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Few days before mr. trump came into office. it was called an assessment, the report itself if you read it i think steven cohen has pointed out to you, its not an intelligence estimates. it doesnt have dissent it doesnt have the kind of information that is required. as sy hirsch said it was a joke. he calls john brennan the head of the cia as creating a fear and a paranoia without evidence at a time when a transition but its very imported american democracy that we trust our leader. trump was sla...

This is what theyve concluded. we based our intelligence estimates on that. >> hold on a second. rick, that doesnt make any sense. im talking about the intel communitys consensus that russia motivated the hacks that wound up benefiting wikileaks and donald trump because he kept asking for people to read them. that has nothing to do with the dnc having lousy defense, nothing to do with to dossier of the intel community. totally different issue. >> the leaks were dnc e-mail leaks. the dnc has comp...

Well. do you question the intel? >> not really. let me explain what my experience is with that. i was the senior member democrat on the house intelligence committee on 9/11. and i saw after that the intel mess leading up to iraq. i believe the intelligence where they got it wrong. where sources were not corroborated. where some material was cherry picked and where we painted the picture, which i believed that saddam hussein was going to use weapons of mass destruction on his people and us. chemi...

Support," theres only four or five of them left, but our support was illegal. this is the guy that dismembered ukraine. it rema its remarkable. >> in syria for a strategy to work, it depends on good intelligence partially. weve been getting reports the last week or so that intelligence estimates as they arrive and go up through the chain of command that the books are being cooked as they get to the top in order to present a rosier picture. what do you know about that report? how has it impacted ...

Acquire materials for a nuclear weapon instead of how long it might take to create one. listen to secretary of state john kerry in april 2014 nearly a year before the framework was announced. >> i think its fair to say that i think its public knowledge today that were operating with a time period for a so-called breakout of about two months. >> reporter: a plan carried forward into this year by the president. >> well, currently the breakout times are only two to three months by our intelligence ...

Welcome back to "hardball." the president continued his push to sell the deal for iran which he says is the best chance to keep that country from getting a nuclear weapon. >> currently the breakout sometimes are only about two to three months by our intelligence estimates. so were essential purchases for 13 14 15 years assurances that the breakout is at least a year. its a hard argument to make that were better off having almost no breakout period than saying over the course of 15 years, we have...

>> are we talking about gaza? >> this is in lebanon. you have an additional inventory in gaza. so these missiles and rockets have flooded in there. these are the intelligence estimates. so in this kind of a situation, you can imagine if youre an israeli looking at the duplicity that iran has been involved in in the past its been in the dna over there in terms of their violation of other agreements, youre saying, wheres the verification in this agreement? and the iaea is backing this up. >> inter...

Almost impossible to do that, irresponsible to do that, because we still dont know what all of the facts are surrounding what happened in benghazi. >> yeah. reading the report last night, so many elements that popped off the page at me that had never been reported that remain mi mystifying. one is the lack of communication. nearly 14 years after september 11th, the failure of one department, the state department to connect with the cia, with central command out of tampa, the central command in t...

>> reporter: so youre saying the chairman joint chiefs of staff, the highest ranks officer in the united states of america, isnt telling the truth? >> i think there are other assets and things that could have been put into motion. that cavalry never comes over the hill to help. thats just stunning to me. >> reporter: there was one closer option. special force troops in tripoli wanted to rush there but were ordered not to. the pentagon now concedes they were ordered not to go to benghazi but to h...

Special force troops in tripoli wanted to rush there but were ordered not to. the pentagon now concedes they were ordered not to go to benghazi but to help out in tripoli. >> if they had gone, they would have passed each other in the air. >> im more interested in act one. >> reporter: michael hayden is the former cia director. >> act one is what were the intelligence estimates? what kind of warnings were given? what was the plan? why do we have so few options in act two? >> reporter: act one is ...