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Doors in the most sensitive of security positions. every american should worry. coming up this hour, former secretary of defense leon panetta and senate armed services maybe tim kaine. beyond hope. the presidents closest aide hope hicks is the first former trump white house official testifying since the mueller report but under serious restrictions under the white house exerting executive privilege. >> it just takes us to the court, wastes the taxpayers dollars and youll see the president sa...

Issued a statement early. paul rinaldi is the nat sees. he starts it with, "they dont condone or endorse any federal employees participating in or condoning a coordinated activity that negatively affects the impact of the national airspace system or other activities that undermine the professional image," so on and so forth. and he later says that she talks about what they have been facing for the has to. with that, he says, "in the past few weeks we have one about what could happen as a result ...

>> great to be with you. >> so before we get into shutdown, we have to talk about this trump letter and speaker pelosi. she did start it saying this is my house, youre not coming. trump responds this is my town. im coming unless you disinvite me. my question for you is what is speaker pelosis move? what would you like to see? >> well, i would agree with the way you set that up. trump started this by shutting down government. telling our federal workers they are no long er going to be paid. often...

Typically when manage is that sensitive and you take action on it, you put it at risk. every poll is saying candidate trump is likely not to win. every republican was saying that. some people said as a result of that, lets not risk this source. lets go slow. what im saying is were the fbi. we need to do our job. we need to go investigate. while it isnt likely according to all the poll sfsters that candidate trump is elected, we need to make sure we are protecting america. we need to response by ...

Summit. while im sure they will be careful about him, this is the man that you want to be talking to if you try to set up this big meeting. >> my cousins never hacked sony. >> fair point. >> just to point out, is this diplomacy, you just have to suck it up and deal with it. you have to talk to this person no matter what history they have and no extra security positions, youre not more careful about it. >> im sure there will be plenty of security considerations surrounding this guy. no doubt our ...

These top security positions. >> i think its perhaps less than john mccain is not physically here and more that john mccains sort of era of republican politics and politics in general seems to be kind of waning. i think his colleagues respect him and respect what he has to say but understand that they are in a different political environment. they are going to be running again. and i also think that even for some democrats, the ones who are leaning toward voting for gina haspel, in some ways the...

And on a going forward basis, i would some of our meeting by saying if we dont watch out for social media and platforms like facebook and the mistakes they made in the past, no american is going to have any privacy. >> we talked about the questions on privacy and the statements he submitted to the house, talked about how they are putting in security positions at financial risk. at the end of the day this doesnt have anything to do with facebook. this cant be reined back in. >> we talked about th...

Actually, you know, kind of turned on president bush, so to speak. he wasnt that loyal to the bush administration, certainly, for pushing -- for staying behind him and supporting him. its interesting that donald trump is choosing to go fully behind someone who most of his security positions, his ongoing support for the war in iraq just completely opposed to what donald trump purported to be for on the campaign trail. >> let me play for you all what tim kaine had to say about john bolton, because...

So the already unprecedented 24/7 security detail for the epa is getting beefed up. the price tag is skyrocketing. why? what have you learn, renee? >> when you hear it, it sounds like the security bubble may be around the cia chief or the fbi director. but this is the epa administrator. he is responsible for protecting the environment and regulating pollution. and cnn has learned that the agency is beefing up the 24/7 security for pruett. they are hiring more agents and installing new security e...

You would be very reluctant to hire them. looking at it at a basic level, you have the previous employer saying im not sure i would hire them and there are concerns. why that would not put up a red flag is not understandable. it is one of the highest security positions in the country. whether or not trump just really wanted him, at some point you have to put aside what you really want and look at whats best for the nation and say is this person -- is this the right person for the job when the pr...