into the oval office and said i want you to write a speech revealing the existence of the cia's terrorist interrogation program. the time, access, at that was the single most classified, covert operation in the u.s. government. i was given access to all of the intelligence produced by that program. i got to know the interrogator it -- interrogators. i met the man who actually waterboarded. -- waterboarded the person. after he was waterboarded, he of cooperation with our intelligence community. the guys who waterboarded him would sit in his cell and keep him company. one day they were talking in his cell and he was explaining to thatcia officer why it was they were going to prevail. and he said that americans have powerful weapons but they have a weapon that is more powerful than anything we have which is patience. and he said, and this is a quote, from the mastermind of 9/11, we will win because americans do not realize that we do not need to defeat you militarily. we only need to fight long enough for you to diffie yourself by quitting. that is the man that brought down the twi

the iraqi the scam were put on cable news as experts former cia director john brennan he is our senior national security and intelligence analyst for amazon b c john brennan head of the cia and james clapper the director of national intelligence and for two years they took part in promoting the notion that trump was possibly compromised by russia john brennan also predicted that miller was going to hand down indictments for the trump russia conspiracy and he is going to be delivering what i think are going to be his indictments the fact that never came and the lesson we should draw from that which we should have drawn after iraq is that we do not trust intelligence officials or anyone without concrete evidence but we got today is a summary of most findings now after years of being told to expect an indictment even a possible impeachment american news audiences have to reassess the entire russia gates story and they lack the evidence they need to do that. the muller investigation a reported three hundred pages long has not been made public all the media have to go on is a four pa

border locations to our north and they shouldn't be ignored. i'm also a former cia officer and d.o.d. official, so i'm a big believer in border security and have spent my life preventing homeland attacks. but i also believe we have to be a country of morals and values. and the separation of children, it didn't matter who you were, where you got your news, the vision of a small child in a cage separated and crying, i think, just hits everyone's heart, and we cannot be a country that perpetuates that. so i just want to understand, separate out from the situation the unaccompanied minors which are a large of group of people, there are parents who send them up here, on their own, coming across the border. leave that asaid because that was a big problem under the obama administration, many administrations before, the separation of families, the purposeful separation of families once they arrived as a family unit, did you initiate the separation of families for the express purpose of deterring families from coming to the united states? >> no, i did not. again, the whole purpose of th

, a former postal inspector and cia officer. rep. spanberger: before i ran for congress, i was working for a company in richmond, virginia, directly with universities and colleges on the recruitment strategies. before i moved back to central virginia, my hometown, i was with the cia. i was a case officer. i lived overseas and abroad. i have lived domestically and overseas as a cia officer. >> what were you doing? rep. spanberger: i was a case officer and in that role i was collecting vital intelligence that allowed us to inform policymakers about issues of national security, what was happening in other countries that may be relevant to our own foreign policy objectives and inform the decisions we were making at the negotiation table and meeting rooms around the world. >> what was the work like and how do you think that will help you in washington? rep. spanberger: the work as a case officer is varied. one day on nuclear policy and the next day our leadership and the next day counterterrorism. jumping back and forth and talking about a variety of issues truly understanding the i

including the american cia. i went to the third capital ankara to meet a member of parliament. he is known for having a close relationship with turkish president. on. a saudi on a fee that. john was a comin and for so in order on the top job. done in the top kill the local reel off a month ago. his earlier a hundred eleven for. an assault. at the heart. of the earlier in a minute or a half of those i heard it as yes what a tough alicia had a lot of. hey i want to be a turkey at an event of. ms there's a person like that. without it all i can that god. spared the village idiot. those who heard of the turkish audio recordings however were convinced that the had been horrifically murdered inside the consulate. but the question remained as to what happened to his body. the consulate became a media and was under constant took a surveillance. then on the fifteenth of october fifteen days after the murder investigators were allowed into the saudi consulate for the first time. i visited the forensic security center where then first the gaiters had analyzed the samples that they had collected

