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>> maybe i should not have been in that briefing. >> intelligence purposes. >> for intelligence purposes. and it also would have been appropriate for across fire hurricane agent to have debrief the fbi agent at the intelligence briefing to see if michael flynn have sent anything relevant to the investigation. it was information potentially relevant to the investigation, was it not? depending what occur there, you could foresee a hypothetical. it raises series of policy questions, the fbi director needs to sort through and understand leadership of the department. that briefing and those briefin...

And go start to get those electronic communication records that might validate the information that he receives this interviews. this is where his investigation gets harder. let's assume some of those russians are using a foreign provider or unwilling to give over records, unwilling to yield to a u.s. issued subpoena. that's where the job gets tougher. >> matt, let me ask you about december 2016, president obama ordered the compounds in maryland and new york that we have been talking about seized. he said they were use ed by russian personnel for intelligence related purposes. we know that rus...

Using it for intelligence purposes. they wanted these compounds seized for years. i think the russians want it to be able to get thoese intelligence capables back and use them. i think there's something else at stake here. they want to show the world they can get the upper hand on donald trump. one of the things that vladmir putin has made his over arching mission is to re-establish russia as one of the major super powers and showing he can defeat the united states and reverse a decision made by the u.s. president showing that he can tamper in the u.s. election and have the consequences that w...

>> even before i came into office, i was very clear that, in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, we did some things that were wrong. we did a whole lot of things that were right. but we tortured some folks. we did some things that were contrary to our values. >> and we're back. that was president obama acknowledging the united states' role in torture tactics for intelligence purposes. tomorrow a senate intelligence committee report, denouncing the use of torture is set to be released. it's expected to accuse of cia of lying about the success and effectiveness of interrogation techniques used on d...

Down. i think we have to decide do we get more out of shooting it down or is it better to have it land in the ocean in the water and then we can use that for our intelligence purposes. >> thanks very much, peter king, appreciate your time tonight. all right. "outfront" now, retired colonel cedric layton and david kong join me. good to have both of you with us. david, you just heard congressman king. he said my instinct is shoot down a north korean missile, but we have to decide if we don't shoot it down, you know, you might get more intelligence out of it if it lands in the water and learn abo...