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Theyre doing it in a very smart way. in a very effective way. they are looking beyond their own region. i think they have -- its clear they have a long-term strategic objective to become a world power and they are executing throughout the whole of government ways in which they can accomplish that. we have intensive studies going on throughout the intelligence community relative to a to z on what china is doing. general mattis has asked us for that. others have asked us to provide that. senator w...

You have just articulated is whats happening with china. theyre doing it in a very smart way, a very effective way, they are looking beyond their own region. i think they have -- its clear they have a long-term strategic objective to become a world power and they are executing throughout the whole of government ways in which they can accomplish that. we have intensive studies going on throughout the intelligence community relative to a to z on what china is doing. general mattis has asked us for...

Investigations in the backlog. i think only about 330,000 of those are actual new investigations that are being requested. but you can see the monumental problem that they have just with the plmassive number of people o have to be cleared. >> so we just heard sarah huckabee sanders now trying to explain away why rob porter had still not been fired. she said there was a lot of field work to be country to follow up on some of the things that the fbi said. we dont know if she is telling the truth o...

Trust in the fbi agents working around the country if there is any minimal chance of that, then there should be serious questions about releasing something that may not be accurate and that undermines intelligence gathering. >> to that point, clint, the idea that we will read it is one thing. the idea that people in the intel-gathering business in russia, syria, or iran or israel read it, they know what theyre doing. they look at it and that gets to the danger of sources and methods. >> youre re...

Chairman nunes step down. here is part of her letter. she is saying congressman nunes deliberately dishonest actions make him unfit to serve as chairman and he must be removed immediately from this position. now what she is referring to is what john roberts told you about in his report at the top of the hour. five f.b.i. officials went to the white house on tuesday afternoon, they read over this fisa memo, it was prepared by the house intelligence committee under the supervision of chairman nune...

Snow den, it showed some of the methods of intelligence gathering. they want to make sure that used poorly and badly against presidential candidates doesnt get released. it was the f.b.i.s contention there. again i agree with a couple of the people weve had on for today newt gingrich. he said newspapers were clamoring to get the pentagon papers out during a time of war or judge napolitano said the memo should come out. >> sandra: were looking at marine landing at joint base andrews as we speak. ...

Hopefully release it to the public. >> jon: many critics have said this is going to release sources and methods of intelligence gathering. you dont think that will be the case. >> absolutely not. specific actions of abuses and that needs to be brought to light. when people finally do get the opportunity hopefully with the presidents approval to read the memo all the critics will look foolish for some of the speculations theyve made and some of the accusations theyve made that are absolutely fals...

Were talking about the 702 or fisa rules that could impact both sources and methods used in intelligence gathering, that could be very damaging in ways a house intel committee might not appreciate but that a foreign intelligence gathering service might be able to take advantage of. >> and congressman, isnt there that concern that the criminal probe remains open when it is closed and theres a result, people will have a better vantage point to understand this, but trying to release piecemeal infor...

Very, very important people. >> sandra: do you think there was criminal misconduct in the f.b.i.? >> we dont know yet. there needs to be further investigation of this. i and others have seen many of those thousands of pages that are classified and cant be made public. but there is need for further investigation on this. were certainly going to continue that in the judiciary committee and the oversight and government committee that trey gowdy chairs and well be both interviewing many witnesses pr...

Now it goes to the senate for consideration but its really on a tight timeline for passage next week. the senior house democrat on the intelligence committee adam schiff latched onto the presidents tweets, trying that failing to postpone todays vot vote. >> i think the better course would be for us to defer consideration, give us more time to address the issues that have been raised by the privacy community, but also within the administration about its inaccurate, conflicting, and confusing stat...