or the mistake made on sending names of c.i.a. agents -- r it shows a lack of understanding of how long it takes to get a clearance appear train someone to be that careless. we don't know the security level clearances the doge folks -- i do think our committee has automatics been partisan, senator cotton is the care now and we are going to i believe jointly try to get the answers but i have huge security concerns when of 22-year-olds who may not appreciate the value of the information they have being so careless. next, the one individual who is at treasury was 25 and got fired for a wraoeul because of racist comments. this individual having visibility into america's checkbook it is no secret to say america or any other nation state sometimes does covert actions through another entity. you send out that information and you could destroy operations that is taken years to build. >> i think all of us who have been reporting on president trump for a long time know some republicans lawmakers will say certain things publicly and sometime

and the judge said speak up so we can hear you and c.i.a. and i was sitting in the front row and i think i blurted out, holy shit. [laughter] mark: carl? carl: i was in the newsroom that morning. i was the chief virginia reporter for the paper and i was doing a profile of someone running for governor and i saw this commotion at the city desk and i went up to find out what it was and was told there had been a break-in at democratic national headquarters and i thought to myself well, that's a hell of a lot better story than this thing i'm doing on the lieutenant governor of virginia. that can wait and i said to the city editor, i'm going to make a few calls and just around that time, woodward had phoned in the names of the burglars and i got the names and i'm began a series of -- and i was kind of known for being able to work phones pretty well and i got the names of the burglars, most of whom lived in miami and i started calling their wives down in therefor and piggens famish in english, i was able to find out, yeah, they work for the c.i.a.,

is c.i.a.eports were so bad -- i think it was one of the worst intelligence affairs in american history. ey said six weeks before the slah was forced to leave his country, and he was our darling for six prosecutes. there's no revolutionary or even preview revolutionary state in iran. everything is fine. they didn't know that he had cancer. our principal ally so how can a president make good decisions? president carter was the last holdout. secretary of state, his secretary of defense, his political guisers, his vice president mondale all said as a humanitarian jess culture to a former ally of 30 or 40 years, we have to let him in for cancer treatments and here's what president carter said. he was the last holdout. he said suppose if i let them in to the either, they'll try to capture our diplomats. what do i do then? there was public pressure by henry kissinger and david rock fell and john j. mccoy saying you have to do this. he could have gotten the same medical treatment in mexico. he could h

what would you do if you were still at the c.i.a.? >> listen, i spent the bulk of my c.i.a.es and stealing secrets to see the world through vladimir putin's eyes. i have no doubt the greatest value that director ratcliffe can provide to president trump and his team is to do just that. what i think is really important to emphasize is that putin is waging war on ukraine, the enemy is at the gates of europe and that risks casting a shadow over the $1 trillion of trade we do with europe. in the larger sense putin is also in great conflict with the united states. putin and when is cronies refer to the united states as russia's main enemy because we're the city on a hill with democracy and freedom and liberty. everything enshrined in our constitution and bill of rights, that's opposite to vladimir putin. if any of it existed in russia, he would be in jail or worse for him. and so what putin is trying to do is not only strike a deal where he could someday top el ukraine's government and future that remains his goal. but also to make the united states appear weak on the world stage

is c.i.a.eports were so bad -- i think it was one of the worst intelligence affairs in american history. they said six weeks before e slah was forced to leave his country, and he was our darling for six prosecutes. there's no revolutionary or even preview revolutionary state in iran. everything is fine. they didn't know that he had cancer. our principal ally so how can a president make good decisions? president carter was the last holdout. secretary of state, his secretary of defense, his political guisers, his vice president mondale all said as a humanitarian jess culture to a former ally of 30 or 40 years, we have to let him in for cancer treatments and here's what president carter said. he was the last holdout. he said suppose if i let them in to the either, they'll try to capture our diplomats. what do i do then? there was public pressure by henry kissinger and david rock fell and john j. mccoy saying you have to do this. he could have gotten the same medical treatment in mexico. he could h

and we're gutting the c.i.a. and the f.b.i. at a time when we have turmoil going on in the middle east. have we forgotten the lessons we learned from 9/11? that it's the c.i.a. and the f.b.i. that has kept us safe since 9/11. and we're gutting those two agencies? putting them in turmoil at a time when we're in the most dangerous. yeah. i think that he has failed in keeping us safe. that's my opinion. host: all right, robert. and this is a column from rex hub printed in "u.s.a. yesterday. he says if your goal in voting for president donald trump was own the libs and make fellow americans you'vded hate feel scared or miserable, then congratulations. the first month of theion' first everconvicted felon president has beea massive succ if your goal in voting forrump was to make your own life better perhaps by loweringhe cost of eggs and other groceries or entrusting a republican to arsly battle inflation, i have bad news for you. you are conned. along with mil of others and truirst month in office has demonstrated how littlee cares

