you are the opposite of malcolm nance, what do you make of this story? >> well, here it is tuesday night breaking twelve days before inauguration of very much the same time frame that we saw the comey's story breaking right before the election. this is coming at a critical moment. the american people have to honor a peaceful of transfer of power. if this story blows up tomorrow morning, the russians, vladimir putin, holds information now that is personally embarrassing and some grievous manner to the president-elect trump. did he allowed himself to be nominated and knowing they had something on him and use him and extort him? >> this is been a romance by the american people with a man, it is been a world wind romance with a guy that we did not know. it is hard to say when you don't think he's capable of. many people don't know what donald trump. they know what he stood for. i am challenging the establishment that you have grown tired of. you feel that it exploited you and abused you. they did not study this guy. he's kind of a character that could be cap

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jim cavanaugh, stand by, malcolm nance, matt bradley, ayman m din, we're going to continue to watched what is been described as a trost attack, leaves at least 35 debt and 40 wounded in a nightclub right after midnight in a january 1, 2017 time frame, just hours ago. we'll have more updates. >>> plus we're always getting understanding for what are to be new year's celebrations in the united states and how government and law enforcement officials are reacting to what they're seeing in istanbul. that right after this. here at msnbc headquarters in new york city. in turkey, what's being described by government officials in istanbul as a terror attack. 35 dead, at least 40 wounded in a nightclub attack. we believe the time stamp on that was within the last 3 1/2, 4 hours, and as we sit on the situation right now, the reporting that we had last on the ground there in istanbul from our nbc producer from security at the nightclub, reina nightclub where this shooting inns didn't happened is that the suspected shooter attacker is still inside the venue, and they have locked down a two-mile rad

malcolm nance and i were talking about the end of the last hour and he was saying the only step we can go further that has not been done or put together is potentially going to war. is it that extreme in terms of what is already out there versus what may come from this executive order asking the joint chiefs to come up with a more if you will aggressive plan? >> he spoke yesterday of the need for safe zones that would be near turkey or syria. that would involve the deployment of possibly about u.s. troops. we have other contingenciesing for on around raqqah inside syria. so when you look at this, all we can do is speculate when it comes to what they think would be tland status of isis. many of us positithink that isi continue in other parts of middle east, north africa region, but potentially not there. but an awful lot has been accomplished. general mattis is very, very aware of what it takes to fight isis. and so this may y be one where mattis was part of the process along with general flynn. >> i want to get back to some of the live picks coming out of new york city. refugees enter

let's go straight to malcolm nance security expert joining us. and malcolm, as a former u.s. intelligence expert or you still are, as you look at the ban on lobbying, the moore interesting part for you, and we don't have all the details yet, related to the nsc, and the restructuring, is this very much logistical or is this a major strategic move and then the second piece that you clearly would have a view on is the executive order signed to defeat isis and whether this is in any deference to what has already been done. your thought on those last two executive orders. >> well, first with regard to the national security council, what you're looking at is a power move by general michael flynn former u.s. corredirector defense intelligence agency. 's shaping the nsc to be like his operational command that he had working with at the defense intelligence agency and putting things more in his pocket. the director of the national security council is not supposed to be a person who has his fingers in every pie. and it remains to be seen whether he can macro micro machining everything

joining us now, malcolm nance, msnbc counterterrorism and intelligence analyst. malcolm, your reaction to what happened over the weekend and donald trump's comments about it. >> well first off, turkey has suffered many, many terrorist attacks over the last year. which have killed almost 200 of its citizens. most notably, the attacks in ankara at the airport -- i'm sorry, istanbul at the airport where they lost almost 50 people, by the same type of people, nationals who were members of the islamic state terrorist group. that being said, it is virtually impossible for intelligence, even with advanced intelligence and some knowledge of the plot, which is appears there were indicators of, to stop every act of terrorism. donald trump's comment just, again, reveals his naivety. there's no way you can consta constantly promise you're going to take care of this when you can't get into the mind of a single individual who could be inspired to attack. >> so he sees something like this, as you say, there's a history to this in turkey, a repetition to it. we -- what assets, w

