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Understand the capabilities and the quality of people we have. how are you preparing to be better prepared as a questioner? >> we have been going through the different records and whether i dont think we will get comey into a closed meeting in us so we can go at it on what intel we have above the open source. >> you are speaking a lot of washington words here. basically places where you can see classified materials. >> places where we can see it and talk about it and be able to ask questions tha...

>> thank you so much for coming in this morning. we appreciate it. so this is the third terrorist attack in the u.k. what can you tell us? what do we know about the perpetrators of last nights attack and is there any risk to americans right now beyond the normal risk? >> basically they have pretty much the same information that youve got in open source. they still dont know for sure whether this was terrorist inspired or terrorist directed, whether this was homegrown or directed by isis or al qa...

Tolerance. >> can i get to the question that i had, please? did the president reveal a city? i mean, the spin is that the president revealed a name of the city and that gave away information that undermined an ally. >> okay. so all of you are very familiar with the threat from isis. s all of you are familiar with the territory it controls. if you were to say from where do you think a threat might come from territory that isis controls, you would probably be able to name a few cities i would thin...

Came from. >> all of you are very familiar with the territory and controls. if you were to say, hey, from where do you think a threat might come from territory that isis controls, you would probably be able to name a few cities, i would think. and so it was nothing that you would not know from open source reporting in terms of the source of concern. and it had all to do with operations that are already ongoing, had been made public for months. >> that classified information is kebl is connected ...

Course of the next couple weeks, increased focus on tax reform. we start the appropriations process for the next fiscal year and the need for infrastructure. from a legislative standpoint, we just need to continue to press forward -- >> so you dont think the crises have gotten in the way of what you want to do? >> not for me. im going to go back down to washington, d.c. here in a couple of hours to start a new week. whether its the committees i serve on or the legislation thats before us, you kn...

And the justice department. >> some of it involves rachel maddow. staff was making, but you got on the phone yourself to the justice department to say is jeff sessions recused from matters involving paul manafort, which could involve -- which do involve ukraine and russia and if he is -- if he is recused on russia, he must be recused on manafort and there is no answer. >> i wasnt on the phone. i was on the keyboard. but that means our whole back and forth actually we have in writing. i remain co...

Which could involve -- which do involve ukraine and russia and if he is -- if he is recused on russia, he must be recused on manafort and there is no answer. >> i wasnt on the phone. i was on the keyboard. but that means our whole back and forth actually we have in writing. i remain convinced that the justice department has an answer to this question. its either yes or no. he is recuse order he is not. they wont tell us yes or no. which leads me to believe, leads me to suppose that sessions is n...

High-profile, open source reports, news reports on mike flynn being paid to work for a foreign government. that was reported in the right wing news, that was reported in the middle of the road news, it was reported in the beltway news, it was even reported on dumb old cable tv news. it was widely publicly reported that mike flynn was being paid to work for a foreign government. null we also now know that the transition -- in addition to all that news about it, we also now know that congress was ...

For dealing with the north korean military threat? >> our forces are always ready to fight and the deterrent cannot be fixed. you know, we really worry that the president doesnt have the ability to do that, with no deputy secretary of state, no one in the white house who has experience working this problem that a diplomatic solution is hard. military threats, sounding tough is icy. hopefully well get answers about what our strategy is beyond making these threats. >> final question, because i don...

From what i have learned from open source reporting, it would be difficult. if they could reconstitute their nuclear program within several years then what have we accomplished other than setting off a very dramatic war in a region in the world where we have a lot of allies? >> lets get to other issues while i have you, senator. general michael flynn, presidents fired national security adviser, all of us saw that video of general flynn and putin in moscow together at t205 rt russian television e...