the other member of the missile team putting the cia analyst, okay with the cia.and we don't know this until recently, on april 29th he was fighting with the cia. he was in north carolina, and on paper he does, interviewing one of the witnesses in his book, the story of witness number 73. some of you saw this, i will play the story a little bit. in 2009 i got a call and she goes -- this is witness 73, you know who i am, yes i do. here is the story. the fbi writes 302, here is what the fbi witness summary from july 20, 1996, says about their interview with witness number 73. it is not a real name, they are talking to sandy who tells them she is on the beach and she is -- has an interest in aviation and a travel professional, tracking flight 800 across the sky, out of jfk and she was right, and you see this object off of the horizon and a smoky contrail comes up out and over, closed outside the right wing, another explosion and the nose of the plane came off and stalls and falls out of the sky, breaks into flames in a fireball. three days after the crash sandy told

in the last two years with a mother lode of new information with the cia. to raise excellent questions to involve itself we also have interesting videos with those whistle-blowers so the state of the knowledge is better than 20 years ago. and those who came here to speak of former eastern airlines pilot slow they deserve that credit for digging up the information that i will share. and from those aviation industry many of them were for or at the investigation so here is what we know. according to the air-traffic controller in that he thanked me for writing his starkly accurately. working as the air traffic controller you hear that from a lot of people so at primary radar return to intersecting twa 800. and those to be reciprocate it came out of the control centers that something happened but he comes over to say have been seen anything like this before? he said yes when i was in the navy. something that was not known to him. and then once to be viewed the tape and then say it is gone. is a violation of all protocol. now the only person who has spoken about

phil mudd, you worked in the cia. i'm very curious what you think the opinion will be among cia employees, agents, officials around the world, of this change. what do they think when someone new comes in, someone like congressman pompeo who was an elected official? >> boy, that is an insular skeptical organization. i think he will have a chance there. i think they will give him a chance but you should think of this as two dogs sniffing each other on the street when they meet. when he walks in the office they will have a couple of key questions. >> love that imagery. >> you like that? i'm telling you, that's a tough place to get into. let me give you the key question that will come up and let me use an example, the iran nuclear deal. pompeo was known as a republican hammer on the hill. he's got a brilliant reputation in terms of his resume. but he was highly partisan. when you shift over to the cia, your responsibility is not to have a partisan view on the iranian nuclear deal. it's to represent the facts that cia spie

cia like fbi and others do their job, march on.o will come in and underneath him is the deputy. the deputy tends to come in and be promoted from within the ranks. you have somebody underneath pompeo that will have extensive experience working. perhaps an operations, perhaps in the intelligence side, the intelligence director within the organization, and then you've got the various service line division leaders and leaders all well steeped in the operation's aspects. but the person at the top, the cia director, you know, his job is to liaise primarily between that organization and his superiors. his superiors in this case, d.n.i., important pick coming forward and obviously the white house. >> mike baker, we'll have you back, because we're going to talk about those other positions coming up here in the future. thank you for your insight there. >> sure. thank you. >>> president-elect trump is meeting with people who supported him and meeting with people who did not, including mitt romney. you might be surprised about that one. what w

it was a cia base, and the cia program taking place at that base involved one of america's most secret and anportant reconnaissance missions: the spy plane which became famous as the u-2 plane. >> narrator: did oswald develop ties to the cia at atsugi? there is no hard evidence. what is known is that he started to learn russian and openly espoused the virtues of marxism to fellow marines. >> if you complained about, "oh, we've got to go on a march this morning" or "we've got to do this this morning," scrub barracks or whatever we had to do, if you were complaining about it, he would say that that was the capitalist form of government making us do these things. karl marx and his form of government would alleviate that. >> narrator: even though he was nicknamed "osvaldovich," no one investigated him or his political sympathies. >> this man was a man with a security clearance. this man was a man who had access to highly sophisticated materials, and he is now showing an interest in marxism. in retrospect, i think that what this indicates-- and this was the judgment of the committee-- is th

