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you can't answer. >> that. >> firing law. >> enforcement. >> cia. >> cia is not law enforcement.do not patrol the city and pick up the drug dealers that are outside. >> your kids school. >> they do not. >> in answer to your answer to your comments. >> scott. >> we got to go. but in answer to your comment, scott, one of the things that the the cia spokesperson said was that they actually want to reorient the cia toward things that the cia already does, which is look into places like mexico and try to find intelligence about cartels and about about drug dealers and all of those things. they already do that. they already do that. and so when it comes to law enforcement. >> we need to work a little harder. >> no, no, no, scott, when it comes to you, just adamantly said they're not involved in law enforcement. >> not they are domestically. >> but they are involved in the national security of the country. wouldn't you agree? >> yes. and i don't know that reducing a slight amount of headcount makes us less safe. and if the people who are working there don't feel like they can execute on

firing law enforcement cia. >> cia is not law enforcement. they do not. >> patrol the city and pick up. >> the drug dealers that outside. >> your kids school. they do not. >> in answer to your answer to. >> your. comments, scott, we. >> got to go. but in answer to your comment, scott, one of the things that the the cia spokesperson said was that they actually want to reorient the cia toward things that the cia already does, which is look into places like mexico and try to find intelligence about cartels and about about drug dealers and all of those things. they already do that. they already do that. and so when it comes to law. >> enforcement. >> we need to work a little harder. >> no, no, no, scott, when it comes to you, just adamantly said they're not involved in law enforcement. >> not they are domestically. >> but they are involved in the national security of the country. wouldn't you agree? >> yes. and i don't know that reducing a slight amount of headcount makes us less safe. and if the people who are working there don't feel like they

other nefarious things the cia was doing.hen richard holmes was asked under oath, and william harvey, america's 007, they said they held a lot back from mccone, even though he was head of the cia. so you have some rogue agents, contract agents like david ferrie who worked with the cia, and disenchanted cia agents who felt that kennedy letting down the cuban exiles during the bay of pigs and during the missile crisis, not taking the opportunity to oust castro and give them back their homeland, there's a lot there that speaks to mccone's innocence. it was not a cia plot but rogue agents within the agency might have. and g. robert blakey, famous for writing up the rico law, but he was also a dogged investigator. he kind of tiptoed around the government because he is a government guy. he says it seems the government may have played a part in this. i will tell you what is left out of all the books i have read. it is a very interesting piece of the puzzle, where they barely touch on it, most books. blakey kind of touched on it but

the cia, arguably members of the cia, they want it, we don't know.final documents might come out soon. at some point, marcello reasons that he had been funding lynn didn't johnson's congressional and senate campaigns for a long time in texas and in return johnson was reliably killing bills in committee that never made it to the floor to make sure that the anti-gambling bills that would have decimated her rackets in texas and louisiana, so he was close and he knew nixon would be better than kennedy. he knew johnson would be better than kennedy. hoover had lunch with johnson once a week and prefer johnson and eventually johnson made sure hoover would be director of the fbi until his death. he plasters a executive order when he took over for kennedy and marcello starts to plot. he first funds the exiles. after kennedy decides not to act on quarantines the island during the missile crisis and he decides not to act and basically then turns on the exiles and says, lock them out, they cannot be sabotaging anymore, he promised khrushchev that america would n

agency for international development and the cia, just to name a few. next, he could come swinging for the department of education and the environmental protection agency. and we'll have more on that in a moment. first, though, let's turn to cnn's jeff zeleny, who is live for us at the white house. jeff, walk us through the judge's decision. it's a big one. and are you hearing anything from the administration in response? >> well, brianna, we were about ten hours or so away from that midnight deadline where federal employees would have been able to accept this offer to essentially not return to work and be paid through september if they would not like to participate in the return to office program. but that is all now on hold, as you said. a federal judge in massachusetts putting the deadline on hold pending oral arguments on monday. so for now at least, this is in suspension mode. this is what we've seen from several executive orders. the president has signed. the judge steps in and, excuse me, puts a bit of a pause on this. so far, the white house has

