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Makes the final decision with the elect committee members. i think at times, they wanted -- they were very sensitive. for me, i understood the politics and optics of it. they had brought me and based on 20 years of counterterrorism experience. my pushback was i thought we should go then. they had other decisions to make. i was in control of that. i went backwards, more or less, right? even though the staff does all the work. gonna go from sitting congressman or former congressman to go back to take and that type of position i thought was very important. they had the power, really, to either ta...

Afghanistan were my colleagues. the first casualty in afghanistan was my cia officer and colleague. and it was cia who identified and captured the mastermind of 9/11 in a brilliant operation. i am proud of our work during that time, the hard lessons we learned from that experience informed my leadership of cia today. in light of my counterterrorism experience, i understand that what many people want to know about are my views on cia's former detention and interrogation program. i have views on this issue and i want to be clear. having served in that time, i can offer you my commitment clearly ...

Your counterterrorism experience. how do you stop a terrorist from taking a car and mowing down a group of people? >> isalisyn, you hit on the challenge for the officials in what we are seeing as the new trend of low tech terror. we have seen now a number of these vehicular terrorism and terrorist attacks using every day items. household items. it is a response frankly to a call by isis over the last couple of years for individuals to attack wherever they are. it poses a real challenge to law enforcement because you need to figure out how to get in between in a rapid way when something goes wr...

Government as well. but the prism through which we have to judge these appointments is we have to remember what donald trump ran as. he ran as an outsider who had no experience in any of this but the one thing he was going to do was being b a good manager who picks someone who has experience. if you look at flynn the up with thing that distinguishes him from everyone else is he was loyal. he was the one national security guy of his pedigree who was loyal to donald trump the whole time. he has counterterrorism experience, he's been in iraq but he's not like a condi rice or a colin powell type f...