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Right, there can be disagreements, its an art, not a science and all that kind of stuff. but the danger in undermining it is when you need it and you go to the american people and say we have imminent reason north korea going to launch a nuke, we can do preimminent attacks, i thought you didnt trust intelligence, how do you know this? im excite today support the president-elect when i can. were going to have a great domestic agenda but this is a concern and ill continue to be outspoken on. >> yo...

Can do without any oversight from the u.s. governmnt. >> this is not nsa breaking into any databases. it would be illegal for us to do that. >> reporter: as did a written statement from the nsa to cnn saying the assertion that we collect vast quantities of u.s. persons data from this type of collection is not true. but the nsa did not deny it accesses lunks between the service or communications of foreigners carried on those links. reaction from google and yahoo! was swift and angry. we have lon...

Any databases. it would be illegal for us to do that. >> reporter: a written statement from nsa to cnn, the assertion that we collect vast quantities of u.s. persons data from this type of collection is not true. but the nsa did not deny it access links between the service or reaction from google and yeah yahoo! was swift and angry. we have long been concerned about the possibility which is why we continue to extend encryption against more and more services and links. yahoo! said we have not giv...

Government. the nsa chief delivered a partial denial. >> this is not nsa breaking into any databases. it would be illegal for us to do that. >> reporter: as did a written statement from nsa to cnn saying "the assertion that we collect vast quantities of u.s. persons data from this type of collection is not true" but the nsa did not deny it accesses links between the servers or communications of foreigners carried on those links. reaction from google and yahoo! was swift and angry. "we have long ...

Access to the nsa or any other government agency. two european delegations upset at allegations of nsa surveillance in their countries met face to face with the white house and the nsa chief. who told them all nsa intel gathering in europe is done in collaboration with european intel agencies. so i asked them, does that make the europeans hypocritical for criticizing the u.s.? >> if we want to get to the truth of why there was mass surveillance, we have a set of allegations that talks about mass...

Snowden, that perhaps the u.s. needs to preemptively start reaching out to some of these countries to warn them this is the information that was in these documents and we apologize but now its public, can we mend fences still? >> i think its exactly what were doing. youve seen washington go out to countries bordering iran and china and telling them that you people are hosting platforms against china and iran. these may come out in the snowden documents. were sorry. well do the best we can. truly...

They say that questioning could take weeks just to prepare the questions that are needed, and months before the intel gathering is completed. he said ultimately that the suspect would be entitled to a habeas hearing with appointment of capture, takes place within usually 30 days of capture, and that is the fairest way to go. ill give it to you on that, jay. >> i think hes right. i dont think its grandstanding. i disagree with my friend julian on that. senator graham is also a lieutenant colonel,...

Throws of it. but catching everybody by surprise, both the afghan national forces and the international security forces who have largely handed over a lot of responsibility for afghan security to exactly them. this is a real test. it is a test. the fact they were compot by surprise shows there are definitely gaps in the intel gathering. >> gregg: if its going on that many hours, big gap. stay safe. live in kabul, afghanistan. thanks very much. >> heather: from big gaps to big developments in the...

Hes trying to release a memo that the justice department doesnt want released, that the fbi doesnt want released, that nobody wants released except -- wait for it, wait for it, wait for it -- the russians! the russians are actually with the russian bots going hashtag #releasethememo while donald trumps justice department is saying, if you roo he lease this memo, the contents you dont even know about, you will damage united states intel gathering. and yet devin nunes is not listening to justice, ...

Members names in that intel gathering. the fact is its not unusual for a national security advisor to request the unmasking of identities and this is important. unmasking those identities to the national security advisor is not the same thing as leaking those names to the press. more importantly this is, of course, a distraction from the core investigation into trump associates and their contact with russians. evan perez is in washington. the facts dont support the narrative the president is pus...