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Kim jong-nam became an informant for the cia. on the day he was killed, security footage showed him at an elevator with an american intelligence agent. at that news the president appeared to side with north korea over something that is a staple of our intelligence business. >> i saw the information about the cia with respect to his brother or half brother. and i would tell him that would not happen under my auspices, that's for sure. i wouldn't let that happen under my auspices. >> so here's how hour former cia director john brennan responded to the president's comments earlier tonight on this...

Appeared to side with north korea over something that is a staple of our intelligence business. >> i saw the information about the cia with respect to his brother or half brother. and i would tell him that would not happen under my auspices, that's for sure. i wouldn't let that happen under my auspices. director john brennan responded to the president's comments earlier tonight on this network. >> he has no appreciation for the importance of the intelligence profession and the work they do around the world, including trying to recruit individuals to provide us the insights we need to help keep...

Intelligence asset. kim jong-nam became an informant for the cia. at that news the president appeared to side with north korea over something that is a staple of our intelligence business. >> i saw the information about the cia with respect to his brother or half brother. and i would tell him that would not happen under my auspices, that's for sure. i wouldn't let that happen under my auspices. >> so here's how hour former cia director john brennan responded to the president's comments earlier tonight on this network. >> he has no appreciation for the importance of the intelligence profession ...

Have to deny it, you know. admitting that we met the half brother would be a compromise, so he's obligated to just lie about it, and that's what happens in the intelligence business, but if the cia didn't meet the half brother, it would be completely negleijent. remember, brianna, that country is a black hole. anybody coming out, the cia or our allies would want to sit down and talk with him. it's standard. >> so he was a defector, but there's an issue with that, right, because he had fallen out of favor with the regime and this was several years ago and this happened two decades before his de...

Him under the bus. and he is like, look, i saw things that the democrats were paying for. i saw things that seemed frightening to me and alarming. i went to old contacts of the fbi to tell them. i wasn't a paid source in this case. that's his view of it. and that he was simply helping them out. and what they did with it, if they used -- misused it in a pfizer, he had nothing to do with that. which is to a degree true. he was simply a source of information. and i think he's acutely concerned he's going to be thrown under the bus here. >> interesting. why do you think that is? i mean -- that he'...