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Congressional intelligence committee exists to do oversight of the administrations intelligence gathering and its work in that intelligence field. rather, you now have a congressman running that committee who looks like he is trying to shield the president from investigation and certainly looks like hes passing information to the president even leaking to the media -- leaking is probably the wrong word. he held a press conference talking to the media about classified information in terms of surv...

>> he said exactly what you said. do you talk? im just kidding. but he said that this job is as a filter to not do so much filter. he said that he is not a strategic force. he is operational. and raised almost identical concerns that you just did. >> and general, you and i have talked about general flynn. you have correctly praised his experience in the intelligence field. but its also been asked by others, first of all, people raise questions about his bow hafor at the rnc convention and during...

Should get a death sentence? >> i think hes the outsider, the executive. some is meant to stir his troops to better performance. i dont know. ive listened to the assange interviews here that sean hannity had with him. you know, hes quite adamant the russians werent involved. obviously i dont know. but i do think -- bob is right here. having been in government, whether its the central intelligence agency, the director of national intelligence, or housing and urban development or the justice depar...

Of different administrations, right? but even though the agencies of the national security apparatus and military and the intelligence field, theyre affed by mostly career folks who stay there year in and year out no matter who the president is, ultimately all those agencies really do in a specific way answer to the president. and in a certain reductive way all of the intelligence agencies in the unite, this multizillion dollar apparatus weve got, it all exists specifically to provide informatio...

But even though the agencies of the national security apparatus and military and the intelligence field, theyre staffed by mostly career folks who o stay there year in and yea out no matter who the president is, ultimately all those agencies really do in a specific way answer to the president. and in a certain reductive way all of the intelligence agencies in the unite, this multizillion dollar apparatuseve got, it all exists specifically to provide information to one person, to the president, t...

And military and the intelligence field, theyre staffed by mostly career folks who stay there year in and year out no matter who the president is, ultimately all those agencies really do in a specific way answer to the president. and in a certain reductive way all of the intelligence agencies in the unite, this multizillion dollar apparatus weve got, it all exists specifically to provide information to one person, to the president, to steal secrets about the world, to steal secrets from other co...

Tonight, new book by a legendary former abc anchor ted koppel called lights out. cyber attack. a nation unprepared. surviving the aftermath. with us now is mr. koppel. that title is scary. can you back it up. >> yeah. as you know, bill, reporters dont necessarily know a hell of a lot about the actual subject until they start talking to the experts. i talked to experts in the military, in the intelligence field. in the industry itself. and the vast preponderance of them believe this is not only a...

Vocal talking about the nsa and protecting fourth amendment rights. this parser this effort is oregon democratic senator ron white. >> vigorous oversight on the intelligence field needs to get more attention. something we have both talk about, liberty and security is not mutually exclusive. >> congress says the reaction to this report may not be as vocal, but we will be listening to see what they have to say about this panel assessment and the detailed recommendation. eric: a fedex plane was for...

Surrounding the obama administrations leak of americas top cia agent in afghanistan, democrats in washington they have been noticeably silent. however just often years ago when a republican was in the white house they were singing a very different tune when journalist bob novak released the name of former cia employee, by the way not an operative, valerie plame. you may remember this. >> she didnt ask that her identity be revealed but it was repeatedly. and that was an breach of the responsibili...

Have it. >> do we believe the fbi at this point will be able to retrieve the deleted files? >> well, that is an unknown right now, just like so many other things relative to this airplane, megyn. but you know, nobody has the capabilities that the united states has when it comes to do something like that. and as i say, theyre not going to sleep until they complete this process. >> based on -- >> im confident that theyre going to be able to. >> based on your conversations in the intelligence field...