also the inspector general of the cia. will you consider when you consider the agency activities how do you decide what get the attention of the committee in a given year? how do you sort through what you will focus on and you said expansion of the inspectors general within the community, how effective are they in helping you do your oversight? >> do you want to take that? >> sure. i mentioned having good staff is so critically important earlier and that is another reason why you have to have good staff. you can as a member i don't care how much you read or how much time you spend in the field trying to keep up with what is going on and all of a sudden it is just not possible. staff does know what is going on and you have different staff members that are responsible for each of those 17 agencies. we always started with the cia, nsa or when the dni was created because they are at the top and everything is assembled underneath the dni. you always start there but at the end of the day tish long did a great job and i don't kno

when you saw how the cia and the fbi was being attacked, and when you saw witnesses that was necessary for the legislative branch to do its job, but could not get the cooperation and no cooperation from this administration, when you saw it. do you know what they are going to do? they are going to ask the question what did you do? what did you do? did you stand on the sideline of life? did you say it is somebody else's business? did you write the story, or did you write it accurately? did you take a moment to write the editorial? did you write as you saw it? did you become fearful and say i am afraid of what is going to happen to me if i do what the constitution says i can do? they are going to asked the question. so i want you to know that i view an attack on our press as an attack on all of us. i will fight, i will fight with everything that i have got, and i want you to understand that i have your back. i have your back.[ applause ] >> ladies and gentlemen i don't believe in fate news. hello. [ laughter ] >> i am the son of two pentecostal ministers and in my house a lie was alive an

he vanished while on an unauthorized cia mission. fbi is offering $5 million for information that leads t his whereabouts. today the fbi releasing this statement saying in part, quote bob is and always will be a member of e fbi family and we share in the heart ache that bob's wife and family have experienced every day for the last 12 years. if you know anything about what happened, you're asked to contact the fbi and you can remain anonymous. >>> venezuela's opposition leader rallied thousands of supporters today. juan guido took to the stage to urge people to unite. the rally came amid wide strepr anger of a nation wide black out. people are suffering not having basic necessaitienecessities. guido declared himself the in r interim president in january. the u.s. and 450 other countrie are sporting guido. >>> a debate heating up in the race for the white house. should marijuana be legal? some of the top democratic contenders are taking sides. >> i hosting saturday night li everyone's gotve to listen to m. when it comes to reducing the

group of 60 national security officials including former secretaries of states, defense secretaries, cia directors, ambassadors to the united nations issued a statement declaring there is no factual basis for justifying the president's emergency declaration. furthermore it appears that an set of protecting our national security, the president's declaration actually steals billions of dollars from high priority military construction projects that ensure our troops have the essential training, readiness and quality of life to keep america safe and ultimately that undermines our national security. now i know right now in the state of georgia some projects are at risk due to on obligated funds going to the cyber instruction network which is $99 million. naval reserve training center at fort benning, almost $14 million, which is pretty close to $113 million of projects taken away from what you and your colleagues fought for and you are claiming readiness was a top priority. i just want to understand how you will justify in terms of morale for the troops who have seen these hard-fought project

i worked with him for about four years when i was the cia deputy director and he was the director of the f.b.i. . he's not a self promoting individual and he has a very high standard for what is true and what is not true administrator pistole he pointed me as his number two person in the f.b.i. as a deputy director and so i had the chance to get to know him and then. work with him so let me say a few words about director ball or politics or just don't play any role in his calculations so he is all about finding the truth and doing it under the rule of wall so yeah he's a man to be told that. robert muller was placed under the authority of the department of justice and it's deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. his new orders give him far reaching powers. moller can investigate moscow's relations with the trump campaign and any other matters. most are wastes no time immediately orders the preservation of millions of official documents forbidding the destruction of records that could be useful in the russia probe e-mails phone records audio recordings metadata and storage devices rec

director casey or cia deputy director gates which included discuss cia authorized approved and. assisted cardew and in the manufacture and sale of cluster bombs and other munitions to iraq cargo one started out as a man who manufactured mining explosives however with the help of the us installed military dictatorship and she lay he started selling weapons around the world now one of those u.s. allies that cargo and happily did business with was the baathist government of iraq back in the one nine hundred eighty s. iraq was at war against the islamic republic of iran iran ayatollah khomeini was certainly no friend of washington or the pentagon so the united states gave saddam hussein a large amount of support in his war against the iranians in one thousand nine hundred eighty four the u.s. ambassador to chile called cardio and business quote a lucrative market for cluster bombs but a lot has changed in thirty years so adam and started this cruel war against kuwait tonight the battle has been joined american and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to di

