with the cia's creation in 1947, the cia becomes central. president truman added the national security agency in 1952. president eisenhower added the national reconnaissance office to coordinate cia and air force activities regarding imagery from the spy planes and satellites that were coming online. under kennedy, the defense department gets its own intelligence agency. dia today is a major national agency of the intelligence immunity. as we discussed, doing important work in human intelligence and specialized technical intelligence. i have those important developments out of the way, and i will focus on the two biggest intelligence subjects of the kennedy administration, which often are the two major historical episodes that people remember from this period, the bay of pigs fiasco and the cuban missile crisis. we have a fiasco and a crisis. both big problems. what they have in common is obviously cuba. otherwise, they are vastly different problems. the bay of pigs fiasco was a cia covert paramilitary operation, specifically a regime change

to show a cia conspiracy. after that some comes out, you have at one point the majority of americans believing the cia did it. based on a movie. implications.al congress passes the jfk act that requires the cia to declassify everything a taz that could be related to the assassination. the agency is always considering itself the president and chairman, no matter what is going on. whether there are intelligence failures. the buckles like the bay of pigs. all of these are allegedly does -- motives. one of the silliest is that the cia killed kennedy because he planned to pull out of vietnam. the reality is that the cia was not enamored with the war in vietnam. even sillier was that johnson was involved. that he was controlled by the cia. nuts.s not -- kennedy wanted to stop trying to kill castro in the cia did not want to stop. the agency i know from years of study of internal documents, world history interviews, is literallyranda the last group of men and women on the planet who would even consider doing such a t

bush and the cia.his 13 minute program was recently declassified and released by the cia. >> this is the man who has had a distinguished public life, when you stop and think about them. vice president, president, father of another president, cia director, ambassador to china, ambassador to the united nations, he's any debt she is a capable man who has handled every task the country has called upon him -- he is a capable man who has handled every task the country is called upon him. individually -- >> is the most kind and thoughtful person i have known in my life. you can talk to a lot of people about george h.w. bush and they will tell you the same. george h.w. bush was appointed cia director precisely at the worst time in the agency's entire history. this was a particularly tough time, because the cia was under extraordinary attack. you had the church hearings, the pike hearings, the cia was held in minimal regard around the the natureause of those hearings. it was a tough time. >> this made all of th

this man was a career cia operative his name is glenn. he vividly remembers his first impression of one cia interrogation count in an unnamed country. inside it is immediately. pitch black. as black as any darkness you have ever experienced you cannot see. you you could not see your fingers here in front of absolute darkness. and disorienting and deafening. silence a brutal regime designed to undermine prison his sense of self and indeed helpless dependence we thank unconsciously that. the sun will rise once a day and then sets into the day that's one of the defining unthought of realities of life not if you're in the hands of the cia we can make the sun shine or not. when he had been assigned to interrogate a captured prison and he's been deft in nature out what he was expected to do. so the instructions were you will do whatever it takes to get him to talk do you understand and then it was pressure him pressure him it was the word frequently used pressure him turn up the pressure on him. be creative and i was literally literally stunned

cia. he wasn't allowed to tell me before we were married. he joined the cia and trained as a paramilitary officer. he went to camp perry in williamsburg, virginia, the secret training camp. and he accomplished all he had to there. he announced to me that we had our first assignment overseas. it was to laos, a small landlocked country alongside vietnam. from laos we were to fight what the cia called their secret war in laos. if you are interested in all the factors that brought us to that point in history, it is well documented on the cia website. it is cia.gov. don't go to cia.org, that won't tell you much. trust me. our secret war in laos was to fight a war with very few americans involved compared to the war that was going on in vietnam. with this small group of cia men in laos, we were to train, equip and deploy laos soldiers who would interdict the flow of weapons to south vietnam. the trail was about 12 kilometers from our house. in the north, the war was created to actually engage th

