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Robust military punch in reaction to the shootdown of the drone. and then suddenly pulling back at the very last second. also interesting to note that "the new york times" suggested in that report that the administration did not ask the newspaper to hold out -- hold off on putting that information out which suggests, perhaps, that the administration essentially wanted that information to go open source. but we have seen again and again from the administration now is some dual track messaging com...

Effects on critical infrastructure such as disrupting a distribution network for a few hours. that was the public warning as of january from the director of national intelligence. russia, we have seen the warnings coming. russia now has the ability to turn off the lights in the united states if they want to. that statement from the dni in january, if you see it in context, thats the culmination of a few years of open source reporting and government documents to reporters and urgent and specific ...

Presumably a reported, i should say, iranian speedboat that approached that tanker. what in the video do you assess and what is missing in that video to assess what really happened? >> well, i think it is important to put this video in context. this video is likely just one piece of the evidence that the u.s. intelligence community has as theyve assigned culpability for this attack. this is something essentially an open source. they were able to declassify it and release it. it is unclassified. ...

Committee. thank you for being here. >> are you at a place where you are confident in saying that it is iran behind these attacks? >> yeah, i mean, look, the reporter prior, about three fifths of that discussion is what iranian propaganda is. we need to look at what irans history is. so in iraq, a quarter of american troops were killed as a direct or indirect result of iran. we can go over 30 years of history and point every time iran has lashed out at the united states or any of our allies. i h...

Learned this lesson from the mueller report and the 2016 election, means he either doesnt understand how much of a threat this is to our democracy, that he is inviting hostile powers to continue to interfere, or he just doesnt care. >> i want to ask you, senator about another major story today. you are also on the foreign affairs committee and the secretary of state mike pompeo is accusing iran of the attacks on two tankers in the middle east. he says he has intelligence but refused to offer any...

Msnbc national security analyst clint watts, former fbi special agent with the joint terrorism task force also with me. we should note for the purposes of this conversation that clint is going to be testifying tomorrow at a hearing on capitol hill on this very issue. clint, stand by. i want to start with you, because youve got the story thats about to drop. this is quite a shot at facebook. these altered videos, theyre called deep fakes. what exactly are they? how easy are they to make and what ...

Friendly planet. by seemingly different means and approaches slow fashion and high tech fashion at utopia. high tech and slow craft share a vision of another world one where we pollute much less and produce locally doing away with your need for transport. so its where we can disseminate around the world maybe just the idea or the technology or the program and i think this is where open source will play a huge role open source version where. one day i was invited to an important event and i wante...

>> okay. >> hotel. >> so early fall of last year? generally? >> generally. >> and what did he or his agent communicate to you? >> unfortunately, this topic is actually something thats being investigated right now by the southern district of new york, and ive been asked by them not to discuss it, not to talk about these issues. >> fair enough. >> michael cohen telling congressman krishnamoorthi today that something about his interactions with the president after the fbi raided cohens home and off...

Ive never heard of anything like that before in all of the open source reporting that we have done on this scandal and related matters. but if this is reference to another open investigation by federal prosecutors involving the sitting president, then thats big news and its news that we did not have before today. and then right away, right after that revelation in todays hearing, there was more, and it came next in this same back and forth between raja krishnamoorthi and michael cohen. >> fair e...

Admitting what he did. and then be man enough to offer what he should offer up, in terms of all the resources that were put into this. >> dana: your thoughts on that, sir? >> well, couple things. first of all, the chief is spot on. but thats only partial. that would only be a little bit of it. i think the true justice here, dana, is what were going to see called a federal nightmare. hes going to be moving into the federal twilight zone where he learns every time he lied to the chicago detectives...