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And clearly al qaeda has aspirations to attack america, always has. isis-k obviously has aspirations greater than afghanistan. thats why they have fundamental disagreements with the afghan taliban. i dont think they have the wherewithal yet to conduct an attack against america. why would we permit them to acquire it and why we wanted to keep the modest force there. remember, c.i.a. bases were focused on these organizations. al qaeda and isis. that was their primary focus and the intelligence cap...

Will say this. what this wasnt was a failure of intelligence. somebody knew, somebody talked. perhaps it would have been worse without that alert that went out, what, 24 hours ago, about the lack of safety. and indeed the danger at the airport gates. i am wondering how it could have been better, however, based on that tip we had. >> brian i think we talked on tuesday that this was the worst-case scenario, that there could be a terrorist attack of some sort, t airport tt we still have intelligenc...

>> theyre calling the shots but we have some leverage with them as well. after we leave we certainly are going to have an intelligence capability. not as great as it has been. but nonetheless -- and i wont predict this but speculate about it. the taliban may be calling upon our intelligence services to help save them from isis-k and from al qaeda. im not predicting that but they may be in trouble economically and they may be assaulted by extremist groups more extreme than they are. they may have...

Legal challenge if this is how this went down. this is how this is going down. is that in the works? >> like i said, congress is going to use every tool at our disposal. we will pursue this in court. when we return from our recess in a week, i plan to convene a hearing of the military appropriation subcommittee and bring our military leadership in front of our committee and ask them point blank whether they think a border wall is more important than the facilities that we have already funded to ...

Government for several weeks now. there is independent intelligence that the cia is weching into its own assessment here, its own collection efforts. the material gathered by other governments, as well as its profile of mohammed bin salman and the way he operates, and the way an operation like this would have to go down in a system like the saudi government. so, its a combination of all these things, and i think its interesting and important that the cia attaches high confidence to this assessme...

Collection efforts. the material gathered by other governments. as well as its profile of mohammad bin salman and the way he operates. and the way an operation like there would have to go down in a system like the saudi government. so its a combination of all these things and i think its interesting and important that the cia attaches high confidence to this assessment. >> ob top of your usual work and your beat and your lifes work, what have you learned in reporting had story where our eyes and...

On what we have been been seeing coming out occurfy for several weeks now. theres independent intelligence that the cia is weaving into its own collection efforts here, the material gathered by other governments as well as its profile of mohammed bin salman and the way he operates and the way an operation like this would have to go down in a system like the saudi government so its a combination and i think its interesting and important that the cia attaches high confident this to assessment. >> ...

Have to tame it. >> trish: so he himself, ed, he has a different relationship with china does he not than his dad? >> well his dad had a gigantic ic family and the grandfather was the founder and bottom line his father had a great family that basically put the country really into the third world. he was not the heir. his uncle who raised him throughout the brother that was murdered recently-- >> trish: by him. so he murdered the man who raised him. >> hes murdered a lot of generals anybody he th...

Chest to make and look themselves feel good. >> i think kim jong un believes in his regime long-term because most of the time, most of the time they have china at their back. it was very good that president trump -- xi jinping leaned on kim jong un not to test nuclear device. nonetheless, when we dont pay attention to china, when we dont turn pressure on them, the chinese will go back to the old way of doing this which is pyongyang because pyongyang has short objectives with the chinese. he can ...

Revealing if congressional testimony the pentagon is organizing what it is calling a specialized expeditionary targeted force. he says the plan puts everyone on notice. the latest now from correspondent barbara starr. >> reporter: the administration making a renewed effort to show progress against isis in syria and iraq. defense secretary ash carter announcing a few effort for u.s. special operations forces to be based if iraq and do raids and mixes in you can ra. even to go into syria, dangerou...