joining me now by phone is msnbc terrorism analyst malcolm nance. malcolm, let me ask you, first of all, these seven countries that have been designated or that has been named in this ban, do they have a history of terrorism in the united states? >> well, technically, some do in the past, but under previous regimes, like libya. but for the most part, none of these countries have produced terrorists who have come to the united states and carried out acts of terrorism. a couple of them, like somalia, yemen, and libya, do have members of isis groups that are actually under great attack right now. iran is a state sponsor of terrorism. but as you know, we have millions of iranians who live in this country out in the west coast. but i don't know where they chose these nations from, because none of them have anything to do with international terrorism. >> so, if none of these have anything to do with national terrorism, how do they then exclude saudi arabia, where coincidentally, the president's business does business, and other muslim nations that are not

former us intelligence officer malcolm nance. the president—elect was asked what business links he has with russia. i have no business links with russia, no deals in russia, no deals that could happen in russia, because we have stayed away. i have no loans with russia. as a real estate developer i have very, very little debt, i have assets and people have now found out how big the company is, i have very low debt, i have no bones with russia at all. i thought that was imported to put out, i certify that. i have no deals, no loa ns certify that. i have no deals, no loans and no dealings. we could make deals in russia there are easily if we wa nted deals in russia there are easily if we wanted to, i don't want to because i feel it could be a conflict. the issue of his tax return came out again. >> reporter—macro: would you release your tax returns to prove what you say about no dealings in russia? they are under ordered. >> reporter—macro: at the —— every president since the 70s... the only ones who care are the reporters

we are joined now by malcolm nance, msnbc counterterrorism intelligence analyst. also david frum, senior editor from the atlantic and former speech write for george w. bush. and john schindler, former intelligence analyst for the nsa. malcolm nance, let me begin with you with your reactions to the totality of the last 24 hours. what has emerged and what you heard from donald trump today that continued to include not a word of criticism of vladimir putin. >> well, in totality, we've gone from, you know, silly season on to the silly campaign. it's going to be like this for four years. i find it very interesting that during the press conference today that he referred to himself as an asset. you know, and his relationship with russia is an asset. he is an asset all right. he may in fact be an asset of vladimir putin's, who apparently has gotten him to the point where he cannot say anything or criticize him at all. very interesting. and certainly moving on from, you know, serious to suspicious. >> john schindler, your reaction to the totality of the story so far, inclu

. >> malcolm nance will join us next. hey, it's the phillips' lady! there's a more enjoyable way to get your fiber. try these delicious phillips' fiber good gummies, a good source of fiber to help support regularity. mmm...these are great! my work here is done. phillips', the tasty side of fiber. >>> in turkey carrying out raids in istanbul as part of the investigation of the terror attack in the early hours of new year's eve. officials released this picture of the suspect in that aack who they say carried out a mass shooting at a well known nightclub. 39 people were kill and dozens others injured. turkish government have found or believed to be the gunman's fingerprint and police are close to identifying him. today, isis made a rare move and claimed responsibility for the shooting. calling the gunman a soldier of the caliphate. and the attack revenge for turkish military involvement in syria. joining us now, malcolm nance, msnbc counterterrorism and intelligence analyst. malcolm, your reaction to what happened over the weekend and donald trump's comm

matt, thank you,ivity to move over to malcolm nance, with 35 years in intelligence experience, malcolm, the points that have been discussed in the last 30 minutes is the islamic state. isis encouraged or inspired, and matt bradley brought that up. we have not confirmation of anybody claiming responsibility, but that certainly is in the background. our chief foreign correspondent richard engel, who we spoke with, who is so familiar with the region, so familiar with istanbul said there were records of ice sis being relate d don't overemphasize that report, but the lone wolf type of attacker that claims to be associated with isis as we saw in san bernardino, and other places right before their attacks. what's your thought on how to discuss this, malcolm? >> the closer you are to isis' caliphate, the less type of attacker that you have on that from that dimension. you have people who are actual cells in iraq, in -- i'm sorry. not just in iraq, in turkey, who are run -- isis' turkish wing and daert out logistical operations, pushing agencies on into europe, and carrying out the suicide -- m