none of those guardrails helped, and it was the cia raising concerns. what kinds of contexts and questions did the cia have about jared kushner? >> we don't have full visibility into that. that is something we continue to report on. but whatever concerns the cia had, they were deep and not to be dismissed. the office of security at the agency is not an agency -- is not an office to be trifled with. and they weren't going to be overruled and they stood their ground. so whatever they thought -- whatever they thought the problem was to give jared tssci, they weren't going to give ground on it and they made that clear and they made that clear to the white house. so that in itself is extraordinary. >> ron klain, i don't know the people who have not been vetted understand the significance of what adam goldman just detailed. it is not standard for the cia to be the agency that stands in the way of any staffer in the government getting a clearance. but the problems for -- for the problems to have been ignored and the agency a man known to text with other world

worried he wrote a memo to that effect the white house counsel don mcgowan also put the concerns that the cia and other intelligence agencies have about krishna into writing the white house says it doesn't comment on security clearances following donald trump's former lawyer michael cohen's testimony this week about how trump interacts with his subordinates there are questions as to whether kelli was actually ordered or just felt he was being pressured to grant question about security clearance but. congressional democrats are vowing to pursue this further and demanding answers as to what derogatory information officials had on kirshner that made them reluctant to give them clearance and why the president trump concealed his role in overruling their recommendation they have been multiple reports from various foreign powers including the u.a.e. israel and mexico have been intercepted having private conversations about their hope to exploit cushion his inexperience and business debts to their advantage the crown prince of saudi arabia was once quoted as saying he had krishna quote in his back p

has asked secretary of state rex tillerson to step aside, and he will be replaced with the current cia director, mike pompeo. - that's right. president trump has fired secretary of state and human grumpy cat, rex tillerson. and this just continues an unprecedented run of people quitting or getting fired from the trump administration. i mean, think about it. we're not even 14 months in, and look at all the people we've lost, right? this is like "saving private ryan" numbers over here. look at this, right? that's a shit ton of people. and i'm not exaggerating. rex was only one of three people who were fired today. yeah. his aide was fired for explaining how tillerson was fired, and trump's personal assistant was fired for possible financial crimes. yeah. working for the white house is basically like being in a "saw" movie, you know? you show up, you get tortured for a while, and then you get killed off. that's how it works. but of course, there's always the president, whose catchphrase is literally "you're fired," didn't have the balls or the decency to tell tillerson the news to his fac

torture under interrogation the sun will rise once a day and then sets not a future in the hands of the cia you can make the sunshine or not rendition movies that aired. on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. you're watching it is our life from a headquarters in doha i'm dead you navigate that coming up in the next sixty minutes no evidence donald trump's campaign colluded with russia but the muller investigation doesn't exonerate the president of obstructing justice. it was a complete and total exoneration trump says the investigation was an illegal takedown that failed but democrats are the man. immediate access to the full report . preliminary election results in thailand show the pro-military party in the. grounds one of the million people desperate for food we visit a village in kenya at the center of a severe drought. hello the mother report has found no evidence that the trunk campaign conspired with russia during the twenty six thousand election that's according to a summary issued by the trumpet ministrations attorney general william barr received the report on friday following a twent

or the cia and use material that you learned in a confidential way it also misleads the viewer in the listener into thinking that their expertise should give them more credibility well we now learn from brennan well he was given bad information and he gave the american public very bad conclusions i like brown and i think he's a nice guy i met him when he was director of the cia but i do think he would have been better off the cia and i think the same thing is true with comi silence can be golden when you've had access to major major secrets and then you use that access to present an expertise that either isn't there or if it's there you shouldn't be sharing it with the american public is it based on classified material exactly let's go back to doug and washington we're told that they're going to continue we have. congressional committees onto the can the gavel of the of the democrats they're going to continue these investigations here do you think people are going to give them much credibility after this nothing burger that was. served up to the public here with such high expectations

