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For being here. i think the first question is, do you believe that they should have shot down this balloon sooner? >> yes, absolutely. you know, when it was first sighted near alaska on the 28th of january, according to press reports norad, the north american space command, decided it was not threatening. i would like to know how they know. the payload for this balloon was apparently the size of three buses. that's pretty big. were we confident there was not a nuclear weapon in that payload? were we confident it was not carrying biological weapons, pathogens or toxins that could have been dump...

Personnel in kabul as the taliban is literally taking over. how -- just help us understand how that cannot be viewed as an intelligence threat. do you think it's a failure of planning or logistics? what went wrong here? >> i would characterize it as government failure to see this. i don't think this is exclusively an intelligence failure. the big message here, pamela, to me is something, you know, we're relearning after my war on southeast asia and that is we can't buy will to fight and the issue here, of course, was the effectiveness or lack thereof by the afghan military and security and pol...

Understating here -- problematic. here he goes. >> problematic is an understatement in terms of displays, in terms of giving some i don't know, hope or some boost to what is and should be illegal activity. >> well, here is what the president said in response to that just minutes later. >> and do you regret talking so much about wikileaks given robert mueller called that problematic? >> so wikileaks is a hoax just like everything else. >> it's not a hoax. >> it's not a hoax. look, wikileaks is a very serious problem. it has been for the intelligence community in republican and democratic admini...

Intelligence threat. they were happy to take meetings. >> that's right. >> yeah. it's a very interesting point. josh, thank you for the expertise. lis, so nice to have you. we do want to jump to the pentagon now with breaking news on the rising tension with iran. our pentagon correspondent barbara starr breaking this with her new reporting. what can you tell us this morning? >> reporter: good morning, poppy. cnn has learned that now president trump has given his thumbs up, his approval, to a pentagon plan to send additional forces and weapons to the persian gulf region to counter what the pe...

An uptick in suspected russian intelligence officers entering the united states under the guise of other business. officials say they believe russia is trying to replenish their ranks since the u.s. expelled spies last december. some cases russian spies have tried to gain employment at places with sensitive information as part of their intelligence gathering efforts. the fbi, which is responsible for counterintelligence efforts in the u.s. would not comment for this story, and the russian embassy in washington didn't respond for comment either. >> so if this is known to u.s. intelligence, pame...