the nsa goes and gets tens of millions of records, they don't have a right to. they destroy them, and we're supposed to move on? that is not how if works. , i said on twitter, don't worry, all those unmaskings took place of nsa material, thanks by the obama administration, who was in large measure responsible for this lawlessness in terms of getting records they did not have right to under the law. david: that shows again, you put this in context of investigation, and political bias that deep state has, particularly against donald trump becoming president of united states, and you just wounder, how much of the authority, power of the tools they had available to them did they put in place to try to achieve their goals. >> record directs are design -- collect are designed to stop terrorist attacks, they are not being done effectively ethen we have other intelligence being used, otherwise that is supposed to be used to figure out what foreigners are up to, vis-a-vis the united states, that is being abused. all those police powers we give federal government depend o

he's tweeting about the nsa, harley davidson. he's flailing around, but he's not tweeting around about the investigation or about michael cohen. >> he's tweeting about sean spicer's book and this and that, but not a word as this story comes up, and we know he never stops watching tv. >> so rudy giuliani is running scared. again, cohen, he's pushing back, even on the raid. so he told george step n stephanopoulos, actually, the fbi was pretty nice when they raided my home. he said, this is about family and country. and he seemed to put that in opposition to trump. >> do you get the sense that, you know, you said something a couple minutes ago that he may not be of value to prosecutors. is that a real worry that he has? is he really trying to market himself as someone who has information that you be helpful to the collusion case, who has things on the hush money payments, is he really trying to make clear that he's got the goods on donald trump? >> i don't think that's a worry of his, it's just something i've been thinking about. if

under the new system the phones companies all the records and the nsa can access on a limited basis.he aclu says the new system fails. >> we don't know what went wrong. what the nsa has said is that the problem was apparently of such a magnitude that they couldn't tell what were the records that were collected improperly versus the ones that were collected lawfully? >> according to an agency statement it was not feasible for the nsa to identify and isolate the data it was authorized to receive so with approval from the justice department and that of the intelligence community, the nsa said the appropriate course of action was to delete the record records. >> my great concern is there will be data of interest regarding specific individuals were planning terrorist attacks domestically with their cronies that may be lost in this purge. >> on surveillance during his march hearing the new nsa director promised to credibility. >> i would say there are two things that i would do. i would follow the law and i would ensure, if confirmed, that the agency follows the law. >> john wyden, a defen

what the nsa is doing, and their powers.that give you pause? do you think that will be one of the questions? >> i'm sure it will be a question, that is a issue senator paul typically asks of judges or nominees that come before congress. it will be important to him, perhaps to other senators as well but again, these are, these are the reasons why you have this process. this is why you have the documents prepared, you look at all the opinions, you look at his writings, you determine from his record whether he possesses the judicial philosophy and exercises the kind of temperment that most of us want to see on the court, somebody who calls balls and strikes. somebody who doesn't try to step on the scales, take side or achieve a certain outcome, political outcome. somebody literally who is there to be an impartial judge and that is what i think most of our members are looking at. these issues with administrative agencies i'm sure will come up. melissa: have you had a chance to talk to him yourself? >> i have not. i expect he is

fbi official, and also, jeffrey bash, a nbc national news analyst and former chief of staff at the nsa department of defense. and so now, the president going to be coming out to say what he wants to say, but it is not going to deny what he did say yesterday, which is to basically throw under the bus the entire intelligence community and his own doj again for their findings and instead side with the man that was standing to his left, and that was vladimir putin. >> yeah, i think it is horrifying actually what happened yesterday, because if president of the united states said that he believed the kgb over the cia and over to the men and the women over the united states' intelligence community who are doing the hardest work in this hour in austere locations risking their lives and trying to convince people, assets around the world to give us the most sensitive information that they have access to, and the way that you recruit the asset to the human intelligence is saying that this information is so important that it is going to president, and our president needs thatters and we can't make

john brennan, director of national intelligence, james comey, susan rice, andrew mccabe and former nsa and cia chief michael hayden. by the way, mr. president, comey and mccabe don't have the security clearances and can't be revoked. these officials have been critical of president trump, specifically on the subjects of president trump's relationship with vladimir putin and the subject of why president trump continues to deny what the intelligence community says, that there was election interference by the russian government in 2016 and a denial reiterated this weekend calling it all a big hoax. again, according to the experts it's not. experts say that until this afternoon, there's always had to be serious grounds for revoking security clearances and criticism was not the grounds. after all, remember, former director of the defense intelligence agency, retired general flynn leading the charge to lock uphill hill during the 2016 republican convention. >> lock her up. that's right. yeah, that's right. lock her up! >> you will note president obama did not revoke general flynn's security c