cia who can make the sun shine or not rendition movies or ted caught on al-jazeera when the news breaks and the story build six million children in and outside syria have been affected by war when people need to be heard. and the story needs to be told people are telling us that there's no medicine there are not enough their engine al-jazeera has teens on the ground u.s. air power alone is not enough to bring in more rewarding documentaries and live news on air and on. new cycle brings a series of breaking stories segment of course there's donald trump told through the eyes of the world's journalists that's right out of a hamas group that calls for the an aisle asian of israel that is not what that phrase means at all listening post as we turn the cameras on the media focus on how they were caught on the stories that matter the most embarrassing a free palestine they're listening post on al-jazeera. hello i'm maryanne demasi in london just a quick look at the top stories now. of reject the government's breaks it deal for a third time prime minister had promised to resign if it wa

of cia and i mean, and i'm kind of joking but i'm also not joking. i'm like what's going on here. >> reporter: suddenly, with no clear explanation, theranos pulled the plug on chiat day. they were done and chiat was relieved. but the lingering apprehension that elizabeth and theranos might retaliate against naysayers never really went away. >> there's still a part of me that has fear. is this -- are we being set up? just because they were -- just very unscrupulous when it when it came to protecting and make sure nobody talked. >> reporter: but somebody would. a brave and unlikely whistleblower was about to emerge. >> there was definitely a culture of fear. i don't know how it started but it was definitely there. >> reporter: meanwhile real people were now potentially at risk. >> she said i'm so sorry. that's not good. there could be a tumor growing somewhere. >> it was oz. and you got behind the curtain and you realized, "wow, there's no wizard." these cheesy bacon fries are tremendous. i know. crispy bacon is the best thing to ever happen to the fries. what!?! this is the fries'

told a lot of tales about his fictional background. he's a cia operative. he's an fbi agent. he's a millionaire. >> he would describe it as he went in and he killed people and he saved people and he killed bin laden and -- >> he was telling you he did all of these crazy things? >> yes, and i knew that it wasn't real. >> how did you view him at that point? >> kind of like a guardian or a mentor. >> reporter: but tad cummins seems bent on bulldozing the boundaries of appropriate behavior. how were you guys communicating? >> we did via instagram. >> reporter: cummins posts, "you're all my heart ever talks about. it was love at first sight, at last sight." then, there's elizabeth's response, "i look forward to going to school just to see you. i love you." >> most of them from him would be sexual text. >> he would sexually text you? >> yes, like sexting. >> reporter: but their verbal communication is just as cringe-worthy. especially when they're alone in his classroom, which is becoming an alarmingly regular occurrence. >> i can't remember the conversation. and then, next thing i know,

beginning days of his presidency and despite the evidence and the conclusion from the cia that saudi arabia and its crown prince were complicit in the killing of u.s. based journalist jamal khashoggi trump has still stood by saudi arabia. britain's parliament has rejected the prospect of a no deal brock said in another day of high drama over its departure from the european union and now politicians will be asked if the departure date just over two weeks from now should be delayed and zimbabwe reports from. the east to the right three hundred twenty one in the news to the left two hundred seventy eight voting to rule out a no deal breaks it on to any circumstances but what's it worth the result yet another blow for prime minister to reserve made while a message is being sent by parliament the motion isn't legislation so as things stand the u.k. still leaves the european union on the twenty ninth of march the legal to fault. remains that the u.k. will leave the e.u. without a deal. this unless something else is agreement the onus is now on everyone of us in this house to find out

martha peterson ? talks about the book "the widow spy: my cia journey through the lands of laos." she explains why she joined the cia after her husband died. the bob center for public service at the university of florida hosted this event. it's about an hour and 15 minutes. >> my name is david colburn, i'm director of the bob graham center. we are pleased to have with us this evening to introduce our speaker, mr. herb yardley. before he comes up, i want to say that normally the way we do things is the speaker speaks between 30 and 45 minutes, the last 15 minutes are questions. we use this mike bank -- this -- this mic over here. we like our students to have the opportunity to go first. everybody is welcome. we ask that you make no speeches. we have a speaker. out of courtesy to everybody here this evening, if you could your questions succinct, that would help a lot. herb yardley is one of our good friends at the university of florida. a major donor along with his wife, catherine. if you look around this campus, you won't find herb and katherine's name in a lot of places, but they coul

