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Has its suspicions. tonight north and south korean military officials meeting for fresh talks at panmunjeom on aimed at reducing tensions just as satellite imagery shows north korea could be building new liquid fueled ballistic missiles according to the "washington post." this despite the trump administration's hope that north korea would give up its nuclear weapons following the singapore summit. for intelligence analysts, the critical question is what has north korea been up to in the weeks since then? >> what we're seeing with the intelligence leak as well as the unclassified satellite imag...

Himself could be releasing material that intelligence analysts assessed and haven't yet released to the public. either the president is breaching intelligence protocols, putting out material that should not be public at this point according to the intelligence community, or the president is just making stuff up to try to troll the public and be funny. either way, it just goes to the broader credibility crisis that this white house has had ever since he was inaugurated. >> on a serious point, belief, as much of the intelligence community asserted, that russians are trying to interfere in the el...

At this point if they won't come to the table there is no reason for the president to go over there. >> sandra: any further communication since north korea released the statement last night. the president seems to think it was warm and productive. >> i won't get into any conversations between our intelligence analysts and our state department with foreign governments at this point. i can just tell you where we are at this moment. we don't have plans to go over there right now. but if that should change i guarantee the president will get over there. this is important to him. he doesn't want a c...

Found a little more than a year ago. i will add there as well that, yes, the intelligence chiefs who were in charge at the time and signed off in effect on that assessment were political appointees. but, remember, it was career intelligence professionals, intelligence analysts that prepared that report, analyzed the intelligence, et cetera. so it's -- you know, if the argument that it's a political argument that is contestable by the fact that many career professionals took part in bringing that report together. >> jim, democrats on the committee are certainly not onboard with the investigatio...

But knows the clear parameters. and just how far intelligence officers, intelligence analysts and intelligence operatives should go when it comes to informing policy. >> but, ned, haspel has been linked to the cia destruction of interrogation tapes that documented harsh interrogations of at least two al qaeda suspects in cia detention, the destruction ordered by the head of the clandestine service. haspel, his chief of staff at the time. is this something that could perhaps pose a problem for her during confirmation hearing? >> i think we have to remember what this was. this was a covert actio...