he just resigned from the cia saying he quit because of president trump., you say the politicians are tuning out the intelligence community in this new trump administration. if that's true, clearly that could be dangerous, but what evidence do you have they are tuning out the intelligence community? >> well, wolf, it can absolutely be dangerous and the consequences of that i think at this point are untold. i think the clearest indication, wolf, was the first national security policy directive that this administration put out. this was the same directive at the time, remove the cia director, remove the director of national intelligence -- >> they were all brought back in subsequently to that. >> the cia director was, but only after pretty harsh criticism. and, you know, that may have well been just to solve some of their critics. to my mind the inclination was clear. the situation room in this administration may not have room for dissenting voices, voices who are going to call them like they see them. and that is exactly the role of the cia director and the

cia?ichael: the first thing i told him is that the men and women of the cia are the most dedicated and committed people he will ever run into. and that they will follow him anywhere. and that they care about one thing and one thing only and that is keeping the country safe and he was being handed a national treasure. i told him that his ultimate responsibility is when he walks out the door, whatever it is, to leave it as a national treasure. then, we had long talks about the senior officers there might make a good beauty. -- deputy. i gave him my views and we talked about how to deal with the perception created by his partisanship over benghazi. how does he handle this? -- that when he walks into the building? i told him that he should be honest about it. you are a politician then. it was politics and you are in a different place now and you did not bring politics with you down the beltway when you came to the agency. you did not bring it into the building. ♪ ♪ charlie: give us an example

>> as you said, i aspired to be a cia officer for all of my life until i joined the cia in 2006.it was an honor and i was humbled to be called on board earlier that year. but rachel i had two options as i watched these data points over the preceding weeks and months. one was to stay on board and accrue a salary at the expense of taxpayers and to write assessments, unbiased unvarnished assessments for an administration that in my estimation has shown little regard for the sort of outside opinion, outside information, the assessments the cia and colleagues throughout the intelligence community that form our bread and butter so the question was do i continue doing something that i thought was futile and have little impact on policy or should i leave and do something where i thought i could fulfill the same mission that i signed up for in 2006 and that's to serve the american people. i don't know what that entails. this is new to me and i certainly don't have anything i'm running off to but i'm certainly going to attempt to do my best to fill fill the same charge i signed up for 2006

on the other hand, the cia was elected by nobody.hey are barely subject to democratic controls at all. so to urge the cia and the intelligence community and power is self to undermine the elected branches of government is insanity. that is a prescription for destroying democracy overnight in the name of saving it and that is what so many, not just neocons, but the neocons allies of the democratic party are urging and cheering and it is incredibly worked in dangerous to watch them do that. "the wall street journal forcing intelligence officials are not getting president trump all of the information because they're concerned about what he will do with it, not to mention intelligence agencies of other countries deeply concerned about what trump will do with it, particularly, concerned about what he might share with russia? , there is immediate issue here which is in you look at "the wall street journal" report it is pretty much exactly the same as any other significant report about russia over the last six months, many which have been p

. -- these captured terrorists give us information that allow the cia to round up virtually all of the key members of those networks and dismantle them. and to stop the attacks of that plan. today we are honored to have with us the man who interrogated the high-value terrorist and not been to provide the information that saved so many americans, that is james mitchell. in the 15 years since 9/11, no one has heard from ksnv. he has been isolated from the world and doctor mitchell has spent thousands of hours with k sm and other senior al qaeda operatives. his look directly into the face of evil. and in doing so he came to understand the terrorist mind. with drugs and motivate them more than almost anyone in america because the terrorists told him. what drives them and what they believe. and now for the first time, doctor mitchell is sharing what kasem told him. including his opinions on us counterterrorism policy, the bush administration's response to 9/11, plans for new attacks and yk assemblies that ultimately, they are going to prevail in their war against america. doctor mental's ne

