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Paul: well, and general mattis said he was for the deployments on the eastern fringe of nato that obama and nato have done, and he's in favor of even permanent deployments in the baltic states which is not going to go down well with vladimir putin. >> it's the new west berlin. paul: well, that's very interesting because if that's going to be a variable tension with perhaps president trump, elect trump's ambitions to do a deal with vladimir putin. >> but even trump is backing away from that, isn't he? he said in the press conference, well, i might get along with vladimir putin, or i might not -...

In poland, that would also send an unequivocal message. paul: well, and general mattis said he was for the deployments on the eastern fringe of nato that obama and nato have done, and he's in favor of even permanent deployments in the baltic states which is not going to go down well with vladimir putin. >> it's the new west berlin. paul: well, that's very interesting because if that's going to be a variable tension with perhaps president trump, elect trump's ambitions to do a deal with vladimir putin. >> but even trump is backing away from that, isn't he? he said in the press conference, well,...

This was an example in which president obama wanted to up-end what he called conventional washington thinking about foreign policy and trying new approaches. and he wanted to begin normalizing relations from the beginning of his presidency. the big snag here was that this guy, alan gross, was abducted by the cubans. i also think obama realized that this so-called intelligence asset, who was a prisoner over there, was a bigger problem than he realized. so, they had to untangle those knots. in fact, as a matter of sort of policy vision, this was something that president obama had wanted to do fr...

Our chief national security correspondent, jim sciutto, is getting some new information on this u.s. intelligence asset that has been freed, 20 years in captivity for spying on behalf of the united states inside cuba. what are you learning, jim? >> reporter: that's right. until now we just knew it was an intelligence asset. but coming from the director of national intelligence, we're learning the united states secured the release of a cuban individual from a cuban prison who the director of national intelligence says provided critical assistance to the united states. it goes on to list a numbe...

Explaining and some of the pushback you are hearing today maybe he will be an intelligence asset. maybe we've learned more about the taliban through him and they will get more, but they have a lot more explaining to do to the extent that they can. >> i mean the guys on the ground, and we talked to a special forces commander in that area didn't believe he was an intelligence asset, unless -- >> he might have been an intelligence liability. >> you mentioned susan rice, and the not notifying congress. here's what she said about how the deal came together with qatar. >> we do have that confidence ...