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Had this to say about the saudi crown prince. >> he is reckless. hes ruthless. he has a penchant for escalation, for taking high risks, confrontational in his foreign policy approach, and i think increasingly willing to test the limits of what he can get away with with the united states. hes gone full gangster. its difficult to work with a guy like that, no matter how important the relationship is. >> what does it mean for someone with access to top-level security information to be meeting with ...

Conversations taking place between the two of them. in the hearing to confirm trumps new ambassador to saudi arabia, republican senator marco rubio had this to say about the assad crosaudi crown prince. >> he is reckless. hes ruthless. confrontation in his foreign policy approach and i think increasingly willing to test the limits of what he can get away with with the united states. hes gone full gangster. its difficult to work with a guy like that, no matter how important the relationship is. >...

That call. i wont make that call. i will let the general, whos right here, make that call. >> there were a lot of misleaks about there being issued but the president had no involvement pertaining to my clearance or my husbands clearance. >> congresswoman, this is really troubling because the president has seen the white house as his personal property, as an acquisition of trump ink and , he brings his family with him and ignores procedures about who gets the top security information and theyre a...

Brutal dictator over the death of an american, otto warmbiers family responds. and we start with president trump, son-in-law jared kushner and national security. the "new york times" reporting that the president stepped in personally to get kushner top secret security clearance even after intelligence officials waved red flags repeatedly. then chief of staff john kelly carrying out the order but also providing a paper trail. sarah westwood is at the white house. sarah, what more have we learned ...

The attorney general writes the formal report to congress. the attorney general could attach millers report to it make it public. you have to scrub it to make sure theres no security information. i think what the public is concerned about could be released and we could to consider when the last two years of been a big waste of time or whether he got a good set of facts out and then people in congress can decide whether they want to try to impeach the president. president trump can declare his in...

Security situation on the ground. it was a vital part of our oversight as congress to be able to hear the voices on the ground. myself as a new member of the house armed services committee and veterans affairs committee i thought was an important opportunity for me to learn and gather information necessary to do my job effectively. >> as i said, it has been rescheduled. you dont know when yet. you plan to go when the government is back open, is that correct? >> there are plans to travel in the f...

Time. >> hes making two december dis the decisions to pull completely out of siria be syria but also troops out of afghanistan. hes not in either of those places, hes in iraq. it probably would be difficult from a security perspective to go to syria but why there instead of afghanistan? >> not having the security information, i dont know how it would be to go to afghanistan. i think optically it would be difficult for the president to travel to afghanistan based upon his own military commanders ...

Hacks. were also used to getting that letter saying were terribly sorry weve lost your credit card information. thats actually not what state on state espionage is all about. what the going on here is the hack occurred in 2014. we believe from all the forensic evidence weve seen it was done by chinese intelligence and done at some point they were getting into the database of the office of personnel management, the most boring office in washington, but the one that held the security information o...

Most pressing security information the president needs when he wakes up tomorrow. joining us is the national security analyst and former national security council adviser. she spent two years in the obama administration helping to prep for the presidents daily briefs. youve been on the national security adviser trips. john boltons statements about they election hacking as he hits the road, how do you see things playing out for him this week? >> as you said, ive been on the trips. the key ingredi...

Venezuelan president says he is alive and victorious after an pare apparent attempt on his life. it happened during a speech. several drones flew overhead. at least one detonated. he was unharmed. but seven members of the national guard were injured. venezuelas attorney general ordered an investigation into the apparent assassination attempt. and there is late word tonight that arrests have been made. he is blaming colombia for the attack. national security adviser john bolton says the u.s. gove...