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Guys can come in. >> are lottery winners vetted? >> yes. >> so theyre screened -- >> theyre screened like any other immigrant. >> so thats an intelligence failure. >> i dont know if there was any failure. last question. >> we know from your confirmation hearing testimony that your mother and your brother-in-law are immigrants. how do their experiences shape your thinking on this position and do you have any reason to believe that they both still have been able to come in under the tightening tha...

Guys can come in. >> one last question. >> are lottery winners vetted? >> yes, oh, yes, yeah, yeah. >> they are screened. >> they are screened like any other immigrant. >> so it is an intelligence failure. >> i dont know there was any failure. yes, last question. >> we any from your confirmation hearings, testimony, that both your brother and your mother-in-law are immigrants. how did their experiences shape your thinking on this position? and do you have any reason to believe that they would bo...

He is not a us citizen, he was born in uzbekistan, he came on the university visa program, past and uber background check and drove with them for six month. what did we miss? >> lets start off noting we are hearing the same thing we hear every time theres a terrorist attack of the guy is a lone wolf, no foreign ties and officials say he was recently radicalized. new york officials cant know that. he was interviewed as part of a counterterrorism investigation two years ago. s mosque was under sur...

Level commanders to allow any u.s. troops to be operating in any hostile area in that matter is just dereliction of duty. >> u.s. military officials also tell us its not uncommon for green bett green berets to go without harmer and never encountered hostile forces. was this a case of an intelligence failure. >> but also a command failure. the idea that you send these men out first of all, they were first tasked as qrf then tasked to go do contact with a village is -- it shows you you have really...

Region between niger and mala is very volatile. there have been a number of attacks against nigerien soldiers. one key question is was there any kind of intelligence failure that sent the soldiers into harms way. another that you mentioned is the u.s. officials here have been trying to push for armed drones in this particular area. something they havent gotten any authorization to do yet. its worth pointing out that probably wouldnt have had a huge effect on this particular ambush because even t...

This nonsense over and over again, looking for russians behind every tree, looking -- we continue to chase ghosts around this place. and i say this as the guy who warned the obama administration and/or intelligence agencies in april, march, april of 2016, i was the one that said this was the biggest intelligence failure since 9/11. so i take the russian threat very seriously. but doing what they have done here be creating this chaos and using this trump dossier, briefing it to congress as if it ...

Was it an intelligence failure, the lessons learned going forward. what is it that why are we there? whats it going to take to accomplish there. making sure that the military has the resources it needs to carry out the policies that we and the president are putting in place. now, clearly, there was a mistake made perhaps on the ground, perhaps also in the intelligence gathering mechanisms. and the support that might have been, that should have been necessary would there be any kind of a fire fig...

Certainly thats one of the reasons why there are american soldiers on the ground here. just a few house from where im standing is where that deadly ambush took place, jake. and that is an area on the border of mali where you have these very fluid militant groups moving in and out across the borders engaging in these kinds of attacks. one of the big questions right now, jake, is whether there was some kind of intelligence failure that sent these american soldiers into harms way and what was suppo...

Have been there. but they werent expecting resistance. they werent even in armored vehicles and its unclear from the pentagon at this point if they even had body armor. was this a major intelligence failure? other patrols have been to this area 29 times. >> sure. you have to remember, if youre driving in armored vehicles, youre going to have to be on more prepared roads. its very soft sand. if youre running in thin skinned vehicle, you have to move fast and speed will be unpredictable. that is t...

Have in africa. >> its hard to know if this was an intelligence failure. what cnn has learned, military officials learned the attack happened when the team stopped at a village to enable their niger troops, and this was after they were done trying to gather their intelligence on some terrorists leaders, so they were headed back to their base. they thought they were safe by stopping at this local village. is that an intelligence failure or a tragic mistake? >> we dont know, and thats why the brie...