got a call from secretary of defense, then secretary of defense bob gates succeeded mr. rumsfeld, asking me if i would finish the bush term which would be about 19 months as undersecretary of defense for intelligence in the pentagon. the 19 months turned into 3 1/2 years. then after that i was asked to take on i was asked to take on the job of national intelligence. none of this was planned. it just kind of happened. not like i mapped this out on a whiteboard someplace about my career pattern. it just didn't happen that way. >> so now it is safe to say on based on the last three pages on this president, this president is not likely to ask you to come back into service the way presidents have for 40 years. you may have finally succeeded at retirement. you have obviously a little period of being an author. that will take some time. but, i know a little bit about what this life is like. this is 24/7 life. this is separation from your spouse and your family all the time. tell us a little bit about what that feels like? i assume you're around the house. sue has to deal with y

you heard bob gates say that gina haspel shouldn't be la theoreied for any past tougher program that u.s. undertook or entansed -- enhanced interrogation. does she have the votes? >> things are looking good. offer the weekend we saw another democrat say he would support her. so, looking at the numbers right now i think one question mark, potential republican defection is jeff flake of arizona who told us on call tall hill over last week sees thinking about what senator mccain said about haspel's nomination last week. but aside from that, you have at least two democrats who are supporting her so her prospects look very good. >> brennan: that comment from john mccain basically saying there shouldn't be any kind of question that discounts morality of torture that any connection is too much to vote yes. >> that's correct. you see absence of senator mccain in so many ways on capitol hill but senate armed services, he wasn't able to question her. as we what we call, while his statement was very strong it would have been interesting to see how he she should have fared. >> brennan: we heard

your book, the book by bob gates, both would suggest that sitting in front of congress is far from your favorite part of the job. let me ask you to talk a little bit about that in general but for my colleagues in the american people, what can we as members of congress, as people charged with oversight, we do think we can do better? i suspect you are not angry at us when you're angry at us because we were giving a tough time. i suspect you angry because he thought we weren't doing oversight well enough. >> well, i agree for disappointed maybe. i was in the intelligence community and i lived -- >> the chrtas commission was a response to -- >>assassination attempts. >> after vietnam, using national intelligence resources to spy on american citizens. that is what spawned the two committees. they stood up i think in 1976 and then a year later. when the committees were first established, i think just about not everyone but virtually all of the members took it as a national sacred trust.initial responsibility not related to home state or party. i take that prevailed in the first 15 or 20 years

bob gates, former secretary of defense, used to say, pre-emptive strike against iranian nuclear program will guarantee that which we're trying to prevent. an iran that will stop at nothing to get a nuclear weapon. >> can i move on to your new book and the whole idea of reinforcing american intelligence, american democracy? i just want to -- your book focused on the disdain for the truth and for doing -- what it's doing to intelligence. i wonder whether you noticed what the former secretary of state said about this very issue during a commencement speech last week. let's listen. >> if our leaders seek to conceal the truth or we as people become accepting of alternative realities that are no longer grounded in facts, then we as american citizens are on a pathway to releng wiinquis our freedom. when we a people, a free people, go wobbly on the truth, even on what may seem the most trivial of matters, we go wobbly on america. >> so secretary tillerson is just one of a number of prominent people using this theme right now. it is the theme of your book as well. i will read a quote in a moment

pictures have been made since then and some creative change that was made under the leadership of bob gates, mike mcconnell was the director of national intelligence, and i was the undersecretary. we worked on an arrangement where the undersecretary of defense also wore a hat it sounds bureaucratic but it was an important change. it basically helped integrate those so that they can be attended to. the dni plays a role in the hiring and firing of agency directors. they're supposed to coordinate whenever there is a nominee that require senate confirmation. so those things in the practice that has evolved over time has done a lot to overcome the effects of that section of the law. >> my impression is the problem you mentioned of the various components drifting away and the fbi going back to a place, mainly because of the personal relationship with mike flynn, admiral rogers of the predecessors my sense is that we made it work for decades. i worried that if you didn't have the personal history together that maybe we did have the problem, is that fair? >> guest: yes, that's fair. and a concern.

