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Movements, radio transitions, aircraft flying through the air. theres also things like intercepting email, phone calls. to actual human essence on the ground. the last point is particularly interesting because yes, well it is challenging every time you go somewhere like russia or china, and talking about resources. you have what it appears to be, not necessarily popular in russia, of opportunity for collectors on the ground. so if we are seeing this for allied nations that are working, people wi...

Jillian: the intelligence community feeling to identify the origin of the coronavirus following a 90 day investigation ordered by president biden. former intelligence officer joined us to discuss the challenges. >> the chinese government was never going to cooperate because it has an interest in keeping this information secret whether it was malevolent or incompetent. the second challenge is intelligence collection posture, our ability to get intelligence inside china has been decimated over the...

They exercise control over their people and information that comes in and out of china so theres a key hindrance but there are two challenges to the intelligence assessment on the origins of covid 19, the first is the chinese government was never going to cooperate because it has an interest in keeping with information secret whether it was malevolent or incompetent. it cant allow its own people to think it is anything less and completely capable of governing. second challenge is our intelligenc...

Of that and all the attention the world is paying to the islamic state, iran is working feverishly on trying to create this nuclear capability and theres no reason because we dont have a history of being able to influence those actions that theres going to be anything other than self interest being maintained from tehran. >> and very quickly, last question you know, what happens if there is no deal? whats next? is there going to be military action of some kind? >> oh no. were at the status quo r...

>> his message to the united states is very much the same as bin ladens. were coming after you. >> so the question really remains here, did the u.s. not know about this meeting of 100 al qaeda fighters? could they not get a drone there in time to attack? or was there some other intelligence reason the u.s. decided not to attack to pass it by? we dont know the answer. wolf? >> good reporting, barbara starr. important reporting as well. thank you. lets get some reaction now from the chairman of th...

For coming in. so did the u.s. intelligence community screw it up, miscalculate what putins intentions in ukraine, crimea specifically, were? >> i dont think they screwed it up. its under review now. there were just two different analytical products by two different agencies. one said it was certainly the possibility that they could see more aggressive meaning troop movement into the crimean peninsula. one saying they just didnt think it was going to happen. but all the indicators were there. th...