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Few days before mr. trump came into office. it was called an assessment, the report itself if you read it i think steven cohen has pointed out to you, it's not an intelligence estimates. it doesn't have dissent it doesn't have the kind of information that is required. as sy hirsch said it was a joke. he calls john brennan the head of the cia as creating a fear and a paranoia without evidence at a time when a transition but it's very imported american democracy that we trust our leader. trump was slapped in the face two weeks to go, this thing is serious, it's calling him a manchurian candidate...

This is what they've concluded. we based our intelligence estimates on that. >> hold on a second. rick, that doesn't make any sense. i'm talking about the intel community's consensus that russia motivated the hacks that wound up benefiting wikileaks and donald trump because he kept asking for people to read them. that has nothing to do with the dnc having lousy defense, nothing to do with to dossier of the intel community. totally different issue. >> the leaks were dnc e-mail leaks. the dnc has complicity. >> i'm saying do you act september the intel community -- >> they have complicity becaus...

Well. do you question the intel? >> not really. let me explain what my experience is with that. i was the senior member democrat on the house intelligence committee on 9/11. and i saw after that the intel mess leading up to iraq. i believe the intelligence where they got it wrong. where sources were not corroborated. where some material was cherry picked and where we painted the picture, which i believed that saddam hussein was going to use weapons of mass destruction on his people and us. chemical weapons. i voted for the war. >> using that moment to say we can't trust them now. where is he w...

Support," there's only four or five of them left, but our support was illegal. this is the guy that dismembered ukraine. it rema it's remarkable. >> in syria for a strategy to work, it depends on good intelligence partially. we've been getting reports the last week or so that intelligence estimates as they arrive and go up through the chain of command that the books are being cooked as they get to the top in order to present a rosier picture. what do you know about that report? how has it impacted our strategy in syria and in the middle east and what do you think is the future of this intellig...

Acquire materials for a nuclear weapon instead of how long it might take to create one. listen to secretary of state john kerry in april 2014 nearly a year before the framework was announced. >> i think it's fair to say that i think it's public knowledge today that we're operating with a time period for a so-called breakout of about two months. >> reporter: a plan carried forward into this year by the president. >> well, currently the breakout times are only two to three months by our intelligence estimates. >> reporter: the administration made a political calculation and changed the way it fr...