there a sense that the cia needs change or needs new leadership?> interestingly, john brennan, -- current erector has current director has spent the last year and a half reorganizing the cia, taking it organization and putting analysts and operators together in cross functional teams. that has been controversial within the agency. the matrix say approach is the right way to work in the 21st century. forrs have criticized it being complicated or ineffective. one of the first questions that will confront the new director if he is confirmed is due you continue on this road that the previous stricter began or do you try to reverse that in some way? charlie: you and i have had conversations in different forums. what do you think is the urgent agenda for the trump administration? all, they are going to inherit a set of ongoing military operations around the world, particularly in the middle east. there is talk of starting an the capitalocco, cities. that will mean americans in harm's way the day of the inauguration, and trump and his team will inherit re

the cia?, he's not qualified. i mean, being on hipsy doesn't count for intelligence experience. john brennan had been in the cia for many years. i think he is much too partisan, but he had been in riyadh. he knew the intelligence community. george h.w. bush knew it. he had been ambassador to china. and i could go on and on. porter goss, all these directors. and what worries me is the cia's very partisan right now and if you take the congressman, and put him -- he's been very straightforward on benghazi, that was a failure of the clinton administration, and breaking with iran, undoing this agreement. so he is a partisan choice. i had hoped trump would go into this and pick a professional or somebody that was fairly neutral. so i think as a choice, he's actually worse than flynn, because he has less experience as a former professional. >> let's be clear, you would rather not see a politician, period, running the cia? >> i would get somebody out of the ranks or a four-star general. >> stick aroun

kansas congressman mike pompeo, a staunch conservative, now in line to lead the cia. harvard law grad who was first in his class at west point, pompeo quickly gained the trust of gop leaders after his 2010 election. >> you've testified here this morning -- >> reporter: holding influential posts on the house intelligence committee and the panel investigating the 2012 benghazi attacks. but pompeo, not satisfied with the findings of the gop-led investigation, issuing a separate report, laying the blame on benghazi at the feet of hillary clinton and barack obama. >> this was a failure at the most senior levels of our government and one that i hope the recommendations this committee presents will help making sure that something like this never happens again. >> reporter: pompeo has called for more sweeping terror surveillance. he wants to keep open the detention center at guantanamo bay. he has criticized obama for rolling back tough interrogation tactics, like waterboarding. and he was a staunch critic of fbi director james comey and his investigation of clinton. >> direc

he has tapped congressman mike pompeo to be the next cia director. you were cia director.oes he have enough experience for the job? >> i think so. i was actually heartened by that pick. i actually am aware that the broader intelligence community was heartened by that pick. i mean he's got as much experience going into that job as leon pennetta did and i think leon did a wonderful job and highly regarded at the agency. people know him from the house intelligence committee and have always said he was serious, studied the issues and worth talking to. now, i get that political patina with regard to benghazi. and e-mail servers and so on. even when that was going on they had time to discuss serious issues. >> president-elect trump has been critical of the intelligence agency doubting whether russia was behind the hack. how will that go over with career intelligence people? you said they're looking forward to mike pompeo. >> that doesn't go over well. they're saying why are we doing this if you're not paying attention to it. it's not so much the president disagreed based on fact

to the house oversight committee but does that translate when you're talking about the head of the cia? >> limited resume yes but he is known as a bit of a national security geek he gets into these issues and studies them thoroughly. we had reactions this morning from both ends of the spectrum politically from representative adam schiff who is the ranking member of the house intelligence committee, knows him well, says he's bright and while they disagree on some issues he expects him to be a good person for this post, then you have former cia director michael hayden saying when he heard the news he said okay, that's good, that can work so these are two poles of the intelligence community saying this could be

and kansas republican congressman mike pompeio for cia director.y have critics of the national security policies of

you also have the cia.sury department and others as well as the attorney general. so you have a lot of competing agencies involved and it's the job of the national security advisor to reduce as much as possible the decisions that have to go to the president. sandy berger was a good example of somebody who was obviously a partisan democrat but he also was very objective in saying everybody had to have a place at the table and let's resolve these issues between you, mr. secretary, and madeleine albright and others before we have to take it to the president. so if i wasn't satisfied i wasn't being heard, sandy would say "let's go to the president." so his job, he'll find it much more diverse. it's not only military, it's economic because economics also play asthma i jor role -- plays role. many, many former generals have gone on record to say climate change is a national security issue so this will have to be laid out and he will have to play a role of being an honest broker. and that's something he hasn't had