also in mexico the administration is expanding the use of c.i.a. identify fentanyl labs and u.s. special forces arrived on monday to train an elite assault team of mexican marines. it opens a whole new tool box to stop drug smuggling treating these gangs, ms-13 and tren de aragua as well as sinaloa and five other cartels not as criminal organizations but national security threats. >> sinaloa cartel is designated as a narco terrorist organization equal to al qaeda or isis allowing the c.i.a. to initiate their own mitigation efforts against those organizations, against their transportation networks, could be against that your money laundering aspects. >> the order allows federal terrorism charges against anyone who enables cartel operations, smugglers, dealers, bankers adding years to any sentence. >> not only can they be prosecuted for drug charges but prosecuted for terrorism charges. >> right now traffickings across the united states and mexico what does it mean for distribution networks in the united states? will the u.s. government come after us

guiellermo, former c.i.a., was a fellow at the council. a quick observation to your first question, the information that we got. i would be more skeptical about the lessons the chinese are learning from the russians because in my experience the russians don't learn lessons well internally, their secrecy. it would be interesting to know how much they're sharing with the chinese especially given the lack of battlefield success they've had in many areas. conversely, on the u.s. side and the europeans, this is a start-up war and it's incredible to see how many small u.s. businesses are deeply ingrained in the ukrainian defense sector teaching and learning. it's an interesting topic and perhaps something you could loo. perhaps something that you can look at. my question is directed to ambassador blackwill. the one country that you didn't touch on yet that i would be curious about is the perspective from new delhi. this presents a relationship between china and russia and the conflict of the united states presents india with some interesting cha

phone call with vladimir putin said that he has asked secretary of state rubio, the director of the c.i.a., john ratcliffe, our national security advisor here at the white house, michael watt, and steve witkoff to lead the negotiations. as for general keith kellogg, he remains a critical part of this team and this effort. he's played a tremendous role in getting the negotiations to this point. and he's very much still part of the trump administration. reporter: the other subject is iran. i took note of president trump's comments in his super bowl interview with our colleague, bret baier, to the effect that he wants to do a deal with iran. however, that interview appeared after the supreme leader of iran, the ayatollah, had already ruled out any additional negotiations with the united states. so kind of a two-part question. a, what gives the president any confidence that iran will come to the table? and b, more fundamentally, why is the president interested in doing a deal with iran instead of doing everything he can, perhaps short of u.s. military intervention, to try and hasten the end o

today the house oversight committee holds a right sizing government hearing and c.i.a. there appears to be changes headed there. "wall street journal" reported the spy agency is freezing job hiring unless the applicants have the right background for the agency's new goals, undermining china. the following message was posted on friday before midnight all usaid higher personnel will be placed on administrative leave except designated personnel for mission critical functions. the vice president vance posting to x last night he thought what elon musk and doge would find is 250 billion in waste. that number is much higher. keep in mind, u.s. government debt is over $36 trillion. martha. >> martha: thank you very much. meanwhile president trump is taking the rein on ferrans policy. >> president trump: free from the huchl an rights council and ended all support for the u.n. relief and works agency and action to restore our maximum pressure policy on the iranian regime. as far as gaza is concerned we'll do what is necessary. we'll take over that piece and develop it. i see it b

government, not just the judiciary but the entire federal government, it's the i.r.s., it's the f.b.i., c.i.ather agencies, the e.p.a. has been weaponized. and all the people trump put in office are disrupters and i strongly support them and at the end of the day he'll get every one of his nominees affirmed. we'll work with them and jim jordan's committee will work with them and we want to get rid of these bureaucrats and allow president trump to pass his agenda the american people gave him a mandate to pass. katie: during the election, one of the big slogans from the left is we have to do this for the sake of democracy and it's becoming more and more apparent as the trump administration gets underway with president trump's direction, it was really about protecting the bureaucracy. so alina, the president has signed more executive orders than any president in history in his first month in office. today is the anniversary -- the monthivers a ry the new office took over. he signed these executive orders but has to have help from the federal government and capitol hill to implement them and now

c.i.a. expands secret drone flights over mexico. that's the headline "the new york times." program began during the biden administration and stepped up by president trump in hunting the location of fentanyl labs. another piece in the "washington post" that talks about this as well. what do you think this means when you know the president has classified the cartels as a foreign terrorist organization? >> i think it means we're bringing the battle to the cartels and i think a lot of what we're doing on the border by cutting these numbers down. you saw the numbers recently around 200 or so a day of people coming across. it aborder patrol and other law enforcement to focus on the cartels. they won't control our border anymore. we're taking control and we'll devote all of our resources both law enforcement and otherwise to attack them and prevent the fentanyl from coming over. as you know and you report on it we are looking at 100,000 people a year dying from fentanyl and other drugs. this needs to stop. >> bill: question is whether or not mexico helps in this. they may. we'll s

but i just want, germany, the c.i.a. of germany, the president was longtime, now forms his own party after he was rebuked from office. i guess maybe that's now. >> exi'll reiterate these in the end, but let's take all three questions. >> i want to ask you guys whether you think brussels has the tools it needs in order to protect the rule of law in its member states, the european union obviously article 2 talks about sals yet you see numbers, whether it's hungary or poland have been underlining the rule -- undermining the rule of law. what kinds of to also does the european union have, whether that's effective rule of law. rulings of the european court of justice. are those things enough for the european union to make that commitment to rule of law tangible? in its member state capitals? >> thanks very much. next question. >> my name is alexis. i'm an undergrad at the school for business. i wanted to touch upon that you made about the democratic parties coming together over the anti-extremist right and that conflicting wi

