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Comments, lewandowsky yesterday, which was sort of hyperpartisan, a spectacle. it didnt seem to produce all that many results or new information. the democrats cant even decide what their investigation should be called. >> lets first talk about the guns. most people, like about 68% of people, believe that assault weapons should be banned. thats pretty stunning. >> right. but thats different than taking a forced buyback, which is essentially, you know, confiscating -- >> well, banning it, whats t...

Serious or flagrant problem, abuse, violation of law, or executive order or deficiency relating to the funding, administration, or operation of an intelligence activity within the responsibility and authority of the director of national intelligence, involving classified information. i know its confusing, but it continues. the inspector general reports this urgent complaint to the dni, but the dni is refusing to inform congress about it as required by the law. now, his office last night told the...

Provision for the dni to make that determination. it is an illegal determination standing in the way of a process that is essential to making sure that the intelligence community, you know, behaves itself and abides by the law. >> so just in terms of whats going to happen, i mean tomorrow you have the inspector general testifying behind closed doors to you. next week acting dni maguire is agreeing to testify in open session. certainly, you know, as we saw yesterday with corey lewandowski, just b...

Provide it, even though the statute mandates that he do so, is because he is being instructed not to. that this involved a higher authority, someone above the dni. >> so the idea that hes being -- that the dni is being instructed not to, that is chairman schiffs account. the dni in a letter to the committee said that the complaint involves, and im quoting, conduct by someone outside the intelligence community and involves confidential and potentially privileged matters relating to the interests ...

More now from our randi kaye. >> reporter: images of that rotating thing captured by u.s. navy aircraft, censors locking in on the target. commander david fraver saw it firsthand during a training mission, describing it like a 40 foot long tic tac maneuvering rapidly and changing direction. >> as we both looked out the right side of our airplane, we saw a disturbance in the water and a long object pointed north. >> the object was first cited in 2004 and then similar again in 2015. footage of the...

We need to make sure the integrity for whistle-blowers is there. by the way, anderson, we watched corey lewandowski yesterday simply refuse to answer the questions of the congress. so there needs to be accountability here, and it is time for the congress of the united states to start asserting its authority probably through mechanisms like inherent contempt where we start fining people and making people very, very uncomfortable when they thumb their nose at the elected representatives of the peo...

Now, whether it implicates the president, whether it actually is a substantive legal, important issue, you know, we dont know that for sure. but this is not a frivolous issue. >> but, jeff, couldnt it be a personnel matter, a sexual harassment matter of people who were working in the intelligence community? >> absolutely. it could be something that is very specific to one person, not something that is, you know, related to policy. but it also, you know, given what the dni has said, director of n...

Competition stifling advantages. that those are good questions that we need to be having a debate about here in 2019. >> but couldnt you argue its ultimately up to the users? nobody is forcing people to logon to facebook. nobody is forcing people to search on google. couldnt, in terms of talking about a free market system, couldnt it be left up to users as opposed to attorney generals inquiring about certain practices? >> so free markets require competition. without them, theyre not free markets...

While accusing democrats of not being big believers in religion. mccready is being painted as a radical socialist. first a little back story. trump won the 9th by almost 20 points. its a safe republican seat by design. a classic example of the rigged system of redistricting which politicians choose their voters instead of the other way around. apparently it wasnt quite rigged hard enough. when this guy, republican mark harris, he got a tiny victory over mccready in 2018. the state elections acco...

To do, and he wanted to move on. >> you also have stories from pilots who were flying with planes that didnt have weapons on them but discussed if it came to it, they would ram one of the hijacked planes. >> we were totally unprepared for this attack on 9/11. and many of the first fighter jets launched into the air that day were launched scrambled without weapons aboard. and the pilots, as they were taking off, knew that if they had to confront a hijacked plane, they might actually have to ram i...