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The presidents actions that may very well violate the constitution? if past is prologue -- >> lets get straight to the homeland security secretary john kelly briefing reporters on the presidents immigration order. >> this is antd travel ban. its a temporary awe pause that lets us -- the visa vetting system. over the next 30 days we will analyze and assess the strengths and weaknesses of our current immigration system, which is the most generous in the world. we will then provide our foreign part...

Wasn the chaos this weekend, the big story would be the other executive order to your point that reduces the access and role of career intelligence professionals on the national security council and adds in a political adviser and a former proprietor of a major, you know, right wing news site, breitbart, steve bannon, on to the national security council process. i wonder as a military guy, what you think of that. >> i think it is extremely disturbing. i want to know who woke up in the morning an...

That the people in office now are career people. and should be trusted in the same way. but knowing donald trump, the question is, and maybe kayleigh, you can answer this. the question is, once he has his people there and they are his, will he feel differently about these issues because he trusts them? >> i think, gloria, thats exactly right. a big problem that donald trump has had with the intelligence community is that these are obamas guys. thats been part of his mind-set. he looks and sees...

If thats the person who is in his ear, were going to see a very aggressive tone in the white house. and he really is insulating himself with his people. if he is not taking briefings or having conversations with folks outside of his immediate circle, with some of these career intelligence people who know the entire story line, not just, you know, whatever happened that day. >> and peter, michael flynn has said things -- we know this publicly -- that are just not true. do you worry that, if he is...

Congressman, is that you think that career intelligence officials, whether its the cia or other agencies are politicizing their reports to the president of the united states? >> no, but what im saying, wolf, is we do know that theres pretty clear evidence and i think a report came out that said that intelligence was politicized regarding isis. and if it occurred in that case, is it occurring other places. that accusation and in terms of the information coming out on isis warrants as much of an i...

Damaging to hillary clinton. >> i dont agree. the u.s. government, our intelligence people, career intelligence people say this is russia. so for the trump campaign to say maybe its not russia, theyre telling all the people they dont know how to do their job. second of all, i have taken a look at some of these e-mails. its kind of a big nothing 1burger. there is little news. the press would be all over it if there say lot to chew on. there is a little bit to chew on but not very much. i think by...

One of the big changes in washington in the last five years or so is that much of what had traditionally been under the purview of the pentagon moved over to the cia because they had to do things like, you know, violate pakistani air space and that sort of thing. i dont tend to think it will complicate u.s. foreign policy. i dont see it leading to any change in policy. its just the loss of a good and very bright man. >> yeah. colonel jack, officials say that general petraeus deputy, michael more...

Spontaneous and not premeditated terrorism. >> i argue the administration made some serious mistakes when they highlighted the video, escalated its credibility to the presidential level and then took it on tv in pakistan with u.s. taxpayer dollars. >> reporter: rogers, who told fox one day after the attack that it was, indeed, terrorism, saying the statement from the director of national intelligence on friday appeared to be an effort to obscure the facts. >> part of the problem is this circling...

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They released a statement to us from brian hale, spokesman for the office of the director of national intelligence, saying in very plain language they stand by that 2017 assessment and that they will read this house report -- the findings from this house report, but saying in plain language they stand by what they found a little more than a year ago. i will add there as well that, yes, the intelligence chiefs who were in charge at the time and signed off in effect on that assessment were politic...