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>> behind the curve, let me explain what that means. if you're running a federal agency trying to understand this problem in 50 states, it's not just determining whether one young person in texas has a weapon, it's making sure you have the intelligence base to understand white supremacist organizations in 50 states, making sure you build the expertise up over years so you have analysts and agents who can figure this out over time and run informant networks. and the toughest part of this and we are not even close to getting here, making sure you have laws that tell people if you're going to do ...

New exclusive reporting, cnn is learning white house beat back efforts by the department of homeland security to prioritize terror threats by white supremacist, telling jake tapper, quote, the white house wanted only to focus on jihadi threats. they had major idealogical blinders on. joining me now is counter-terrorism analyst phil mudd. just off the top, what is your take on this? >> do you remember the election campaign when the president -- remember, it wasn't that long ago when we spent a lot of time talking about isis. the president was talking about how he would eliminate isis. a good ta...

Investigate those kinds of people. you know the firestorm that will result from that when others say that's a free speech right they're exercising. the second thing beyond the political cover that law enforcement people need is to say we're going to shift resources from the isis fight to chase some of these people. this is tough and law enforcement and intel guys need the politicians. >> they need the politicians because as you point out they need to be able to shift resources. in response, a senior administration official telling cnn the following, the administration's national strategy for c...

Could link that to some of his immigration commentary. in the face of that when you have a new team come in office that may not be that familiar with how to understand intelligence and terrorism reporting, you have officials in government come at you and say, isis is fine but the people we need to spend more resources on not only aren't isis, they're white people in this country. boy, that's a tough pill to swallow if you're new to the white house and you just got elected to the white house saying you're going to beat people overseas. >> you're saying it's that simple? >> it's not that simple ...

So, when the president meets with vladimir putin, how does he need to change his tune in defending american values? >> well, he needs to understand what's going on here. i mean, first of all, putin isn't helping us at all in the fight against isis. in fact, he's inflaming it by backing assad and syria and by propping up assad and making sure that he stays in power. and when you look at what the russian forces are doing in syria, they are bombing the people who are not isis. their entire campaign has been focused on antiregime forces that aren't isis, because for putin, as long as isis remains ...