joined the cia after her husband died and recalls her experiences as a clandestine operative in russia it is one hour 15 minutes. >> my name is david colburn i am director of the bob graham center. we are pleased to have with us this evening to introduce our speaker herb yardley. for he comes up i want to say that normally the way we do things is the speaker speaks from between 30 and 45 minutes the last 15-30 are questions. we use this microphone over here, this will be mounted on that, and you are welcome to come up ask questions. we like our students to have the opportunity to first. but everyone is welcome. and we ask that you make no speeches. because we have a speaker. and out of courtesy to everyone here this evening, if you keep your questions the sink, that would help us a lot. herb yardley is one of our great friends at the university of florida. a major donor along with his wife catherine, if you look around this campus, you won't find their name and lots of different places, but they could be. they are just to humble to have their names put on everything. when you go

. according to "the times", both the cia and former white house council don mcgahn recommended that he be denied top secret clearance. but tonight, the paper reports that last year, kelly wrote a memo saying the president had, quote, ordered him to clear kushner's path. in an interview with "the times" just last month, the president told a very different story. >> did you tell general kelly or anyone else at the white house to overrule security officials? >> no, i don't think i have the authority to do that. i'm not sure i do. but i wouldn't -- i wouldn't do it. jared's a good -- i was -- i was never involved with his security. >> reporter: and ivanka trump recently told "the view's" abby huntsman there were no strings pulled for her or her husband. >> there are a lot of people that question whether you were given special treatment by the president, overriding other -- >> absolutely not. >> -- officials. can you speak to that? >> there were anonymous leaks about there being issues. but the president had no involvement pertaining to my clearance or my husband's clearance, zero. >> reporter

last year over the objection of the cia and the white house counsel. in january trump said he had nothing to do with any of it. >> did you tell general kelly or anyone else at the white house to overrule security officials? >> no, i don't think i have the authority to do that. i'm not sure i do. but i wouldn't -- i wouldn't do it. >> reporter: ivanka trump telling abc news the same just weeks ago. >> the president had no involvement pertaining to my clearance or my husband's clearance, zero. >> reporter: today, the white house refusing to confirm or di deny "the new york times" report, but that are saying this. >> i will tell you the president has the absolute right to do what was described. >> pierre, let's be clear. congress is giving the white house until monday to turnover any documents related to jared kushner's top security clearance? >> that's right, tom. monday is the deadline. if the request is ignored, expect a subpoena. >>> next tonight disturbing images made public showing san francisco giants ceo in a physical confrontation with his wife. here's marci gonzalez. >> rep

the summit, the head of the cia warned that bolstering his nuclear arsenal was kim's goal all along. >> the regime is committed to developing a long-range nuclear armed missile that would pose a direct threat to the united states. >> everyone watching the situation with north korea very closely. let's get to cecilia now, and cecilia, even today with this new evidence, president trump insisted he had a good relationship with kim jong-un and is still hoping negotiations will continue. >> reporter: yeah, david, he says that ultimately, this will get solved, but even if the white house wants to continue these talks with north korea, remember, the talks fell apart, they collapsed last week, and north korea says its proposal will never change. right now, david, there are no future talks on the books. >> cecilia, thank you. >>> and as you know, kirstjen nielsen was on capitol hill today, testifying for the first time since president trump declared a national emergency at the southern border. government figures, in fact, show more than 66,000 migrants crossed the border without authorizatio

clearances even when the cia said they should be denied. here's zachary quiche. >> these clearances immediate access to the most sensitive inormation in the country. jared kushner appearing on fox news saying he received clearance through the regular process and without pressure from anybody. a stunning report in "the new york times" outlining how the president ordered his former chief of staff, john kelley, to give his son-in-law, jared kushner, a top secret security clearance. according to the times, both the cia and former white house counsel, don mcgahn recommended that kushner be denied top secret clearance. last year, trump's former chief of staff, john kelley wrote a memo saying the president had ordered quote -- that contradicts comments made at the time by the president last month. >>. >> no, i don't think i have the authority to do that. i'm not sure i do. but i wouldn't do it. >> elijah cummings is threatening to subpoena the white house if they don't cooperate. saying in a statement, the security clearance process is supposed to function in an even handed and neutral man

