even though the c.i.a. dimension is a series of real black marks what eisenhower managed to do is come into office at 1953 at a moment of extraordinary fluid di and difficulty and explosiveness. the korean war, the indo china, the french vietnam war going on. there's a nasty conflict brewing over china and the u.s. over taiwan. china had gone communists, the nationalists set up in taiwan. that could explode at any moment. there was the berlin problem. the city of berlin -- how are we going to deal with that? american, soviets british and french were all in berlin claiming to have access but that was a flash point. eisenhower has to deal with all of these things in addition to the growing soviet threat because they're developing new missiles and technology all the time. so people have an idea that ike had it easy. the 50s was a relatively peaceful time. don't believe a word of it. it was a very dangerous era. and i believe that we don't give ike enough credit for doing the things that presidents have to do e

c.i.a.'erations directorate up until-- up to the top levels, everyone has been, you know, first ofll, believed that something occurred and has been very helpful. i think, though, in bome in the depa of state and certainly in the c.i.a., senior medical officials have been have been less than stellar in their reaction to this. there have to be reforms so that officers who are afflicted by this get proper medical careso we're not told, as i was, that i'm maki this , and that >> schifrin: i should note that there is an on-the-record stement that the c.i.a. se me." c.i.a.'s first priority has been and continues to be the welfare of all of our officers"" the state department also says it takes diplomats' health seriously. do you believe that the u.s. government has taken your health seriously? and going forward, are you going to get the medical treatment that you've asked for? >> so, the answer to your first question, no, they did not. i think with the cohort that w was-- th hit in both havana and

next, former c.i.a. director john brennan participating in a discussion with national security experts on threats facing the u.s. and priorities the incoming biden administration should focus on. the panel also ex-employers foreign policy and its intersection with national security. the center for strategic and international studies hosts the 50-minute conversation. >> good morning everybody in d.c., good evening to nerve korea, welcome. this week on the capital cable, global threat. the biden-harris transition and the foreign policy environment they'll inherit. tension, issues posed by dprk, china, and interpreting all the signs around the region. our guests this week, john brennan is perfectly positioned to address this critical and evolving set of issues an we are lucky to have him here today. he needs no introduction but let me go through it. former director of c.i.a., former director of -- former principal advisor assistant to the president for counterterrorism and homeland security in the white hou

advisor here at csis and you overlapped with john at c.i.a. ever see him in the gift shop? is a is a lad bar at the lad bar. is he aware your nickname there was sunesune. >> that was classified information, thanks a lot. mark: ok, let's get into it. mr. brennan, topic one, i'm going to come to you. threat picture and transition. global environment. in the context is your book title -- as your book title underscores, you spent much of your career focused on threats that the united states faces. o can you walk us through your picture, if you will of the threat environment that this incoming administration will face on day one and going forward for the first year or so as they set intool the administration? john: well, mark, i think the biden-harris administration is going to face many challenges and threats an rifpks -- and risks on day one and throughout the course of the administration. in addition to having to deal with a very, very challenging domestic environment in terms of hyperpartisanship, covid pandemic, as well as the economic disloca

in the c.i.a. will worked to keep our national security safe, thwarting terrorism across the globe and putting nuclear weapons proliferators out of business. part of his responsibilities in washington was to brief members of congress here on the hill on intelligence and national security issues which undoubtedly sparked his interest in politics. during his time in congress, will has been a leading member on o cyber security, artificial intelligence, immigration, and tech issues. he worked incredibly hard to ensure the department of homeland security is able to work efficiently and effectively, modernize our immigration system, and speak on the need to stay ahead of our adversaries in sishe security and technology. also a colleague of ours, tulsi gabbard, was born in america samoa. she was raised in honolulu, hawaii. a graduate of hawaii pacific university, tulsi was elected to the hawaii house of representatives at age 21, the youngest legislator ever elected in the state. and a year into her servi

