happening,hat despite the fact that the cia, the u.s. ciad many western countries also believe that the crown prince -- he was directly implicated in ordering it or at least had some knowledge of something bad about to happen. why hasn't it happened? one of the explanations, there refusal to saudi permit an international investigation. they would see that as rejecting their own judicial sovereignty and a slap in the face to their own investigation that they say is underway, and investigation that has been dismissed by this commission. officials notably refused to allow the yuan human rights experts to visit saudi arabia. also, very importantly, the u.s. administration, the cia believes that there is evidence leading -- linking nds. -- mbs. itselfmp administration has not directly pointed the blame of the crown prince. they have deplored the murder, but they have put, first and foremost, front and center, the u.s. strategic alliance with saudi arabia and it is notable to point out that mike pompeo recently announced that the u.s. is going to

u.s. and the cia. the u.s. congress has yet to approve it. as does the canadian government. as they with us the spike in tensions between the u.s. and iran and the specter of military action has forced the world's biggest airlines to take caution america's federal aviation administration has banned all u.s. registered passenger jets from passing through iranian controlled parts of the gulf of oman and the strait of hormuz carriers in europe and asia are following suit. a global hawk drone like this one has a wing span greater than a boeing 737 after one was downed over the strait of hormuz the u.s. federal aviation administration began to fear an actual commercial jetliner could be next the f.a.a. says the nearest civil aircraft was around 80 kilometers away when the strike happened in the busy section of sky he clearly thinks that's too close for comfort and his band u.s. registered planes from flying over rainy administered waters in the persian gulf and go for them on warning they could be mistakenly attacked that warning has been heeded by other carriers around the world

crucially gena has kill was here, of course the cia director. when the u.s. military puts out this much evidence this quickly it gives you an indication, guys, of the level of confidence they have about what happened. there is a lot of stuff they're not going to show. among the things they likely, put the stress on likely, they likely have intercepts on how iran responded to this right after it happened. and that may be what is informing the president's view here. we don't know if the president is saying it wasn't the high command of iran doing that based on hard intelligence or his gut but he is likely to receive the best intelligence. that gives me an indication maybe there is a space for negotiation here. one final thing. the white house is clearly trying to bring in congress to this. there will be a meeting of senior congressional leaders in the situation room here at the white house later this afternoon. it's an indication the white house wants to make their response appear to be bipartisan. >> this is interesting stuff. this is kind of interesting becau

u.s. factor here the cia of course has blamed the saudi crown prince for jamal khashoggi major u.s. senator is a massive resolution assigning responsibility for the killing to the crown prince but the administration of president trump has been reluctant to move against saudi arabia how do you change that. the trumpet ministrations position has been really disappointing we would have expected stronger from the u.s. government particularly because of. ties to the united states he was a us resident but unfortunately that's not surprising given the chump and ministrations behavior on other human rights related cases and his often very hostile media bashing rash. but there have been really strong voices in the u.s. congress really demanding accountability for this horrific attack there is a role to be played there and with other bodies in the united states including the f.b.i. for back event since thank you very much for speaking to us rebecca vincent is with reporters without borders live there from london our step coulters here in a moment with the world weather and still ahead on the

u.s. secretary of state mike compare former head of the cia saying that the u.s. needs to bring bring him down really before he becomes prime minister nothing surprises me but the u.s. i magine have the mighty us is of the labor leader of the u.k. and this is a man that stood against us a tough going military judge in the south african apartheid campaign he has been to gaza and stood against the israeli army and what i mean is yes he has went there and been involved in some of those actions way back in the past they know that this man means what he says and he will not be swayed by a government and an order that is completely trashing our peoples' lives any time soon generate carbon will be a number 10 and you know they know that for the 1st time in decades we will have a government in this country that will look after the interests of people in this country and not look after the americans and the friends and the tories look after their people in in business we love god and that's what that's what terrifies them about it he says. thank you. well in the next 48 ho

