being confirmed by the white house through a senior administration official. it does appear this have been multiple contacts between the russians and top advisers to the president, president-elect and then candidate trump over the summer last year. >> yeah, that russian ambassador must have been pretty busy with all of those meetings. jim, all of this comes this latest uproar as the president traveled today to newport news virginia. you were with him on that trip. you had a chance to ask him about the attorney general. >> that's right, wolf. we travel

. >> a top trump aide and russian official, this time it is trump's son-in-law. questions about why he met with a banker appointed by vladimir putin. >> and we have details on the president's next executive order coming today. >> good morning, i'm dave briggs, and i'm christine romans, let's begin with two democrats saying the time has come for chairman devin nunes to recuse himself. the demand comes after a series of revelations the nights before he told trump that his aides communications were picked up by u.s. intelligence. >> nancy pelosi and adam schiff both say nunes must step aside. his behavior has tarnished that office. here is what schiff told cnn. >> it would be very difficult to maintain the credibility of the investigation if the chairman did not recuse himself formatters involving involving either the trauump campaign or transition team. there's no reason to have gone to the white house at night and late ar shari later sharing it with the white house instead of sharing it with his own committee. >> son-in-law jared kushner volunteered to testify bef

it was from a government official who worked as akie's aide. the official made an inquiry about the land with the finance ministry as per kagoike's request. the opposition said such an inquiry could have led to a preferential treatment. in the diet, the prime minister said he takes no issue with the fax. >> translator: i understand that the fax sent by the official clearly says that the government cannot meet mr. kagoike's request. it is a flat rejection and i'm confident that government officials did not give any favorable considerations because of the inquiry. such an inquiry does not mean that my wife had anything to do with the sale of the state-owned land. >> reporter: a member of abe's liberal democratic party released online correspondence between akie abe and kagoike's wife. they had a discussion one day after prime minister abe announced his wife's resignation as honorary principal. >> translator: a diet member came and asked me to stop using your photo in order to protect the ldp. >> translator: it must have been that extra caution wa

officials. russian officials dispute this characterization. sessions failed to disclose it with kislyak in january. sessions was asked about russia's meddling in the election and the ties between trump and the kremlin. >> i have been called a surrogate a time or two in that campaign and i did not have communications with the russians. i'm unable to comment on it. >> reporter: sessions insists he did not mislead the committee saying they were not tied to the role with the trump campaign. >> i was taken aback a little bit about this brand-new information, this allegation that surrogates and i had been called a surrogate for donald trump meeting continuously with russian officials and that's what struck me very hard and what i focused my answer on. in retro spect, i should have slowed down. >> reporter: democrats say sessions recusal is hardly enough. demanding he resign. >> the fact that the attorney general, the top cop in our country lied under oath to the american people is grounds for him to resign. >> reporter: senate democratic leader, chu

ben rhodes, former white house official with the obama administration, national security official, tweeting this morning no president can order a wiretap. those restrictions were put in place to protect citizens from people like you. a little bit of a jab there at president trump. now, we do know that from nbc news reporting that the justice department is investigating trump contacts, trump campaign contacts, with russians. we have not reported what the new york times and some other outlets have reported, that they're investigating contacts between the trump campaign and russian officials. it's a key and important distinction. but what could be generated in an investigation like that are information from fisa warrants. they would be monitors of communication between foreign agents and others. so typically for example that may be how we know about mike flynn and his conversations with the russian ambassador because it would be relatively standard procedure # to be monitoring the communications that the russian ambassador was having and that u.s. persons could get swept up in something like t

officials say the aircraft didn't violate japan's air space. three chinese navy vessels sailed through the area on the same day. it suspects it took part in drills staged by china's navy and air force. the air self-defense force has scrambled jets more than 1,000 times during the ten months through january that's higher than the cold war record of 944 in 1984. the number of interceptions of cl chinese planes has been surging. >>> let's turn to the world of business. japanese government officials have released the latest batch of economic data this morning. you've been sifting through figures. what do you have for us? >> we have a snapshot of how people spend, the price trends of some of these items and also the job situation. let's start with the consumer price index that is leading gauge of inflation. the cpi rose for the first time in 13 months. the government official say the index was up 0.1% in january from the same month last year. the index includes oil products but not fresh food. the reading was also higher when all types of energy and