the white house. >> according to "the new york times," the cia and former white house counsel recommended that his son-in-law jared kushner be denied clearance. the paper suggests that last year, former chief of staff john kelley wrote a memo saying the president had ordered him to clear kushner's path. the president previously told the times that he would not overrule security officials. the white house says it does not comment on security clearances. >>> happening today a ribbon-cutting ceremony for sutter health, new california pacific medical center on van ness. mayor london breed and state senator scott wiener among the dignitaries that will be at the morning's event. the 11-story 274-bed hospital officially opens for patients tomorrow morning. it will specialize in maternity, pediatric care and emergency and cardiac care. patients will be moved from two other hospitals over the weekend. >>> this next video looks like something out of a sci-fi film. but it is 100% real. it is a gigantic rare fish. it was identified as a hoodwinker sunfish. it's never been seen before in n

influenced security clearances at the white house. >> according to "the new york time times", both the cia and former white house counsel don mcgahn recommended that jared kushner be denied clearance. the paper suggests that last year former chief of staff john kelley wrote a memo saying the president ordered him to clear kushner's path. the president previously told the times he would not overrule security officials. the white house says it does not comment on security clearances >> in the east bay, teachers rejected a contract offer from the district. their strike will continue for a 7th day. >> hundreds rallied at city hall yesterday and also marched to the california state building where the oakland education association and the district had resumed their negotiations. the district is now offering a 2% bonus plus 8% raise over four years. three years.ted 12% raise over they will meet today at 2:00 p.m. their meeting was shut down on wednesday because of demonstrators. >>> oakland unified is offering seniors extra help applying for college financial aid today. >> it usually helps studen

against top security clearance for kushner citing concerns, including from the cia. "the times" also says john kelly wrote a memo saying the president ordered him to give kushner clearance. an executive decision his daughter, ivanka trump, denied. >> the president had no involvement pertaining to my clearance or my husband's clearance. zero. >> reporter: tara palmieri, abc news, washington. >>> now an update on that devastating car crash. a gofundme page that was set up to help the villareal family with funeral expenses has competed its goal. more than 2,100 people have donated $108,000 to date. eli, sarah, and eva villareal were killed when their suv slammed into the back of an illegally parked big rig. a fourth sibling was taken to highland hospital in critical condition. the family was on their way to san francisco to see their father in the hospital. >>> now to a rather bizarre story. a black activist has taken control of a neo-nazi group with plans to dismantle it. james hart stern who lives in riverside county says the former leader of the national socialist movement was going to di

turned up in kushner's fbi background check and in a cia review that led to him being denied a permanent security clearance until his father in law had to intervene. the president, the

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to a cia briefing. >> coming up wilbur ross answers questions about whether he lied before congress. plus the best education money can buy next. >>> thing one tonight in the wake of this week's college scandal. donald trump jr. took to twiter to hone those hypocrites. is it just me or is everyone with in hollywood strangely silent? great stuff. just one thing. it appears don jr. and ivanka may have got a whole lot of help from their famous dad. frrbsz donald trump was a target of the school's fund raising efforts dating back to the 1980s. an honor partially designed to inspire donations. don jr. was during his freshman year that trump made his first donation of over $100,000. ivanka then enrolled, at which time the checks were rolling in. he may have donated $1.4 million to penn. >> we know those people. we did grow up to people who donated wings to warden. he couldn't buy our way in, even if he wanted to. >> what's 17 times 6? come on. >> come o you need a calculator? >> 94. >> wrong. >> ivanka. >> it is 1112. 112. >> wrong. >> now let me just tell you that clip went on for a while

