members of trump's circle are now advising him to consider the alternate version of the central intelligence agency a privatized version of the central intelligence agency to counter.

circle are now advising him to consider the alternate version of the social intelligence agency a privatized version of the central intelligence agency to counter the actions of white clinton supporters or deep state members in the cia that are going against him but you know what every president has had to deal since there was a deep state or an intelligence community and that they started putting and you know barriers between each of these so that there was checks and balances in the president just didn't use everything as as his own up until this point his own sort of candy store it's it's almost as if they have no concept of what's actually going on in their departments when you're literally sitting there having an entire administration go its name the they're being mean to the president not pushing an agenda guess what that's literally not what they're supposed to do they are supposed to push back on things that you do and make sure that they're covered they aren't supposed to just be there as a as a candy store for you to go in and be like here just through all these and assassinate these people and do this b

historians discuss recently declassified cold war documents on the soviet navy, co-hosted by the central intelligence agencyonal museum of the u.s. navy, and the naval historical foundation, the hour-long event was titled "red navy revealed: soviet navy intelligence and analysis during the cold war. " >> well, good morning, everyone. thanks for coming out to the national press club. the world's oldest and largest organization of professional journalists. my name is kevin wensing. i'm a retired u.s. navy captain, member of the headliner committee here at the national press club. on behalf of jeff

in 2011, the central intelligence agency's information management services declassified over 200 documents regarding intelligence on the soviet union. that the cia provided the reagan administration. included in the release were cia video briefings created by the director of intelligence for policy makers. >> the people don't have power in your country. what you have a crime, sadism, unemployment, drug addiction. i don't think you're young people do anything but harm to their country. >> beat it was one of an unprecedented hits. [speaking in a foreign language] ♪ ♪ >> translator: the americans are preparing for war. we don't want war, we are preparing for self-defense. america tries to supply other countries with more and more armaments. what do they need all those weapons for? ♪ ♪ [speaking in a foreign language] >> translator: our tv can always be trusted. i would never trust american tv. all those channel and different programs. >> in recent years the soviet media has said much about the american way of life and its portrait of america is a dark one. it is designed to convince the sovie

celia mansfield from the central intelligence agency, historical programs coordinator. welcome. norman pullmar, naval and intelligence historian and a wealth of knowledge about all things navy and marine corp. rear admiral thomas brooks, u.s. navy, retired former director of naval intelligence. welcome aboard. and eugene sullivan, retired cia senior officer. everyone, thank you very much for being here today. david -- sorry we'll start with celia. tell us about the report and the documents that are going to be released. then we'll go q&a after everybody has a chance to say a couple of words. when you stand up, raise your hand, identify your name and your media source or who you're with and make it a really precise question if you could. thank you very much. >> good morning and welcome. i have some remarks that i've already prepared. so just in the way of a reminder later on today from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., we have a symposium at the naval yard. and that will be a two hour session in which we'll give a little bit more detail on the documents. i want to first thank our navy colle

celia mansfield from the central intelligence agency, historical programs coordinator. welcome. norman pullmar, naval and intelligence historian and a wealth of knowledge about all things navy and marine corp. rear admiral thomas brooks, u.s. navy, retired former director of naval intelligence. welcome aboard. and eugene sullivan, retired cia senior officer. everyone, thank you very much for being here today. david -- sorry we'll start with celia. tell us about the report and the documents that are going to be released. then we'll go q&a after everybody has a chance to say a couple of words. when you stand up, raise your hand, identify your name and your media source or who you're with and make it a really precise question if you could. thank you very much. >> good morning and welcome. i have some remarks that i've already prepared. so just in the way of a reminder later on today from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., we have a symposium at the naval yard. and that will be a two-hour session in which we'll give a little bit more detail on the documents. i want to first thank our navy colle

in 2011, the central intelligence agency's information management services declassified over 200 documents regarding intelligence on the soviet union. that the cia provided the reagan administration. included in the release were cia video briefings created by the director of intelligence for policy makers.