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. >> former nsa director mike at hayden says it could have no affect on what he says or writes. they are both cnn contributors. no comment from john brennan. >>> paul manafort trial has been delayed until next tuesday. it was supposed to start tomorrow. a federal judge granting a delay allowing manafort's lawyers to review 120,000 pages of documents turned over by prosecutors in the last month. the judge also granting immunity to five witnesses who are expected to testify at the trial. all work for banks or financial firms linked to manafort. >>> satellite images appear to show north korea has started dismantling facilities at the key nuclear test sidte. this has been the site of launches since 2012. we are joined by will ripley in hong kong this morning. will? >> reporter: it is significant according to analysts. it is a good confidence building measure. the launch facility is symbolic. this is where north korea launched a satellite in 2012 after signing a deal with the obama administration. that deal was dead on arrival because north korea launched the satellite which they cam

, and most people don't know this, the nsa as a military and because their bosses the president, the commander-in-chief and therefore they don't have to follow the fourth amendment. i believe this is nonsense but this is the argument and if they don't have to follow the fourth amendment, they can spy away. that's the argument that kavanaugh made in his opinion. >> marie: judge be 50 and was working on the white house in. >> harris: was there something there that democrats could at least grab onto last night as positive in terms of inclusion language? i'm not hearing it all today but i am seeing it from black conservatives that they were even surprised that he would start there. i'm just curious because everything is being attacked. most of it on the grounds of something that we haven't even seen come forth and that's roe vs. wade. this was a real last night. this pushed everybody was real. >> marie: that's a good question because i watched his personal story being told by him and i was very impressed by it. he talked about coaching his daughter's, i texted my dad who also coached me

he recently returned from a trip from russia where he met with nsa whistleblower edward snowden.e tweeted a photo of them together with a caption reading "so excited to reunite today with one of this generation's greatest whistleblowers and my colleague in defense of press freedoms, edward snowden." welcome both of you to democracy now! joe cirincione, you're deeply concerned about nuclear weapons, but the nuclear arms race. do you think this meeting, the summit that trump has called in helsinki is a good thing? >> no, i do not. this is a danger to america and to the west. this is without precedent in modern american history. we have never had an american leader that was this week, this obsequious towards a murdering tyrant like vladimir putin. both of these gentlemen have terrible records on freedom of the press, encouraging for dissipation in the rule of their countries. there is one good thing and only one good thing that i can see that could come out of this meeting and that is the extension of the new start agreement, the agreement that limit u.s. and russian strategic nucle

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. >> former nsa director michael hayden says it could have no affect on what he says or writes. they are both cnn contributors. no comment from john brennan. >>> paul manafort's trial has been delayed until next week. the federal judge granting a delay allowing manafort's lawyers to review 120,000 pages of documents turned over by prosecutors in the last month. also granting immunity for five witnesses who all work for banks linked to manafort. >>> satellite imagery shows north korea dismantling facilities in the sohae area. cnn's will ripley joins us live from hong kong. what do we know, will? >> reporter: north korea is beginning the process and these images are from a couple of days ago. they believe the work started in the last two weeks. they are taking apart the sohae launch facility. that launch scut tetled a short lived deal with the obama administration in 2012. they say the facility has nothing to do with the ballistic missile program. listen to the sicientists told e in 2015. >> what can you say to the world to prove this is not a ballistic missile program in disguise

are you with trump and putin war the cia, fbi, and nsa? >> i think that's a dangerous statement to make. members of congress are part of democracy. the intelligence community is a creature of congress. i don't think we want elected officials to say i'm with the intelligence community. i'm with the intelligence community and i have voted so on the intelligence committee and have sent to the president of the united states a statement that russia meddled for the purposes of damaging hillary clinton, all things which he disagrees with but it's a dangerous road to go down in a democracy to say we're going to elevate the intelligence community among our democratic institutions. >> in april you and your fellow members of the house intelligence committee released your final report on part of your more than year long russia probe and the committee found no evidence of collusion and disputed the intelligence community's assertion in part asserting that the interference in the election was done to help elect donald trump but listen to what president

