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Russia way before it was fashionable to be talking about russia. what should biden ask of putin? well start with russia. i know, what did you see that others did not, five, six, seven years ago? >> well one of the reasons i came out in 2016, the spring of 2016, when obama and biden were still in office, was i called up the largest intelligence failure since 9/11, our failure to understand putins plans and intentions. you may recall, trey, this is at a time when the russians just marched right in...

Look, you were talking about russia way before it was fashionable to be talking about russia. what should biden ask of putin? well start with russia. i know, what did you see that others did not, five, six, seven years ago? >> well one of the reasons i came out in 2016, the spring of 2016, when obama and biden were still in office, was i called up the largest intelligence failure since 9/11, our failure to understand putins plans and intentions. you may recall, trey, this is at a time when the r...

Russia way before it was fashionable to be talking about russia. what should biden ask of putin? well start with russia. i know, what did you see that others did not, five, six, seven years ago? >> well one of the reasons i came out in 2016, the spring of 2016, when obama and biden were still in office, was i called up the largest intelligence failure since 9/11, our failure to understand putins plans and intentions. you may recall, trey, this is at a time when the russians just marched right in...

Our radar. he didnt respond to the criticism in the senate investigation that we have been reporting none recent days and the criticism made by the house members that, what about all the social media posts that we have seen online? they dont believe there was an intelligence failure. it seemed like he didnt want to say that. if he does believe it, he should say it. its a complicated issue. it may be -- i know frank has strong opinions about this. it may be the fbi needs more authority. the natur...

>> nbc news national security correspond enter ken dilanian has been listening to the hearing. we are joined by frank fragluzi, he is an msnb national security contributor. ken, let me start with you. you noted the chairmans comments about the fbi inaction on january he called it baffling. why did that jump out to you? what else have you heard? >> reporter: that was as strong as a heard a democratic senior member of congress really go right at the fbi and criticize its inaction, its intelligence...

It was an insurrection. you know? it was a significant amount of people that felt agrieved and felt that invading the capitol to impose their will was an appropriate action. it looked like a sort of hoard of zombies. people as far as you can see salivating. >> at this point that is the best kind of testimonial to hear. aufrss who were there on the front lines offering clarity to what led to and happened on january 67 and fbi director wray under grilling unable to explain whether an intelligence ...

Homeland security were not cooperative in your investigation. in fact, that you didnt hear back from the house sergeant at arms. number one, is that true. and number two, why not. >> well, its the fbi and the department of homeland security have been cooperative, but not sufficiently cooperative. so, we need to get more information from them, particularly from the intelligence failure. its something that my committee will continue to investigate, although we put out this report yesterday. that p...

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Very same person who was heading these intelligence functions who failed to see it and even today says it wasnt credible. we set at home, i set at home in my easy chair two weeks prior to january 6th and saw this developing online. and if they cant see it, they cant commit the intelligence failure, they need to move on and let someone else take the leadership position. >> wow. frank, general, thank you all so much. we will leave it there. i want to bring in someone who was at the capitol on th...

Sending people at least to a staging area to eventually deploy to the capitol, it still took another about two hours to get everybody geared up, mission ready, and actually over to the capitol. those were crucial minutes that were lost. and then finally, there was a dramatic underestimation of what the online chatter really meant. intelligence agencies were caught in this sort of between a rock and a hard place where they were concerned about infringing on peoples rights. they really didnt have ...