u.s. justice department reportedly dropping some of the charges against the wiki leaks founder relating to the leak of cia spying tools. u.s. special counsel robert mueller has resigned 2 years after he opened his probe into alleged collusion between donald trump and russia speaking to the public for the 1st time since the investigation he sought to clarify the major findings of the his reports but this auntie's killable put explains now both camps in washington are interpret his words in their own ways. robert mohler is all done the special counsel's office is closing and he's going to retire and to celebrate $35000000.00 in 2 years' worth of work he decided to address the media there's an old psychological test they call the war shack and basically it's a set of ambiguous ink blots it's up to the mind of the patient to determine what to see and the 10 minute presentation of robert muller seems a very much be in the eyes of the beholder if we had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime we would have said so. we did not however make a determination as to whether the president did comm

u.s. intelligence except cia. oftorically, 85 plus percent the intelligence resources of the u.s. government have been run by the military. cia, the dci, had no authority over any of that. he could not say to the pentagon, move this money and these people over here. all he could do is suggest it might be a nice idea and hope that his argument prevailed in the national security council deliberations. usually it did not. .he dci is not the dci the only way he was going to prevail in interdepartmental disputes of which there were many throughout history is with presidential backing. more often than not, the president decided with the defense department when it came to those conflicts over resources and authority and in some cases, analytic issues. i can think of during the richard pounds directorship, principal issues in which cia flat out said something entirely different than the pentagon. the president disagreed, sided with the pentagon and ultimately was proven wrong on both counts. thatt goes to show you when the pentagon musters its resources and political infighting in washingt

cia cannot collect, retain, or disseminate information to influence a u.s. political process. that is the rule. it remains the rule. >> how about in the back? >> hi. thank you for speaking. i am abraham of the hudson institute. i have a question that was underlying a lot of this discussion. you talked about your role as connective tissue, interactive with the public. what is your sense for why public citizens in the u.s. want this right for privacy if they could have more security at the expense of exposing personal information? what is the reason that people are not as willing to share data in your opinion? >> it goes back to the founding of the country itself. right? think about the reasons for the revolution. it was british shoulders coming into american homes -- soldiers coming into american homes and taking information, it was the quarter and, it is literally who we are is to think about this. that is always true, true for americans and the americans who are cia officers. privacy and civil liberties, this is not a tack on, not an addition, not something that takes away fr

cia cannot collect, retain or disseminate information to influence a u.s. political process. end stop. that is the rule. has been the rule. remains the rule. >> how about in the back there? sure. >> thanks for speaking, i'm abraham joe at the hudson substitute. i was a question that was underlying a lot of this discussion. you talked about your role as connective tissue, interacting with the public and you spoke of the rightful public expectations at some point, what is your sense for why public citizens and the u.s. want this right for privacy if they could have more security at the expense of exposing personal information? yeah, what's the sort of reason that people aren't as willing to share data in your opinion? >> it goes back to the founding of the country itself. think about the revolution, it was british soldiers coming into americans homes and taking information. it was the stand back, the quartering. this is literally who we are to think about this, and that is always true. that is true for americans. that is true for americans who happen to be cia officers is this

the cia and the u.s.military were engaged in covert actions throughout central med america throughout africa really throughout the world where they were assassinating populist leaders they were backing up right wing military juntas funding and arming death squads like the contras in nicaragua or battalion $316.00 and under us and there were these spate of assassinations across the globe. individuals operating in the shadows they never having their names called are able to leverage the power of the military and the foreign policy apparatus for their own personal pick uni ery and. our war on terror. begins with al qaida. but it does not in thank you this very very is woman on terror is irrational it's like saying. a war on all war on violence a war that it's nonsense you skipping into this possibility of confidential wall. our your little kid reassuring us and we kept believing him because you don't want to think your prime minister is deceiving you and the route to one is nothing more serious. when the ser

the cia and the u.s. military were engaged in covert actions throughout central mad america throughout africa really throughout the world where they were assassinating populist leaders they were backing up right wing military juntas funding and arming death squads like the contras in nicaragua or battalion $316.00 and under us and i and there were these spate of assassinations across the globe. in countries like mine people have been killed to be quiet to know that any day any time you're going to be killed you don't know how but it's coming. we were fighting in the league and still we are fighting you know body guards minds that don't want to work going inclusiveness they just take a. the action is not only about taking from india but taking from the people. even to dreams take on the next. to last half of what is called the cold war i don't know it to be a very hard war for many parts of the world. from the standpoint of want it by them and cause the victims or what i would think of really as of people

