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Impression president trump just wasn't aware of that because we had these tweets from him over the last week in which he suggested that everything was about to be released and as i said, we only got a very small fraction of the secret documents that we were expecting today. >> so what happened, you think? >> what i think, what i think you had a last-minute appeal probably from mike pompeo who because of the national security act is responsible for the protections of sources and methods on the part of the executive branch. >> philip? >> i think, actually, you know, think about what was supposed...

>> and once that tape emerged, that was the nail in the coffin? >> that -- not so much for the obstruction. what it did is really caught nixon in the lie. he had said he had no knowledge of a cover up and had been saying that for month after month. he said he didn't know anything about the cover up until i told him march 21st. well, when the supreme court forced him to release the tapes and this tape was in there on june 23rd showing him have the c cia block the fbi, he was directly involved in. >> what is it like working in a white house with these swirling investigations? as you did. i'm not...

Impeachment territory. >> i think it has. we're talking about a potential obstruction of justice. the broad outline suggests from impeachment purposes would fall in the parallel of nixon. >> ysk rr been reading up on this. it was nixon saying on tape that someone in the cia should tell the fbi to end their investigation. is that right? >> that's exactly what happened. it was holdman talking to the president just days after the arrest and he instructed dave haulman consent to go to the fbi, have the cia go to the fbi and tell them they were interfering or threatening cia operations when that wa...

Putin's involvement that, hey, they should go after podesta or it being run up the chain in some memo and is that cool? >> i mean, we're told this is fairly general, but we're told that he was involved in directing how to use the leaked material, which is fairly specific. >> that is fascinating. ken dilanian. i'm joined by ed mcmullen, a former cia operations officer. there's a crazy subtext that's happening here in terms of the intelligence agencies and the c cia. donald trump's people seem to think that he's anti-donald trump and they have it out for him. what do you say to their people who ...

Of defense dollars, the drone program. not everyone supports using aerial vehicles to hunt down terror suspects. james rosen tells us from the state department the policy could be a problem for the president's pick to run the c cia. >> from the first u.s. drone attack outside yemen, second ago, through six known strikes this year including the one that took out the taliban commander, the dep te a eight others in pakistan. the u.s. war on terror grown reliant on the unmanned vehicles that are prepared for flight an armed with the hell fire missiles. >> i believe john brennan taking over at c.i....