hacking tools you know tom clancy couldn't write any better. ian fleming could but i digress writing for the intercept james rosen outlines how the n.s.a. was desperate to recover documents that intelligence officials believe russia had obtained through a mysterious group known as the shadow brokers but once the communications channel open the russians on the other side offered to sell documents related to trump along with these stolen and this a documents risin goes on to write how the cia was wary of accepting the trump documents initially worried about not only the motives behind the offer but the potential political blowback as well meanwhile over of the new york times matthew rosenberg reported that after months of secret negotiations a shadowy russian built american spies out of one hundred thousand dollars last year and that the episode ended this year with american spies chasing the russian out of western europe a spy story told by a rise in the story didn't mention the hundred grand both stories ultimately concluded that the russia rus

goes where the evidence leads him but the evidence seems to be leading him into the middle of a tom clancy novel. the actual role that will may have been played by manafort here in doing -- being paid by and doing the kind of bidding for the russian government is mind bending, yet seems hike something we have to confront. and then finally, the indictment of a lawyer here, that's a special kind of act that you need permission for from the department of justice. i think it's really serving notice to everyone but including lawyers, say don mcgahn, that any attempt to shade the truth with mueller and team will be met with criminal charges. and everyone else who has worked on that report, there are about eight scadden lawyers have to be terrified now. >> indicting a scadden lawyer is no joke. particularly this truck me. they basically had in their posession documents that he then would later delete and asked him about it. it says he dleed otherwise did not produce e-mails saw the by the special counsel's office including e-mail between person a and him in 2016. meaning he had something, he didn

rowlings, you can't bigger than tom clancy.me people are maybe -- to use the pun intended, little too throwback, in my opinion. steven tyler, lead singer of r aerosmith, he takes the car in reverse, goes back to his younger self with a throng of young groupees running toward him. maybe not what you want to go for that. >> that sent up my antenna there. 110 tuned in to last year's super bowl. what are they expecting for tomorrow's audience, advertisers? and is there a consequence to pay if it's not that great, the wide set of audience eyes? >> here is the thing, alex. ratings are ultimately a math and numbers game, like the betting in vegas. the thing is, the super bowl and the nfl season are two different beasts that happen to share the same gridiron and the same leather ball. the fact of the matter is, super bowl ratings, as i said, are over -- viewership is over 110 million. last year was 111 million. that's only down a little bit from the last time nbc showed it in 2015, when there was just over 114 million. there are some p

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it will read like a tom clancy novel, but it is real life intelligence operations today. and you need to understand that the russian intelligence services built an apparatus with a budget of over $1 million, hundreds of staffers, departments, and units and divisions, all aimed as one thing, throwing us into chaos and then ultimately selecting or try to select our president for us. we are up against that today. it's the new normal, and we've got to fight back. brian, just days ago you may recall that secretary of state tillerson said in response to what do we do about the russians and meddling and hacking and cyber, and he said there's not really much we can do, they'll adapt and keep doing it. mueller answered that today. there is something we can do. we can make it painful for them to continue to this. >> frank, two questions. number one, how about paper ballots in the upcoming midterm elections perhaps in locked boxes the way our elections used to be carried out state by state? and number two, it also seems to me looking through this, they have taken advantage of the am

i haven't seen old white guys that happy since the last tom clancy book signing. [ laughter ] yup, presidentrump gave his state of the union address last night. and bernie sanders hasn't looked this unhappy since -- since the last time we saw bernie sanders. [ light laughter ] after the state of the union, president trump was caught on a hot mic yesterday saying he plans to release a controversial memo about fbi surveillance. incidentally, hot mic is something this man has never been called. [ laughter ] you mean hot mike? no, not him. following the state of the union address last night, eric trump said in a new interview that he was focused on the democrats during the event. as opposed to melania, who was focused as always on an imaginary spot 1,000 yards away. [ laughter ] [ laughter and applause ] [ cheers and applause ] the fact checking site politifact crashed last night when users logged on to check the validity of president trump's claims during the state of the union address. fortunately, they set up a helpful error message. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] in a new interview, wh

it reads like a tom clancy novel. who is not a happy camper today, that's putin. he gets very emotional when his russian intelligence operations are wrapped up as he did when the bureau wrap up the ten russian illegals several years ago. he's embarrassed. >> and harry, one of the institutional factors is we know that rosenstein briefed the president today. i saw a quote somewhere, some reporter was told the focus was doing it in a way the president wouldn't want to break glass. they understand what they're handling here where the person who is charged with protecting the country who you would think would be like good job, thank you, is the one that you have to sort of step lightly around. >> right. i mean thank you very much since i've been derelict for a year. you would think but at least the initial indications are to the contrary. you have a tweet coming out of the box from him that's not only wrong but is so sort of petty and personal and so misses the important note that as frachk is talking about, of the gravity of the sort of international security dimensio

i mean, this is like a bad tom clancy book. what was happening inside the trump campaign? what are we learning from this? >> it's stunning nicolle, and our colleagues are still going through this, but it's remarkable they chose today to file this. and i think it really underscores the extent to which the mueller team is trying to put pressure, overwhelming pressure on paul manafort to get him to plead guilty. they're trying to make him realize he has no way out. today we learned that rick gates, his former partner and is going to testify against him, admitted to all this conduct with paul manafort. and now these latest charges. and this looks really bad, right? i mean, wiring millions of dollars to politicians goes beyond lobbying clearly. it goes beyond even bank and tax fraud, looking like bribery. we're not sure exactly how they worded these criminal charges, but paul manafort's world is crashing in on him and he's 68 years old and facing essentially a life prison term, nicolle. >> let me ask you something i put to chuck rosenberg earlier in the show. if you read the ma

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