he understands certainly what the cia needs to do. he's he's led. >> what about his. >> what about his deputy. >> mike ellis? >> i think mike ellis is going to be listening directly to the director, who's a great, great leader. and i think you're going to see excellent national security policy come out of the cia. >> and do you think that at this stage with our national security and our counterterror issues having withdrawn from afghanistan and not having eyes on their with isis potentially resurgent, with hamas fighters reappearing in gaza, is this. >> the time. >> to lose anybody from the cia? >> there are terrible dangers around the world, but at the same time, i do think that and again, we're not talking about overall, you know, reducing our our intelligence capabilities or our investments in intelligence operations. there are opportunities for us to redirect, to reinvest, to invest in different ways. and i think giving the director that ability that that that option is certainly important. >> and what about tulsi gabbard as dni?

this, again, from the cia. it takes months to get a cia employment security clearance and then a year to train. and suddenly -- this happened evidently to comply with an executive order to -- these 200-plus individuals, and i can assure you, the last letter of a name, an appropriate a.i. tools based on where these folks are working, you can find out their identities. and these agents may be burned before they even start their career. now, i know that many of my republican colleagues profess to take the issue of unclassified servers very seriously indeed. it's a whole litany of attack on this earlier. but the fact is beyond the counterintelligence risk of foolishly exposing these officers' names, using channels known to be targeted by adversary actors, to dismiss recently recruited and trained cia officers also imperils the long-standing bipartisan efforts by the senate intelligence committee to actually modernize and streamline the agency's hiring process. because we need to make sure that we continue to recrui

you joined the service of the cia. it's an interesting job. it's not well paid, but it's interesting. and it's not just a job. it's a mission. you're in washington, d.c., you're traveling around the world trying to understand what the chinese, the russians, the iranians, the north koreans are doing. and somebody comes in and says, here's some chump change to retire. good luck with that. i don't think they'll get a lot of success with that. and then the question will be, what's the next step? are they going to fire people? try that one too. >> what would be the implication of firing people if, as you say, the cia employees who are as you as you very importantly note are mission driven people, what implication does that have for all of us here at home? >> well, let's let me give you a simple example. let's say they look at employees who are who are brought on in the last couple of years. those are the easiest employees to remove because they're still under what's called probationary period. they're not full time. they're not sort of employees wh

this again from the cia. it takes months to get a cia employee a security clearance and then a year to train, suddenly all of their names are out and apparently to comply with an executive order no matter how much their skills might be needed. and an appropriate ai tool based on where they're working you can find out their identities. and these agents may be burned before they even start their career. now, i know that many of my republican colleagues profess to take the issue of unclassified servers very seriously indeed, the whole litany of attack on this earlier, but the fact is beyond the counter intelligence risk of foolishly exposing these officers' names, using channels known to be by foreign hackers, this identify and potentially dismiss recruited and trained cia officers also imperils the longstanding bipartisan efforts by the senate intelligence committee to actually modernize and streamline the agency's hiring process. because we need to make sure that we continue to recruit and retain talented youn

what happens if everyone at the cia takes this buyout?se we heard today, i think it was 20,000 people in the federal workforce had already taken these offers of buyouts. if the entire cia. let's just say, for example, that they did. what does that look like tomorrow? >> i mean, nothing good for the united states. and that's true, you know, at any one of these agencies, these these workplaces, i think, you know, i think part of the challenge of this is understanding that the goal here is just the chaos and the wreckage that, that, that i don't think that there is any grand plan beyond these buyouts. you know, it's certainly not a cost cutting measure to throw away decades of experience and millions of dollars in training that we have invested in these workforces. um, but, you know, any one of these federal agencies is like any other workplace. there's a very small number of people on whom sort of the whole operation lies. i mean, the people who know the institutional history, the people who understand how the systems and the operations wor

kate, this is part of the cia's. broader effort to comply with that executive order from president donald trump to downsize the federal workforce. but look for an agency that prioritizes and places a premium on secrecy. this is really, frankly, a surprising move that the cia sent this list of names to the white house in an unclassified email, and it's obviously raising concerns about national security risks, about counterintelligence threats that could come from exposing the identities of these individuals. now, the people on this list include all new hires at the agency, people who have worked there for two years or less. it includes people from analysts to those that are in the training program to eventually go undercover and be deployed overseas to dangerous hotspots around the world, as the cia does. but look, because of that, this is the exact kind of information that the cia has really worked hard to protect in the past. you know, for their part, they're saying they're complying with donald trump's order and th

