specialthe 1974 c.i.a. israel'slking about it nuclear weapons most feared was collaboration with south africa and taiwan. so the israelis did in fact signed a contract with p.w. botha to sell them nuclear tipped missiles. and someone wrote an entire book about that after he obtained the documents from the postapartheid government. doingeople who are credible work on nuclear nonproliferation believe that flash inlled vela the indian ocean in the 1970's, 1976, was a nuclear test in south africa. daye could do an entire long conference, and hope someday we can come about the israeli nuclear weapons program and just how much information there is an out there about it. but the u.s. ignores, it will not accept officially that the flash was an israeli nuclear test. it them except the authenticity of the south african government document released that it was an attempted sale of turnkey weapons systems to the apartheid regime. just another example of your avernment at work under supplanted policy of nuclear ambigui

you had a head of the c.i.a. who i think was undermining the united states and undermining the constitution. and this is not going to go away. the president is right. he ought to start releasing as much as he can. frankly, he and his advisors ought to consider sending a letter to pelosi saying that as long as schiff is on the intelligence committee, there will be no cooperation from the executive branch because they have chosen a person who is totally, profoundly dishonest and there is no obligation to collaborate with somebody who is that unreliable. we don't have to sit around and pretend that this is acceptable. this is a direct assault on the american system. we now know it was a direct assault because after two years, 500 subpoenas, millions of dollars, you have a mueller report that says there was no collusion, period. which makes you question everybody who is out there protecting hillary clinton and trying to destroy donald trump. >> bill: read your piece and your op-ed. here is the title. it reads let's i

also disgraced the c.i.a. director turned nbc, msnb tinfoil hat conspiracy theory network hack john brennan. he called the president on multiple occasions a traitor. pushing conspiracy theories as utter fact almost every day. he was lying on an extreme level. tonight we are learning something damning about john brennan. we will follow the story. rand paul earlier today tweeting out that the high-level space that the fake clinton bought and paid for steele dossier with the russian lies including in the intelligence report that brennan should be asked to now testify under oath in congress. as soon as possible. in other words brennan used his official position as c.i.a. director to validate the phony clinton bought and paid for dossier. was he involved in the hoax? was he trying to set trump up from the get-go? that would be a blatant abuse of power. how does this conman have a job at nbc? andy lack, you might want to talk to him. we take this promise every seriously. every night, every single person, every membe

and the c.i.a. and the f.b.i. were looking athould he be able to get a permanent security clearance for top information that is always embeded in the predential daily brief? and long about february 2018, you discover as a result of another scandal involving anr advi in the white house that a bunch of people have interim clrances without having the permanent decision and jared was one of them. and at that d momen mcgan eputy d rosenstein the attorney general were discussing the fact that the c.i.a. wants to hold backhis information from jared because we havets interc in which foreign officials are talking about how easy it would be to manipulate him for a host of reasons, his financial debts, his inexperience in foreign policy, and honestlyis attempts to try to get financing from foreign banks. robert: peter, you sat with your colleague ang with maggie haberin just about a month ago. wasn't dent said he getting involved at all in the clearance process. yet, he does have the authority to do so. >> yeah. robert: why

the c.i.a. and other entities came and developed something called isis. i mean, not isis, al qaeda. al qaeda. isis came later. so these people were retrained in pakistan and were given money. scholars from saudi arabia, from other areas tried to squeeze the qur'anic texts and make it suitable for them to do jihad, struggle against the nonbeliever, especially russia. yes, there are verses which spoke about fighting, especially during the prophet time, whom he had enemies, especially in the arab world. the qur'an tells them, if they fight, you fight them back. that was over. that was then, and it spoke about history, but the qur'an speaks about humanity, peace, to be humble, to extend your hand in harmony to your neighbors, and so on. but those verses came in historic context for those arabs who had been fighting the muslims. and there is a bloody history there. it is like the vietnam war. when the commander is telling the troops to kill the vietnamese, for example. now, it is over. now, we read that this command was given, and here is the letter. it is not applicable anymore to today

