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Today officials authorize today know. Trump supporters complaining about the source of leaks rather than the substance of the leak, jim sciutto. Reporter a source close to ambassador susan rice tells me the claims she improperly unmasked u. S. Citizens caught up in surveillance is in a word false coming from ambassador rice, but ive also spoken to Senior Intelligence officials from democratic and republican administrations to ask them about the process of unmasking. Is it unusual, illegal . And ...

Ukraine. so theres going to be a lot of spinning here, it seems to me. >> aaron, we just heard from the cia director, bill burns, he said that president putin is in a frame of mind where he doesnt believe he can afford to lose. if the cia director is saying that, what do you believe we can expect to see in the next phase of the war that started a couple weeks ago? how much more brutal do you think it can get? >> as a former ambassador to moscow, bill burns is able to read putin and clearly theyr...

Is true, so i think that satellite footage will tell us where russians are, where russians are not and where ukrainian forces are and to the time that were seeing these mass atrocities, critical over time. >> shawn, you spent years in intelligence, reading intelligence, analyzing it at times. theres a lot of speculation about the strength of putins leadership, given the economic costs, his economy is now paying right now but also the embarrassment of the loss so far in ukraine. is it realistic t...

The calls of the joint chiefs with china. >> you heard that somehow milley communicating to china with secret information. a source said no. the conversations with china are regularly, quarterly and particularly in october four days before the election and then after the january 6 insurrection that there was as described to me plenty of reason to believe that china was m misinformed basically. reading intelligence and conspiracy theories believing that the u.s. might attack and then president tr...

Forthcoming as the u.s. and as much as the international community would like it to be. its been clear over the course of the year, the intelligence community through 12, 13, 14 months was not able to come down on a definitive conclusion, whats going to change in their collection or how theyre reading intelligence over the course of the next 90 days? its clear the administration is putting a whole new effort into this, redoubling the effort, still supporting the w.h.o. investigation, still wanti...

And the theerlt kmantders who say, maybe this isnt the right package. but its very difficult with a man like this president, who is so impulsive and is so disinterested as a general rule in reading intelligence briefings and understanding sort of the knnuances of some of the things to have a lot of confident that he doesnt wake up on the wrong side of the bed tomorrow morning and say, hit them after all. if you want to hit them, youve got to do it effectively, and its got to be something that ma...

Said maybe this isnt the right package. but its very difficult with a man like this president, who is so impulsive and is so disinterested as a general rule in reading intelligence briefings and understanding sort of the nuances of some of these things to have a lot of confident that he doesnt wake up on the wrong side of the bed tomorrow morning and say, hit them after all. so its a great concern, i think, because if you want to him them, youve got to do it effectively and its got to be somethi...

National security counsel staff who, by the way, live in a skif, vietnam during the cohen hearings. he was there for this supposed summit that would have a live in a secure facility. it makes you want to question, break-through with north korea that did not happen. he made a comment about the why do you need all that data? death of a young man named otto maybe he was getting back warmbier, a young student who information, reading died after he came back from intelligence assessments just to give...

Embassy communicator came up and said, mr. ambassador, weve got news for you. come on back. so we went back, not very far. cycled back. and there i got this message. i think it was from kissinger. saying the president wants you to come back and run the cia. well, i had no idea about that. didnt know anything about how it operated. id been a consumer of intelligence, reading intelligence in that job and in the u.n. job and all of that. my view was once the president wants you to do something if y...