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Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. House and some speculations as to whether or not or how much the president knew that these individuals were fact making these specific statements. How much would he have been known of the exact wording that came out of these officials . Well, the Administration Says it was the president s idea. He very much wanted them to come out but it is unprecedenteunpre. We never seen anything like it. It was clearly aimed sending a me...

Would happen in the event he try it. so i just think theres a dam thats going to break there at some point, and it will be a great danger to him in terms of his power. >> well, when that does happen, if that does happen, well have you back. we appreciate having you on. thank you very much, director mclaughlin. we really appreciate it. >> thank you, don. good to be with you. >> thanks. ukrainian civilians doing anything they can to defend their country, taking up arms, delivering food, even as ...

Mix and i will do it again. >> director mclaughlin, let me pick off on the points that christopher just raised. explain to us anybody who ran an agency, why the presidents message is more important than a specific order. what if hes behind closed doors as we heard from officials that the president has directed us to do x, y, and z, why should we be so concerned of what hes saying in public? >> well, first, eamon, we dont know what the president said to get that conference underway. and, i think ...

Other than the north korea link than the russia bank? >> it is a good thing to do and reenforces there is a sense of two separate governments working here. officials who carry out these steps which are all well-advised and the president who seems to be giving a different message entirety and under cutting the effects of it. putin will hear about the sanctions but hes also hearing from the president of what he says. i have been told the by the russians that sometimes these strengthen him. >> i am...

Attacking the press. chris, whats your level of confidence of any attempt of interference can be blocked this late in the game so to speak? >> yagain, i think some good things going on. chris wray talked about some of those efforts. we heard from the deputy in aspen last week, my confidence were pretty low that theyll be able to block it. we dont have the top level officials of the white house coordinating all these efforts. you will recall that national security adviser bolton got rid of this c...

Level. the worry is the adversary has the capability to do that, so you have to monitor their intentions very carefully. >> a republican has stepped up tonight on the pages of the "the new york times" at risk to his political career. hes actually one of your former employees. congressman will herd, a republican from texas, a former cia officer who has written this piece for "the new york times" and here is his lead paragraph. over the course of my career as an under cover officer in the cia i sa...

Tonight on the pages of the "the new york times" at risk to his political career. hes actually one of your former employees. congressman will herd, a republican from texas, a former cia officer who has written this piece for "the new york times" and here is his lead paragraph. over the course of my career as an under cover officer in the cia i saw russian intelligence manipulate many people. i never thought i would see the day when an american president would be one of them. director mclaughlin,...

I saw russian intelligence manipulate many people. i never thought i would see the day when an american president would be one of them. director mclaughlin, do you share that assessment? >> i do, brian. i think its a valid fear. we dont know precisely whats happening in this relationship but it certainly looks that way. and good on will herd for stepping up to say it. you know, i think his piece there emblematic of something i was thinking just before coming on air, which is i sense in the last ...

Justice department relationshiped to the committees when they were enthusiastic about it. in addition this program was briefed to the white house. we didnt hide anything here. >> director mclaughlin was talking to talking to andrea mitchell there. andrew andrea andrea, despite what mclaughlin says there appears to be members of the bush administration were kept out. loop at times. >> its unclear. what we have is a paper trail from cia memos but what they dont have con teamtemporaneous interviews...

And developing right now a very busy hour on capitol hill on top of several congressional hearings including hearings on isis and benghazi. were expecting speaker boehner to speak any minute to talk about the bill or he could talk about what everybody else is talking about the torture report. welcome back to the rundown. senate republicans on the intelligence committee say the 500-page report on cia interrogation tactics is flat wrong. it claims that the program never saved american lives. forme...