she explains why she joined the cia will after -- the cia after her husband died. the bob center for public service at the university of florida hosted this event. david colburn, i'm director of the bob graham center. we are pleased to have with us this evening to introduce our --aker before he comes up i want to say that normally the way we do things is the speaker speaks between 30 and 45 minutes, the last 15 minutes our questions. bank -- thisike over here. we like our students to have the opportunity to go first. we ask that you make no speeches. out of courtesy to everybody here this evening, if you could keep your question so synced -- questions so synced -- questions succinct that would help a lot. a major donor along with his wife, catherine. campus,ook around this you won't find herb and katherine's name in a lot of places, but they could be. to put theirhumble names on anything. when you go to the gardens, they were done by herb and catherine. been a longtime friend of our speaker this evening. i would like him to do the introductions. if you would. [appl

he is a former acting director of cia and deputy director of cia. but he's very famously known for being i think the only human being that was with president bush on 9/11 and was with president obama on the day of the osama bin laden takedown. a lot of great stories he can tell you during the cocktail hour as well. please welcome mike morrell. we'll get started. [applause] michael: thank you, larry. and good evening to everybody. and thank you all for coming. i just want to start by reiterating what mark and larry said about general hayden. i know that i speak for all of the panel members here in wishing him a speedy and full recovery and wishing the best to him and his wonderful family. we're going to miss him here tonight just as we miss his reasonable voice at this difficult time in our nation's history. so, general hayden, we're thinking about you. so, american intelligence agencies are secret organizations operating in a democracy. and the secret part of that makes it difficult to convince the public, which is the democracy part of it, that the

if i were in the briefing today i would ask the cia director several items. was the crown prince's brother communicating with khashoggi telling him it was fine to go to the consulate in istanbul were there text messages sent back from the killers to the crown prince's office. were there phone conversations between the crown prince and the killers? some are saying there is no smoking gun. what's being reported is there is a smoking gun. communication from the killers back to the crown prince's office. i think the time has come for the senate to grab back foreign policy and say you know what, the president, no president, this president or the previous president has the power to take our country to war with saudi arabia and yemen without the permission of the senate. >> do you think the white house is preventing the cia director from releasing the full -- >> sen. paul: the definition of the deep state is that when intelligence has so much power there's no oversight. i've been arguing for a decade that with intelligence it's only given to a few people within our

he and i go back a long way, he was director of public affairs in the cia and spokesperson for cia prominently during the leon panetta years as director. he went with director panetta over to the department of defense where he served as assistant to the secretary of public affairs and many of you probably remember him appearing on television as the pentagon press secretary. [applause] >> next panel members former acting general counselor of cia, chief legal officer through probably one of the most turbulent periods in a recent national history, he served as chief legal officer for much of the time from 2001 through about 2000 what, john? 2009. you can go through your historical rolodex in your mind and think about what happened between 2001-2009, john was making recommendations to the director of the cia, leading a staff of lawyers who made recommendations to the officers of the agency as they took on edgy operations in support of the defense of our country. john is that steptoe and johnson and author of a great book if you haven't had a chance to read it called company man, 30 years of contro

ask them, do they disagree with the cia's conclusions? the they're answering a question they want to answer, they're not answering the real question. if the cia has looked at all of this information and says with a high degree of probability that we think the crown prince was involved, does secretary mattis and secretary pompeo disagree with the conclusions? that's not what they're seeing. >> have you asked them? >> i can't go anything i've asked them in a classified hearing. but i'm saying, i would, if i were in the media, ask them. if they're honest, they'll tell you they don't disagree with the conclusions, that the compilation of all the facts are, yes, he was involved. no direct evidence, no smoking gun, you know, i think that's open to argument. i really think that there's direct communication, the media's reported that the crown prince's brother directly communicated with khashoggi. and then the media's also reporting that there's communications in istanbul going to the crown prince's office at the time of the killing. i would want

in as director of cia.nd he spent about four or five hours at the agency. and he was just welcomed with open arms by the entire workforce. there were long lines of people as he went down to corridors of langley in his wheelchair. and people were just glad handing him and just applauding him because he really represented, i think, the best of this country from a standpoint of selfless sacrifice. so when he became vice president and when he became president, he looked to the agency to provide him the insights, the information, the analysis that he needed in order to ensure the decisions he was making on behalf of the country were as informed and as reasoned and as enlightened as possible. >> director brennan, what did it mean to the cia to have someone who understood the intelligence product, who understood the intelligence community's selflessness, really facelessness in many jobs there as their ultimate customer when he became president? there's been so much said in the last three days about his foreign pol