and he is saying to the cia talking about iraq come the cia has fought many battles in iraq and trump as saying he wants to win. we are going to start winning again. you are going to be leading the charge. if we kept the oil we probably wouldn't have isis because that's where they make their money. maybe we will have another chance. do you think they want to have another chance of occupying iraq quick says that going to make america safe? i'm good. >> you've got got to move on. >> i'm going to sum up. what we are looking at in the past nine days as an attempt to undo everything that is the construct in the last 70 years including nato, the national security establishment, the structures of the post-war world that kept america safe and prevented world war iii. we are heading into uncharted waters where the medieval mapmakers wrote -- [applause] >> douglas can you talk to the american experience and immigration and the fear or hostility that has accompanied it? >> to me it's very sad since we have been here at the book festival that the symbol of our country is the statue of liberty and

now, cia director mike pompeo schrammed t-- slammed the repor saying the cia has not and will not keepthe president period. and our guest did interrogate saddam hussein. the director of national intelligence has come out and said this report is false. how do you characterize this relationship, this ongoing bale betwe trump and the intel community? is i a war? is it a nonissue as the cia director has suggested or is it something in between? >> it's something that i think is very bad. i've said on this program before the cia -- the intelligence community and the president need each other. if we're going to have this kind of constant sniping at each other, i think this plays into the hands of our enemies. it's going to hurt his presidency in the long run. >> you've got to have contact as a former cia analyst, you've got to have contact with people who are in the intelligence community. what's the situation? what's the morale? how to people in covert operations even fight this sort of thing? >> there was a lot of encouragement after donald trump came to the cia headquarters and gave his sp

assassination, the cia, the kgb. have also written books about business, the rise and fall of ,iamonds, the takeovers mergers, and acquisitions, and books but the media. >> what year did you do "news from nowhere?" dr. epstein: that was my phd thesis at harvard, so my investigation where i sat in different networks was done from 69-71, and the thesis was finished in 1972, 19 73, and published in 1974. >> when did you graduate from cornell? 1964, i left for a butyears, graduated late, -- the story as you working for the author of "lolita?" dr. epstein: i was a sophomore. i was taking his class, and through -- he asked me if i would like to go to the movie theaters and give him a short review of four movie theaters in him --t if, and tell aca, and tell him what the best movie was playing because he and his wife only had time for one. >> what do you remember him best about him the most? dr. epstein: i remember all of his lectures, because he was wifeic lecturer, and his would never turn to me, she would keep looking at

he said he was a senior advisor to the cia. what he was was a communications officer, what is called a hack, working at the cia for two years and was actually forced out. he was not a senior adviser, but that is not my complaint. the interesting thing about this video is that he made it. if snowden had gone directly to moscow or if any intelligence officers had gone directly to moscow, a narrative would be established. u.s. intelligence worker steals secrets and goes to moscow. but he stopped in hong kong and made this video. supplying, just as we have seen, alternative video where the self-interested party identifies himself as a whistleblower. from this video and the story he told the journalists -- i think they honestly reported what he said. i have no complaints against the journalists who took this single source, a great story, and ran with it because the government did not immediately respond. they were shellshocked, and when the government responded, they found people did not find them credible. they did not like the u.s

he said, you're nojournalist, cia.as trying to impress him with my knowledge, because he held my life in his hands, but by impressing him with my knowledge, i basically certified myself, in his eyes, as a cia agent. so that was the wrong thing to do. if you ever get caught by these people, do not go on about how much about islam you know, go on about how little you know. and then they go, oh good, you're a journalist. right. thanks for the advice, by the way. i should say you were kept in captivity from january 2013 with the us photojournalist matt schrier, and you shared a cell together, indeed you even shared a bed for six or seven months. what kind of treatment did you both receive? were you treated worse than he was, because you spoke fluent arabic and they thought you were cia? and because he had a card when he was caught, that said photojournalist. i had no such card. they go, he's the journalist and he's the cia guy. so what kind of things happened to you ? i mean, they have various torture methods. some of thes

