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Have thousands of pages of transcripts. if you dont correct the record youre in legal jeopardy. i dont think she did any of us a favor. i you think a lawyer said you better speak whether you want to speak or not, you better speak because you might be in legal jeopardy if you dont. i dont trust her for a heartbeat. >> but i mean she did end up providing -- >> i disagree. >> she had to. whats her choice? >> she could have said she didnt remember things. but go ahead, olivia. you know about this. g...

Department of defense, energy, and other energy agencies to strengthen nuclear deterrence. so this news comes just days after an attack on for power substations in washington state that left thousands of people in the dark on christmas day, as well as another of attacks on power stations across the country over the last few months. joining us now to discuss this is phil -- . thank you for coming back. does it sound like these are in -- facilities are isolated incidents to you? >> no, i kind of l...

Force adviser at the time, this is so out of the realm of the possibility that this is something thats happening in the west wing. this is something that id never dealt with in my entire national security career. >> oh, my gosh, olivia. thats incredible. you really had your hands full running interference so that it didnt make it to the vice presidents desk. and phil, that leads me to you. i mean, the qanon crazy stuff that was floating around the president between marjorie taylor greene, so som...

President, general kelly, these are serious people who talk about guardrails around the president. as the presidency proceeds under president trump you get people like peter navarro who are talking about qanon, which is nuts. my point about 2024 and the candidacy of president trump going into the next election is if you take out people like the president had in 2016, 17, you bring rationality into the oval office and you assume the next round will be the peter navarros of the world, you tell me ...

Indicted for refusing to comply with subpoenas from the committee. but really cassidy hutchinson here now that we have four complete transcripts from her, we are seeing a ton more details revealed to the committee than we really previously knew. and that begs the question here, shes cooperated with the justice department. you know, what might she lend to their investigation and what potential criminal charges based on her accounts could that potentially lead to? thats something were going to rea...

Looking at the chinese, the russians, the iranians who have to be reading u.s. newspapers and watching cnn, and try to understand how much they may have stolen or compromise over the past decade and what they would do if they got it. we really dont know the answer to, that alisyn. >> i dont like that, phil. i dont like hearing that. because thats -- shutting down our electrical grid, we always hear, that its sort of an abstract anxiety that we have. maybe our electrical grid or our power grid is...

A favor. i think her lawyer said, you better speak now whether you want to or not, you better speak because you might be in legal jeopardy if you dont. >> i dont trust or for a heartbeat. >> but she did in a providing -- >> i disagree. >> olivia, you can speak to the -- >> she could have. >> i did understand the. >> go ahead olivia. >> i understand the legal aspect of that. and yes, she probably got counseled on that. let me dig into the implications of. that i think we all need to take a step b...

As well as another of attacks on power stations across the country over the last few months. joining us now to discuss this is phil mudd. thank you for coming back. does it sound like these are isolated incidents to you? >> no, i kind of look at this in a few categories. the first to figure out is these attacks that weve seen recently, the anti government, people who dont like government or big utilities, you go a step up and you get into criminal organizations that are conducting ransomware, th...

Judge was now involved. i was having current or former members of government sympathetic to these ideologies complicate investigations? >> boy, this gets really sensitive and were going to see this again. there is a parallel in the united states. that is, if you ask one question, is it appropriate for the fbi and the others to investigate domestic extremist groups that want to practice an act of violence. you would say of course thats what the fbi does. let me change the question before we go ba...

-- phil mudd, senior -- disguise calling himself a prince. this guy is inspired by qanon and the former president and the attack on january 6th. i mean, why do you think -- does this just strike you as just really strange? >> no, actually, i would disagree with you. it does not look bizarre to me. look, in the age of social media, when people can communicate across continents. we see a wave of people in this country, as you know, election deniers and people on the far-right talking about things ...