jon: the nsa says it is deleting nearly 700 million call records. national security agency is getting rid of the records after an error getting call details they were not authorized to have. telecommunications companies have been giving the nsa these records since 2015. >>> you ever forget to pay a parking ticket? one guy is giving new meaning to the phrase better late than never. he sent a letter to the minersville, pennsylvania, police department 40 years after the ticket was issued. >> dear p.d., i've been carrying this ticket around 40+ years, always intending to pay, forgive me if i don't give you my info. with respect, dave. jon: how much did dave owe? a whopping 2 bucks here, included $5 with his note adding three more for interest. >>> and that's how fox reports this 1st of july. i'm jon scott. have a good week and spectacular independence day. fox news sunday starts now. chris: i'm chris wallace, president trump will announce supreme court nominee a week from tomorrow and sets day for a summit with vladimir putin. ♪ >> i think we will be ta

and if we don't have those people at the nsa and the fbi and the cia, our country is a lot less safe. but putin is given a green light for all of his activities, we will see more of these actives. how are republicans, i would hope in this institution, they might stand up finally for the national security of this country, but how are john mccain, people in the national security establishment if they're going to deliver information to the president, that they're going to be fired or whatever. i agree with jim, this is a peculiar performance that puts our country in deep risk. >> just ahead, we'll have more on the potential damage done by president trump's refusal to side with u.s. intelligence agencies, law enforcement agencies with president putin with the whole world watching. and we're also learning more about the kremlin's efforts to infiltrate the united states as a russian woman has now been charged with spying for moscow. for as little as $15 a month. right now, buy one hp ink and get a second at 30% off at office depot officemax when did you see the sign? when i needed to create

at the same time. >> do you have any reason to believe that the senate intelligence committee or the nsa or the office of division of intelligence are on some kind of an effort to discredit donald trump. >> no, not at all. >> thank you mr. chairman. >> gentle lady yields back. >> thank you, mr. chair. miss paige was also involved in both of those. >> she was not a member of the investigation team for either. she was a senior staff members for mr. mccabe. >> and you would agree would you not that both investigations were supposed to be fair and unbiassed? >> yes, and that they were. >> yet, you were both rooting for hillary clinton to win and you detested donald trump, did you not? >> i think that's fair to say. >> and fact as we have learned you found donald trump supporters to testable too like those around loudoun, virginia, we heard who you called ignorant and -- i am not going to say that here. and you visited a southern walmart and you could smell trump's supporters. when i read of what you said about trump's supporters, it reminded me of something hillary clinton have said about tr

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yesterday he attacked the nsa in a tweet, writing, wow, the nsa has deleted 685 million phone calls andacy violations? they blame technical irregularities. such a disgrace. the witch hunt continues. that's all a misstatement, by the way. and the president continues taking credit for peace in pyongyang. one tweet saying, no rocket launches or nuclear testing in eight months. all of asia is thrilled. only the opposition party, which includes the fake news, is complaining. if not more if he, we would now be at war with north korea. but nbc is reporting that the president's only intelligence agencies believe north korea has increased its production of fuel for nuclear weapons at multiple secret sites. joining me now, ambassador michael mcfaul, former ambassador to russia and an msnbc international affairs analyst, and author of the new book, "from cold war to hot peace: an american ambassador in putin's russia." victor cha, an msnbc korean affairs analyst. so much to get to, gentlemen. ambassador, president trump is slated, as you know, to meet with president putin in a couple of weeks from

now concluded an in-depth review of the intelligence community assessment produced by the cia, the nsa and the fbi in january 2017 on russian interference in the 2016 u.s. presidential election. the committee has initial findings to share with the american people. the committee finds that the intelligence community assessment about russian meddling in the election is, quote, a sound intelligence product. quote, in all of the reviews with those who drafted and prepared the intelligence community assessment, the committee heard consistently that analysts were under no politically motivated pressure to reach any conclusions. all analysts express that had they were free to debate, object to content, and assess confidence levels as is normal and proper for the analytic process. as the inquiry has progressed since january 2017, the committee has also seen additional examples of russia's attempts to sow discord, undernine democratic institutions and interfere in u.s. elections. quote, the committee conquers with intelligence and open source assessments that the russian influence campaign was

