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Secretary mayorkas said the u.s. still has options and capabilities to prevent that. >> we no longer have troops in afghanistan but we have other resources to learn information on the ground and we certainly use those resources to the best of our abilities. we are quite creative and quite capable of learning information from coast to coast and all over the world. >> joining me now is michael chertoff, former secretary of homeland security, a position created after 9/11 to prevent another attack ...

Reactivated, but the company said tonight nope, it is still banned and so it is not up and running, but ive spoken to some officials were very familiar with the trump plan and they suggest to me that theyre not necessarily looking to get back into the water with some of the usual suspects with respect to social media and that they may be very close to doing something on their own in a very big way. we will have to keep an eye on that. shannon. >> shannon: okay, we know you will. kevin, we have s...

December of 2018 rudy giuliani started talking about a series of former and current ukrainian officials, he says telling cnn several times over the last several months that gull was particularly interested in a supposed theory that the origin of the fbi investigation into russian interference in the 2016 election somehow began in ukraine. he says while in the process of learning information about that he also stumbled upon information regarding joe bidens son hunter biden who was on the board of...

>> interesting. evan, our other evan, evan perez reporting the whistle-blowers concerns arise in part from learning information not obtained during the course of their work, that they didnt have direct knowledge of the communication. so who is the pool of people we are talking about? >> who could have known about the conversation? it could have been somebody at the national security counsel. somebody at the white house who saw a readout of the call, if it was a call. we dont know for sure if tha...

If this information doesnt fall in the jurisdiction of the inspector general, theb it has to full under a different jurisdiction if there was violation of law. and be referred to the appropriate authority. if on the other hand this doesnt fall under the jurisdiction and also not legal, theres no reason to with hold the information from members of congress and the american public. so in this case, what the acting dni needs to be and the justice department needs to answer the rest of the question....

Release derogatory information about people who arent going to be indicted. but because the doj has a policy that the president cant be indicted, should that change how this is handled? >> thats an excellent point, don, and i think it very well might. because in a typical situation there is a privacy interest of someone who the doj had a chance to indict and decided not to. as you note, doj has long maintained that the president is constitutionally immune to indictment. hes not immune, of course...

As you note the doj has long maintained that the president is constitutionally immune to indictment. hes not immune, of course, to impeachment. and to the extent that is something if indictment is not on the table then impeachment has to be at least theoretically on the table. and therefore there is far more than in the usual situation, a public interest in learning information, derogatory information about someone who even though that person is not going to be indicted by doj. >> garret, for as...

Key, fact witnesses in all this matter, have them testify in public, just like what happened in watergate. just like what happened in iran-contra. just like what happened during whitewater. all the major scandals in recent history, public hearings, public testimony. enough of this beliend clohind doors stuff, in which were relying on leaks from sources, all who have their own agendas. >> julie, i mean, michael raises a fascinating idea there. given that theres so much concern about any final rep...

Troll farms and any sort of ideas of wikileaks is on the periphery and the mandate is the russian interference and the election. you have hillary clintons campaign chairman e-mails leaked and on wikileaks and according to the indictments those were taken by the russians. we have to check that box from the stand point of learning information about it that speaks to robert muellers mandate so i suspect well hear more in the coming weeks and perhaps months as far as who are these guys, what might t...