asking the jewish people to leave the democratic party. accusing the fbi and doj and cia of quote looking to take him out. his tirade included a litany of his greatest hits. stating there should be no mueller report and ending with this should never happen to a president again exclamation point. speak earlier, new zealand's prime minister says when trump asked what he could do to help, she told him sympathy and love for all muslim communities. it's surprising considering everything donald trump has said about muslims in the past. >> donald j. trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the united states until our country's representatives can figure out what the hell is going on. yes, we have to look at mosques. we have no choice. we have to see what's happening. because something is happening in there. >> there's a problem in this country and it's called muslims. we know our current president is one. you know he's not even americ american birth certificate, man. anyway, we have training camps where they want to kill us. that's my question. >> we're goin

justice, and the cia of working to spy on him and, quote, take him out. trump's tirade about the subject he clearly preferred to focus on included a litany of his greatest hits, claiming zero crimes when the special counsel was appointed, saying there should be no mueller report, and ending with, this should never tho happen to a president again. speaking earlier, new zealand prime minister, jucinda ardern says when asked what he could do help, she said sympathy and love for all muslim communities, and she said the president acknowledged and agreed, which is kind of surprising considering everything that trump has said about muslims in the past. >> donald j. trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the united states until our country's representatives can figure out what the hell is going on. yes, we have to look at mosques. we have no choice. we have to see what's happening. because something is happening in there. >> -- problem in this country. it's called muslims. we know our current president is one. >> right. >> you know he's not even an american. >> we

impeached for that. he was going to be impeached because he was trying to use the cia and fbi to cover up the watergate matter. >> so the president is not as good at abusing his power? >> yes. i think he's not that smart. and i think that he is -- even from the security clearance process -- >> yes. >> -- the fact that we talk about, oh, he gave jared kushner a top-secret security clearance. top secret? we're overlooking top secret is not even adequate for what he's doing. >> he did not give him the highest clearance. >> he did not give him the highest clearance. he doesn't have code word clearance. but that's the thing. we're like, oh, he gave him a top-secret clearance, but that's not even half of the story. >> but what does that say to you about this presidency and how it does or doesn't work? >> i think that it is a chaotic whirlwind of garbage that we can't possibly keep up with. >> right. >> and then when you look at the things that he's doing, it's like do i really care that much about jared kushner's clearance? >> but this gets this back to this thing and i've seen this defense,

intel agencies including the cia? he overruled the cia! then we learned the house ways and means committee is on the verge of getting his tax returns. trump's response is to squeal like guilty people do. >> you're a lawyer. there's a thing you do which is the r. kelly. when you get up and freak out. >> they don't attack people who are investigating them, innocent people. >> it's a good nominee for who won the week. it's a sound and solid argument, but in the world there is jimmy jam and terry lewis. there is jimmy buffet and then there is jimmy williams here on the "am joy" show. and what they don't have is who won the week and jimmy williams does? >> sadly, paul manafort won the week. >> what? >> broke virtually dozens of laws, is about to be tried for breaking even more american laws and he got less than four years in jail because the judge felt like he has lived a virtuous life, which i can't believe i just said that about someone named paul manafort. this is simple. it's a tragedy. it's an american tragedy what happened with paul manafort getting 47 months considering how man

intelligence officials including the cia. donald trump did it any way. which as president he has the perfect right to do and yet, he and his administration and even his daughter, jared kushner's wife, ivanka, repeatedly lied to the public about it. why would they do that? joining me now david k. johnston, founder of dc report.org. malcolm vance and frank figulisi and sarah kenslyier. thank you all for being here. i rarely have these two gentlemen at the desk with me. i'll turn to my illut trius panel. malcolm and david. it is unusual, although the president has the right to offer this security clearance and override his national security officials, doing so for this particular person was unusual for a lot of reasons. can you remind people of why? he wasn't exactly honest in the ways he described his qualifications. >> no. for the first time in my career where i held the top secret clearance for a quarter of a century, i have never heard the phrase unclearable before and that was one of the phrases that was used about jared kushner and 30 other individuals in the white house. with reg

