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Allegations saying they use chlorine and stair and gas in the attack. remarkable you news yesterday, donald trumps pick for cia director, mike pompeo, has met with .20, did over easter. what do you think of that? >> it is not much of a surprise. mike pompeo has been the presidents consul on intelligence matters, he is absolutely the right guy to do this, he has been reading intelligence on north korea during his tenure and everyone where the weather pompeo is worthy of being tipper secretary of ...

Requires reading intelligence. you dont go into the meeting with the saudis without top secret. so some of the folks who dont have security clearances are going into those meetings, either reading it without authority or not reading it at all which is even more damaging. so all of this concerns anybody thats interested in national security. >> let me just to make the point obviously there could be many people involved with those talks, but one of those leading those talks jared kushner does not ...

Cruz. i would like to continue talking about the russians but in the context of the long-term objectives that putin has to undermine american institutions and the public trust. obviously the 2016 election matters a lot and there are multiple ongoing investigations about that. im trying to talk about something different. the longer term goal they have because anybody who reads intelligence, this isnt through the prism of how voted for in the 2016 election or what you think happened in the 2016 el...

Temporary prayed he wants to undermine america and every patriotic american ought to be concerned about that. he listened to certain news outlets and it sounds like theres a russian behind everything thats happening in america, and it is laughable but you listen to other news outlets and its the case that vladimir putin is someone that we should trust and he has americas best interest at heart which is more absurd. so i think we know again people who are reading intelligence know that russia is ...

Objectives that vladimir putin has to undermine american instant issues and on the public trust, obviously the 2016 election matters a lot and there were multiple ongoing investigations about that. im trying to talk about something slightly different. the longer term that they have because anybody who reads intelligence beyond the prism of who you voted for in the 2016 election of what you happen in the 2016 election, as important as all of that is, anybody who reads intelligence knows that we f...

Of the presidents top advisers and to the president himself. once they finished reading intelligence they were told to give it back to the courier so the courier could bring it back to langley. inside the package was information from such an important source that it was almost as if they were seeing directly putins instructions on what to carry out here. >> lets talk about what i think is really the big headline here. this is an account that there was definitive proof that this was an attempt to...

The intelligence community has to approve it, it is often times approved because that official wants to provide more information as they are reading intelligence report they want to know more about the significance, that is shared between the briefer. its possible that official could do that him or herself but by nature of it it is only exchanged one to one. there are open questions how extensive was the unmasking, what was the source, but this practice is not unusual, it happens, and two, it ce...

Republican administration to ask about unmasking, one they say the law allows it, two, for it to happen the official requests it but the u.s. intelligence committee has to approve the request, often times it is approved because that official wants to provide more information, as theyre reading intelligence report they want to know more about what it means, that information is only shared between the briefer from the intelligence community and that official, its not more widely disseminated. its ...