in 2011, the central intelligence agency information management services deal classified over

in 2011, the central intelligence agency's information management services declassified over 200 documents regarding intelligence on the soviet union. that the cia provided the reagan administration. included in the release were cia video briefings created by the director of intelligence for policymakers. >> the people don't have power in your country. what you have is crime, sadism, unemployment, drug addiction. i don't think you're young people do anything but harm to their country. ♪ >> "beat it" was one of an unprecedented half dozen hits. [ speaking in foreign language ] ♪ beat it, beat it ♪ ♪ no one wants to be defeated

mansfield from the central intelligence agency. welcome. norman polmar. naval intelligence historian. and wealth of knowledge about all things navy and marine core. thomas brooks. u.s. navy. retired former director of naval intelligence. and sullivan, retired cia senior officer. everyone thank you very much for being here today. david i'd like to kick it off -- >> actually. and tell us about the report and the documents that will be released. and a question and answer after everybody says a couple words. stand up and raise your hand. identify your name and media source. and make did a really precise question if you could. >> good morning and welcome. i have remarks that i have already prepared. so just in the way of reminder later on today from 4 to 6:00 p.m. we have a symposium at the naval yard. and that will be a two hour session. in which we'll gif a little bit more detail on the documents. i want to first thank our navy colleagues and panelist. it's been wonderful working with everyone. and it's been a real learning experience for myself. let me start

co-hosted by the central intelligence agency, the national museum of the u.s. navy and the naval historical foundation. the hour-long event was titled "red navy revealed, soviet navy intelligence and analysis during the cold war." >>> all right. well, good morning, everyone. thanks for coming out to the national press club. the world's oldest and largest organization of professional journalists. my name is kevin wency, on behalf the jetblue and directors of the press club, i want to welcome you and our audience on c-span and other media. thank you very much. we have a special program for you today. first, i wanted to introduce claire sassen from the naval historic foundation claire's the executive director. >> thank you, kevin. can you hear me? i know you want to hear from everyone else on the panel, not me. i'll only take a minute of your time. we are delighted to work with the cia to bring you this, we think, exciting briefing this morning. also, i want to thank kevin and the national press club for hosting us this morning. for those of you that don't know th

passing of sweeping tax legislation and looming changes at the department of state and central intelligence agency. i'm joined to talk about these stories with steve core knacky, national correspondent for nbc news, hope sack who covers the navy and marine corps. for military.com and politico's jake sherman. steve, i want to start with you if i could. i really hoped to spend most of the morning how much ohio state has to beat wisconsin but now we have to talk about mike plain. when he pled guilty i thought he's been cooperating. who were they shooting at? who is the ultimate target of the mueller investigation is right now? >> it's interesting because it looks like this guilty plea has to deal with lying with the fbi about contacts with the russians after election day, basically in the transition period. so much of the conversation has been this idea of collusion, what if anything was taking place during the campaign. it looks from the initial things that are being pieced together here we're looking at what happened after the election. it raises it seems to me, a potential different question. not

circle are now advising him to consider the alternate version of the social intelligence agency a privatized version of the central intelligence agency to counter the actions of white clinton supporters or deep state members in the cia that are going against him. you know what every president has had to deal since there was a deep state or an intelligence community and that they started putting and you know barriers between each of these so that there was checks and balances and the president just didn't use everything as as his own up until this point his own sort of candy store it's it's almost as if they have no concept of what's actually going on in their departments when you're literally sitting there having an entire administration go its name that they're being mean to the president not pushing an agenda guess what that's literally not what they're supposed to do they are supposed to push back on things that you do and make sure that they're covered they aren't supposed to just be there as a as a candy store for you to go in and be like here just do all these and assassinate these people and do this but wit

skeptical eye upon its our good friends at the central intelligence agency from illegal assassinations to funding black operations through drug running to staging the overthrow of governments not aligned with the us business and political injured since its inception under president truman back in one nine hundred forty seven the cia despite many aboveboard legitimate dry arms has also been at the heart of many of the dark as to covert stains on the soul of the united states in fact just last year in two thousand and sixteen m b c news wall street journal poll found that just thirty three percent of u.s. adults have a great deal of confidence in the cia and now according to journalist matthew cole in germany scale of the intercept some high profile trump team advisors including our good buddy erik prince the dettori a sponsor of the blackwater mercenary group are apparently pitching the administration on a new globalized privatized version of the cia to circumvent official u.s. intelligence agencies answering only to the white house and cia director mike pump a oh it's not quite this ap

has been an explosion that has hit an area of kabul, near the location of afg hanistan‘s central intelligence agencyere has been no word on the cause of the blast which occurred close to the entrance of the national security complex. an explosion in couple and we will bring you more as we get it —— in kabul. pope francis has urged the world's roman catholics not to ignore the plight of migrants who have been forced to flee because of violence. at christmas eve mass in saint peter's basilica, the pontiff drew comparisons with the biblical story of mary and joseph, who found no place to stay in bethlehem when mary was about to give birth tojesus. pope francis said respect for migrants was an integral part of christianity. virginia langeberg reports. in vatican city, the faithful began gathering long before midnight in st peter's square. beneath a giant christmas tree, a scene to reflect the birth of jesus, while inside the basilica began the annual ceremony, steeped in catholic tradition. this, the fifth christmas eve mass to be held by pope francis. with 1.2 billion roman catholics followers around t

