Page 7 - Intelligence Operation News Today

Information about things shes learned in the course of her her work, she provides it. >> what some of my sources have said is they wouldnt send the a-team if they were testing. because they dont know whether the trump team is going to call the fbi and everyone is going to be arrested. >> its possible the russian lawyer may not have known the real reason she was in the meeting. >> if this worked an intelligence operation, you might pick someone just like this russian attorney. her inability to ma...

>> she referred to herself as a government informer. and i think what she meant by that is that like a lot of people in russia, she does not work for the government. but when asked to provide information about things shes learned in the course of her her work, she provides it. >> what some of my sources have said is they wouldnt send the a-team if they were testing. because they dont know whether the trump team is going to call the fbi and everyone is going to be arrested. >> its possible the ru...

Additional sanctions last year which trump had opposed. he spoke out against them in a notice after those passed the congress, and then hes done very little to enforce them. hes tried to block them within his administration. so this is not an issue where the president is willing to show leadership. >> frank, this may call for a judgment on your part, but from where we sit you have more judgment than some of the people weve seen in washington these days. why doesnt trump act? >> thats the million...

This intelligence operation. and were itching to do something to fight back. you know, the question is, where is the policy, where is the directives that will give us the opportunity to unleash some of the technology that we have to counter this? >> so philip, you know where this leaves us. and that is in november, election night for the midterms, i imagine youre going to be part of our coverage. what if were sitting -- it will happen in this very studio -- and we get weird numbers, a groundswel...

Indisputable. the fact is the russians, they ate our lunch in the course of this intelligence operation. and were itching to do something to fight back. the question is where is the policy, where is the directives that will give us the opportunity to unleash some of the technology we have to counter this? >> so, philip, you know where this leaves us and that is in november election night for the mid-terms. i imagine youre going to be part of our coverage. what if were sitting, itll happen in thi...

Samantha. as you mentioned, he was -- he was on the transition executive committee. he was a transition official, don jr. was. and he never joined the administration. in that regard, does that in any way inoculate the president from any wrongdoing that don jr. would be part of? >> i dont think that we know yet. and ill leave that part to the special counsel. i do think that, again, its clear, the russian government launched a very successful intelligence operation. they tried to target members o...

Russia and had dealings with the russian security police, fsb. this is a case of the russians using oddly enough their soft power which is americans interests in guns. and using that to develop contacts, make contacts with people ostensibly out of a joint mutual interest in shooting weapons, but in fact sometimes there is something behind that which leads to an intelligence operation. >> so jared kushner was e-mailed from alexander tortian, was asked to have an official to attend the event. thes...

>> mud is saying they only needed dirt. yeah. im halfway there with john. regardless whether you think they orchestrated this as an intelligence operation. he said nothing illegal happened here. thats not the point. even if they heard about the meeting afterwards, that a political player, the potential president is willing to accept dirt from hostile foreign intelligence power. if you got that message in moscow, the lesson might be let me direct my intelligence resources to collect information s...

Petersburg today. he did not get answers about why exactly they held that meeting. originally the banker said it was for business purposes, but the administration has repeatedly said it was just trying to open some diplomatic actions. back to putin, hes saying a kid could have engineered the hack on the election. >> its just the perfect troll-like behavior. vladimir putin is certainly taking pleasure in the chaos its created. katy, what i learned from working in this sphere for four years with t...

Address, but as long as youre addressing those, youre not able to focus on the mission. so, it really impacts focus. its part of the environment we work in. and so, were good at it, but it really is an unnecessary distraction. and its better if that kind of thing doesnt happen for the intelligence community. it really is. >> and naveed, when this happened, its not that donald trump, you know, gave away basically an intelligence operation that we were working on, it was the israelis information, ...