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Pushed back on the president. and another insider book is coming out. we just cant tell you the authors name. 1950s film strip. before we get into politics, what is russian assets and how do we know one when we see one. im not making any >> right. so an asset in intel speak is predictions, but i think theyve got their eye on somebody whos currently in the democratic primer and are grooming her the third-party candidate. shes the favorite of the all of it as we get under way on russians. a tues...

Compelling one for the president of the united states? there have been indications over the weekend the president open to rethinking certain elements of this. do you see this situation changing right now? >> adam: you know, look, i hope its compelling. to say im just going to go to europe, it its your peer that is the continent we freed from germany. we have all the industrial capacity because we inherit a lot after world war ii. that is a benefit to us. i hope there is an understanding this was...

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Terrorist activities in afghanistan. so at the beginning of the investigation we just started talking to everybody we could talk to to gather intel on haji bagcho. >> deas bread and butter is human intelligence. thats how we do narcotics cases domestically and how we do them overseas. that is what dea brings to the war on terror. but the taliban was regaining a foothold in the more rural communities that made it more difficult for us to move around and operate. we had to be much more careful. we...

Has not received a full briefing. it should, because theres a lot of evidence we need. and the main point is the president must come to congress for authorization before he pursues military force. >> do you think iran was responsible? >> theres a lot of evidence that points toward iran as being responsible, in one way or another. out of furnishing the arms that were used, possibly even launching the missiles or drones, but we need to act, if we do militarily, as a last resort. we need to pursue ...

Government, they couldnt have obtained any other way. key information about the russian attack on the 2016 election including specific documentation showing that putin himself ordered the election attack, signed off on it and that it was specifically intended to try to install trump in the white house. that is not putin-specific information youll get out of signals intelligence. that was human intelligence that u.s. agencies got from a human source inside the russian government. so the fact that...

Intelligence, human intelligence to be sure youre right. number two, you want to aappropriate ate all of the intelligence out of the operation. conducting and planning it, you learn things about al qaeda before you take the strike. you want to be sure youve taken advantage of all of the other intelligence and post strike, youre listening to what al qaeda communicates back and forth, what theyre saying. that might give you opportunities you didnt know you had in terms of disrupting operations in ...

Assets, those covert assets will damage his relationships with foreign leaders, and essentially he doesnt trust the intelligence. i mean thats -- it is -- assuming that is true, that seems to be a remarkable breach from -- i mean thats what -- you know, thats what overseas operatives for the cia do. >> its crazy. anderson, call it what it is. its crazy. >> yes. >> okay? our adversaries are using espionage, including human intelligence assets against us every day. for the united states to unilate...

Reporting that president trump has privately and repeatedly expressed opposition to the use of foreign intelligence from covert sources overseas according to multiple senior officials who served under the president. he reportedly fears those assets, those covert assets will damage his relationships with foreign leaders, and essentially he doesnt trust the intelligence. i mean thats -- it is -- assuming that is true, that seems to be a remarkable breach from -- i mean thats what -- you know, that...

Before trump was president. it is more egregious than what nbc had done which was correspondence to this guys story. that -- >> how did they find that out? that is the issue here. >> it could be a leak, whether it is a justice department investigation. shannon: should there be? there are calls for that. >> human intelligence is the most fragile component because it deals with humans and families as well. when youre dealing with an asset in a place like russia, you have consideration for what fam...