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To track them and they tracked a lot of their infrastructure through crypto currency and bit coin. theyre able to find out who these individuals were and release their names. a huge thing for us. track something back to an individual person or a state agency. its massive for us. this group has been a pain in the side of the united states for almost a decade. its something we really are looking at heavily especially in our security community to figure out how much damage they had. >> it undermine...

Korea meeting along so they can avoid the immigration talks. but the fact weve seen the president tweet about this means these are negotiations that would be over if he just handed over a bargaining chip before its done. >> and the national security community, they have deep concerns about this chinese company not only stealing u.s. technology but using it to spy, potentially. >> and oh, by the way, to provide this technology to ire and north korea. the hypocrisy here is astounding. he said germ...

Intending to tamper with witnesses and the deniability will not hold water. >> admiral stavridis, i wanted to get your reaction to a few things that have happened over the next couple days. against the backdrop of what weve been hearing, mika and i have been hearing it from our contacts inside the national security community, i know youve heard it just as much or more that six months ago many people were telling us it was a fait accompli that there was going to be a ground war on the korean peni...

You are itemizing that we have in terms of sanctions with russia -- >> i think that the treasury department will do it bit by bit because at the end of the day, its the law. congress said they have to do it and congress, as you said, is unanimous. congress speaks for the american people. theyll continue to clamp down. and the other thing we have to remember is the entire intelligence community, the national security community, theyre all worried about russia. the only way to get russia to behavi...

The presidency to get some financing for his troubled building 666 fifth avenue. what were seeing, the qataris dont want to meddle in any investment because theyre really concerned that they would be punished by trump and this administration. joy, what we are see iing is tw sides of this administration, tillerson and mattis that were critical of this blockade. mattis immediately had an armed deal with the qataris regardless of the fact that trump was tweeting against qatar in support of the bloc...

Question here. very quickly, one of the things inside the "washington post" story was that the perception within the national security community, they were so concerned about the possibility again the foreign countries might be able to play jared kushner, that it came up in the national security advisers hr mcmasters daily intelligence briefing. what does that tell you? >> it tells me that this is a major risk for the white house and for the national security of the united states, that even with...

Hes only 37 years old. is anybody in the white house or the security community saying that this shouldnt take this long or raising real flags that maybe he is not able to get a permanent security clearance? theyre going to let this hang in limbo? >> there certainly s. a lot of times what happens is a periodic renewal. but after a while there are certain clearances they keep raising red flags. jared kushner given what jeff said and what you just said, because of his background, his professional b...

Critical to north korea, do you believe that in is one of the ta sitting on the presidents desk? >> it is. being debated in the pentagon and international security community, whether its on thecuri presidents desk, i o not know. let mepr just speak to your pessimism on u.n. security council resolution. they areivenwhen compliant. given the strict nature of the most recent deflector, resolution against north korea in the security council, if it is implementedmple fully, it haa punishing impact on...

Full process, but i believe director wray is correct about this, and the national security community, i know many folks involved pre-9/11 and post-9/11 have spoken up about how importance we need this tool. we do not want to be in the position during 9/11 why didnt they figure out the threat before the attacks? if it were easy to do with a warrant, i would be in favor, but its not. i believe we have appropriate safeguards in place and we have people who are responsible, who are conducting these ...

>> he is the reality show president. and he is obsessive about ensuring that he is the center of attention that no one in his administration is given more importance than he stharks he is constantly a fixture within the news cycle. thats how was able in part to propel himself to a republican nomination. the comments before the storm comments did set off within the security community. at times when there are troops overseas, you cant be making vague comments when youre the commander in chief what...