else. the cia thinks it's found where that is in a suburb of pyongyang. so the question is, if you're president trump and you win a shutdown of yongbyon and everyone turns around and says well, you've just been taken for a ride because they have all these other facilities, he doesn't want to look like he entered this without his eyes wide open. >> on the other hand, he doesn't want to let go perhaps the greatest best chance and the biggest chance to resolve the situation at one time? >> that's right. this may be the biggest opportunity we've had since the clinton administration negotiated a deal in 1994 that held together for a number of years till the north koreans treated on it. but it did stop the north koreans from producing more material. that's something that's missing right now. while this next chapter plays out, the north koreans are continuing to build. and the more they build, the more pressure is going to be on president trump and whoever his successor is because the arsenal is just going to get bigger. >> let us now turn to somebody who has been in the room around these ki

security clearance. according to "the times" both the cia and former white house counsel don mcgahn recommended that kushner be denied top secret clearance. but the paper suggests that last year trump's former chief of staff john kelly wrote a memo saying the president had, quote, ordered him to clear kushner's path. that contradicts comments the president made to "the times" just last month. >> did you tell general kelly or anyone else in the white house to overrule security officials? >> no, i don't think i have the authority to do that. i'm not sure i do. but i wouldn't. i wouldn't do it. jared's a good -- i was never involved with the security. >> reporter: ivanka trump recently told "the view's" abby huntsman there were no favors done for her or her husband. >> there were a lot of people question whether you were given special treatment by the president overriding -- >> absolutely not. >> reporter: elijah cummings, chairman of the house oversight committee is threatening to subpoena the white house if they don't cooperate saying in a statement the security clearance process is

career intelligence officials including concerns raised by the cia and ordered security clearance given to his son-in-law jared kushner as the president now lashes out at democrats and their wide-ranging probe. the white house not complying refusing to provide the house oversight committee any information about whether president trump ordered that his son-in-law jared kushner be granted top secret security clearance against the recommendation of intelligence officials. >> congress has an independent responsibility, a very solemn one to do oversight. >> reporter: the white house has called their request overly intrusive and the standoff over internal members which according to "the new york times" were written by chief of staff john kelly and white house counsel don mcgahn urging against the clearance. the president ordering it be given anyway, and cnn now reporting he also pushed for his daughter ivanka trump to also get clearance. those memos contradicting previous statements like this. >> the president had no involvement pertaining to my clearance or my husband's clearance, zero

with a border wall. a member of the blue dog democratic commission and a former cia for. welcome to fox news channel. what is the message. if the house does not have the votes, it seems clear they will not be able to override the president's veto. >> in our first vote it was a bipartisan vote, there were republicans and democrats who voted to stand up for constitutional authority. and this vote as i see it, as i voted, was to assert the fact that constitutionally it's congress that has the power of the purse. and we did our job. we had a by camera, bipartisan group of lawmakers get together to address the concerns of the border allocating money for a wall, for fencing, for more immigration judges, and more customs and border patrol agents for greater technology to be used at ports of entry. we actually had congress do its job come forward with a bipartisan appropriations bill. so for them to see him take the next step of ordering an emergency order it's a clear step around congress' constitution authority to be the one who has the power of the purse. and we have seen republicans and dem

overreaction that was inappropriate. you see their former cia director, john brennan, still predicting that people are going to be dutied just as recently as two weeks ago. the terrible, terrible judgment by the obama team. leland: yeah. that didn't age well. all right. ari fleischer -- gillian: nothing much to say about it other than that, it is true. thanks, ari. >> thank you, guys. gillian: coming up, catastrophic flooding continues to hit the midwest. we'll be speaking to missouri governor michael parson about how his state is trying now to recover and why some say the worst may be yet to come. >> i don't know if there is normal anymore. you know, this is eight years from the last one. and it was supposed to be 100 years. ♪ ♪ gillian: plus, the white house reportedly readying its response to the mueller report this hour. chief white house correspondent john roberts is standing by at the white house. he's got all the details on what to expect this afternoon. john? >> reporter: gillian, the nation is waiting for the principal conclusions of the mueller report. when will we get a chanc

