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And of course the lack everof ability to cross-examine in-did not deter. they promoted the idea that it undermined the russia probe. the memo itself promoted that type of thinking. and in its introduction, it claimed to evidence a breakdown of the legal processes established to protect americans. but that is not what the memo showed. it sought to politically resurrect the importance of carter page, an individual the president and his campaign had gone to great lengths to diminish. the key claim ...

Deter. they promoted the idea that it undermined the russia probe. the memo itself promoted that type of thinking. and in its introduction, it claimed to evidence a breakdown of the legal processes established to protect americans. but that is not what the memo showed. it sought to politically resurrect the importance of carter page, an individual the president and his campaign had gone to great lengths to diminish. the key claim was that page was surveilled initially based on a fisa court order...

Rampage and what needs to be done to crush radical ideology, to discuss former member of the israeli special counteroperations terrorism unit erin cohen. good to see you here, im going to start out what americans are worried about, what should our officials here in the u.s. be doing so that terror does not strike between now and christmas? >> well, theres no way to stop terrorism, we havent been able to stop but can slow it down, slow it down by cranking up intel gathering, intelligence is the m...

Sharing information with the russians. now its been widely reported that the president shared information with a couple of senior russian officials in that oval office meeting after he became president, but "vanity fair" is reporting even before he took office the cia actually warned israeli intel officials saying that they had come to believe putin had leverage over trump. how damaging is this to intel gathering and cooperation? >> clearly the administration, even before it took office, did not...

Your last thoughts. >> i think you have to see what president trump said. he said this is the extra step and hes talking about a more consistent court fight that he will push. i think when you look at all of the policies, intel gathering, all of things trump wants to do to make sure where vigilant, all of this makes sense when you look at whats happening in europe. >> thank you very much for your time. we appreciate it. >> former fbi director james comey is set to testify on capitol hill. after ...

Your last thoughts. >> i think you have to see what president trump said. he said this is the extra step and hes talking about a more consistent court fight that he will push. i think when you look at all of the policies, intel gathering, all of things trump wants to do to make sure where vigilant, all of this makes sense when you look at whats happening in europe. >> thank you very much for your time. we appreciate it. >> former fbi director james comey is set to testify on capitol hill. after ...

Damaging. >> and could you talk a little bit about the relationship between that, particularly intel gathering on legislators, and the interface with propaganda campaigns such as you say russia -- ive heard you testify in other places about russias activity among their near neighbors. whats the relationship between propaganda and direct intel gathering? >> you know, on the part of the russians? >> yeah. >> they would certainly use that as they have and the examples of that in places like georgia...

Damaging. >> and could you talk a little bit about the relationship between that particular intel gathering on legislators, and the interface with problem began do campaigns such as you say, russia? ive hea you testify in other places of russias activity among their mere neighbors. whats the relationship between propaganda and direct intel gathering? >> you mean on the part of the russians? >> yeah. among their neighbors. >> well, they would certainly use that as they have in the examples of tha...

Ever since putin engaged and started his bombing campaign into syria back in october of 2015. of course we know that isis and its affiliate in egypt was responsible for bringing down the metrojet airliner in 2015. >> russia has been a significant target. i want to turn to our other big story tonight. multiple reports that the national security advisor susan rice under president obama requested the unmasking of trump associates names picked up in intel gathering. incidental pick ups of non-u.s. c...

Task based on good target analysis, good intelligence, lots of rehearsals. this is not fly by night operations were going to be cavalier about it. this will be very precise. >> this is good news for those that dont want to have to take the time to run everything up the flag pole if time is of the essence but its hard not to see this now in the context of the yemen raid which obviously the white house says was a great success in terms of intel gathering. other people questioned whether in fact it...