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Like a dog with a bone for the president. infiltrating campaign. no evidence of it but talking about it saying this adds to the narrative theyve sold their base and i venture to say not just trumps base. republicans who even some who maybe didnt like president trumps style, theyre starting to look at the doj and think, is this a partisan organization? trying to take down a president that some people dont like. >> and jeff mason, when we talk about all this, were talking about these allies of the...

Point. >> so you believe -- you believe this was an effort to protect the campaign because clearly the trump administration sees this as spying on the trump campaign itself. >> well, thats certainly the interpretation. but, you know, i am very confident that the objective of the fbi was to learn as much as they could about what the russians were trying to do. frankly, i wish the president were as aggressive about doing something about the russians undermining us as he is about this informant. >>...

Were infiltrating it and attempting to exert influence. we sort of lost sight of that point. >> so you believe -- you believe this was an effort to protect the campaign because clearly the trump administration sees this as spying on the trump campaign itself. >> well, thats certainly the interpretation. but, you know, i am very confident that the objective of the fbi was to learn as much as they could about what the russians were trying to do. frankly, i wish the president were as aggressive abo...

With members of the u.s. intelligencintelligence communi. what did they learn, what insights can they provide to the intelligence community. and the secretary of state and president get ready for this summit between kim jong un and president trump. the insights of these three men could be invaluable to this administration. >> absolutely. >> as we are watching this air force jet, medically equipped jet that picked these three men. we saw that huge american flag with the fire trucks there and we a...

Gathering. i suspect that there is a lot of information that they want to get from these three freed americans and what they saw up close in north korea. but also, the secretary of state, if you think about all the intelligence gathering, not just this president and this administration, but previous democratic administrations. the amount of time they have spent trying to crack through this very secretive, reclusive regime. now you have a secretary of state who just spent 90 minutes face to face ...

Overviews. its really a feat of intelligence gathering. >> dana: obviously the israelis are very good at intelligence gathering. what do you think is the benefit of them of revealing all of that now? >> obviously, the benefit is to feed into the debate about what to do with the deal here in the u.s. i think he made it what he laid out there was an indictment of the obama administration, of how much it was willing to overlook. because in the leadup to the deal, iran had the chance to come clean a...

Ground. use your syrian democratic forces backed with american air power. send in a raid or two when you have to. so what "mission accomplished" could also be communicating is hes now bought into this way of doing business, the same way past american presidents have thought, this is a way not to risk american lives but get the job done. >> sometimes even when you have air assault, you still have to have perhaps u.s. troops on the ground because theyre your intelligence gathering. when we look at...

Im sure theyre now moving towards this region. we can also use land-based aircraft operating out of turkey and operating out of gulf bases. we have special forces options. we have cyber options. chris, we ought to be doing this as much as we can in concert with our allies, partners and friends. israel, at the top of the list. whos already conducted a significant strike. and then the french are talking about this very seriously. so this will begin to play out. i think over the next 24 to 48 hours...

To be out in the field doing the job they are trained to do. they will be doing air support missions, surveillance, intelligence gathering, and some desk jobs, clerical work to free up border patrol to be more visible and to enforce the laws that president trump wants on the borders. kate? >> kaylee, ramping up there and ramping up across the border. lets go across the border and why the president is moving troops to the border. a group of migrants from central america is headed through mexico t...

Question is what will they be doing? the focus now on planning. we anticipate troops being in supporting roles like intelligence gathering and s surveillance. these troops will only be armed where they feel self-defense will be necessary. the idea is that customs and borer patrol will be more visible, more flexible and they will be able to make any immigration arrests that may need to be made. cnn, texas. this move to beef up security comes as a caravan left everything behind, even children, t...