he has served in the c.i.a. since 1996 as an analyst, on east asia, the middle east, africa and the arabian peninsula. he is joined by our own chris adviser who is senior to the csi ask, holder of the chair of china studies, longtime c.i.a. and a list and china watcher. picture on the and holds a , came herer at csis after leaving the national security council in 2007, and i think he is acknowledged by most people as one of the most knowledgeable career scholars in america today. and finally, margaret brennan, who i must say has the best job in journalism, she is moderator of "face the nation" and cbs news chief foreign affairs correspondent. she was a fulbright scholar and graduated with distinction from the university of virginia where she majored in middle east studies and arabic. .nd she is a new mom let me set the stage here by getting a brief thought from each of you. where are we right now at this juncture? how would you describe the relationship between china and the united states what is the threat bein

john brennan former director of the c.i.a. two fridays ago said it would happen in a week. a lot of tea leaves, reading. we don't have to do that anymore. >> that is true. the report is here. but the idea that there is more indictments is not true. >> harris: ed henry, thank you. i want to bring in trey gowdy, former house oversight committee chairman, former prosecutor and fox news contributor now. good to see you and talk with you, i should say tonight. that question of what comes next is so important. because william barr will make a decision not only what the public will see but what congress will see. talk to me about the process. >> i think it is important for your viewers, harris, to realize the reason we have bob mueller is department of justice, who otherwise would handle this felt like they had a conflict. so mueller in essence worked for the department of justice. that is who the report goes to. the only obligation to notify congress is if he had a recommendation that his supervisor rod rosenstein or bull barr -- bill barr did not follow. barr is going to read th

it is really ask the c.i.a. to do every day, they make conclusions with low, medium and high degrees of confidence. but those conclusions are not provable in a court of law and typically are also not provable in the court of public opinion. since the fact that undermine them are often gathered through covert sources and methods that can't be publicly disclosed. that theres view is a lot of reason to be concerned, that some in trump's orbit were under the influence of or in communication with the russian government. and it may be that congress chooses to look further into that. at it may also be that counterintelligence investigation of that sort ought see too much light of day for reasons of national security instance.st instance host: what would happen if for those people that have been or were in contact with russian officials, maybe not russian government officials, but, what happens to those people then? >> there is a number of things happens. some, like roger stone, get indicted for lying about their connec

because the c.i.a.s to provide arms and training equipment to these terrorist groups to get them to overthrow the government. so that is a regime change war that we should not have been waging. >> stephen: but if it's somebody like bashar al-assad who gases his own people or engages in war crimes against his own people, should the united states not be involved? >> the united states should not be intervening to overthrow these dictators and regimes that we don't like, like assad, like saddam hussein, like gadhafi, and like kim jong un. there are badpl d, b histo shown us that every time the united states goes in and topples these dictators we don't like, trying to act like the world's police, we end up increasing the suffering of the people in these countries, we end up causing loss of lives, both american and people in these countries, we end up undermining our own security, to speak of the trillions of dollars of tax money spent on these wars that we need to be using right here at home. ( cheers and ap

even a loyalist and fabulist like michael pompeo deferred to the c.i.a.n this specific jared's clearance. it's only trump that overrode it because he has no one else that careusts and he doesn't about the procedures or the risk of compromise, it would appear. anchor: so we have a situation where the white house is asked -- i think it's got until monday to hand over documents all of this. what do you expect to actually thisn, given that administration seems to be able to dodge controversies like this least move on from them with, probably another controversy. glen: if the united states were a functioning democracy with checks, balances and rule of law from the presidency on down, then what would happen is that the executive office, the presidency, would hand over the or oblige touested hand over and one would see that the president overrode the recommendations of the bureaucracies and that the bureaucracy were concerned for issues of character and potential compromise but that's live in and iwe think what we'll hear is a claim having corresponded -- fulfil

the series follows a girl raised in the forest as she is pursued by a rogue c.i.a. agent will try to find out the truth about who she really is. another award for jay z. he is receiving ncaa pc president's award. they say he is being recognized for setting lights on issues that plagued the back black community. that is your eye on entertainment. chris martinez, cbs news, los angeles. >>> this might be a common theme. madison bumgarner was great, but did he get any help from his offense? the a's don't need a lot of offense when they have events like this. >>> good friday morning to you. we made it to the end of the work week with beautiful weather mag ahead. san jose and santa clara are 65. concord will be 63 later today. enjoy mostly to partly sunny skies. berkeley and oakland 61, 62 in alameda. your weekend forecast is coming up in a few minutes. >>> if you're getting ready to head out the door and take the castro valley 238/580 area, chp has shut down two lanes for of big rig accident and fuel spill. this is a live look at the backup. you are seeing some pretty su

