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Bruce orr was grilled by republican lawmakers for eight hours today. the closed door session was believed to focus on the relationship with christopher steele, the british spy behind the dossier that included intelligence on trump and russia. let's discuss now with cnn national security analysts and cnn global affairs analyst susie glasser. never a dull moment in the news business and in america. thank you for talking about this. take us through this. what does bruce orr have to do with former fbi attorney paige and what information led him to testify today? >> well, it's interesting. first of...

Julia caim, sues ar glasser. good evening to you. never a dull home in this news business and in america lately. so thank you all for coming on and talking about this. susan, take us through this. what does brusz orr have to do with former fbi attorney lisa page and gwenn simpson and what information led him to testify today. >> well, it's interesting. first of all, he's become the increasing focus both of the sort of very active group of trump defendersup on capitol hill. president trump has started getting in on the action. his wife worked for the firm fusion gps that commissioned the steele...

Crimes that were starting to get hints of, early hints of now as those things come together, the only, i think the picture of that is the only thing eventually, along with, a drubbing at the polls in november, for the republicans, or the only thing that's going to change the calculuss that have been worked in the way that they have, that allow some of these things to go on that you're talking about, i imagine the combination of those two things, most importantly in some extent, the electoral consequences for the party. but a republican party that's lost the house and maybe lost the senate and ...

Of people? >> very little you can do. once the plot is being executed to avert it. you hope to mitigate casualties? >> maria: what is the cia looking at now? >> they have him. they'll look at if there was a cell at working taking direction. assuming if there was a terror plot based on the tactics and that targets here, the overwhelming probability is a terrorist plot. a lot of people suggest that it's jihadist inspired. not yet reported. so we're going to see what law enforcement was doing, what was he doing in the days before and what could have known and who helped him. >> buck, thank you. j...

For the fbi and the cia to support the president, foss give somebody clearances, why haven't you come one the information allows them to provide the clearances? are you, ampb, lazy, or are you providing information led to the candidates, whether they really qualified for clearances. it is not that hard. >> matthew, the fbi doesn't grant the security clearances. they provide information. it is up to the agency to decide what to do with it. i'll read a statement from the fbi. the fbi does not grant, deny or otherwise adjudicate security clearances for individuals on behalf of these agencies. nor...