but an official says there will be no public message, either. so it looks like we won't get to hear what the first ever impeached leader is thinking, at least not for the moment. >>> earlier, we spoke with the senior correspondent who has extensivee knowledge about sout korean politics. which he has been covering for decades. >> so kango, take us through the judgment a little more closely. we've seen in the report that park's supporters are angry about the decision. >> well admittedly, i can say that the judge decided her violating against the constitution and the law were serious enough to dismiss her. they said she didn't demonstrate she was abiding by the constitution. and they said dismissing park is beneficial for the country. because her actions have had a huge negative impact on the rule of law. and let's go into some details on the aspect of the court ruling. and lawmakers accuse park of various wrongdoings, including allowing her long-time friend, choi soon-sil to intervene in government staffing. and they also denounced park, saying sh

officials. if it was routine surveillance of foreign government officials in the united states, they always listen in on the russians. okay, that makes sense why a russian government official would have been recorded and had his communication transcribed but that kind of routine surveillance should not have included anything involved an american person. it was an official under routine surveillance, any american getting on the line, that should not be included in that surveillance because americans cannot be surveilled just because they happen to speak with foreign officials. if it was done under a fisa warrant, we would expect any person captured in the communication would be what they call minimized, would be excised out of the communication, wouldn't be recorded or transcribed, we would haven't access to what that u.s. person said. a communication involving a u.s. person is a different thing legally speaking than a communication involving just foreigners. why do we have access to what flynn a

officials. do you know the identity of those four officials where. >> i'm not going to comment on an article. >> well, it's not necessarily on the article, but, okay -- do you know for a fact that the four current and former american officials provided information for this story? >> i have to give you the same answer where. >> okay. with or without an investigation going on, has anyone told you that they know who leaked the information? or who leaked any information on russian involvement in the u.s. elections or russian involvment with the trump election team? >> not going to comment on that. >> okay where, is it possible that the "new york times" misrepresented its sourcing for this february 14th article, possible. >> i can't comment on that. >> is it possible that the "new york times" was misled by individuals claiming to be current or former american officials. >> give you the same answer. >> can i ask why you can't comment that? >> i think a number of reasons. i'm not confirming that the in

and russian officials? >> we want to let this information go through before we would form any opinions and we would hope that that's what you would like us to do. let us get a little bit deeper into this before you ask us to write the conclusions that's clearly what we intend to do down the road. >> we and the members of the committee are going to get to the bottom of this, if you get nothing else from today, take that statement to the bank. >> this is quite a different scene than what we have seen at the house intelligence committee, where we have seen that drip, drip, drip of information and those competing partisan press conferences. >> just at the end of the senate intelligence investigation, is it clear what they will make public? i mean obviously all their meetings are behind closed doors, so that they can ask, you know, information about thing that are classified, but what do they actually end up making public or do they not? >> it's interesting, anderson, tomorrow is the day of some of those open he

and russian government officials.lligence community investigating possible russian interference with the us election. so it takes on an added significance when we have these continual added reports of trump officials meeting with the russian ambassador. steve, i suppose for context we should note that really nobody‘s hands are clean. i mean, even if the worst assertion here is true, nobody‘s hands are clea n, here is true, nobody‘s hands are clean, are they? it is not as if american intelligence hasn't sought to influence elections around the world. that's right, and i can't speak to that, that wasn't part of what we looked at in our recent reporting. but obviously us officials are very concerned about any appearance of possible russian interference with us elections. and so we interference with us elections. and so we have investigations in congress and in the us intelligence community trying to probe the extent, the nature, of this involvement. obviously related to hack e—mails from the democratic party in the us. t

official about the wire-tapping allegations. tell us about that allegation. >> the former senior white house official who had direct knowledge of the investigation surrounding trump associates, meddling in the election, and other facts within the election, deny that there was any intentional tapping of donald trump's phones. or anything intentional sort of at trump tower related to donald trump. said this never happened. we never requested it. a warrant was never issued. they never went to a judge asking for this, for any sort of wire-tapping of donald trump's phone. so basically, we have a former officials who are all denying that this, this occurred. certainly under the obama administration. and this person would know all the way through probably mid january when this investigation was still ongoing. up until some of the former officials left the white house. >> important context, josh we're hearing from former c.i.a. analyst ned price who donated $5,000 to the democratic party and hillary clinton's campaign last year. he quit

