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Demanding their view to be heard. the guy or the gal whos the national security advisor in the past has been the balancing act between all of those to bring about matters of national security so that voice has to be a calming one and take into all considerations from a variety of governmental resources. you bring a guy with an intelligence background into the job who is very good with tactical intelligence and supporting kpla ining commanderl be stressed in that kind of environment but he will b...

All cabinet members and appointees have to submit their resignation when the president leaves. thats a requirement by law. but mr. clapper, general clapper, has been in government service and the intelligence community for a very, very long time and hes tired and i think he also said in his statement that he didnt want to work one day past that transition office so i think general clapper is sending a signal that transitions and naming members of transition teams go way beyond just naming the na...

He is a former cia operative. bob, they are using the word glitch. every headline has glitch with quotes around it. is it a glitch or something more? >> i think they are calling it a bit early. they will need forensics people to get into the operating system and tell us. i dont trust it yet. it could have been a glitch. it could have been a coincidence, these three sites going down. who knows? whats important is how vulnerable we are to a massive computer failure. the chinese and russians for in...

Events it would be valuable. it is not as scary as it sounds. the deeper you get the less frightening because of the randomness of selecting the numbers. general clapper when asked under oath didnt tell the truth rather than using a less polite word. a lot of people feel we are being lied to and it isnt valuable and violates the fourth amendment and that is one of my favorite amendments. >> andrea you heard sandra talking about some criticizing rand paul among them john mccain saying he is uses ...

Earlier i spoke with senator john mccain, one of the chief critics on the presidents policies on iraq and what he thinks the administration should now do. >> tell me what you see as the existent shal threat to the american home laland for what i happening in iraq? >> our director of national intelligence, general clapper, already said that what is happen beinging of this area of syria, iraq which has now been dramatically expanded and also now financially enriched, does pose a threat for attacks...

Including our ied detection devic devices. very damaging to our national security. so the nsa part i think is only about 2% of the total amount of snowden drew down. so even if that were true, again, nsa is a small part of the damage that snowden has done. but i think what general clapper was saying is -- i just think that thats a -- its really -- intelligence is supposed to be kept secret. thats just part of the survival of the government. thats why we have representative democracy, why we have...

Nothing there? >> the senators, sir, im not the one who wrote this letter, these are the senators on the committee who are upset about this. >> but if you look at the actual work product of the committee they dont agree with the thrust of that letter. the work product of the committee, debunks for the third time, the conspiracy theory is hard to believe to begin with. megyn, you would have to believe that general petraeus was lying, that director morrell was lying, and general clapper was lying,...

>> does the n.s.a. collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of americans? >> no, sir. >> it does not? >> not wittingly. >> see now, general clapper was told in advance that that question was coming. >> awkward -- >> the truthful answer would have been, senator, im not able to answer that question in public. but to answer lying as he did has caused members of congress from both parties to suggest that he should be indicted for perjury. lying under oath before congress i...

You have other gop members of the house and calling for an investigation into clappers comments. as for snowden however, even the mostardent critics of spying are not arguing for him to be released out. bernie sanders said maybe a plea bargain to acknowledge the things we revealed, but even he believes that snowden broke his oath and should serve a penalty. >> hes going to be joining me later in "the situation room." thanks very much. good to have you back. a man who served as a top lawyer for t...

Justifying it before they get it. >> its not just a lib cal democrat. hes an independent really, but caucuses with the democrats. rand paul, the conservative republican senator is outspoken and i want to play what he said over the weekend. >> personally he would come home for some penalty of a few years in prison which is not unlike what james clapper said together would become further enlightened as a country over what we should and should not do. >> general clapper is in charge and should be i...