your book, and bob's bob gates spoke with say it's far from the job. for my colleagues in the american people, what can we as members of congress and people charged with oversight, what can we do better? i suspect you weren't angry because we are giving you a tough time, i suspect you're angry because he thought we were doing oversight well enough. >> for disappointed maybe. i was in the intelligence community and when the committees. >> a church commission. >> many abuses that occurred during and after vietnam is a national intelligent resources to spy on american citizens. that is what spohn to the two committees. think they stood up in 1976. when the committees were first established, virtually all of the members took it as a national sacred trust and responsibility. i think it pretty much prevailed the first 15 or 20 years and gradually over time. the partisanship that has affected the congress generally has invaded the committees, particularly the house. that's not good for the intelligence committee. the intelligence committee needs oversight. ou

bush, john foster dulles and bob gates. so take a look at some of the questioning today. >> the cia selectively declassified only small pieces of information to bolster your nomination. while keeping damaging information under wraps. >> what i believe sitting here today is that i support the higher moral standard we have decided to hold ourselves to. >> would you please answer the question? >> i think i've answer the question. >> know you have not. >> martha: that in the same week as we heard this from former first lady michelle obama. >> if we as women are still suspicious of one another -- if we still have this crazy, crazy bar for each other that we don't have four men, if we are still doing that today, if we are more comfortable -- if we are not comfortable with the notion that a woman could be our president compared to, what? >> martha: joining me now, amber smith, former deputy assistant to defend secretary mattis and former army helicopter pilot and former senior advisor to hillary clinton. it just strikes me that th

bush sends for bob gates. what has trump done? trump sent for a fellow brawler. if anything that tells us what the next x number of months will be like. >> well, there are new questions about michael cohen's role as donald trump's fixer and whether he maintained a secret slush fund to make damaging stories disappear during the election. according to "the wall street journal," cohen gained access to as much as three quarters of a million dollars during the presidential campaign siting real estate records the journal reports in february of 2016, cohen nearly doubled the amount he could use on a line of credit tied to his manhattan condo. he closed one, $255,000 account and opened another for a half million. three months before that, the journal reports that cohen gained access to another $529,000 tied to his wife's parent's mortgage. cohen is currently under federal investigation in a broad case that includes the payments to stormy daniels and karen mcdougal, the playboy play mate who also claims she had an affair with trump. the jo

. >> condi rice, madeleine albright, bob gates, leaders from both parties worked on his staff and it'spart of his personality and leadership? >> an anecdote is that when -- he played tennis until very late in the 2000s when he was already in his early 80s and he didn't play just to enjoy the game, he played to win. >> that's correct. >> so that's the way he also saw arguments, even around the dinner table at home and he was -- he had very little patience for half-baked arguments, was always insisting whether it would be his kids or his students that people -- make an argument, have knowledge of what you're talking about and also construct some kind of vision, some kind of argument or strategic vision. >> he always wanted me to articulate my vision at the dinner table and it often didn't end well. >> just following up with that anecdote, willie, mika's youngest daughter went to madeira and lived with the brezezinskis for a year in high school and she and her grandfather would go out and play tennis regularly almost everyday and carly would say that when they came up from the house -- fr

bob up with of the best, if not the best, all he has to do is get out of the gate. the trainer of american fa -- pharoah who won crown. >> he's only raced three times. janice: tell us how the trifecta thing, how am i going to win the most money? >> well, i think the key is you have to take justify, put him on first hole, on top. underneath, second, third and fourth, you have entice, also audible who looks like he's doing really well. he won the florida derby last time by open and vino roso, mini viola, all the boys from brooklyn and long island him. you put justify in the first hole, use the long shot entice and vino roso and audible. janice: will you stick with me all day long? i am going win some money. you know what, ladies, the weather forecast, a front right on top of louisville but there's the chance of rain but i'm going to make sure that it's sunny skies for the derby. cheryl: i have taken complete notes so tell him thank you for my bet score for tomorrow. janice: love it. gerri: love to see that they are raising money for breast cancer, that's awesome. janic

