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Subpoena. now, he could go and pull a corey lewandowski and say i wont answer your questions, read it yourself and be one big jerk. i could not tell would be harder for him to do that as a lawyer, as a former u.s. attorney for him to come in front of congress and just be a clown like corey lewandowski was. so i think, you know, and the dni is going to testify about the whistleblower complaint this week. so i think youll see enough happening this week one way or the other that will reassure the p...

Scenes it has to be ugly, jim. has to be ugly. >> david, you wanted to weigh in? >> i was going to say, sounds like from what phil and susan are saying, the problem is that shes too independent, too qualified, knows what shes doing to fit into the scheme the president wants at the head of the intelligence community. >> and point out the importance of a nonpartisan apolitical actor in this role. that role is about coordinating those intelligence agencies, making sure information pushed up to the ...

Order to take out german guns, and so few of them made it to the top. and ironically, of course, the german guns had already been removed. it was, if you like, an intelligence failure. look, there were many failures here on that day. it was a beach head, a bridge head for a 77-day normandy campaign. but almost every unit that landed on this beach landed in the wrong place. in a sense it scarcely mattered because the german defenses would have picked them off wherever they landed, but that was ju...

Attackers were funded and if there were any international links what also i can say is that this group. of some of these suicide bombers most of the educated. and come from maybe middle of the middle class. financially independent and place to go to these great stable financially. this so called islamic state has said it was behind the bombings a claim officials are investigating. the government must now explain why warnings about possible attacks were not acted upon on tuesday sri lankas presid...

Big welcome to you both. saw quite a bit of russian trolling, you know, go unaddressed in 2016. what can the fbi do at least ahead of 2020 as to not be caught with their pants down, i guess, this time around? >> well, im sure about to jump in say, one, while trolls are incredibly important the other part 2016 showed us, it wasnt just trolls. actually human beings. right? pa tina to ambassador kislyak, the part that the fbi and intelligence community has to do is first accept this was 2016, an in...

Mohammed bin salman ordered the murder of jamal khashoggi. >> we have a great ally in saudi arabia. they give us a lot of jobs. a lot of business and economic development. they have been a truly spectacular allies in terms of jobs and economic development and i also think i have to take a lot of things into consideration. gillian: dream as national security chief of staff who departed a few weeks ago. we are delighted to have them with us to get your day-to-day. fred, mr. porter. >> gilliam, gre...

Saudi arabia that was going to allow women to drive, that was going to try to open up its economy and so he was hailed by many people here, including the white house, as the face of a new saudi arabia. what we have seen since that publicity tour is that saudi arabia is still the same. many of those women were arrested. many of the activists have been arrested and now this attack on a journalist without anybody in the saudi government engaging publicly or speaking publicly to condemn it indicates...

Terrorism and has surveillance and has analysts looking at this problem from every angle such that the people i talked to do not think al qaeda could carry out a similar attack. it would be detected. youve seen that in other areas, perhaps the russia intervention in our politics. so its still an issue in terms of intelligence failure, but on terrorism it seems like, you know, we dont know what we dont know. when i talk to officials privately, they say look, weve made huge progress on this. weve ...

Donald trump. >> i think i warned themma not just in 2014, but very specifically in 2016, where i called it the largest intelligence failure since 9/11, our failure to understand putins plans and intentions. by that time, we have seen the russians actively involved in many elections around the globe. they were actively trying to interfere in elections in eastern europe, and some of the former soviet states. this was nothing new at all, and what i am most upset about inis this whole situation, ma...

Clapper, the director of national intelligence, comey who said nobody can vote republican and be a patriot in one of the nutier tweets of the year. these guys failed. they were the guys responsible to 2016. not trump. he was the candidate. >> you can admit the democrats did not do enough about russia. right now donald trump is president. what happened in helsinki is what we have to judge him on. not what obama did or did not do. thats ancient history now. what is donald trump going to do to prot...