u.s. intelligence anticipated very accurately that what the russian was trying do do is pit u.s. intelligence against president trump or to embarrass u.s. intelligence, and i would say, to undermine the russia investigations. >> what is really surprising when you read how this unfolded, according to "the new york times," is they were using twitter to communicate with this russian, tweeting coded messages. also, the fact that they paid him $100,000 and ended up with nothing, the way this all played out, how unusual is this kind of deal making? >> well, as far as the work of espionage, a lot of it actually happens wide open, on a twitter account or on the streets somewhere, if you're not trained to spot it, or even if you are, and if you're not paying attention, you don't. it appears to be something that's normal, but actually, you know, signals are being sent from one side to the other. it's an unseen other dimension of the world that we live in. but as far as whether the u.s. intelligence agencies were duped, having paid $100,000 reportedly to this russian, i don't see it that way

u.s. intelligence community we have some we have sixteen different intelligence and it is within the what we call our intelligence community we have plenty of capability i think where we need to make more efforts is in how we decide what we do and then being more efficient in going about our missions so will the agency have less need for gathering old fashioned cold war style human intelligence like i don't know talking to someone or infiltrating a guerrilla camp controls like hacking is dropping on phone conversations intercepting e-mails spying would. replace the human intelligence component. well you're talking to an old school person so i don't feel i need to reform my thinking at this point my life so i'd have to answer you by saying there's always room there's been room for of thousands of years for old spice old fashioned espionage spies go back to biblical times and you know as long as there are humans on the earth there's a need to know what our if you will competitors and adversaries are thinking and human spies will never be replaced by cyber or hacking or any other killer dron

u.s. intelligence community, and the law enforcement are so upset and the fbi and leaders of the intelligence community because you are not supposed to talk openly of how this foreign intelligence surveillance court works and how they're trying to find out, quote "spies" and what they are doing. this memo released a lot of that sensitive information. >> absolutely, a lost in all of this. as a reporter who covers these issues before, this memo is fascinating to me because you get grandular details of how the process works. i understand government officials don't want that. this is a huge partisan football, it is being used for certain propaganda purposes. there is an element here of just opening up a process that the american public frankly rarely gets a glimpse into how these warrants are presented to the court and what the over sight is. if republicans truly cared of fisa reform, you may see some actual proposal put on the table, okay, how can we prevent any kind of american citizens being targeted based on phony evidence before the court. their ideas out there from the obama administration

u.s. intelligence community we have some we have sixteen different intelligence and it is within the what we call our intelligence community we have plenty of capability i think where we need to make more efforts is in how we decide what we do and then being more efficient in going about our missions so will the agency have less need for gathering old fashioned cold war style human intelligence like i don't know talking to someone or infiltrating a guerrilla campaign controls like hacking is dropping on phone conversations intercepting e-mails spying would. replace the human intelligence component. well you're talking to an old school person so i don't feel i need to reform my thinking at this point my life so i'd have to answer you by saying there's always room there's been room for thousands of years for old old fashioned espionage spies go back to biblical times and you know as long as there are humans on the earth there is a need to know what our if you will competitors and adversaries are thinking and human spies will never be replaced by cyber or hacking or any other key or drones o

u.s. intelligence intercepts. quote, officials from the uae identified kushner as discussing financing with a russian banker. he met in december 2016 with sergey with a bank called veb subject to u.s. sanctions. the bank said they talked about promising business lines and sectors with jared kushner at that meeting but kushner himself told congress that meeting didn't involve any discussions about his family's company. uae. russia. it's china, too. before trump took office kushner met with executives of a chinese company to discuss a troubled kushner investment in a new york office building at 666 fifth avenue. that company was just taken over this weekend by the chinese government. that's who kushner was negotiating with during the transition for like a $400 million investment in his family's company building. so this is in "the washington post" tonight. this is a bombshell for a couple reasons. one, there is the unprecedented and bizarre personal drama where we can't predict the outcome because we've never had any

