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Yours and most of the world was reeling. weve seen this week where the presidents gone over and been disdainful to our nato allies, then has this one-on-one meeting where candidly i didnt trust mr. trump to be alone with mr. putin. mr. putin, a kgb agent, has been indicated would come in much better prepared than trump, who im sure just winged it. id like to know what went on in that meeting. and then in this press conference afterwards where he basically throws the whole american intelligence c...

Today. >> what do you think putin was probing for when he had his two hours with trump all alone? >> you know, chris, that is the $64 million question. when wed already seen trump go into a meeting one on one with the north korean leader and then come out and say everybody can rest easy, north korea is no longer a nuclear power, theyre going to agree to denuclearize. and weve seen in the aftermath no progress. weve clearly seen our intelligence community still say north koreas a threat. why was ...

Mentioned. >> in another stunning move, president trump suggested federal investigators should collaborate with the foreign adversary, the russians, with their investigating. trump spoke approvingly of putins proposal to let the special counsel mueller witness russian questioning of defendants in russia if the united states allowed russian officials to do the same here. >> translator: we can actually permit special representatives of the united states including the members of this very commissio...

>> yeah, you know, one of the great stories about this, if anyone in congress was sitting on the fence, wondering whether they should confirm mike pompeo as our next secretary of state, they should look at the evidence of diplomatic initiative. if you said peace through strength, i fondly remember president reagan, and not inconsistent with this it. and i think that is what were doing hear, hear with north korea. mike pompeo on intelligence, he is deeply respected within the region up and among ...

Question, and he said, look, theres a lot of things that look smoky but theres no fire yet. and thats still true. we know the russians have been meddling in our elections as long as theyve been able to do that. does that mean theres collusion? theres no evidence of that yet. >> obviously, theres a lot of smoke because each day there are pieces of wood that are added to the fire. and what mike warner said is when james comey announced he was doing an investigation of russian collusion calls dan c...

Trying to create distractions, try to avoid it as much as possible. this is a legitimate question. even in washington where people say this is going to be done differently, thats going to stretch it and theyre resigned to it, as i said. joining me now is connecticut congressman jim hines, development director on intelligence. congressman, thank you for joining us. there is a d and d inspection were hearing about now in addition to news from the hill. tell us the reaction of what just came out to...

The second area is equally important. we have never seen a president elect have this kind of breach with the intelligence community shortly before taking office. thats unprecedented. we spent $70 billion a year, its estimated, on intelligence. right now donald trump doesnt seem to believe it is worth the effort. he is very dismissive. >> some experts called it a constitutional crisis. bob baer said we should have a do over and have the election again. if this election comes back with hard, indis...

Senate committees on intelligence, mike rogers, dianne feinstein, we saw them talking about this dooms day scenar scenario, where mr. snowden is partly to blame for making things much worse in our national security situation. take a listen. >> so you think about whats happened with the recent disclosures. we now have three the al-qaeda affiliate groups have changed the way they communicate. means its less likely were going to be able to detect something prior to an event that goes operational, m...

Iran has about a year and here is what prime minister said. >> hasnt yet reached the red line that i described in my speech at the u.n. theyre getting closer. >> we do have a common assessment on these schedules, on intelligence. we share that intelligence. and we dont have any -- any argument about it. >> when you hear that, neftali, do you worry that the world may say prime minister netanyahu has cried wolf? he said this was urgent. we had a time and now he is saying wait another year. >> im c...

President obama agree that iran is at least a year away. netanyahu agrees with the u.s. intelligence timeline on that issue. but it sounds like netanyahu got what he wanted to hear out of the president, which is making sure nothing was being taken off the table. take a listen. >> i think that theres a misunderstanding about time. if iran decides to go for a nuclear weapon, that is to actually manufacture the weapon, then it probably -- then it will take them about a year. we do have a common ass...