i worked with him for about four years when i was the cia deputy director and he was the director of the f.b.i. . he's not a self promoting individual and he has a very high standard for what is true and what is not true administrator pistole the point of me is number two person in the f.b.i. as the deputy director and so i had the chance to get to know him and then. work with him so let me say a few words about director ball or politics or just don't play any role in his calculations so he is all about finding the truth and doing it under the rule of wall so yeah he's a man of the total. robert muller was placed under the authority of the department of justice and it's deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. his new orders give him far reaching powers. moller can investigate moscow's relations with the trump campaign and any other matters. only wastes no time immediately orders the preservation of millions of official documents forbidding the destruction of records that could be useful in the russia probe e-mails phone records audio recordings metadata and storage devices recordings

senate certainly has come to after it was briefed by the cia director gina housefull there was another briefing that took place on monday where senators had hoped they would finally get the information that they were looking for as a result of the trigger of the magnets kay act but they were in a word disgusted with what they were told according to not just bob menendez but also senator tim kaine essentially the senators knew more about this case than those that were put forward by the administration and european countries are expected to. cooperate with the u.n. prover into a murder the joint statement is scheduled to be released on thursday it will also demand that riad freeze detained activists while an intelligence officer from saudi arabia has tried to hold an anti qatar like church in switzerland. claimed four of the speakers. at the event in geneva workouts ariz deprived of their citizenship when journalists how they were allowed to travel without passports it emerged they were actually in saudi arabia the united arab emirates behind and egypt have imposed a blockade on cats are

and also the general of the cia. here's the question, when you consider all of the activities of the 17 agencies from a committee perspective, how do you decide what gets the attention of the committee in a given year? how do you actually sort through what you're going to focus on in conducting oversight? and the second question is with expansion of the inspectors general within the community, how effective are they in helping you do your oversight? thank you. >> saxby, you want to take that one? >> sure. well, i mentioned having good staff is so critically important earlier. and that's another reason exactly why you have to have good staff. you can't, as a member -- i don't care how much you read or how much time you spend in the field, trying to keep up with what's going on and all 17 agencies is just not possible. but staff does know what's going on. you've got different staff members that are responsible for each of those 17 agencies. now, we always started with cia, the nsa, or the -- when the dni was created th

two of them happened to be former cia guys you remember, mike. the same thing is true over on the senate side. without great staff on both sides of the aisle, the senate is a little different in that all staff works for the chairman and vice chairman. ,ou may have staffed designees everybody works for the chairman and vice chairman. diane couldn't hire anybody that i didn't agree to and i couldn't hire anybody she didn't agree to. that was a great way for it to work. i got two former staffers here tonight. week and i spent a in the jumbles of columbia chasing drug folks around. it is that kind of -- in the jungles of columbia, chasing drug folks around. that is the kind of thing that gets you what questions you need to be answering -- asking. director morell: the president's rebukes of the intelligence community, public rebukes, what advice would you have for the current leadership of the two committees about how they should think about that and how they might want to work with a leadership of the community to ensure that there isn't any damage o

but what he never got because the cia ultimately adjudicates the sci level, cia said no, we're not giving to him. so even to this day as he goes around the middle east and the kingdom of saudi arabia, he does not have access to intelligence, and he does not have access to the same information that others in our government have. i think that is a huge disadvantage. >> it is interesting you're saying that the top slot, the president can't order the cia to give him that clearance as well? >> i think that he can, but he according to the reporting did not. and i think that the big mystery here is what was in jared kushner's background investigation that caused the professionals at the fooin and el h. fbi and elsewhere to say no, he should not be entitled to classified information. and once the president was going down that road, why did the cia dig in so hard. and by the way, credit goes to michael pompeo at the time who was director of the cia for holding firm on that decision. that was probably a very sparky conversation. >> speculation is that it is financial. on these security clearance in

senate certainly has come to after it was briefed by the cia director gina housefull there was another briefing that took place on monday where senators had hoped they would finally get the information that they were looking for as a result of the trigger of the magnets kay act but they were in a word disgusted with what they were told according to not just bob menendez but also senator tim kaine essentially the senators knew more about this case than those that were put forward by the administration in european countries are expected to ask saudi arabia to cooperate with the u.n. probe into special juice murder the joint statement is scheduled to be released on thursday it will also demand that riyadh freeze detained activists well an intelligence officer from saudi arabia has tried to hold an anti qatar lecture in switzerland. claimed four of the speakers at the event in geneva were qatari is deprived of their citizenship when journalists asked how they were allowed to travel without how sports it emerged they were actually saudis saudi arabia the u.a.e. in egypt of impose a blockade