u.s. intelligence agencies have been updating senators on the threats the country faces. they spoke of military and nuclear challees around the world and warned of more election interference at home. domestic politics also featured, with the head of the fbi contradicting the white house version of events over the departure of senior aide rob porter. heres a look at today's testimony. part of the job of america's intelligence chiefs is to sound the alarm, and dan coats rang it loud and clear. mr. coats: the united states is under a attack, undack by entities using cyber to penetrate virtually every major action that takes place in the united states.il jane: and iran, north korea, and china were all named, russia was emphasized. mr. coats: we expect russia to continue using propaganda, social media, false-flag personas, sympathetic spokesman, and othemeans to build on its wide range of operations and exacerbate social and political fissures in the ited states. jane: u.s. intelligence agencies all agree that russia middle in -- metale with esidential election and will try wi

u.s. intelligence. for those meetings and for that speech he reportedly attracted attention from u.s. embassy officials in russia and that, in turn, renewed u.s. counterintelligence interest in him. i say renewed because this was only a couple years out from his time meeting with fbi counterintelligence officials about his involvement in a russian spy ring here in the united states. so summer of 2016, a new counterintelligence investigation into carter page was apparently opened. that eventually included the fbi presenting evidence to a judge of what they said was their reasonable belief that he was acting as a witting agent of a foreign power. the initial fisa warrant on carter page was obtained, by some accounts, in the summer of 2016. in other accounts in the fall of 2016. i don't have any independent way to confirm either of those. so we're not exactly sure. but it seems clear that a fisa warrant on carter page was approved before the election in 2016. we also now know that by the time that warrant was issued, u.s. intelligence officials were already briefing high-ranking members

u.s. intelligence community we have some we have sixteen different intelligence and it is within the what we call our intelligence community we have plenty of capability i think where we need to make more efforts is in how we decide what we do and then being more efficient in going about our missions so will the agency have less need for gathering old fashioned cold war style human intelligence like i don't know talking to someone or infiltrating a guerrilla camp control like hacking is dropping on phone conversations intercepting e-mails spying would. replace the human intelligence component. well you're talking to an old school person so i don't feel i need to reform my thinking at this point my life so i'd have to answer you by saying there's always room there's been room for thousands of years for old old fashioned espionage spies go back to biblical times and you know as long as there are humans on the earth there's a need to know what our if you will competitors and adversaries are thinking and human spies will never be replaced by cyber or hacking or any other key or drones or any

u.s. intelligence saw a different story.s intercepted communications from suspected russian operatives indicating that manafort appeared to be asking them pore help. >> they describe hip essentially encouraging help, encouraging the russians to provide assistance to trump's campaign. >> manafort's ties to russia go way back. he worked for a close associate of putin. >> oleg deripaska, one of a few wealthy oligarchs putin consults with regularly according to a u.s. state department cable. >> he can pick up a phone to the oligarchs and say, hey, i need to get a message out and it gets done because he's vladimir putin and that's how the system, would. >> less than two weeks before trump got unanimitied manafort volunteered to brief dare pass cas privately how the campaign was going according to "the washington post". >> it's not often that the russians get somebody to volunteer like that. >> does he owe you millions of dollars? >> in fact, court documents indicate that manafort may have been in debt to deripaska. >> did he offe

u.s. intelligence concluded seven state election systems were compromised bit russian government before the 2016 election, but why weren't those states toad about it? and today a top u.s. spy chief is saying we are still not doing enough to protect your vote. >>> chilling new details about the florida school shooting suspect. the disturbing image found carved into his rifle magazine. massive strike for a fourth day, no school for hundreds of thousands of students. why teachers have walked off the job. >>> buyer beware. the new warning why some of the products you're buying from major online retailers may be dangerous fakes. >>> and the first responder who refused to give up for a parkland victim he feared to be dead. >> hey, how old are you? she came around. she told me she was 17. >> how he saved her life. >>> this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. >>> good evening and welcome to our viewers in the west. we begin with an nbc news investigation. an exclusive details of russia's cyber intrusion in the 2016 election that went deeper and wider than the public has been told. we've learned d

u.s. intelligence committee. they took a lot of question, especially from sen

u.s. intelligence community we have some we have sixteen different intelligence and it is within the what we call our intelligence community we have plenty of capability i think where we need to make more efforts is in how we decide what we do and then being more efficient in going about our missions so will the agency have less need for gathering old fashioned cold war style human intelligence like i don't know talking to someone or infiltrating a guerrilla camp control like hacking is dropping on phone conversations intercepting e-mails spying would. replace the human intelligence component. well you're talking to an old school person so i don't feel i need to reform my thinking at this point my life so i'd have to answer you by saying there's always room there's been room for of thousands of years for old spice old fashioned espionage spies go back to biblical times and you know as long as there are humans on the earth there's a need to know what our if you will competitors and adversaries are thinking and human spies will never be replaced by cyber or hacking or any other carrier dron

