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President Biden Tours Florida And Georgia hit hard by helene. The Death Toll in Western North Carolina continues to rise. The world is on edge waiting to see how israel will respond to irans missile attack. The White House arguing against targeting irans nuclear program. Joining me this hour, former Defense Secretary Leon panetta on the crisis across the Middle East, former dls second Jeh Johnson joins on domestic terror threats and the anniversary of the October 7th Terror Attacks in israel, fo...

They may be intelligent. unfortunately, intelligence doesnt help you when youve got these enormous internal and external pressures to stay in line with the leader. i think it has a moral quality. people who have high moral qualities and valleys do standup, sometimes consider them heroic. they finally say this is not right, as liz cheney did. i think we have to question morality of the trump followers because the morality is not strong enough to overcome their self interest [inaudible] >> when we...

That the leader has on them, which is also, partially, not only a worship of him, he has enormous power. other people get afraid. the people in congress, especially, are afraid of losing their power, their jobs. that is a little different from the people who are supporting trump in the public. they have special reason to be unwilling to take a moral stand and this issue. morality, justice is... >> doctor, it seems that one defense against cult is, one personal defense that we might all possess, ...

Thats why intelligence doesnt have a great indication before they are launched. they can basically pop them up out of the ground and shoot them off. it was an intermediate ballistic missile. the intermediate range. irbm. when they teased this out it looked like it might have had a bigger payload on it than the one launched in may. this one probably didnt have the range to reach guam. i couch all that with probablies. theyre still doing all the telemetry on it and trying to figure out just exactl...

>> lets understand intelligence. intelligence doesnt tell what you to think, it doesnt tell you what to do. it does tell you what to think about. certainly president-elect trump is aware of the issue. his statement is not wrong in and of itself. you know, attribution is hard to prove, and yet we have seen our intelligence agencies over the last 20 years have become, you know, much better at identifying, you know, what a country like russia, what a country like china, what a country like north ko...

Mike, thanks so much. i know mike pompeo, a lot of people are behind him running the cia. i had mike baker and i put a lot of money on it and you cost me and my family. so im not happy that you are not running the cia. >> do me a favor, brian, dont cheap out this year on your secret santa gift, all right? >> i know. i got to hit the limit and i have done that in the past. straight ahead, a startling stat about health in america today. life expectancy plummets has obamacare prices skyrockets. i...

He did it, and people love him there and we cant see to see everybody. >> it will be good news that you can actually do and do laundry at your actual house. before you go, what do you make of the legacy media talking about how, you know, the story that the cia thinks that russia helped trump, the fbi says theres no proof and now the office of the director of the national intelligence doesnt see any evidence and yet legacy media is saying it looks like positively russia helped trump win? >> well,...

As flawless, but unfortunately it failed. abcs karen travers reports. >> reporter: the pentagon defended its failed mission to rescue james foley and other american hostages in syria. >> the mission was executed flawlessly after a significant period of preparation and planning and rehearsal. and the -- it turned out that the hostages were no longer at that location. >> intelligence doesnt come wrapped in a package with a bow. >> reporter: defense secretary chuck hagel said the u.s. expects isis ...

That? we were told, we were focused on the video. nobody was saying this was a terrorist mob. >> it was both. we got both pieces of information. it looks like we are playing politics here with some people saying on the right, it was the video, youre just saying it was the video. and, for example, let me tell you the david kirkpatrick reported in "the new york times" earlier this week he said the libyans who witnessed the assault and know the attackers there is little doubt what occurred he said....