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NDAA Is Must-Sign Legislation in Wake of SolarWinds Hack: Ex-Trump Security Adviser On 12/17/20 at 10:27 AM EST The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which President Donald Trump has vowed to veto, is "must-sign" legislation in the wake of the massive SolarWinds software hack, the presidents former homeland security adviser warned. The Democratic-controlled House of Representatives and the Republican-controlled Senate both passed the NDAA with veto-proof majorities last week—meaning ...

Getting reinforcement from the people around him and being very vocal about it. >> no question about that. kristen holmes from west palm beach. thank you. and ke discuss with ar national security correspondent and a former security prosecutor. thank you to you all for being here. and president trump rantsed about the entire impeachment process. saying he wasnt afforded a lawyer or witnesses. you were there for all of it. fact check for us. >> the fact of the matter, he was offered opportunity ...

The rules of the road for the trial that said that interview that he gave with fox news sean hannity setting a marker for how he anticipates this to go through. for him to say theres a zero chance for president trump to be removed from office, that has drawn the ire of democrats. it also sets up an interesting dynamic between the leaders office and president trump. and the question is whether or not the white house would like to see a long trial or a short trial. some within the white house feel...

Both intelligence committees, at least one republican senator has decided to back president trump, that maybe it was ukraine. heres john kennedy. >> reporter: senator kennedy, who do you believe was responsible for hacking the dnc and clinton campaign computers? their emails? was it russia? or ukraine? >> i dont know. nor do you. nor do any of us. miss hill -- >> let me interrupt to say, the entire intelligence community says it was russia. >> right. but it could also be ukraine. >> see what he ...

Despite a top white house national security official who testified last week that russia, not ukraine, interfered in the 2016 election, she called the ukraine theory a russian cover story. despite that, despite the fact that this is also the consensus of the entire u.s. intelligence community including the cia, fbi, justice department, and both intelligence committees, at least one republican senator has decided to back president trump, that maybe it was ukraine. heres john kennedy. >> reporter:...

Open session under oath have attested to all of the facts that were in the original whistleblower complaint. but lets not ignore what jim jordan is doing here. because its despicable. what hes doing is he is part of this effort to try to put pressure on the whistle blower, dissuade future whistleblowers, i remember a time when republicans in congress and the intelligence committees protected whistle blowers and were concerned about that law being followed and that law being enacted in a way that...

The intelligence report has also been looking at whether russia more broadly has been penetrating and subverting british political institutions, whether russian money has been used by the kremlin to try to influence british politics and political outcomes. theyve been working on this thing for a year and a half. they finished it. the finished report is apparently about 50 pages. the intelligence committees finished it. they put the report through whatever classification review it needed to go th...

Right now all of a sudden. for the past year and a half the intelligence committee in the british parliament with the help of british intelligence services, theyve been doing a review about russian influence operations in the uk, the possibility of russian interference in the brexit referendum where the uk surprised everybody in the world by voting to extract itself from the european union. the intelligence report has also been looking at whether russia more broadly has been penetrating and subv...

Intelligence committees, because that is their job. their job is to do oversight. they are entitled by law to be kept fully and currently informed. thats the actual requirement about intelligence activities. this certainly qualified as a significant intelligence activity. >> historically speaking, when the gang of eight is informed about things like this, this is not the type of stuff that leaks. they keep this secret. >> thats correct. that was our experience. they were very tightly controlled ...