today, there is a cia briefing members from which most have been excluded. i think it is wrong that the cia has expressed the conclusion that the crown prince was involved in the killing of jamal khashoggi and then with all that information. i know about the information of the cia's conclusions only by reading it in the media. if i were in the briefing today i would ask the cia director several items. brothercrown prince's communicating with jamal khashoggi telling him it was trying to go to the consulate in istanbul? were there text messages sent -- were there text messages sent back from the killers to the crown prince's office? some are saying that there is no smoking gun. what is being reported is that there is a smoking gun. communication directly from the killers back to the office of the crown prince. it is time that the senate grabs back foreign policy to say -- you know what, no president, this one or the previous one has the power to take our country to work. without the permission of the senate. is the white house preventing the cia director from

system the cia is clearly leaking this because they. i don't see an option in through through the internal channels either through the state department or into the west wing itself and their sudden willingness to speak to reporters it's an interesting point her for the us to be at let me let me ask you something you're in istanbul i'm a model jane brought up the point that turkey seems to be drip drip drip releasing information and kind of he says dragging this out i guess for the sake of keeping the public interest what do you make of the way that they have been handling this they do seem to hold a lot of the cards. we'll to be honest michel it's very clear that turkey from the very beginning followed a very successful and effective kind of a strategy they saudi arabia it seems that they wanted to pick up a fight with the turkey with the turkish officials here but turkey refrained from any kind of a statement till they have lots of evidence and they started using this dread drip strategy they adopted it from the very beginning by leaki

the cia doing a good job on this?say as it relates to the briefing, i was satisfied with the briefing. i thought it was an honest briefing. as it relates to your broader question, that's still an open question for me. >> coming up man's best friend. a closer look at president george h.w. bush's loyal service dog sully. you're in the business of helping people. we're in the business of helping you. business loans for eligible card members up to fifty thousand dollars, decided in as little as 60 seconds. the powerful backing of american express. don't do business without it. the meeting of the executive finance committee is now in session. and... adjourned. business loans for eligible card members up to fifty thousand dollars, decided in as little as 60 seconds. the powerful backing of american express. don't do business without it. my mom washes the dishes... ...before she puts them in the dishwasher. so what does the dishwasher do? cascade platinum does the work for you, prewashing and removing stuck-on foods, the fir

to the head of cia. they don't report to an outside organization. i know at nga, they report to, at one point, they were reporting to the head of nga and i think that's the case at the -- all the other intelligence organizations. can you speak to that? >> michael, you want to? >> i can. every ig that i worked closely with during my seven years on the cia seventh floor, i certainly felt that they felt they were independent. i certainly felt that they felt that they could report to the director and to the deputy director and to me when i was -- my cadence, number three, what they were thinking. they were statutory in the sense that they could go directly to the hill. they did not need our permission to go to the hill. and they frequently did. so, i think they had the independence they needed. my issue with the ig has always been effectiveness. i mean, i always thought that the audit piece of the ig did a magnificent job in auditing the various activities of the agency and pointing out where there were prob

do they disagree with the cia conclusions? they are asking the question they want answered but if they look at all of this information with a high degree of probability the crown prince was involved secretary mattis and secretary pompeo disagree that is not what they are saying. but i would say do you disagree with the conclusion? my guess is they don't. the constellation of all facts are that yes. he is involved but a game of words with no direct evidence or smoking gun that is open to argument i really think there was direct communication the media reported the crown prince directly communicated with khashoggi the media has reported there is communication in an sample to the crown prince's office at the time of the killing. the rank-and-file are excluded from oversight i can have no oversight when the deep state simply means intelligence community has too much power independent of representative oversight it has nothing to do with the president i would say the same democratic or republican. >> so with this specific informati