republican congressman will hurd on the texas house committee also a former member of the central intelligence agency. what is happening right now as they are watching these videos and realizing we might have a shot to see regime change inside iran? i think everybody is watching what the iranian people are doing in trying to show support for the iranian people. this is unheard of in the number of protests happening around the country is unlike what we saw in 2009. what we've seen with our friends trying to encourage our british friends, our french friends come and german friends to follow the president's lead in encouraging show support for the iranian people. leland: it is kind of stunning that you have what you would really team in any other way a democratic revolution going on inside iran are the bricks have been silent, german pilot, possibly dare i say because they are more interested in doing business with tehran in supporting the democratic movement. a lot of folks on twitter are contrasting president trump's reaction to this revolution versus president obama's reaction to thousand nine. the p

. >>> we're digging deeper into a remarkable claim by the head of the central intelligence agency. president trump's tweets sometimes have helped u.s. intelligence. let's get right to our brian today. brian, what are you finding out? >> wolf, it's a hot topic tonight among former spies and current ties. from criticizing his own military justice system and the free press, president trump's tweets have garnered a lot of attention. but tonight there's a debate inside the intelligence community over whether those tweets are helping or hurting national security. november 11th, seemingly unable to let a putdown from north korea's dictator go unanswered, president trump tweets, why would kim jong-un insult me by calling me old when i would never call him hottshort and fa? kim's regime responds, calling trump, a, quote, hideous criminal. the cia director asked if his boss' tweets make his job harder has a surprising answer. the president's tweets, mike pompeo believes, have sometimes helped u.s. intelligence. >> our adversaries responded to those tweets in ways that were helpful to us, to

national tv and this has become so all-consuming that you're asking the former head of the central intelligence agencys me is my lawyers at nsa and cia used to remind me that when you own the facts, you argue the facts. when you don't own the facts, you argue the law. and what we've seen since mike flynn's guilty plea last friday is now the administration is trying to argue the law rather than argue the facts. to me, that's very revealing as to what's happening behind the screen there. >> i'll make three quick points. one, that was a good duck of my question, by the way, by way of story, which is always good. you wrapped me into it. two, you're right, it does show how far we've come. the initial pushback is the president is not under investigation. comey said it. we don't care what mueller is doing. and we have seen some creep in that as the circumstances have changed. we also have to make the distinction between criminal conduct and what would be the subject matter for impeachment. they're different standards. if politicians take this up, it's different. they may say obstruction of swrus but high cri

that disgraceful speech in front of 117 stars, each symbolizing a fallen officer over the central intelligence agency at langley, virginia. >> daniel day, john kelly took over from reince priebus who clearly had won the award for worst white house chief of staff of all time. it seems like john kelly may be coming in in second place there so far because nothing has changed in the white house that john kelly was supposed to change. it is still leaking. it seems to be leaking even more than it was under reince priebus. the chaos continues. nothing seems to have changed in the way it operates. >> well, he has changed the personnel. he helped get rid of steve bannon, sebastian gorka. i think it's kind of like trying to bring in a consultant to fix santa's workshop by getting rid of troublesome elves you. still have president donald trump and there is no changing him there has been no sign that kelly has brought discipline to the man at the top no matter what he has done to make the internal operation more efficient. i think he said something very interesting in his last appearance in the briefing roof roo

can think from the intelligence community standpoint being in langley, virginia in the central intelligence agency, that was something we were looking at concerning drug operations, talking about organized crime, talking about intelligence. the ability to chase and follow the dollars, and to follow the manipulation. the idea that mueller is looking at deutsche bank is very smart, because of the connections and where they come from, who is tied to them, and who may be manipulating them. that's something the president fought back on hard. i expect he's going to continue to push back on. so yeah, there's a lot to talk about, that's a big one and mueller will be on it for some time. >> there's one, twos, threes, you can sometime construe them in different ways. money trails are tough to misconstrue. >> let's go back to watergate. it was the money that the burglars had, in dollar bills, that was traced right to nixon's committee to re-elect. and that began the whole process of pointing the finger at the president of the united states. so, yes, the money trail is critical. i think the thing for us to un