military officials are analyzing pyongyang's latest missile launch. the u.s. officials say it exploded seconds after takeoff wednesday morning. they're condemning the attempt. south korean defense officials say the launch took place from an eastern coastal city where other missiles have been launched in the past. they're trying to figure out what type of missile it was. american officials called on pyongyang to stop what they call provocations that threaten peace and stability. earlier this month pyongyang fired four ballistic officials into the sea of japan. it's believed they were extended range scuds that can fly above 1,000 kilometers. north korea announced the lauo u.s.-south korean military drills. the two countries say they're stepping up their monitoring. wednesday's launch follows a visit to the region by the american secretary of state. in south korea he said a military option to deal with the north is on the table. >>> chinese media say a stampede in an elementary school bathroom has killed at least two students and injured more than 20. it happened

officials want to question the air koryo worker. they also want to speak with a second secretary at the north korean embassy in kuala lumpur. both men appear in security video taken at the airport on the day of the killing. but they are refusing to cooperate with the probe. malaysia's deputy prime minister implied that the airline staffer is at the embassy. he said that as long as a person is on the premises of an embassy, officials must follow diplomatic procedures. he is protected by diplomatic immunity and cannot be detained. >>> relations between south korea and china have been further soured as chinese authorities ordered its travel agencies to stop selling tours to korea. south korean reports that beijing's move is in retaliation to the finland deployment of an advanced u.s. missile defense system for china's eastern neighbor. the missile system is the terminal high altitude aerial defense, known as thaad. the south korean foreign ministry said if true china's measure would be regrettable as it would artificially curb normal h

primary point of contact with foreign government is, and officials. given this role he's volunteered to speak with chairman burr's committee, the senate intelligence committee. the "new york times" was the first to report this. it's worth pointing out there's no problem that kushner had these meetings. the real question is is this in the context of these investigations in the house and in the senate between ties between donald trump's presidential campaign and russian officials. yet again it's another story catching the white house flat-footed. we asked them repeatedly whether there were other contacts with russian officials, whether they tried to go through officials in this administration and determine if anyone else had additional contact. they down played this but you can't overstate how much this white house does not want to be talking about russia, particularly coming after last week which is a very rough week for them. >> sara murray with the breaking news. thank you very much. >>> we have this big news. consider it the art of no deal. presiden

and russian officials during the election? >> we would be crazy to try to draw conclusions where whefrom are in the investigation. i think mark and i have committed to let this process go through before we form any opinions. and i would hope that's what you would like us to do. let us get deeper into this before you ask us to write the conclusions. that's something we intend to do down the road. >> we're going to get to the bottom of this. you get nothing else from today, take that statement to the bank. >> reporter: this could be quite a different scene from what we've seen at the white house intelligence committee where we've seen that drip, drip, drip of information. at times the competing partisan press conferences. >> at the end of the senate intelligence investigation, is it clear what they will make public? obviously, all of the meetings are behind closed doors. they can ask, you know, information about things that are classified. what do they end up making public? or do they not? >> reporter: it's interesting ab, aa, a

he was later arrested again for assault on a local defense official. he spent the last five months in custody. on friday, a district court started his trial. he has denied the assault charge. he says it was defense officials who broke the law when they tried to remove protesters' tents. amnesty international has denounced his detention as a human rights violation. it says his arrest has had a chilling effect on others who want to protest u.s. bases in japan. >>> officials at japan's space centers have successfully launched a rocket and put a new information-gathering satellite into orbit. the h 2 a rocket lifted off from the space center in southwestern japan. information gathering satellites are designed to capture images of the ground and sea from several hundred kilometers away. the government uses these satellites to monitor the north korean missile facilities, japanese waters and disaster areas. >>> japanese businesses have decided to set a limit on overtime for their employees. the japan business federation agreed to the move on friday along with

military officials are analyzing pyongyang's latest missile launch. u.s. officials say it exploded seconds after takeoff and they are condemning the attempt. south korean defense officials say the launch took place on wednesday morning from an eastern coastal city where other missiles have been launched. they are trying to figure out what type of missile it was. u.s. officials called on pyongyang to stop provocations that threaten peace and stability. earlier this month, pyongyang fired four ballistic missiles into the sea of japan. they're believed to be extended-range scuds that can fly about 1,000 kilometers. north korea announced the launch was in response to ongoing u.s./south korean military drills. the two countries say they are stepping up their monitoring. wednesday's launch follows the u.s. secretary of state's visit to the region in which he said, a military option was on the table to deal with the north. at a news conference i in seoul rex tillerson set a new direction for american policy on the matter. he declared the end of what the obama adm