just recently met hands of russia's intelligence verus to protect the american people as he put it so hostile wrestle rake threatening sanctions aside russia and the u.s. are still programatic enough to work together on some issues right. that's right sophia it's really important that professionals in the intelligence business not cease cooperation even at the hardest times we have a long history between the u.s. and russia that goes back in the soviet days of setting aside our most grievous complaints against one another to cooperate in areas like counterterrorism and sometimes on counterintelligence and other issues that impact them both on our bilateral relations and i applaud the recent meeting of the three russian intelligence visits chiefs in washington with director pompei and others i think it's a great move toward to reinforce the idea that we must continue to cooperate in areas of common interest to both countries so obviously congress is up in arms to russian american intelligence she was meeting while the lawmaker is big gains this if it does bring tangible results in a fight against terrorism. well i know some people in congress and i int

u.s. intelligence kept a close eye on ukrainian nationalist organizations as a possible source of counter intelligence against the soviet union. cia documents that just recently have been declassified chos strong ties between u.s. intelligence and ukrainian nationalists since one thousand nine hundred forty six from the cia agency report it is clear that they were not mistaken about the nature of ukrainian nationalists organizations or their leaders step on bond dare i himself according to an o.s.'s report of september one thousand nine hundred forty five bundy era had earned a fierce reputation for conducting a reign of terror during world war two after the second world war under another ukrainian nazi leaders fled to europe where the cia helped them hide. the cia later inform the immigration and naturalization service that it had concealed steffen bond darragh and other ukrainians from the soviets the operations involving ukrainians continued for many years the nuremberg trials of one thousand nine hundred forty five in one nine hundred forty six brought the political economic and milit

u.s. intelligence are now warning that phones made by china designed to spy on americans . seems wrong. to me. to say proud to stay active. engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. most people think just stand out in this business you need to be the first one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest street in truth to stand losing business is just the dance the right questions and get the right answer. question. thanks for joining us here on our t.v. more than a year has passed since the libyan city of so it was liberated from but locals still fear for their lives the threat of the hottest returning to the area looms large all residents continue waiting for life to simply return to normal. i. think so i think. just because. it was a big mistake. these are really throughout the ground the food in the in the complex and it should be shown that it is full of completely out of. mashed into the ground. and it's impressive even though it's been destroyed. so you can see here is that the state flag

u.s. intelligence chiefs urged vising said this instance stay away from chinese smartphones dumb includes a d e n y r way after concerns were raised that they're being used by beijing to spy on americans but provides the capacity to maliciously modify or steal information provides the capacity to conduct undetected espionage raise your hand if you would recommend that private american citizens use one way or products or services. not of your generation thank you for that well the browns just mentioned are some of the biggest names in mobile communications worldwide is a tease market share puts the company eighth place globally while way makes the top three and while way is investing massively to break the do awfully of market leader some sun aapl weiwei has huge stars advertising its films like football icon. scarlett johansson henry cavill and played superman in the latest movies. but last week a conversation between two f.b.i. officials was leaked in which they pointed out up old ability to track users we heard from tech consultant tom cheese right who sees the warning from u.s. intelli

u.s. intelligence community, the fbi, other folks involved in national security. there was an elevated threat to your election system. in 2016 we were not fully aware of where the threat was coming from and what else was going on but we saw during that period there was an elevated threat to the election system. during the run up to the 2016 elections working with others and the intelligence community and the fbi worked hard to get out as much information as we could. that's when the partnership with the u.s. election assistance commission started when we started working regularly to get out as mush as we could about what was going on with the elections there. we took it seriously and we tried to share the information wed at the time. now we're sitting here with a benefit of hindsight. you have seen that the government has and the department of homeland security affirmed that what we saw during that period that the russian government was interested in at least taking exploratory activity to see what was going on and cause duress. that judgment was made in january o