indigo and freya all passed the certification test to become bomb-sniffing canines for the central intelligence agency. freya enjoying her graduation gift, was honored with the class' top dog award for earning 298.68 out of a possible 300 points on her test. congratulations to all of them. but why are there no bomb-sniffing cats? i wonder. >> i was thinking about the test scores. that's better than my s.a.t. >> straight a dog. top dog. >> outdid that. >> no bomb-sniffing cats. >> he is the cat lover. >>> coming up on "gma," a widely watched key involving a key figure in "the makeup of a confident woman" -- "making a murderer" show. give joy. get joy! this weekend at kohl's. and take an extra 25% off! give joy with jammies for the family or a keurig! and for a limited time only yes2you members earn double points! give joy! get joy this weekend at kohl's. ♪ ♪ i can do more to lower my a1c. because my body can still make its own insulin. and i take trulicity once a week to activate my body to release it, like it's supposed to. trulicity is not insulin. it comes in a once-weekly, truly easy-to-use pen. th

all passed the certification test to become bomb-sniffing canines for the central intelligence agency. freya, you see there, enjoying her graduation gift, was honored with the class' top dog award for earning 298.68 out of a possible 300 points on her test. congratulations to all of them. but why are there no bomb-sniffing cats? i wonder. >> i was just thinking about the test scores. i was like, that's better than my s.a.t. her percentages. >> straight "a" dog. top dog. >> the dog outdid you. >> yeah. >> make sure dan can answer that. >> no bomb-sniffing cats. >> he is the cat lover. >>> coming up on "gma," a widely watched involving a key figure in the "making a murderer" series. how afecks brendan dassey and what his next steps could be. we'll right back on a saturday morning. >>> "good morning america" is brought to you by cosequin joint health supments available at veterinarians and pet aisles nationwide. give joy. get joy! this weekend at kohl's. and take an extra 25% off! give joy with jammies for the family a cuddl dud's throw pillow or a keurig! and for a limited time only yes

graham is not convinced he presses on he wants proof the agency particularly the cia the central intelligence agency was very reluctant and said we don't have time to do this i said we don't have time to know everything we need to know before we commit u.s. troops to combat tenet goes back to the white house and he says. it looks like the jig is up i will go have to do it estimate and the white house says ok mr tenet two things number one you have to do it in one and a half weeks usually an estimate takes three or four months and number two it's got to come out exactly as vice president dick cheney said it was. tenet will once again due to the president's orders. bob kerrey is a u.s. senator and former navy seal. well i think it's a fair accusation to say that both president bush and vice president cheney put pressure on the intelligence community to reach a conclusion that they had already reached vice president cheney at one time went down and sat in cia did sat down at the in the chair next to the analysts looking at the data saying what do you have on weapons of mass destruction will it kind of

president putin extended his thanks and congratulations to central intelligence agency director mike pompeo and the cia." so, this sort of represents an attempt at a reset. i'd say the relationship between the u.s. and russia is at its lowest point in some decades, given russia's annexation of crimea, and of course, its interference in the 2016 presidential election. and as you point out, this is, what, the second time in four days that president trump and vladimir putin have spoken on the phone? the last time, apparently, president trump thanked vladimir putin for congratulating him on the success of the u.s. stock market. >> so, as geoff mentioned, we just literally got three out from the white house a minute or less. our source initially was the kremlin, who released the readout of their phone call with president trump. why would putin be publicizing this? >> because, i mean, this is obviously directed towards our public and towards the president. you know, again, i think this is an attempt at a reset. it's a kind of let's put all of this behind us, you know, message that they hav

will talk about the history of government surveillance and the central question of what to think about today is can intelligence agencies operate in a democratic society and be successful in protecting the government and its citizens while also upholding those same citizens rights, especially the right to dissent. our liberty and security compatible? foroubt there is a need intelligence communities to operate.

will talk about the history of government surveillance and the central question of what to think about today is can intelligence agencies operate in a democratic society and be successful in protecting the government and its citizens while also upholding those same citizens rights, especially the right to dissent. our liberty and security compatible? foroubt there is a need intelligence communities to operate. to assess a foreign domestic threats are real. they come from across the local spectrum. for over a century in addition to taking action against real threats to the lives of american citizens, bureaus and agencies within the united states government has surveilled of those who have expressed what the cato institute describes as "strong local views that run counter to the prevailing political paradigm. this challenges the notion often expressed by those in support surveillance state of some sort that if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear. i want to come back to that later on. maybe you really here to that view, maybe you're on the fence about it. fine, we will have an opportunity to discuss that lat

