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Factors for and against. >> you dont think youve heard enough. you dont think in terms of the two reports they put out where they say they found digital fingerprints that point to russia, thats not been enough for you yet? >> well, you havent been read into this either. so i think the important thing is that i believe that the patriots that work for our intelligence organizations including the nsa -- remember, the cia generally is not the one that would look at those footprints. it would be the ...

It is for intelligence gathering purposes and, but i want to reiterate, there is no truth to this idea of restructuring the intelligence community infrastructure. it is 100% false. >> bret: mollie? >> it seems the trump administration wanted to walk back that were hearing that they might revamp these agencies. that is disappointing because i think we do need to revamp, we do have a problem with a highly political intelligence mechanism in our government, and it needs major reform. this is a prob...

So, guys, gals, lets get our shit together and open up the lines of communication, especially when it came to intelligence. >> the single most important thing we could do is collaborate. we got the capabilities that we didnt have, and additional capacity that we could never produce inside my small force, and we leveraged that with conventional forces with intelligence organizations, with other parts of the government. >> mcchrystal, flynn, their pitch to the national security agency was we dont ...

All 16, 17 intelligence agencies of being manipulated by the president of the united states for political reasons? >> no, what im saying is, and these are well vetted stories about insiders who have provided reports of whats happening in the middle east with iraq, syria, with afghanistan, of modifying the reports that have come out of their intelligence organizations -- >> is mike mccaul -- [ overlapping speakers ] mike mccaul is a republican, hes from texas, highly respected. is he being manipu...

In the investigation, but the shootings have raised questios s about the readiness of the local and federal authorities to i identify potential homegrown terrorist, and are enough resources put into the ability to identify homegrown terrorists? >> no, there is not sufficient resources. the fbi is going to the have to beef up their operations, and all of it has to be reviewed by congress, and we are in the midst of an appropriations process right now, and i hope that my colleagues on the appropri...

Concern. so its a major object of of, for them. >> the british seem much more confident about this. they had the "telegraph" reported tonight that terrorist chatter led to their determination about what theyre doing. and the "times" of london said there was a specific bag on the plane. either of those things match up with what youre hearing? >> well, i dont know about specific bag. as i say, i think that various countries intelligence organizations are monitoring the chatter to see if that lines...

And to cause the worry and concern. so its a major object of of, for them. >> the british seem much more confident about this. they had the "telegraph" reported tonight that terrorist chatter led to their determination about what theyre doing. and the "times" of london said there was a specific bag on the plane. either of those things match up with what youre hearing? >> well, i dont know about specific bag. as i say, i think that various countries intelligence organizations are monitoring the c...

>> i think the difference intelligence organizations of various countries are trying to pull together the threads of intelligence and put them together to figure out what happened. you want to be pretty sure before you reach a conclusion. my guess is once they have the threads together theyll find there was an explosion on this plane and then, the challenge is to find who did it. and go from there. >> you we have not heard of any specific evidence of this explosion. have you? >> well, the plane ...

Been against this deal. do you know if he has read the accord, this 100-page document? would he do that? im curious, his belief of all this, how much of this is politics and how much is this what you think he intrinsically believes? >> first of all, i do believe that he read most of the report if not the full 159 pages with the appendixes. dont forget that half of the report 60%, are just names of corporations and individuals who were put under the sanctions. if he didnt read the full report cer...

Would be like a justin bieber up and coming person and not a spy. >> but there is real reason for this. there is real purpose behind this. i know some people think there arent terrorists out there and that we have won the war on terrorism. there are people oddly enough that would still like to hurt us. >> there there arent. >> the early adapters of technology tend to be very good at this. what you have to do is combat it in a logical fashion. if that means to set up a fake page to lure one of th...