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Talks about them slowing the efforts at the white house policy people and the state department, resisting efforts to evacuate and being urged by this brigadier general sullivan at a time when ten districts were falling per day to get their act together and start to evacuate people and have a plan. so what happened here? >> martha, we saw it in real time. theres several hundred people that were trying to get out of afghanistan. it was clear to me that the enter agency process was broken on the gr...

Can launch cyber attacks against our adversaries. our corporate cousins at the "wall street journal" broke this story. it would be the latest reversal of policy that his predecessor, president obama, put into place. the national security correspondent jennifer griffin with the news live at the pentagon. jennifer? >> shepard, senior defense officials would not comment on the record to me but told me much of what is described in the "wall street journal" piece will be address you had in the pentag...

Something this significant. the enter agency process is critical, but here is another thing that has come out in this process that didnt quite come out today, and i believe it should have. were pressuring north korea but for what? what is our objective? if our objective is what some have said, which is theyve got to give up their nuclear weapons and missile programs, well, thats probably not an achooefbl objective, not by pressure, not by diplomacy. and maybe my general warfare on the korean pen...

Internal match nations were, what they were looking at, maybe they were trying to do some additional verifications. i just dont know. at the end of the day, he felt like his credibility had been obviously damaged and general flynn, who served our country with great distinction and handily was beginning to set up the enter agency process in the way it should. but, look, he made a mistake, mistake in judgment. he resigned, now were moving on. again, i dont want to dismiss the fact that i think it ...

With great distinction and handily was beginning to set up the enter agency process in the way it should. but, look, he made a mistake, mistake in judgment. he resigned, now were moving on. again, i dont want to dismiss the fact that i think it will be very useful for us to understand what that relationship was and i think this whole russia situation in every regard relative to elections and everything else, we should know fully whats occurred and get it aired and it should be done in the best w...

Little -- we need to understand the process within the bureaucracy before you judge it. one last thing i want to say, a very important point, theres an enter agency process. another key piece where you are not e-mailing directly the secretary, you are actually, as when i was ambassador, interacting with the national security council, and my colleagues at the pentagon to deal with policy issues. >> ambassador pickering, your investigation and report was the one that specified -- >> let me make on...

>> based on input from the state department. >> heres what i have been saying -- >> do you deny that? no im answered this self times, and there was an enter agency process, which is always the case because a lot of agencies have a stake in a matter like this, the investigative agency, the cia, intelligence agencies, the state department, the national security staff, and everybody provided information and comment, and then on saturday morning the cia said were going to take a crack at forecasting...

Administration does regularly in both parties, and as i said at the top this is not a replacement for this briefing and thats why im take your questions. >> how too you go from a conversation happening between various administration officials, very area is officials, on september 14th, and in the e-mail and that e-mail exchange theres a discussion about a group -- al sharia, and the references to the group are removed from the conversation and dont make theyre way into a talking point that is no...

That concern was expressed in other quarters, not just the state department. >> concern about giving members of congress something to use against the state department. >> well, again, this was a process where there was an effort underway, an enter agency process, to develop information that could be delivered by government officials, both congressional andded a administration officials, before the what we knew and not going beyond what we knew. so, the assertions that -- >> thats -- the language...

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