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Lows right now and theyre trying to ratchet them up slowly going forward in order to prevent inflation from breaking out and damaging the economy and get back to more normal interest rates. thats a challenge for the fed financially but its also a challenge now politically with the president saying what he said last week on cnbc. its a fascinating moment for a president who doesnt really like the idea that there are these other independent power sources out there and wants to control them all. he...

House, allowing and in some cases encouraging devin nunes to carry on a concerted and consistent effort to obstruct justice using a house committee. >> and ben wittes, we have to go to break, but its more than just obstructing justice for donald trump. what devin nunes has done with the help of paul ryan through this fisa process has undermined our intelligence community, undermined intelligence gathering, and revealed not only to russians but to members of al qaeda, to members of irans revoluti...

>> well, we have lots of questions for john brennan and he will definitely be sought by the committees for an interview. this is an extremely disturbing thing to see both he and james comey supposedly impartial government officials carrying out their jobs in very important areas in intelligence gathering and law enforcement express the kind of extreme bias that theyve shown now which i think reflects quite accurately on what they were doing back in 2016. maria: so hes on your list of witnesses t...

Being described by "the times" in terms of intelligence gathering, did that strike you about what is happening behind the scenes? >> it absolutely did. two key pieces of information in that story. one, the fact that the u.s. intelligence had obtained texts and e-mails of senior russian officials and made it clear that putin was involved. and, two, even more importantly that there was a human source close to vladimir putin who was cooperating with the u.s. intelligence community and providing inf...

A shameful moment from the vice president this time. but director brennan, intelligence gathering, as you certainly know, is an art. and the art is sometimes incredibly dangerous and sometimes lethal to the gatherer. so yesterday we had a meeting that we know very little about, two hour closed door meeting between the president putin, a kgb agent, kgb director and the president of the united states. what could happen, in your mine, the most dangerous thing that could happen, in your mind, in tha...

>> what the russians say is they are happy to conduct a joint investigation to get to the bottom of what is behind the novichok poisoning, the british have rejected this because they say their intelligence gathering is based on secret intelligence but theres no shortage of explanation as far as the russian government and authorities are concerned. russian diplomats are taking the lead on social media in proposing alternative theories. one diplomat from the south afterc aftercabrican said its nea...

Narrative that the united states is being taken advantage of economically and with the issue of trade but when it comes to security and intelligence, is it an equal playing field? do they need more intelligence than we need more of theirs or how do you see it? >> well, there is no doubt that the u.s. intellige apparatus is the best in the world but there are significant ways that other countries do help the u.s. in terms of intelligence gathering, in terms of disrupting terrorism and geographic ...

This general prosecutor looking at stuff. >> right. and instead what they did, mark, and this harks back to comeys testimony before the house, they assigned to mueller a counterintelligence investigation, which is irregular because in the justice department, counterintelligence investigations dont get prosecutors. the design or the aim of such an investigation is not to build a criminal case. its to divine the actions and powers to the extent they bear upon american interests. its not even lawye...

At stuff. >> right. and instead what they did, mark, and this harks back to comeys testimony before the house, they assigned to mueller a counterintelligence investigation, which is irregular because in the justice department, counterintelligence investigations dont get prosecutors. the design or the aim of such an investigation is not to build a criminal case. its to divine the actions and powers to the extent they bear upon american interests. its not even lawyer work, its intelligence analyti...

Things. they said there was collusion, which hasnt been shown, to borough into the operation of the trump campaign, to get into -- using spies, unmasking, intelligence gathering -- >> neil: they didnt call it spying then. this is where the semantics are. youre not supposed to be there, but youre there. so youre obviously intruding, getting information that you havent even cleared or even shared with the trump campaign itself that you were looking for nefarious folks. it doesnt add up. >> they we...