of the cia will no longer need to say how many strikes killed following a new order from president trouble. good evening thanks for joining us this is all to international first this hour a suspected cyber attack on a british institute that seeks to counter russia this information is now being investigated by the u.k.'s national crime agency suspect intelligence agency the g.r.u. . and has the story. here in the u.k. the now infamous highly likely formula pops back into the spotlight as reports circulate citing white hole sources claiming that russia's military intelligence service the g.r.u. had been according to them the one to hack and up until recently not very well known british beast institute for state craft now we understand that now that's been announced that the national crime agency here in the case carrying out an investigation into the cyber attack of this think tank and at the same time we're hearing that a former senior ministry of defense civil servant who is also a co-founder of this institute for statecraft is already claiming that it could only have been russia despite l

so too did the cia. here is the president just a few months before that. >> so that will be up to general kelly. general kelly respects jared a lot and general kelly will make that call. i won't make that call. i will let the general who is right here make that call. >> the "times" says that the directive prompted two internal memos, one from kelly on being ordered to grant the clearance. here is the president about a month ago. >> did you tell general kelly or anyone else in the white house to overrule -- >> no, i don't think i have the authority to do that. i'm not sure i do. but i wouldn't do it. jared is a good -- i was never involved with his security. i know that he -- just from reading i know that there was issues back and forth about security for numerous people actually. but i don't want to get involved in that stuff. >> the "washington post" reports the president's daughter kushner's wife pressured the president personally about kushner's clearance. she was asked about that clearance controvers

that's why he was an analyst for the cia. that's why he was so good in front of the committee. >> to be fully -- >> there's one other aspect of this that we need to make sure we state, though, and that is that none of us would have ever been able to be prepared or be able to do our job without good staff. and jane and i were on the hipsi together when 9/11 happened. we were on the subcommittee on terrorism and homeland security. i was chair. she was my ranking member. we did some really good stuff in the aftermath of 9/11, but we had great staff working hard for us. two of them happened to be former cia guys that you remember, mike, and the same thing is true over on the senate side, without great staff on both side of the aisle. senate's a little bit different in that all staff works for the chairman, the vice chairman. even though you may have designees, staff designees, everybody works for the chairman and the vice chairman. diane couldn't hire anybody that i didn't agree to. she couldn't -- i couldn't hire anybody she did

memo at the time an internal memo citing all the different concerns that security agencies like the cia had about gerard question of security clearance about giving him security clearance were there all these memos going on behind the scenes and now we have this new york times report that says he was ordered i mean they had concerns despite what donald trump was saying even a few months ago he doesn't or you're recording them telling new york times journalists had nothing to do with it according to john kelly he was leaned on to give caution about security clearance right and just to be clear about this in terms of how protocol what state she had the president himself has the legal authority to grant this type of plant study. yeah i mean it is whether there's authority it is very rare that it's used but we're told i mean packed out how often do we get an insight into how the security clearances work anyway so we're not entirely sure whether this is happened before how often it's happened but we know in this case certainly there were concerns raised about coercion or this isn't going to

done investigative journalism over the years is i've spoken to contacts and sources i've had in the cia and the pentagon and this is because over the course of all of this the last two years and i never got anything definitive from them about trump which is what i always concerned me about you know there really intense talk from the mad aus and the don lemon's about you know that he's going to be locked up i have a friend on facebook oh always used to write q. the jaws music like you know that he's a he's about to be eaten by the shark and i think that they're all embarrassed now that we don't have i don't like to read their whole netiquette rob rob rob hold that thought we're going to go to a short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on brushing it stay with us. but there was a crime scene used to do crack when i was a kid my dad he was like a bust at the so you know i got like what i needed when i was a baby but i had a bad child. there's a. single mother has been asking me thinking. slavery. i think it's more of a chinese teenagers having kids in you can ex

federal pardon is not going to change the charges in the state of new york that now face him the end says cia director john byrne fan of mr trump says he has no doubt the president will pardon him do you feel the way. i think i think that. mr brennan may be mistaken in this regard donald trump doesn't really have a lot of will to the people who aren't useful to him and at this point now that paul man of fort faces. thirteen charges in new york against him of the for the manhattan district attorney you know there is no reason for donald trump to get paul in a four out of jail he is going to benefit is is should have flipped when he had the chance or should have told the truth to the special counsel when he had the chance these charges might have been levied against him had he been seen to be somebody who had remorse and was cooperating with authorities so i don't think that triple pardon him at the new york matter has to go to trial it does but right now from the from the initial reading that i've done on it it looks like a very open and shut case in terms of the way he misrepresented to value