it was hard work done from the cia.some of the intelligence becomes actionable only when it's placed in the greater context of what you know from everybody.y. >> you already have the name of the guy who got it from someone who was in the program i we would've gotten it without this program anyway.e gone t >> the problem is when you roll up a detainee in the beginning there is a tell us everyone you think bin laden knows there's nothing about a single name that highlights the importance. it's like like picking up a phone book and say because your name is in the phone book that the guy who's gonna wrap the gas station. you need something to take you to that piece of information to highlight the importance. unless i'm confusing this, it's clear my book the guy who gave him his name thought he was dead.who gi the thought he was dead. it was a smart clever work by the cia analyst who determined this guy was confusing him with his brother and the guy heg himi identified with was still alive. in hindsight this like doing a lab

and he is saying to the cia -- talking about iraq -- the cia has fought many a battle in iraq and trump is saying he wants to win. we're going to start winning again. you're going to be leeing the charge. to she victor month the spoils. we kept the oil you want have isis because that's where hey made their money so we should have kept he oil put maybe we'll have another chance you think they want too have another chance of unking iraq? its that going to -- up occupyig iraq? is that going to make america safe? >> tim, we have to move didn't. >> i'm going to sum up. what we are looking at is an attempt to undo every construct inside the last 70 years, including nato think national security establishle and the structures of the post world war that kept america safe and prevented world war iii. we're headed into up charted waters with the medieval mapmakers wrote "here lie monsters." >> thank you, tim. >> douglas, what can you talk to the american experience and immigration and the fear or hostility that is accompanying it? >> well to me, very sad that since we have been here to book festiv

brian: cia? dr. epstein: no.he cia is also limited that it cannot do surveillance in america, but the fbi can go from anywhere. brian: from your knowledge, how much does this country spend on intelligence? dr. epstein: snowden published budgets from 2012, and i would say you could not be wrong with a guess of $10 billion. it might be much greater than that depending on how you define homeland security, but $10 billion, $20 billion, a lot of money. it is secret i should say, secret from me. brian: is that a black budget? dr. epstein: it is a black budget. how we deal with government secrets is they are not secret from congress. congress appoints to committees since 1978, house and senate, since the church investigation. permanent subcommittees which have the classifications necessary to look at the black budgets. but yes, they are secret from the public. brian: i want to show you some video of the last time i saw you, when you did a book on arm hammer, here is 1996 in december. brian: what you do for a living? dr.

the eavesdropping by the cia.e knew his call to the russian investor would be subject to electronic surveillance. mr. flynn is a retired general who ran the defense intelligence agency, so surely he knew that his call to the russian ambassador would be subject to electronic surveillance. you can find that in "the wall we are taking." calls on the resignation of michael flynn and what it means when it comes to the resignation itself and national security interest. paul in florida. republican line. does anybody remember susan rice? she was president obama's security advisor, the same position that general flynn occupies. she told the biggest boldfaced lie the american people have ever experienced. that videos were the reason for benghazi. how did she get that job? president obama brought her in so she could be called before congress that he kept her for his entire administration. please, don't tell me about general flynn when you have a of aete catastrophe security advisor that was in the obama administration for mo

are there mechanisms in place within the cia to prevent that from happening?yes, the frustration that i see is -- listen, the department of justice in congress they have the authorization to look intose the counterespionage concerns. those are real between president trump, some of the folks in his entourage, and the russian government, that should be investigated and it is investigated. that ought not to be the spies get involved in, that can't be what we do. within the cia, within thehe department of justice, the oversight committees, that's their job. it is not the job of the spike to figure out who wins and loses.th >> tucker: the cia needs to give intelligence to the president must for those of us following at home, where do you think the fault lines are going to be what are the policies trump is espousing that people might disagree with where they might try to hamstring him? >> i think two things if i may. he went to the cia one of thery first days in office and he stood in front of the wall and he was very almost campaign like and how he handled that int