cia. our u.s. ambassador has to form the host government. only the president can tell them not to do that. we are going to get him, guess what we would have to cut them. i give him credit for that. >> question here. >> i want to know what you are able to do, talk to these press dozens and dozens of people. they live in a secret world. if you manage to reach them, test them to your skills. i worked in the. what you call, this was, he talked about the operations that are linked to the media. he said the case of loss, it was a success. how do you measure success? they were estimated to have been killed. there were people who were targeted by the cia on an individual basis. they were given asset bombing, there were taken on in the level of the most measured in terms of ordinance. were in american history. i have to wonder about that. also, some of bin laden, he was in dialysis before he was allegedly officially killed. >> so to answer the first part, i will give you this to think about. just the other night, people were asking me, suggesting tha

u.s. for the for cia bund future. >> we are playing with a lot of little a risk which is often ethical to trade through. >> we sit down with ap boc governor ahead of his meeting with secretary of the treasury steven mnuchin. furtherolicy for he hikes in tariffs or the escalation of trade war's come our policy toolkit is ready. juliette: and an exclusive interview with dallas fed president robert kaplan, and why he says it is too early to make a judgment on a rate cut. >> should we be adding stimulus to the economy? that is a question we are asking. i am open-minded about it. i think the risk to the downside has increased. juliette: it is all straightahead on "bloomberg best." ♪ juliette: hello and welcome. i am juliette saly. ," inis "bloomberg best your weekly review of the most important stories from bloomberg television around the world. the top headlines. the week began with china demanding respect. beijing released a white paper on the trade war, calling the u.s. greedy. meanwhile, president trump tripled down on tariffs, leaving china, india, and mexico to figure out their next move

u.s. is only investigation albeit not an official one but at least the study that's been made by the cia as well as the. requests by senators in congress men and women to look into the role of the crown prince into the murder of jamal special she had little bearing on trump's warm relations with the crown prince mohammed bin saddam on a man who he described was not on earth to sits with breakfast so the the u.s. policy under trump has been one of money over everything else and so long as the saudis continue to pump billions of dollars into the u.s. economy doesn't matter whether they killed doesn't matter what the role of mohammed bin said a man is that is most important true donald trump and it's something that the saudis are well aware of that's why we heard those statements by mohamed bin someone at the beginning pointing to the fact that he said job creation that there was a 1000000 jobs that were created in the u.s. as trump said and obviously as the saudis would like to continue to remind him that we're done so the expense of saudi money but what's significant is that despite the trul

brother, kim jong-nam was working for the cia, possibly why he was assassinated in a malaysia airport in 2017 by two women, smearing his face with lethal nerve gas. u.s. officials have blamed north korea, which denies it the cia also in a new book by anna fifield >> he would meet american intelligence operatives in various places and provide them information about the system and he was paid very handsomely for this information >> reporter: the cia would not confirm the link the president offered this comment. >> i saw the information about the cia with respect to his brother or half-brother. i would tell him that would not happen under my as you miuspice' for sure >> reporter: for the first time since the failed hanoi summit, kim jong-un sent president trump a letter yesterday downplaying concerns about missile tests. >> he kept his words there is no large long-range missiles going up. the only thing he set up were short terms and short range. >> reporter: the president not ruling out another summit. andrea mitchell, nbc news. >>> new developments in the case of connecticut missing mother of five her estranged husband was free on bond as prosecutors

protect the jewish community from a reign in aggression what do you make of that from the former cia was in the u.s. has dropped implemented well this is the same person who speaks when cairo spoke about. all sorts of christian zionists ideas he speaks about the rapture and so on so from him everything is expected but i think that in teheran the view would be that really the united states is the greatest enemy of ordinary jews because the united states and its allies are trying to depict apartheid an apartheid colonial regime called israel as representative of the jewish people iran's position on israel is identical to its position on. apartheid south africa back of then western countries supported apartheid south africa nelson mandela and a.n.c. were considered as terrorists and terrorist organization a terrorist organization well we'd welcome the israeli ambassador to london really he hasn't answered any of our invitations so far will finally the b.b.c. is called what happened to 2 oil tankers a b.b.c. journalist here mark gerber and parent ex escalation of undeclared conflict between gulf states