in c.i.a. i worked with incredible people. many of them impacted and influenced my life in many ways. >> new congress. follow on c-span. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] >> joe biden will deliver remarks at a delaware democratic party fund raiser in domb. that will begin at 6:5 eastern with a form vice president speaking at 7:00 eastern here on c-span on saturday. >> c-span's cities tour is on the road exploring the american story. this weekend, with the help of our cable partners at media com, we visit cree car rapids in east -- cedar rapids at east central iowa. >> this is the piece that everybody knows. and a lot of times people won't know the artists and they won't know the title, but it is an iconic piece. it's probably the most iconic piece of american art to date. >> the iowa caucuses haven't been great at selecting the next president. it seems that the caucus i

chair tom perez, and former c.i.a. director john brennan. that's right.tv's biggest reality stars. ( laughter ) without those hunks on screen, how will hannah b. ever find true love? the memo ends with a quick tip for tv producers, saying they should ask themselves, "does this guest warrant further appearances in our programming, given the outrageous and unsupported claims made in the past?" yes, i think cable news should ban appearances by everyone who has ever made an outrageous or unsupported claim. mr. president, you will be missed. ( cheers and applause ) ( piano riff ) that's some balls. that's some huevos. that's some big old swingers right there. >> jon: hickory dickry dock. >> stephen: it's actually a compliment, i think. ( laughter ) from now on, you're going to have to lie door-to-door. (as trump) "knock, knock. excuse me, are you gloria larson of sioux falls, south dakota? you are? good. i had the largest inauguration. crowd of all time. thank you and good day." it's not just trump. ( cheers and applause ) it's not just trump. if you ban every

video released by the c.i.a.howing hamza's wedding in 2009 to a senior al qaeda leader's daughter in iran.and hamza has appeared in al qaeda propaganda videos since he was a child.u.s. officials say documents recovered from the 2011 navy seal raid that killed osama bin laden indicated he was grooming hamza for a leadership role.peter bergen, cnn national security analyst: "his father was writing him very extensive letters when he was on the run, he was supposed to be in the compound in pakistan where bin laden was killed the night of the raid."and it's that 2011 raid that may be driving hamza. michael evanoff, assistant secretary for diplomatic security:"he has threatened attacks against the united states in revenge for the may 2011 killing of his father." the u.s. officially designated hamza as a terrorist in 2017 - and now all u.n. members are required to freeze all of his assetsall of this as the intelligence community warns that al qaeda, which perpetrated the 9-11 attacks, is rebuilding.the attacks led to th

as a former c.i.a. case officer i greatly appreciate the objective and nonpartisan -- partisan work of the national security and intelligence community. and with their help we can fight back against foreign interference, we can safeguard our elections, the dedicated men and women of our national security agencies, of our intelligence agencies have demonstrated their ability to collect information on foreign actors' intentions and provide election security assessments that are intellectually rigorous, objective, timely and useful to the states they provide them to. as we're having an important discussion about safeguarding the integrity of a vote, i urge my colleagues to support this amendment to h.r. 1. i reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentlewoman reserves the balance of her time. for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois seek recognition? mr. davis: i rise to claim time in opposition but i think this is a darn good amendment. the chair: without objection, the gentleman is recogn

. >> that led you to the c.i.a. >> it did, and that's where i knew that it was something where not onlywhen people were listening to all the classical music, i was watching videos of the chefs coming to c.i.a., to the point of i even took some of the videos and put them in my backpack and thought i really want to take these to my place. >> what brought you to nashville? >> the job. i was looking around. nashville is hot these days. >> it sure is. >> i love music. all kinds of music. so the rock 'n' roll and country and everything, and just the creative energy that nashville has, and also the growing economy and business was just -- there's something special about nashville. >> we get to eat this right now. what do you want diners to experience from sort of this coming together of foods that you have. >> we have all this food here. the one thing that is really important to me, though, is that the entire dining situation makes sense. so you go in and you have this great food, but you also have a wonderful service experience. and you just leave the restaurant feeling better than you did wh

