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Home of barack and michelle obama. joining me on the phone is the former director of national intelligence under president obama, james clapper. general clapper, thanks for joining us. what kinds of questions do you think intelligence officials are asking behind the scenes right now? what are they looking for in this investigation? >> well, i think things like, you know, who else might be a potential target. is there any international implication here? i think, you know, the nature of the weapon...

And cannot have or say on their platforms. so thats one of the challenges they face. >> matt, jump in on this. what are you thinking? >> i think ellen is exactly right. look, the social media companies have a responsibilities for policing whats on their platform. they need to do what they can to find content that is being put into their systems by foreign governments, in this case mostly the russian government, and get it off their networks. the fbi has a responsibility to find out those attacks...

Observance is effective when done by trained personnel. yes, its been shown to be effective. >> tsa spokesman in the statement, one part of it i wanted to ask you about. what these air marshals is doing than no different than a cop working a beat. looking for suspicious behavior in the community that they work in, gathering intelligence, watching people for suspicious behavior. do they have a point? >> actually, they do. air marshals are cops on the beat. they are united states 1811 law enforcem...

Enforcement function and there really is no way to get rid of that as it is designed? >> its a law enforcement agency to be sure, but i think really the problem is at the end of the day they are tasked with enforcing a set laws that this country is divided upon. we have not modernized our immigration laws. we privately need immigration reform. we have 11.5 undocumented immigrants in this country which the majority have not committed any crimes. 86% have been here since 2006. when you have a law ...

Confidential information about a confidential human source that the fbi used in the early stages of its investigation into whether or not the russian government and russian intelligence agencies were trying to penetrate donald trumps presidential campaign. to compliment the ongoing at the time russian government efforts to interfere with the presidential campaign to benefit trumps candidacy. and were going to be speaking with presidential historian michael beschloss later tonight. so we will che...

Your listeners text or viewers texts no context hard to figure out what theyre talking about. >> bret: there is a lost of text and a lot of context with those guys. >> the ones i have looked at i have had a hard time figuring out. >> bret: this morning the president also said this on "fox & friends." >> if you look at the corruption at the top of the fbi, its a disgrace. and our justice department, which i try and stay away from, but at some point i wont. >> bret: what do you think he meant ther...

Words a troubled cop. >> tortured and troubled man. americas dirty cop has destroyed the integrity, the reputation and the legitimacy of the federal bureau of investigation single-handedly by his outrageous performance on abc. it is inconceivable to me that anyone can now think that he performed a legitimate law enforcement function during the investigation of hillary clinton. its quite obvious that the dossier was a fake document. that it was absolutely purposefully used illegally by senior off...

Law enforcement function during the investigation of hillary clinton. it is quite obvious that the dossier was a fake document, that it was absolutely purposefully used illegally by senior officials of the fbi and the department of justice. mr. comey has lied repeatedly last night and regrettably, he lied to the fisa court, he encouraged others to lie to the fisa court, and regrettably, i think mr. comey has to be charged with crimes for falsely presenting information to a fisa court and for app...

Look at the dossier, what do we see? he is saying to george stephanopoulos, it is still unverified, and yet, andrew mccabe is on record saying, oh, without the dossier, no warrant, and hes also knowing that the dossier made up the bulk of the application according to the grassley-graham memo. he is saying they never corroborated it and they brought that before a fisa court judge in an application? what does that say to you? >> this tortured and troubled man, who you saw last night on television,...

Intelligence officials in his administration, in the closing weeks they were there, to try to deal responsibly with this totally unprecedented, remarkable situation. as president obama tried to separate the law enforcement function here from the national security counterintelligence function here. law enforcement, you proceed by the book. the president stressed, hes not instructing anything from a lawn enforcement perspective. our law enforcement team needs to proceed by the book. from an intell...