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Intelligence activities before, shouldnt we draw a distinction between being attacked and being hacked in that fashion? >> well, within the cyber realm what they did was carry out a systematic intelligence collection operation. i like what adam schiff called it the other day, the weaponization of information then tied that to a political warfare strategy and married that all together in one giant hybrid warfare strategy which further it had goals of their state. but to do that they had to direct...

So what you have to do is you have to decide how exactly are you going to play this thing from the republicans perspective. are you going to go along with the red stoplight or blow through traffic, to use that analogy. they have to determine where their loyalty lies here on the republican side. yesterday they were hounding everyone for the leakers. the democrats laid out a powerful systematic case that the united states was attacked by a foreign agency. >> i heard people use that word. that word...

Intelligence collection operation but im not going to talk about the particular. >> would someone like ambassador kislyak play that type of role for russia? >> i cant say here. >> the declassified january community assessment report that your agency helped to draft "assessing russian activities and intentions in the recent u.s. elections" state since the cold war russian intelligence efforts related to the united states elections have primarily focused on foreign intelligence collections that co...

Administration. >> the obama administration had been planning it. >> regarding the planning phase and the approval of this. was it approved by the obama administration? was it not, obama administration claim, no. we didnt prove it. >> just planned it. >> if we want to do something in yemen this is up to the next president to decide if you want to go to yemen or not. is a complicated situation. the trump administration you know, stated that, no, obama approved it and they just carried out the ope...

Many involved in the national security field raised these questions. just before the operation, it was obvious for the s.e.a.l.s team and for the people who were involved in the planning that the operation has been compromised, and al qaeda know that they are coming, but the order came in to keep pushing and go in to basically a place where it was a disaster. we lost one navy s.e.a.l., three other were injured. we lost an aircraft. 30 other people were killed, including women and children, and y...

Operation. >> and zawahiri is now the boss. >> now the boss. now the other person on the day of 9/11, bin laden asked his security chief and his secretary to put the satellite on so he can watch the operation. he was with him and then him and bin laden were watching or were hearing about the operation unfolding on bbc arabic and voice of america. this is, this person is not only the, you know, son-in-law of osama bin laden, he is one of the original owe jipgs egyptian members of al qaeda. if you...

Al qaeda. today the affiliates have thousands and thousands of people. keep in mind isis was an affiliate of al qaeda. >> and they broke away. >> and this hit is just a reminder about the importance of syria for the mutation of al qaeda, the current mutation of al qaeda and also important that this individual is one of the original members, one of the leaders of al qaeda who joined al qaeda especially with the merge between the egyptian lamicihad and al qaeda. he was on the shura council, he was...

This is the beginning of a organized intelligence collection operation against the islamic state. and you have to do many, many of these raids before you can really go to war with them and ultimately decapitate them as we did al qaeda in pakistan. >> is it worth the way theyre doing it now? i mean now its raid by raid. because the u.s. doesnt want to put boots on the ground. so there are boots on the ground but theyre special forces boots. theyre your most highly trained fighters the united stat...