as director of cia controls the pipeline of information from the cia to the prosecution to us is there any evidence that is an impediment in the first. i can't answer that question you can't answer that question. is there a suggestion that you might i can't answer that question. so are you saying that the u.s. government is the prosecution holds all the cards in their hand if all of you. in this military commission which was set up for the express purpose of preventing information about torture from getting out to the public the prosecution really believe that the setup to prevent information about getting out about it was not set up for due process justice one of the victims was not well no there's no question that the reason why we are here in guantanamo bay on an inaccessible military base with strict controls on the media trick controls on the defense attorneys strict controls on the defendants themselves for controls on every other participant in the process is to prevent information from talk about torture from getting out to the public the department of defense told us they stra

cia, he presided over the head of cia in 1976 during the height of operation condor, which kind of organize national death squads in latin america and coordinated their activity. the single largest run of bombingsgs and executions carrid out by condor happened while bush was the head of the cia. iran contras as vice president. iran contras as vice president. amy: we say iran contras, if you could expand on that, especially for young people who don't understand what this was? >> iran-contras was a scandal that involved selling high-tech weaponry to iran, diverting the provost is for the anti-communist countries in the corolla. amy: in violation of u.s. law. >> but also in my gesture to limit it suggegest -- supportetd the worst kind of death squad, assassins and fascists in central america throughout the 1980's, and bush was deeply involved in that as vice president and coming out of it, having his work with the cia. bush had a longistory of violence in the third world as a way of establishing himself, which obviously continued with the first gulf war. juan: and a key part of that contras, o

cia conclusions. i didn't do it when i was the director, i'm not going to do it now. >> so jim, is he playing to a technicality? >> well, that's exactly the word that senator lindsey graham used. and lindsey graham has an advantage in that he sat across and heard the intelligence as well, directly from the current director of the cia, gina haspel. a technicality there. and a very careful answer from mike pompeo, who is a careful, knowledgeable -- he led the cia a long time in congress, to sort of play with what he could say publicly about intelligence. because he said both things. he said all the intelligence i saw showed no direct link. but when you pressed him, he said, i can't comment on intelligence. well, listen. you had senators get what apparently was an identical briefing. republican senators. and they came out of that room with no doubt, wolf. and that is a problem for the president. because this briefing by gina haspel was delayed. it came on a tuesday, the week of george bush's funeral, whi

people even talked about abolishing the cia. actually, i'm going to read you a sentence that someone gave me just before i came here tonight that george bush himself wrote to a friend before he came to cia. i wrote it down. he said to a friend, "i honestly feel my political future is behind me. but hell, i'm 51. and this new job gives me a chance to really contribute." so he came in there at a time when it was not politically popular to do so. he picked people up. he was the kind of guy you -- all the things you heard about him were in evidence there. little things like he would ride the same elevator the troops rode every day instead of taking the director's private elevator. he was a runner. so you'd bump into him outside. he'd pull you into his office for a quick briefing on something. he'd have a saturday morning coffee with young people like myself then just to take the temperature of the place. and he repaired the relationship with congress. in that one year he did something like 50 congressional briefings on the hill. and

he is revered as the cia and by -- the cia is named after george w. bush. he worked really well with democrats. he did make itoc more transparet and open and he helped bring back the prestige and confidence in the agency and he wasn't a director for a very long time enjoyed it and he appreciated what they did in the integrity of the peopleof in the difficulty who worked for the cia. it's not an easy job but it has to bee done. it worked well under him. >> host: speaking of legacies, talk about former president george h. w. bush's relationship with the news media. this from an interview from 1999 with brian lamb, the former presidents talking about that relationship and his interaction with the news media. here's what hee had to say. >> i didn't write the actors, i didn't like theot publishers. i bought one letter when i was i got smeared by an ugly story about being disconnected because of the scanner. i never knew whatec the scanner was. and what we've done is brand-new technology. most of the other media people reported it that way. >> grocery store. >> n