ultimately be caught out by some piece of information that bob mueller knows because michael flynn has gwynn him some kind of evidence on this or rick gatesituation for president trump to go into. and how do you prep president trump into this kind of situation, don? you know how he is. he's not someone who sticks to a script. he's someone who can get very proud and very defensive, and he can say things. >> -- that's his personality. >> and his lawyers are arguing, do this in writing, we can vet it. but then you catch him out and say what have you got to hide? why are you afraid to sit down. bill clinton sat down with ken starr. what do you have to hide? and they may be able to essentially goad him into a very difficult situation. >> you talked about the people who pled guilty, george papadopoulos, mike flynn, this is part of mueller's probe, not specifically connected all of them to the president. >> michael flynn ultimately and rick gates during the campaign, some of these questions -- would >> the phone records. they have questions to the block number? he would know who that block number is? >> i would think so. if it's knowable, i thin

gate. and then the exchange with sarah huckabee sanders, she's supposed to be the point person on bob mueller's investigation. he's not supposed to be expounded on potential mergers but here we see him doing that again. >> the president was so excited when he brought on giuliani a few weeks ago. he was tired of the talk they couldn't bring on a big-name lawyer. he wanted someone out there on the cable channel or some who have been on this channel repeatedly. so let me be part of it all. that was his choice. he was very excited about that initially. that has faded some. he still likes giuliani out there and fighting with the media and so on. he likes a lot less how he's done it and how stuff has gone. he's muddied the water on a number of issues. what michael cohen did with the lobbying firm. whether trump knew about the stormy daniels. the president has grown in frustration with rudy giuliani as have many people in the white house. you see sarah sanders day after day at the podium being asked to clean up the things giuliani has said. certainly in our reporting, the president is not ready to mak

bob baffert. keep an eye on the post because ten kentucky derby champions have come out of that gate.ear. as far as the worst post, gate 17. no horse has ever won out of that post. >>> and those big hats may come in handy today. 65% chance of rain in the forecast. post time is at 6:50. and my favorite to win, lone sailor, she is -- the horse owned by the same owner that owns the pelicans. so her name is gale benson, she's be busy flying back and forth to nba games. >> my grandfather always said on a sloppy track, dead on the long shot. >> nobody's going to be putting hats in the rain. i can tell you that now. costing way too much money. >> very true. >> thank you. >>> president trump knew about the hush money payment to stormy daniels months before he told the american people. >> we didn't know about it until we knew about it. >>> michael cohen took out lines of credit giving him access to up to $774,000. >> the judge in manafo

bob mueller prosecutors had an answer. they followed the money and found these allegations are tied to the investigation. focussing on manafort rick gatesed roger stone a lot. a long confidant of president trump, pushed him to run for president multiple times as far back as the '80s in a moment we are going to hear from -- >> roger always wanted me to run for president. >> i was like a jockey looking for a horse. he is a prime piece of political horse flesh in my view. >> political horse flesh, always a compliment. linked through lobbying firm. mounting scrutiny which we have been covering in our reports. he talked about communicating with wiki leaks and denied themselves. and bragged about having contact with a hacker who was exposed to be involved with russian military intelligence. that's like the heart of collusion and bob mueller's interest goes beyond wikileaks. out of those we can show you those who reportedly have yet to be questioned by mueller team. remove the russians and remove the family members and that's a special category. five names left, two of them not questioned in the headlines today and then you are left with the p