collusion, brennan, former cia director says they'll be indictment, possibly the president's children in coming days, that's just days ago on the air and this -- he was in office as the cia director at the beginning of all of this, so there's a -- there's a side of it that has to be ironed out post this determination. there are a lot of people that have, you know, a lot of crow to eat after they said what they said in the last couple of days. >> two years ago adam schiff said he had evidence, evidence, not allegations. >> andy carr, if you will eat crow, eat it fast. >> last point. >> i disagree -- >> go ahead, donna. >> bret, this is not about crow, steaks, chicken or crawfish, this is really about our country. i mean, this is the moment, if we keep talking about crow, who is going to eat it, i can tell you -- >> i'm talking about -- >> doesn't the president feel that he has been hindered in his ability to do his job by an entire effort to undermine his legitimacy and now you have a definitive word from somebody who spent a lot of resources, almost $30 million over 2 years t

, like former cia john brennan, former fbi director, james comey and even former attorney general loretta lynch to get an idea of how this russian collusion probe began. your thoughts on that? >> senator lindsey graham announced the senate judiciary committee will do just that. i'm glad they're going to dig into how the dossier came about, issues over the fisa warrant, if it was politically motivated, which there's many reasons to believe that that might be the case. so that's healthy for the senate judiciary committee to do that. once again, something like 80% of the american people this week have said now that the mueller investigation is complete, let's move on, focus on the issues. this president has a little bit less than two years left in this term to keep moving this country forward. after this last week, by the way, i expect that the president's going to have another term to keep working, to move our country forward. there's a lot more work to do and that's what republicans and this president are focused on doing. mike: another hot topic, president trump is threatening to

: i want to start here. i was reading about this. why would two former acting cia directors feel compelled to distribute what they're calling a briefing book to the 2020 presidential candidates? also, do intelligence agencies and fbi share their concerns? >> well, i think it goes back to the mueller report which should be ringing alarm bells for our elected officials, those running for office including the presidency, as well as our citizens, that russia was mounting these n nefarious operations targeting social networking and media sites and hacking into the democratic national committee and i think the concern which perhaps some of our retired senior officials, who served as acting director of the cia, they i think might be concerned about the partisan bickering as a result of the criminal prosecutions, the third element of the mueller report or lack thereof which has caused intense partisan debate and disagreement. i think what they want is to have -- to establish some sort of bipartisan consensus about the facts that impact our national security so that we can debate those an

interrogated by michael span, a cia official and another american colleague, and all of a sudden chaos break withs out in which grenades are thrown because the fighters, the prisoners got hold of weapons, and they started to take over this compound. they killed the americans, then went on to fight with the northern alliance and then our special forces troops began bombarding this complex trying to stop this uprising and contain the problem. mike: memories are still so vivid. can you believe he's getting out of prison? >> it's amazing. it's amazing how recent that, those events feel, you know, mike? i've got to tell you it feels like maybe five years ago or something like that. the fact that he's getting out is, of course, alarming, and getting out early is even more alarming given the stakes of what happened this, the death of an american. what side he was on in this conflict, supporting the taliban, this is finish as you said -- a kid from california, northern california, suddenly he decides to become a muslim. okay, that's great, but then to decide to become a radical islamist, to ac

of that text mccabe replied okay. what's important here is that cohen is likely then deputy cia director david cohen. it was highly irregular for clapper to contact strzok who is at a much junior level and share information about a meeting that would normally take place with then director comey. we're reaching out to all the parties to understand what happened at the meeting and whether there is some significance to the russia collusion story. >> bill: it is remarkable stuff. thank you for leading us off in washington >> sandra: he went from representing stormy daniels to reping one of the kavanaugh accusers to a possible 2020 presidential candidate and now he is facing wire and bank fraud charges and decades behind bars. >> the investigation in new york. one in new york and one in california. the new york one started and ended in a matter of two weeks after federal investigators were tipped off by nike that attorney michael avenatti was trying to squeeze the company for millions of dollars in hush money payments to keep him from going public with damaging information about nike