are there mechanisms in place within the cia to prevent that from happening?he frustration that i see is -- listen, the department of justice in congress they have the authorization to look into the counterespionage concerns. those are real between president trump, some of the folks in his entourage, and the russian government, that should be investigated and it is investigated. that ought not to be the spies get involved in, that can't be what we do. within the cia, within the department of justice, the oversight committees, that's their job. it is not the job of the spike to figure out who wins and loses. >> tucker: the cia needs to give intelligence to the president must for those of us following at home, where do you think the fault lines are going to be quick to mark what are the policies trump is espousing that people might disagree with where they might try to hamstring him? >> i think two things if i may. he went to the cia one of the first days in office and he stood in front of the wall and he was very almost campaign like and how he handled that int

he mentions from the cia were to come in and also the fbi. they were going to come in -- this was the first alleged terrorist who's been picked up that we know of. and they will begin the interrogation and do it in this black site outside of bangkok. the fbi arrives there early. they start interrogating sabina aida. when the two psychologists arrived, the cia staff actually sent a telegram back to alex station, the special unit back .c. who weren, d directing the war on terror. --elegram or that message i'm showing my age -- was essentially we are worried because these interrogators that -- heome in from the cia has heart trouble and we are worried that something could happen to him because he is being water boarded and other forms of interrogation. he ever going to go public. meanwhile, what had happened is of fbi pulled out interrogations and what that amount. whatever transgressions they make an, if interrogation, a judge is going to be watching over what they've done. it can be exposed in court. they weren't going to be part of this and t

>> we saw him a day or so on television announcing he had been drugged by the cia for the last three months and he was very glad to be back in freiendy hands. >> reporter: one of the most famous, this garage in rosslyn. >> the watergate story is in fact an adaptation of espionage techniques for a political purpose. >> reporter: spy sites include where you can walk in the steps of real spies. >> i'm 100% certain there's a spy site in your neighborhood. you can walk to them. >> reporter: on the hunt for spy segraves, news4. >>> i'm chris lawrence back at the live desk where we're trying to bring you everything we know about this shooting in northeast d.c. in which two d.c. police officers have been shot and wounded. we can now confirm d.c. fire and ems is now confirming with us that they transported at least one person from there. so they rushed one person to a hospital. we're not sure who it was, but again two officers shot. both conscious and breathing. a suspect also shot. all of this happening near morse and holbrook. this is where florida avenue and eighth street northeast all sor

clandestine rodriguez and the cia released a statement saying it was thoroughly investigated by the justice department in 2010 and announced it would not pursue any charges related to this matter and worth noting at that time the enhance interrogation techniques were not illegal and following orderers, of course now the law bans torture. >> thank you. a brand new cnn poll, with jobs approval rating by the president. >>> want to just put politics aside now and take a moment on this friday to honor new york police detective steven mcdonald. last month the city came out in force to honor his lasting message of forgiveness for the gunman who shot him, leaving him paralyzed from the neck down. bren sat down with the widow and son to talk about how he went beyond the call of duty even after leaving the force. >> my dad and i, we rub our heads together all the time even though we couldn't hug. >> reporter: a wall filled with pictures, just a fraction of moments in the storied life of nypd detective steven mcdonald. >> give him a kiss. >> reporter: officer connor mcdonald grew up only knowi

former director of the cia leon panetta echos this as well. spanning nine presidents, saying "i have never been so nervous in my lifetime about what may or may not happen in washington." >> general tony thomas says our kwofrt continues to be in unbelievable turmoil uh. i hope they sort it out soon because we're a nation at war." >> these are the usual suspects on capitol hill. senator mccain, graham, rubio. >> yes, senator roy blunt of missouri and senator bob corker of tennessee, these are two senior people who have been very quiet the first three and a half, four weeks and now we have some sound of them speaking out. they're concerned about these links with russia. >> let's listen. >> i think it's likely general flynn at some point will be asked to come and talk to the committee about both post election activities and any other activities he would be aware of. >> the base issue is getting to the bottom of what the russian interference was and what the relationship was with associates of the trump effort, so that is the big elephant this the