also last month former cia director john brennan addressed cia cooperation with the fbi probe and the suggestion that any u.s. intelligence agency, let alone the cia spies on americans. brennan. >> does cia spy? yes. do we spy against foreign adversaries? yes. do we spy against domestic individuals? no, we do not. we work very closely with the fbi. and when the russians were trying to interfere in that election and to change the outcome of it in their favor, we cia and fbi worked very collaboratively so that we could have that ability to see what the russians were doing and who they were working with. >> kennedy: all right. so are they nervous? what do you think? >> they need to be nervous. the slaw very specific about no us espionage. no u.s. surveillance. and when you make the handoff from looking at, let's say a russian overseas to looking at a russian who simply flying in on air flight, you have to do a handoff, and the law russ very specific it. s it is an area where it looks like the gray area may have turned to what you called charcoal. >> kennedy: yes. can you certainly scoop up a lot more informatio

u.s. we know the head of the cia heard these tapes we know the trumpet ministration senior officials know exactly what was in this recording will increase the pressure on capitol hill i think on the trumpet ministration and also her comments to you in that interview a short time ago that the u.s. is one place where the criminal work now should go in a possible u.s. case against the saudis responsible for this how much pressure does this put on the united nations james and the secretary general to now initiate an investigation. yeah i think it puts a great deal of pressure on the secretary general and other parts of the united nations she makes recommendations to the security council to that they should have an informal meeting on this to discuss what happened i don't think you're going to get the security council pushing hard for the investigation i don't think the security council will see that that is their job but they will they will see many members of the council even those that are not favorable saudi arabia like for example russia potentially will will will not necessarily say that

u.s. congress has concluded as long with the cia that it was mohamed bin solomon who ordered the killing of jim out a show she as well as the united nations concluding this week that he was certainly aware of that now adding another layer to that phone call is the fact of the timing of this call nic the fact that the very 1st phone call after the world has learned of this potential clash that almost took place between the united states and iran the very 1st phone call of the very 1st readout we get of a discussion between a foreign leader is with saudi arabia certainly there are going to be questions coming from congress with this news about whose interests are being served in all of this and why the united states president felt it was necessary to reach out to saudi arabia immediately after considering as well that there has been considerable pushback from congress on u.s. support for saudi arabia in the saudi led conflict in yemen and of course the impact on iran there and its interests well that's a picture from the white house can be heard at thanks very much well the tense standoff con

the cia and the u.s. military were engaged in covert actions throughout central mad america throughout africa really throughout the world where they were assassinating populist leaders they were backing up right wing military juntas funding and arming death squads like the contras in nicaragua or battalion $316.00 and under us and i and there were these spate of assassinations across the globe. in countries like mine people have been killed to be quiet to know that any day any time you're going to be killed you don't know how but it's coming. we were fighting in the league and still we are fighting you know body guards mines that don't want to work going inclusiveness they just take a. action is not only about taking from india but taking from the people. even to dreams take on the next. to last half of what is called the cold war i don't know it to be a very hard war for many parts of the world. from the standpoint of want it badly i meant cause the victims or what i would think of really as of people tr

essentially defending the saudi crown prince who he said no one's pointed the finger at, yet both the cia and the u.srepresentative have said that the crown prince bears some responsibility. >> nic, thank you. >>> still want to go to cnn correspondents paula hancocks now. she is in south korea. as we talk about, paula, what might happen between the president and kim jong-un in north korea, what are we hearing from south korea about the statement? >> reporter: just a couple of minutes ago, trump's convoy passed here in downtown seoul, about a mile away from the blue house. we'd imagine he is at the blue house now meeting with south korean president moon jae-in. they'll be having a dinner this evening. and of course what the south korean president heard, the facts that mr. trump has tweeted he wants a meeting, has offered this handshake across the border to kim jong-un, that will delight the south korean president. he wants nothing more than more engagement between the north and the united states. of course there has been some remarkable things said about what could happen if the u.s. president and the

the cia and the u.s. military were engaged in covert actions throughout central mad america throughout africa really throughout the world where they were assassinating populist leaders they were backing up right wing military juntas funding and arming death squads like the contras in nicaragua or battalion $316.00 and under us and i and there were these spate of assassinations across the globe. in countries like mine people have been killed to be quiet to know that any day any time you're going to be killed you don't know how but it's coming. we were fighting in the league and still we are fighting you know body guards minds that don't want to work going inclusiveness they just pick. action is not only about taking from india but taking from the people. even to dreams take on the next. the last half of what is called the cold war i don't know it to be a very hard war for many parts of the world. from the standpoint of want it by them and cause the victims or what i would think of really as of people tryin

