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Clarify to your point the position of the administration which the reporters were trying to get to yesterday. it also gives them an opportunity, joe, to talk about how the global community needs to be better coordinated to avoid the kind of gaps in information gathering and gaps in intelligence gathering that allows them to fall behind what the terrorists are doing. puts them in a position where the idea of a muslim ban or extreme vetting is less the target of those who would be opposed to it an...

Bulls eye painted on it. france and belgium, thats where they want to strike first and foremost. they come from the frank-o-phone network in europe. they may not be dropping bombs in the islamic state, theyre doing things to help intelligence gathering, theyre honoring the kurds, the peshmerga. remember isis is the biggest battle that led the united states into the intervention in syria. that was isis versus the pkk, they consider the kurds to be mortal enemies, at least kurds backed by the unit...

At least what the intelligence community is saying they did. im just also saying in some ways this shouldnt be particularly new. cyber is a new for of warfare and it has been and measure going to be dealing with this. it is a sophisticated instrument now of warfare, of intelligence gathering, of mischief making, and thats a reality. that doesnt discount it or excuse it, of course not. but we but we got to focus on how we deal with it and how we get ahead of it. >> was the hacking, the interferen...

Destroy our way of life. so that is part of his -- >> but its consistent, though. >> that is part of the intelligence gathering. >> when youre data mining a group not because you have a specific threat or feeling that there could be a specific threat or anyone associated with that threat. >> find a needle in a hay stack, you need a haystack. >> you do. >> and then you look for data points. >> the thing that is so central to donald trumps rise in american politics, which is immigration. these fol...

Suicide bombs. those who blow up themselves, they are reduced every days in that sense, new fighters are not there. an atrishs war. >> its a what? >> a war of attrition. >> yes. >> these isis fighters include the leader of isis, abubakar al baghdadi. do you believe hes hiding in mosul or in syria, the so-called capital of the caliphate? >> i dont have intelligence but i imagine not in mosul. from that, more breathing face than in city of mosul. >> the destruction, the iraqi army doing most of th...

Is an important thing for us to know, right. >> here you have a u.s. senat, a republican, a leader, saying this is not something your hair should be on fire about, but there are important things to know. what did you learn about how this is really being processed beyond this administration? >> heres the difference -- yeah, heres the difference in why i disagree with him. theres no question for decades both the united states and russia and other foreign governments have been doing all kinds of su...

Fact-based intelligence agency. when the report came out i was disappointed that mr. trumps first reaction was to defend russia instead of the cia and fact-based intelligence gathering like i would think any american president would. >> what would you say, mr. trump says this whole thing with russia has become politicized. its just a push to delegitimize his election. what do you say to that? >> thats not my point. im interested in facts and whether or not a foreign government intruded on our ...

Information once you get it? >> can i interject the process and what can happen, in order to hack into election systems in the state -- melissa: thats not what we are talking about, though, we are talking about the emails. >> the rush owns couldnt accomplish that without an army of people in the states. it didnt happen. release of the information in the emails could affect an election but how much of an affect has on the voter. again, we are back to argument that the fbi and the cia disagree. th...

Also i put this in the back of your mind, when we say that he was behind or had a role in the paris attacks, that can mean anything. the fact that he was in touch with the master mine of the attacks doesnt mean he had any kind of command and control or was the money guy or the weapons, you know, sort of acquisition person behind any of it. it could mean that they were fellow travelers, they were part of the same network in syria. >> so, still definitely questions that youre raising there. phil, ...

Technology has just advanced so far that the new equipment cant be tdeciphered by them. so the philosophical issue of whether or not they ought to be able do it was settled way back in 1994, but now they find themselves unable and there is not the political will. >> so can phone companies be helping more? >> yes, they could be voluntarily, but they refuse go it. and the only thing that will change that is legislation. as i said, this is really pretty much seems to be, should be, a settled issue,...