people that they suspect leaked this information. so where does that put donald trump with the intel community now when they have this type of information in the future, do they reveal it to the president of the united states? i think that s one of the hardest questions. your viewers need to understand why this is so serious. this isn t just more criticism of donald trump. this kind of intelligence is what keeps us alive. there are people out there in the world, isis and other groups, who would kill thousands of americans today if they could. the reason we have generally been safe is that we have very aggressive intelligence operating with our closest allies whose secrets we share, to find out the most sensitive information, sometimes through human sources, sometimes through very subtle technical collection systems which may have been involved in this case. those are real secrets because
the impact of collection systems and capabilities can be grave. so i do think it s important to be able to stop the leaks, the information can be coming from any if you remember of corridors, intelligence community, congress, a lot of people have access to this information. i do think it s premature to be pointing if i canners at anybody whether this administration or the other administration, as people point fingers about the leaks, i certainly welcome to stop the leaks because they shouldn t be taking place and anybody who thinks i m responsible for that are dead wrong. clayton: oy a freeman in a matter of months, parole board could let him out on good behaviors, nine years in 33 years sentence of armed robbery. he will be able to collect millions from retirement in the nfl. oj expected out in october, 22 years after being cleared in
just easier to get rid of these people this and would push the collection back to russia to where they would have to use strategic electronic collection systems, rather than having a nest of spies right here in washington, d.c. and new york state. this is so fascinating. does the u.s. have something similar in russia, per se? if i knew i wouldn t tell you. good answer. don t want to discuss it at all, but, you know, i don t believe that, you know, the united states is far more robust capability to do things without actually having to be present. and, you know, russia is very deeply reliant also on human intelligence officers. people who are going out and running spy rings and making contacts with americans as spies. so those places are necessary. everybody has some capacity, you know, even our allies, to do that, but for russia, this stuff is steeped in the beginning of the soviet union and it is never ended. all right. malcolm nance, just filling us with so much information,
world after north korea claiming they tested the hydrogen bomb. analysis is inconsistent with a h- bomb test. but it is it a violation of the u.n. sanction. we ll bring in s professor of political science and served our country as a marine in this part of the world. professor, how good is our intelligence on north korea? we have a wide variety of intelligence and by the way, good afternoon and thank you you for having me. these system are in the u.s. inventory and the japanese also have collection systems on them. and right now, those systems that are among the best in the recalled. aircraft and ships and scientist, and they are collecting particles from the
allies, john mccain and kelly ayotte are calling for hearings into what happened over the last two years to figure out if there were the gaps. would you at least support the idea of hearings to figure out what intelligence communications may or may not have worked over the past couple of years? oh, sure absolutely. i think we need to have hearings. we need to gather information. these should be done in a professional way, rather than people on very little evidence beginning to draw conclusions. let s get the evidence, let s figure out what went right, if anything, in terms of collection systems. what went wrong, because it does appear there may have been gaps. we don t know exactly all the evidence is in. but by all means, yes, we should have hearings. the more information we collect, the more prepared we are for the next to try and prevent this from happening in the future. as we mentioned before, you are the ranking democrat on the house budget committee. and there have been bu