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The travel restrictions for seven countries in africa pretty controversial. they kicked in overnight. what are you hearing about what's driving the white house response so far? >> well, the response is all to show americans that this white house is taking this latest variant seriously and it's interesting, laura, to note now with announcements of daily briefings and the new travel ban with over the summer the response from the delta variant that drew accusations that the administration got caught flat footed and the impact of the delta variant flew in the face of president biden's promise of s...

Driven. there are politics and optics on this and some cases hypocrisy give wn what previous people ha said. their north star will go back to, here is what medical professionals are doing. that's how they couched this. this was given by professionals. >> they said fauci and the cdc. president biden from day one has said the success of his presidency will depend how they handle the pandemic. we have concerns now about the variant and we are learning more. there should be caution around that. if you look at his approval ratings, back in june when it came to the presidency handling of coronavirus...

All the reporting suggests we were caught flat footed. didn't know about it and superseded our own abilities. what do you know about this? >> the reporting is not accurate in that respect. look, we've known about the chinese testing df17 hypersonic missile as far back as 2013. when i was dni last year i commissioned and cleared several intelligence products on the state of chinese hyper sonics but i want to obscure the point this is a troubling development. it is not surprising but it is troubling and one of the reasons last year i increased our intelligence spending on china by 20%. our intel...

Officers feel prepared and supported by their department? >> it's incredibly important and tom manger is one of the best chiefs in the country. when i came to d.c. in '98, he was the cheer of fairfax county police so we worked together for over 20 years. i know what his capabilities are as we said earlier, he's not going to get caught flat footed. the ckcome money case with the rank and file, they know they have enough help and support. this isn't going to happen again like it did on january 6th. they are not getting inside of the capitol. i can guarantee you that. it doesn't mean we won't hav...

Police chief formally asked for 100 armed national guard to be on standby, and a top security official asked him to withdraw that and so he asked for 100 unarmed guards, and that request was granted. what more can you tell us about this? >> well, it is an interesting moment, and yasmin summarized it well. they do not want to be caught flat footed and chief manger is not wanting to have anything else happen under his watch. so he has more law enforcement officers is coming in from district of columbia and others who have offered to come in on saturday to help, but the national guard was a break...