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Does the president have a. the president believes in states' rights, number. . care coverage goes up and cost go down. the. >> i want to go back to some things that he said about russia. one of the things he said was the russian government is still involved in politics. is that the view of this white house? >> i think that's the view of the fbi. we rely on them and the rest of the intelligence community to provide the presidents with updates on what they're learning. it doesn't go that way. the director and the intelligence committee update the president on all of the threats the united states...

Short time after that, bloomberg suggesting that rice was the person who would request the identities of trump transition officials whose phone conversations of foreign officials were collected. joining me now is susan hennessy of the national security agency. all right, it's very clear to me now you've got all of the parts of the let's say benghazi industrial complex working to send this idea that the real scandal here is the obama folks spying on the trump campaign, what do you make of it? >> right. so,again, again, they're sort of trying to advance this narrative that the real story is some...

Officials whose phone conversations of foreign officials were collected. joining me now is susan hennessy of the national security agency. all right, it's very clear to me now you've got all of the parts of the let's say benghazi industrial complex working to send this idea that the real scandal here is the obama folks spying on the trump campaign, what do you make of it? >> right. so, again, again, they're sort of trying to advance this narrative that the real story is something else, leaks, the fact incidental collection. the issue is that they're describing perfectly legal and what appears ...

That gives them 72 hours to leave the country and the government is shutting down two russian-government owned compounds, one in maryland, another in new york that were used they say to conduct intelligence activity. the government is also going to be releasing information, the department of homeland security and the federal bureau -- the fbi are going to be releasing declassified technical information on russian civilian and military intelligence service activity to provide those who try to help defense networks and defense cyber networks, it will give them the information they need that coul...

Cha china, russia, al qaeda would follow suit. precisely because washington has to get its hands dirty, it should be smart about this. you don't stop terrorists in europe by listening in on angela merkel's cell phone. the rewards of spying on friendly heads of government are probably outweighed by the risks. and most troubling, it's not clear that many of these specific activities were clearly thought through and directed by the white house. nor do they appear to have been vetted by congress. in the wake of 9/11, america got scared and dropped any sense of constraints on its intelligence activ...