for several years, the cia's position when we asked for information about the cia's response was what drone campaign? from a litigators perspective, it is very rare and almost unheard of. an appeals court will second guess the determination of whether information is properly classified. in essence, from a litigation perspective it was a big victory. the other big victory is the second circuit case in which the court required the obama administration to release the july 2010 memo. they argued the release of it caused damage to national security. a huge foia victory. the cleef judge of the foreign intelligence court of review who was progressive was part of the panel. right? but that memo they released on the grounds of officially acknowledgment. essentially we had argued that the government shouldn't be able to keep the secret when it has effectively acknowledged the content of the memo and released them through documents and public statements. that is the argument the court adopted. when we won on the grounds the court said you guys already have the information you are asking for. in

cia, intelligence people say, that is absolutely not true. your take?i believe the cia, i think that "wall street journal" had sources but i think that -- trump got everything he wanted or needed and i think they will continue to do that. there is a new team in there. they will make sure she gets what he wants, there is no much information that comes to the national, security count, or cia. they have to filler down. what does the president want? does high want to know the 100 spots in the world or 10 that matter today. tom: a good point, it has been 3 weeks they are still looking for the coffee pot. brand-new kids. ed rollins thank you. >> thank you. tom: vote in tonight's poll, do you have hope that left wing national media will ever treat president trump fairly? cast your vote. and follow lou on twitter @lou dobbs, like the show on facebook and instagram. >> on wall street, not bad, stocks closing mixed. but the dow gaining 8 points closing at an all-time high for 6 straight sessions. s&p down two, nasdaq down 5. volume 3.6 billion shares. market, hos

. >> a former cia agent will weigh in. way to say this. it's over.rmanent escape from monotony. together, we are perfectly balanced, our senses awake, our hearts racing as one. i know this is sudden, but they say: if you love something... set it free. see you around, giulia ♪ ♪ ♪ everyone deserves attention, whether you've saved a lot or just a little. at pnc investments, we believe you're more than just a number. so we provide personal financial advice for every retirement investor. >>> that's a live look at orlando melbourne international airport in florida, where president trump is scheduled to hold a campaign-style rally at the top of the hour. he just took off from palm beach in air force one, running about ten to 15 minutes behind schedule. stay with us. we'll bring it to you live when it begins. >>> a short time ago, white house press secretary sean spicer confirmed president trump will meet tomorrow with at least four candidates to replace michael flynn as national security adviser. they are former u.n. adviser john boulton. lieutenant genera

cia doing? >> and sort of prepared for the weekend and the thought had occurred to us that some of the courts might be closed over thanksgiving. we haven't planned it that way, but it was certainly planned it but it was social ail factor we thought would be disincentive. the obama administration made no effort to go out and do that in the end. secondly, bob makes the point that the pentagon papers certainly did a huge amount to inform the debate about the vietnam war, and if you go back and you read the pebt gone papers tooled as a history and you think about the kind of things that have been leaked, whether it's wikileaks or snowden today the pentagon papers looks more innocent because it was backward looking. >> historical. >> whereas much of the material that has come out since has been operational to this day and raises therefore i think a different set of issues. this process that we discussed of going to the government i agree with you, you know, this works when it's the "new york times" a

i hope mike pompeo, the new director of the cia, can do that.pe that dan coates, the new director of national intelligence, that he can help do that. i think jim mattis is trying to do that. so my hope is that ultimately that relationship can be re-established. why? because it has to be re-established for the sake of the country. >> but do you believe the president has a point on these leaks at all? do you think these leaks are coming from the intel community and that it is undermining his presidency? >> i -- chuck, you know, i -- i've been involved in politics for a long time. and i served two presidents and worked under nine presidents. leaks are a problem that every president has complained about. >> right. >> the presidents that i worked for complained about leaks. but the reality is that leaks come from all kinds of directions. the most important thing you can do to stop leaks is to establish loyalty between the people that are working for you and the president of the united states. if you establish that sense of loyalty, then he won't have