assessment from the f.b.i., cia that russia worked to interfere in the 2016 election. it is not referenced in the unclassified summary of the ica that has been publicly released. the president is tweeting this morning about democratic house chairman adam schiff who read huge sections of the anti-trump dossier into the congressional record in march of 17. >> but it is also possible, maybe more than possible, that they are not coincidental, not disconnected, and not unrelated. and that the russians used the same techniques to corrupt u.s. persons that they employed in europe and elsewhere. we simply don't know, not yet. and we owe it to the country to find out. >> president tweeting congressman adam schiff who spent two years knowingly and unlawfully lying and leaking should be forced to resign from congress. schiff is chairing a hearing on russian oligarchs and we'll bring you any developments. >> bill: back with us today newt gingrich former speaker of the house. host of newt's world, a new podcast that you can get now. sir, how are you? good morning to you. there is a ton to ge

their agenda. like inay recently the early '80s, there was on afghanistan from russia. the cia and other entities came and developed something called isis. i mean not isis, al-qaeda. al-qaeda. isis came later. so these people were trained were given and money and some scholars from, you know, saudi arabia, from other areas, quranicqueeze the suitablemake it as for them to do jihad, against the non-believers, especially atheis -- yes, there aboutrses that spoke fighting, especially during whom hehet time, had enemies, especially in quranab world and the tell them, you know, if they them back.fight over.at was that has been there and it history,ng about but the quran speaks about humanity, peace, humility, be humble, to extend your hand in harmony to your on.hbors and so but those verses came in the context of history, for those arabs who have been the muslims and there's a bloody history there. it's like vietnam war. commander is telling the troops to kill the vietnamese, for example, over.'s now, we read that this command was given and here is the letter. and it's not any more toda

staff of the cia and the department of defense, jeremy bash. >> good evening. this is my 29th aipac policy conference. [ cheers and applause ] >> our next two guests are trail blazers who know the true meaning of service. first as decorated veterans and now members of the united states senate. illinois senator tammy is an iraq war veteran. a purple heart recipient and former assistant secretary of the department of veterans affairs. before her election to the united states senate in 2016 she represented illinois's eighth district in the house of representatives for two terms. arizona senator martha mcsally served 26 years in the united states air force. [ cheers and applause ] ? >> she served in both iraq and afghanistan and was the first female fighter pilot to fly in combat and the first to command a fighter squadron in combat in u.s. history. >> she also served in the house representing arizona's second district for four years. tonight the two of them will join us to discuss critical security issues relating to the u.s./israel relationship. ladies and gentlemen, let's give a warm

targeting them. but the fbi and the cia had concern about the extent of foreign contact by jared kushner and by his involvement with his family business, his real estate business. by may, the president, you know, the white house counsel had at that point written a memo expressing concerns about what was going on, and he had said that he did not think that there should be a clearance given, but the president ordered john kelly to give one. the reason we know this is john kelly wrote that into a memo that he wrote to be filed at the white house. >> the fact that john kelly wrote a contemporaneous memo to be filed, what does that say? is that a normal thing to do? >> i think that, look, what happens with personnel files and matters i think is beyond my level of expertise, but i do know that writing contemporaneous memos and taking extensive notes about what is going on and interactions with donald trump has become something we've seen time and time again. there is a reason that michael cohen had tapes, or had a tape of himself and the president, you know, in my estimation, just from watching th

because on june 23rd, 1972, the so-called smoking gun tape, he was caught using the cia to tell the fbi to stop investigating watergate. so the issue of the president controlling the department of justice regarding investigations of himself is both historically and legally very important. >> neal, if this conversation did happen, and it was just a conversation and it was the president venting or saying gosh, i think what is happening to michael cohen is -- i think they're going too far in the southern district but nothing came of it, as in no action took place, does that then besides perhaps being inappropriate, does that -- is that illegal? >> yes. still devastating for the president both criminally and as a matter of politically. so it would be one thing anderson if the president were having that conversation with you and going in and criticizing -- criticizing the southern district investigation and the like. but here he's doing it to his hand-picked lackey, this guy matthew whitaker who is the most unqualified person to ever serve as attorney general in the history of the united states