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Did their homework. another question i have about what that team was up to, there's talk in the indictment of how there were unwitting people that met with them. you know, that's what the indictment says. that does not rule out, of course, that there were people who were aware they were having cl clandestine or more discreet meetings. what set me back when i heard all of this, the system -- by that i mean the administration, the intelligence services, clearly the fbi shall -- knew all this information, has this this information for a significant amount of time. not too long ago you'll recall t...

Where we can find common ground with russia? clearly it's not ukraine or syria but maybe north korea. >> well, i mean, here's the thing, it's really difficult to find that very narrow overlap in the venn diagram of cooperation with russia, especially when you know, you know, that russia's primary interest really geopolitically is sort of the zero sum game where they want to gain to the, you know, the expense of the united states. you have to ask that very hard question, so where can we cooperate? some people have said counterterrorism. there is the reporting recently the cia provided counterte...

Without private -- previous approval or agreement from the service that you got the information from, what's going to happen worldwide and we're already beginning to see it happen is foreign intelligence services who cooperate very closely with us, our allies, are saying you know, it's a little crazy right now in washington, it's a little crazy in the white house, so let's dial it back, we have to be careful with what we share with the americans. and that makes us fundamentally less secure when you have less information coming to you from your foreign allies, especially on counterterrorism stu...

Eye in counterterrorism stuff, 2 1/2 years ago we were talking about isis moving across western iraq with very little opposition from the iraqi military. so you can see maybe fits and starts in the offensive against them. i think it's inevitable, whether it's mosul or raqqah, that isis will lose. the question is where they go after, and whether they maintain that social media foothold i mentioned earlier. >> phil mudd, great as always to get your expertise, thank you. >> thank you. live pictures of joint base andrews. that is airs force one. that is also a man wiping a camera lens to get a p...

To fight terrorism and why we haven't had another 9/11 style attack. is the genie out of the bottle when it comes to the muscles we have developed as a country and the way our intelligence operates? >> one interesting thing to keep track of is how the public feels about all of this. you have folks pointing to fairly recent polls from not that long ago showing that not only do they support what president obama has done in terms of national security, overall that they prefer a tradeoff they feel more secure and they trust the government knows what it is doing in terms of counterterrorism stuff a...