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the good guys on our side are stopping them, the nsa, cia, fbi -- >> and perhaps president trump should doing a joint cyber security campaign with the russians while they're hacking us. that's another bright line. >> why not? why not try to stop them from the inside? >> because they are inside. >> i don't know what information you guys have that i don't have that tells you what the fbi counterintelligence folks are doing overseas or what the cia is doing or the nsa is doing. you guys must have a lot more intelligence. >> i'd like to bring back the topic of some republican office holders and trump friendly pundits changing the level now saying it's no big deal, so what if the russians did help the trump campaign. >> had it been president obama they would be running around like their hair is on fire. it's certainly a political double standard. all elected officials should care whether a foreign force, especially the russians, tried to hack and continue to try to hack into our voter system and not just what the russians are doing. what signal does it give to any other foreign power that if

the nsa only felt moderate confidence on some aspects. so burr's report calls the disagreements reasonable, transparent, openly debated among the agencies and analysts. in other words, smart people were allowed to make their case, but they all pointed in the same direction. most importantly, the senate committee found analysts were under no political pressure. no politically motivated pressure is how they worded it. what does that mean? no bias. and all of this exposes the house intel committee efforts basically as b.s., especially those led by its chair, devin nunes, which were clearly geared to undermine the intelligence community. his report found, quote, significant intelligence tradecraft failings. yet tonight, even his republican counterpart in the senate is on record and calling nunes' bluff. the job was done right, shows a clear plan and preference. that means that trump saying that this didn't really happen. putin denies it. it's not real. didn't matter anyway. all false. exposes the trump tripe. it is also a great teeup for a gr

the kremlin could be even though they interfered with the 2016 election, according to the fbi, cia, nsa, and virtually everyone else in the intelligence community. that includes the president's own top advisors. >> everybody who has looked at the classified information says there is no doubt the russians tried to affect the election. >> this was an aggressive action taken by the senior leadership inside of russia. >> they are trying the undermine western democracy. >> reporter: president trump seeming to give their words the same weight as the kremlin's. >> they said they think it is russia. i have president putin. he just said it's not russia. >> reporter: and defending the discussion as necessary for a better relationship. >> nothing would be easier politically than to refuse to meet, to refuse to engage. but that would not accomplish anything. as president, i cannot make decisions on foreign policy in a futile effort to appease partisan critics. >> reporter: in this case, when it comes to putin, the president is taking a pass. gloves compared to the way he's treated our allies. he ga

nsa and the intel community is not sitting in the isps filtering out the traffic. companies need to have technology in place to detect the attacks so they can mitigate the consequences. that's happening in some cases. in many cases it's not. >> if everybody were responsible for doing it and took it seriously, though, would we be safer? >> we certainly would be safer, but at the end of the day the attackers will continue to come until they are stopped. this is why we need to have bilateral actions. it's not the private sector alone, it's the government taking certain actions to disrupt and deter foreign governments, organized crime groups -- >> while companies protect their stuff. >> absolutely. they'll continue to attack, constantly look for weaknesses. they're going to get in at some point unless they're stopped at the perimeter by governments through deterrents. >> hard for those of us who don't work in the industry to get our head around. shawn, good to see you. shawn henry is an nbc news cyber security and former executive assistant director of the fbi. >>> com

trump did yesterday was to betray the fbi, the cia, the nsa and others and to betray the american public, and that's why i use the term this is nothing short of treasonous. >> on cnn a former cia director was asked whether the nations stops by, dan coats and others should resign or stay on the job to "protect the american people from their own president. >> when you talk about the heads of agencies, gina haskell and nsa and other folks like that, we need them, because they are responsible for the basic blocking and tackling. >> senator coats is in the job because of his political gravitas and so there might be different requirements on him. >> i have president putin. he just said it's not russia. >> even before the president's clarification, there were reservations. >> we will see how he backs away from that, but the damage was done. >> after helsinki, director coates said the intelligence community has been clear with the president about the ongoing and pervasive efforts to undermine the democratic process. on thursday coats will participate in the security form. >> bret: there is no pr

sort of e dysfunctional head of the intelligence.ational at least two of our intelligence agencies nsand the question as to whether or not the russians were involved in this and i think bot of have given the president their answer in nuncertain terms and yet we're completely marginalized inlahe responses at the to somebodyoa like dts he's a former pureicgreat state of indiana sed a different couple terms. now white house.erving is th >> joel let's get your take on this today. when you heard the news that the president asked john bolton to invite vladimir putinis toit washington what was your r>>ction to that. his is what this president ere's a consistency hereis. llthat we can a count on, even when he screws up which undoubtedly he screwed up over the last week t10 days he doubles down. this president doesn't back down. he doubles down i thi for his critics they would say that's the worst of his qualities because most presidents would have readjusted their approach by now and brought in different aides, brought in a different strategy. this president doesn't do that. he decides, hey, i