if i were at the cia, i would refuse to. as soon as mr.out of office, if you get a democratic candidate, the way that town works, they will turn on you and ask the justice department to prosecute you. to protect the workforce, if mr. trump or the attorney general were to go that way, i would say no, don't do it. >> good conversation. thank you very much. there's breaking news we're following. donald trump's controversial chief strategist now firing back at critics who are accusing him of white nationalism. what makes this simple salad the best simple salad ever? heart healthy california walnuts. the best simple veggie dish ever? heart healthy california walnuts. the best simple dinner ever? heart healthy california walnuts. great tasting, heart healthy california walnuts. so simple. get the recipes at walnuts.org. who says i shouldn't havmy doctor.very day? my dentist. definitely my wife. hey wait. we have better bubbles. make sparkling water at home and drink 43% more water every day. sodastream. love your water. g new cars. you're smart.

and kansas congressman mike pompeo is to be cia direrector. we'll have more on trump's cabinet after headlines with the intercept's jeremy scahill. donald trump and his vice president-elect mike pence faced criticism from celebrities and artists over the weekend starting with the cast of the , award-winning broadway musical "hamilton." on friday, pence attended the broadway hit in new york city. at the end of the show, actor brandon victor dixon, who plays aaron burr in the rap musical about america's founding fathers, had a message for pence. >> vice president elect pence, we welcome you and we truly thank you for joining us here at "hamilton." we, sir, we are the diverse america who are alarmed and anxious that your new administration will not protect us. our families, our children, our peearents. we truly hope this show has inspired you to uphold our american values and work on the half of all americans. juan: donald trump later took to twitter to demand an apology from the cast of "hamilton," saying -- "our wonderful future v.p. mike pence

have you worked with him, tell me about your take of him as the new cia director?is a very bright guy. he's hard working. i think he understands agency very well. so he's a solid pick. now, mike can be very partisan as you saw in the benghazi hearings. he'll have to set that aside. but i'm confident he can do that. i think he is a very capable choice. of the three that came out today, i think he was the most solid pick. >> what about mike flynn? >> mike flynn i have a lot of reservations about. this is someone in the intelligence committee i think was known as kind of a bull in a china shop, someone who didn't work well with others. had a management style not conducive to the collaboration. so for an nsa director, where you need someone who can bring the top officials together, bring a consensus, those are trade issues you work for and they may accentuate an impulsive already president-elect with another volatile adviser in the white house. my concern in terms of temperament and policy decision on russia, where he similarly wants to cozy up on the kremlin. on turke

. >> reporter: the selection of kansas republican pompeo was welcomed by a former cia director. >> i think this is a serious man who takes these questions seriously and who studied these questions. >> reporter: iran, along with republican senator tom cotton, he exposed side deals in the agreement. the congressman investigated the 2014 intelligence on isis that painted a rosie picture of progress when the terror group was expanding in iraq and syria. at a hearing thursday, he expressed outrage that no one has lost their job for putting lives at risk. >> i have to tell you the american people deserve not to wait two years to hold accountable folks who put bad information in the field. >> reporter: pompeo sat on the benghazi investigation committee. he chastised hillary clinton for ignoring the terror threat in libya because it did not fit the political narrative. on the failure to launch a rescue during the attack -- >> i find it reprehensible. if it was your son or daughter, one of your family members or friends on the ground that night, you watch the actions in washington, d.c., you

he has the capability of being a good cia director. he's a bipartisan guy. he will need to set that aside to be an effective cia chief, he is going to be strictly a political non-partisan. i think he can do that. what americans have to recognize, the elections have consequences. a modmoderate. and that is the president's prerogative to pick. and i am counting on him to do it well. >> always a clear and sober voice on scary issues. thank you for your time, appreciate you being here. >> thank you, rachel. had something else we were going he gets a lot of compliments. he wears his army hat, walks around with his army shirt looking all nice. and then people just say, "thank you for serving our country" and i'm like, that's my dad. male vo: no one deserves a warmer welcome home. that's why we're hiring 10,000 members of the military community by the end of 2017. i'm very proud of him. male vo: comcast. had something else we were going to cover, by i scrapped it, because there's a thing i need to say about the mike flynn security announcement. all the president ha