he was a former cia director. i don't know about you guys but when a former cia director speaks i believe they have credibility. he needs to flush that out a little more. i think a lot of people look at that press conference that had big questions and said something is not right here. he should have been more careful. >> let's accept rothose out. he was crying from the rooftops. yes. it is an apology. one of the many open questions bha when the full report is released is why does the president show such odd to putin? you floknow, there are a number open questions with the stories we need the other information out that is in the report. >> and speakingov of apologies, what does his team of professional prosecutors are they owed an apology? >> i think you already see the president doing it saying that mueller acted honorably. this isn't unique to mueller. think of graham. he had nasty things to say about him. seems like when they clang their tune he is fine with them. >> we can't go on playing the apology games. no

conservative and liberal media, and this is the fbi's counterintelligence operation and some of the cia, what was done at the beginning of the investigation of the trump campaign and it has to be looked into. i've said over a year and a half i believe something like the church commission will have to be established to look at the fbi behavior and the cia and i would hope -- in the old days in the '70s, "the new york times" and "washington post" would lead the investigations, that is not happening. maybe cnn will do it but i think there is a lot there and this is not to get partisan. this is for the good of the country. i'm a huge supporter and i'm never been a conspiracy guy and my daughter is at west point and i'm not a deep state guy and i think we have to in a bipartisan way look at the start of the trump investigation into the trump thing and seriously question some of the fbi counterintelligence and the cia and maybe even foreign intelligence services and i think this is for the good of the country and for the good of the fbi and the cia, too. but i would hope that that would be th

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former cia direct to, the director of the cia, john brennan, actually called the president, our president, treasonous. that is beyond i am -- embarrassing. that is disgraceful. i believe america is done with trump investigations but i don't think the president is done with what has been done to him. i said at the beginning of this editorial that america's election system survived intact and so it did but it was attacked not just by a foreign power but also by deep state rogues who attempted a coup from the inside. it is time we got to the bottom of that and i think the president will. the second hour of "varney & company" is about to begin. ♪ >> this was an illegal take-down, that failed and hopefully somebody is going to be looking at the other side. so it is complete exoneration, no collusion, no obstruction. stuart: strong stuff from the president, right there on the mueller report. he is talking about this part of the letter attorney general william barr, quote the special counsel's investigation did not find that the trump campaign or anyone associated with it or conspired or coord

done investigative journalism over the years is i've spoken to contacts and sources i've had in the cia and the pentagon and this is because over the course of all of this the last two years and i never got anything definitive from them about trump which is what i always concerned me about you know there really intense talk from the mad ows and the right cue the jaws music like you know that he's a he's about to be eaten by the shark and i think that they're all embarrassed now that we don't have i don't like to read their whole netiquette rob rob rob hold that thought we're going to go to a short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on russia can stay with. this manufactured sentenced to the public will. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the final merry go round if so be the one percent say. to me believe. nice guys are financial survival guide liquid assets that you can. that's quite easily. to keep in mind though as a tremendous place. for. me then my mom on the run up to one whom you know better than to because of. that. she was even. welcome

what did the cia say? i think those are the fact gathering that need to happen and then we can draw the conclusions that we need to do. there will be plenty of things swirling around and a lot of guesses, and my job is to get to the bottom of it. that's exactly what chairman schiff is going to do. we have other oversight bodies and i think that's the next step here. >> ken, this sticks out to me. you personally reported that this is not the only time that somebody got top-secret clearance despite being flagged as unfavorable. are you ready for this? it didn't happen one, it didn't happen twice, it happened 30 times. 3-0. do we know anything about the other 29? and because i have no expertise in this, how common is that? to me, 30 sounds huge. >> stephanie, our sources told laura strickler and i that it's without precedent. it never happened in the obama administration -- >> oh, ken, when you say unprecedented on this show, you've got to pay me two bucks. >> i said, "without precedent." >> we'll go with $1