. >> former c.i.a. director john brennan is saying he believes he was the recipient of bad information upon which he made his public statements about the president and the former director intelligence, james clapper, is also appearing to dial back his accusations. >> no, i don't. and i have put that in writing in my book as well. i have concerns and as do others. and i have tried to be factual and temperate and moderate about it but i do have concerns. no, i don't have any regrets. >> these newly obtained text messages between f.b.i. lawyer lisa page and former acting f.b.i. director andrew mccabe are raising new questions and they show in mid-december 2016, three weeks after the presidential election, strzok was advised by clapper that he planned to meet with brennan and brennan's deputy. within a minute of that text mccabe replied okay. what's important here is that cohen is likely then deputy cia director david cohen. it was highly irregular for clapper to contact strzok who is at a much junior level

what we were discussing earlier with jared kushner's security clearance given over the objections of c.i.a. officials who believe that kushner was susceptible to being kind of molded in ways that they saw fit. we have seen this play out in public, in press conferences with donald trump. the helsinki summit as you laid out and now with respect to otto warmbier. for trump it was enough to say this is what kim jong-un told me. this is what we are seeing on the tubl stage. we have no idea what is happening behind closed doors and it really does get at the crux why this story that the "new york times" broke about kushner getting his security clearance over the objections of our nation's top intelligence officials is such a big deal. >> susan, does a statement like that from the president believing kim jong-un on this, believing mohammed bin salman on this to the objection of our own intelligence, does that endanger americans abroad? >> i think it does in the long term because what president trump has shown is that he is happy to ignore the facts when it is inconvenient to him. he is happy to ta

that was alyssa slot kin, a freshman from michigan who is a former c.i.a.and pentagon official in the previous administration. all this of course, with the zero tolerance policy which led to the separation of children from their parents at the border and the lack of tracking of those children. join being me now is alyssa, former white house deputy chief of staff for president obama and author of "so here's the thing" knots on growing up, getting older and trusting your gut, another great title, another great book from alyssa. as a former deputy chief of staff, what would you have done if a policy were handed to you to implement, separating children and their parents, with no way of tracking them or reuniting them? do you think you would have gone to the president or the chief of staff or raised your hand? >> i don't think i've ever worked with anyone, myself included, that would have implemented it. i mean, that's the fundamental problem here, they thought it was a good idea. they separated families at the border. they put kids in cages. they had no way to

i want to go to former c.i.a. director john brennan. a nationaltely was security investigation to the extent it centered on rsian interference in the election. are you afraid that politics may gloss over some of the important indictments in this case so far? >> i think politics has taken over the whole discussion over the last two plus years. i think we as americans need to be concerned aboutrf foreign inence in our elections. and i'm hoping that the government is going to do some ssthings that will add some of those short comings that allow some of those foreign actors and others to try to shape our electoral landscape. i'm glad that bob mueller was able to carry out his mandate we are now moving to the next phase. what we know is his work has been completed but he's pbably investigative threads to u.s. attorneys. now it's going to be up to wiiam barr, who i trust is going to do the right thing, in termofharing with the congress what he needs to, and also trying to make suree that merican people are going to have as much insight and tr

. >> pelley: in 2016 and '17, 25 americans, including c.i.a. agents, who worked in the u.s. in cuba suffered serious brain injuries, causing impaired vision and memory loss, among other persistent symptoms. now, we've learned that at least 15 american officials in china suffered unexplained brain trauma soon after. the f.b.i. is now investigating whether these americans were attacked by a mysterious weapon that leaves no trace. over many months, we have been collecting evidence of what appears to be a hostile foreign government's plan to target americans serving abroad and their families. >> mark lenzi: for me, it was november of 2017, when i started to feel lightheaded a lot. i was getting more headaches. my wife was getting headaches, too. >> pelley: mark lenzi is a state department security nsin gou, cha.rked in the u.s. began fer afaringe strange sounds in their apartment. >> lenzi: picture holding a marble. then, picture if you had, like, a six-foot in diameter funnel, metal funnel. the sound that marble would make as it goes around, and it progressively gets faster as

