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Reporting, although we have been hearing these names for days as likely suspects. and ive been speaking to a former national security council official bho explained to me the process of how this intelligence would be accessed. and its really only a tiny number of people that would have access to signals, intelligence, intercepts that has incidental collection about americans and one would be ezra cohen-watnick, the head of the intelligence director. bottom line, whoever it was its clear it came ...

Melber. >> again, we live in a politics of culture of exaggeration but this was truly an historic and unusual hearing given what was previously public reports of russia meddling in the election. but no confirmation until today, in this hearing that we watched by the fbi director that this is being investigated for the trump campaign and russian side. the banner up on your broadcast, brian, the fbi director saying if he knew now what he knew then, he might have walked over to the dnc himself and ...

Brian: when james clapper came out and said im national intelligence director if somebody wiretapped the trump tower i would know about it and it didnt happen. >> he actually didnt say it that way. he chose his words very carefully. steve: semantic. >> he said if somebody got a fisa warrant about this i would know about testimony the president doesnt need a fisa warrant. the statute authorizes the president to bypass fisa. and quite frankly, brian, we are all skeptical of anything james clapper ...

Reduce the role of the intelligence director of the joint chiefs chairman. "in crafting their organization order, trumps aides essentially cut and pasted language from an old organization chart. the trump team did not realize" who they were cutting out of the nsc by doing it that way. "as a practical matter, mr. trumps aides may not have intended a substantive change." so turning the national security council inside out, throwing out the military and the intelligence community in favor of steve ...

Leading the nsc. peter baker reports the very, very controversial decision by the trump white house to reorganize the nsc, to take out the chairman of the inr and the director of national intelligence, to take them all off the principals committee at the national security council and instead to put steve bannon on the principals committee, peter baker reports today that reorganization is something they might have kind of oopsed their way into. they may not have fully understood it when they did ...

Significance of the changes. or how they would be perceived." trumps team did not intend to reduce the role of the intelligence director of the joint chiefs chairman. "in crafting their organization order, trumps aides essentially cut and pasted language from an old organization chart. the trump team did not realize" who they were cutting out of the nsc by doing it that way. "as a practical matter, mr. trumps aides may not have intended a substantive change." so turning the national security cou...

You are day two of our administration but without a intelligence director. intelligence community is the sentinels and guardians of our nation. how do you square that sentence with the president-elect trump, before he was sworn in, and the aggressive tone and nature with which he went at the intelligence community? >> well, i have to say i am, i am with secretary mattis on his statement. i believe that they are the guardians of our nation. the intelligence community and military working together...

Organization. one of the things thats very good about it is unlike the feature films and beach books sometimes portray, its havent non-partisan. doesnt matter. administration comes in, deliver tasking. cia like fbi and others do their job, march on. pompeo will come in and underneath him is the deputy. the deputy tends to come in and be promoted from within the ranks. you have somebody underneath pompeo that will have extensive experience working. perhaps an operations, perhaps in the intelligen...

And the same thing with james clapper. james clapper is the intelligence director. thats whats really going on. >> we have breaking news right now with a statement from jos r ernest, the presidents spokesperson. >> his legacy is to close gitmo. i think hell go after his legacy. thats one of his primary legacies. >> senator, now we want to go back to what you eluded to with regard to breaking news about gitmo. josh ernest responding to a new york times report of a mass

Total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the united states until our countrys representatives can figure out what the hell is going on. >> and in washington yesterday, the house homeland security committee chairman, congressman mike mccaul, who will join us later tonight, issued a very stern warning about isis infiltrating the refugee community that wants to come to america. watch this. >> i can reveal today that the united states government has information to indicate that individuals ti...