katty: cia director brennan choosing his words carefully but not sounding specifically confident. were you surprised how ca -- how candid he was? reporter: i was. he thought about his words carefully in terms of the language he used. i thought at this time of transition he would have to be extra cautious. instead, he was very frank because he was concerned about policieshe potential unwinding what he sees as the achievement of the obama administration, like the iraq , and uncertainty. you heard that in the last answer. the sense of not really knowing if the trump administration will follow through on campaign rhetoric when it comes to issues of foreign and security policy. that uncertainty was interesting . that aspect of the interview, combined with concern about what could happen. katty: you spend a lot of time speaking to intelligence officials in other countries. what do you hear from them about the trump administration? reporter: something very similar to what we heard from john brennan, uncertainty. they did not expect the trumpet administration. they are still waiting for k

director, and in 2008 i helped leon panetta get ready himself to become cia director.ent with him to the agency. what's going to confront him is not really what's happened in the past, but what's happening today on the ground in aleppo, with kim jong un in north korea. these are crises that are unfolding as we speak and they will unfold more to test the president-elect and pompeo. so he's got to leave partisan politics behind and focus on the non-partisan business of running operations and being a voice of clarity on non-partisan analytic focus in the oval office and in the situation room. >> well, and jonathan, to that point, if you want to be old-fashioned, and things are changing, but if you want to be old-fashioned, the position of cia director is one of intelligence and verified information, not one of policy-making. >> right. he is supposed to be a neutral broker within the vast intelligence community, and to filter out a lot of chaff and give the president the wheat, what he really needs to know every day to make very, very tough decisions about hotspots around

so those contractors were hired by the cia. they were not cia personnel. truthfully, when you're talking about the legalities of all this, it gets troubling when you're asked to disobey what are known to be violations of international law. >> kimberly, lieutenant general, thank you both very much. appreciate the information considering they both know mr. flynn. >>> coming up, president-elect trump will take office with a supreme court seat to fill. the list of possible nominees may be getting shorter. >>> even and you can't stand donald trump, you think donald trump is the worst, you're going to vote for me -- do you know why? justices of the supreme court. my lineage was the vecchios and zuccolis. through ancestry, through dna i found out that i was only 16% italian. he was 34% eastern european. so i went onto ancestry, soon learned that one of our ancestors we thought was italian was eastern european. this is my ancestor who i didn't know about. he looks a little bit like me, yes. ancestry has many paths to discovering your story. get started for free at

by donald trump to be his cia director.oments before sources tell cnn the president-elect has selected senator jeff sessions to be attorney general. here to discuss that and much more, florida member of congress and former chair of the democratic national committee debbie wasserman schultz. thanks so much for being with us. appreciate you being here. congratulations on your own re-election. you are the first official -- to talk to since the news of these appointments from donald trump selected jeff sessions to be attorney general, mike pompeo your colleague in the house to be director of the cia. your thoughts on either point? >> well, these are two certainly experienced elected officials. it is their personal views, particularly jeff sessions, that continue the -- the drum beat roller coaster ride that donald trump is engaging in in who he's surrounding himself with. let's remember that jeff sessions was nominated for a federal judgeship by president reagan and at the time was one of only two in 60 years to be rejected by

, to be director of the cia.med that announcement. you're not opposed to everything that trump has announced thus far. it sounds like you're keeping an open mind about when congressman pomp reo might be a good choice for cia. >> he's a bright, hard-working guy. i think he has the capability of being a good cia director. he can also, as you pointed out, be a partisan guy. and he certainly was in the benghazi hearings. he will need to set that aside to be an effective cia chief. he has to be tristrictly nonpartisan. i think he can do that. what i have to recognize, what americans have to recognize is the elections have consequences. trump won, mike is a conservative. he's not a moderate. that is the president's prerogative to pick. i think he can set the partisanship aside. i'm counting on him to do that and run the agency well. >> congressman adam hiv is, schiff, ranking member of the intelligence committee. always a clear and sober voice on scary issues. thanks for your time. appreciate you being here. >> thank y