their own opinion seldom right but never in doubt and that's one of the difficulties when you go to the cia and in the middle east and the sick and the secretary of justice and the central banks and. who would who is left that is not that's not held the is accelerate the that is integration of the american society that's my problem how do you thing it all i don't want to say and what do you think it will all lead to what kind of flattish style will be americans looking towards after trying to leave the scene whether it's in two thousand and twenty or two thousand and twenty four this is very difficult to predict but there's going to be reelected he'll be reelected it to twenty i believe and if he doesn't get reelected we're going to have riots going to be a difficult time in american to twenty twenty twenty because i'm not going to accept it he's not the type to walk in lose he's not the loser he says i will accept the. as long as they win the world i will accept the vote. which means if we don't win the vote while mr does this we had a little boris yeltsin i mean who opened fire at the par

reported what unnamed sources were telling them what millet military sources were telling them what cia sources were telling them and they have humiliated themselves in the process jeff zucker the head of c.n.n. just said two days ago not only is he not ashamed of the coverage but he used these words he said we are not investigators so how are you kidding me if i didn't say anything they said no but that's a journalist is to investigate does not have the courage of going to tell a judge is not going to know his understanding of journalism is the op ed page ad because that's the whole station there let me go to you know me to go to anthony bennett and then just said that the you know the the the dossier i should have never been published by buzz feed but jim comi allotted to be used in front of a five's of court i mean this is this is the second shoe that has to drop here if we're going to get past all of this because i'm very angry about all of this it should have never played out this way and it's the media's fault that it did because they could have said well if it was good enough for

one for example is former cia officer aldridge ames. he started to do his treason in 1988 but it wasn't until he was caught making a chalk signal on the mailbox they saw an actual explicit act and then the fbi arrested him. by this -- >> do you accept there's no chargeable collusion? >> well, you know, i saw all of the collusion and conspiracy in plain sight. the question is robert mueller's standard for that. which is a legal standard which to him was if there is no a wink and a nod that i can see or technically a signed sfb contract then i can't bring them up on the charges. but we have seen the things occur and in any other standard the person would have been arrested, would have been polygraphed and brought to trial. i found that a high standard. maybe it's a legal standard we need to take a look at, but i want to hear him tell me why the russia if you're listening speech, did accept it as a joke? the handing off as data we legal nick as a joke and if it was i couldn't get a slam dunk then the russians have won on a very well planne

i served on the defense policy board and the cia board, and that was not a requirement. >> right. as i said, about 90% of people also undergo a polygraph test as part of that. cru chris what do you think, the question i asked marine, i mean, all of this is because the president thinks this guy i really trust. so far in the two years that he's been a top adviser to the president, how do you think jared kushner has done? saudi arabia, china, now the mideast, he supposedly is the architect of the -- >> we haven't seen the proposal, so we don't know really what avenue he's going to launch from. we've been hearing for two years that the deal on the u.s. side, proposals are sort of nearing conclusion and that jared has been traveling to the middle east to talk about it with both sides, you know, the israelis and the palestinians, but we haven't seen -- chris: congresswoman, you've got about 45 seconds. >> how he performs is not the issue. the issue is whether he is a threat to national security because of relationships he has with foreign governments. so i, you know, i didn't know ben r

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

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unfortunately, we don't know the nature of the reservations that came up that the fbi and/or cia actually had about particularly jared kushner's clearance. but just at the point you make is that it is the president's prerogative as the head of the executive branch to grant and take away clearances as he sees fit. now he is in doing so he's assume iing the responsibility this. is is it what done unlawful, no. is is is t a practice dangerous security, absolutely. not knowing exact ly the nature of what the problems or anomalies were in jared kushner's background. just the word on ivanka trump. anderson cooper had a segment describe whag she duoes. as far as i can tell, whatever she's doing does not require any level of security clearance. but she has an office in the west wing and is as an administrative consideration it's more convenient for her to be cleared just because of what she's potentially exposed to given the sensitivity of what goes on in the west wing. >> the last we heard there's been no update on this in a long time. she was under fbi scrutiny in trump hotel project. we have n

the role of the fbi and the cia in the campaign and the potential that a lot of people are really keen to see. please, don't go away. i can't believe it. that we're playing "four on four" with a barbershop quartet? [quartet singing] bum bum bum bum... pass the ball... pass the rock.. ...we're open just pass the ball! no, i can't believe how easy it was to save hundreds of dollars on my car insurance with geico. yea. [quartet singing] shoot the j! shoot, shoot, shoot the jaaaaaay... believe it! geico could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. believe it! geico could save yoit's nice.percent ♪ you got this! ♪ woo! ♪ ♪ ♪ welcome back to our special coverage. kaylee, i want to come to you first on this question of equal justice and fairness in all of this. the president today, in his response was talking about how he was hoping someone would look into this on the other side. what do you think he meant by that. >> i think he is spot on. he is asking how did this investigation begin based on no probable cause, no evidence. it's a great question by the president. espec

