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Press was intentionally downplaying, even covering up terrorist attacks. if anything, the opposite is true. all year long i heard anchors and reporters and editors reaching for new ways to say thats not true and that makes no sense, and all year long i heard the president coming up with new ways to call us the enemy. >> we are fighting the fake news. its fake, phony, fake. a few days ago i called the fake news the enemy of the people, and they are. >> that was february. now lets fast forward all...

Probably the most difficult decision in any of these kinds of operations. because you like to think that you have control and you play out as far as you can. with the belief that you have control. when youre dealing with one or more human beings, you can theres a control. so deciding when youre going to stop this before it takes place as one of, it is the most difficult decision among a number of difficult decisions. the outcome here again is the best it can possibly be. he stopped the incident ...

Reporter and served as assistant to george w. bushs counsel, chief liaison between the council and congress, manager at beacon global strategies. good to see you both. vivian, starting with something jeff talked about. china and russia as major focus areas and potential areas of cooperation. on one level, thats true. major focus areas talking about national xusecurity. need swaupcooperation with thes countries and do. russia perhaps created the greatest threat to american security through its in...

Of our allies all the time. >> yeah, and i dont know the facts of this particular matter but cia or other intelligence agencies, if they provided information to stop a terrorist attack, thats amazing they do that and they do that all the time. its not unusual. whats unusual here is that putin felt the need to publicize it and show his own people that hes getting something from donald trump and from washington. thats disturbing in its own right. i dont think cia should be used as a pawn in putins...

Avoid and really having discussion of impact of immigration, legal and illegal. look at the terrorist attacks, if you look at 9/11, i provided testimony to the 9/11 commission, first and foremost, multiple failures of the immigration system. immigration fraud, huge problem. a population of millions of people who entered, they didnt entered undocumented. how do you know who they are and when they got here? leat health we dont know who they are and how they got here, the problem extended years and...

Regarding the boston bombers. and obviously, we helped them out in this situation. i think its great that we cooperate with other people, other countries in the world to try to stop these global terrorist attacks. as long as we dont give up the tradecraft. if we dont give up the way we got the information, thats the key. the techniques as to how we get these supersensitive types of intelligence information is the key to protecting our national security. so i believe in cooperating. and it should...

Certainly. we, in the past, have worked with them before. i was the u.s. ambassador during the sochi olympics. we had a lot of coordination with terrorist threats then. but we have incredible intelligence capabilities around the world, including in that part of the world. this is the right thing to do. i want to be clear about that. with respect to terrorism, if we can work together to thwart terrorist attacks, we should do so. that doesnt mean, however, that we have all the rest of the relation...

Treated appropriately under the law. ed: the last president wants to find a compromise on has got wrapped up as a node may send a budget negotiations. she think the president come in the attorney general are willing to hold firm on making sure there are tough crackdowns on illegal immigration as part of a daca deal to prevent a shutdown. will they stand firm on that? >> such an important part of the message and so incredible to me democrats would consider shutting down over common sense immigrat...

The reauthorization which we think is critically important in section 702. i respect there are differences of opinion. the department has been clear we believe its essential to national security that section 702 be reauthorized. >> we agree with you and we believe it is essential that the civil liberties of american citizens be protected and that a standard be imposed on the examination of information about u.s. citizens incident nallly gathered as part of the section 702 program with the survei...

Investigation that they might conduct. and were not talking about terrorist attacks. were not talking about national security, because we have clearly distinguished that. were simply talking about crimes that have already occurred, that are being investigated, as they should be investigated, by the department. but under the procedures that the american people would expect that they would follow, to protect their civil liberties and other circumstances. >> mr. chairman, as you know, ive had the a...