iojung pak held senior pos at both the c.i.a. and within the fice of the director of national intelligence, dealing with east asia. she's now athe brookings institution. and frank jannuzi was a state department analyst and supported the u.s. delegation for talks tith north korea during the clinton administ. he's now president of the maureen and mike mansfield foundation. and we welcome both of you back to the "newsnur". frank jzi, i'm going to start with you. what is your overall assessment of what haened with the collapse today? >> well, on the plus side, the two leaders avoided wh i would call a catastrophic success. president trump did not agree to a deal which mig have inluded a partial limitation on north korea's nuclear program in exchange for widespread sanctions relief. i think that would have left th u.s. negotiation that was weak to accomplish on the plus side, the two parties narrowed some of theirff ences. we know north korea is prepared to take meaningful steps toward denuclearization in exchange for partial sanction

c.i.a. had nd the high confidence that putin not only intervened in the election up and have us start to doubt our democratic institutions but to help donald elected. so in the f.b.i., they had high confidence. the reason orknow the evidence. but they had high confidence and fire the ave this man head of the f.b.i. o, now, i suspect the mueller report will include some of the and that gave the f.b.i. others high confidence that russia had a favorite in the because and i think we're still spying on russia, that stuff can't be de classified yet. to be de ke it classified but after i feeling knowing something about, you or , how tears get released don't get released, that that will not be withheld because we don't want prettin to know how know for sure that he actually made the call. >> the difference, i would say, we haven't seen the evidence that fueller will present, we hope to see most of one thing we nt, have seen that we didn't see in umpteen the first months, is that trump tells us out l

director brennan on "meet the press" daily on monday and director brennan, former director of the c.i.asaid he was absolutely sure president trump would give paul manafort a pardon. he said behavior laz shohas sho to be the case. that's what he believes. noting what manafort's lawyer did outside, saying there was no collusion even after amy berman jackson said collusion had nothing to do with this case, specifically said it, and the special counsel was still looking into collusion, that that question hadn't been answered, i think it becomes pretty clear that the game plan for paul manafort right now is that they are appealing for a presidential pardon, that there is an audience of one that they are speaking to, and that is donald trump, please potentially pardon paul manafort. that seems to be what their strategy is going forward. obviously we're going to see how donald trump acts with this, but the other day sarah huckabee sanders refused to rule it out. they had a contentious relationship, during the campaign. they did not see eye to eye. donald trump would throw manafort under the bu

the next month, a declassified intelligence report from the f.b.i., the c.i.a., and the n.s.a.tes with high confidence that vladimir putrd personally oered a cyber and social med campaign to disrupt the recent u.s. presidential election. and it states that putin had a clear preference for donald trump. according to the report, putin, "aspired to help president-elect trump's election chances when possible by discrediting secretary clinton and publicly contrasting her unfavorably to him." in february of 2018 robert mueller's first indict against russian individuals drops. >> the indictment charges 13 russian nationals and three russian companies for committing nideral crimes while seeking to interfere in thed states politiepl system. >>ter: mueller's team lays out a sweeping case, directly acsing russian citizens an companies of a massive, coordinated disinformation campaign tsabotage the election. the defendants allegedly condted what they called "information warfare against the united states," th the stated goal of spreading distrust towards the candidates and the political sys

started long before robert mueller was appointed a as an fbi counter intelligence investigation based on c.i.atelligence from overseas and other places that the russians had interfered in the election and they had improper contacts with members of the trump campaign. and then the fbi became concerned that the president himself was compromised after he fired james comey and gave classified information allegedly to the russians in the oval office, and said that the firing of james comey had relieved pressure on him. so that's what got robert mueller appointed. rod rosenstein, who had supported the firing of comey, took a look and said, we have to appoint a special counsel to get to the bottom of this. and we appear to be reaching the end of the point where the special counsel is going to tell us what exactly he found. but the notion that he was appointed in some illegitimate way, that it was a democratic plot, it just isn't supported by the evidence as we know it, guys. >> danny, when this all happens, what's your -- what do you think -- how do you think it goes down? does this fight about how w

