former deputy director mike morrell knocking republicans and thepparently the facts.about more rel's morell's new book? >> reporter: advanced copies went out and he says the 2012 attack which included three waves over an eight-hour period and included the use of mortars at the cia annex did not require significant preplanning. official operators who know how the attack went down emphasized it did take planning and a skilled mortar team to land 3 of the 5 more tarstars on target in under a minute. >> i that ukdalked to guys that were actually there. they know more than he or i know. they're fighting a well trained organized group of assaulters coming after them. >> it is also important to emphasize that republicans on the senate intelligence committee accused morerell of misleading them. claiming talking points were only provided to the white house for informational purposes and not for their input. morrell was also called to testify three times before the house intelligence committee because his explanations were inconsistent and it will be worth noting whether any of

we will -- the book again by mike morrell.e will be right back. ♪ we learned the obama presidential library will be in the president's old stomping grounds, chicago. we had an expert on the obama family in the studio recently whose new book "michelle obama a life" that is about michelle obama and her life. you said i wanted to know what michelle obama set out to accomplish and why. >> it tracks back to where she grew up. she saw inequality all the time and she sees it now. what she is trying to do in the white house is i write about in the book is to un-stack the deck. there is an element of disadvantage, dealing with this advantage kids, disadvantaged adults. very much like what barack obama is doing now. mark: how did you decide to write a book about someone who is so covered and over-covered. peter: we have not gone so deep, we think we know it all and we move on. this was a great opportunity especially in chicago where i am based to go back into her history, her parents history and to see before she got in the white house,

. ♪ john: before our talk with mike morrell, he told us about the best job he had never had.the snack guy. can't imagine what that was like? >> popcorn here, get your popcorn here. mark: we are on twice a day. see you tomorrow. emily: facebook steps into the ring with news websites, but do the social network's publishing ambitions give it too much power? i'm emily chang and this is "bloomberg west." today, a possible new rival to amazon prime. we will look at the report that says it got a peek at walmart's combo. alibaba takes a play from 10 send playbook. we will talk about the partnership with the ncaa. and i robot is out with a microchip that connects its devices to you. i will be joined by the ceo. first, to a new force in the publishing world -- facebook's instant articles.

we have we just had dana perino is on the best seller list now with "and the good news is," mike morrell former deputy director of the cia did a book on terrorism. as i said, wide range of books. >> host: all right susan weinberg, perseus. tell us about some of the authors you've worked with. >> guest: perseus book group is a very interesting unique company in america supporting independent publishing. and perseus is a combination of imprints owned and operated by the perseus book group basic books -- [inaudible] and then we also through our distribution company represent and sell and support hundreds of independent publishing companies throughout the country. >> host: now you've both referred to -- [inaudible] you've talked about perseus, and before you were the publisher at public affairs which is one of the divisions of perseus. >> guest: right. >> host: why are these book groups, why are they -- why can't there just be one title? >> guest: you know that's a really great question because i think that question of intimacy and scale is a really important one many publishing that comes u

jonah, they reduced -- if you look at mike morrell -- if you look at the -- at the cia -- penny, let you're not answering the question. why did she pay such attention to sidney bloomenthal and ignore the request from somebody who actually worked for her? why did she do that? >> well look why she ignored, or allegedly ignored the security request, you know i think is a perfectly legitimate thing. i think in her testimony, she essentially stonewalled the issue. but it seems to me that penny's position is the reason why hillary clinton participated in a deliberate lie about the role of the video, is because she was simply bleeding her good soldier barack obama. that is not exoneration for hillary clinton when she's now claiming she wants to be commander in chief. the fact she's involved with sidney blumenthal at all in this he's basically the equivalent -- he's the equivalent of the self-server. he's a secret intelligence analyst, that even the obama administration thought he was too s on the payroll. >> that's true. thank you, penny, thank you, jonah, very much. >>> up next right here

my colleague chris matthews this week had a stunning conversation with deputy director mike morrel. the briefer up to the war. watch this ask him about dig cheney saying saddam hussein had reconstituted nuclear weapons. watch how this went. >> if you are the briefer of the president intelligence, you are the top person, you see dhaen cheney make this charge. he had the capability. nobody reached in and said, no, that's not what we told him. >> chris, chris, it wasn't my job. my job. >> to tell the truth. briefer, my job is to carry cia's best information and best analysis to the president of the united states, make sure he understands it. right. my job is to not watch what they're saying ob tv and say -- >> you think it's a joke? >> what? in there you think it's a joke? >> that's not my job. i wasn't paying attention. i was studying. >> you are briefing the president on the reasons for war. they're selling the war, using your stuff saying you made that case when you didn't. so they're using your credibility to make the case for war dishonestly as juv just admitted? >> look, i'm just

. >> hugh hewitt asked former cia director mike morrell whether or not he thinks her system was hacked able to get it from vladimir putin, or the chinese. here's how the exchange went. >> as a professional matter, do you believe that at least one or perhaps many foreign intelligence servers have everything that went to and from that server? >> i think foreign intelligence services the good ones the good ones have everything on any unclassified network that the government uses whether it's a private server or a public one. >> so what does that mean the chinese may have this all backed up for us? so maybe putin might have it all backed up? does that mean if she becomes president, she is potentially subject to blackmail because the erased e-mails they have in their possession that might in fact be damning to her and cause a lot of legal problems for her? >> no i would absolutely bet, sean that the russians have them the chinese have them. if we're lucky a couple of reasonably friendly intelligence services might have them as well. the french and the british. but it might be that isis who

