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I've got a pretty good sense of who it is. it does look as though indeed there was an f.b.i. attempt, a successful one to basically go out and spy with a human asset on the trump campaign. >> jason: what about the timing in is the timing about all of this is critical. do we understand the timing? what are the implications for that? >> yeah. it is so important because remember the f.b.i. has been doggedly sticking with this story that what initiated the counterintelligence probe was a tip they got in july about this supposed drunken conversation of a junior campaign aid named george papadopoulo...

So, mayor de blasio injecting politics in to the safety of new yorkers or americans, that day is gone. i'm sorry. people's blood is on the streets. and we have to think rationally. this type of attack. we love technology. we are the most technology heavy intelligence community in the world. but, at the end of the day, this kind of attack will be prevented not by satellite, not by phone intercept, but by that human asset that covert informant. that agent inside the mosque, inside that community. who sees the signs beforehand and can tip off the authorities to bring that person in. if you pull b...

Lying. >> there are been too many times in the past that the republicans have gone out on a limb and defended him. this is very, very serious. >> nobody will defend the president on this. they may say it's not true but if it's true he will get no defense on this. >> in the world of counterterrorism, when a terrorist organization thinks that there's someone near them who may know something -- first of all, that person who is a human asset getting close to isis, that person is likely dead. i'm being blunt here. so what happens when a terroristing organization thinks it's been compromised? one is...

Want something waking up every morning about how might we lose data, who might be penetrating us, either our systems or a human asset. a ton of work has gone into protecting our systems. the weakest link is always the people. you can have the greatest fire walls but if your people are engaging in negligent or intentional misconduct, all of that is defeated. we're spending a lot of time making sure we have a rich picture of our people that is constant and doesn't depend upon five-year polygraph investigations but shows us flags of a troubled employee in realtime. that's hard to do and build tec...

Because i want someone waking unevery morning worrying about how might we lose data, who might be penetrating us, either our systems or a human asset. and so a ton of work is going into protecting osystems. but the weakest link is always the people. you can have the greatest fire waur walls, but if your people -- we are spending time to find a rich picture of our people that is constant and doesn't depend upon five year polygraph investigations, but shows flags of an employee in real time. >> and in your opinion is congress doing enough to protect itself and our systems from outside threats? >...