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thank you, malcolm nance and molly o'toole. >>> up next, donald trump meets the press and it's a mess. that story when we come back. the first rule of being a viking. is that teamwork is important. remember to do the little things. help each other out. and the second rule of being a viking. there's more than one way to win. vikings: war of clans play free now. >>> you tried to ask a question at the press conference to president-elect trump. he refused to take questions, saying you were from fake news what did sean spicer say to you after that? >> well, he came up to me and said that what i did was crossing the line and wasn't appropriate. we should repeat, during that news conference when i was trying to ask that question, spicer threatened to throw me out of the press conference if i kept persisting. >> the incoming white house press secretary this week threatened to prevent a member of the press from doing his job, all because cnn reported on the existence of a dossier that makes unsubstantiated claims about trump's ties to russia. trump is dismissing it and cnn as fake news. joinin

i'm joined by msnbc terrorism analyst, malcolm nance. happy new year to you, malcolm. good morning. >> good morning. happy new year. >> so let's start with this claim of responsibility. the pr arm of isis put out a statement that says in part, loirk soldier of the caliphate who attacked the most famous nightclub where christians were celebrating their pagan feast, what's your sense of what happened here? >> well, very simply, isis is taking claim for this attack, and they're using some of the terminology that indicates the nature of the attack. using soldier of the caliphate, means that it was a person that was trained and directed and sent in by isis. when it's an inspired attack, they don't use that terminology. very interesting that they have arrested eight people. it appears there was some intelligence that an attack of this magnitude was going to take place and the reina nightclub was the target of that attack. the turkish nightclub may be getting those people, but having trouble going after the gunman. >> we did hear from the turkish official -- from turkish offi

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malcolm nance used to be an officer in us intelligence and has studied russian spy craft. most of the rooms are wired for sound, even if they're not wired, they have sophisticated enough collection systems to where they don't have to be in the room. the intelligence service would have been part of the analysis team that would have been watching him. to determine is donald trump or anyone on his staff someone we could turn into an agent who would work for russia. everything in that report fits with how russian intelligence works. that doesn't mean it is true. but putin has form for kompromat. back in 2000, mikhail kasyanov was putin's prime minister. they fell out. and mikhail kasyanov became an outspoken leader of the opposition. then last year, this video of the married man having sex with his assistant was broadcast on state tv. mikhail kasyanov told us about the latest allegations. i'm almost sure special equipment was installed. there is no corroborating evidence for the kompromat and trump said he would never have fallen for it. i am careful i'm surrounded by body gua

. >> one of our intelligence veterans, malcolm nance, watched putin's remarks and said classic asset management, classic misdirect when he said why would we be gathering intelligence on a man like this, meaning trump. shawn, my second question for you has to do with your colleagues. this has been your life's work. how do you sum up the hit that members of the u.s. intelligence community have taken in the past few days and weeks? >> i think it's tremendous. when you look at criticism levied, these people are strong, they've got thick skins, but if there are statements that are made that question their credibility, that question their instincts, that question potentially their dedication to the country, it does a number of things. first of all, from a credibility perspective, it undermines the intelligence community credibility both in the united states with americans, it undermines it with our allies. and it undermines it, i think more importantly, with our adversaries who use those statements to put out propaganda in their own nations. and then at home, the morale issue, it's so impo

. >> our mutual friend malcolm nance is one of the few people you'll meet who has been waterboarded as a government intelligence person. we'll have him on the air to talk about what we mean when we talk about waterboarding. jeremy, the last time you and i spoke it was in light of the president's visit to the cia. saturday, here is what he had to say in retrospect tonight. >> that location was given to me. mike pence went up before me, paid great homage to the wall. i then went up and paid great homage to the wall. i then spoke to the crowd. i got a standing ovation. >> you would give the same speech if you went back, in front of that wall? >> absolutely. they loved it. they gave me a standing ovation most of the time. they never even sat down. there was love in the room. >> jeremy, the president complained tonight that the coverage on fox news was a lot better than what he got everywhere else. he famously relitigated the inaugural crowd size, how many times he's been on the cover of "time" magazine. it is still your position that there was a stature gap between the room where he stood,

