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Ask. in its true they sort of forgot to ask, that would be careless. that is not good lawyering. but on the other hand, when people go in to speak to an investigator, if the system is working the way its supposed to be, youre not supposed to be able to manipulate that system. youre not supposed to be able to get an inside glance at what the investigators are doing. this may be an example of the system working the way its supposed to be. again, im saddened that people are surprised by that. thats...

Came over the weekend, samantha, when the president went back to his familiar refrain that this is all democratic excuse for losing the election and then slammed the former cia director, dni and fbi director. and then both brennan and clapper came on cnn together, to push back on this, and to say -- give their thoughts on it. what is also important, as they push back, was that his own cia, donald trumps cia put out a statement saying that director pompeo stands by the intelligence assessment, th...

In there. the problem is, even if you put someone who knew the intelligence world better in there, donald trump spent lots of the campaign, the transition and being in the white house running down our intelligence agency. they are doing a bad job. they are not organized well. so, its always going to be that type of relationship. look, at the end of the day, yes, investigating the leaks and how the intelligence community works is a worthy endeavor. but, its not the most important thing here. the ...

These are people who come to the u.s. and buy high-end real estate. that could be part of it. russian money, we know thats part of the picture in the trump business. the last word here is, thats the question here. not what is trumps understanding of how the intelligence community works. what is his thing with vladamir putin? we just dont understand it or see why hes doing it. >> jeremy bash, if anyone could get to the bottom of it, wouldnt it be the cia? >> yeah, but theyre not going to look at ...

Understanding of how the intelligence community works. what is his thing with vladamir putin? we just dont understand it or see why hes doing it. >> jeremy bash, if anyone could get to the bottom of it, wouldnt it be the cia? >> yeah, but theyre not going to look at that question. >> why not? >> i think this is the point, which is, i think the flynn stuff is interesting, but i think fundamentally whats going on here, the president-elect is sensitive. hes really sensitive. he believes that people...

W. bush. a national political reporter for bloomberg politics. and former managing director for the democratic congressional campaign committee. good afternoon. >> hello. >> good afternoon. >> giancarlo, we heard reince priebus setting those conditions. do you expect mr. trump to publicly accept this intelligence before he enters at least the oval office? >> well, im not sure that he has to. as director woolsey said in his interview, the intelligence community works for president and not the oth...

Department do it. of course, understand of course hes not the president yet. but is this how hes going to run his foreign policy? i think people are watching and wondering how this is going to get set up. you were talking earlier about the national security briefings and how hes not taking those. i think that thats also problematic because hes not getting a feel for how the intelligence community works, what the limitations are, what the capabilities are. its just not information. its understand...

Data, you dont get to go out there and celebrate the successes because it was a secret program and two, if you do actually have a success in an attack, you dont have the luxury of letting the bad guys know and you thwarted it, but you are following them because of the data you use. its an unrealistic expectation to imply that the president should show us proof. >> the presidents own nsa reform panel that had access to all of that information, they said there is no evidence whatsoever to say that...

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