u.s. intelligence kept a close eye on ukrainian nationalist organizations as a possible source of counter intelligence against the soviet union. cia documents that just recently have been declassified chos strong ties between u.s. intelligence and ukrainian nationalists since one thousand nine hundred forty six from the cia agency report it is clear that they were not mistaken about the nature of ukrainian nationalists organizations or their leaders step on bond dare i himself according to an o.s.'s report of september one thousand nine hundred forty five bundy era had earned a fierce reputation for conducting a reign of terror during world war two after the second world war under another ukrainian nazi leaders fled to europe where the cia helped them hide. the cia later inform the immigration and naturalization service that it had concealed steffen bond darragh and other ukrainians from the soviets the operations involving ukrainians continued for many years the nuremberg trials of one thousand nine hundred forty five in one nine hundred forty six brought the political economic and milit

u.s. intelligence saw a different story.mmunications from suspected russian operatives indicating that manafort appeared to be asking them for help. >> they describe him essentially encouraging help, encouraging the russians to provide assistance to donald trump's campaign. >> manafort's ties to russia go way back. he worked for a close associate of putin. >> is it true that mr. manafort owes you millions of dollars. >> this man one of a few of wealth oligarchs putin consults with regularly according to a u.s. state department cable. >> he can pick up the phone to the oligarchs saying i need a message to this american and it gets done. that's how the system works for vladimir put zbroon less than two weeks before trump got nominated, manafort offered to brief him privately how the campaign was going, according to the "washington post". >> it's not often that the russians get somebody to volunteer like that. >> did he owe you millions of dollars. >> in fact court documents indicate that manafort may hav been in debt to darapa

u.s. intelligence. none of the men expected to testify today have been willing to reveal the extent to which the president may have tried to get them to intervene in the russia investigation. i would imagine that's going to be a line of questioning. do you expect anything to change in their testimony? >> there are so many lines of testimony, i suspect the senators must have had to coordinate so they can cover all topics. certainly one of them is what happened the first few months of the trump presidency. did the president call, for example, the nsa director and ask him to weigh in on his behalf in order to say, hey, listen, there's nothing to this trump investigation. we need to clear him. so that's going to be a big topic. the nunes memo will be a topic. and also the clearance process, as you mentioned. there is no shortage of topics even before you get to russia and china and the worldwide threats. they're supposed to talk about. >> malcolm, the democrats, and this is with the house intel committee. w

u.s. intelligence chiefs are advising citizens to stay away from chinese smartphones that include said t. and huawei off the concerns were raised they're being used by beijing to spy on americans but provides the capacity to maliciously modify or steal information and it provides the capacity to conduct undetected espionage raise your hand if you would recommend that private american citizens use one way or z.t. products or services. not of your generation thank you for that all the brands mentioned there are some of the biggest names in mobile communications worldwide said t. is market share puts the company in eighth place globally one way makes the top three and while worry is investing heavily to break the duopoly of market leaders samsung and apple. where holloway has big names advertising its phones like football star lionel messi actress scarlett johansson and henry cavill who played superman in the latest movies. but only last week a conversation between two f.b.i. officials was leaked in which they pointed out apple's ability to track users tech consultant tung chee is right says

learned drop the russian government that the head of the torn intforeign intellig office and fsb that used to be the kgb came to the u.sthe director of national intelligence. we also learned that the head of russia's military intelligence service that is famous in our country for having been the lead russian government agency responsible for attacking the agency in 2016 also came to washington. quote, current and former u.s. intelligence officials could not recall so many heads coming to washington at once. what were they doing here? we know that the svr and fsb, we know while they were here, they met with dan coats, guy on the left there and the head of the cia, mike pompey owmo mom -- po >> the military intelligence guy, still a total mystery as to what he was doing in washington. we have no idea who he met with or even where he traveled once he was in the united states. remember, it was his agency that led the attack on our election. no u.s. official admitted to meeting with him while here. who met with him? who brought him over? was he doing here? how long did he stay? did he enjoy himself? the head of the rcia, it

u.s. intelligence is ironic considering the activities of america's own agencies. anything's possible in trump's america we just don't know but given the size of the trading relationship between the two i think they'd have to be very cautious about damaging that seriously electronics one of the of the biggest markets go back and forth intellectual property and this huge contractual tire speed chinese manufacturer is an american network provider so it would be incredibly difficult to translate these sort of statements into legal restrictions it's certainly ironic that they're putting so much effort into you blocking the entry of these companies into the u.s. markets without making a bit in available because as we know the one place where there is great evidence of spying activity happening here is largely driven by the u.s. government we know that actually ironically they try to insert software into huawei devices to spy on people that way so it's a difficult situation maybe they have evidence they don't want to share for security reasons but right now the one party

