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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 we did. in terms 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...

Come to an understanding, the diplomatic community. if the president wants pompeo, hes the right guy to be there. i happen to support him. i think it was not inappropriate for him to go to north korea as the head of -- the director of the cia. directors of the cia, for virtually every president ive been familiar with, have trav traveled on kind of prediplomatic missions to figure out what might be going on, so i dont think that was a bad thing for mike pompeo to have done. i think the mistake wa...

Stay on special counsel robert mueller facing new criticism over what republicans consider a lack of transparency. here is ron johnson. >> they are completely different goals of the special counsel versus congressional oversight. i think the most important thing is public disclosure. that is harmed when you have special councils and the information is gathered and -- >> big day tomorrow for the mueller probe with its first sentencing of one of the special councils targets. the deal reached invol...

Technology. he had 16 tests. they did that nuclear test. 2017 was building things up and hed always plan on 2018 to go to the negotiating table. this is really the challenge and the urgent task for intelligence committees, intelligence agencies to try to figure out whats motivating kim jong-un. does he simply want the sanctions to be lifted or was this always the plan to get recognition for his nuclear ambitions? i think one thing is, just what kim jong-un is offering on the table and if its thi...

"i admire this guy," and ive got to tell you, that was george w. bush right after september 11th. this country did pull together. ive seen it as well. >> on top of a fire truck in new york city. >> yeah. >> powerful moment. >> i may disagree a little bit. i mean, annus horribilis, 1968, no question about it, and deserves to be called that, but a lot of those catastrophes were things we shared in and agreed that they were catastrophes, and they were awful, and they were national calamities. in te...

Where all americans finally say, "i admire this guy," and ive got to tell you, that was george w. bush right after september 11th. this country did pull together. ive seen it as well. >> on top of a fire truck in new york city. >> yeah. >> powerful moment. >> i may disagree a little bit. i mean, annus horribilis, 1968, no question about it, and deserves to be called that, but a lot of those catastrophes were things we shared in and agreed that they were catastrophes, and they were awful, and the...

Russia. that proposal was for a trump tower in moscow that was pitched to donald trumps lawyer by a developer and part time were told u.s. intelligence asset. i talked to him several months ago in an interview and he denied my wrongdoing on all this. that deal fell through, but some critics are pointing to that deal as a possible problem. >> i assume that mueller has spoken to you, is that correct? >> im sorry, i cant answer anything to do with any ongoing investigations. >> okay. im going to as...

The house intel committee would be anything but bipartisan -- but partisan rather? >> so the past years investigation that the house has conducted, if we even want to call it that, has been completely partisan as john says. and this is such a shame for this committee because you know the intelligence committees historically have played a very different role than other committees in congress. they have the trust normally of the intelligence community that they will have access to classified infor...

That that is disgusting. and rather than obsessing andnk worrying about russia for another two years, i would like us to seriously address what is wrong with federal prosecution, what is wrong with the fbi and the doj, and clean it up! because it aint respectable. and americans should be ashamed of it. >> tucker: but thats what we are supposed to do in the media, arent we? looking out for bullies abusing their power and crushing the weak to their own benefit. that is going on, and the cheerleade...

Like its time to prepare for the worst. >> thank you. >> thank you. jeremy bash, jump in and speak about your time working for jane harman in the years when the intel community and the house and the thsenate were dealing w what we thought were imminent threats to the homeland. post-9/11 there were state secre secrets held by democrats and republicans in confidence of a republican white house. there were programs they were read into. not only did dmnone of those programs leak, the communities wer...