bob mueller? it's the second person close to manafort who's cooperating with federal investigators of some type or another. rick gates the other. manafort's long-time 10ty. deputy. >> that's right. manafort has two trials coming up. one july, one september, on those indictments that special counsel mueller's team brought against him alleging allegations of tax fraud and bank fraud. and so the question will be what does yohie have, if anything, to offer the investigators in that case? he could be called as a witness if he has something relevant to those investigations. and that's something that we'll see how that plays out the next couple of months. >> kara, thank you very much. former nixon white house counsel john dean, white house correspondent for american urban radio networks april ryan, and former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york harry sandick. harry, paul manafort obviously is a very important player here. he was the chairman of the president's campaign. he was in that meeting in trump tower. you now have his deputy rick gates and his former son-in-law essentially flipping. so what

bob, and he has kindly agreed to tell me everything i need to know about casting. i'm going to suit up and next, we're in the water. >> what any gentleman should do. golden gate angling has free lessons the second saturday of every month. we have equipment show up on the 9:30 on the second saturday of every month and we'll teach them to fly cast. >> ok. we are in the water. >> let me acquaint you with the fly rod. >> nice to meet you. >> this is the lower grip and the upper grip. this is a reel and a fly line. we are going to use the flex of this rod to fling away. exactly as you moved your hands. >> that's it? >> that's it. >> i'm a natural. >> push both arms forward and snap the lower hand into your tummy. push forward. >> i did gave it a try and had great time but i might need some more practice. i met someone else with real fly casting skills. her name is donna and she is an international fly casting champion. >> i have competed in the casting ponds in golden gate park in san francisco. i have been to japan and norway for fly casting competition. i spend my weekends here at the club and at the casting pond. it's a great place to learn and have fun. on a s

gates has been cooperating. this is the first person, george papadopoulos, that's been cooperating that is ready to be sentenced. it certainly signals that bobller is moving quickly, is getting ready to make some decisions. whatever information george papadopoulos has been providing, this would seem to indicate that they're ready to part ways with him so to speak. that is is the special counsel. it doesn't mean his cooperation is over forever, but we'll see what happens in the end. so they're giving the court about 30 days. they're saying in about 30 days we probably will be reed to go ahead and sentence him? >> do you have any idea the sentence -- >> he pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi, which is a felony. he could face jail time. given he's been cooperating, usually the judge will take that into consideration. you may see prosecutors write a letter on his behalf, detail how he's been cooperating, the level of information he's been providing. once he's sentenced, we can actually learn so much about what he's been doing these last several months in his cooperation with the letter they would ultimately file, that is the prosecutors would. >>

gates of institutional investors about to open. crito ballroom will break it down disney out with earnings volatile after hours, conference call with ceo bob iger under way. this as the mouse house squares off against comcast, our parent company, in the battle for fox jim stewart, the man who wrote the book on disney literally will be here to tell us what it means. we start there with disney julia boorstin spoke to bob iger moments ago at headquarters. julia. >> it was much better than expected top and bottom line results at disney's two biggest divisions, theme park and music studios, surprise in terms of revenue and earnings perhaps most surprising considering all the focus on the media networks division, which is disney's biggest division that has been suffering from both cord cutting and advertising declines is that that division reported better than expected both earnings and revenue as cord cutting numbers start to slow. take a listen. >> they have started to moderate the declines this quarter are less than the declines we've seen in the prior two quarters what you're seeing is continued growth in the new we call them dmpvds or digit

bob redell continues that investigation. a body found in a car in the water just on the side of the roadway there. over here across the golden gate bridge, across the bay to the north. look at that beautiful sunrise. no problems over here. to the north bay you're at speed and over here for dublin, westbound 580, slows a bit through the altamont pass and back at speed by the time you get to the dublin interchange. >> it's 5:22 right now, coming up next on "today in the bay," unimaginable crime, the search for answers after police say a father drove through a restaurant on purpose killing his own daughter. >> so sad there. >> on a lighter note -- >> all of a sudden you hear a -- >> all of a sudden, i was taking a hike this weekend and i had a little guest slither by me. take a look at my facebook page, my crazy butt went back to get video of it. you can follow me @ marcus washington on facebook. you're watching "today in the bay." carolina... police say a man drove his car in >>> very sad story out of north carolina, police say a man drove his car into a restaurant on purpose just to hurt his family. his daughter died. she was sitt