what happens if everyone at the cia takes this buyout?se we heard today, i think it was 20,000 people in the federal workforce had already taken these offers of buyouts. if the entire cia. let's just say, for example, that they did. what does that look like tomorrow? >> i mean, nothing good for the united states. and that's true, you know, at any one of these agencies, these these workplaces, i think, you know, i think part of the challenge of this is understanding that the goal here is just the chaos and the wreckage that, that, that i don't think that there is any grand plan beyond these buyouts. you know, it's certainly not a cost cutting measure to throw away decades of experience and millions of dollars in training that we have invested in these workforces. um, but, you know, any one of these federal agencies is like any other workplace. there's a very small number of people on whom sort of the whole operation lies. i mean, the people who know the institutional history, the people who understand how the systems and the operations wor

the cia started looking at his reporting. which was saying that, around december of 1988, he actually saw both fhimah and megrahi coming into this airport here... ..with a suitcase. and that double agent became very, very important to us in the case. i get a phone call telling me that cia the found the double agent, majid giaka, he's on a boat, and they're bringing him to a us ship of some kind to be interviewed. got on a helicopter, we were flown out to a ship in the mediterranean, international waters. and i'm anticipating a very aggressive interview. but i found him credible, uh, almost to a fault. he was so honest. dick: he tells us he knows megrahi. megrahi was in the libyan intelligence service. he tells us, "i saw fhimah and megrahi come to the airport with a suitcase." exactly the same as the one that carried the bomb. he said fhimah, because of his job here as the libyan arab airlines manager, he was able to circumvent customs with that suitcase. and then he tells us that fhimah kept explosives in his desk. and, you

, and the cia complied.the fear now is, well, foreign hackers and new threats against americans in the united states and overseas. cnn's zach cohen has much more reporting on this. he's back with us. zach, what's the latest on this? >> yeah, the cia sent this list of names to the white house as part of its broader effort to comply with donald trump's executive order to downsize the federal workforce. and look, this what's really unusual and unorthodox is, is about the way that they transmitted this information, these names, the first names and last initial of these employees, employees who are relatively new hires have worked at the cia for two years or less. it includes anyone from analysts to people that are in their training program, to eventually go undercover and be deployed to various hotspots around the world. but look, the cia is an agency that prioritizes and puts a premium on secrecy, and that's what is prompting concerns that sending this information via an unclassified email could put those indiv

peoples mind and this is a major function of the cia.ou have contact with a journalist, you will give him true stories and get investigates from him and also give him -- information from him. you also work on their human vulnerabilities to make their your agent so that you can control what -- 400 journalists cooperating with the cia including some of the biggest names in the business to consciously introduce the stories into the press. >> jesse: journalists were on cia payroll. >> do you have any people being paid by the cia who are contributing to a major circulation american journal? >> we do have people who submit these to other -- to american journalists. >> jesse: so if intelligence agencies which is kind of what the usaid is is financing the american media, that's state run media. and if kamala would have won the election, the money would have kept flowing. politico must have known that. they wrote puff pieces about how fantastic she was. i wonder if that was connected. don't bite the hand that feeds you. trump got elected and caug

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one email sent from the cia to the white house. this really underscores kind of the depth of concern that i think you are hearing from current and former officials inside the agency that the kind of move fast and break things approach that president trump has taken to trying to slim down the federal government may carry some pretty unique counterintelligence risks at an agency like the cia that is used to dealing with almost exclusively classified information and some of the government's most sensitive secrets. sarah. >> all right. katie, thank you so much. over to you, kate. speaking of breaking things, yikes. yikes. >> at all times. a quick look at markets this morning and so far. take a look. futures are pointing north. the dow and s&p and nasdaq all in the green. this is after all three major indices finished last week. lower. investors are looking ahead to some key earnings reports this week including tech giant nvidia. this will be nvidia's first earnings report since that chinese a.i. model deepfake sent shockwaves rippling