the cia had a secret army in afghanistan that was under cia control. i said i'm putting this in the book, the cia said that's secret, you should not put that in. i said i'm not going to name any members of it or where they operate from or any operations. no, you should not public publish it. i said look, there are a lot of people in the obama administration who say we don't need 100,000 troops in afghanistan that this counter terrorists pursuit team does the job. i think it's relevant. they were not happy but it was published, no harm. i got to another item and mentioned it, and laterally said if you publish that we could lose the war. that got my attention and went through their argument and can it's not in the book. it's a great story that some day can be told but you listen and you -- it's david's point. you go through this is much disclosure, more disclosure than the government would like almost always they would say don't publish any of this stuff but not the sort of things that will get people killed or cause us to lose a war. >> what's fascinati

right so for -- several years cia position had been when we asked cia response is what drone campaign, and that that was not a response that the dc circuit rejected in this 2013 opinion. and from a litigate tore perpghtive it is a very big victory is very rare almost unheard of that -- a federal court let alone appeals court will overrule or second guess the executive dernlings of, you know, whether information is prop orally classified or nots and in essence cia saying that mere fact that we have a drone campaign is prop orally classified so from a litigation perspective that is a big difference. other big affect is the court required the obama administration to release this july 2010 mommy memo so a big victory because this memo that government had argued was properly classified anding argue that release would create damage to national security huge victory. in terms huge verdict and three judge panel naturally released a memo and cut -- judge who was the chief judge of the -- foreign intelligence review, not thought of as a progressive, was part of that panel. right. but that me kn

one cia analyst wrote at the time, there is no real danger and wrote afterwards that the cia's analysis of the war since the agency had so many military that soviet military books it could judge confidently when it might be building up to a real military confrontation or just rattling pots and pans. the response to able archer 83 was just pot-banging. another wise cia analyst disagreed. robert gates, who was deputy director for intelligence. he said -- after going through the experience at the time, then through the postmortem and now through the documents, i do not think the soviets were crying wolf. they may not have thought the nato attack was imminent but they seem to believe the situation was very dangerous. rattling pots and pans, crying wolf, the advisor to the soviet union in 1984, do you think the soviet leader really care us or -- fear us or is all of the huffing and puffing part of their propaganda? president reagan identified the key question and i think he answered it for himself way to run which i will talk about later. this and as we talk about today, this is what we need

. >> i'll talk to the former head of the cia. and stress test, how politics is getting all of us stressed out. but some a lot more than others. joining me for inside and analysis are david brooks, columnist for "the new york times." amy walter, national editor of the cook political report. huge hue wit and former democratic congresswoman, donna edwards. welcome to sunday. it is "meet the press." >> from nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history, celebrating it's 70th year. this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >> good sunday morning. it's only been four weeks, but already we're running out of adjectives to describe the trump presidency and this past week did nothing to clear things up. late yesterday president trump returned to familiar territory, addressing adoring supporters in florida, far away from protesters or reporter questions. mr. trump is hardly the first question to seek validation from campaign style events so early in his presidency. the last three presidents all chose to escape washi

here's author and former cia agent william daugherty talking about "in the shadow of the ayatollah." [inaudible conversations] >> good afternoon. we have a few more people coming in, but we're going to go ahead and get started. how are you enjoying the book festival so far? [applause] great, great. my name is diane thompson, and we're delighted to have you join us at the tenth annual anniversary of the saw van a that book festival presented by georgia power and the sheehan family foundation. we are blessed to have such celebrated authors in trinity united methodist church today which has been made possible by the generosity of kurt and leba anderson. we'd also like to extend special thanks to our literati members and individual donors who have made and continue to make saturday's free festival events possible. before we get started, i have a couple of housekeeping notes. immediately following this presentation, william daugherty will be signing festival-purchased copies his book in the square. he does have an interview directly with c-span after this, so he may be just a few minutes

