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Doing that. maybe they want us to increase the pace of the negotiations because they're feeling the sting right now. molly: yeah. and you know something that has been just widely a big focus in the news, of course, russian meddling in our american elections. and just if you could bring us up to speed on where you think that stands right now. >> well, it hasn't stopped. it's been ongoing for years. just because the president called out china doesn't mean that the administration believes russia has stopped interfering in our elections through a variety of means by using our social networking and...

Molly: you brought it up, something that didn't get a lot of anticipation the, but the united nations general assembly here in new york, the president specifically talked about meddling in the midterm elections and mentioned china. the representative from china did not look pleased to hear about this. just your thoughts on what felt like kind of a moment there at the united nations. >> yeah. i thought the president was absolutely right to use the united nations' bully pulpit to ring the alarm bells on china. we know china's been trying to project their economic power, their cultural military p...

>> let me ask you this because i want the truth and i can handle it. let me ask you this, why take the fifty when you are a self-identified member of the media, why not say you don't want to disclose journalistic sources? >> because i have five lawyers who said take the fifth. >> you did this on advice of counsel? >> i did. and i would do it anyway, because like i said -- i think they have overreached. look, i don't like trump any more than anybody, and there are a lot of reasons to. >> aft>> but you do like assang? >> i like assange, he's a rival v civil rights activist. >> and if he gets mat...

Demands of the time require it to charge back in the front end to have spear. the agency -- leland: is the institutional knowledge, are there enough officers on the front line who is have the abilities if the handcuffs come off that all of a sudden they'll be able to launch old-fashion espionage operations? >> well, look, we've always engaged in old-fashion espionage, that's been going on, we could always use more, do we have the people that we need, we could always use more, at the end of the day, you know, most of what goes on with the agency it's always going to be off the radar screen and ...

But as the shock and outrage continues and debate rages over what if any impact their bots may have had on american voters, the "new york times" points out this rarely discussed part of the story. russia is not the only one that likes to middle in elections. we do it, too. throughout history the united states has worked hard to bring about favorable outcomes in foreign elections with state department aid and cia operations that sometimes involve suitcases full of cash to back certain operations. here now general jack keane, fox news senior strategic analyst and chairman at the institute for th...