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Elections, i dont know how you interpret this in another way, chris, than saying if american spies are blind were weaker, we are weaker. >> youve also got to hope were getting our best, and with the distrust in institutions now thats being fomented in our application i wonder how recruitings going. phil mudd. i appreciate you. thank you, brother. >> thank you. >> all right. lets take a quick break. well come right back with the hand-off. ♪ upbeat, catchy music ♪ >> tech: i am safelite. >> te...

How do they help us? and in terms of the urgency and of how odd this was from jump. here is some of gabby petitos parents, all four of them, with dr. phil. >> i would say brians a mediocre survivalist. it wouldnt surprise me if he could last out there a very long time. >> is he living off the land somewhere? >> possibly. >> does he have that skill set? >> i believe so. >> is he an environmentalist, survivalist type? knows camping? >> i believe he bragged about that, that he was good at that stuf...

>> in my judgment, were still on the edge of a cliff here. we dont know which way this is going to go. if we get some -- we dont have anything yet thats really explosive. if we do, its going to be a big, big deal thats going to be instantly politicized. the republicans arent taking this too hard because they have other things theyre pushing harder on and theyre doing pretty well right now. phil and i are in agreement. this whole issue and assault on january 6th seemed to have a long way to go. >...

When did it know it? that question now raised in the wake of "the new york times" report as we just noted. that says an fbi agent had an informant. according to the times during the capitol attack, this informant was providing realtime updates to his handler. lets bring in former adviser to four presidents, david gergen, and former fbi and cia official, phil mudd, to make sense of that report. phil, does this look like it was standard procedure or a possible intelligence failure? how do you see ...

To go to phils point. whether they had the credibility inside the fbi to be believed and what some question whether the fbi had gotten the information that this assault was unfolding, but didnt believe what the informant was telling him from the ground. so there are a lot of issues here and i think well get to the executive privilege further down the line, i would imagine. when the white house decides whether it has enough that it must, that it should override executive privilege. >> as we heard...

Goes along. you can see all this coming together at an outcome in 2024. if trump were to be re-elected, all hell is going to break loose in this country. on the other hand, if his supporters think its been stolen from him after 2024, all hell could break loose on that, too. so i think were in pretty treacherous territory right now and its going to take a lot of self-constraint and understanding and our political leaders to get through this. >> those are not very good options you just laid out th...

Counterterrorism analyst and former fbi senior intelligence adviser phil mudd. phil, serious concerns here on not just one data point, many. and one of them is that dhs is warning not only about possible violence at the rally tomorrow, theyre also warning about violence today. how concerned are you? >> well, if i look at this as an intelligence problem you have to be concerned not only because of what you saw on january 6th, you have to be concerned because the threat is dispersed. if you look a...

Planned similar rallies in 15 other states, phil, over the next month. what are your worries there? >> i tell you, you know, one of my biggest worries, its not doing the counterterrorism piece and the intelligence piece its the political piece. remember f youre looking at an extremist organization, going in for a congressional hearing and i did so many of those i cant count, congress will say, go get em son. dont let them get us before we get them. going ahead six months, a year, two years into ...

This in states here in the coming days as well. phil, thank you so much for being with us this morning. >> thanks. this morning, the fda is expected to decide whether americans need booster shots. the answer, though, is not clear cut. plus, cuba takes the lead as the first country to start vaccinating toddlers against covid. well have a live report on how its going there. plus, rare public comments from one of the most conservative members of the supreme court blaming the media for politic...

Were going to collect a lot of intelligence and prepare what we can at the capitol, but theres no way, brianna you can collect on independent actors in 50 states across america simultaneously. you cant do it. >> you talk about leadership, phil. it is interesting overnight that the former president put out a statement that said his -- the hearts and minds are with those arrested on january 6th. what is the impact of a statement like that from as you say leadership? >> its not interesting. its mor...