cia doesn't do domestic coverage per se.ryl: let me throw another theory then because you're leading me into my next question, maybe ex-intelligence? we had a former he intelligence officer at fox news, look at somebody like former cia director john brennan, former director of intelligence james clapper. the names have been brought up. >> clearly, the coverage of mike flynn occurred when they were in power. it occurred in december. so they would have had access as well. when i say i was referring to the agency, career staff agency officers. of course brennan came back in as an appointee. at the pinnacle of the agency they would have been involved in the political process. clearly this was a crime motivated by political intent, to bring down mike flynn. it wasn't for money. and these are going to be people that were likely loyal to president obama, and other people that had been named, people like former deputy national security advisor ben rhodes was stated in the free washington beacon that he had created an infrastructure

basically a brush back pitch from the cia. trump's pick at cia.ynn, there are questions that his job security right now. you don't want to have that when you're dealing with what may be a crisis like this. and obviously, tillerson at state is new to it. so mattis will play an important role. he is the most experienced of the trio. >> we were talking about the government agencies including the cia and some have described it as contend shus. some of the language was widely criticized by cia officials. he will have to rely on the intelligence community for the intelligence brief as to what happened. the nature of that missile test and implications for shaping his it's responsibility. >> i think it is times like this that continuing president and the administration wish they did not, refused to read the briefing that's the cia gave early on. these are the kind of critical times the administration is going to have to analyze to counter these effects. really quickly, let's go back to when we talked about flynn. one of the things is has the pure case of

in the cia and iran in 1979 the militant storms the us embassy there. he will be talking about that experience and talk with him as well. he will be doing a call in program and gerri willis, rich is not a four letter word with foxbusiness news talking about her new book and then another chance for you to talk to her. we have another call in. the united methodist church in downtown savannah built on a square. if you have never been to savannah there are several squares, live oaks and spanish loss and beautiful city, often we go to the book fairs and show the inside of the venue, and the outside of the book fair in itself, the producer down there, kate hughes, we want to show you that so you can see what the outside of the festival is like. >> good morning, facebook followers, and the savanna book festival. this festival takes place in health are square and most of it will be live in the trinity methodist church. john can be is speaking and following the discussion you call into booktv. you will hear from william towery in the shadow of the ayatollah. ric

cia director wrote in the behavior of the armed forces' is perhaps the most disturbing. the delayed the behavior of thd forces'stroop rotation. there is a theme of not being vulnerable even if it means taking some risks. military behavior involves high military cost, adding a dimension of genuineness that the soviets had concerned that is not accurately reflected. beyond that, a series of interviews with soviet generals and members of the staff saying forces did go on alert during able archer 83. the situation was monitored from moscow. and, right after you read some of those, there is a good page and a half that is redacted. possibly even more. is funny and maybe we will get it in questions, but i want to wrap up. this is an example of declassification, not usually provided by the national archive. aring my research, i did freedom of information act request about able archer. they said we have 83 document and we will give you one of them. the one they gave me was this one, a printout of the wikipedia article that was processed and declassified. ihe punch in the gut was

we have time weiner, the foremost modern historian of the fbi and the cia. time weiner will be here to help us sort this out. but there are just some baseline fundamental questions we don't have an answer for. or that we have answers for that make no sense. first there's the direct simple question of mike flynn and how he got to be national security advisor. how he lasted 24 days at that job. it's wudly reported general flynn was under investigation by counterintelligence community at the fbi and by counterintelligence investigators at the cia. he's also reportedly under investigation by the u.s. army for having taken allegedly undisclosed payments from the russian government during the presidential campaign at the end of 2015. those investigations didn't just start now. how did he get named national security advisor? the president is cleared to receive all classified information, included information about the investigations under way. what the president must have known about the counterintelligence investigations of michael flynn why would you ask michael

