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We need to pass a congressional intelligence authorization bill. its been six years, the senate has passed the bill, i believe the house intelligence committee has approved a bill, and we just need the speaker to bring it up. thats first. we need strong congressional oversight. for almost six years now, we havent had a bill and we need to get a bill done so congress can issue, exercise its oversight authority. jenna: doesnt a another bill or more congressional oversight just add another layer of...

Need to pass a congressional intelligence authorization bill. its been six years, the senates passed a bill. i believe the house intelligence committee has approved a bill, and we just need the speaker to bring it up. thats first. we need strong congressional oversight, and for almost six years now we havent had a bill, and we need to get a bill done so congress can exercise its oversight authority. jenna: so senator bond saying weve done our part, now its up to the house speaker, and we now hea...

The web site amounted to a targeting document, shep. >> shepard: maybe should have a database like this. is he also defending the system. >> he is the acting head of the u.s. intelligence community david gompert disputed some of the finding. he says. and he defends the use of contractors who he says, quote, provide flexibility and specialized skills in the system. and contractors are going to be a special component within this post series coming up later in the week, shep. >> shepard: lawmakers ...

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Is subordinate to john brenen and brenen is not subject to congressional oversight. >> the other dnis have always been very, very professional, theyve never been political. under this administration, john brennan has politicized intelligence, thats the danger here. >> reporter: the presidents choice for dni is james clap board a top official in the defense official. a former senior intelligence official says he believed that clapper would not accept the aappointment under any circumstances. whil...

About government being broken. i saw in your intro thats kind of now pretty repeated, that thesis. in another network, a week of it. government being broken. i dont believe it. theres incompetence on the part of the majority. last week we saw -- give you an example of the incompetence. if theres a noncontroversial bill, its the intelligence authorization bill. in my 18 years here, its usually passed almost by voice vote with almost no opposition. the democratic majority couldnt pass that last we...

And now consider the strong possibility, the same kid, age 13 did them both. not smart. not cool. martha: chaos on the floor of the house of representatives last night. did you hear about this? republicans accuse democrats of trying to sneak language into intelligence authorization bill to establish criminal punishment, 15 years, of jail time, for cia agents who took part in harsh interrogations and the bill back on the table without the language but thats damage been done? and how did happen in...

Interrogation techniques anyway. bill: where do we stand now? what happens to the bill, molly? >> reporter: right. there is still the bigger house intelligence authorization bill and they are discussing the rule which governs what is related to the bill now and the bill minus the controversial cia language should be voted on later this morning. bill: watch it for us, molly henneberg live, in washington. martha: this crossing the wires, we told you about this 26-year-old raymond taylor, good news...

Out, the worse it gets. in your opinion who are the biggest losers? >> everyone. there arent any winners. and there is a lot of blame on everyone. but you have to look at the democrats. they are trying to jam non-spending measures, chip which is an authorization bill and daca which is a non-spending measure into a spending bill. so satining resolution is simply expanding bill. if they can get that through they can talk about chip and reauthorizing and daca and fiengtdsing a permanent solution. r...

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