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But without the kind of mobilizing direction that typically you have, and which is necessary in the executive branch, until the president and the white house raise the flag and say, charge forward, and point in a direction, the whole executive branch does not operate that way. people can do their jobs but theres not this coordination that you need in a world where youre dealing with adversaries who are very well-coordinated. one thing about the russians, they always know in a meeting what they w...

Swat this back. when i say my government, i mean my president of the united states of america, when he just said last night america is no longer under attack, im sorry, im an american and im under attack by vladimir putin right now. so i hope hell stand up. and man of steel. here at the aspen security conference, the fbi director does not deny that he threatened to resign, during an interview with lester holt. >> have you ever hit a point on that issue of sources or methods or anything else wh...

Jeremy would agree im sure, theyll get up and do their job every day, but it has to be puzzling to them and has to make them wonder what impact theyre actually having with the intelligence theyre generating. >> isnt one of the problems that there was a one-on-one meeting, which is not unprecedented but is very unusual in this context, brief meetings, obama one on one telling putin, back off, we know youre meddling, completely appropriate. but this was two hours, with no note-takers, only transla...

Several people who were in a position to help her. its alleged she was in contact with a central bank official, who was talking about her as if she was part of a secret network, and they even joked about anna chapman, who was a member of an illegals network that was rolled up and traded back to russia. its a fascinating case. it just shows how -- pardon the allegations, how aggressive russian intelligence has been under vladimir putin, in trying to hit the weak points of vulnerability in our cou...

Helsinki, there wasnt an intelligence briefing on the presidents public schedule for the first couple of days. did he have one on his schedule today? >> reporter: he does have an intelligence briefing on his schedule today, andrea. thats closed to press. he does have that on his schedule today. >> good to know. thank you very much, kristen welker. of course thanks to jeremy bash and john mclaughlin here with me at aspen. at 3:35 eastern this afternoon, right here at the aspen security forum, ill...

An effort to try to discredit me, discredit president obama. but of course it didnt work, and in fact backfired because everybody could see that it was the first foray into this really aggressive use of social media that they later perfected in the 2016 election. >> you also as nato ambassador certainly experienced a lot of the ups and downs of nato expansion and putins objections to it. here putin apparently engaged the president, perhaps in that two-hour private conversation, about montenegro ...

Jeremy, who in the u.s. government knows what went on in that one on one? because vladimir putin is spinning it today in moscow. >> nobody knows other than the president. on a bipartisan basis, we should want to know what the united states position is vis-à-vis russia. to your question, ive been talking to intelligence professionals, ive been talking also to leadership of nato intelligence agencies, some of whom were here at this conference. they basically are saying, were working together, wer...

All of the criticism of peter strzok that we saw, you know, from republicans at that hearing and gosh knows he was controversial, he, for a decade, was in charge of this big counterintelligence operation against a canadian, a russian couple, through canada, went to harvard, who were the models for the americans. >> a number of models that the russian intelligence services have for decades open rate e s they call their illegals network. people who were not officially connected with the russian em...

White house correspondent jeremy bash. and msnbc global affairs analyst john mclaughlin, acting cia director. kristen, the mixed messages from the president continuing. sarah sanders trying to say yesterday that the president wasnt saying that he believed russian intelligence, even though he said that, and another interview with cbs where he for the first time came down hard on vladimir putin. what are we to make of all of this and what is the intelligence community to make of all of it? >> repo...