and representative mike pompeo from kansas for director of cia. all nominees fierce critics of president obama's handling of terrorism and national security. like president-elect trump, general flynn, as i mentioned, is not afraid to name our enemy. radical islam. and he has called islam a political ideology, and senator sessions is a strong supporter of tough immigration enforcement policies. some of the nominees are getting mixed reviews, with critics worried nay will be too anti-islam, too anti-immigrant. for the latest on the controversy surrounding some of the nominees, i want to go to our connell mcshane outside trumptory right now. >> reporter: interesting with, everything you just went through, no surprise know that these three gentlemen would be hearing it from the other side, the democrats that are processing the nominations today. the important point is two of the three positions require senate confirmation, general flynn, national security adviser will not. on senator sessions first, chuck schumer put a statement out and i'll read part

he has the capability of being a good cia director. he's a bipartisan guy.will need to set that aside to be an effective cia chief, he is going to be strictly a political non-partisan. i think he can do that. what marijuaamericans have to recognize, the elections have consequences. mike is a conservative, he's not a modmoderate. and that is the president's prerogative to pick. and i am counting on him to do it well. >> always a clear and sober voice on scary issues. thank you for your time, appreciate you being here. >> thank you, rachel. >> we'll be right back. when heartburn hits, fight back fast with tums smoothies. it starts dissolving the instant it touches your tongue. and neutralizes stomach acid at the source. ♪ tum -tum -tum -tum smoothies! only from tums >>> at this point in the show, i had something else we were going to cover, by i scrapped it, because there's a thick i feng to say about the mike flynn security announcement. all the president has to do is ask somebody and them say yes. so this mike flynn thing is done. that means it will not be d

so he says to the cia, we can't be associated with this.thing that's believably cuban. >> this is ron oppen in miami. i'm standing in one of the many anti-castro recruiting places scattered throughout the city. >> they were into communism and we found there's something against castro, we learned where there was a recruiting center and we just approached them and joined. we had no idea it was the cia. >> since 2:00 this morning, men and boys have been filing through this door behind me anxious to join the fight in cuba against fidel castro's government. >> they were mainly cuban exiles. they hated castro. they thought that they could mount a small-scale invasion which would gather more and more support until it ended up overthrowing the regime. >> cuban businessmen, doctors, men who once drove taxis, always hoping the muscle of the united states would sustain them. >> we thought the united states being behind this operation, there was no way we were going to lose, and we were wrong. ♪ >> small force of invaders landed at a semi-isolated reso

the job of cia director. >> if you are a do i hard trump supporter or like cruz. you are probably thrilled with the selections. but if you are a moderate republican or democrat, you probably have problems, and big problems with all throw of those picks. >> all right, thank you very much. >> president-elect donald trump defending the decision to roach a 25 million settlement in lawsuits over trump university. he had previously vowed he would not do. he could have beaten the lawsuits accusing him of fraud but said he opted to it settle so he could focus on the needs of the country. eric snyderman and i am quoting. the settlement agreement is a reversal by donald trump and a major victory for the 6000 victims. i am pleased every victim will receive restitution. >> and president obama meet be with the peruian president as he wrapses up his last foreign trip. trade tops the agenda as he huddles with the leaders who support the tpp. rich is in peru tonight. president obama in the final meeting with the chinese president. tell us about it. >> reporter: it is ongoing righ

amy: that from the film "cia and angolan revolution."fletcher, as we wrap up this section on cuba and africa? >> there's a story i heard about what happened in angola on the night of independence. there was panic in the capital. south african troops and their allies were approaching, and no one knew what was going to happen. and then at midnight, people .ent down to the docks and out of the darkness came cuban troops, cuban ships, that then landed troops. and they look on the face of the person who told me the story, who witnessed this, something i will never forget. the sense that they had been saved at a critical moment in an act that had not been driven by the soviet union, but have been driven by a belief in solidarity and a particular relationship between cuba and africa. and that is something that the u.s. mainstream media is completely ignoring at this moment. amy: che guevara would be in africa, right, fighting -- leading cuban forces before he would ultimately die in latin america. that is correct. you want to the democratic rep

the cia is nuts. right within the united states. their mission is foreign intelligence.sa monitor intelligence but they have no business looking into the lives of peaceful protesters. have the police or fbi but these are the wrong agencies to be dealing with domestic issues. >> there are no borders or walls to what the cia does. they deal with international terrorism. >> is called united states law. i know you want to ignore that but it is an actual law on the books. >> this is the part where you listen to what i'm going to say then react to it. >> they are protecting all of us. you don't know what they're doing neither do you want to know. these are people who could kill other people and we will not know about it so we can sleep well at night. >> turkey like many other things taste so much better when it is right. >> we only did it once were not going to do it again. >> my name is jerry, i am . >> fighting over women to get can get while particularly when the two fighting are moose. check out the pitcher of moose who were frozen in time as they lived in combat. social s