u.s. intelligence chiefs are advising citizens to stay away from chinese smartphones that includes said t.v. and huawei after concerns were raised they're being used by beijing to spy on americans provides the capacity to maliciously modify or steal information and it provides the capacity to conduct undetected espionage raise your hand if you would recommend that private american citizens use one way or z.t. products or services. not of your generation and thank you for that well the brands mentioned there are some of the biggest names in mobile communications worldwide said ts market share puts the company in eighth place cloverlea way makes the top three and highway is investing heavily to break the duopoly of market leaders samsung and apple well holloway has big names advertising its phones like football star lionel messi actress scarlett johansson and henry cavill who played superman in the latest movies. but only last week a conversation between two f.b.i. officials was neat in which they pointed out paul's ability to track users tech consultant tom cheese wright says the warning fro

u.s. intelligence agencies russia is already working to interfere in the next round of u.s. elections which take place just eight months from now. early voting for the primaries is already open in some states. despite that ongoing very real threat to our electoral integrity, the head of the national security agency, admiral mike rogers, testified to congress today the president has not directed him to do a single thing topping disrupt russian election hacking operations where they originate. >> so you would need beak to be directed i about the president through the secretary of defense. >> yes, sir, i mentioned that in my statement. >> have you been direct frommed to do so given the street k strategic threat that faces the united states and the significant consequences you recognize already. >> no, i have not. there are some things i have the authority and i am acting within that authority. >> essentially we have not taken on the russians yet? >> it's probably fair to say we have not opted to engage if some of the same behaviors that we are seeing. >> would you agree with me

u.s. intelligence chiefs are advising citizens to stay away from chinese smartphones that include said t.v. and huawei after concerns were raised they're being used by beijing to spy on americans but provides the capacity to maliciously modify or steal information and it provides the capacity to conduct undetected espionage raise your hand if you would recommend that private american citizens use one way or z.t. products or services. not of your generation thank you for that well the browns mentioned there are some of the biggest names in mobile communications worldwide said ts market share puts the company in eighth place globally while huawei makes the top three and while away is investing heavily to break that your pally of market leaders samsung and apple. way has big names advertising its bonus like football star lionel messi actress scarlett johansson and henry cavill who played superman in the latest movies. but only last week a conversation between two f.b.i. officials was leaked to see which they pointed out apple's ability to track he uses tech consultant tung chee is right says

u.s. intelligence committee collects information where they talk about sources and methods, very classifiedon, but also the impact it could have in terms of foreign intelligence services, friendly intelligence services sharing information with the united states. our ability to share and receive sensitive information from governments, the letter from steven boyd, the assistant attorney general, suggests could be in danger. so there is a lot going on right now, and if the president decides to release this memo, i wonder in these individuals are going to stay on the job or will they protest with resignations of their own? so this is an extremely sensitive moment. i'll give you the last word, senator. >> well, this appears to be a setup to enable the president to fire mueller and grind everything to a halt. this would be the equivalent of a saturday night massacre, setting the stage for it. everyone needs to pay attention. it's 100% unacceptable for the petition team and the house intelligence committee to interfere in this fashion. >> senator merkley, thank you so much for joining us. >> thank

u.s. government believed were being used by the russian government for intelligence purposes. and as they were contemplating these actions against russia for what they had done with this unprecedented interference into our election, it seems clear now that the obama administration thought they knew what to expect from russia when they punished russia in this matter -- but it also seems clear that they really didn't know what to expect from the incoming administration that had just won this election. so totally unprecedented situation. they have to decide what's best for national security and what's best for the country and how to handle this responsibly. on this issue of the sanctions, the punishment for what russia did in our election, what they decided to do is, they would go ahead with those sanctions, with that shove back against russia, but they would do so without giving a heads up to the trump folks. without giving the incoming trump madministration folks a heads up to the trusanctions, t they would do it. president elect trump and his team learned about that, those act

