abby: representative mike pompeo.e was on the task force and this is how he described some of what they found. he says there is enormous evidence how talented individuals did their job and depicted what was going on on the ground. but when it got to senior levels, that information was changed. it sounds like this is coming from the top. the question is how far up does it go? do you think even president obama might have known about this? >> there is an interesting part of the report. it does talk about the director of national intelligence office. and the head of that is james clapper made multiple phone calls with centcom on a weekly basis obviously discussing intelligence. that's highly unusual was central command is not in their chain of command. and they were not making phone calls with any other combatant command. the report says there is no evidence that director intelligence was manipulating central command on the reports. but the uniqueness of the phone calls, something may not be right. the department of defen

in their five-month probe, over and over again earlier today, republican congressman mike pompeo, who was part of the investigation, charged this administration with putting american lives at risk. >> these are the kind of things that get people killed. this is incredibly dangerous. we haven't seen this kind of manipulation of intelligence, tactical and military intelligence in an awfully long time, and it's a direct result of the culture from a white house and administration that didn't want to confront this, didn't want to tell the american people, did not want to tell congress about what was really going on and the resources that were going to be required to fight this fight. >> in moments, we'll speak to congressman peter king, a member of the house intelligence committee, which was one of the three committees writing this report. but first trace gallagher has the details. trace. >> reporter: sandra, at issue here is the key intelligence that tracked the rise of isis in 2014 and 2015. but instead of giving the american people the straight scoop, a house republican task force says

republican congressman mike pompeo is a member of the task talented career professionals inside the analytic arm of centcom did their job and accurately depicted what was going on on the ground, but when it got to very senior levels, that information was changed. >> reporter: according to the report, starting around mid-20 14, final intelligence reports and public statements issued by centcom painted a rosier picture of the iraqi army's strength than the initial assessment of its own analysts. >> ladies and gentlemen, we are making progress. >> reporter: centcom's then-commander general lloyd austin testified in march 2015 that isis had been weakened in iraq. >> the fact is he can no longer do what he did at the outset, which is to seize and to hold new territory. he has assumed a defensive crouch in iraq. [gunfire] >> reporter: around the same time a centcom official stated the iraqi army could soon be ready to launch a major offensive to retake the city of mosul. >> when we send young men and women out to fight for our country, they need to have straight-up intelligence providing them info

. >>> let's go deeper into this iran situation with kansas republican congressman mike pompeo. congressman, good to see you. your reaction to this story first of all? >> the story doesn't surprise me sadly. we've been tracking what happened for months. we've asked lots of questions and now we have definitive reporting that bundles of cash were transferred to a terrorist regime that continues to take american hostages. this is a typical foreign policy thing that we don't trade money for hostages. in this case, we traded $400 million, maybe as much as $1.7 billion. >> congressman, not surprising, you hear the white house say thing is not ransom money, this is what josh earnest said from the podium today about this. >> this $400 million is actually money that the iranians had paid into a u.s. account in 1979 as part of a transaction to procure military equipment. so what the united states did was resolve a long-standing claim at the hague that saved the american people potentially billions of dollars. >> they say they know the optics look bad but this is old news. >> the fact that

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congressman mike pompeo told fox news yesterday that the goal was, i quote, tell a story that isis was jv and that we had al qaeda on the run. joining us with reaction is the author of defeating jihad, the winnable war, professor of strategy of irregular warfare, dr. sebastian gorka, and the author of the book three minutes to midnight, retired brig azeer general tony tata. general, let me start with you. this seems to be an incredible report that shows that intelligence data was cooked for the express purpose of politicizing and making things seem better than they really were. >> governor, unfortunately it's very credible, and it's just the tip of the iceberg. i have very well placed sources inside this thing that tell me that someone from the office of the director of national intelligence, who frequently meets with the president, directed a senior official in central command to quit producing products of record, as they're called, that showed negative intelligence that did not fit the narrative of the obama administration. and so what you have here is a directive from the administra

. >>> let's go deeper into this iran situation with kansas republican congressman mike pompeo. congressman, good to see you. your reaction to this story first of all? >> the story doesn't surprise me sadly. we've been tracking what happened for months. we've asked lots of questions and now we have definitive reporting that bundles of cash were transferred to a terrorist regime that continues to take american hostages. this is a typical foreign policy thing that we don't trade money for hostages. in this case, we traded $400 million, maybe as much as $1.7 billion. >> congressman, not surprising, you hear the white house say thing is not ransom money, this is what josh earnest said from the podium today about this. >> this $400 million is actually money that the iranians had paid into a u.s. account in 1979 as part of a transaction to procure military equipment. so what the united states did was resolve a long-standing claim at the hague that saved the american people potentially billions of dollars. >> they say they know the optics look bad but this is old news. >> the fact that

so a member of that task force, kansas republican mike pompeo said this, and i quote him, the facts once was saying out of u.s. central command. with me now, fox news military analyst and the author of the damned of petersburg, lieutenant colonel ralph peters. colonel, wonderful to see you. how can the public be told a different reality than what analysts and essentially military reporters on the ground saw? >> well, the president, president obama thinks truth is fungible and malleable. i worked in the intelligence world for almost 22 years, deirdre, cooking the books on intelligence is a huge no-no. when you do that, you're endangering the united states, our military, our citizens, our interests, and it's important that the american people understand that in this case, it was not the intelligence professionals down in the line that were cooking the books. it was the higher-ups at centcom, in the military political level. deirdre: colonel, let me ask you this, because you mentioned president obama, and there's no one, i want to be clear, no one has actually said that president obama as