the cia and the u.s. military were engaged in covert actions throughout central mad america throughout africa really throughout the world where they were assassinating populist leaders they were backing up right wing military juntas funding and arming death squads like the contras in nicaragua or battalion $316.00 and under us and i and there were these spate of assassinations across the globe. in countries like mine people have been killed to be quiet to know that any day any time you're going to be killed you don't know how but it's coming. we were fighting in the league and still we are fighting you know body guards minds that don't want to work going inclusiveness i think just the. the action is not only about taking from india but taking from the people. even to dreams take on the next. the last half of what is called the cold war i don't know it to be a very hard war for many parts of the world. from the standpoint of want it badly and would cause the victims or what i would think of really as of pe

met with the saudi crown prince early here in a sock on saturday morning to to do what the cia has done what the u.s. congress has done and the united nations as of last week has done that is point the finger at the saudi crown prince for ordering the killing of jimmy but as we heard from the president not only did he dodged that question saying that nobody has pointed the finger at the saudi crown prince but he also went on to say that he can't talk about intelligence he he literally avoided the question well at the same time giving space for saudi arabia to act as if they are prosecuting this in a meaningful way donald trump talking about the actions that have been taken inside saudi arabia to hold those responsible accountable but of course we all know that these are lower level actions that have been taken that those at the highest levels of the saudi government have not yet been held accountable so many attempts by reporters here in this room to try to press the u.s. president to ask him why he himself did not do that a he dodged those questions and said what we saw was not only sort of an excu

the cia and the u.s. military were engaged in covert actions throughout central med america throughout africa really throughout the world where they were assassinating populist leaders they were backing up right wing military juntas funding and arming death squads like the contras in nicaragua or battalion $316.00 and under us and there were these spate of assassinations across the globe. individuals operating in the shadows they never having their names called are able to leverage the power of the military and the foreign policy apparatus for their own personal pick junie ery in . our war on terror. begins with al qaida. but it does not in. this very very swollen on terror is a rational it's like saying. a war on all war on violence a war that it's nonsense you stepping into this possibility of conflict to a wall. our your little kid reassuring us and we kept believing him because you don't want to think your prime minister is deceiving you in the route to one of those nothing was serious. when really se

a black bag operation in the foreign country, seals -- i'm not sure how it applies to the cia -- it is our u.s. ambassador has to inform the host government. so all the actionable intelligence but only the president can kell tell the ambassador don't do that, sticking his neck out when we got bin laden because if we inform the pakistanis we're going to get him, guess what, never would have got him. but i give him a lot of credit for that. that was a gutsy call on his part. >> question here. >> salute you for what you're able to do to talk to these dozens and dozens of people that live in a secret world and you managed to reach them is a testament to your skills an historian. i dismissed worked in laos. william colby was quoted saying this -- talked about the operations that are really to the media. he said but in the case of laos it was a success. how do you measure success in laos? over 2 million people are estimated to have been killed. they were not people who were targeted by the cia on an individual basis. they were killed in massive bombing, laos was taken on in the level of me most bomb

u.s. they. well ray mcgovern who is a retired cia agent who was a russia specialist in the cia and who gave the cia morning briefing to several presidents in a row both parties has said that the reason they're not giving it has to be because it doesn't support the position that the united states once he is pretty convinced of that he said they absolutely do have excellent. visual you know photographic data from u.s. satellites which can read newspapers space. so you know headlines so they've got very good photographic evidence of what was going on and i'm sure they know exactly what happened and it doesn't bear out what they're trying to claim if we look at what the malaysian pm has said he said from the beginning that politics have played too big a role in this investigation what's your take on this. well i think my hope here is a credible source on this you know it's his country half of the people that were killed were malaysian he doesn't have an axe to grind one way or the other this country isn't in the middle of a cold war between well it is in the middle of the cold war between the unite