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first off, elena, what is happening at the cia? >> well, pamela, we know that last week, the office of personnel management and really just the white house overall had been offering this, what they call deferred resignation program for 2 million federal workers. now, that was not initially extended to national security officials and employees, noting, i think an apparent cognizant, of course, of their critical function to the security of the nation. however, we did learn that starting tuesday. now, employees at the cia are now being offered this, we are told, and this is according to our reporting from katie polglase and kaitlan collins, that cia director john ratcliffe was behind this and he personally wanted employees at the cia and within the agency to have this type of option and to be able to opt in to the program. now, this seems like a recently, you know, new decision. as of last week, we know that many people at the cia were questioning whether or not they would be able to try and get into this deferred resignation program.

>> so what we know from our sources at this point is that the text of this letter that the cia, the ciaworkforce has received is different than the than the language that sort of the the rest of the civilian workforce, at least, that we know of at this point has received. so they're still sort of a lot of questions about kind of how the mechanics of this are going to work for agency employees. the office of the director of national intelligence, their workforce also received kind of similar guidance. that essentially was like, look, you might be eligible for this, but you might not be. we might not actually let you resign if you're doing something that we consider to be important enough. and i think, brianna, what's important to think about here is there's kind of two things going on when it comes to the cia and sort of the broader intelligence community and this buyout offer. right. like, there's both. okay. look, the president clearly wants to shrink the size of the federal government overall. and of course, particularly when it comes to the intelligence community, he and his allies h

serve every day at cia.ormer cia officer. i worked undercover for my entire time with the agency. these are people with language skills. these are people with specific, well-honed skills of focus and a devotion to national security. there are people who could choose to have jobs in the private sector that are far more lucrative, but they are people who are driven to serve a mission. and year after year after year, not only do they bring their skills and their talents to the cause, to the mission of keeping the american people safe, but they learn and build upon those skills. you do not become an intelligence officer overnight, just as those who were investigating everything from terrorism to bank robberies to large scale fraud cases learn that skill overnight. and so the reality is that what is happening, the chaos that we are seeing out of washington, the chaos coming out of this administration, it is just impactful to the virginians that i have served and look forward to serving again as governor. but it i

look, i get the director's. >> desire to try. >> to. >> reorient the. >> cia towards china. we've been doing that for many years. what are we going to do when. >> three of our very best china. analysts fluent in mandarin. >> with, you. >> know, two. >> years. >> worth of work. >> to get them their. >> security clearances. >> decide to take this. >> retirement package. >> so again, a. >> tough. >> day for national security. but to answer your question directly. look, it is. >> not hard when. >> you combine. >> let's imagine that the. >> chinese see that somebody named bob. s bob. >> smith is on that list. >> not hard to get. >> credit. >> card records. >> for northern virginia. >> not hard to look at residences or voter registration rolls or facebook pages. that indicate where. >> you live to figure out who. >> somebody is, even if their name is slightly masked. >> so yeah, this is. as your person put it, anybody worth their salt could pretty easily get to actual names. >> and these. >> are. people who. >> in many. >> instances will have. >> spent, you know. >> years in. >> t

me, the cia, i am fifth white house fellow to been placed at the cia, but the first in almost 30 years. and so the agency didn't have the type of muscle that many of the officers, the white house or other departments and agencies. and so for me up as a fellow, there is, some of the standard questions you get is this the same as presidential management fellows or just who are you and what do you do? so it was really an opportunity to educate this this federal agency what the white house fellows program about how it started and about its purpose. and for me i that was a really that was really impactful it helped me want to tailor my elevator pitch when i had to explain what my job was. but it also led to a lot of conversations and so i think i take for granted maybe being in the military it's october was 14 years for me so it's been a little of time and you don't necessarily realize that even within the federal there are so many people who have had experience interacting with military officers. if they do, there are many at the cia, but they are not jags. and so mostly know jag from the

