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Congress has a right to know, especially the ranking members on the intelligence committees. to me, the fundamental issue is -- this is a basic clash between our nations moral values and our ballistic needs. what do you do? assume that the crown prince as part of this, that he orchestrated and was behind the scenes. what do we do? do we say, because of a moral imperative, that we will cut off relations with saudi arabia? we will urge the king to jettison the crown prince and put a new ruler in h...

Limited than last weeks, garrett? i saw earlier rand paul up in arms he wasnt there. >> partially about the sensitivity about this information. rand pauls complaint here is this was not a situation where one senator was more equal than others. that all 100 senators ought to have access to this same information. he called it an example of the deep state but the argument you have from the intel community side is the information in this briefing was so sensitive that they wanted only a select group...

Yesterday the refr lugs that he lied about trumps business deals, particularly trump tower and trump knew about it. how bad a week was it? >> it was a pretty bad week or pretty significant week. i tend to think that the exposure of the line, in particular the michael cohen agreement where now it is revealed that he lied in his written testimony to congress and their investigation, i think it is props the most if we could pick out the most significant in terms of what it means for potential expos...

Noted and it raises a serious question as to whether this administration is giving us the whole truth. >> even that so-called gang of eight leadership of the house and senate, chairmans of the house intelligence committees. they have not had access of hearing directly from her. is that what you are telling us in. >> i am telling you the general briefing tomorrow and for the united states senate we are told miss haskell will not be attending. and i think her absence raises serious questions about...

Tolerated and not okay, and we are not agnostic if somebody orderred the murder of a american journalist in the consulate and that is not okay. and i wish that the president of the united states would make clear what the united states stands for in this world. >> speaking to that, the secretary of state was the former director of the cia and you worked for leon panetta, and you were at the cia as well, and how would the intelligence community responding to the the way that their private, you kno...

Before he became the chief of staff was very critical of the mueller probe. the russia probe. no collusion, no collusion. sounded like the president of the united states. meanwhile, a top democrat calling the appointment of whitaker sicrisa crisis moment. democrats are taking steps to protect the investigation right now. lets talk to the member of both the judiciary and the intelligence committees. whats your reaction to what we just heard? >> whitaker was hired to be a hit man to take out the m...

Confidence that the justice department is doing it the right way. >> obviously you said before this, you had not seen anything to your knowledge that looked close to an impeachable offense how would you now? >> youre right. i have not seen. youre asking the right question. how do i know? i know that is in the public domain and -- >> neil: i always here people talking about oh, we certainly would have heard something or somebody would have leaked out. >> we recognize all three branches but the ju...

Who expanded our democracy after them counted on the other branches of government to act as a check and a balance on the president one of the points i make in the column is that this congress has just not done that. you have some obviously the democratic minority is, but they dont have power. some republicans at the margin, senator corker, senator flake, who notably are fought running for re-election have spoken out. but the rubs who hold real power in congress, who chair the committees like the...

Before. just below that they were talking about black lives matter, blacks against hillary. that ties back into the facebook pages and the things we have seen that have come out of the intelligence committees. we see a reporter was sent stolen documents pertaining to the black lives matter movement. the reporter offered to write an article about the release. it shows how the russian system knew how to engage with the media both social media, fringe and mainstream to get them enticed to produce a...

Terms. so hear them. we assess russian president vladimir putin ordered and influenced -- and influenced campaign in 2016 aimed at the u.s. presidential election. russias goals were to undermine public faith in u.s. democratic process, denigrate secretary clinton and harm her electability and potential presidency. we further assess putin and the russian government developed a clear preference for president-elect trump. we have a high confidence in these judgments. are these conclusions familiar ...