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If he empowers them and accepts the facts that they are telling him and doesnt dispute whether, for example, russia was involved in our election hacking, of course they were, we now know that, he cant continue to push back on basic facts. thats going to really set up a collision with the intelligence community that will undermine our own defenses. >> heres a president who has publicly not accepted, rejected, this groups most recent work product, which is their analysis of the russian interferenc...

Our election, and yet what i saw, he was received warmly tonight. >> i think he has a fundamental misunderstanding about what intelligence is. intelligence is not arithmetic. its this is our best guess and we offer it to you the policy maker to see whether you want to factor it into policy. intelligence offers guidance. >> jeremy, what do you make of this first appearance in terms of how you can expect his interactions to go with the cia? presumably once he has the cia director confirmed, that m...

Their products, the way they marketed products towards kids, so theres a dichotomy to her which is the public popular mother whos able to dance with children and the disciplined policy maker who really did put her stamp on the way that children grow up. >> thank you so much for that insight you brought us today. >> thank you for having me. >> sure. we want to mention cnn special report tonight. fareed zakaria talking with president obama about the triumphs and struggles during his time in the wh...

Rift between president-elect donald trump and the intelligence community over russian hacking and his ability to speak the truth to power. >> will you commit to giving the commander in chief unpleasant news that may be inconsistent with his policy preferences based on the best intelligence the cia can develop? >> senator, you have my commitment and while i today am going to avoid talking about conversations that the president and i had with as much energy and effort that i can, i will tell you t...

To the outlines of whats in the army field manual. theres no doubt in my mind about the limitations it places not only on the d.o.d. but the central intelligence agency and ill always comply with the law. >> another question. how will you handle the president-elects refutation that religious intelligence units, the gru and the fsb did in fact hack and spear fish into the campaigns and parties of both political parties this past campaign season? >> senator, i think i answered senator warner the s...

Commitment. and while i today am gay going to avoid talking about conversation has the president and i had with as much energy and effort as i can, i can tell you that i have assured the president-elect that ill do that as well. i have shared with him that my role is central to him performing his function, and important, and critical only when i perform my function in that way. when i take the great work that these men and women put their lives at risk to develop and i deliver that to every poli...

Problems in the international community. not just sanctions, but isolation policies in ukraine, crimea and syria so clearly they had a preference for donald trump. who seemed to suggest that he might even recognize russias annexation of crimea. or overturn those sanctions. so clearly the preference was for someone they felt might have more russia-friendly policies. >> lets listen to c.i.a. director james clapper answering a key question on capitol hill this week. >> who actually is the been fact...

To include policy maker number one should always have for intelligence, but i think there is a difference between skepticism and disparagement. >> and john mccain pushed back on trump for relying on the word of wikileaks leader julian assange who said russia had no role in the public release of thousands of internal democratic e-mails. >> the name mr. assange popped up and i believe that he is the one responsible for publishing names of individuals that work for us that put their lives in direct...

Intelligence community? >> i think there is an important distinction here between healthy skepticism, which policy makers, to include policy maker number one, should always have for intelligence, but i think theres a difference between skepticism and disparagement. ive received many expressions of concern from foreign counterparts about, you know, the disparagement of the u.s. intelligence community or i should say what has been interpreted as disparagement of the intelligence community. >> dani...

Trump. lets listen. >> theres an important distinction here between healthy skepticism, which policy makers, to include policy maker number one should always have for intelligence, but i think theres a difference between skepticism and disparagement. >> and i assume that the biggest benefactors of the american people having less confidence in the intelligence community are in fact the actors you have named today, iran, north korea, china, russia and isis. >> the intelligence community is not per...