our troops are not fighting other than the cia folks. the 2000 troops we have in syria not doing the fighting. they are mostly special operation forces, artillery forces and forward air controllers. we have trained up kurdish and arab fighters who are doing the fighting. the american trainers planned the missions. intelligencewith and targeting. artillery and air cover. and the indigenous forces are doing the fighting. anyone who has spent any time with indigenous forces and u.s. military embedded together will tell you that 400 is really just a placeholder for a conflict the size of syria. the problem is the placeholder gets a lot larger. we were down to how many thousands in afghanistan and obama ramped it up to 100,000? and to what end? -- obama ramped it up to 100,000, and to what end? we do not have a long-term presence in iraq. we should not try to have a long-term presence in syria. all it takes is one incident -- to borrow the point about reagan. we were on a peacemaker -- a piece -- a peacekeeping mission in lebanon. we were try

best a geisha and also were involved in 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

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 that was

certainly with cia, i worked with incredible people. in many of them, really impacted and influenced my life in an important way. >> new congress, new leaders, follow it all on c-span. >> here's a look at what is ahead. "newsmakers" is next. ," starts at eight with penn state history professor amy greenberg discussing her book on sarah polk. at 9:00 it is "prime minister's questions" from the british house of commons. after that, the russian ambassador to the u.s. talks about his country's relations with the u.s.. announcer: sees hands washington journal. coming -- c-span's washington journal, news and policy issues that affect you. being up monday morning -- sure to watch c-span's washington journal live at 7:00 a.m. eastern monday morning. join the discussion. >> our newsmakers program, ben ray lujan, the assistance bigger of the house of represent us, thank you for joining us. >> joining us for the questioning is lisa. thank you both for joining us. >> thank you so much for joining us today. you had a happy ending to this week. your

i have lived domestically and overseas as a cia officer. reporter: what were you doing? rep. spanberger: i was a case officer and in that role i was collecting vital intelligence hat allowed us to inform policymakers about issues of national security, what was happening in other countries that may be relevant to our own oreign policy objectives and inform the decisions we were making at the negotiation table and meeting rooms around the world. reporter: 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 changing, one ay 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 issues, because i was out recruiting people to provide vital intelligence on these topics and looking to be brief the individuals and make sure i was pushing all the valuable information to our analysts in the d.c. area. it was very, go, go, go. that is relevant to the experience in washington, been assigned to the agric

certainly with cia, i worked with incredible people. many of them, really impacted and influenced my life in an important way. >> new congress, new leaders, follow it all on c-span. >> during this year's conservative political action conference, we asked attendees, what does it mean to be american? >> so many things. so many things i could say. how the patriots fought. this was an experiment that could've gone completely wrong. and it didn't. people nowadays are trying to keep it alive. you hear about immigrants, they talk about how they've fought to come to this country. that makes them more proud. the servicemen and women will have died for our country. i can't say enough about what this country really is and the diversity we have. even with all of the diversity, people are proud to be american. >> american to me as one concept , freedom. freedom is not something that comes from other people. it is inherently your right as a human being. [indiscernible] and we will die with them. being american means going a time tor roots, matter whe

public instead this send them to the intelligence agencies of other countries 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 whe

under interrogation the sun will rise once a day and then sets or not a few are in the hands of the 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 th

and it got to a point where like ok maybe this whole thing is some sort 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 b

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

policy since the 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 fin

by cia officers. cia officers anywhere in the world where looking for kgb and soviet officials who would be willing to work covertly for the cia. the first officer who i handled in moscow was recruited in bogota, colombia. we had a telephone tap on the soviet embassy in bogota. from that, we learned there was a man in the soviet embassy there who didn't quite color inside the lines. he liked to party, he liked to drink. he did money exchanges and he had several girlfriends among them. his bosses wife. we knew he was different from the standard kgb officer, who is generally pretty by the book. we realized he had a latin girlfriend as well. someone from spain. her name was pilar. she went home one month to visit her family. on the way back through the airport, we had one of our colombian friends pull her aside and ask her whether she would be willing to speak to someone who was interested in her boyfriend. she arranged for us to meet with the soviet official. his name was alexander. his codename was tri