time to chuck dirt at the cia.agencies allowed any information that turned out to be so false and fake out, that they did that, i think it is a disgrace. i say that, and i say that, and that is something that nazi germany would have done. but the teflon don is no more. the grime is sticking to president trump as never before. at the heart of the flynn fiasco are fears that team trump had a russian connection with kremlin spies. this morning, the new york times reported that us intelligence sources told it that three of his closest election aides have repeated contact with russian intelligence officials. all three deny it. trump took to twitter to fight back. the best evidence for the russia connection might not be all nonsense, it was from the man himself in the campaign. russia, if you are listening, i hope you are able to find the 30,000 e—mails that are missing. i think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press. today, the former reality tv star was clear who was to blame. america's greatest newspapers

bob: i would say my book on the cia. the cia is an institution that plays a very ambiguity -- ambiguous game. the cia, they have been trained to manipulate and deceive. getting the straight story and getting to know bill casey, the head of the cia, at the time i was doing the book, that probably was the most difficult as a reporting effort. did bob woodward ask you to do in terms of the role -- the head of the cia? barbara: do you mean what was my role on the book? brian: at the party. barbara: this is two completely separate stories. the party story, i actually -- i teach journalism at georgetown. i just taught this last week to my students. i told them the story. it was an example of us doing ethics right now and it was an example -- they always like to hear when their professors are real people. it was an example of me as a young woman. i was 26 at the time. doing something slightly unethical, but it is kind of a funny story and so it is a good teaching told. this is what happened. woodward found out that there daught

those stars at langley representing really the arlington cemetery of the cia. using that opportunity to reassure the intelligence community that he had their back. that was back on his second day in office. if you wilrecall. it came after he criticized intelligence leaks on twitter using wordlike umerican. even asking at one point if we were living in nazi germany. former cia director and defense secretary leon panetta told this to "the new york times." i have never been so nervous in my lifetime about what may, may not happen in washington. i don't know whether this white house is capable of responding in a thoughtful or careful way should a crisis erupt. i spoke to leon panetta started asking him whether anything had changed since he delivered that quote. and whether he had any benchmarks for the president's first month in office. i am relieved they appointed general mcmaster as the new national security adviser. he is -- he is a tough soldier. a good soldier. more importantly, he is -- he really has written about what he called dereliction of duty. and the n

a tractor trailer jackknifed and hit a tree near the cia exit in mclean. the driver had to be air lifted. park police say he has serious injuries. northbound traffic is being diverted onto route 123. cars are crawling along that roadway. trucks are not allowed parkway. but park police tell us this was a mail truck. it was authorized to be there. >>> secretary of state rex tillerson is on his way back to washington tonight after a trip to mexico to smooth over a strained relationship. mexico's president met with tillerson four weeks of abrup y ly cancelling a visit to the white house. john kelly is also on that trip clarifying the new immigration enforcement policy. >> let me be very, very clear. there will be no, repeat no, mass detor paportationsdeportat >> reporter: john kelly in mexico today defending an immigration policy that's drawing outrage across the border. >> again, listen to this, no, repeat no use of military force in immigration operations. >> reporter: which seems to contradict what president trump told ceos hours earlier in >> we're getting

then, cia chief mike pompeo how to evaluate what is going on. i will leave it to the specialist to our great choices donald j. trump. we cannot have americans be put in danger by leakers. anyone within the administration and anywhere in the government. it does nothing but worse in the future of america, nothing but endanger this country. there is no benefit. it is really sad and truly disgusting. >> martha: boris, fox is now confirmed that vice admirable robert harward is now not going to be replacing mike flynn as the head of the national security council. why is that? >> there are a lot of good, strong candidates out there for the president will make the right choice, as he always has. >> martha: what happened with robert harward? ed look like -- they said he was going to be in place by the end of the week, boris. what happened? >> i am not sure -- >> martha: the white house said they believed he would be in place by the end of this week. >> what i would say is he has strong choices, good options, he will remain a very strong candidate and a s