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Here going into systems looking for inroads. the other, the covert action where theyre involved in influencing social media. were so partisan, so much in each others throats that it makes it easy for them to sow chaos. we have so many people willing to believe or see anything they read if it satisfies their own belief or opinion or feeling. >> neil: what is interesting about this, in case many thought the administration would rethink that meeting with vladimir putin, were getting from sarah sand...

Does he want to do after that? >> i think putin came to power feeling an existential threat. lets be honest. the collapse of the soviet union was the worst event in modern history and he feels that his country, russia, is encircled by this military alliance, by nato and nato keeps expanding, adding new countries, so from putins standpoint nato poses a threat and as julie and richard both said, this is one that he has been determined to undermine using every tool of covert action. were only now u...

Central lines of questioning we anticipate today which is haspels role in the bush-era interrogation program that critics call torture. it reads having served in that time i can offer you my personal commitment clearly and without reservation that under my leadership c.i.a. will not restart such a detention and interrogation program. that program was under the bush administration and it was approved by the justice department. it involved the water boarding of a handful of senior al qaeda operati...

Youre looking to get people, perhaps americans recruited to do some of this work for you. you cant use a russian intelligence officer or a russian official, so youre going to want a cutout. the oligarchs are perfect cutouts because they can deny theyre part of the russian government. theyre also very good at moving money secretly around. so it wouldnt surprise me at all to see putin task an oligarch to go out and get a hold of an american political consultant or somebody else in the american pol...

Perspective and kim jong-uns perspective to have this meeting. >> general, what would your goal be? how would you be watching all of this differently other than wanting all of your men and women to get home alive? >> well, i do think theres a commitment, certainly on the part of secretary mattis and the pentagon to dialogue, a diplomatic economic covert action in lieu of threatening little rocket man with potential nuclear attacks. so i think the notion of talking to the north koreans, the south...

Perspective to have this meeting. >> general, what would your goal be? how would you be watching all of this differently other than wanting all of your men and women to get home alive? >> well, i do think theres a commitment, certainly on the part of secretary mattis and the pentagon to dialogue, a diplomatic economic covert action in lieu of threatening little rocket man with potential nuclear attacks. so i think the notion of talking to the north koreans, the south koreans are relieved. they w...

Commitment, certainly on the part of secretary mattis and the pentagon to dialogue, a diplomatic economic covert action in lieu of threatening little rocket man with potential nuclear attacks. so i think the notion of talking to the north koreans, the south koreans are relieved. they were worried about what president trump might do, so are the japanese. the u.s. armed forces are an enormously powerful institution. over 2 million men and women. theyre actually getting prepared to fight if the uni...

To china and meet with xi jinping. china is, after all, north koreas still patron, ally, security partner, so on. and of course xi jinping doesnt want to be sidelined either. wants to make sure its interest is protected. it makes sense from xi jinpings perspective and kim jong-uns perspective to have this meeting. >> general, if you were in charge of all u.s. military personnel pacific, meaning japan, south korea, and the like, what would your goal be? how would you be watching all of this diffe...

Anderson, folks like me when we get together and chat about this, we look at the russian covert action. the covert influence campaign with regard to the american presidential election. we remind one another there are probably more tears sheds over successful covert action campaigns than unsuccessful ones. here you had a magnificent russian effort operationally and technically and what has it led to. improved relations. improved status for the russians globally. absolutely not. >> appreciate your...

>> were at a pretty low point. i think we pretty much exhausted decla each and other nations diplomats here. if we want to increase pressure on the russians in future, i think well have to go down another lane. that has to do with russian finances and russian unexplained wealth. were at a very low point here. anderson, folks like me when we get together and chat about this, we look at the russian covert action. the covert influence campaign with regard to the american presidential election. we r...