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Embraced a terrorist over the united states and our allies. so we need diplomatic engagement with these people, somehow we need to moderate their overt hatred of the united states, and the danger they pose to our military and our civilian population. >> john, this was carried out by the cia, not the military. talk about the significance of that to our civilian audience. >> well, president biden said that the u.s. carried out the strike, he didnt name the organization that he did it. but i must, ...

That some uap may be intelligence collection platforms developed by china, russia or other nations or nongovernmental entity. >> people immediately think of extraterrestrials and little green men. we are not at that stage yet. were just saying there are things that are not ours flying over military installation and we dont know what they are. are. >> diagrams of the most common and uncommon were shapes for those were blacked out entirely. >> theres still a lot we dont know. >> he says he will be...

Locked down at the airport right now. thats a very vulnerable situation. >> especially with the mass of humanity that is there. any crowd as always opportunity for a horrible situation to play out. cnn has this new reporting tonight that the united states right now is scrambling to kind of fill the intelligence vacuum that has been left in the wake of the rapid collapse of the country and the rapid takeover by the taliban. what does that mean, seth? how big of a problem is this really? >> i mean...

A lockdown server. >> at the director of intelligence programs, they have an enclave able to protect the most sensitive secret city intelligence community. this includes covert action programs. detailed information about things like the bin laden raid. some of the spooky satellites we have or collection platforms. it is not a good place to put telephone calls unless they involved one of those calls. >> thats about the only time you can envision a phone call between two leaders showing up in that...

That they are writing this memo which obviously they believe this was unlawfully targeted person or there wasnt enough evidence or the evidence was outside evidence, what sources and methods would be revealed here. how they are tapping his phone for instance. >> or how they think about the cases. >> or how -- who is connected to this person. >> right. but there is two problems. the immediate problems, it is this particular case and there is the larger problem, it is the entire process, it is the...

Intelligence in terms of the technical collection platforms. where well be weak in north korea is human intelligence. we often dont understand or know how theyre thinking about problems and what their decision-making processes are. >> i almost had people saying to me about the photos we saw out of north korea last week, how do we even know this is real? are these tanks all lined up, are they actually real tanks? >> exactly. we see those pictures, we see those images, theyre known to do the strat...