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Country. and you know, this was nothing caused spy gate. they can say spy gate all they want. this is really watergate two. this is another break-in. its a break-in into the fbi files on an ongoing investigation by the very people that are the subject of the investigation. and i just want to say i dont know if devin nunes cares a wit what i think but he had better watch out because this looks to me like more obstruction? plain sight. >> jim, you worked for harry reid when he was part of the gang...

Plain sight. >> jim, you worked for harry reid when he was part of the gang of eight which is the sort of majority/minority leaders in both houses and the chair and ranking member of both intelligence committees. to barbaras point, there is not the way it usually works, right? >> shes correct. ill go one step further. i have never seen a process here where first of all, there was a briefing for individual members and then a larger briefing for the so-called gang of eight. that is now how this is...

Gowdy and kelly again. i want to bring in dana bash. dana maybe you can explain this to me. im not sure whats going on. why not have just one meeting tomorrow with a bipartisan group? >> you know exactly whats going on because thats exactly the question, don. ive been covering congress a long time. to me the idea is that it took this kind of public pressure on the white house and on republicans in the house to have the most basic bipartisan meetings on the most historically bipartisan issue, whi...

Intelligence. ive never seen anything like this. this is highly unusual that you would have such a briefing in the middle of an investigation. highly unusual. and that it should be partisan is just totally unacceptable. so i dont think there will be, we want this, what we call the gang of eight. the four leaders and the four top people on the committees, the intelligence committees, house and senate. thats the appropriate venue if writ proper at all. if they do it tomorrow, i think that puts a n...

Really, to have this gang of eight meeting, which means republican and democratic heads of the intelligence committees and the republican and democratic leaders, the four top leaders in the house and the senate. it doesnt make any sense that this shouldnt just be the meeting. the only reason to have a separate meeting with just two republicans on the house intel committee is to have a partisan discussion. this isnt a partisan issue, its fine for republicans and democrats to have meetings amongst...

Top republicans and democrats on the intelligence committees. we expect oversight chairman trey gowdy to be there in speaker ryans place. one senator who wanted to be there, south south carolina liny graham talked about his hopes saying i would like to know if there was a confidential informant used to surveil member of a political party there. may be a good reason but that is unusual to have an investigation of nominee of a political party during political season. you need to make sure there ar...

The most contentious intel debates that took place on your watch during the war in iraq about enhanced interrogation, about extraordinary renditions. i mean, these were debates that caused fractures with some of our allies certainly on the right and left, but they were always free to democrats and republicans on the committees. >> im going to quote to you law. the fact i can do this almost verbatim here ten years after i left government tells you how important this chunk of law was. consistent w...

Who would be in trouble. >> did the specific the complaint -- >> and the fact that she spent her life in the clandestine service makes this more difficult. >> it does make a difference. what do you say to the criticism that theyre hiding behind that, that everything is going to be behind a dark door of classified information? >> i think the senators are hiding a little bit too. they have access to everything that they want to know about her privately and in classified settings, so they have the ...

Relationship like? he talks about going to congress, everybody has an opinion. there wasnt much of a dialogue between somebody whos in ash and those in capitol hill who are in the position of oversight. whats your sense of that relationship more broadly? that relationship between agencies and congress? >> sadly, it really is souring, and it used to be the intelligence committees in particular could be trusted with this extremely sensitive information. i personally have briefed countless times in...

Deployed that kind of warhead. we have warheads can you use any warhead to do an emp attack. we could. weve got cyberoffensive capabilities, physical sabotage capabilities. mark: do we prepare for these things the way our enemies do? >> i wish wdid. in ter of offensive capabilities? . >> i wish we did. i dont know whether we do or not. i suspect we dont. the reason i suspect we dont is because we havent protected ourselves from the enemies offensive capabilities. and if we understood and had put...