or c.i.a., any intelligence agency is no place for you to bring your political agenda. we all have political views. if you put that badge on and you accept that responsibility, and then you use that position to abuse your power, we all ought to call on it to be rooted out. i hope it is. if there were abuses of the fisa process, which is a very important court, has a very narrow focus to protect the national security of this country. if the fisa court was abused by people in positions of power because they wanted to carry out a political agenda, because they didn't like the results of the 2016 presidential leaks, that's not the place for it. -- election, that's not the place for it. the ballot box is where to carry it out. not wearing a badge and being a member of law enforcement in this country. i hope that's rooted out because we want to see the integrity of those institutions like the f.b.i. restored. i want the country to have full faith and confidence that the people working there are carrying out the national security interests of the country, not their own politic

your training at -- or time at the c.i.a. and at the state department, did you receive training on how classified information should be handled? sec. pompeo: yes, sir, i did. does everyone handling classified information at the trapgdepartment receive a course on how to handle classified information? sec. pompeo: i believe this is correct. >> does it cover desition nass level of classification? sec. pompeo: anyone who receives a clearance with access to information would receive training on the various levels and how they're to be handled. classification marker of t.s. indicate that it is top inret information contained that document? sec. pompeo: yes. it's an s, it would indicate a secret classification? sec. pompeo: correct. would its a c, indicate that it's a classified document? sec. pompeo: c typically means confidential. classificationf but, yes. >> ok. and you were taught these desiginations at the training you received as secretary of state? sec. pompeo: i know i went through that training as director of c.i.a. i don'

robert gates, former c.i.a. director and defense secretary for presidents george w. bush and barack obama, had this to say about biden in his book "duty: memory with as of a secretary of war." i think he's been wrong on every nearly foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades. i rarely, if ever, agree with barack obama, and i'm glad to see that our country's now back on the road to a strong foreign policy, but i will give president obama credit for wisely disregarding vice president biden's counsel on arguably the greatest achievement of president obama's presidency, his authorization in 2011 of the teams to erica's seal kill osama bin laden. as vice president biden recalled to a group of democrats in 2016, president obama asked for a final recommendation from his national security team and asked, joe, what do you think? his answer was, mr. president, my suggestion is don't go. many agree that president obama picked biden as his vice president in 2008 to quell concerns about his youth and lack of experience in foreign affairs. but in retrosp

. >> tucker: so that was the former c.i.a. director.ne of countless retired intel officials you see parading across your screen every night. all of them paid by the msnbc or cnn to tow the party line. all of them know better. they are lying. a habit many picked up years ago. members of congress did the same. pick one among a thousand examples this is tennessee steve cohen telling us most of the trump family is bound for prison. >> well, i think they are getting closer knowing that the truth is going to come out and that there was activities with the trump campaign and russia and releasing the hacks and guiding them to the states and localities where they came from. some of that was jared kushner's responsibilities. some of it was donald jr. i think you will probably see indictments of both of those people. >> tucker: that man is a sitting member of congress. he is wearing necktie. he is on television. people believed him. why would they? he is an authority figure in this country. and he was lying. so was senator richard blumenthal who h

belingens officials are going to place for order and there's going to be some cooperation with c.i.a. american officials. african american radicals in harlem are going to organize and disrupt the u.n. security council in february of 1961 and they're going to disrupt the security council when dozens of black americans including maya ang lieu, leroy jones, abbie lincoln, are going to be marching inside of the security council at the same time that add lay stevenson the u.n. representative from the united states t is speaking. 70 activists are going to take over the u.n. security council and this is going to make front page news in the "new york times" and throughout the world. the demonstration is incredibly important even though malcolm x does not specifically appear at the demonstration because the ation of islam disallows for overt political act vasteation. he is going to tell them that he agrees and that he wished we could be involved in this kind of activism. malcolm is going to increasingly chase at the idea that as a member of the nation of islam and political leader he cannot be

e c.i.a. aided rebels in the filled 50's. some of these operations we learned about in the 1970's because of the church committee ut it's still jaw dropping hi. these are still controversial today. the truth isizen hour delegated enormous power and resources to secret agency and let them carry out quite violent exercises in the name of national security. polier -- spoiler aheard, les -- he's not the only one to arrange this we have to understood why eisenhower felt those kinds of decisions and policies were in the national interest. historians have come along and criticized him for this. but he we need to understand how he viewed the world. well, ladies and gentlemen, these controversy are going to continue. no question. i hope they will continue. it's good for eisenhower's legacy that we debit it ask talk about it. but it seems like -- unlikely they're really going to mar his legacy. oh, no not another poll of harnse historians. this is a very good wasn't it rankedize hour or fifth greatest president right after washington,