he joined the cia and trained as a paramilitary officer. he went to camp perry in williamsburg, virginia, the secret training camp. and he accomplished all he had to there. we had our first assignment overseas. it was a small landlocked country alongside vietnam. we were to fight what the cia called their secret war in laos. if you are interested in all the factors that brought us to that point in history, it is well documented on the cia website. it is cia.gov. don't go to cia.org, that won't tell you much. trust me. our secret war in laos was to fight a war with very few americans involved compared to the war that was going on in vietnam. with this small group of cia men in laos, we were to train, equip and deploy laos soldiers, who would interrupt -- in the north, the war was created to actually engage the north vietnamese army as well as the path of the army there. but our job was well planned and orchestrated with a minimum of people and equipment. i must say in looking back we lost very few americans. jon's job was to organize these t

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. >> repor

chief of staff john kelly to give his son-in-law the clearance 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

. >> reporter: but just before 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 bo

>> a new report claims the president ordered officials to give his family 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 clea

. >> 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 north america. it washed up on th

. >> 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 students during school hours. but many have not been going t

which he recommended 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 m

why did trump overrule 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 manaf

top security clearance met defying the recommendations of senior 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 k

security clearance despite whatever it was that 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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so i think there will be transparency on the hill 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 le

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 going to be looking at a lot

before launching into a twitter rant accusing the fbi, the department of 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

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, which is essentially, w

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 be

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 supposed to function in a

over, whether the president overruled 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

i was a case officer with the cia. i worked narcotics cases and counter-terrorism cases. working to keep the american people safe. and there are many loud voices within congress that have said we want to have a strong secure border and a strong secure point of entry system. it is a lot more than just a physical barrier along the border. we have miles upon miles of physical borders -- barriers at the border. we advocated for barriers and fencing. but how are we best look at way to protect our border. and it is through technology and a smart wall, if you will. and greater personnel along some of the point in the border. there are point along the border where it takes hours for someone to respond. we need greater technology and infrastructure. these are conversations when have been having since my arrival in january. but before that the conversations were held in a bipartisan manner. last congress there was a bill put forward that would have directed a tremendous amount of money toward border security. if we are going to make smart decisions about keeping our borders safe. e

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 chance to see them? watch for -- wa

think there's clearly intent to collude, tom pÉrez, mountain of evidence of 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 w

some of your colleagues want to bring in former senior obama administration officials, 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 a

are we talking about the intel agencies, fbi, cia, the president of the united states as well to work on one accord and recognizing the threats and also to combat them? >> right, i think it's an all of government approach on our side, department of homeland security is going to play a role. north korea has hacked into banks, most famously in bangladesh to steal 80 or so million dollars. and so in our electric grid, the russians have tried to penetrate that. if we look at our allies on the front line, ukraine is subjected to massive russian cyber attacks on their critical infrastructure as well and i think for us, it's having a policy in place and then also working with our allies on the front lines especially in europe, which has been the target of russia's cyber attacks. arthel: so working together in terms of policy, but what about actual protections in ho protec? how do we protect our systems that you mentioned? >> well, when hackers or state actors are seeking to target our cyber infrastructure, it's somewhat similar to a terrorist attack. they conduct surveillance before the atta

being held by northern alliance troops, and they're being 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 gre

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. he was arrested yest

., 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

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are proudly pro israel. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ >> please welcome former chief of 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 issue

and to phil's point, it's just kind of a vacuum about what were the issues that led the cia to say we still have questions here. >> another argument is look, this is the person the president had picked to deal with middle east peace, working with china, a whole host of issues. and if that's the person he wants, he is the president. he is allowed to do this. >> but ideally, the president would listen to the people who are doing the security clearances if they raise a concern. this is one of the problems also with the president having a family member i think working for him, because i think if it was another person, maybe he would have dealt with it differently. maybe not, because it's donald trump. but the point is they raise serious concerns about this, and then you have -- i think like ivanka and jared might say well, john kelly didn't like them and that's why he was doing that. i don't think they can really say that about don mcgahn, who is a pretty straight shooter by all accounts, and you have him saying he doesn't think he should have gotten this clearance. i think phil has hit o

forced out of office 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 o