intelligence agencies described the russian hack a central part of their interference. there were two hacker groups, one was fancy bear and one was cozy bear. this department at the fsb, information security department was cozy bear at the fsb. and that fsb department, which the u.s. intelligence agency says is responsible for part of the hack against the democratic party last year. the cyber unit of the fsb. they held a regularly scheduled meeting for the high-levelled staff this week last year, december 5th in moscow and there was an unusual interruption of that meeting in the middle of that meeting. security officers reportedly rushed in. they seized the deputy chief of that department. they threw a bag over his head, grabbed him under the arms and dragged him out of the room and he hasn't been seen since. that was a year ago. deputy chief arrested that day. we later learned that his deputy was also arrested. also arrested was a senior guy from kaspersky labs. the fsb colonel was the kaspersky's contact at the fsb. all three of them were taken into custody. "the new

the internal security of the internal intelligence agency remains intact and you have to say that the various security agencies in the federal states in the central states and so on there coordination their cooperation was disastrous in the situation didn't know this person they followed him he was being observed and still he was able to commit this attack it's really quite inconceivable that it could have happened like that have been two inquiries already on the parliamentary level at the state level and i think it's very likely that in the central parliament there will also be some sort of inquiry on this brought thanks for that. u.s. president donald trump has laid out his foreign policy strategy in a speech that outlined a shift from past administrations his focus on protecting american interests first mirrors washington's changing role in the world the plan focuses on containing china and russia as well as dealing with threats from iran and north korea. in a wide ranging speech donald trump unveiled his new national security strategy let me begin once more he used the blunt language that his supporters love and his detractors love. with ever

the internal security of the internal intelligence agency remains intact and you have to say that the various security agencies in the federal states in the central states and so on there coordination their cooperation was disastrous in this situation didn't know this person they followed him he was being observed and still he was able to commit this attack it's really quite inconceivable that it could have happened like that have been two inquiries already on the parliamentary level at the state level and i think it's very likely that in the central parliament there will also be some sort of inquiry on this. thanks for that. and we'll have much more on the story throughout the day you can also find out more by going to our website w dot com now for some of the other stories making the news at this hour u.s. investigators say a passenger train that derailed onto a busy highway was traveling nearly three times the speed limit at least three people were killed dozens were injured when the amtrak train left the tracks it was the inaugural run of a new route linking the cities of seattle important. south africa's governing african national congress h

however, former defense intelligence agency director, former national security adviser of the president of the united states is no mere coffee boy. he was central to the campaign and central to the transition. simply put, part of the tight inner circle. a big fish. and now for robert mueller, a big catch. a big piece in this puzzle, as well. with the information contained in michael flynn's plea, a window opens into contact with russia during the transition, possibly illegal attempts to conduct foreign policy, and then lying about it during his brief tenure as national security adviser. today's news sheds light on something sally yates said to me about the trip she made to the white house on the 26th of january to warn that general flynn lied about at least one russian contact and was therefore vulnerable to blackmail by the russians. when were you first made aware that general flynn was lying about his interactions with the russian ambassador? >> first, let me say, and i know this may seen artificial, i can't talk about what general flynn's underlying conduct was, because that's based on classified information. >> can you say when you were mad

the internal security of the internal intelligence agency remains intact and you have to say that the various security agencies in the federal state and the central states and so on there coordination their cooperation was disastrous in this situation didn't know this person they followed him he was being observed and still he was able to commit this attack it's really quite inconceivable that it could have happened like that have been two inquiries already on the parliamentary level at the state level and i think it's very likely that in the central parliament there will also be some sort of inquiry on this front thanks very much we'll be looking into this story later in the show we'll be talking to security expert we will of course be following the special memorial as well later today. now for a look at some of the other stories making the news at this hour to south africa where the governing african national congress has elected a new leader a deputy president cyril ramaphosa defeated president jacob zuma ex-wife in a closely fought race now that puts him a big step closer to south africa's top job all of the n c's last three leaders have gone

intelligence agency. i did that are almost five years . i was out for a couple of months and bob gaetz who was then secretary of defense, and the director of central intelligence when i was director, ask me to come back and be the under secretary of the face -- defense for intelligence, which oversees all of the intelligence and dod. the deal is only 19 months, but he got held over and asked me to stay. it turned into three and a half years. i thought i was done. i was drag and one more time , and irving as the dni did that for six and a half years. i stopped on january 20 and i can tell you it's a great time to be a former. [laughter] i went to vietnam and -- that was my war. it did two tours there. 1965 and 1966. i don't know how many of you have seen some of the series, i think it is on pbs, i can burns on vietnam. it is very well done. era,g lived through that both the war itself and the aftermath of it, which was a traumatic time for this country, i really resonate with that series. not only theptured facts, but the atmosphere of it as well. for me personally, it was the worst year of my life, both personally and professionally. i hated the w