accused me of being a c.i.a., m.i.-6 agent. so they're pretty active in of coming after me but i'm not scared. down.t backing and i'm continuing to fight for justice for sergei magnitsky. [applause] >> i might go through two or three more questions and if you questions out there, the blue question cards, my colleagues will pass them up and get to as many as we can. infamous 2016he trump tower meeting. up, afterwas brought the magnitsky act. beyond that, say what are the implications of that meeting and understand if you can or cannot say anything, but can you to anything with regards mueller and his investigation? bill: so just to recap, what june 9, 2016, was that a female lawyer from moscow named natalia vesselniskaya was the interest of the russian government to meet with donald trump jr., jared paul manafort to request that if donald trump is elected president, could they assist in having the magnitsky act repealed. that was the ask of the russian government. what we don't know about this meeting is whether there was -- int

be c.i.a." >> i don't think i have the authority to do that. i'm not sure i do. but i wouldn't do it. jared's a good -- i was never involved with his security. i know that he -- just from reading, i know that there was issues back and forth about security for numerous people actually, but i don't want to get involved in that stuff. >> the president had no involvement pertaining to my clearance or my husband's clearance. >> so no special treatment? >> no. >> i mean, ken dilanian, it's so funny watching the republicans on capitol hill act so shocked and stunned and so deeply saddened that michael cohen told a couple of lies. again, the president lies every day, lies repeatedly every day, lies about north korean dictators killing an american college student. he's reckless abroad and he's reckless at home. this is a really serious process and the recklessness and the lying by ivanka and donald trump show once given they are just extraordinarily reckless people in charge of some of the most sensitive secrets in the united states government. >> about a month abe nbc ne

our country, first in your class at west point, great colleague of ours, did an exceptional job as c.i.a. director and really a big admirer of your work as far as secretary of state. i do have some concerns i want to bring up. i have been working with chairman engel and other colleagues with regards to the bytyqi brothers, murdered 20 years ago in serbia and the chairman and i recently met in munich and asked the president about this. there really needs to be justice delivered and anything you and your team can do, we'd like to see justice in that case. i'm concerned about turkey's acquisition of s-400's and what that means especially with our upcoming transfer, potential transfer of f-35's. i'm greatly concerned with human rights violations we see around the world, but i also want to the touch on a number of other topics that i think are just going really well and one of the words that have been mentioned at this hearing was the term disengagement, and over the course of these last few years, isis has been nearly wiped off the map in iraq and syria. the caliphate is gone. thank you for

serial murders, they have accused me of murdering sergei magnitsky, they have accused me of being a c.i.a., m.i.6 agent. so they're pretty active in terms of coming after me but i'm not scared. i'm not backing down. and i'm continuing to fight for justice for sergei magnitsky. [applause] host: i might go through two or three more questions, and if you have questions out there, there are blue question cards, my colleagues will pass them up and we'll get to as many as we can. we mentioned the infamous 2016 trump tower meeting. your name was brought up, after the magnitsky act. what are the implications of that meeting? i understand if you can or cannot say anything, but can you say anything with regards to mueller and his investigation? bill: so, just to recap, what happened on june 9, 2016, was that a female lawyer from moscow named natalia vesselniskaya was dispatched in the interest of the russian government to meet with donald trump jr., jared questioner and paul manafort to isuest that if donald trump elected president, could they assist in heavily magnitsky act revealed? that was the

of state, a secretary of the army, two of us severed in congress, one of whom was a director of the c.i.a. and two state legislators, three judges come from our ranks and four deans and chance lors of niversities. 22-plus members of my classmates are presidents and c.e.o.'s from seff yep 11 to mercedes-benz and we have had those in our ranks make the ultimate sacrifice. more than anything, more than just the amazing location on the hudson river, more than the unparalleled history of the place, more than the grueling academics, what pushes me to serve is the knowledge of what my peers have accomplished. their hard work remipeds me never stop reading, growing and serving. they are my motivation and that is why i will never quite. rangers lead the way. courming never questions. 86 tth. go army, beat navy, i yield. mr. shimkus: i thank my colleague and i appreciate his service in uniform and we are happy to have you here. next, i would like to turn my attention to almost my neighbor on the north american continent, representative guthrie for as much time as he may consume. mr. guthrie: my mot

