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Home of barack and michelle obama. joining me on the phone is the former director of national intelligence under president obama, james clapper. general clapper, thanks for joining us. what kinds of questions do you think intelligence officials are asking behind the scenes right now? what are they looking for in this investigation? >> well, i think things like, you know, who else might be a potential target. is there any international implication here? i think, you know, the nature of the weapons and what they can derive from that, which will be a law enforcement function. so obviously just an...

And cannot have or say on their platforms. so that's one of the challenges they face. >> matt, jump in on this. what are you thinking? >> i think ellen is exactly right. look, the social media companies have a responsibilities for policing what's on their platform. they need to do what they can to find content that is being put into their systems by foreign governments, in this case mostly the russian government, and get it off their networks. the fbi has a responsibility to find out those attacks are attributed to, to take the information and find out if they can confirm it's the fbi and work...

Observance is effective when done by trained personnel. yes, it's been shown to be effective. >> tsa spokesman in the statement, one part of it i wanted to ask you about. what these air marshals is doing than no different than a cop working a beat. looking for suspicious behavior in the community that they work in, gathering intelligence, watching people for suspicious behavior. do they have a point? >> actually, they do. air marshals are cops on the beat. they are united states 1811 law enforcement agents. they have badges. they are performing a law enforcement function. who are they going to...

Enforcement function and there really is no way to get rid of that as it is designed? >> it's a law enforcement agency to be sure, but i think really the problem is at the end of the day they are tasked with enforcing a set laws that this country is divided upon. we have not modernized our immigration laws. we privately need immigration reform. we have 11.5 undocumented immigrants in this country which the majority have not committed any crimes. 86% have been here since 2006. when you have a law enforcement agency that's tasked with enforcing that law again that pop laying and you have an admi...

Confidential information about a confidential human source that the fbi used in the early stages of its investigation into whether or not the russian government and russian intelligence agencies were trying to penetrate donald trump's presidential campaign. to compliment the ongoing at the time russian government efforts to interfere with the presidential campaign to benefit trump's candidacy. and we're going to be speaking with presidential historian michael beschloss later tonight. so we will check with him for sure, but as far as we can tell, there is no historical precedent for anything li...