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Intelligence business, every source that we have of intelligence, we try to confirm that with other sources. i believe some of that has been confirmed and we don't know what that is, and because that is obviously classified. and the fact of the matter is, but even this information, as antiinflammatory and explosive as it is, would have been shared with the entire national command authority and senior leaders of our government. it's indisputable that it would not be done. sergeant bergdahl was a very high intelligence collection target with multiple agencies trying to gather intelligence on him...

Result of our focus on small operations in protecting the smaller groups of people across the world. in training local militias to train themselves and so on, and one of the interesting things about what the president said today that we are going to work in partnership, and we are going to focus the attention on a wide variety of threats and not just use the military might willy-nilly brings up a significant point brought up a moment ago, it is one thing to say that we are going to do that, but it is something else again to have priorities and more significantly, i'm less concerned about the p...

I'm going to change things. >> it's part of the same story. the command authority. the president with his pen and authority, wave the magic wand and say, do this. this time he's commanding equal pay for equal work amongst federal contractors. what he's saying is you can get out there and discuss how much you each earn so you can start a class action lawsuit. >> if you put a man and woman together today doing the same job, they're virtually getting paid the sum. >> if you lump everyone altogether, men are getting paid more. equal work, men and women, same job, virtually equal pay. >> stuart var...

Their commanding officer as victims of horrific acts of sexual violence. >> reporter: the statistics are sobering. an estimated 26,000 sexual assaults in the military last year alone and surveys showed that 2/3 of female victims didn't report them. gillibrand's legislation would dramatically change the way the military handles these cases taking the judicial authority away from the chain of command. the top brass at the pentagon is staunchly opposed. military leaders argue they must be able to police their own ranks. >> command authority is the most critical mechanism for ensuring discipline, ...

Who ran the national security agen agency. he is now principal with the chertoff group. welcome back to the show, michael. >> thank you, fareed. >> let's focus on this issue of eavesdropping of senior officials of allied governments. there's a distinction about collecting metadata, traffic and phone calls and emails from across europe. tell me how would it work if the national security agency would tap the cell phone of senior leader of an allied government, who would have made that decision and what would the process have been? >> it depends on the senior leader. depends on the intelligence r...