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Congressional hearings because what is the responsibility of congress? we need to be able to do this in a bipartisan or non-partisan manner because this is potentially the next wave or the next level of warfare around the world. >> congresswoman, let me ask you quickly. >> users of yahoo have been attacked. >> cynthia mcfadden's report, the new information that directly links to vladimir putin derives from diplomatic sources and spies working for u.s. allies. how much of this information do you believe should be made public so that some of these questions are closed and it's not left to a few ...

Death. so i'd make this point. whatever could be declassified that does not impact our security, does not jeopardize the lives of the brave men and women who provide us with this valuable intelligence and i might say to the incoming administration, don't disrespect and disregard the high level of intelligence that we have utilized since 9/11 and before. but particularly, 9/11 that's protected this nation. so i would say what does not impact the security assets that we have, it should be released, beyond the classified information and it should be released to the american people. this is about ...

Groups if they had the ability and capability, they would be willing to do that. the question is about, a, how do you remedy that, and b, who are the potential allies of these terrorist organizations that you're going after? donald trump is going after the 1.6 billion muslims in the world. he's casting a net, saying, we don't trust any of them. and because we don't know what the heck is going on, as he said, we gotta take this measure and everybody's got to stay outside the gates. >> and what do national security experts make of that kind of wide net? >> it's removed from reality. when you spe...

They're going to be calling in very accurate air strikes. they're going to be managing the command and control of the ground forces which will be iraqis. so it's what the iraqis need. we numerically created 400,000 security assets in iraq, but they're not all trained, dedicated professionals as we saw, when they ran away. the u.s. special forces are very comfortable with iraqi soldiers. they trained them up, also with the peshmerga in kurdistan. you'll see this escalation of activity once these troops hit the ground. >> fascinating conversation. robert van pelten, thank you, appreciate it. w...

Failing. >> you still have to try to know. what's the other option? to go in and bomb? that didn't go over well when put in front of congress. diplomacy doesn't work, then you restart and head another direction. >> are we going to pay for trusting the russians too much? >> the congress didn't vote to put the olympics in sochi. the olympic committee i sayre day the united states has some security assets somewhere around close there. the other thing is, russia has a seat on the u.n. security council. >> that's right. >> they can veto almost anything we try to do. so we necessarily have to deal w...