i think in this case and certainly from the source, the official former official with direct knowledge of the investigation, said it would have been tough for them to get this kind of permission. to wire-tap donald trump's phones. the other thing is if there was a criminal investigation, which was being handled by the fbi and the department of justice, they would have had to have shown that there was some sort of criminality to a judge or perhaps some sort of crime was being committed, there were allegations made. would have to go before a federal judge and try to get a warrant. various steps would need to be met before a judge would grant that this kind of authorization. it's a pretty tough burden to meet. it happens every day in federal courts, but i think given who donald trump was at the time, and who he is now, you know, this official stressed it would have been really tough for us to get this kind of authorization. >> he stressed that it's false, not true. shimon and athena, thank you very much. >>> i twoont bring in my panel, cnn's bob baier, a former c.i.a. operative, betsy woo

and in this case it was in his official capacity.o i think when you look at context, it's clear that he did not -- we was not referring -- >> i've got to ask you ron. >> thinking of himself in campaign capacity whatsoever. >> you have to give people benefit of the doubt but attorney general of the united states and highest in that capacity and at confirmation hearing, you've been serving not only as surrogate but adviser to campaign, you're a senator as well, they ask you about contacts with russians, why -- how could that slip your mind if you are vying for such an important office? >> well, you'd have to ask him. >> truth and context matter. >> asking question about the inside of his brain. but the entire leadup to that line of questioning was in the context of representatives of the campaign. i don't think senator sessions was in any capacity a decision maker, or anything with respect to the campaign. there were other people who clearly were having interactions with the russians, it appears, documented pretty well so far. even tho

officials we've spoken with. fbi director james comey made his bombshell announcement monday before congress that the fbi is investigating the trump campaign's ties to russia. so the fbi is now reviewing the information it's gathered in this investigation which includes human intelligence, travel, business, phone records and accounts of in-person meetings. so the information raised suspicions of fbi counter intelligence investigators that the coordination may have taken place, though officials we've spoken with cautioned that this informationclusive and that the investigation is ongoing. trump officials have denied there was any evidence of collusion. >> this gives us more insight into what comey knew when he spoke on monday at those hea hearin hearings. >> that's exactly right. in addition to comey saying the investigations include looking at connections to trump associates, he also explained what it means that the investigation is being done. take a listen. >> don't you need some action or some information besi

or other russian officials?he attorney general disclose these meetings during the fbi background check for his nomination? there has been a revelation after revelation. mistruths after mistruths. stories shifting like quicksand. if they is truly no there there, why weren't they tell the truth? as ever in washington there are two narratives. this is the speaker of the house paul ryan, a senior republican, this is his take. first i will refer to the senate judiciary committee. i checked the transcript on all of that, so i can't speak to what the judiciary committee transcriptase, frankly i haven't read it. should he recuse himself, ithink frankly i haven't read it. should he recuse himself, i think he answered that question this morning. which is if he himself is subject of an investigation, of course he could, but if he's not i don't see any purpose or reason of doing this. let's bring in anthony zurcher as we a lwa ys let's bring in anthony zurcher as we always do. from washington, dc. so many elements to this s

officials. >>> now nancy pelosi and adam schiff saying he must step aside. saying the choir has a serious responsibility to congress and the country. and here is what schiff told cnn. >> it would be very difficult to maintain the credibility of the investigation if the chairman did not recuse himself from matters involving either the trump campaign or trump transition team, there's no legitimate reason to have gone to the white house at night to obtain information and then shart wi share it with the white house instead of his committee. >> also this morning senior white house advisor jared kushner under scrutiny after revelation of meeting with a top russian banking official appointed by vladimir putin. he met with sergey gorkov, a state run bank under sanctions. >> in what capacity did he meet with gorkov? >> jared did a job during the transition and the call pampaig where he was a conduit to leaders and that's until we had a state department function place for people to go. remember, we had a delay in some things and that was his role. >> the russians have

there's no official comment or statement from the white house.colleague, jeff zeleny, the senior white house correspondent did speak with a senior white house administration official who said that the colleagues only learned about the president's tweet storm after he began tweeting this morning. he often does that, he wakes up and begins tet

