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For reminding us of that as someone who worked on that. exact issue 15 or 16 years ago.r thanks, i hope you will come back. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: john is a former cia officer and regular guest on the show. always happy to have him. thanks very much, john for coming on tonight. >> my pleasure.ho >> tucker: when you hearoh mr. clapper say that we cant possibly declassify thisan material because it will jeopardize sources and methods, as someone who lived in a world of sources and methods, ...

That president trump wasnt being spied on by the obama administration, they were just watching him, and trump ought to them thank for them. >> was the fbi spying on trumps campaign? >> no, they were not. they were spying on, a term i dont particularly like, but on what the russians were doing, trying to understand were the russians infiltrating, trying to gain access, leverage and influence. >> why doesnt he like that? he should be happy about that? >> he should be. >> yeah, he should be gratefu...

Been making comments in opposition to the president or concern. but when in the totality he took what we witnessed tonight as part of the pattern of behavior weve seen from the president and put it into the context that really clapper understands better than anyone about what that power is, the nuclear codes, what that means and how quickly a president can move on that, that -- thats an alarm bell that is going to be heard by many people in washington. that is not just going to be dismissed as s...

But he would have been given a heads up we also know that there are all kinds of investigative activities going on. the agencies involved, the fbi, cia, national security agency, i assume obama knew something. unless he is helen keller. let me make another point about this. that is a hell of a lot of agency resources. that is a hell of a lot of investigators. "the new york times," january 20th, i just want to make sure cnn and msnbc are aware of this -- wiretapped data used. i never said indepen...

President-elect this week. you heard that there is more confidence, according to the officials there, the dni, clapper and admiral rogers that russia was behind some of the hacking around the u.s. election. and they are going to lay out the specifics there. they will lay out a motivation you heard clapper say. now, what you are not seeing is that specifics laying out at this hearing. i thought it was also interesting the questioning of senator john mccain about julian assange and whether he shou...

Healthy skepticism of the intelligence decision after the weapons of mass destruction after the iraq war. as one official put it to me, jim, questions are good and getting back to the selection of dan coats to be director of national in tell jensen, one top republican backer of senator coats pointed out to me that dan coats was banned from russia, you recall, jim, back in 2014 when the white house and russia were firing back and forth sanctions and counter sanctions over the invasion of cry crim...