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But there are many elements of this story including what may be now a lack of resources for the cia for administration coming from inside the putin regime. >> well, i cant comment on those specific allegations. i can tell you that really our mission on the intel committee is to make sure the intelligence committee has the resources it needs to do the difficult human intelligence work. russia is a very hard target. there are other hard targets out there. and we spend a lot time assessing are we a...

Other, we shouldnt be spying on each other. which it seems like a person whos not, you know, too fastidious about moral transgression. i was surprised by that view. >> well, i think thats simply because some of the most important human intelligence thats been handed to him contradicts the way in which he wants to see the world. he was being given intelligence reports giving him definitive proof putin may have been directly overseeing the interference in the 2016 election which led to donald trum...

The thinking and orders from mr. putin. joined now by democratic senator chris murphy. what do you make of all this, senator? >> i think you are exposing a conflict that is in inherent in intelligence gathering. the most important intelligence often ultimately does need to be made public in a way that allows for public policy makers to be able to make decisions. and so in this case it may be that this intelligence about the ways in which russia affected the 2016 election was so important that it...

Cia for administration coming from inside the putin regime. >> well, i cant comment on those specific allegations. i can tell you that really our mission on the intel committee is to make sure the intelligence committee has the resources it needs to do the difficult human intelligence work. russia is a very hard target. there are other hard targets out there. and we spend a lot time assessing are we able to get the information we need? what changes do we need to gmak to get more information? the...

Intelligence, its just any intelligence that contradicts what he wants to believe. and so it especially puts in jeopardy those that are collecting intelligence abroad that ultimately is going to be at odds with trumps world view whether it be in russia or north korea. so i think its likely that both of these scenarios that have been played out as to why the asset was withdrawn could be true. >> i dont normally think the president is sort of virtue ethicist who has bright lines and moral dos and ...

Directly overseeing the interferenhi led to donald trumps election. he was given plenty of intelligence to tell him kim jong-un was indeed really a horrible person not worthy of a face-to-face tete-a-tete with the president but thats not what he wanted to hear. i think it stands to reason he ultimately doubts human intelligence because a lot of the human intelligence hes been getting tells him things that arent interesting to him. >> you tweeted this in the wake of boltons very publicly humiliat...

Often. and often leads to intelligence sources having to be withdrawn or channels shutdown. but i also think it stands to reason that the presidents loose lips about intelligence likely chills our ability to gather this intel abroad as well. and what the president has a problem with is not human intelligence, its just any intelligence that contradicts what he wants to believe. and so it especially puts in jeopardy those that are collecting intelligence abroad that ultimately is going to be at od...

To ask your reaction to the bigger picture story here. one, what loss is this to the u.s., to the u.s. national security agencies and the intelligence community to lose an asset this high in the russian government? >> before i comment on the story, theres more, i think, we need to find out. right now its anonymous sources. im not saying its an incorrect story but ill speak generally to the story which is, look, even our allies spy on us. i read an article recently that said theres more spies per...

Result of this, its going to become even harder to collect human intelligence in russia. it always has been going back to soviet union days because of the oppressive surveillance. if the asset in question, as has been characterized, this is not something youre going to replace in a week or a month or even years. it takes years to recruit and develop a source like this. again, im not confirming or denying anything. >> mm-hmm. i want to move on now. thank you for responding to that reporting. the ...

Then-speaker ryan not to brief hillary clinton. so theres ambient, latent concern even before the president was inaugurated about his attention to protecting sensitive sources and methods. its hard to envision, again not confirming or denying here, a more sensitive source. i also will tell you that as a result of this, its going to become even harder to collect human intelligence in russia. it always has been going back to soviet union days because of the oppressive surveillance. if the asset in...