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jobs in and live in day in and day out. paul pelosi, he is the husband of speaker pelosi, was violently assaulted during an early morning break-in by an assailant who was reportedly searching for nancy pelosi. a source telling nbc news that mr. pelosi was home alone when the attacker broke in. the attacker was armed with a hammer. paul pelosi reportedly suffered multiple blows to the head and is currently in surgery. the speaker was in washington, d.c. at the time of the attack. as for...

Attitude of the president of the united states towards the intelligence community and the behavior and the intellect of the president of the united states, would there be a tendency for intelligence gatherers, briefers to withhold vital intelligence to the president? >> there very well might be. there might be out of concern. there are things that as director of cia i wouldnt share details with the president of the united states or individuals outside of cia because youre trying to protect the c...

Intelligence gatherers, prefers, to withhold now some final intelligence to the president? >> there very well might be. there might be. out of concern. >> laura: he went on to expand on that. out of concern that the white house or the president, what would run to sergey lavrov or putin himself. think about that. this is the guy who headed up the cia. the same one i believe whos signed off on the unmasking without a warrant. he is essentially urging current intel officers, or giving basically tac...

Indictment. its all the more embarrassing that the republicans yesterday were trying to beat up on the very investigators that were doing this work. >> you think they are embarrassed? >> okay, fair, i hope so they should be, but sadly some wont be, probably. >> thanks very much. appreciate it. >> thanks. and he learned intelligence gatherers picked up some of the indicted russians congratulating each other during the campaign and celebrating president trumps victory when he won, which tells a ...

Is nigel farage at the embassy in london today -- >> okay. >> where julian assange happens to be staying. we dont know if they met or not, but was he -- i mean, hes a close ally of president trump -- >> i dont keep his schedule. >> delivering a message -- >> i have no idea. no, i -- i have my own concerns here, keeping track of what everyones doing. i generally dont worry about whats going on across the pond. >> so, that was the answer, farage, friend of trump, shows up at julian assanges house ...

Electronic attack on the cia at a time when a good distraction would be welcome. our panel stays here, of course. ali, if youre president of the united states and your cia -- >> yeah. >> is under attack, these are the intelligence gatherers, many of them have died in service to our country, would you speak up? >> ah, yeah, its a problem, though, because you were the one attacking them first, right? so, youve encouraged this behavior. the problem is less to do if he likes the cia and more to do w...

Testified about plans to defeat, destroy, isis. we heard a lot of criticism that 50 u.s. special operation forces in syria isnt going to have much of an impact, now maybe another 200 might be based in iraq but go into syria at the same time. is that really going to make much of a difference? >> i believe it will. youre going to talk about operators that will certainly be contributing in a counterterrorism role, those are all of the roles that the secretary described. and then youre going to have...

It affects our safety and our national security. does anybody care? >> oh, yeah. but you know, part of this is that people in the intelligence community, one, make mistakes. and they have oftentimes, one perspective or another. i mean, think back to what happened with weapons of mass destruction. so sometimes errors are made and then theres criticism of our intelligence gatherers, our analysts. and then you come forward and people start asking questions about like for instance in libya where we ...

Which means were bringing a inging all the intelligence gatherers back home and they are not there to gather the intelligence they should be in order to drone strike our enemies. >> rick is anything foolproof when it comes to war? >> by that i mean could this be a sad example, a tragic example of what we are calling friendly fire? >> sure it could be. and you have to remember too kelly, that intelligence is an estimate. so were gathering intelligence. were gathering human intelligence. and this ...

Enforcement does this all the time. intelligence gatherers do it all the time so this is not an unusual or difficult thing to do. jenna: what about the time line on the ship? how long can they do this? when does it start impacting potentially the case against this individual? >> well, they can do it in my view for as long as they want and as long as they find it useful. they say theyre going to do it for a matter of weeks. now, i dont know whether you can exploit a source like that in a matter o...