. >> we're learning that bob mule certificate focusing on alleged interactions between former trump campaign official rick gatesdante roger stone. sources say the questions have largely been what was discussed at dinners between stone and gates before and during the campaign. sources tell cnbc, stone, a long-time adviser to president trump is one of the top subjects of the investigation into potential collusion between russia and the trump campaign. and an attorney for stone did not deny that discussions between stone and gates took place. but sought to downplay their importance. back in february rick gates pled guilty to two counts stemming from the russia probe. he said to be cooperating with mueller's investigation. >> and finally, in an interview with, with abc news, departing white house special counsel ty cobb addressed the question of who leaked details on more than 40 questions the special counsel robert mueller would like to ask the president. >> i think it's very difficult to see who if anybody benefits from the leak of that. other than people who have been trying to sabotage the possibility of an int

bob mueller sending his first convict in the russia probe to jail. he begins hard time in pennsylvania. a month for admitting to lying to sperl counsel about his contact with rick gates pled guilty the law firm was linked to paul manafort. we learned about alex van der zwaans questions. his business partner is wait for it. theres. viktor vekselberg part of putin's inner circle and tied to michael connor a half million dlafrl dollars. we didn't plan for it. we did plan for criminal attorney tom weiss and is an all around criminal wiz, that fair to say, so? >> close enough for government work, ari. >> when you look at this today, what does it mean that there is a lawyer headed to a jail today under bob mueller's direction here? >> well, ari, anybody that saw sun's night episodes of billions recognizes the life blood of the criminal justice system is leveraged cooperation a prosecutor's ability to take a defendant and turn him or her into a witness and whether you are cracking the mob or a drug cartel or dealing with some white collar chuckleheads that think they're a cross between tom hayden and gordon gecko. nobody is better than trading up in the perpetrator draft ta

bob mueller's prosecutors had an answer. they say they followed the money and found that these allegations against manafort are still tied to their collusion investigation. meanwhile, cnbc reporting mueller is focusing sharply on rick gates and his links to trump aide roger stone. if you watched "the beat" you know we've covered roger stone a lot. he is a long time confidant to president trump, he pushed trump to consider running for president as far back as the '80s. in a moment we will hear from a filmmaker that spent five years embedded with roger stone for the documentary "get me roger stone". >> roger always wanted me to run for president. >> you can't have a race if you don't have a horse. >> manafort, gates and stone are all linked of course through the lobbying firm that they ran for many years. that's where gates got his start as an intern. roger stone has been under mounting scrutiny which we've been covering in our reports because he talked about communicating directly with wikileaks although that was later basically decide by wikileaks itself. he also bragged about having contact with a hacker who was later exposed to be involved with russian military intelligence. that's like the heart of collusion. and now

gates of institutional investors about to open. crito ballroom will break it down disney out with earnings volatile after hours, conference call with ceo boby. this as the mouse house squares off against comcast, our parent company, in the battle for fox jim stewart, the man who wrote the book on disney literally will be here to tell us what it

bob mueller. the whole thing, all of it, is tied to mueller's efforts to equities distracts information about the president. he has turned you mentioned gatesr witness against the president because he knows everything that happened. good or bad. whether it really happened or not in the campaign. brian: let's talk about sneiderman, the attorney general is in a heap of trouble right now. have you an interesting tie. >> i was stunned when i saw this. steve: he resigned last night. >> correct. but, if you read the peter strzok, lisa page emails about the gaggle of fbi agents that hated trump that used to meet and find ways to stifle him, there was one nonfederal official there it was attorney general schneiderman, what was he doing going from new york down to d.c. unless he was part of some effort to prosecute the president and his people for state crimes in the state of new york where the president's pardon power would not work. and now he is gone. steve: would that be relating to trump university. >> either be related to trump universe where the president, shortly after got elected signed 25-million-dollar settlement or related to some financ

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