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Process begins tomorrow. mark, it will be complicated but the republicans basically have the votes assuming there are major bolts. >> they had the votes to get about everybody through. we dont see any specific problems. susan collins, a centrist republican who is going to introduce jeff sessions who is arguably one of the most controversial people that donald trump has put up for his cabinet. in many ways what well see over the next couple days and weeks are proxy fights through the cabinet offi...

Phil mud, a former cia official. to you first, phil. german authorities now say that the attacker is at large. what are they doing right now to try to find him and also, did they lose a lot of time here that really could have been helpful? >> the time is critical here. this is a nervous part of an investigation because this individual has already gone over the edge. you have to wonder when hes going to crop up like a jack-in-the-box. hijacking other trucks, starting to shoot people. time is of t...

Vulnerable to any outside influences. and this is -- in this way, the result of openness which came with communication evolution and with the collapse of the soviet and disappearance of iron curtain. >> when we come back, first i will ask steve cone who he manges of all this and i will ask phil mud what washington can do to respond to russian actions. went onto ancestry, soon learned that one of our ancestors was eastern european. this is my ancestor who i didnt know about. (vo) its the holidays...

On a number of other elections. of course the russian campaign that accompanied and followed the russian invasion of cry mee yeah, which, you know, was an enormous operation in which the russians sent out conflicting signals, sent out trolls to give a different picture of what was going on. this is now a consistent pattern. the russians attempt to use information and in particular to use social media to shape the policies of other countries. and the most recent example in the u.s. was also follo...

Terrorism analyst paul cruickshank and phil mud. talking about the new figures released from u.s. officials claiming 50,000 isis fighters have now been killed. they say 75% of the isis fighters already have been killed. how accurate duke the numbers are? >> as the rare moment where i feel like laughing in the situation room. we call this a wag in the intelligence business. a wild ass guess. you are running drone operations and killing 20, 30, 40 people at a time. this is a guesstimate. and secon...

Breaking news. donald trump picks a one-time very sharp critic for his u.n. ambassador a day after seeming to drop some of his campaign pledges. bringing in our national security experts. phil mud, to you first. so nikki haley. governor of south carolina, looks like she is now going to be the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. what do you think about someone who has very little -- i mean basically none on this stage, foreign policy experience? >> lets get back by very little and stick with none. i thin...

Inflightiinflating the giant balloons. also, extra security, specifically sand trucks at intersections in manhattan. its an unprecedented effort to prevent something like this. the attack in nice, france, this july when a man drove a truck through a crowd celebrating bastille day, killing more than 80 people. bringing in phil mud, cnn counter terrorist analyst. an arrest this week, a man accused of providing materials support to isis. a catch-all term. the complaint says he was discussing the po...

And say, ill do it at home. you should not interpret this to mean isis is returning to the battlefield. theyre getting whacked out there in syria and iraq. >> people -- you want people to enjoy the holiday. you are a professional counter-terror guy. what do you say to folks this holiday season and the level of real estate? >> chillax. if you do numbers, that is, the threat from your child going to swim in a neighbors swimming pool versus the threat from an attack -- i am not talking about this t...

My fingers to the left hand. every now and then id be able to take 20 or 30 little strand of grass and eat that. but it was like okay if im going to die from exposure or being shot while i escape it is better than having my head cutoff because i saw enough of those videos to know what that would be like. >> after he was recaptured, phil. the treatment of him grew worse. he said he was tied spread eagle to a bed and he remained that way for three months. have you listened to the pod cast serial, ...

What should we make of this? lets brick in counterterrorism analyst phil mud. why would the taliban issue a press release saying we havent talked to russia? zblet untangle this. first, especially starting last summer with the announcement that the long time leader of the taliban has died. there ease been a lot of fact l factualism in the taliban. so you have to talk about faction. and the second is the russians didnt say they had a relationship with the taliban. they say they had a channel of co...