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Vanherck sat down with me to talk about the decision making that led to the balloons ultimate destruction. it was set in motion days earlier in a high-stakes mission to intercept it over alaska. >> we sent a package that included f-22s and f-16s along with support package of an e3 awacs tanker support with aircraft. >> did you know what its mission was? >> we had worked with the intelligence community, and we had a good idea of what the mission actually was going to be. once we intercepted the h...

Place. >> the same hour they had the duelling stories that told the same story not just on the political side but on the business and financial side. i talk to republicans on the hill every day. some of them speak to the president regularly and theyve been telling him for months now that they need to dump rudy giuliani because he -- his role is making it harder for republicans to even defend the presidents conduct throughout this entire impeachment saga. rudy giuliani says everything he did was ...

Pattern that made it so damaging. there were many damaging moments, but that was certainly one of them. >> in terms of damage, how damaging was it to the president? i mean, did you find sondlands testimony credible? >> i did. and he gave very important testimony that gave us context to that call record that the president himself released. weve known since the president released that call record the basic outlines of the story, that he brought pressure to bear against a foreign government for, as...

Would not have involved the leadership of the state department and the white house. >> so you are saying everyone in the chain of command knew about giulianis efforts to try to get the investigations into burisma and -- im trying to figure out what you thought you were actually opining to. >> the president directed us to work with mr. giuliani and the leadership of the state department were knowledgeable, as was the nsc, that we are working with mr. giuliani. >> whats interesting is that ambassa...

Definition, rogue diplomacy would meant that i would not have involved the leadership of the state department and the white house. >> are you saying that everyone in the chain of command knew about giulianis efforts to try to get the investigations into burisma -- im just trying to figure out what you thought you were actually opining to. >> look, the president directed us to work with mr. giuliani and the leadership of the state department were knowledgeable that we were working with mr. giulia...

Lot of follow-up that was going to have to happen to make that a reality, that wasnt actually the reality at that point, but they were going to work very hard to make that the reality. i think what weve seen in the weeks and months since is those efforts have run into a series of brick walls or dead ends, and weve seen mike pompeo wanting to move forward with this appointment of a special envoy and the scheduling of new meetings, but realizing through this letter and through the communication th...

Argue, many would argue, leaving office. many in the white house, i guess its safe to say not happy with the outcome of the election. valerie, yet, president obama seems to be more open than most democrats to trying to pave the way for the trump presidency. how are you doing with all this? >> look, i think we believe in the smooth transition of power. when president obama was elected president bush and his team could not be more cooperative with us. as you know i was co-chair biden transition te...

He supports the president. after an hour and a half he didnt like what he was saying about the president, what hayden was saying about the president. so he said he was a little bit fed up and started tweeting. hayden pushed back saying he wasnt criticizing the president but matsy in an interview just a short time ago said this about that. >> there was a very direct criticism he made which is he joked about the president insisting on using a blackberry after he came into office. he was implying t...

Trust between allies and their partners and the white house certainly in a position now where they have to do some damage control. jim acosta has all the angles. >> this morning they all emerged unanimous. saying that reports of u.s. spying on their leaders jeopardizes u.s.-europe relations and even the fight against terrorism. germs chancellor angela merkel who spoke with obama on wednesday after reports her personal cell phone was tap the joined her french counterpart to call for talks with th...

every day about 1.5 million americans board airplanes. this morning they have a big question. is it safe to fly? no doubt theres good reason for that concern. this new plot centered around a nonmetallic explosive designed to slip through airport detectors similar to a bomb aboard a flight in 2009. a malfunction may be the only reason those passengers survived. the latest plot also targeted an international flight coming into the united states. that was foiled two weeks ago. the investi...