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The leaks is what the we should be concerned about. >> dean, how important is the process? >> the process, its very important. its very important to find out where devin nunes got his information achbtd the press conference on wednesday without talking to the ranking minority member adam shift. i had congressman corso on my radio show and he said they never do this. this is a bipartisan committee. its above the partisan fray. unfortunately chairman nunes has hurt that. donald trump has the power...

Until he spoke last night, there was no received. why he didnt seek evidence from the fbi to back up his claim. he stated, that the cia had been hacked. >> every intelligence agency reports to you, why not immediately go to them and gather evidence to support that? >> because i dont want to do anything thats going to violate any strength of an agency. we have enough problems. and by the way, with the cia, i just want people to know, the cia was hacked and a lot of things taken, that was during t...

Have done what he di talk too much. >> theyre tnot supposed to be political agencies at all. a president whos willing to use news reports on intelligence matters to make allegations about the former president barack obama and on many different fronts, regarding national security, hes relying on outside sources, rather than federal agencies. >> in this case, what was his source in saying that the cia was hacked did that come from the daily briefing? was it classified information? or is this the s...

Pure bull. >> thomas, what are reasons why you think there continues to be so much uncertainty about what happened that night? >> there are a lot of reasons. once this enters the political realm, you get different arguments what it means for politicians. one thing we have called for is more evidence surrounding benghazi and related matters. there are a lot of areas the u.s. government could step up and declassify information. a lot of other details surrounding that night. dont leave it to just t...

Of course instigated this debate, started this conversation thats taking place very heatedly here in washington, d.c. of course, its also responsible for nixing a summit with russia. when you really think about the domino effect this entire edward snowden situation has had, its quite remarkable. essentially, about half this press is going to be about things that sort of started with the edward snowden release of this information. >> its a large threat that has unraveled so many different things,...

That he wants to make about transparency. >> well, thats the big news hes going to make at the top. as you know, the president usually has an opening statement on some issue. in this case, its going to be announcing a set of reforms that are intended, as far as the administration is going to argue, to restore confidence in these nsa surveillance programs. announce some potential transparency -- new transparency options that theyre going to be putting into place. some of the details are still a l...

Too much information. whether the governments transparent about it or not. i dont think the critics are going to be satisfied when the notion of, you know, yet another oversight board layered on top of two or three other boards that were already supposed to be watching and either werent or didnt object to it. >> all right. so the we all want to sometimes put aside is were in the business of stealing secrets. thats what we do to get the leg up on everybody else so we can stay ahead of everybody. ...

Ran across them there. when they came back, they made some inquiry and found out about the amber alert and the information we have on dimaggio. >> [ inaudible question ]. >> the search will consist of aerial resources, people on horseback, experienced -- obviously, deputy sheriffs and other law enforcement personnel from that area that know the terrain and all the resources of the federal, state, and local government are being brought to bear on this, so we can hopefully bring, you know, hanna b...

Information and we have made a great deal revealed to the public in remarkable time, because this is the most highly classified operation that this government has undertaken in a number of years and the amount of information that we have tried to reveal to you is quite substantial, and we will continue to review it and consider the appropriateness of more release of information as the review continues on. >> jay, the pakistani government put out a statement in which they said that the isi had be...

Be somewhat incorrect such as that the wife was shielding bin laden and it turned out it was not the wife, and there may not have been a shield and it was not clear whether or not bin laden had a gun. are you guys in a fog of this or what gives? >> well, what is true is that we provided a great deal of information with great haste in order to inform you and through you the american public about the operation, and how it transpired and the events that took place there in pakistan. obviously, some...