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from mike morrell, the former deputy director of the cia. i am told however, by a u.s.nce official there were valuable intelligence sources inside pakistan within pakistan no silver bullet they say, but valuable intelligence sources, so it is possible in the overall intelligence picture that a walk-in or others contributed to that picture, but they're holding to the storyline that it was painstaking intelligence work following the courier, the key piece of evidence that led to bin laden. >> one way to find out who is telling the truth is to see if the united states paid any of its sources. there was a reward of $25 million for any information that led to the whereabouts of bin laden. if the u.s. paid any of that out, which we know they don't like to do. you really have to do something for them to pay, that would mean they got valuable information. in your reporter have you found any evidence that the united states has paid anybody? >> this is what i have been told. yes, the u.s. may have paid locals in pakistan for help in this for instance the people that were employed

but sensitive information was on that personal server, let's not forget, former top cia official mike morrell said just last week, he thinks multiple foreign governments hacked into that personal server. this is the big question, the security of that server and what's being sent around. >> we have a couple of questions from the table. >> i'm not sure where to begin, ed. i'm flabbergasted. if i was the press office, i would say i couldn't possibly defend this. number one, we now know that -- let's start at the beginning. to use a private e-mail server as an official government employee, a member of the cabinet, has anyone asked her if she would govern this way, and would she hold government employees to the same standard that they were supposed to be under before she broke the law? >> well, we have not asked her that directly. as you know, we've had a limited number of opportunities to ask her questions. so it's been sort of rapid fire a couple of times in the last few days. that is a good question moving forward. i think the ultimate question we can look in the rear view mirror, find out what

the former deputy director of the cia, mike morrell, has had every sentence was wrong and one of your colleagues at cnn put it best, peter bergen, described the story as being about 10,000 words in length and said, based on reading it that what is true in the story isn't new, and what is new in the story isn't true. so i thought that was a pretty good way of describing why no one here is really concerned about it. amy: in a statement, white house national security spokesperson ned price said -- "there are too many inaccuracies and baseless assertions in this piece to fact check each one the notion that the operation that killed osama bin ladin was anything but a unilateral u.s. mission is patently false." but despite the white house's denials, none of its statements have addressed hersh's specific allegations. meanwhile, other reporting is beginning to corroborate some key elements. according to nbc news, three intelligence sources have backed hersh's claim that the u.s. heard about bin laden's location when a pakistani officer told the cia. the u.s. has said it helped find bin laden

. >> thank you mike morrell. >> you're welcome. >>> more severe weather threatens parts of the south and midwest today. the storms could produce strong winds, downpours, lightning and hail from oklahoma to kansas. some drivers in norman oklahoma, had to push their cars off flooded roads overnight. heavy rain around austin closed several roads and trapped car this is morning. some areas saw five inches of rain. >> mini tornados touched down in texas. this one sucked up debris from farmhouses in the northern part of the state. a different scene in roswell, new mexico a tornado destroyed a garage and storage shed. the twister had enough force to send the garage door hanging from a utility pole. >>> people in california this morning face the strongest water-use restrictions ever. regulators voted yesterday to protect supplies from the state's worst drought in decades. communities throughout the state are now under orders to cut water use from 8% to 36%. governor jerry brown proposed the new limits after voluntary efforts failed to meet the targets. the restrictions do not apply to farmer

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you have the former deputy of the cia mike morrell saying that war between the u.s.d also mention that a u.s. spy plane, it had a little interaction with what appears to be a navy installment there. duping this is a risk a conflict here in. >> it is a conflict. it's been around for a very long time. they're trying to establish their dominance. it's no secret that cha that wants to run the pacific rim. and to say we're the dominant sfors, the americans aren't going to be here. one we need to express again, one of the united states aircraft coming in needs to fly in that area. we need to continue to reinforce, these are international waters with not chinese waters. we need to be able to put our ships nearby and let everyone know these are international waters. all of the neighbors need to hear that. we need to continue to engage in trade. this conversation does have an effect on what's happening with china to be able to say to china the united states and the pacific, we're going to cooperate together. china tries to say we're the big dog with the most active economy, w

mike morrell, the former deputy director of the cia says isis is bad but it's not the worst of the worstere are other terror groups more threatening, more dangerous to the united states right now. he says its not the most significant threat to the homeland today. what other terror groups are greater threats to the u.s. homeland? >> al qaeda because they keep putting bombs on american bound planes. they haven't succeeded but they keep trying. and the group that's part of al qaeda that have link to al qaeda and yemen and ambitions to attack american aviation. >> so general hertling, they're dropping leaflets in raqqa, the capital of the isis control parts of syria and they're addressing isis the end is approaching, we're not going to stop, your destiny is to lose the war, the end is approaching, we can strike you inside your allege ud area but you can do nothing about this. i remember during the first gulf war, the second war in iraq the u.s. started dropping these kinds of leaflets. how effective are they against the enemy? >> when you saw it in the first gulf war, it was probably called