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>> joining me to discuss, juliet kayyem, a cnn national security analyst and former assistant secretary at the department of homeland security and military analyst, retired general james "spider" marks. good to see both of you. general, you predicted this over recent months, that this potentially could happen. what went wrong here? u.s. intel or something else? >> its a combination, obviously. what we dont have on the ground in afghanistan anymore is a robust connection, a network of intelligenc...

  The US Department of Defense is planning to withdraw most support for CIA counter-terror missions by the beginning of next year, in a move expected to have a broad effect on the scope of the intelligence agency’s paramilitary operations, a senior defense official and former senior administration official with direct knowledge of the move told CNN. Reportedly, Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller informed CIA Director Gina Haspel of the decision in a letter. The same report said Bid...

Authorities evacuated 700 people by water overnight. at least 60 reported dead thus far. the most deadly fire to hit greece in more than a decade. still going on now. >> julie: fox news alert. secretary of state mike pompeo set to testify on capitol hill tomorrow about president trumps summits with russian president vladimir putin and north korean leader kim jong-un as new satellite images suggest north korea has begun dismantling a missile engine test site. a possible sign kim is looking to mak...

In that amount of time. so economic solutions, depend t diplomatic solutions can be put in place, but theyre not going to be sufficiently aggressive in a truncated amount of time for the united states to, quote, take care of it. what were doing is were monitoring it, were watching it, were developing our anti-missile capabilities, our terminal high air altitude capabilities are quite aggressive and quite good, and we can monitor these shots. we can see them when they launch at night. weve got th...

Credibility matters. lets start with the letter, "a." do you believe the intelligence that kicked this thing off today? >> you know, i have seen several escalations of, you know, rhetoric like this that occurred over the last 25 years. most notably, the run up to the war in iraq. it always starts off with intelligence, and this particular intelligence ae ses emt we have seen in "the post" today is peculiar because six months ago the assessment was that north korea wouldnt miniatuize that warhead...

That north korea wouldnt miniaturize that warhead for two years, and then that was accelerated to early next year. now we are at zero hour where they believe it has already been done. this came from defense intelligence agency. their principle collection of process will be imagery intelligence. its possible north korea may have done this, and they have very good intelligence. its also possible north korea may have placed in their line of sight, imagery which would or, you know, a device which co...

Thought that they could miniaturize it this much. now the opinion seems to be shifting there, >> thank you, very much tom tore foreman. general, you have spent a lot of time in south korea and you spent a lot of time in intelligence. how good is american intelligence in terms of assessing what north korea can and cant do right now? is it completely opaque, or is it possible theres been a break threw a through and the information is much more accurate? >> i doubt theres been a significant breakth...

Jeremy bash, former chief of staff at the cia and the pentagon. jeremy, we talked about this and none of us have seen anything hike this. this is the consequences of when the world gets serious meeting to communicate seriously as a white house and as a country, what did you make of it and how, perhaps, it had been born? >> here is what happened. monday morning, in the binder, there was imagery intelligence. aircraft of the assad regime in. our spots allies cannot tell exactly what was happening ...

History of denying attacks and history of saying theyre fabricated and in this particular case not only is there imagery or what we call imagery intelligence of the attack and the victims of the attack, but there was reports yesterday we have intercepted communications between syrian officials about the preparations for the attack. that was coming out in reports yesterday. >> and evidence that sarin gas was used. >> exactly. this case not one smoking gun, seems there are a few pieces weve put to...

Engaged. parliament restricted kind of engagement british forces can have against isis in syria, that is. i think well see more action. jenna, the other interesting thing about the story, the nature of intelligence. this is very precise intelligence. these two guys and one other traveling in a car in raca. you can imagine how difficult it is to come up with that kind of intelligence. the question is who did it? was it british intelligence in which case you hope they share with others and if it w...