>> well, i don't know what the cia director was talking about the first time and i don't really know what he is talking about the second time. he didn't really know what he was talking about. and that's too bad. i think that was probably a mistake on his part given the prestige of the former office that he carried. i do agree with him that it is to the extent we have now shown there was no criminal conspiracy, that ought to be something that everybody can agree on is a good thing. it is not a good thing that russia did attempt to distort, disrupt, however you want to call it, interfere with our election through using social media and accentiating the divisions in our country. and i guess i have to disagree with what victor davis hanson said which is i don't think mueller has -- i don't think mueller's reputation has been damaged here and i don't think the fact that his team was, perhaps, filled with a bunch of people who were supposedly democrats is in hindsight a black mark. if anything, that fortifies the president's position right now. which is like, you know, even this guy who is

. >> martha: that was the former head of the cia john brennan making his opinion on russian collusion very clear. writing an op-ed that mr. trump's claims no pollution is hogwash. he is singing a very different tune at this point. this is him today. >> i suspected that there was more than there actually was. i am relieved that it has been determined that there was not a criminal conspiracy with the russian government over our election. >> martha: joining me now fox news senior political analyst brit hume. it is stunning to watch how far out john brennan, the former cia director was willing to go before mueller's report was finished. >> every word he spoke, the implicit sounds that he is a former cia chief was someone who is in the know. let special knowledge and should be taken seriously and boy was he, he was utterly and completely wrong. from the get-go he was wrong. he must read the whole situation and he led -- not our investigations, a path towards a dead end and that is why this has ended. i'm glad to hear him say that he got it wrong. it is too little, too late. >> martha: this

what we're doing, our troops are not fighting except for the cia folks buck was referring to. the 2000 troops in syria are not doing the fighting. they are mostly special operations forces and they're artillery forces and forward air controllers. we've trained kurdish and arab fighters who are going out and fighting. american trainers plan their missions and provide them with intelligence and targeting artillery and air cover and the syrians, indigenous forces are doing the fighting and that's the strategy. >> buck, the last word. >> anybody who spent time with indigenous forces and u.s. military together. 400 the number we're talking about here is a place holder for a conflict the size of syria and the problem that place holder gets a lot larger. remember, we were down to how many thousands in afghanistan, obama ramped it up to over 100,000 and to what end. look at troop deployment levels in iraq. how long will we even be in iraq, the most powerful politician in that sunday is al sadr who has the blood of u.s. servicemen on his hands and some of you were in that war and know

. >> he does not run the cia. he does not run the defense department, the state department, any of the executive branch. he runs one-half of one-third of the government. what was asked back in september was if by the obamaadministration. it is to say be vigilant in making sure elections systems were secure. >> and we have to leave this part of our conversation there. in our 2020 lead money is talking. democratic candidates facing one in the presidential race. this is the first fundraising deadline of the 2020 cycle. >> we will put together the strongest grass roots movement in the history of american politics. >> raising money on the first day of the campaign they are scrambling to meelt the first fundraising detd line on suddnd. >> raising money so this is a topic that we don't like to discuss, but you can't win an election without knowing how to raise money. >> suddenly harris is trying to lower expectations telling donors we know some of them will have outraised us. i can guarantee we won't be at work. as fundr

america's institution, the justice department, the fbi, the cia function in such a manner that they were impartial that even if you say gosh, i think they didn't like this president, look at what came about tonight. i think the point to drive home would be, especially to president trump, you are still going after the institution of the united states and the united states constitution that in fact has come to your defense in this matter, they were allowed to do their business and look at this result, mr. president. >> i would point out that the former head of the cia days ago said the indictments were coming for the children of the president. the former national intelligence director said he was convinced there was collusion so the previous heads of the intelligence department had a different take, even just days ago. >> what you're talking about is their opinion. they weren't the ones who were conducting this investigation, obviously not, and i think tonight, you just saw citations of how many fbi agents, how much of the investigative power of this country, going all the way to national