sub headline did a communist spy know the congressman was about to assume oversight of the c.i.a.tee it goes on to say he was put on the intel committee and he was the senior democrat. even his local paper was saying wow, this is kind of a coup for a young congressman and you quote both mr. swalwell and the speaker need to explain who knew what and when about the chinese infiltration of his political network and why many intelligence committee colleagues were not told among other issues. there is a lot at work here when you talk about the timeline of eric swalwell's rise. >> it is really remarkable. one of the very few details the congressman has been willing to share about this relationship with the alleged chinese spy. he said the f.b.i. warned him about it a little more than six years ago. it looks like somewhere in the november to december 2014 time frame. as we know, the alleged spy helped him fundraising for the 2014 campaign. so presumably if he is telling the truth that he cut off ties with her it would be stimulate november, early december. weeks later, in january, nancy

this as a former c.i.a. official warns there are likely more of these women out there.me low mortgage rates just dropped even lower. veterans who refi now can save three thousand dollars a year. with newday's va streamline refi, there's no income verification, no appraisal and no out of pocket costs. one call can save you $3000 a year. $3000! that's a big deal. >> trace: we're awaiting the fda's final approval of pfizer vaccine. the head of the administration telling pfizer it will rapidly work to move it forward. health and human services secretary alex azar saying once it passes people may start getting it by monday or tuesday. >> china practices their own orwellian espionage on their citizens and they're mounting a full throttle espionage campaign here. if we don't come together as democrats and republicans we can't counter them very well. >> sandra: that warning from senior official dan hoffman last hour on the threat of chinese spies infiltrating our government. it comes as congressman eric swalwell faces more scrutiny day for his ties to a suspected chinese spy. g

what the former c.i.a. deputy chief of staff jeremy bass just said.atch. >> the russians, if they have learned nothing else over four years, they don't pay consequences when they attack and trump is on the watch. they attacked the 2016 election, they paid no price. trump welcomed it and i think hehe rewarded them for it. the russia contemplated attacks american troops in afghanistan. intelligence briefings about it. trump said nothing about it. again he said nothing about this. >> laura: congressman, he sounds absolutely delusional. i mean we have to check on him. rubber room time there. >> no kidding. molly is right. i'm not a fan of special counsels but you have to have one here. the predicate was not there to th did tot they president trump over the three and a half year period. james clapper told us when they leased the transcript he b said there was never evidence of collusion between trump and russia but we spent $40 million investigating him for three and a half years. so this is so ridiculous what we now hear from the left. but frankly, based

i have talked with the c.i.a.ts and i talk with the people who do a lot of the vetting when you are going to run for president and the other offices. i imagine you have run for president, too, by the time you get to the point where use are a re-elected sitting member of congress you have invested a bit. there was a healthy heads up of the meeting. what do you think of what might have gone on? how is it handled? >> i can't imagine. by the way, thank you for bringing up that i ran for president. we know how that turned out. >> harris: oh, stop. >> that's okay. we still love you. the number one thing you do as a candidate opposition research. but the first person you research is yourself. that is where you spend the most money. you find out everything that your opponents are going to find out about you because they will. you build a notebook and figure out what could be out there that could hurt you. my record, my opposition research on myself is only page and a half. nonsignificant things. i'm only kidding. we all h

next, former c.i.a. director john brennan participating in a discussion with national security experts on threats facing the u.s. and priorities the incoming biden administration should focus on. the panel also ex-employers foreign policy and its intersection with national security. the center for strategic and international studies hosts the 50-minute conversation. >> good morning everybody in d.c., good evening to nerve korea, welcome. this week on the capital cable, global threat. the biden-harris transition and

