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Congressional intelligence committee exists to do oversight of the administrations intelligence gathering and its work in that intelligence field. rather, you now have a congressman running that committee who looks like he is trying to shield the president from investigation and certainly looks like he's passing information to the president even leaking to the media -- leaking is probably the wrong word. he held a press conference talking to the media about classified information in terms of surveillance picking up members of the trump transition team. so he's basically taken a protection for ...

>> he said exactly what you said. do you talk? i'm just kidding. but he said that this job is as a filter to not do so much filter. he said that he is not a strategic force. he is operational. and raised almost identical concerns that you just did. >> and general, you and i have talked about general flynn. you have correctly praised his experience in the intelligence field. but it's also been asked by others, first of all, people raise questions about his bow hafor at the rnc convention and during the campaign. but it's been asked by others if his knowledge base was broad enough given the prox...

Should get a death sentence? >> i think he's the outsider, the executive. some is meant to stir his troops to better performance. i don't know. i've listened to the assange interviews here that sean hannity had with him. you know, he's quite adamant the russians weren't involved. obviously i don't know. but i do think -- bob is right here. having been in government, whether it's the central intelligence agency, the director of national intelligence, or housing and urban development or the justice department, these organizations can get very, very scle ronnic and out of date and get out of date...

Of different administrations, right? but even though the agencies of the national security apparatus and military and the intelligence field, they're affed by mostly career folks who stay there year in and year out no matter who the president is, ultimately all those agencies really do in a specific way answer to the president. and in a certain reductive way all of the intelligence agencies in the unite, this multizillion dollar apparatus we've got, it all exists specifically to provide information to one person, to the president, to steal secrets about the world, to steal secrets from other c...

But even though the agencies of the national security apparatus and military and the intelligence field, they're staffed by mostly career folks who o stay there year in and yea out no matter who the president is, ultimately all those agencies really do in a specific way answer to the president. and in a certain reductive way all of the intelligence agencies in the unite, this multizillion dollar apparatuse've got, it all exists specifically to provide information to one person, to the president, to steal secrets about the world, to steal secrets from other countries in order to help the priden...