u.s. intelligence agency now you're seeing these pictures the first time like me this could see of w j l a as you can see in your screen seems that vehicle their vehicle we don't know what that was about but maybe it was trying to ram to get into the highly secure premise is there or maybe it's another vehicle or say at the moment i don't have any information to tell you what was but i can tell you back in march twenty fifty one person was killed in a firefight after a car with two people on board did try to ram a gate there for meet. and arundel county. not really sure what's going on here we know that one person has been detained three people injured none of the injuries reported to be life threatening seems one of those wounded to said to be a police officer now that vehicle could be an undercover police call for we know or is it a car that was involved in some kind of ramming incident there the most. you see it's very well boxed in at the moment these pictures coming through not a lot to see at the moment it seems like the situation is under control but police investigating a possible

u.s. intelligence committee led by george tenet, the director of central intelligence.erally at house right hand all of the time, seven days, seven nights at langley and then in new york before we presented. when i saw nikki haley give her presentation, certainly, there was not the rather toss of a powell, not the statesmanship of a powell, not the popularity of a powell. what i saw was john. that was her predecessor in atms of being a conservative the united nations, representing the united states. i saw very amateurs attempt. nonetheless, these kinds of things, when they're made visual and the stems are made so dramatically, have an impact on the american people. i saw her doing essentially the same thing with regard to iran that how had done and i had done and others with regard to iraq. so it alarms me. i don't think the american people have a memory for these sorts of things. we are called the united states of amnesia with some reason. so we need to be reminded of how the intelligence was politicized, how it was cherry picked, how we moved toward a war that has bee

u.s. intelligence chiefs are advising citizens to stay away from chinese smartphones that includes zedd t.v. and way after concerns were raised they're being used by beijing to spy on americans but provides the capacity to maliciously modify or steal information and it provides the capacity to conduct undetected espionage raise your hand if you would recommend that private american citizens use one way or z.t. products or services. not of your generation and thank you for that well the brands mentioned there are some of the biggest names in mobile communications worldwide zanti ease market share puts the company in eighth place globally while weight makes the top three and quote way is investing massively to break the duopoly of market leaders samsung and apple. well holloway has big names in advertising its phones like football star lionel messi actress scarlett johansson and henry cavill who play superman in the latest movies. but only last week a conversation between two f.b.i. officials was leaked to which they pointed out apple's ability to track users tech consultant tom chain is wron

u.s. intelligence agency. ring arrangements with counter parts around the world. >> they take a long time to hammer out because you have to come to an agreement of how information is shared and shared in the u.s. government. this latest episode is throwing it all in its head. when president trump decided to tell lavrov information and after the manchester bombing. now we are seeing the entire process worked out between the intelligence agency thrown in his head. >> what is the impact of all of this and the fbi's ability to do what they're supposed to do to protect all of us and the moral of the agency right now. >> there is a short term impact and what the president is saying and what he's telling the fbi work force, you pick a team, traditionally the americans say the team that fought the organized crime and beat it and the team that went after financial corruption and wall street. the team that chase russian spies during world war ii and beyond is the team that we are on pulling data on the fbi is positive ov

u.s. intelligence and national security did a really terrible job of analyzing the situation. home, -- mencame came home, there was talk of a court-martial. the republic hearings, congress got involved, it was a nasty situation. they wanted the captain to kate -- to take the blame. when there is public outcry, this just went away. susan: what happened to the commander? mitchell: he was tortured first. they beat him, tortured him, threatened to kill him. they held a gun to his head and pulled the trigger to get him to collapse. they threatened to kill his men and beat and tortured some of them in front of him. while he was in the camps, people back home forgot him. his wife did a good job of trying to give the american government to keep their focus on him. home, he went back to nebraska, and did all sorts of our jobs the rest of his life. -- odd jobs the rest of his life. susan: you talk about two incidents of these men being into propaganda efforts and they manage to communicate their discussed with the situation. mitchell: the most famous is the men realized -- they were wat

u.s. intelligence committee now the chairman spokesperson has revealed that some of those changes actually came at the request request of democrats explaining that other changes included minor edits grammatical fixes and to add it's requested by the f.b.i. this all comes after donald trump was caught on a hot mike confirming he will release the damning memo but really we're going to work on. this claim the document reveals f.b.i. abuse of the foreign intelligence surveillance act particular were particularly with regards to claims found in the infamous trump dasi it confirmed it could damage confidence not only in the bureau but also in the ongoing probe into trump's alleged russia links some republican house members who say they have read the memo have called it shocking and worse than the watergate scandal now some democrats in congress say that the calls to release the document are nothing more than another plot engineered by the kremlin after the hashtag released the memo spread on social media u.s. politicians put pressure on the platforms to find evidence of russian bots but nothing

