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Successful in coordinating. what do you think of getting rid of all that and again restructuring the intelligence agency? >> i think its important that they give this some time. >> that the trump team read in, connect with the transition teams at the department of defense, at the cia the state department, other agencies. really think about this. not take a leap into the unknown, as you say, andrea, one of the reasons for the creation of the director of national intelligence were the intelligence...

There should be a reggistry for muslims in america. >> there are questions of the attackers coming in from syria. it is known that the ring leader was not thought to be in france. see he clearly sneaked in and got in under the radar and put the attack together. >> this is the big question and the point that mr. bedford made about screening folks. the problem is the director of the fbi said, they dont have good intelligence in syria. and see if you check the terrorist against the database nothing...

Failures leading up to friday attacks. this needs to be considered an intelligence success. based on cell phones found on friday and the wire taps in the last few days. >> they moved quickly. they got intel from belgian officials. with the intelligence failures, you are not acting fast enough. in europe, you are not sharing intelligence quickly enough. in this case, things moved forward quickly. we dont know how much of that is connected to the fact of the emergency measures in place. legally ma...

Not something any western society should engage in. in fact, poppy, when you look at any of these kinds of incidents theres always integs in the system that wasnt properly processed. think of the boston attacks where the fbi knew tam lan tsarnaev who was part of the attack, they questioned him and then dropped the assessment. similarly before the 9/11, cia knew two members of al qaeda were living in cal. the fbi knew there was an islamist militant who is getting flying lessons in minnesota. the ...

They kept a better watch, this plot might have been nipped in the bud. there are huge questions about intelligence failures. >> lets take a look at that. we have two big attacks. everyone here will say the specifics of frances situation, the geographics, the demographics, make it too difficult with what they are dealing with and yet at least two of the men in these attacks here on friday were people known to police. one of them even on a watch list. how do you balance the responsibilities here i...

>> well, the intelligence people talking among themselves always recognize that we have only intelligence failures, and only policy successes. when something fails it is thought to be the fault of the intelligence services in not doing a thorough enough job. we have the intelligence services in the u.s. and our allies britain and france and israel have done a good job and somewhat lucky so far with some of the things that we were time square bomber for example, and we have done a good job, but i...

Jon steward hosting judith miller. >> i believe you helped the administration take us to the most devastating mistake in foreign policy that you made in 100 year bus you seem lovely. >> thats what the intelligence community believed. >> no, thats what they believed jon. >> all right. were never going to see eye to eye on it. i agreeppreciate you coming on the program. these discussions always make me incredibly sad because i feel like they point to institutional failure at the highest levels and...

Jon stewart of the daily show hosting former "new york times" reporter judith miller. >> i believe that you helped the administration take us to like the most devastating mistake in foreign policy that weve made in like 100 years but you seem lovely. >> thats what the intelligence community believed. >> thats what they were feeding you. they created. >> no, thats what they believed, john. >> all right. well, obviously were never$c@&h(lc% going to see eye to eye on it. i mean i appreciate you com...

Most devastating mistake in foreign policy that you made in 100 year bus you seem lovely. >> thats what the intelligence community believed. >> thats what they were feeding you. >> no, thats what they believed, jon. >> all right. were never going to see eye to eye on it. i appreciate you coming on the program. these discussions always make me incredibly sad, because i feel like they point to institutional failure at the highest levels and no one will take responsibility for it. >> i think they p...

Whoa served as vice chair in the late 1990s and joins me now. senator, your thoughts. you know this issue so well. you of course worked with john mccain and our fellow vietnam veteran. >> that was a great speech. the actions made in 2005 and 2006, its the policy of the united states. my objection to the report and i participated to examine intelligence failures and the first was in the minds. the second was 9/11. they were very, very critical attacks for failures and there was a lot of pressure ...