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nicolle wallace. we have a lot of developments out of the middle east right now including a last minute deal bringing a temporary reprieve to millions of people in the middle east. extending a truce that has led to the release of d of hostages and palestinian prisoners. at this hour 11 hostages have been freed, they are now in israel. this has just happened moments ago. this footage from al jazeera shows them being handed over to the red cross. the group, the israeli group includes thr...

Like carter page, the investigation of him, basically you have a counterterrorism tool. a tool used to protect us from terrorism instead used a fisa court, its being used to spy on a presidential campaign, unprecedented. >> shannon: i want to recap. the president asked for tonight. declassified or release these things. portions of the carter page fisa application, fbi reports they had with bruce orr. and also the president said they want all these unredacted text release regarding the russian in...

Of congress and also for transparency. president trump up and tweeting about this today, stef, not surprisingly. let me read you what he has to say before we do some analysis on the other side. the president saying, quoting congressman king effectively, saying what will be disclosed is there was no bias for these fisa warrants. that the information was kept from the court. theres going to be a disproportionate influence of the, quote, fake dossier. you have a counterterrorism tool used to spy o...

Immigration order is a very shortsighted and counterproductive counterterrorism tool. if you put an entire civilian population under surveillance and under scrutiny, youre not going to be actually able to chase specific intelligence leads and penetrate specific plots and it also hands an enormous propaganda weapon to isis. its just about the last thing you want if youre charged with predicting the country. >> ed rollins has literally raised his hands requesting more time. >> so polite. doesnt kn...

Theres ballistic missiles tests from iran going on, theres a special operations commando raid under way in yemen. they got crises coming at them left, right and center. thats why they need to rely on expertise. expertise from national security professionals. its why its so dangerous to blow fast balls past the secretary of defense. past the homeland security secretary, past the intelligence community. it is going to catch up with them and i think this weekend shows that it already is. >> jeremy,...

National security entry-exit registration system, nsears. this was a completely failed counterterrorism tool. zero out of 93,000 people were actually convicted of terrorism. let me repeat that. there were 93,000 people who actually registered under this program and there were zero terrorism convictions that were yielded from this mass profiling program. >> i can hear some people saying thats because they knew they were fingerprinted and they would be interrogated and maybe this prevented them fr...

Lapsed at least for now. u.s. senators failed to extend provisions of the patriot act which gave the national security agency sweeping surveillance powers. >> government officials have been warning of serious national security consequences if the authorities expired. supporters like republican senator john mccain say america need this counterterrorism tool to keep groups like isis at bay. listen. >> we have seen events lately that are transpiring. isis has taken palmyra, theyre in the streets bu...

Acknowledgment jim, that the punishment was too light and thats likely why the judge upped the fee that he must pay to $100,000. jim? >> well, its a remarkable fall. the former chief of the cia. pamela brawn, thanks for joining us. back to our big story today. three americans, one hostage and two al qaeda operatives were inadvertently killed by u.s. drone strikes in and around the afghanistan-pakistan border. that reigniting debate over the whole u.s. drone program. it has been a lightning rod f...

Post 9/11 era that this telephone data collection is an effective counterterrorism tool. >> we need to accept the fact that the more information we have about our enemies is plotting what they are planning on doing is very important and available to our intelligence community. the question is whether or not we can take this information and this vast amount of data and sift through it. can we analyze it? can we produce intelligence? in addition to that, it is very important that we have an adequa...

Understand how such an important counterterrorism tool cannot be used by the ministration when you and the president claim bringing them to justice is such a high priority. the state department program awards just as often at the $25 million for the leads the capture of alleged terrorist overseas. state department at suspects after consulting with the fbi justice department, cia and national security council staff. this week fox news identified two key suspects, one believes to be former carrier...