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Afraid of -- hes not afraid of tax cuts or environmental regulations, all those things are fixable even if they do great damage. this is one thing where theres no constraint. theres very few things like this the black ops, the power of it intelligence and the commander in chief to launch a nuclear war. here it is october now, and actually the guardrails have worked pretty well on donald trump in the first ten months. this is the place, though, they might not work at all. >> were hitting pause. ...

That you can prove fshl hes clearly trying to kill an investigation that he knows is moving in a dregs it intelligence -- if you could advise jeff sessions right nowthat who sprnl or do you think he should move on? >> i think he should stay. this has been consistently something ive heard that i disagreeand a. if he leaves hes doing exactly what opinion if i were sessions,

Illegitimately defending donald trump right now might face themselves if theyre not careful. >> one, this is now the third kind of intelligence collection used to justify that tweet. first it was obama wire taps his phones, then it was british intelligence. and now its susan rice and unmasking being used to justify that. but put all that aside. my understand ogof the process of unmasking i think is important to understand what this is all about. they the national security agency, if they have a ...

Intelligence that was actually doing it. >> judge napolitano sources. >> i know hes back now talking about this and now its susan rice unmasking and the justification for that. my understanding of the process of unmasking is really important to understand what this is all about, right? say the national security agency that collects foreign intelligence, if they have a conversation where an american is mentioned or just happens to be on the line when theyre targeting, legally targeting a foreigne...

Least two weeks. at least two weeks, about what it knew with regard to general flynn. does the sidelining of vice president pence, does that erode trust in this administration at all? >> i dont think so. there is a difference between sidelining and checking out something. just because you have been told something, doesnt mean it is true it intelligence can be inaccurate. you are dealing with an attorney general, the member of the preceding administration. i am not suggesting that she would do an...

For a democratic administration, but bob gates, who worked for both bush and obama, called it a big mistake. you have the elevation of steve bannon who is a strategist to the president, not senate confirmed, a political adviser, really, being added to a principals committee meeting that under both george w. bush, under obama, under previous presidents, those kinds of advisers have been intentionally excluded to make it just national security and intelligence voices, so those decisions, for insta...

Glad that it ended peacefully. no one was hurt and now they are looking into the motives of these two hijackers. >> ian lee, thank you for that reporting. obviously as we get more details as to motive, we will bring them to you. meantime, another top story we are following closely, the suspect in that deadly truck attack in berlin is now dead. just hours after he was killed in a police shootout in italy, isis releases a video which appears to show anis amri pledging allegiance to abu bakr al b...

What exactly is president obama saying was altered? >> well, what were looking at here are some analysts at central command in florida that were basically in charge of the operations in iraq and syria. what was going on there and were these analysts producing reports that said certain things about how the date of the war was going and were they being changed by superiors and different intelligence moving up the chain. >> was there something that happened that led the president to question this i...

Factors. first the calendar the obvious target that americas birthday might present and this year the july 4th holiday come during ramadan and second a much more concern is this relentless spread of isis social media. some of it intelligence officials say is aggressively calling for attack during ramadan and around july 4th. so what are people doing in response? well, the fbi is stepping up the pace of arrests. theyve been bringing in people that are under surveillance for months suspected of pl...

>> prosecutors are building their case against dzhokhar tsarnaev and relying on a crucial piece of evidence. surveillance cameras. you know there were so many of them around there. while these eyes in the sky have provided key intelligence theres no question about it intelligence that led to the suspects being identified the security and surveillance comes at what price to americans privacy? tom foreman is "out front." >> before the brothers reach boylston street before the bombs and the hunt th...