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Expected and maybe thats the reason rye kim jong un is having a little bit of cold feet when it comes to giving up his program. >> the status quo is worse for north korea than it is the united states. and pompeo, secretary pompeo underscored that by your people, his people, and north korea cannot get enough food. they cant get enough medicine. they are in a terrible situation. he blew up their nuke collar facilities according to reports. they dont so much equipment according to some intelligence...

Defensive briefing. should we call the trump campaign and say, look, lets put it on the table, heres what we know about carter page. you know, they attempted to recruit him at some point. then he ended up coming on to their side. russia tried to recruit him, and he came on to the intelligence side on the u.s. why did they not do that if they were so worried about the infiltration of russia affecting the election why didnt they do that? >> i think thats a very good question. you would think they ...

And there for ten hours a day. ive been out there several times and i spent hours out there. to your more specific question, it was once again in the trade craft. they had a fusion cell that i think theyve talked about, but was that fusion cell isolated? did they have -- go through proper review which any intelligence analysis should and especially something that i know that we can agree on, this is a very important issue. youre saying that one of the candidates for president of the united state...

Crossings and it wont be difficult to actually tell what type of activity is coming across until they actually engage those threats coming across. but again, the national guardsmen will be helping us out in a support role for example up in the air. >> eyes and ears, and youre okay with them, you think it will be okay that they can tell if someone is just trying to cross illegally or if theyre loaded down with marijuana trying to get across. >> again, keep in mind that the national guardsmen will...

News. take it away. >> were going to change subjects and now talk about u.s. officials who say north korea has told the government it is ready to talk about de-nuclearization when kim jong-un and president trump meet. it is not clear what that meeting will look like, whether kim jong-un would get rid of his nuclear program or halt it. but lets take a look at what we know about this secretive program. many experts believe north korea has attained enough material to make anywhere from 10 to 20 nuc...

Sitting in the situation room saying, this is something thats going to march across western europe and march over to our shores and we need to be ready. >> director, we often talk about how president trump hasnt done enough according to the intelligence committee to stop whatever russia is going to do next. do you think that president obama dropped the ball on this? >> i agree that he did not do enough, that he was slow to respond. actually, i think the intelligence folks would tell you they wer...

When testifying before congress about contacts with russian operatives. the sessions was not aware of the investigation when he decided to fire mccabe last friday. last year, several top republican and democratic lawmakers were informed of the probe during a closed-door briefing with deputy attorney general rod rosenstein and mccabe. a sessions personal lawyer said that he is not under investigation and that the special counsel informed him that there was no such investigation. mccabe and the fi...

Just to our investigations, our intelligence analysis, but also have to expand to personal decisions. >> some people commented on the fact it happened 26 hours before he was to retire. >> yeah, i want to be careful what i can say about the process. my commitment to making sure that our process is followed, that it relies on objective input and it is not based on political and partisan influence is something im unyielding on. >> he also suggested in our interview that he was accurate the reports ...

We saw it play out dramatically last weekend. wray says the following. i im going to read this to you rather than play the sound. im committed to doing things objectively and independently by the book. i think it has to extend to our investigations, our intelligence analysis, but also has to extend to personnel decision ands disciplinary decisions. so, i ask you at this moment, do you think that wrich wray is living up to those words? >> i think by and large he is. i havent seen evidence he is...

And so many people at lower levels of the government including heads of cabinets and even in the nsc, share the assessment we heard today about the russian threat. especially the russian threat coming up in the last few months now. but somehow the president of the united states doesnt agree with that assessment, doesnt want to deal with the policy implications that come from that assessment. and that disconnect means that were not doing what i consider very elementary things to protect our vote ...