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A question to each of you. thanks for sticking around, juan, starting with you -- you were the deputy national security adviser to president george w. bush. when you hear of so many close adviser who is probably have a lot of critical regional security information testifying, does that concern you? >> yeah it makes me very uncomfortable for a couple of reasons. and one i feel for officials who are probably trying to do their jobs, again in a difficult political situation, maybe with an unconvent...

The president of the united states held up allegedly, allegedly, $400 million, which i might add would be 10% of ukraines military budget. that money he held up was to buy javelins and security information. and he held that up for what purpose? allegedly, to get them to interfere in our election by getting dirt on joe biden and his son hunter. thats not a very complicated fact pattern. thats called quid pro quo. its either called bribery or extortion. simple. >> all right. stay with me, because ...

Inquiry. today we got our first look at the full whistle-blower complaint about the president. the one that sparked this whole impeachment investigation. this whistle-blower sournding te alarm about president trump using his power to get ukraine to interfere in the 2020 election and the white house according to the whistle-blower trying ho lock down records of that phone call hiding the transcript in a computer system where only the most sensitive security information is storerd. house speaker n...

The intelligence community. so heres where it gets sticky. if the i.g. -- heres the law since watergate. if the inspector general finds something to reach a certain level of what they call urgent concern, they are supposed to turn it over to congressional oversight committees. house i tentel would be the logl place for something intelligence related, especially in light of the tacit agreement after watergate whereby congress agreed with the intelligence community to handle confidential national ...

If the i.g. -- heres the law since watergate. if the inspector general finds something to reach a certain level of what they call urgent concern, they are supposed to turn it over to congressional oversight committees. house intel would be the logical place for something intelligence related, especially in light of the tacit agreement after watergate whereby congress agreed with the intelligence community to handle confidential national security security information in a certain way, hence what ...

Iran nuclear deal. >> this disastrous deal -- >> reporter: and that was a win for netanyahu. >> we see a pattern of lies s a deceptions. >> reporter: netanyahu is lo looking to next weeks elections. his opponent said netanyahus use of sensitive security information indicates poor judgment. in his last days as prime minister, netanyahu cares only about netanyahu. if another reason for netanyahus presentation was to try to prevent a meeting between trump and irans president, that appears to have f...

Nuclear deal. >> this disastrous deal -- >> reporter: and that was a win for netanyahu. >> what we see as a consistent pattern of iran lies, deception, and violations. >> reporter: critics say israels mr. security is looking for another win in a tough election eight days away. his rivals slammed the statement as electioneering. on twitter, benny gonks said netanyahus use of sensitive security information for propaganda indicates poor judgment, saying even in his last days as prime minister, neta...

Thing in his candidacy and presidency, he will always back putin up. i think we tend to overthink why that is, i think putin has something on him and he needs putin to protect him. every time from the campaign where he was on nato and every presidential nominee ever had to helsinki to this day he tells the american people none of their business to what he has to say to a semi hostile power and great world power is none of our business and thats fine. >> at some point we have to admit these count...

And all of this comes as the u.s. is involved in any number of military involvements but also right now the showdown with iran. >> reporter: well, and this is what mark esper the new acting secretary will face on friday when he takes office. he has been in charge of the army. that means it is a very important but not necessarily highest level of national security classification information that hes been handling. hes involved in training and equipping the army. now mark esper starting perhaps as...

Democrats on the campaign trail, and generally in the party, really trying to steer this and put the pressure on trump with regard to the election, whether he should be re-elect ed. >> you know mueller so well, given all the research youve do done. weve seen a lot of muellers indictment how he crafted his report to take care. would he craft a report around exposing classified security information. around the threat of executive privilege being invoked. so that it could largely be made public? >>...