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Judgment made about weapons of mass destruction in the iraq situation is totally a red herring, totally wrong? >> i -- yes, i agree with that. my fingerprints were on that national assessment. i was in the community then. that was 13 years ago. we have done many, many things to improve our processes, particularly with respect to national intelligence estimates in order to prevent that from happening again. whatever else you want to say about the intelligence community, it is a learning organizat...

Might be able to use those guard units more readily? >> this is a topic that in fact i was just talking to the general, the director of the guard burial, a few weeks ago. i said look, this is something in 2017 that i want us to sit down. i think there are a couple specific mission areas where the capabilities of the guard and reserve are really well optimized, because i would be the first to admit the answer cant be every time, just the active component. i dont think that is an optimal approach ...

Involvement in this hacking, that comparing it to the judgment made about weapons of mass destruction in the iraq situation is totally a red herring, totally wrong? >> i -- yes, i agree with that. my fingerprints were on that national intelligence estimate. i was in the community then. that was 13 years ago. we have done many, many things to improve our processes, particularly with respect to national intelligence estimates, in order to prevent that from happening again. whatever else you want t...

Information curtain like chinas great firewall and its aggressive interference in western processes are in one piece. russias efforts to undermine democracy at home and abroad and destabilize the countries on its border cannot be ignored or traded away in exchange for the appearance of -- what russia did to the united states in 2016 it has done and continues to do in europe. this challenges the progress of democratic values since the end of the cold war must not be tolerated. despite the indiffe...

Flag that are built into code, for example. these are things that the trump team are pointing to. that being said, thats just part of the medium. its difficult to have absolute certainty in the digital sphere in this kind of optic of having the incoming president-elect disagreeing with the intelligence community is very dangerous when it comes to decisions that have to be made extraordinarily quickly. the second thing thats going on is you have distrust of the intelligence community for key memb...

America. we have to make sure there are jobs for the people on the other end as well. >> we alluded to, donald trump tweeted, gm, if youre going to build those cars in mexico, get ready for a big fat border tax. that made ford say maybe we will keep some of these jobs here. >> thats exactly right. that is not tax reform. thats a threat. what you are talking about really, and im going to be the wet blankets. you are replacing the invisible hand with a government hand. whats the end result? its a ...

Right, of this particular company and potentially other utility companies, but it didnt make it on to the electrical grid. how difficult would that have been to get it on the electrical grid to make a real impact when it comes to vermont and potentially other states in the united states? >> thats a great question and i think the investigation going forward will determine how difficult it would have been in this particular situation, but in general weve seen this type of activity before where for...

Avoid doing any harm to each other in this process and that can set the stage. its not a stage for collapse of opposition or compliance of one side with the demands of the other but it is an opening door for perhaps thoughtful positive moves that can bring us out of a downward spiral. >> so you see real promise potentially between a president trump and a vladimir putin u.s. russian relations despite the sanctions, the shutting down of russian compounds on u.s. soil, despite the obama administrat...

The white house is clear that while we are all focused on cyber, this actually is bigger than just that. and there is no wiggle room in the intelligence communitys assessment today. there is no outlier intelligence agency like we saw with the fbi perhaps earlier. the second is because the executive order can only be rescinded by a president, it will require trump to essentially go against his entire intelligence community. he can certainly do that. but it would take some explanation vis-a-vis hi...

To handle it. and it also shows, if were physically attacked, is donald trump going to wait a week before he talks to intelligence? he needs to understand and perhaps he doesnt even comprehend what cyberwarfare is. and some of his past statements have shown that he really doesnt understand whats going on here. but another part of it is, he doesnt seem to think that this is a great thing, that, you know, has happened, you know, to american democracy. he seems to dismiss it, out of hand. this is a...