and here is what the director of national intelligence, the cia director, and the nsa director all said when they testified before congress earlier this year. >> have you seen russian activity in the lead-up to the 2018 election cycle? >> yes, we have seen russian activity and intentions to have an impact on the next election cycle here. >> director coats? >> yes, we have. >> anyone else? admiral rogers? >> yes, and i think this would be a good topic to get into greater detail this afternoon. >> mike pompeo was the cia director when he said that. he is now the secretary of state. he sat right next to president trump today when the president seemingly claimed russia was not targeting the u.s. nbc white house correspondent kristen welker joins us from the white house. here with me tonight's panel, nick confessore, reporter for "the new york times" and msnbc political analyst. elise jordan, former white house aide to george w. bush and msnbc political analyst. jonathan alter, msnbc political analyst. kristen, another day. more fire for this white house for what the president said. how can

workforce which means about 8% of the several dozen people who i lead come from other agencies, cia, nsa, fbi etc.. so that is what really positions us to integrate all of the different streams of information and intelligence that we are seeing across the inter-agencies. in 2016 case and currently our main focus is on creating situational awareness of the current threats that we are seeing. that means weeding through an awful lot of information and answering the questions what do our decision makers mostly need to pay attention to and that involved wising it putting it in context so that we know where it fits in with the vigor picture of threats we are tracking. >> how much did you put the russian hacking on the other parties into the forefront of policymakers? >> we were certainly featuring that as it was unfolding. in fact ctic became official in december of 2015 when we first stood up. we were present for the cycle of what occurred in 2016 and we are very much involved and highlighting intelligence that the interagency saw on that matter. we also play a very privileged role of partici

it comes from michael hayden, the former nsa and cia director, a retired four-star general, no less, known best perhaps for his service after 9/11. his tweet, i'm not laughing followed by five frownie faces, and then oh, yes, i am. and wall of laughing emojis. general hayden is a pretty deeply serious man. he is also one of the best informed analysts of national security, intelligence gathering and counterintelligence there is, period, end of paragraph. if it was true that this was a simple mistake of a word and an apostrophe, you would think that someone on the president's own staff would have said that yesterday. they could have slipped the president a note during his press conference saying you said wouldn't and you meant -- or you said would and you meant wouldn't, or vice versa. they could have corrected it immediately after or hours after. instead, there was silence from the white house and the state department. if it was just a slip of the tongue, it wouldn't have required a meeting in "the situation room" and that tortured explanation that you just saw. but it took thome all

but writ large, the broader community, whether it's the incredible people at the cia or nsa or fbi, by and large, the overwhelming majority of the employees in our intelligence community are patriotic, hard-working americans and there are some people who do things they shouldn't do. that's true of any organization anywhere in the government, anywhere in the country or, quite frankly, anywhere in the world. that's what i continue to say. and i think the president has said that on occasion. do some of us wish he would say that more sometimes? yeah. but i also think the president has said, as he did the other day, that he has great people working for him there. it goes back to the whole rhetoric standpoint. i look at the actions. and i know this president has made public policy positions based on the work of the intelligence community. and i think it shows that this administration values them, at least when it comes to make public policy. >> there's another national security threat that the president may be underestimating and i want to get your thoughts on this. we're talking about the r

you, sir, about an undisputed finding of the intelligence committee and by that i mean, the cia, the nsa, the fbi, these people do not usually speak in such absolute terms so hear them. we assess russian president vladimir putin ordered and influenced campaign in 2016 aimed at the u.s. presidential election. russia's goals were to undermine public faith in the u.s. democratic process, denigrate secretary clinton and harm her electability and potential presidency. we further assess putin and the russian government developed a clear preference for president-elect trump. we have a high confidence in these judgments. are these conclusions familiar to you, sir? >> they are. >> are you aware of any finding that undermines these conclusions of the three intelligence committees? >> i am not. >> the senate committee on the other side of the capital under the leadership of a republican chairman, richard burr, and not split in the way our own intelligence committee here in the house has made a bipartisan finding affirming the intelligence committee's assessments and i want to quote just briefly fro