intelligence official called it quote, nonsense. well, the president apparently blindsided his own staff when he charged quote, how low has president obama gone to tap my phones during the sacred election process. this is the nixon/watergate. bad or sick guy. >> reporter: along with my colleagues have been asking the white house officials to provide evidence to back up the unsubstantiated allegations that the president made. but my colleague, a senior white house correspondent, did speak with a senior administration official in washington. that official says that the white house colleagues only learned about the president's tweet storm after he began tweeting early this morning. he wakes up and begins tweeting early in the morning, not in any way running the tweets by any of his staffers. this morning he began the tweets at around 6:30 a.m. now, this official pointed to a story on the conservative website breitbart news that has been circulating around the west wing which followed up on comments made by radio talk show mark levin. t

officials. if it was routine surveillance of foreign government officials in the united states, they always listen in on the russians. okay, that makes sense why a russian government official would have been recorded and had his communication transcribed but that kind of routine surveillance should not have included anything involved an american person. it was an official under routine surveillance, any american getting on the line, that should not be included in that surveillance because americans cannot be surveilled just because they happen to speak with foreign officials. if it was done under a fisa warrant, we would expect any person captured in the communication would be what they call minimized, would be excised out of the communication, wouldn't be recorded or transcribed, we would haven't access to what that u.s. person said. a communication involving a u.s. person is a different thing legally speaking than a communication involving just foreigners. why do we have access to what flynn a

this, of course, follows other revelations of top trump officials with ties to the russians. national security adviser michael flynn resigning after lying about his communications with the russian ambassador, as well. and now top democrats are pouncing including minority leader nancy pelosi and elijah cummings calling for sessions to step down. >> i can tell you one thing, i know just based upon all the information that i have read and heard this evening, it sounds like he did not tell the truth. >> reporter: overnight republican senators grilled as well about the russian contacts. >> i don't know. it may be an innocent contact. i don't know if he has to disclose everybody he's ever talked to. a special prosecutor. >> i think we have to know more about it before we can make a judgment. >> reporter: this morning white house officials are calling these new reports part of a partisan attack. and one more thing, that statement from the white house also says that sessions met with the ambassador in what they're calling an official capacity as a member of the senate armed services

so they are stressing, these are official, an official who's directly involved in the investigation, who's familiar with the investigation. and has stressed that at no time, did this happen. >> and so, how would this be separate from or related to the obama administration handing over classified information as it relates to russia before president obama depart ed? >> so, because this was a, this would would be involved the fbi and have been an fbi investigation, what trump seems to indicate is that he was the target of the investigation was his sort of phones. his stuff that was wiretapped, so, i don't know that the fbi would have at that time, before he was president, directly briefed him on what the, their investigation was. whether they were going, what they were looking at. the director, director comey has this sort of, he likes to keep it separate, he doesn't like to talk about ongoing investigations. even with the president. i mean, this is what sort of happened a couple of weeks ago when we reported that the white house asked the fbi to knock down some of these reports. and th

officials debate possible solutions the city of oakland is looking to create an official campground to allow tents on an empty lot with garbage and sanitation services. i spoke with mayor shaft and she says it is one way to deal with the problem while getting people to take advantage of other city services such as rehab and counseling. >> what we are doing now is clearly not working. government needs to try things and testing out an encampment to learn lessons i support that. >> joining me now is joe dareese, an assistant to the city administrator. you know this is controversial. why is the city looking to go in this direction? >> first let me say that ultimately the answer to the homelessness is housing and we don't have enough and the encampment population has grown and we have seen that in the last couple of years. they are on the street and there is safety issuance sanitation concerns and in these encampments and surrounding businesses and residents. the idea is that you take the encampment and get it off of the street. and you provide site management and case management to get peo

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 they plan to do. no one had ever asked to do thithis as far as this official is krped and certain ly, no

he met with this russian official in the capacity of a u.s.or, so i think president trump is trying to make a point about the hypocrisy we're seeing on the left because, you know, many of them have also met with russian officials in their own capacities. >> he did also offer up to senator franken that he had no contact during the campaign with russian officials, which is really kind of the sticking point. >> in relation to the campaign, though. we don't know what he -- >> >> very good point. dwoent know what they spoke about in a totally private meeting. under no circumstances that it was 100% wrong. when the trip, in fact, was paid for by the campaign, and then he was there as an official with the armed services committee. that doesn't make any sense. in either case there's two separate inquiries. one is whether or not he met with russian officials during the campaign in a campaign capacity, and the second inquiry is actually whether he lied when he was testifying under oath. that is a separate inquiry. to conflat te the two is whethe this is