she spent most of her career before that at the c.i.a. charles kupchan was special assistant to the president on the national security council during the obama adminisation. he's now professor of international affairs at georgetown university and senior fellow at the council on foreign relations. his latest book is: "isolationism: a history of america's efforts to shield itself from the world." rebeccah heinrichs, senior fellow at the hudson institute. she also served on capitol hill on the house armed services committee staff. and sam vinograd has served in the bush and obama administration in several national security roles, including senior advisor to the national security adviso she's now a senior advisor at the univsity of delaware's biden institute. and we welcome all of you back thank you very mucjoining us. sam vinograd, i'm going to start with you with a pretty simple estion. what is the legacy of president iump and his foreign policy? >> judhink that president trump's foreign policy legacy is really defined by a historic level o

because i have had c.i.a. experts tell me it doesn't look like that. but the fact that this woman phang had the ability to do that and the trust of eric swalwell, what was the genesis of their relationship? trey gowdy wasn't gentle with how they put it but we want to know behind the scenes was there things she would know about him that could compromise him? and thereby, nancy pelosi and others would have to know. >> kennedy: they have to look for it, though. that is the biggest problem. emily, it seems like adam schiff and nancy pelosi are being incredibly dismissive of this whole thing. and as harris brings up, there are real national security implications here. maybe not just in this case but certainly here, elsewhere throw. though. if you get an intern that easily trained to look for information wherever possible imagine who else could be lurking. >> emily: that is exactly right. at what stage of success is this story in particular representative of? how many other success stories are out there in their line? he started as city council. he has had a

but these are internal c.i.a.-like assessments. and growth across all math subjects. so we hope to continue with those changes and continue progress in these areas. you can go to the next slide. we'll be wrapping up in just a moment. this is an area that we wanted to highlight as well that we've been working on and again going backs to the restorative practices that we discussed at the start. this is the suspension data over time. and some of you may remember at our last meeting, which was i was a part of as well, suspension data was something looked at very closely. the continuous five-year decline in suspensions. and one conscious [indiscernible] got down to 5%, we know there's still work to do there. we wanted to highlight this, because that when we focus in on something, pay attention to it, it improves. so the recommendations around math are taken very seriously. the recommendations around governance is taken very seriously. i know when we pay attention to those things, that we'll see improvement in them. no doubt about that. i want to close with the last slide.

we'll also be be talking to john brennan, former c.i.a.ign policy challenges for president biden and i was going to say he and donald trump have said some tough things to say about each other. we'll talk about that all on "fox news sunday". >> sandra: we'll be watching. great to see you this morning, chris. thank you. >> you bet. thank you. >> sandra: okay. tune in this sunday for our special coverage of the georgia senate runoff debate hosted by martha maccallum. that will begin 6:45 p.m. eastern time right here on the fox news channel. and be sure as well to tune in tomorrow 7:00 p.m. when president trump is set to rally georgia voters ahead of those crucial runoffs. we'll bring it to you live once it begins. busy weekend. >> trace: it is. fox news alert. questions surrounding california's democratic secretary of state and a firm linked to the joe biden campaign. is the swamp making a comeback? the top republican on the house oversight committee will tell us what he wants to know next. plus a democratic governor issues one of the most ex

i want to bring in dan hoffman, former c.i.a. station chief to talk about this.wing hunter biden still owns 10% stake in a chinese private equity firm. >> well it is certainly something the media is tracking and rightly so. reportedly there was some speculation that he was still offloading his stake but make no mistake, he resigned from that board in 2019 and thus far there hasn't been any reason given for why it is taking this long for him to extricate himself from that company. >> julie: here is what joe biden said regarding his family business relationship dealings back in october of 2019. no one in my family will have an office in the white house, will sit in on meetings as if they are a cabinet member, will in fact have any business relationship with anyone that relates to a foreign corporation or a foreign country. so now the question is begging to be asked could hunter's entanglements catch up with the president-elect? >> that statement by then candidate biden was certainly a not so thinly veiled criticism at this administration, the trump administration.