you, sir, about an undisputed finding of the intelligence committee, and by that i mean the cia, the nsa, the fbi, these people do not usually speak in such absolute terms. so hear them. we assess russian president vladimir putin ordered and influenced -- and influenced campaign in 2016 aimed at the u.s. presidential election. russia's goals were to undermine public faith in u.s. democratic process, denigrate secretary clinton and harm her electability and potential presidency. we further assess putin and the russian government developed a clear preference for president-elect trump. we have a high confidence in these judgments. are these conclusions familiar to you, sir? >> they are. >> are you aware of any finding that undermines these conclusions of the three intelligence committees? >> i am not. >> the senate committee on the other side of the capitol, under the leadership of a republican chairman, richard burr, and not split in the way our own intelligence committee here in the house, hayes made a bipartisan finding affirming the intelligence commito's assessments. and i want to quot

but what mr trump did yesterday was to betray the women and men of the fbi, the cia, nsa and others, american public, and that is why i use the term that this is nothing short of treasonous. former intelligence chiefs, political opponents and even several senior members of his own republican party had lined up to criticise the president, and question his claim that it's better to forget the past when there are real, present—day concerns about russian activities. i understand the desire and the need to have good relations, that — that's perfectly reasonable, but russia is a menacing government that does not share our interests or our values. and i think that should be made clear. so should president trump be rebuked? i just... that was a question he didn't answer. germany is a captive of russia... but republicans were embarrassed by the stark contrast of the combative trump who angrily challenged old allies at the nato summit, compared to the president who appeared all too cosy with the old enemy and sided with president putin over his own intelligence agencies. hit with a shower of h

you know, nsa and cyber command teaming up. i see, you know, what you are doing with dhs. i see what the justice department announced just last night. is that a whole of government response? if so, where are the instructions on that coming from? >> so it is. there is a whole of government effort afoot. there's -- >> is there someone heading that up in the white house? >> yeah, i mean, look, it comes from the national security advisor, the cybersecurity is a top priority for this administration. there's an executive order released last year, 13-800 that reinforces and re-emphasizes our approach to cybersecurity. >> is there a whole government response specifically though to election security? >> yeah, again, i work every day, my team at the operational level works every day with the fbi, with the intelligence community, with state and local officials. there is a whole of government effort. we are -- to the broader point of coordination, i have -- you know, this is my second time in government, back in the bush years, i was dhs as well. i have never seen the level of coopera

in this case it's believed to be a florida company called vr asystemsd on a leaked nsa report published last year. they got into thisth company, ey looked around, and then they used what they knew to send e-mails to a bopch of pe in florida, elections supervisors in varioucounties, basically saying, you know, click this link. again, pretending toe from at company to establish legitimacy. it's unclear if they get into any systems maintained by those florida counties, but that was one of their attempts and, of course, they tried in many other states, to the indictment also mentions that they successfully got into one state election ard, illinois has said we believe that that is a reference to us. they have confirmed in th that they were hacked. and the number in the indictment is 500,000 vers in illinois. w okay. so -- out of hi to say that the results of the election were not compromised because of this, s, if youss the aim can have access to voter registration data, you can kind of muck it up for people who you suspect might be on the other team coming out to vote and ther suppress the

joyce was on a detail from the nsa and he returned to the nsa on his detail. so he was not fired, he's still in the federal government. >> his position has been eliminated, though. >> the cyber security coordinator position has officially been eliminated. there are cyber security directors and senior directors in the national security council. i think the important thing to note here, though, is that operational responsibility resides in the technical agencies. so i have a very clear job and my work is to work -- my job is to work with these folks with me at the table to provide them the resources and capabilities they need to secure the election. so, again, i have clarity of mission, clarity of purpose. we know what we're doing every day. >> everybody feels that way? mr. hicks, mr. louis oliver and mr. hatch? we're all on the same page and we're going to secure the election? >> that's my sworn duty. >> yes, sir. >> okay. i have exhausted my time. i thank the gentleman for his courtesy and i yield back. >> the gentleman yield back. the gentleman from north car

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maybe this was coming out of the likes of john bolton, the nsa, but we quickly moved on to things aroundfs and all the things that are happening in the trade front right now. on tuesday morning, president trump tweeted, tariff wars are the greatest. as a result, he got into some of the applications for farmers. he is now providing aid for farmers in the united states as a result of this. matthew: farmers are on the front lines of these retaliatory tariffs from china. sector,agricultural they like the current situation with trade. it is one of the few parts of the economy that has a surplus. this $12 billion aid package came out of the usda, aimed at farmers, direct transfer payments, the government is going to try to buy some commodities. they say they will try to extend relationships with other countries. these tariffs are already costing the economy. to fix this, we are putting more money into this. one of the numbers i thought was interesting to compare to the $12 billion, the steel and aluminum tariffs are going to put $9 billion of money into the aid out bynd, p american companies t