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Information that was really owned by the united states and for the president to share this information had come from one of our partners based on the reporting in the region and also based on the reporting, it was highly sensitive information that came from an espionage operation. based on my decade of covering this area, that is code for a human source or human spying. those were among the most delicate and likely to be compromised, martha. >> martha: thank you very much. we will go back to cat...

Medical advisory group those kind of advisory groups are very common to any campaign and to suggest russian -- >> so how could carter page be second name onto list. >> i dont think any of the panelists have suggested but it sounds to me what steve is saying they recruit a lot of people an encourage them to get involved in various campaigns because theres absolutely positively no way anyone would have guessed donald trump would have been a presidential contender in 2013 and even march 2016 no one...

Seen it framed before about how think dont innovate. do people in russia understand that people are walking around carrying chinese products, american products, products invented in the united states, and not one thing, we dont have one thing from russia that is commonly carried or used by people throughout the world. >> im not sure it matters, and i have a problem with the way the president talked about that. maybe they do have a shrinking gdp, but they just launched the most successful espiona...

Do people in russia understand that people are walking around carrying chinese products, american products, products invented in the united states, and not one thing, we dont have one thing from russia that is commonly carried or used by people throughout the world. >> im not sure it matters, and i have a problem with the way the president talked about that. maybe they do have a shrinking gdp, but they just launched the most successful espionage operation since the rosenbergs. starting with the ...

>> right. that last news conference, literally, 140 days ago. you mentioned the last news conference. he talked about it a fair amount on the campaign trail. heres just a bit of a sound mash-up, if you will, of him talking about the hacking. take a listen. >> hillary clinton was sending highly classified information through her maid. this just came out. wikileaks. you know, they said about hillary, shes got bad instincts. you know who said that? podesta. you didnt know there was a thing called w...

Running an espionage operation, is not the same as getting the policy approval for a covert action. which is a policy measure. the e because this was presented as a malter of intelligence collection,it circumvented the usual covert action approval procedures and circumvented the secretary of state. >> did it go through the proper procedures for being an intelligence collection measure? >> those procedures are really very simple. its that the intelligence agency decides it wants to do it. if its ...

Approval for doing an intelligence collection like running an espionage operation is not the same as getting the policy approval for a covert action which is a policy measure. because this was presented as a matters of intelligence collection it circumvented the usual covert action approveal procedures and circumvented the secretary of state. >> did go through the proper procedures for being an intelligence collection measure? >> those procedures are very simple. the intelligence agency decides ...

To the state department. theres this one very damning line in the torture report where, basically, an tern e internal c.i.a. memo it says the white house says that colin powell should not be briefed about these things. hell blow his stack if he is briefed. is it your sense that the state department department have the opportunity to opt out of knowing this information in the same way that other senior people of the administration did? >> thats fair. there e theres a technical point e point that ...

The man got rid of a backpack, fireworks and laptop computer after seeing fbi images of tsarnaev. his lawyer says his clients roommate removed those items. >> reuters is reporting the cia was involved in a espionage operation against germany that led to the arrest of a german man last week. the 31-year-old suspect is an employee of germans foreign intelligence service. obama administration relations with germany are already frosty following revelations of u.s. eavesdropping on chancellor angela ...

Peoples liberation army has more than 2 million personnel. but its the thousand or so in this nondescript building in shanghai that may pose the biggest threat to the u.s. this is the headquarters of the armys secretive unit number 61398 where, according to the new report, english speaking computer experts spend their days stealing secrets from u.s. companies and hacking into government sites. >> this is an espionage operation targeting a broad swath of western organizations. >> reporter: among ...