u.s. to live in virginia the same place the cia based begs me to ask the question do you believe general hafta was working for the cia i think the narration of the situation goes back to where the national front for the salvation of libya has a program to attack libya and to liberate libya from get their feed from jet and they did the deal with the americans and with the chad is that if they let the libyan prison there is a war in chad at least they can be starting the libyan national army but as part of the an f s l the national front for there's a division libya when this to be. was successful in his coup against or send anybody these are these are the charlie and leaders will have to leave the area he thought was him down with the help of the french the whole project failed and the americans help but the prisoners of war who were in chad and transported them to the united states so general have to is living in the u.s. as an exile from libya you are living there too that you know each other. before we did not but we knew each other when he came to virginia and we lived for many years togeth

u.s. his own intelligence agency is namely the cia overage one of their top chiefs of trouble true in korea and should sarky to see evidence there and therefore it's very clear that trump is trying to justify his continued approach which is one of money over ethics as his critics would describe it whereby he's concerned more about saudi investments in america than he is about their policies of murdering journalists and consulates just quickly jim u.s. turkey relations and saw president trump and one meeting as well i mean things have not exactly been great between them recently. they haven't and that's why this meeting that took place a few hours it will come out is being received very positively because firstly the fact that it took place in and of itself is something significant but more importantly there was a shift in policy at least as described by the u.s. president himself what this comes down to is turkey had been wanting to acquire these s. 400 missiles its missile defense system and they were acquiring it from the russians now throughout this time the american administration it sa

u.s. intelligence community. fbi, cia, and justice.at help in that he confirmed information that we had obtained elsewhere for the most part, and it gave us a better idea of how big the conspiracy was. >> deep throat was out there and we began to hear about it from the ground up that bob had this special source. >> when will the rest of the world know who is deep throat? >> when that source passes away or releases us from our agreement and pledge of confidentiality. >> the inevitable question, who is deep throat? >> we've said deep throat is a man. >> you can rule out some suspects like diane sawyer, a former nixon press aide, now network anchor. woodward says deep throat was a man. >> you've built a fairly strong case for the identity of alexander haig. >> do you have any idea who deep throat is? >> deep throat is in my opinion a collection of people. >> how the secret of deep throat lasts for so long and the answer is neither of us told our ex-wives. >> during our filming woodward casually mentioned that the actor hal holbrook's port

letter from north korean dictator kim jong-un, and he says he would never allow the cia to recruit kim's family members as u.sies. but according to one report, that's just what happened. david martin has the details. >> reporter: the 2017 assassination of kim jong-nam, the older half-brother of north korea's leader kim jong-un, was recorded by security cameras. two women came up behind him, one at a time, and rubbed chemicals over his face which combined to make the deadly nerve agent vx. at the time, it was assumed north korea's ruthless leader had simply eliminated a potential rival. but now the plot surrounding kim jong-nam has thickened. >> he seemed to be short on money in his final years, so he had been supplying information about north korea to the cia. >> reporter: "washington post" beijing bureau chief anna fifield has written a new book about kim jong-un. in it, she suggests that kim jong-nam, who spent most of his life living in exile outside north korea, might actually have been returning from a meeting with his cia handler when he was killed. >> on the day he was killed, he was found with $120,00

u.s. to live in virginia the same place the cia based begs me to ask the question do you believe general hafta was working for the cia i think the narration of the situation goes back to where the national front for the salvation of libya has a program to attack libya and to liberate libya from get their fee from jet and they did the deal with the americans and with the chad ins that if they let the libyan prison there is a war.

u.s. trading weapons. the former deputy national intelligence officer for transnational threats at the cia he says reflects washington's changing alliances in the middle east in recent years. there is a long tradition in the united states that the standard position for many years of u.s. policy has to side in these sunni shia tensions the saudi iranian tensions in the middle east with the sunni president obama change that policy it was an historic shift it's debatable whether it was wise or not i personally think that it was but that's certainly legitimately debatable and trump has gone back and then some to aligning with the sunni and the saudis now there's an added fillip or twist to this which is that it's less on principle and policy by trump as it is apparently. for a personal enrichment jarrad his son in law who's handling the issues has clearly been seduced by the saudis and the alignment is is with saudi there's another reason to that that's happened in that is the u.s. policy is closely aligned with the release mimics that of the likud party in israel which. is very hostile to around it i think th