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Drone program, has served as president obamas terrorism expert. wyden says it makes a mockery of the oversight process. he says he was kept in the loop about the strike that killed an american-born al qaeda leader. >> we do have oversight into it. i knew about those operations, the targeting sets, all of that leading up to it, including very shortly thereafter. and i review all of is the air strikes that we use under this title of the law. >> lets turn to our panel tonight. msnbc military analys...

Look better because basically everybody has full care, the whole list for the day looks like everybody showed up. this is the kind of thing that the va says theyre not going to put up with because it isnt really centered on caring for the veterans. it is centered on making them look good, but how deep, how widespread the problem is is still something were looking into. the va says they think its out there, mr. shownhart does, his memo suggests that there is a very widespread problem here. kyra? ...

Congress supposed to be doing oversight during the years that the financial crisis was unraveling. and suddenly theres -- they are so indignant and outraged this was going on under their noses. i think we will see that again today where we hear this indignant rage, washington theater, and you have to ask congress had a role in this, too. where were they doing the oversight process? it is going to be a lingering question. >> an excellent question not only in this case but when the miners died in ...

V.w. involves a book and larry thompson is the v.w. inspector from the u.s. state department both have the same goal to make sure theres never another diesel scandal at folks wagon but in the first interim report of the so-called v.w. monitor there continues to be deficits for example not reporting new emissions tests to the us authorities transparency to which v.w. is committed itself according to the auditors commentary were not there yet but were in a i think a very rigorous and professional ...

You know, i think the only people that are happy about this are sitting in places like russia and china, our adversaries watching us for political reasons destroy a process, an intelligence oversight process that worked for the american people, that worked for national security, that took us 50 years to establish and were watching it come apart for political reasons. its a sorry day for our country. >> perhaps something that you and the president agree on is that in russia hi ear laughing at us....

Stupid people by stupid people. and it is. the memo that devin nunes drafted himself did not have any new information as sean hannity says. the only new information we had is that the, quote, plan to manipulate the election happened with a secret fisa hearing in october, one month before the election, that was never leaked during the election and after carter page had left the trump campaign. so how this was an attempt to spy on the trump campaign and change the course of the election, its just ...

A former nsa general counsel will join us. former staffer of the house intelligence committee will join us. national security reporter will be here. we have all of the angles of this story covered today on this remarkable day in washington. it was a day like weve never seen before, of course, thanks to donald trump. and this time devon nunes. >> the intelligence community incidentally collected information about u.s. citizens involved in the trump transition. >> todays actions i think have reall...

Holliday, gentlemen, nice to have you on. manu, i defer to you first in terms of what youre hearing on capitol hill. senator sessions is a veteran, almost two decades there. how much support does he have? how confident in terms of folks youre talking to could he sail through these confirmation hearings? >> theres a good chance he gets confirmed, mike pompeo gets confirmed. republicans will be controlling the senate in the new congress, theyll have 52 seats and because of the democratic change of...

Basis to establish an oversight structure for cyber operations, terrorist operations and sensitive military operation. an oversight structure that allows the department to operate in volatile, rapidly changing world and give us the ability to exercise our duties under the constitution. the basis of all three of those areas that we get timely, accurate information from the department. and this failure, even if it was ordered by the white house, undermines the ability to have that sort of oversigh...

Oversight process that we have with the intelligence community. so my point to you is that it is not just about this incident, and it is not just about somebody having their feelings hurt, this decision undermines a lot of the working relationship in all of these eareas of national security. i think that it is important that the whole administration understands some of the ramifications of this. let me ask a specific question. press reports indicate that the sergeant bergdahl was captured by a h...