. >> malcolm nance, appreciate it. msnbc's live coverage continues now into the "11th hour." >>> tonight could donald trump be headed for his first showdown with republicans in congress before he even takes the oath of office? >>> also, what does donald trump know that other people don't know about hacking? and whether russia was involved? >>> and a statesman weighs in tonight on the dangers of president-elect trump's constant praise for vladimir putin. the "11th hour" begins now. >>> happy new year, i'm nicolle wallace. brian has the name off. same year, i'm sorry, new year, same donald trump. he's confident in his own assessment of what is widely believed to be russian hacking of the dnc over the summer, leaving us in suspense tonight about why. when it comes to russia, two men who often share a news cycle rang in the new year in two very different ways. here's donald trump on the hacking scandal on new year's eve at his florida club, mar-a-lago. >> i know a lot about hacking and hacking is a very hard thing to prove

. >> malcolm nance, preeshappreci. msnbc's live coverage continues now into the "11th hour." >>> tonight could donald trump be headed for his first showdown with republicans in congress before he even takes the oath of office? >>> also, what does donald trump know that other people don't know about hacking? and whether russia was involved? >>> and a statesman weighs in tonight on the dangers of president-elect trump's constant praise for vladimir putin. the "11th hour" begins now. >>> happy new year, i'm nicolle wallace. brian has the name off. same year, i'm sorry, new year, same donald trump. he's confident in his own assessment of what is widely believed to be russian hacking of the dnc over the summer, leaving us in suspense tonight about why. when it comes to russia, two men who often share a news cycle rang in the new year in two very different ways. here's donald trump on the hacking scandal l on new year's eve at his florida club, mar-a-lago. >> i know a lot about hacking and hacking is a very hard thing to pro

malcolm nance is a former u.s. intelligence officer and the author of "the plot to hack america." david brody, welcome to both of you. so the dnc didn't turn their servers over to the fbi, a third party did, both of you say it's only a deflection. >> the assets are strategic assets or human intelligence it' assets. we collect against our targets. the intelligence we're going to get is going to be from the actual systems that penetrated the dnc system. so, you know, we know that fsb, former russian intelligence, which is the old kgb, and russian gru military intelligence hackers, are going into a united states entity, we're going to focus on those hackers. >> so that's standard operating procedure. >> yes. nine out of ten times the fbi doesn't actually have to look at the server. this is normal. so it's really deflection and spin. >> why do you think they're still spinning before this intelligence briefing? why not just stop, listen, and then talk? >> i have a lot of -- a lot of people in the intelligence community who come to me every day. and, you know, former u.s. ambassador to

i want to bring in malcolm nance. msnbc contributor and terror analyst. 35 years in intelligence here. malcolm, you and i -- if we can, look at where we're at in the arc of the story now about three and a half, four hours into it. what is the one point you're watching. nothing or very little is happening, but again, this view is about two miles out. >> well, right now in terms of the arc of this story, i think we're certainly coming to an end. for the most part, if that attacker hasn't been killed by turkish s.w.a.t. in the initial minutes of that attack, we may have a hostage barricade. and as we know with most of these situations we have seen this last year and a half, they end up being what we call al suicide hostage barricade, you have no intention of coming out. most note worthy, you know, we talked about this earlier in the unconfirmed video. gunman came in with a large bag. it looks like a very large assault kit. we don't know whether that was an explosive device, whether he was just coming in there and shoot e

nance, naveed jamali and tiera hawk. the idea that this policy was put into place without consulting the department of state, even i don't believe the office of legal counsel was asked to weigh in, there's a piece by benjamin wites and supports a lot of interrogation policies and others of the previous administration. he wrote this is an example of ma level ens tempered by incompetence. it looked like it was written perhaps by a student and not even well thought out. what do you make of getting around the national security council and also adding bannon to the national security council? >> well, it's no coincidence that about a day and a half before this executive order was signed, the key people who would have to implement this were essentially fired from the state department. the management folks, the folks responsie for visas and consul affairs, the folks responsible to diplomatic security and for actual building operations. so anybody who had enough sense by saying what kind of chaos would erupt without pushing throu

we will be following up with you on that. >>> back with me now are malcolm, nance and naveed. you gentlemen had a chance to listen to senator cardin. well, i'll just get your take on it. naveed, let's start with you. do you think the democrats have taken hard enough line on whether or not they're going to require rex tillerson to definitively accept the findings of our intelligence community before they agree to vote for him. >> it's hard to say. i know mr. tillerson is at least agreed to put his assets in a blind trust, which i assume is perhaps a good first step. but, you know, again, i have to go back with the congressman. are we going to require litmus tests? i think it's definitely a question that has to be asked and very concerning that he has connections, financial connections through exxon to russia. i don't know exactly how we can ascertain who has worked essentially their entire adult life in the corporate world for exxon can truly be independent of that and act in the country's best interest. that is going to be a tough one to determine, i would say. >> malcolm, an

