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Wikileaks as a nonnation state intelligence service. >> unpack that more. are you saying julian assange is not a journalist? >> youre asking the wrong guy a question about that. absolutely not. >> reasonable people in the american debate are worried when they hear people in the ic talk about something that sounds like it was just information. im obviously highly skeptical of mr. assange and ive been pushing the justice department to ask why we have not been taking steps to prosecute him for part...

Sessions recusal is hardly eough. demanding that he resign. >> the fact that the attorney general, the top cop in our country, lied under oath to the american people is grounds for him to resign. >> reporter: senate democratic leader chuck schumer wouldnt say if sessions committed perjury, but called for a special prosecutor. >> it would have of alice and wonder land quality if this administration were to sanction him to investigate himself. >> reporter: but house speaker paul ryan rejected call...

An a special prosecutor -- >> you have to protect the sources and methods of our intelligence gathering capabilities, especially with adversaries like russia. thats why the committee of jurisdiction which is supposed to protect those methodologies should be the intelligence committee. so you know, manu, theyve been doing an investigation for some time now. they just recently added more scope to that investigation on a bipartisan basis. so you have adam schiff, the ranking member, devin nunes, th...

Second of all, my own view is you have a check the sources and the methods of our intelligence capabilities, especially with adversaries like russia. that is why the community stomach committee of jurisdiction should be the intelligence committee. just so you know, theyve been doing an investigation for some time now. they just recently added more scope to that investigation on a bipartisan basis. so you have the ranking member, the chairman agreed to the scope of an investigation going forward,...

Special prosecutor -- >> first of all, we dont have that law -- >> reporter: but you could pass a law -- >> you have to protect the sources and methods of our intelligence gathering communities, especially with sad ver s -- adversaries like russia. just so you know, manu, theyve been doing an investigation for some time now. they just recently added more scope to that investigation on a bipartisan basis. you have adam schiff, the ranking member, devon nunnes, the chairman, agreed to an investiga...

Really fascinating. what were now learning the u.s. had this man, abu sayyaf not his real name we dont know his real name yet, they had him under surveillance since march in eastern syria. this mission had been planned for some time we were told, they were watching him, knew his pattern of life knew his movements. when they took off in their helicopters and made their way to that area they knew at that time he would be there when they got there. they had to blast a hole in one of the walls of th...

Him in that firefight. his wife undergoing interrogation, think about this little piece of information right in front of all of us the u.s. able to monday der someone inside syria where presumably we have no intelligence assets since march. anderson? >> i told you, american hostages who were being held or have been held in syria, is there any sense of whether this isis target was connected to them all the reports are that he was some sort of a financier. he was the so-called oil and gas guy of i...

Al bag gaed detained by security officials as they tried to cross from lebanon into syria. cnns nic robertson is live. nic, what do we know about the capture? >> reporter: well, lebanese officials believe they have captured one of al baghdadis wives. a 4-year-old son as well taken with the wife. in an operation that had been planned for a number of weeks, for about a month, it had been in the planning. involving both iraqi, syrian and we understand as well lebanese intelligence assets. were also...

Days that this is coming. were already seeing them move their high value assets. the scuds, the chemical weapons facilities. theyre moving them into areas that were not going to hit. theyre going to put them near hospitals, schools, civilian residential areas. >> so even if we have an idea what were aiming for, theyre hard to get at. but let me ask you one other part about the intelligence of this. all of this is being based on the idea of intelligence gathering and what we can know about whats ...

Edward snowden, lets bring in senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin and congressman king, chairman of the house committee. congressman king, could he have wiretapped the president if he wanted to? this guy claims to have extensive wiretapping access all the way to the top of the food chain. he said, if he wanted to, he could wiretap the president. is that true? >> no. and so much he said is untrue. this guy is dangerous to the country. he had, i think, real questions as to why he left the cia. the...