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How can he know the innermost thoughts. >> why are we really hear? >> tucker: this is a serious question.ke how could he know that? >> intelligence reporting through electronic sources. >> tucker: no indication of how he could no vladimir putins innermost thoughts about hillary clinton. >> should we tell the world how we collect intelligence? >> tucker: before government officials change our foreign policy and declare war against a sovereign country a as you are attempting to do, we have a right...

What triggers the investigation is really what were trying to get to, in general. maybe not with the iraqi ambassador but the russian ambassador, what are my obligations. do i need to advise someone that im meeting with them, do i have to discuss the agenda before i meet with them? just so were clear, this is really what its coming down to, a lot about what were talking about. so i dont think its unnecessary or ridiculous for me to ask that, and so in intelligence reporting, if the identity of a...

Every day to generate insights on this activity and to thwart its effectiveness. cyber defense is a team sport. one of nsas strongest partners in this effort is director comeys team at the fbi. im glad to be able to describe here today how we are working together to help protect the nation and our allies to include providing a better understanding of russian intentions and capabilities. in light of the assessment and findings, i welcome your investigation into russian overall activities targetin...

Also at the same time that candidate trump was doing an interview with russian television that there was really no substance to these allegations. so what that tells me is someone that works in intelligence reporting is that you can see three lines of inquiry from the russians at that time. the hacking, this probing of senator sessions that was a surrogate for the campaign and the interview with donald trump. you can see this, i would argue, as an element and evidence of coordination by the russ...

Reporting? is he getting the kind of information he needs to help him guide him through the decisions hes going to make in the national security and foreign policy realm in the future? >> ambassador, you touched on it, but i do want to read what the now former cia director john brennan said in a statement after donald trump spoke and made a speech standing in front of the cia memorial wall. this is what he put out in a statement. "former cia director brennan is saddened and angered at donald tru...

It wasnt delivered to him in person as you and i talked about. it was delivered to his office in a classified manner, an appropriate manner. but they were somehow using an alley-oop play, that somehow cnn was setting up buzzfeed to do the dirty work. or is he trying to smear cnn with the behavior of buzzfeed? >> i think youre right, chris. >> which is right? he said buzzfeed wouldnt have introduced it if you guys didnt introduce the topic. >> intelligence reporting is hard, chris. and this was h...

Going to be all over the place and, sure enough, it was. there are a lot of meetings that you take people aside and you just talk to them. so its interesting. so it was not briefed to him in the briefing and they didnt get the dossier in the briefing? is that correct? >> they brought the dossier to the briefing but didnt leave it there is our understanding. this intelligence reporting is hard. we have a very good source by i imagine its kind of like trying to get information about vladimir putin...

Buzzfeed wouldnt have done it if you didnt introduce the topic? >> intelligence reporting is hard, chris, and this was highly classified information. the fact that a summary of this dossier was included in a classified compartmented briefing that went to trump, that went to president obama, went to senior members of congress, that was a really hard get. when nbc nice scrambled to confirm that last night, it was difficult for us as well. we knew we had to be careful about it and, you know, cnn di...

But ill tell you that we shouldnt need this kind of intelligence reporting to tell us that vladimir putin would be leading this effort. this wasnt sort of a one-off rogue operation. i mean, there were, again, this was a multi-facetted operation that includes everything from rt americas promotion of donald trump here in the united states, the hacks, the relationship with the alt-right and the white supremacist movement in the united states, positive statements by putin about donald trump. threats...

Terrorism and presidential candidate ben carson is here, we have a report suggesting someone tampered with the intelligence on isis that is being given to president obama. the question is whether that was directed by obama and his staff. in moments well join by lieutenant general flint serving as director of defense intelligence or dia and a former islamic extremist who has a surprising take on the presidents handling of isis. we begin with catherine herigde reporting from washington. >> reporte...