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It means kushner, daughter ivanka and sons donald jr. and eric may be privy to the countrys deepest secrets. it might not be utterly unprecedented. however, like everything weve seen since election night, its not business as usual. tonight on top of that, theres uproar over trumps choice of his outspoken, controversial campaign strategist for top white house job as well as late new reporting on the larger transition which one source describes as a knife fight. that and some words of advice from ...

What clandestine operation is ivanka going to run?" tongue in cheek, but it goes to the heart of the question, its totally understandable what we heard from phil mudd before that these are his top advisers. what david gergen was saying, also, domestic staff often gets clearance. but children who are not on the payroll but rather are dealing financially with their own business, thats another question. just the definition of secret is something that could cause, "serious damage to national securit...

There right away. >> right. although thats not a legal requirement. >> its not. >> but traditionally that is -- >> a businessman is not putting these huge holdings into a blind trust on its face is wrong. >> we have a lot more on that tonight as well. gloria, i mean, to phil mudds point which is, you know, if these are some of his top advisers, he wants to be able to discuss information with them. to you, is that a conflict or is it the fact theyre also involved, theyre running his business? >> ...

Getting this, the republicans would be yelling, lock chelsea up. its wrong. >> dana? >> i was talking to a government official, former government official, i should say, involved in intelligence earlier who said actually by text, what did they need access to the classified information for? what clandestine operation is ivanka going to run?" tongue in cheek, but it goes to the heart of the question, its totally understandable what we heard from phil mudd before that these are his top advisers. wh...

Counterterrorism analyst, philip mudd. thank you for coming in. let me ask you first about this district -- this message coming from the embassy that is possible threats against westerners. whats going on behind the scenes? >> if you go back to the olympics in 2008, the chinese were concerned about these western separatist from a province in western china that had separatist activity going back to 50, 60 years ago. they were concerned that this group would embarrass the chinese by attackses duri...

Ahead of time, they do say its ongoing failure to warn authorities about farooks intent to commit mass murder had fatal consequences. lots to talk about. joining me now, lorenzo vidino, the program on extremism at george washington university. counterterrorism analyst philip mudd, a former official at the fbi and cia. lorenzo, you hear marquezs version of events and how he became radicalized by farook. is this a familiar story? is this a typical pathway to radicalization? >> theres no typical ...

Philip mudd who has been a senior official in the fbi and cia and senior legal analyst for cnn, jeffrey toobin who is a federal prosecutor. tim, a lot of planning, a lot of preparation seemed to go into these two attacks that thankfully did not take place a few years ago. what do you make of all this? >> well, john, its pretty customary for al qaeda and isis to overplan things. 9/11 took five years in the planning and i dont believe that was absolutely necessary to execute the type of attack the...

They rented before that day. no conclusions have been made and investigators remain puzzled about why the office became the target that day. also adding to this theory that it wasnt spur of the moment was witness interviews as well. you remember initially the thought was that there was this dispute that happened that day but now theyre looking at something more long-term at the party. >> there are a lot of real questions that remain, itsespe during that gap between when the shooting happened and...

Telephone. or you can use a human source. the fbi director talked about 900 cases in the u.s. you cant run 900 human sources simultaneously. as isis moves out into communities, european communities, theres one avenue left. the parents of the child in california, this man, youve got to pick up the phone because the other avenues of investigation are disappearing. >> and we have heard that call from the fbi and the attorney general saying, look, we cant do this alone. philip mudd, thank you very m...

Community center where you had this connection. philip mudd, thank you very much. it happens to be your birthday today. thank you for joining us on your birthday. >> 21 happy years. >> dont look a day over 19. phil mudd, thanks very much. its like a golden ticket for a terrorist, a fool-proof fake u.s. passport. u.s. intelligence is warning that isis may be printing them at will. that alarming story after this.