he also criticized former c.i.a. director gina haskell, and the former head of veterans affairs, dennis mcdonough. i remind our colleagues on the other side of the aisle that bill barnes had said about patel this. patel has virtually no experience that would qualify him to serve at the highest level of the world's preeminent law enforcement agent and i his appointment to the f.b.i., when patel was being considered for another job in the f.b.i., his appointment to me f.b.i. would only happen barr's words, over his dead body. then c.i.a. director gina haspel also threatened to resign to stop patel from being her deputy. these and many others who have criticized him over time are people who are served four country. i didn't always agree with some of them. some are democrats. some are republicans. but they have repeatedly said the same thing, that he should not be running the f.b.i. and we know what mr. patel wants to do with the people on that list because he already told us. on another podcast episode, he said the peop

how can you see the takeover of the f.b.i., the c.i.a.? what federal f.b.i. agent will see the president commit a crime and call it to anybody's attention knowing that the president can fire him and knowing that the supreme court has given him immunity, knowing that the president can take his livelihood? we are putting the president not above the law but beyond the law, beyond any means of redress for the injustices he perpetrates. that's not the country i want and that's not the country my republican friends across the aisle want. they are too timid to say it. i'm not. i want you to know also, mr. president, that you're doing them a disservice. here's why you are doing them a disservice, because you can do these dastardly things and drag them along, put anybody you want in charge of the department of defense, put anybody you want, just anybody, doesn't matter, that's your choice. you can do these things and they can support you, but here's where you harm them, america is going to wake up. some of them won't be coming back to congress. you don't worry about g

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unbeyond brennan's leadership, the c.i.a.sed its power to spy on congress, dodged oversight and lied about doing it until he was caught and yet never has been held responsible. under biden, the f.b.i. abused its power for political reasons to try to surveil catholics who attend traditional latin mass, naming them as quote, unquote, radical traditionalist catholics. personally, just 24 hours after i criticized kamala harris and her nomination, i was placed on a secret domestic terror watch list called quiet skies. sadly, there are more examples. the bottom line is this, this must end. president trump's re-election is a clear mandate from the american people to break this cycle of failure and weaponization and politicization of the intelligence community and begin to restore trust of those who have been charged with the critical task of securing our nation. if confirmed as d.n.i., i will do my very best to fulfill this mandate and bring leadership to the intelligence community with the laserlike focus on our essential mission,

agents and c.i.a. personnel, you're taking the cops off the beat who are tracking the drug traffickers, who are trying to break up the fentanyl cartels. so you're making us less safe and you're heaping a lot of cost on families that just don't need this chaos. third, you have this sneaky and chaotic halt to the know of health care dollars to back home. medical research, n.i.h. and medicaid, we know from all of the reports is on your chopping block. medicaid is the backbone to providing health care and substance abuse treatment for people all across america. and you have that in your sights too and you say, so, tell me whose record doesn't match their rhetoric and i would say it's the house republicans. no one has the legal authority to turn treasury payments into means of political retribution. no one in the executive branch has the authority to cancel or ignore congressional appropriations. that's a basic constitutional precept. why do republicans serve in why do republicans serve in congress if they

and we're gutting the c.i.a. and the f.b.i. at a time when we have turmoil going on in the middle east. have we forgotten the lessons we learned from 9/11? that it's the c.i.a. and the f.b.i. that has kept us safe since 9/11. and we're gutting those two agencies? putting them in turmoil at a time when we're in the most dangerous. yeah. i think that he has failed in keeping us safe. that's my opinion. host: all right, robert. and this is a column from rex hub printed in .s. today" yesterday. he says if your go i voting to own the libs and make fellow americans've decided to hate feel scare or miserable, then congratulations. the first of the nation's first everconvicted felon president ha been a massive ccess. if your goal in voting for trump was to make your life better perhaps by lowering the cost of eggs and other groceries or entrusting a republican to fearsly battle inflation, i have bad news for you. you a conned. along withillions of others andrump's first month in office has demonstrated how little he cares about you or

government, not just the judiciary but the entire federal government, it's the i.r.s., it's the f.b.i., c.i.a agencies, the e.p.a. has been weaponized. and all the people trump put in office are disrupters and i strongly support them and at the end of the day he'll get every one of his nominees affirmed. we'll work with them and jim jordan's committee will work with them and we want to get rid of these bureaucrats and allow president trump to pass his agenda the american people gave him a mandate to pass. katie: during the election, one of the big slogans from the left is we have to do this for the sake of democracy and it's becoming more and more apparent as the trump administration gets underway with president trump's direction, it was really about protecting the bureaucracy. so alina, the president has signed more executive orders than any president in history in his first month in office. today is the anniversary -- the monthivers a ry the new office took over. he signed these executive orders but has to have help from the federal government and capitol hill to implement them and now you'