in engineering and technology and received advanced training from the c.i.a. and n.s.a. and d.h.s. in his sworn statement, and again, since it's a sworn statement it means the allegations are not unfounded, what's e is evidence of alleged. cards ote, u.s.b. memory were used to facilitate administrative backdoor access to disrupt polling operations and impact ballot counting across michigan, georgia, pennsylvania, arizona and wisconsin. he also said, after a detailed analysis of the "new york times'" data, his expert judgment, quote, the vote count distribution in pennsylvania, wisconsin, michigan, arizona and nevada and georgia are not based on normal system operation. instead, they are caused by fraudulent electronic manipulation of the targeted voting machines. unquote. another affidavit submitted by someone whose name and personal information was redacted, this person was an electronic intelligence analyst with extensive experience as a white-hat hacker used by some of the top election specialists in the world. the expert alleged that a search of edison research showed they had

dozen former heads of the most powerful intelligence entity in the world including john brennan and c.i.and contributing to really a crackdown not just on the "new york post" story that was advanced by facebook and twitter but also by other members of the media who criticized anyone who touched the story including fox. these leaders are trusted with a lot of different things. when they come on and said i have the highest clearance of all. i have had a biggest job in intelligence and say to the american people this is russian misinformation people who are going along with it aren't just sharing a story that's bad or wrong, but they're engaging in a traitorous act and one that should be shut down by big tech. they're doing something that is totally inappropriate and there should be consequences for them. they shouldn't be able to go out on book tours, to go to events, to speak in public and to go on all of these different networks without asking basic questions about why they made such a claim that has turned out to be totally false. >> sandra: interesting. we had jonathan turley on at the

work in the intelligence community, let's put him on house intel on that committee that overseas the c.i.ad. "the new york times" doesn't cover it. you say other news outlets out there, the evening news is watched by 25 million a night and they won't touch this story, either. it is like hunter biden 2.0 at this point in october where a story is being deemed thou shall not cover when it absolutely is a story. i have a feeling it's because there is a d behind eric swalwell's name in print instead of an r. if you recall know if that were the case we would be seeing coverage. >> sandra: "the new york times" with 7 million subscribers and considered the country's most influential publication doesn't see the swalwell story as a story at all it tells you about their moral compass and editorial decisions. i wonder if that changes. today at 3:00 p.m. the f.b.i. is set to brief lawmakers on this spy scandal and the threat that china poses to our national security to our country, joe. will they report on that? final thoughts. >> i have a feeling it will be like hunter biden. in october it wasn't a st

it was a c.i.a.-run operation which they would take airlines, scrub off the markings related to the u.s. air force to fly over laos, maybe to drop off supplies, maybe to do rescue missions. both with regard to american troops and our hmong allies. i have the honor to introduce together with congresswoman maloney the bipartisan air america act which will giver those people who risked their lives, many of them died, the same retirement benefits as other people who fought for the military in the vietnam war. but today i would just like to salute those veterans of air america, many of which are still alive. some in my district. and hope that we act quickly to give them the retirement benefits that they should have had many years ago. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from rhode island seek recognition? mr. cicilline: i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman from rhode island is recognized f

there was a c.i.a. super computer and program that were flipping votes throughout the country.son i will keep coming back to it. that's why it is so important to have a paper trail. that's why it is so important to have paper ballots. even if there was foreign interference of a malicious algorithm nature you can always go back to the receipts. you can check your math. georgia did that three times and the outcomes were consistent over and over and over again. >> which is why i brought that up. it should provide comfort with the paper backup. i have to talk about russian disinformation. the people peddling it are not on my side of the aisle. senior democrat leaders including peters were involved in creating a false intelligence product that they leaked to the media that accused senator grassley, the president pro-tem of the senate and myself of accepting and disseminating russian disinformation from a person. i never heard of him until they brought it up. senator peters introduced that false russian disinformation into our investigation record. 50 people associated with the intel