general flynn often introduced trump on the campaign trail and then kansas congressman mike pompeo up for cia director. a source tells cnn the congressman doesn't know mr. trump very well nor did he do much campaigning if for the president-elect. let's fill in the blanks here with sara murray she's been following the ins and outs of the transition. the president-elect is expected to leave trump tower. tell us about his meetings today and this weekend. >> he's been meeting with governor mike huckabee today, one of the final meetings before he's heading out to his golf resort in bedminster new jersey for a weekend of what i've been told are going to be non-stop meetings, some designed to shape his view of howe you build a team, what you need to know about certain subject areas, but others are essentially job interviews as he begins to think about how he wants to fill some of these remaining cabinet post, some of the names on the list for this weekend are interesting. obviously we've talked about mitt romney who is a krcritic o donald trump but former washington, d.c. public schools chancellor m

yesterday, general david petraeus was here, the former cia director even though he left the cia in disgracehaven't shared classified information with his biographer, also happened to be his mistress kitty said the meeting went well. rudy giuliani is thought to be in the running as well. another big day today. marsha blackburn from tennessee, congressman lubar led from pennsylvania on the meetings list as is the ceo of rolls-royce america coming up throughout the day we'll continue to follow that. now it is a few guys guys in the studio. nicole: a recount of the presidential election in wisconsin. works that you begin by green party candidate jill stein who also wants recounts in michigan and pennsylvania. asked if donald trump on. more on the recount effort from our own peter barnes is the very latest on the situation from pennsylvania. >> shall stand position for a recount with a harder more complicated, more time-consuming process so she is by time to work on it. mr. trump on pennsylvania by 60,000 votes. stein got 50,000 night and wisconsin mr. trump won by 20,000. she wants a recount in

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the cia under eisenhower participates in the overthrow of the government.there's an interesting scholarly debate right now about the circumstances of the extent to which you see a u.s. role was pivotal or how much having a row was pivotal but he is ousted. the shah during that time of the country wit would be for about e days and then he comes back and he is restored to the throne. that critical point it looks briefly like the monarchy in iran is about to be overthrown by the u.s., for various reasons i'm participates in that operation and h it remains i thk an open wound for many iranians. also great controversy and contention. it's a fascinating story. one volume of state department documents related to that that had been withheld for many years, and we are waiting for the release of that volume to help us understand what happened. there are some speculation that the holdup is due to pressure from the british government because they were involved, too, and are concerned their role would be exposed. >> a lot of people are concerned with the fact that we ma

i know that the cia is already going forward with one. we have a gentleman down in nicaragua who is on contract to the cia advising supposedly on military tactics the contras. and he drew up this manual. it was turned over to the agency head in -- of the cia in nicaragua to be printed. and a number of pages were excised by that agency head there the man in charge. and he sent it on up here to cia where more pages were excised before it was printed. some way or other there were 12 of the original copies that got out down there and were not submitted for this printing process by the cia. now those are the details as we have them. as soon as we have an investigation and find out where any blame lies for the few that did not get excised or changed, we certainly are going to do something about that. we'll take the proper action at the proper time. i was very interested to hear about central america and our process down there. and i thought for a moment that instead of a debate, i was going to find mr. mondale in complete agreement with what we

he'll be going out to cia at some point. sure the director, current director, john brennan, has been in touch with him and offered him the services of the agency that to help him prepare for confirmation and also to brief him on any issues that he wants briefings on. he will have had some of those on the intelligence committee. often people who come to this position will contact former directors and deputy directors and have a conversation with them about the agency, how it operates, what its culture is, what are the things to know and to watch out for in terms of problems that a director can encounter. and he'll take some time to visit the agency and get to know people a bit before confirmation. those are the things i would expect him to do and i think has a head start on being on the intelligence committee. >> do you expect the president-elect toll replace james comey at the fbi, who's serving a fairly lengthy term but has received criticism for his involvement in the electoral results? >> i have no idea. perhaps -- perhap