see it. i m certain, whenever you see what s called the leaking of information, it is probably done strategically. it could be done under some guise of threat. there could be communications bift happens. what you re referring to, wasn t communication before hand but i m sure whoever is behind it has to be thinking of how to get maximum impact based on timing. you brought up 1996 was the first time you knew that russians were trying to do this. i ve had intelligence sources tell me for years, look. there are other countries. while the chinese throw a lot at this, the russians have been much more sophisticated than anyone else and there s a nuance to what they do versus anyone else. is this a putin program? who run this is program? with, it is hard for me to tell. what we get to see firsthand is the results of doing nearly 20
it weakens our national security for two reasons. it makes it more difficult for the troops overseas to find the critical muslim allies, translators, intelligence sources, who put their trust in us to give us information about the terrorists. the new executive order makes it much harder for our troops to work with them. the second reason is that isis and other terrorist organizations will use this executive order, regardless of what the president or the secretary of homeland security says about it, they ll use this executive order to aid in this their recruiting to further the idea that they have that america is at war with the muslim-american faith. the president says he doesn t believe this is happening. with all due respect, mr. secretary, turn on your twitter app and see right online isis doing that today, using these things that president trump is doing to help with their recruiting efforts to inspire more terrorists to attack americans here at home and our troops overseas.
trump administration unless the media treats it like it s significant. we hear all kinds of things, i ve heard all sorts of things about barack obama s romantic life. i hope they are not true. i would never report on that. isn t it irresponsible to pass on something that you can t verify? i don t know how you don t see that as a journalist. the new york times, the washington post, some of the leading journalist organizations routinely write stories that are based on information that they haven t verified. the new york times verified all the information that was in all the emails that were reported on? no. all the information that they got from intelligence sources? no, they base those reports on the credibility of the source. it is reportable he credible
think for the president-elect to have this healthy skepticism about the intel. they have gotten things wrong. weapons of mass destruction was not a slam dunk in iraq. isis was not a jv team. all of that came from intelligence sources. i think everybody should sort of calm down a little bit. wait and see what happens. let him get the briefings. bret: we just heard that they report is done. he will be the president will be briefed tomorrow. the intelligence officials will go to the president-elect on friday. this is going to be the fault line where trump could get into real trouble with his own party. john mccain is holding a hearing tomorrow morning about this topic. he s going to have james clapper, director of national intelligence, in front of him. i m sure donald trump is going to see it, not like it. maybe tweet about it.
i do think it s a good thing i think for the president-elect to have this healthy skepticism about the intel. they have gotten things wrong. weapons of mass destruction was not a slam dunk in iraq. isis was not a jv team. all of that came from intelligence sources. i think everybody should sort of calm down a little bit. wait and see what happens. let him get the briefings. bret: we just heard that they report is done. he will be the president will be briefed tomorrow. the intelligence officials will go to the president-elect on friday. this is going to be the fault line where trump could get into real trouble with his own party. john mccain is holding a hearing tomorrow morning about this topic. he s going to have james clapper, director of national intelligence, in front of him. i m sure donald trump is going to see it, not like it.