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>> it seems as if in the early parts of the obama administration, if there was a problem between the obama administration and saudi arabia, you were the one sent to try to mediate the situation. so let me ask you this, what is the cia doing -- what would you do doing right now trying to figure out this mystery? >> working with our longstanding partners, the turkish intelligence officers as well as saudi intelligence officers and others, to see what information they might be able to share with us...

And other sensitive devices near the white house last year. cnn and others have reported that president trump uses his personal cellphone, not a government issued one to talk to his friends and outside advisers. his is potential problem. >> big problem, don. but, you know, it doesnt surprise me. the president has actually already invited russian spies into his office. he had that oval office meeting where he gave national security information to the russians when he kicked out a u.s. personnel a...

Photographer and a russian ambassador to say. this is serious issues. there are other countries with similar collection capabilities who would love to have an open operating environment where they could collect information, signals and intelligence around the white house. and i think the president has invited this type of attack because he has done nothing to counter the last attack that occurs. and my republican colleagues in congress, by doing nothing there is a cost. and the cost is that your...

Identified what could be inside. whether that is a question of collection capabilities. whether the individual knew he was under surveillance. whether he was working for the fbi, we dont know. the point is that it went through the proper process the second time. the first time it was just a document they were going to release no matter what. >> seemsike a political purpose, the first one. this one they are trying to have due diligence about it. take a look at devin nunes, calling out demes this ...

Worse. remember the 18 and a half minute gap in the white house tapes? this reeks of lawbreaking, reeks of conspiracy, and reeks of obstruction of justice, and by the way, the cover-up is always worse than the crime. that is what it looks like to me tonight. the doj is trying to explain it away. they are saying tonight that many of the fbis issued samsung phones didnt capture text messages during that period. hold on, we will blame samsung? the doj is talking this up to a "misconfiguration on is...

Text messages because of roll-out and software upgrades that conflicted with the f.b.i.s collection capabilities. the result was data that should have been automatically collected and retained for long term storage and retrieval was not collected per a doj letter january 19th, 2018. >> why should anybody believe that? how convenient. you know whats suspicious is somebody who has been through these investigations is that the missing text messages, the end date of that is the day before mr. muelle...

Oversight, first within nsa, then involving my agency, the office of the director of national intelligence and the department of justice and ultimately involving the fisa court and the congress, to insure that these rules are complied with. and the last point that i -- the last misconception i want to address is that this information shouldnt have been classified and it was classified only to conceal it from the american people, and that the leaks of this information are not damaging. and mr. ch...

I want to expand beyond collection capabilities and see what else we need to do to take into account the changing nature of the global environment, the changes of the communications that exists worldwide. >> thank you for that. back to my first point, should you be confirmed, trying to make sure youve got that objective oversight, the ability to make sure you have the best knowledge and bessmetrics possible so when future challenges arrive, we have the best information possible. >> thank you ver...

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