we have brought back malcolm nance. what are thoughts? >> i think they think they can control tillerson to some extent and that any overly loving statements by tillerson toward moscow. >> they wouldn't retain anybody from the obama administration. and the state department is rudderless. >> three already said no, they were already packing up their offices, they literally gave them 24 hours' notice, which is simply bizarre. >> i thought john mccain and lindsay graham were going to hold out and vote no because of his ties to russia. both of them have decided that compared to some of the other guys and given what he said at the hear, tillerson might be more reasonable. but it's distressing to watch republicans fall in line behind trump. especially people like mccain and graham who have been so resistant. >> do you expect it to be any different this time? >> it is disappointing, they talk a good game, but in the end, they all support him. >> what's your headline? >> my headline is media respond to the challenge that they are willing to invent

. >> thanks for your time tonight, malcolm nance. >> my pleasure. >> the ethics lawyer suing president trump for violating the ethics. what it means to sue the president ahead. >>> today the trump white house took -- undertook what they call a day of action, a day devoted to doing the things trump said he would do on day one of his presidency. well, day four of his presidency at this point. now, the president made more than 30 different promises about things that he would do the moment, even the minute he got into office, most of which he still has not acted on, we should be clear. here are the things he actually did do today. the president signed an executive order officially withdrawing the united states from the trans-pacific partnership, the multi-lateral trade deal said they would oppose in office. he signed an executive order reinstating the gag order. in addition to the executive orders we learned the official language of the executive order the president signed on friday proclaiming january 20th his inauguration day, a national day of pay receipt otheric devotion. presidents on

i want to bring in special ops intelligence officer and nbc terror analyst, malcolm nance. thanks for joining us. what are the chances this guy's still in turkey? >> well the chances are good he's still in turkey. turkey is set quite a tight perimeter these days on the turkish/syrian border ever since their force supported oerngss inside of syria. it's very interesting, right after a -- a few hours after the manhunt began, there were journalists inside much turkey who were noting there were no checkpoints anywhere around istanbul leading out of the city to other major cities and even to the east where it's pretty much a hinterland. the turkish effort is now concentrated on putting this person's image out to the public. he appears to be -- was the origin, the same type of origin of the attackers who attacked the airport in istanbul earlier in 2016. so, they hope that that will get them this man in the manhunt. >> so it's all what a manhunts looks like that the point a day, day and a half after something like this twor happen. you just assume they're all hands on deck spread

joining me now, arook palamaci and malcolm nance. >> i think the first thing that is clear is that this is going to play into isis' world view. isis, the organization, has not yet commented on the ban from the seven countries, but there is an enormous amount of chatter on channels on telegram run by supporters and members. in those channels they posted the executive order, pictures of it, and they're having discussions about it and the tone is that this is proof that america is going to crumble and be destroyed from within. >> so isis sympathizers, you're reporting tonight, like this. >> of course. of course. this is a confirmation of the world view that america is at war with islam. as you know, the obama administration and bush administration before that went to great lengths to say that this was a war on terror. and not a war with a particular religion. these jihadist groups since the get-go said that's not true. that this is a wore ar on islam >> malcolm, what do you think? >> she's absolutely right. let's go way further back, osama bin laden when he formed al qaeda, the al qaeda or

joining me is malcolm nance, counter terrorism analyst and republican strategist and nbc news intelligence and national security reporter. ken when you look at what's in the briefing, what is the key take away and what did you make of that reference worded very carefully but a reference to putin's belief that the trump organization will help putin have power potentially over trump. >> i'm not sure what to make of that. favoring right wing and wealthy political leaders but in terms of the key takeaway i was struck by dispute over what the motives were. some people said the motives were to elect trump and some other sources were saying it was to stabilize democracy and we're seeing it was both and evolved but by the end the russians were trying to get trump elected and they were happy when he was. it's something that's going to be interesting to see how trump reacts to as it moves on. >> when you look at donald trump's response on a scale of one complete and total rejection and ten, a responsible normal president working with the intelligence agencies, where did you see him landing today? >>