u.s. intelligence community, the justice department, the fbi, other agencies in the u.s. government may now become reluctant to share classified information with the house intelligence committee going forward? >> wolf, as you reported in your opening segment, we have threats from north korea and all over the world that are not russia-related. we just broke an agreement with the fbi that we had that we would not release sensitive materials by voting out and releasing these sensitive materials. if we conduct oversight as speaker ryan is so concerned about, how are we going to expect them to come forward, the intelligence community, and give us the nation's secrets and allow us to look at whether they are violating civil liberties or acting in accord with the constitution if we broke trust with them? effects may not be felt today or tomorrow, but i promise you, they are more guarded when they come forward because we have shown that we can't be trusted and that we're willing to do the work of the white house to protect them rather than to protect the constitution. >> should nu

u.s. intelligence community had treated him unfairly and said he authorized the release of the controversial memo the document had washington on a week but will it be the bombshell some republicans have been promising the memo drawn up by the house intelligence committee alleges anti trump said the f.b.i. and says the f.b.i. used improper means to convince a secret court to allow surveillance of a trump a campaign aide it says our findings raise concerns with the legitimacy and legality of certain department of justice and f.b.i. interactions with the foreign intelligence surveillance court and represent a troubling breakdown of legal processes established to protect the american people trump expressed strong feelings about the agency's conduct as described in the memo i think you know i think. what's going on in this country i think it's. going to. do whatever they're going to do. this great country when you look at that and you see that in so many other things were. much worse. but former f.b.i. director james comey who was fired last year by trump had this to say on twitter. that's it dis

u.s. intelligence report, the president's daily briefing. he's still failed to qualify for security clearances. kushner's troubles mounting as the "washington post" reports officials in at least four countries have been privately discussing ways to manipulate kushner. i'll get reaction from senator chris coons, a democrat, on the judiciary and foreign relations committees. and our correspondents and analysts are standing by first. let's go to jim acosta. jim, this is a significant loss for kushner. >> it is, wolf. the president we should point out ignored questions about his son-in-law jared kushner losing his top secret security clearance at the white house earlier today. the questions are coming in response to a change made here at the white house by chief of staff john kelly that will affect white house staffers who are operating on interim top secret security clearances. as a result, those employees, including kushner, will have their access to sensitive materials limited. earlier this month we first reported that more than 100 white hou

u.s. intelligence community reports what exactly are the risks here that experts see? how is jared kushner being viewed by these other countries? >> well, ordinarily when someone is applying for a security clearance, the natural questions that come up. do they have foreign entanglements? debts? things they're not disclosing? in this case with jared kushner, foreign that's the saw the company debt that he had. his sentencive business dealings, places they believe they could get leverage against him. with his background check check, the potential hot spots or vulnerabilities being found. and we're finding that his contacts with foreign that's the, that he was not reporting, were also creating problems. so these are traditional pit because the that anybody going through the background check, these would create problems. >> there was concern that michael flynn could be black mailed. is that a concern as far as kushner is concerned? >> well traditionally blackmail is a concern. we don't know if that was the case with jared kushner and we don't have any access to information

u.s. intelligence committee voted to release it on monday the bureau added that it has grave concerns about its accuracy as well claiming facts have been removed from the controversial memo. meanwhile democratic representative adam schiff has called to immediately withdraw the document from the white house citing alleged material changes made to the memo by the author without approval he did not specify what changes had been made the memo was originally drafted by the chairman of the u.s. house intelligence committee his spokes person has revealed the changes included minor edits grammatical fixes and two edits requested by the f.b.i. and some by the democrats themselves this all comes after donald trump was caught on the hot mike confirming he will release the damning memo but it's really. hard work. it's claimed the documents reveal the f.b.i. abuse of the foreign intelligence surveillance act particularly with regards to claims found in the infamous trump dossier if confirmed it could damage confidence not only in the bureau but also in the ongoing probe into trump's alleged russian link