i knocked on the door of the cia, and said, "i need your help." back in those days, the relationship between the fbi and cia wasn't that good. i was told, "hey, don't be working with the cia." well, like i said, i felt compelled. they could do things that we couldn't do, the fbi couldn't do. they could come up with informants, double agents. who they were, what role they played for the libyan government. and they came up with the name of lamin fhimah. he turns out to be the libyan airlines manager who was working at the airport here on malta. the cia found out that his friend was abdelbaset al-megrahi, who they said was an intelligence officer. and then we looked more into his background and found out that he also was connected with the airlines back in tripoli. he was libyan airlines' head of security. bingo. because we were looking at how a piece of luggage could have got into the airline system with an explosive in it. it had to be somebody that was probably connected to the airport. then we realised that lamin fhimah owned a travel agency, cal

and, look, the cia obviously values and prioritizes secrecy, right? the starbucks at langley, at cia headquarters doesn't even write the names of employees on their starbucks cups when they order coffee. this is something that is essential to the mission that cia provides and the service they provide. and it's really something that people are warning is a national security threat. just by the pure act of sending this information on an unclassified email. >> so what are lawmakers saying about this? >> yeah, democrats in particular are very concerned, outraged, even really highlighting some of these same security threats we were just talking about, in particular, congressman himes, who is the top democrat on the house intelligence committee. he was he called this an unforced and unnecessary national security risk. take a listen to what he said when this news broke yesterday. the ones that are operational, the. >> case officers who are. >> operating in very, very dangerous. >> places around. >> the world, they are living undercover if. >> they are. >> di

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the cia is america's first line of defense. we have to be really careful in messing with these institutions, which are of extraordinary importance to the united states government. >> as ken mentioned, the cia was forced to email the white house a list of names of all its recent hires in an unclassified message. again, unclassified. so what kind of risk doeshat create for the people on that list? could they be vulnerable to foreign adversari? >> so. first of all, you know, think we have to be careful. i don't know the exact details of this are still a little murky. but if this is true, this in essence, compromises the cover stus of the entire next generation of cia officers who would go off and serve in places like beijing and moscow. the facthat it was first name, last initial. >> that easily. >> can be matched up later on, for example, with the names of u.s. officials who go to embassies. this is a tremendous own goal. i think this i would imagine senior officials in the direorate of operations are horrified at ts. but again,

so earlier this month, the cia sends this highly unusual email to the white house. it's trying to be responsive to one of president trump's executive orders about downsizing the federal government. and it's sent over a list of probation, probationary employees listed by first name and last initial to identify them for potential cuts. the problem was that they sent the email over an unclassified network, potentially exposing the list to foreign government hackers. current and former officials told us that this risked not only making it impossible to send some individual officers into undercover roles, it also risked exposing the jobs themselves as cia jobs and a lot of cases. the cia publicly disguises its jobs as state department roles in foreign embassies. and so if a foreign government was able to learn that a given role was actually a cia role, they might be able to reconstruct who had met with past occupants of that role, potentially endangering those people. so now what we've learned is that the agency is conducting a formal damage assessment to determine the p

of the last name which could be discovered of new cia hires. it takes a year and a half sometimes to get a clearance, another year and a half to train them. you come back to what we're talking about here with mr. vought, this is the agenda. take everybody in the workforce, make them traumatized, his words, not mine. and this idea that mr. vought and now the folks that he's at least indirectly deputized, mr. trump has deputized, elon musk and the doge bros, whose names we don't know, whose backgrounds we don't know, whose security classifications we don't know are now going agents by agents, and i'm particularly concerned about what's going on at treasury. and i have great respect for the new secretary of the treasury. i think he is a good man. but i worry about what has happened right now. if it was just treasury and these sometimes potential access to classified information, that might be one thing. but, you know, we've had for over 150 years almost the idea that our federal workforce ought to be above politics, called the civil service. i alr

