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And breaths in conspiracies and distorting the truth. you watch that and you realize hes attacking people whose served this country and the broader as well. to what end? >> well, i dont know what end. clappers got a book out there now, he may trying to be discredit it. i have shared editors with mr. clapper, i dont know him for myself, but wonderful talks from the editors how fine he was. he wrote the book only because of of the way this presidency was run. >> the president is also still attacki...

>> harris: the bar is different, though. so if you or are were tipped last summer, because this information was out pretty widely, other journalist knew about it. >> i was in wausau, wisconsin, and i heard about it. tickle your cut husband is sitting husbanding sitting member of congress, so im sure you get that. my point is the onus falls on that intel agency to look at it differently than you are i would look at it even in the media. the vetting progress process that they go through, clappers ...

Political juice to say, look, well try to get you something in return. maybe some protection for your minority status. maybe some kind of electoral change, some technical things they can get. theyre going to have to get something, those separatists. russia clearly has the cloud to make a move. >> i want to throw up a graphic. it reflects what you were talking about in terms of those staist isistaist ittics. youve got finland, 100% of its gas from russia. so there certainly is a level of affectio...

Basically said he was trying to do to putin what senator widen had done to americas intelligence chief james clapper before all of the snowden documents came out. clapper was asked during a congressional hearing does the united states gather data on millions americans and clapper said no it the snowden documents proved that was not true. so snowdens question ran parallel to widens. but putins answer wasnt anything like clappers. >> i ask you your reaction to this snowden question. how about the ...

>> lets talk about mr. clappers views. what do you think on this debate? i feel like if edward snowden lost sean penn, he has to many can be hasnt lost me. >> any concerns? >> i dont know whats in his mind. i dont know what hes doing now. he might be in a hot tub with two russian strippers named i want to drink a lot. hes done some service, getting us to at least debate the issue and as far as stuff gone on the last week or so with the european allies being up sit, i can understand if they felt ...

What we do not do is spy unlawfully on americans or for that matter on citizens of any country. we only spy as authorized by law with multiple layers of oversight to be sure we dont abuse authorities. >> james clapper on the nsa leaks. im back with bill. before i get to that, bill, give me a plug for the shows you got going, parole of the palms in las vegas november 2nd and 3rd. >> thank you. >> always taking it to the people, piers. >> exactly. >> we will get to vegas? not everyone has cnn. >> ...

Here." do you think, though, that the president may be disappointed with his intel officials? just, perhaps, not wanting to show his hand? >> reporter: well, i think he actually did show his hand a little bit, if you read between the lines of what the president actually said. its not as if the fbi did nothing. it performed its duties. the department of homeland security did what its supposed to do. not exactly a rousing endorsement of their actions here. its sort of the minimal things he could s...