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Leaving the air force unable to train. the number of pilots necessary. says it will impede recovery of our readiness and may prove fatal in a future conflict. navy will reduce flying hours and steaming days. the secretary of defense says impact the readiness of our forces and equipment at a time when security threats are extraordinarily high. how can they recover from this? it's only been two days. >> also the civilian workforce. we have about 740,000 civilians in the department of defense. >> half of them are being furloughed. >> and eric, that affects our maintenance. a lot of the maintenanc...

Issue when he said that intelligence operations would have to stop changing for reserve. military families wouldn't receive the support they need. i think it's so important that democrats are really feeling the pressure right now because they are actually opposing a bill that they shouldn't be opposing, as mick mulvaney mentioned earlier today. i think that's a very significant if we can find a way to work together and make sure the government doesn't shut down. >> dana: i was saying earlier to chris stirewalt that the republicans are remarkably on message, saying we have a clean bill, there's...

Somehow he has information that the rest of the world doesn't have? >> well, clearly, not a coffee boy. what it tells you is that the russians had a very sophisticated intelligence operation under way here. all good intelligence operations don't just start at the tomorrow. th top. they start ot the bottom. and they work their way up through the system. and clearly, he was approached in london, because he was one of many ways the russians were looking to get into the trump campaign, and into a position of influence here. now, what we do know is that when he did actually meet donald trump and ot...

Businessman, as a real estate developer, learned to rely on russian financing for projects. okay. that financing very easily can involve money laundering, okay? if that happened, it's compromising. that's compramount to put it in the russian term. it sneaks up on a person who gets caught up in it but that alone isn't enough for the russians to have leverage over trump. i think it's deep thaern that. president trump has a personality that's sympathetic to authoritarianism. he doesn't respect -- >> personality or personality disorder? >> one of the two. but it's those two things aligned but i'll...

Those companies went to work using those kinds of false identities to insinuate themselves into the lives he was targeting. >> one of the companies you write about is called black cube which is apparently former mossad agents from israel and others. the level of detail of, i mean, how far they would go, you know, setting up front companies, posing as women's rights advocates in order to meet with rose mcgowan, they were launching intelligence operations. >> these were intelligence gathering operations. s in case of rose mcgowan, two separate agents met with her. >> befriended her really. >> re...