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but the cia has not been authorized to use these strongs to take lethal action. that's what officials told the new york times adding that they do not envision using these drones to conduct air strikes for now, cia officers in mexico are passing information that is being collected by the drones to mexican officials. they're adamant about finding these fentanyl labs which apparently emit chemicals that make them easy to find from the air. the cia has reportedly flown surveillance drones to hunt cartels inside mexico before partnering with mexican authorities. but the more recent flights were communicated to congress by the trump administration using a particular notification that's reserved for new or updated covert programs that the cia and ten's either to conceal. >> or did not. that is what a source familiar with the matter said, adding that the notifications made no mention of mexican partners. >> we talked with their in god. he's a geopolitical strategist, a u.s. army veteran and a former black hawk pilot about the cia is covert drone missions in mexico. for t

listen to what he says about them. >> i never believed that the cia killed kennedy. no. talking to a guy. >> that's read the entire. >> jfk file. you've seen all the secret stuff. i've seen all of that. and i've seen the seven pages of the nine over 11 report. i've seen it all. >> and what he goes on to say here is that the documents that are being withheld don't answer the questions that we all have or that certainly are fueling the conspiracy theories. and by the way, those are still alive today. as a matter of fact, apparently today in congress. representative anna paulina luna, a representative from florida, are back in where we are from. me too. and you? that's right. she addressed some of the issues and the questions that persist to this day. listen to this. >> i can tell you, based on what i've been seeing so far, the initial hearing that was actually held here in congress was actually faulty in the single bullet theory. i believe that there were two shooters, and we should be finding more information as we are able to gain access into the skiff, hopefully before

is this a good time to be offering buyouts to cia employees? >> christopher wray said in his entire law enforcement career, he had never seen the lights blinking red. to use his term in the threat stream, which tacks back to your other subject, which is, is this really the time with that complex threat stream across all threats to be offering buyouts at the cia, which you're at risk of being taken up on by the most experienced and talented people. >> john miller, thank you, andrew mccabe as well. up next, my conversation with bill gates about elon musk's attempt to end the u.s. agency responsible for billions in foreign aid. >> have i got news for you? it's back for a new season. whether you like it or not. >> are those the only two choices? >> yes. you like it or you don't? >> i'm on the fence. >> this is going to be a long season. >> have i got news for you returns february 15th on cnn. >> team a is going to be my hands on the seabed replacing pipeline. >> they are the elite few. >> show some modesty. cover yourself. >> with the most dangerou

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how many people at the cia would take it? it also seems like a new development, and that's according to reporting from katie michael ellis, who was told essentially that as of last week, people were still questioning at the cia whether or not they would actually be able to accept this if they could be included in this program. so this all seems like a very much a new development. and as you mentioned, it comes really the big picture here, of course, is that president trump and also elon musk at the helm of doge have been working very hard to massively reduce the size of the federal workforce and really reshape it in the president's image and what he views the workforce to be. and so we are expecting widespread layoffs. and now we know that cia employees are also able to opt into this program. >> all right. thanks. elena. back to you, alex. she was just talking about usaid, which appears to be on the verge of collapse. what more do we know about this and the impact that this could have? worldwide? >> massive. >> it's impossibl

also stepping up surveillance operations with cia and defense department playing a direct role.ra calling for action like this for months and joins us in moments. >> sandra: the first fox team jennifer griffin is on tap from the pentagon and senior national correspondent, william la jeunesse is live. so william taylor william taylor first, what does this mean for drug trafficking specifically at the border? >> sandra, it is a big deal but the question is how far does the administration go, military action? we don't know. but never before has he labeled a drug cartel a terrorist organization like al qaeda or isis. to the designation opens a whole new toolbox for the administration between gangs lie tda and ms-13, j.lo and other cartels not as organized crime but national security threats. >> similar cartel now designated as narco terrorist organization equal to that of al qaeda or isis. this now allows the cia to initiate mitigation efforts of the organization and could be against transportation networks or money laundering assets. >> so that water also allows federal terrorism c

but the larger impact, the message that it sends is we're trying to downsize the cia. and the result of this has been people who are eligible for retirement who are, in many cases, some of the most experienced. case officers and analysts in the intelligence community. many of them are leaving. so you're already seeing a brain drain of expertise amid, you know, this reporting that we have that the white house required the cia to send a list of names of probationary employees over an unclassified network. in some cases, only first name and first initial last name. but still a lot of fears that foreign intelligence agencies will be able to use that to reconstruct and figure out who's who at an embassy down the line. so just a lot of disquiet in the national security community about some of these personnel moves, andrea. >> and also, there are a lot of developments involving the fbi today. what are you hearing from agents? >> yeah, well, we got a really moving message that had been circulating around fbi agents written by an agent who essentially said about the potential m