as a former c.i.a. officer i worked to identify threats to our country, our fellow americans and threats that would leave our nation vulnerable to attack, espionage, or foreign influence. as congress act this is week to restore transparency to our government and regain trust from the people we serve, we must take steps to prevent foreign inflution in our democratic process. i support efforts to push back against the very real threat of foreign financial influence. i know nefarious actors are out there. i know they are tireless in their commitment to target our foundational institutions including our voting process. the american people shouldn't have to worry about the ability of foreign governments or entities to influence our elections and our citizens but senseless loopholes in our campaign finance system have left our electoral process vulnerable to spend big foreign government, corporations and foreign nationals. these foreign entities should not have the ability to exert influence over the issues t

according to the 2017 intelligence community assessment produced by the c.i.a., n.s.a., and f.b.i., and an indictment issued by the attorney general in 2018, it is clear that russian actors conspired to interfere and influence u.s. political processes and the presidential election in 2016. this is assessment stated that russian president putin ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the u.s. presidential election. russia's goals were to undermine public faste in the u.s. democratic process. madam speaker, the russian government has been known to employ a system of corruption and illicit financial ties as a tool for consolidating its domestic political control and projecting power abroad to weaken not only the united states but other democratic countries as well. that is why i proudly co-sponsored h.r. 1404, the bill would require that within 180 days of enactment, the director of national intelligence in coordination with the secretary of treasury and the secretary of state shall submit a congressional report on the personal net worth and assets owned by russian president putin.

russian operations -- former c.i.a. russian operations chief.he hearing is russia, a former cia moscow station chief and former officials with the state and treasury departments testified at the hearing. >>> thank you, come to order. without objection the chair is in power to declare a

forceers with a group of taliban fighters who stage an uprising that kills 500 including a c.i.a.icer. in 2002 lindh is convicted for supporting the taliban and sentenced to 20 years in prison. at the time critics thought it was too lenient because he wasn't prosecuted for treason. not only is he advocating for global jihad. authorities say he has made pro-islamic state comments and continues to write and translate violent extremists texts. in 2016 the national terrorism center says he remains as radicalized in 2001 according to documents obtained by foreign policy magazine. because he refused to renounce islamic ideology they believe he is a security risk once released. pete hegseth who served in guantanamo bay had this to say. >> we captured him and put him in prison and he hold allegiance to al qaeda and isis. we are as foolish as we were on september 10th, 2001. if we can't put this guy away for life and try him for treason or execute him eventually we're welcoming more in the future from him. he will go back as a celebrity to our enemies. >> what exactly will he do when he ge

but as we have come to find out, that has been greatly loosened up by the d.o.j., c.i.a., n.s.a. and they pretty much go after anybody they want to. we found out -- i found out, hi not been aware of it until this week -- i had not been aware of it until this week, that clear back in 2012 the obama justice epartment made a motion to the fisa court to allow them to unmask information about american citizens if, under this new incredibly relaxed language, it might be of assistance to someone outside the scope that's supposed to be allowed to see this information, if it might assist them in assessing other information. well, it doesn't get much more vague than that. i know from having been on the judiciary committee for years that until the obama administration i had a lot of colleagues on the other side of the aisle that were extremely concerned with privacy issues and the government gathering evidence without probable cause. and the government violating the fourth and fifth amendments. somehow during those years i lost my colleagues on the other side that quit being as concerned ab

russian operations -- former c.i.a. russian operations chief. the hearing is russia, a former cia moscow station chief and former officials with the state and treasury departments testified at the hearing. >>> thank you, come to order. without objection the chair is in power to declare a recess at any time. today the house permanent select committee on intelligence will hold an open hearing to discuss how the kremlin uses financial leverage to -- financial leverage to influence foreign policy, and number two, the importance of counterintelligence operations and investigations as distinguished from criminal investigations, almost exactly two years ago james comey disclosed publicly for the first time in testimony before this committee that the fbi had initiated a counterintelligence investigation into russia's interference in the 2016 election. while that investigation would lead special counsel mueller to initiate a great many criminal proceedings resulting in numerous indictments and convictions, it began and has continued as a counterintellige