for more on this, a little more insight to what occurred we bring in the former c.i.a. news contributor dan hoffman. thank you for sparing a couple of minutes for us today on christmas day. just to start things off, i'm sure you have been watching throughout the morning to see the details unfold. your thoughts? what does the recording mean, what does the shots fired mean? your thoughts? >> a couple of the initial thoughts. first of all, the gunshots that reportedly occurred. everyone a couple of hour -- even a couple of hours before the explosion. then the recording that there was going to be an imminent bomb. both indicate that the perpetrator wanted to, wanted property damage but not necessarily to cause civilian casualties. again, we are early days. the forensics are ongoing. there is a strong effort now to find perpetrators. there are a lot of clues. there are witnesses on the very busy street who may have seen something. you have the vehicle itself. registration. i think there is a lot of the opportunities in the coming days. make no mistake it is important to find

colleagues to confront this threat with rity the simple principle that i learned from my time in the c.i.a. nice guys.h and tough with tough guys. learned another simple principle -- show up. i was willing to shown up to -- to places other places weren't. listen to what other people had across the ork aisles. people, by empowering not the government. i could not have done any of this without my staff. one, my team and i held a belief that no problem was too big. and no goal was too this mentality is how we ended up helping a high schooler who preventing her friends from distracted driving and it's how we spent a year strategy a national for a.i. despite these legislative uccesses, the thing i will remember most is helping names folks whose don't know battle the federal bureaucracy, making the difference in the lives of those is something i'll cherish forever. to all of my staff over the nancy pack, ally thank you for your late hours, thank you for your hard work, with meu for putting up and thank you for your dedication, not just to the congressional rd district of texas, but to the enti e

on foreign soil sided with russian president vladimir putin, a former head of the k.g.b., over the c.i.a., the f.b.i., the n.s.a., and all of our other intelligence organizations. the same president who spends the lion's share of almost every day criticizing everyone from the national football league to greta thonburg, who is 17 years old, can't bring himself to utter one word of criticism for vladimir putin. who instead of challenging putin, proposed creating a joint cyber unit between the united states and russia. that would be like asking a burglar to design the locks on the front door of your house, mr. president. the trump administration is not known for its consistency, but here is the one place they have been resolute and consistently weak. calling on dictators and abandoning our democratic allies. as a member of the intelligence committee, i can't say for sure today whether this weakness emboldened or enabled our adversary. we're going to have to study the facts. but the administration's fecklessness certainly hasn't helped. to understand how away the trump administration has lef

the former c.i.a. analyst to america's attention from beijing. noting in one speech, for the sake of short-term profits, american companies have succumbed to chinese influence at the expense of freedom. apologies for that. i lost that portion. expense and openness in the u.s. of the barr's served as a.g. under president george h.w. bush, but answered the seconds call. hi a nice life but i saw what was going on in an attempt to use the justice department as a political weapon and i was concerned about it. again, this is some of the opinions of the outgoing attorney general william barr. add yours to the mix during this time. up until 8:00. wayne in springfield, west virginia, independent line. caller: hey, pedro. william barr went in there just to limit the damage control for the f.b.i. and the department of justice. we just sat here four years watching the department of justice, members of the department of defense, the democratic party, mainstream media, and social media collude together to take down our president. william barr just ran in there

will is a former c.i.a. officer when he was elected to the house of representatives in 2014, and one texan aptly observed, he's been running a marathon like a sprint for seven years. i think will's last congressional race he won by 900 votes in this sprawling border district. his expertise is in cybersecurity as well as intelligence matters. he helped steer our efforts to bolster our national security, counterterrorism and strengthen our intelligence community and capacity. his district includes 800 miles of our southern border. he has been a strong advocate for our border communities. we worked on cross-border trade and ensuring communities along the border are safe and prosperous. we've also been working together on establishing a national museum of the american latino here in washington. and i hope we'll be able to push this authorization bill over the line here in the coming days. unlike some folks you meet in washington who seem to be all talk and who never seem to listen, will understands the importanc