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Jimmy carter's campaign. in the lead up to the 2012 election, they used the so-called illegals, the non-official cover officers, who were here to collect, you know, "new york times" articles and other open source information on our electoral characteristics. so what we saw in 2016 was on a vastly different scale and the scope of what we saw was quite different. and it's my hope and it's certainly my expectation, it's my hope and expectation that this administration takes those lessons from 2016 and actually implements them. so that when the russians do this again in 2018 and 2020, as we know t...

Our intelligence analysts who have access to all of your clandestine the collection, access to what our allies around the world are collecting and access to report the and other open source information are in the best position to make that assessment of whether iran is complying with the nuclear deal. what the president has said is that in his judgment, iran's not complying and then he has asked a group in the white house to provide him with justification, with intelligence to support his preconceived notion that iran is not complying with the nuclear deal. if our intelligence is degraded beca...

Eyes of a former spy against russia. joining me now author "how to catch a russian spy" and his former supervisor, former special agent scott olsen. thank you both for being here. "daily news," essential from the point of view of the people who do this work, why what the president did in that oval office meeting was so dangerous. could you summarize for us? >> absolutely. look, all of this is based on trust. and even if you don't disclose sources and methods or don't disclose very, very specific details, the danger comes in that one can assemble, just using open source information, what actual...

Thanks very much for joining us. >> thank you. >> what's your biggest concern as an expert on russia? >> well, i think there are two things that are general areas of concern. we know from the assessment of our intelligence community and other open source information that vladmir putin order add an interview into the u.s. 2016 election. the american voters deserve to know what worked, what didn't work so they can be educated and understand how vladmir putin tried to manipulate their votes and whether a spy sitting in moscow had more impact on the election than a woman voting in iowa. that's a f...

You i ask that you answer based on open source information available to the general public, and also your understanding of the law of war is a graduate of west point and your service as an officer in the u.s. army. first of all, your understanding of the officer in a u.s. army, is military targeting of civilians a violation of the law of war? >> senator, intentional targeting of civilians is absolutely a violation of law of war. >> based on open sources and information available to the american public, in a conflict of aleppo, syria, have russian forces conducted repeated attacks against civil...