reporter: mike pompeo, republican out of great state of kansas speaking with us earlier today on fox i want to share with you, and for the folks at home just a bit of what the defense department is saying about this they have a spokesman out there telling us, listen, this is part of an on going investigation. they want to drill down exactly what this review has to say. let me share at least in part what the statement says. says the department of defense initiated a separate inspector general, that is ig, investigation into this matter. the ig has a responsibility to investigate allegations related to analytic objectivity and we welcome and support their independent review. now i just want to clear that up for the folks are wondering what exactly does that mean t simply means this. they recognize and understand there will be some tug-of-war over the assessments but what they really want to find out, david, is whether or not the folks who were at the very top level of centcom were shading the details to sort of fit a narrative laid out by the administration. by the way, that report sai

. >> let's bring in kansas republican congressman mike pompeo, the congressman that sits on the intelligenceresentative, for being with us today. >> thank you, richard. >> when you listened to john kirby, what was different, do you think, in the words or tone that came from that news briefing? >> this was radically different from what president of the united states told us for months. back in january the president talked about this transaction and then again recently he condescendingly spoke to the nation and said we didn't pay ransom. there it was, state department admitting $400 million would not have left the united states had their not be prisoners released. pull out a dictionary, any ordinary definition of ransom would read exchange of value for release of hostages. that's what happened here. the president lied to the american people about the fact there was a ransom payment made for the release of the four american hostages. >> as you know john kirby didn't use the word ransom. >> he didn't use the word but he explained it just the way the dictionary does. >> how did the president lie

joining me now is republican congressman mike pompeo from kansas. thank you congressman, what, do you know, if anything -- >> thanks for having me on. >> are there the potential of e-mails that are related to benghazi or is this adjust what-if situation? >> well andrea, thanks for having me on today. you described that folks have been trying to get them for months. the benghazi has been trying to get access to every e-mail related to the deaths of four americans for a couple of years now, unsuccessfully because secretary clinton set up a situation to avoid this situation. where the public demanded access, we now know having the chance to read what the fbi provided to members of congress to read in the classified setting, not just deleted them, she used a sophisticated technique to make sure that no one ever had access to these. i'm glad they have now been recovered and i fully expect that we'll see work-related e-mails that the american people have every right no know and see. >> and have you started going through those yourself? >> no, ma'am. we ha

let's discuss with republican congressman mike pompeo of kansas. he has endorsed donald trump.for being here what do you make of this news that was announced at 5:30 this morning of this campaign shake-up? >> well, good morning, alisyn. thanks for having me on the show this morning. look, i don't know. i know ms. conway. she has been a steady hand. she's been in this business a long time, conveying messages, enormous change that needs to take place, supported candidate whose have tried advocate for that change and this is an election we're going to decide four more years of barack obama as policies, and a different direction and i think she'll be a great addition to the campaign. >> in october, bloomberg politics referred to steve bannon in an article as the most dangerous political operative in america, because of some of the flame throwing that goes on at breitbart that he heads up that website. and other things. so what do you think this does for the campaign? is this a return, or i guess i should say a reenforcement shoot from the hip brass knuckles style? >> well, i mean,

mike pompeo. >> the facts on the ground didn't match what the intelligence was saying out of the u.s. central command. >> reporter: the task force stemmed from a whistle-blower complaint filed in 2015 by a senior analyst at centcom saying it had been manipulated. it is unactive investigation by the inspector general. >> there is enormousnf how this talented career professionals inside the analytic arm in centcom did their job and depicted what was going on the ground but when it got to senior levels that information was changed. >> reporter: it wasn't just classified intelligence. the task force also found that centcom's public statements are far more positive than events on the ground warranted, such as in march of 2015 when general commander lloyd austin testified to congress. >> the fact is that he can no outset which is to seize and hold new territory. he has assumed a defensive crouch in iraq. >> reporter: as of today, more than a year later, the iraqi city of mosul still remainses und under isis control. the task force found evidence that no order for those changes came from the

. >> congressman mike pompeo from kansas.ou for taking time with us. >> thank you for the time. >>> coming up, closer time of the politician of donald trump's anti-isis plan. will it help him get past the stumbles of the past few weeks and raise new doubts about hillary clinton? marcopolo! marco...! polo! marco...! polo! marco...! polo! marco...! sì? polo! marco...! polo! scusa? ma io sono marco polo, ma... marco...! playing "marco polo" with marco polo? surprising. ragazzini, io sono marco polo. sì, sono qui... what's not surprising? how much money amanda and keith saved by switching to geico. ahhh... polo. marco...! polo! fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. polo! >>> you're following breaking news. donald trump revealing specifics about plans to fight isis and terrorism and this includes new ideology tests for immigrant. when a calls extreme vetting. just before that speech, vice president joe biden campaigning pour hillary clinton accusing donald trump of putting the lives of u.s. troops in danger by cl