, top officials at the nsc?> i'm not concern. this is not a judgment call. i think there's a technical question about whether they were authorized to reveal that kind of information. i can tell you when i served at the nsc in the same building my boss was condoleeza rice, serious as a heart attack and smart as all get out. if i had done it she would take out a chain saw, cut me into 100 pieces and served me to sharks. you can't do this stuff if you are a member of the national security environment and you have taken an oath not to reveal certain information, you can't do this stuff without consequences. the question has to get to the bottom line. were they allowed to do this or did they do it without authorization, yes or no. >> i believe that's the kwee question. mark preston, i would like you to listen to the exchange i had with the house intelligence committee chairman devin nunes here in the situation room on monday. >> who clear you for admission? >> well, i'm not going to get into how that proce works, but

officials. get to breaking news. joining me, they broke the story with evan perez. pamela, what are you learning? >> we learned that fbi has information that indicates associates of president donald trump communicated with suspected russian operatives to possibly coordinate the release of information damaging hillary clinton's campaign, according to u.s. officials. fbi director james comey made his bombshell announcement as you recall on monday before congress that the fbi is investigating the trump campaign's ties to russia. fbi is now reviewing this information that includes human intelligence, travel, business and phone records and accounts of in-person meetings according to officials. information is raising suspicions of counterintelligence operatives that coordination could have taken place but information is not conclusive and investigation is ongoing. no comment but trump officials denied any evidence of collusion. >> this gives us insight into what comey knew when he spoke on monday corr

sources say he was the highest ranking official to visit taiwan since japan severed official diplomaticies with taipei in 1972. details remain unclear on negotiations to end a travel ban between malaysia and north korea. the two sides have prevented each other's citizens from leaving their respective countries. the ban began after kim jong un's half brother was killed last month. following the incident some staff members of the malaysian embassy and their families have not been allowed to leave north korea. malaysian deputy prime minister said the government would provide an update on monday, but that didn't happen. some local newspapers reported the two countries agreed the body of kim jong nam will be handed over to north korea. one of the sticking points in the negotiations. the reports also said both sides agree that three north koreans under malaysian police investigation will be allowed to return to their home country. two of their names were on a passenger list for a flight from kuala lumpur to beijing on monday, but they didn't board the plane. >>> japan has provided two trainin

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talked to officials in the justice department who say mr. sessions simply did not remember those meetings and did not consider them to be relevant to his answer. what is strange about it is during the interaction with senator franken, he wasn't really asked whether he had any interactions. >> he volunteered it. >> what would you do. right. simply volunteered additional information and -- >> can i ask you something, you were pivotal in the reporting of flynn and sessions' explanation seems similar to me to what flynn said. i don't recall, i don't remember what we spoke about. at first initially, correct me if i'm wrong, that there was no contact. and once it was found out there was contact, didn't remember exactly who he spoke to or what they spoke about. am i correct? >> that's correct. that's what flynn first -- >> and flynn ended up having to resign. >> exactly. that's one of the things that happened. things advanced so quickly, people now asking for resignation of attorney general who has barely taken office, probably not walked all the f

officials, many aare wondering are we in a new cold war.to this interview on abc this morning. >> you call it a cold war? maybe even worse taking into account actions of the present presidential administration. >> worse than the cold war? >> of course. of course. i've been just about this illegal actions against washington and new york about extraditing the russian d diplomats and more. >> shep, russia is calling the allegations fake news. >> thank you. lea gabrielle, appreciate it. there's word that the c.i.a. can disguise their hack attempts or hack attacks to make them look like they may have come from other countries including china, russia, north korea or iran. that's according to wikileaks. they say the soft war is designed to throw off investigators looking into the hack attacks. according to wikileaks, the c.i.a. uses the software to pretend their attacks were written in a foreign language like chinese or russian. wicks i can leaks appeared to show how the c.i.a. hacked devices that hacked into the internet. let's move on to acki pa

as he white house official. because "the new york times" called him a senior director for intelligence at the nsc. is our reporting different? >> no, no. that's his title. >> but not defense intelligence as you just said. >> okay. let me go to kelly. sean spicer, very defensive during that briefing last hour. essentially saying this is all just process and that reporters are obsessed with the process of how this information was gathered, right? >> yeah. and just picking up on your conversation with ken, because the national security council does take people from intelligence sxagss other departments across the government, although ken ran this down and found out the individual in question is a white house employee, it makes me wonder if chairman nunes would have been aware of that distinction. perhaps his denial isn't necessarily closing a door on that. in the weeds there but worth knowing. sean spicer talked about the white house has invited top intelligence officials from capitol hill and oversight. the two co