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People plus all of the injured people that they can get that are quality soldiers from any of these other out of area operations or from belarus. >> i would say thats a concern because they will become even more desperate in the future and thats why the use of chemical weapons or other weapons of mass destruction could be utilized. and thats a concern. >> i mean, look, this is all a product of failure, right? vladimir putin has failed, his own spokesman made that point to christiane amanpour thi...

Amid speculation the Russian dictator is off the rails, a longtime observer suggests Vlad is the same vicious risk-taker he’s always been.

Independents, plibertarians, everybody. do you think these lawmakers understand now just how much there is to lose if voting rights arent protected? >> oh, let me say something. if they dont understand, let me tell them to reflect on this. and that is you could lose our democracy. let me explain to them that as it was explained to me by retired general clapper. our adversaries, primarily china and the russians, are hoping that these two bills dont pass. they would love to see the collapse of our...

Democrats -- its not just democrats youre protecting the voting rights. its republicans, independents, libertarians, everybody. do you think these lawmakers understand now just how much there is to lose if voting rights arent protected? >> oh, let me tell you something. if they dont understand, let me tell them to reflect on this. and that is you could lose our democracy. let me explain to them that as it was explained to me by retired general clapper. our adversaries, primarily china and the ru...

About taking over taiwan as part of their, you know, bring it back into china. theyre really making sure that they can go ahead and take over what the chinese nationalists have had since the late 1940s and what theyre also doing is theyre making sure that civil liberties in hong kong are being curtailed. so you have three things going on, on the open side of things. and then beneath all of that you have a big cyber war thats going on between china and the united states. and all of that speaks to...

Welcome back. moments from now, bill taylor and george kent, two men at the center of todays impeachment hearing, they are expected to arrive on capitol hill. meanwhile, "the washington post" is reporting that two giuliani associates, lev parnas and igor fruman, both indicted, met with president trump at an exclusive event in april of 2018 and then pressured the president to fire the then-u.s. ambassador to ukraine, marie yovanovitch. joining us now, the former director of national intelligence,...

Theyll be streaming it. people will watch it on their iphones. >> are we getting 10 million, 15 million, 30 million? i think there is that question. but i think, for sure, when you see credible diplomats that have served this country for decades coming before the congress and saying this was a bribery scheme that the president was engaged in and not only engaged in this scheme but trying to involve scores of administration officials from the state department, the diplomatic corps, the white hous...

This was donald trump who created the lock her up chants with hillary clinton. maybe theres lessons that if >> that was a press conference hes going to incite him in one at the pentagon about this raid way, it going to come back and that killed abu bakral b aal bite him in another. im sure that was a very humiliating and awkward moment for the first lady and for the baghdadi, the head of isis. president. >> it seemed that the nats, whoever put together the montages tried to soften it by we heard...

Eliminate their land holding. and as the director mentioned earlier, the isis philosophy isnt going away. and in some cases, theyll seek some revenge here. all of that was important. and you could not have done it without those kurdish forces. and all of that information that gets collected across all of syria in that battlefield feeds back to a place that likely contributed to this successful event. and you cant do it without those allies, of which, candidly, we just walked away from. >> the wh...

But its certainly not inconsistent with the presidents consistent deference to russia and hes constantly looking for opportunities to heap praise on them. so i dont find that surprising. i suspect -- because we dont know exactly the specific technical details of what led to this. typically theres long buildup of gathering, correlating lots of bits and pieces, as chairman rogers indicated, over a period of time. and im quite confident that our being on the ground and sharing tactical intelligence...