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Significance of the changes. or how they would be perceived." trump's team did not intend to reduce the role of the intelligence director of the joint chiefs chairman. "in crafting their organization order, trump's aides essentially cut and pasted language from an old organization chart. the trump team did not realize" who they were cutting out of the nsc by doing it that way. "as a practical matter, mr. trump's aides may not have intended a substantive change." so turning the national security council inside out, throwing out the military and the intelligence community in favor of steve banno...

You are day two of our administration but without a intelligence director. intelligence community is the sentinels and guardians of our nation. how do you square that sentence with the president-elect trump, before he was sworn in, and the aggressive tone and nature with which he went at the intelligence community? >> well, i have to say i am, i am with secretary mattis on his statement. i believe that they are the guardians of our nation. the intelligence community and military working together account for most of the good things that we have to be thankful for in this country. i can attribut...

Organization. one of the things that's very good about it is unlike the feature films and beach books sometimes portray, it's haven't non-partisan. doesn't matter. administration comes in, deliver tasking. cia like fbi and others do their job, march on. pompeo will come in and underneath him is the deputy. the deputy tends to come in and be promoted from within the ranks. you have somebody underneath pompeo that will have extensive experience working. perhaps an operations, perhaps in the intelligence side, the intelligence director within the organization, and then you've got the various serv...

And the same thing with james clapper. james clapper is the intelligence director. that's what's really going on. >> we have breaking news right now with a statement from jos r ernest, the president's spokesperson. >> his legacy is to close gitmo. i think he'll go after his legacy. that's one of his primary legacies. >> senator, now we want to go back to what you eluded to with regard to breaking news about gitmo. josh ernest responding to a new york times report of a mass

Total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the united states until our country's representatives can figure out what the hell is going on. >> and in washington yesterday, the house homeland security committee chairman, congressman mike mccaul, who will join us later tonight, issued a very stern warning about isis infiltrating the refugee community that wants to come to america. watch this. >> i can reveal today that the united states government has information to indicate that individuals tied to terrorist groups in syria have already attempted to gain access to our country through the u....