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Would be someone willing to pay them. >> bret: do you have a good window into the capabilities and intent of north korea? >> capabilities, yes. the intent is proven and incredibly difficult intelligence problem. we think we have an understanding. we think kim jong un wants these weapons for protecting his regime and ultimately the reunification of the peninsula. there is still a lot the intelligence community needs to learn. >> bret: has china been doing more to reign in north korea? >> yes, the...

Trying to do business with donald trump can you trust him? >> this kind of pretty inflammatory language, what does it do to the cooperation the u.s. is seeking from many majority muslim nations working to fight isis, al qaeda and other terror organization snz. >> president trump reaches in these moments for whatever statement makes him look like the strong man, the tough guy, not necessarily the guy who is going to bring people and allies together and that is the tendency and that is what you se...

Word catalisma and not catastrophic. >> would the u.s. know about it ahead of time from areal surveillance? >> heck no, i give that about a zero. there is two aspects of any intelligence problem. thats capability intense. you have seen the u.s. intelligence assessment in particular from the agency of capability. can north korea put together a missile dl missile delivers a target like guam, i suspect it is not true. the second aspect of this is more difficult. if you have that capability and you ...

Life in real estate in new york, only it doesnt work in international diplomacy. and it certainly wont work with north korea. >> i think i said he used the word cataclysmic, but i think it was catastrophic. are you confident that if north korea was serious in carrying through with their threat, the u.s. would actually know about it ahead of time from aerial surveillance? >> heck, no. i would give that about a zero. there are two aspects of any intelligence problem. that is capability and intent....

What might have been shared and how important it is? >> i think from a messaging perspective and i think they are trying to treat this as a pr problem, which it is an intelligence problem, no question about it, and they are trying to stuff the answer into a shell that they created by the president getting this out there. i mean, you got h.r. mcmaster, secretary tillerson out there trying to put context on this, a nondenial denial and then you have the president coming out in tweets this morning ...

Hundreds of thousands of civilian resident sns. >> we knew this was going to be a problem. as isis was bottled up into the densely populated area, any use of air or artillery was going to cause civilian casualties. the objective is to minimize the risk. when you are dropping high explosives into a very compact area, this is what happens. the problem is, knowing whats underunderneath where you are striking. this is an intelligence problem and fast-moving problem and a fluid problem. when these ta...

Assumptions based upon whats happened over the past year and what wikileaks has been doing. look, jake, they claim to be a transparency organization. i wish they would emphasize transparency in some of the worlds autocratic nations rather than one of the worlds great democracies. >> you talk about the culture at the cia but i have to -- and the intelligence service in general. this leak, this hack, whatever it was, follows documents revealed by edward snowden, chelsea manning and nsa contractor ...

Walk us through how the intelligence products are consumed by a president. because were talking about donald trumps views on the intel community in the context of something that clearly gets under his skin. his team clearly feels that john mccains hearing tomorrow is an effort to delegitimize by raising questions about russian influence in our election, his victory. he doesnt seem to see both things as possible. something, dan is going to join us later, i think i just blew a surprise, the talk a...

Intel community in the context of something that clearly gets under his skin. his team clearly feels that john mccains hearing tomorrow is an effort to delegitimize by raising questions about russian influence in our election, his victory. he doesnt seem to see both things as possible. something, dan is going to join us later, i think i just blew a surprise, the talk about how intel is consumed by a president. >> well, first most presidents in recent years have started their day with an intellig...

Of members, tremendous geographic space under the taliban and afghanistan, but we had a center of operations that we could target with operations that included human source, intercepted phone and e-mails. think of whats happened in the past 15 years. if this is true that isis and sinai did this independently, think of the other isis cells we witnessed cropping up around the world in the last year or two. bangladesh, pakistan, libya, tunisia, syria and iraq. if youre an intelligence organization ...