. >>> we want to bring in msnbc terrorism analyst malcolm nance. i'm glad that you're here to help us on this day. what do you make of the kremlin's denials? >> well, this is to be expected from the kremlin. i mean, a core component of russian intelligence operations since the beginning of the soviet union was called maskerovka which is to mask over the operational intentions of what you intend to do against your enemies. of course the first thing do you is deny you had anything to do with this hack. the intelligence information that was seen last friday is unclassified information. the classified information that donald trump and president obama got would show the exact methodologies, the exact pathways leading right back to very specific russian entities. we don't care what moscow thinks about it. it's what's going to happen after president trump takes office and he becomes responsible for this machinery. >> right. malcolm, kellyanne conway said on another network today there's been "selective outrage" about russia and the focus should be on chin

. >> msnbc analyst malcolm nance also joining us on the phone. if you look at this with all your expertise, this is something they feared and talked about in all major metropolitan areas, for the reasons brought up by jim cavanaugh and based on the information that has become available to us, either through our sources that we've been able to confirm and those pieces of information that we are not able to confirm, what are you seeing here, malcolm? >> well, what i'm seeing here is something that is to a certain extent inevitable. the whole nature of terrorist attacks is to do exactly what we're doing right now, is to grab the attention of the entire global media at a time where everyone else would be concerned about terrorist attacks and carry them out in such a way and in such a horrific way as to harness the imagination and fears of the other billion or so people who are watching and listening to the news right now around the world. certainly the methodologies of this attack are not new. up know, what's interesting about it to me is the very fa

malcolm nance is is a former us intelligence officer, and author of the book "the plot to hack america: how putin's cyberspies and wikileaks tried to steal the 2016 election." hejoins me on webcam from philadelphia. we know that donald trump has had a rocky relationship with the security and intelligence apparatus of the united states through the campaign. and it is conceivable that a disgruntled cia, fbi staff may have lea ked disgruntled cia, fbi staff may have leaked this information? to say that his relationship with the intelligence community is rocky is an understatement. but the information that has been leaked, we should understand, there are many people who could do that. the fundamental information was that there was a two page memorandum which was extracted from a 36 page memorandum seen which was extracted from a 36 page memorandum seen out on which was extracted from a 36 page memorandum seen out on the intranet today. most likely if it came from anywhere it came from capitol hill staff in the house or senate who had access to this information or had described to them. i d

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. >> joining me now are malcolm nance, executive director of the terrorism asymmetrics project, and the author of "how to catch a russian spy." thank you all for being here, friends. let's start with you, malcolm. i want to talk about this muslim ban. this is our first full screen here, a map of the seven muslim majority nations that have been essentially banned by trump's executive order. iraq, iran, libya, sudan, yemen. none of those countries have produced their citizens who have been terrorists linked to attacks on americans. and yet countries like saudi arabia are not on that list. can you make sense of that? >> no. i can't make sense of any of this. this is just playing into the hindsig hands of isis. i said before, this is going to be the salvation of isis. let me put a personal touch on this. all those countries that trump has commercial ties to that have sent terrorists to the u.s. at some point, we haven't had terrorists from brazil or trinidad or the bahamas, who have more terrorist members than any of those terrorist countries. this morning i was notified that an iraqi inter

joining me now, malcolm nance, author of the plot to hack america, and mother jones david corn as well as michael mcfall, former u.s. ambassador to russia. malcolm, that dossier, i read all 35 pages of it. what's interesting about it is is that the narrative it tells, it tells the exact same narrative you've been telling us since last summer which is that donald trump some years ago was compromised against the russians, that there's compromising information they have on him that they use to keep him loyal. is that a conclusionary document or a research document? >> it's a research document. this is why the journalists and the media are having such a hard time with it. it's not journalism. that's intelligence collection. what you're seeing there is relatively medium to low grade intelligence collection where you're working your sources and your sources are giving you first or second-hand information or rumors that they have. they may be checkable, but a lot of these aren't. that's the sort of thing that would get past that post diplomatic party in a cable or cia cable back to one of the