close to the public but the cia director is meeting right now with u.s. senate leaders discussing the killing of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi. summary of this is the world news from al-jazeera. after nearly all of the parties that i spoke with during the consultations that i held these last few days made these demands i'm suspending these text messages for six months. a victory for the so-called yellow vests protesters in france is the controversial feel times on the spot the violent nature protests is put on hold. can be canceled that opinion coming from the leading the european court of justice. we also called on russia. to. release the sailors and nato demands the kremlin free the ukrainian navy crew captured in the black sea. so the director of the cia is behind closed doors right now meeting with u.s. senate leaders in washington to discuss the killing of the saudi journalist jamal khashoggi. should cause controversy last week when she missed a trumpet ministration briefing on u.s. relations with saudi arabia they tripled from the cia assessment

that's not what cia analysts do, is it? >> it's not.e typically if you look at the intelligence game, especially when you're working against organizations overseas or governments overseas, the north koreans, the russians, the chinese, the saudis, the iranians, you are not going to have direct access to the leader of that entity, whether it's a president, a prime minister, in this case a crown prince, issuing an order on a phone. you do not get that kind of intelligence. so you are going to rely on things how do we think this organization, this government operates, and what's the information around the event? for example, what is the rate of communications between the assassination team in turkey and the crown prince's office? we don't have the assassination team talking to the crown prince but we have a burst of activity between them. what does that tell you? as an intelligence professional that tells you i will never see the crown prince on the phone but i can tell you with high confidence that based on what i see he knew what was goin

from the cia. his secretary of defense reinforced it zbloods right now we do not have a smoking gun. except for the last 24 hours i have seen all the intelligence we have. we do not have a smoking gun. that the crown prince was involved. >> no smoking gun. he has seen all the intelligence. now he might have been splitting hairs on the precise wording. our own source is senior u.s. official said there was no smoking gun. however according to the curse source the conclusion was based on a recording by the turkish government and other evidence including american intelligence. and two sources says the assessment of mbs responsibility was solid. perhaps secretary mattis was literally act but not faithfully representing the cia assessment. how do we know this was the cia ace assessment in part because of the reliable source and gina haspel has confirmed it. we say airport because her briefing to a select group of lawmakers took place behind closed doors. for all the secrecy about the classified details,

why is it classified with the cia's conclusion is. understand not naming names, who we heard on the phone, those are problems, those leaks really are a problem. but a conclusion should be at least told to us, if it's going to be done classified, i wasn't even given a classified briefing until i read about it in the newspaper. i'm only able to ask questions because of things i'm hearing that are revealed in the newspaper, and really in a representative democracy, intelligence should be shared with the representatives so we can make a level headed decision about whether we should be at war? >> thank you very much senator paul as always. appreciate your time tonight. >>> and outfront next, a final farewell, former president bush holding back tears as his father returns to the capitol for the last time. >>> plus, ronald reagan's daughter patty davis is out front. her message about the stark differences between the former president bush and current president trump. not long ago, ronda started here. and then, more jobs began to appear. what

[laughter] i joined the cia 1976 as a young totally naÏve law school graduate.i was among the first wave of lawyers who was hired by the cia after the investigation i was the 18th lawyer hired by the time i retired in 2009 we had 130 and we have dozens more now. not that i had personally had anything to do with it but that marked the beginning of oversight before that there was none 1976 marked the oversight committee of the house and the senate the establishment of the oversight board of the white house to specifically oversee from the executive branch perspective intelligence community. that's how it all started. >> what brought us to that need for oversight? >> what drew me to apply in the first place back in 1975 where this is the first time the new york times first broke the story of the drug experiment and the assassination plots. there were the sensational televised hearings in 1975 actually the first televised hearing at that point since watergate. and this repulsion on a bipartisan basis in congress that not only these activities over the previous two d

other director of the cia will brief u.s. senate leaders on the killing of saudi journalists on tuesday genius pulls absence from a trumpet ministration briefing on u.s. relations with saudi arabia last week sparked controversy ashaji was murdered inside the saudi consulate in istanbul in october the cia assessment say the crown prince mohammed bin sandman ordered the operation john hendren has the latest from washington. cia director gina haskell will speak to members of the u.s. senate about the murder of jamal khashoggi that is after she did not appear last week when the secretary of state and secretary of defense held a closed door briefing with members of the senate several members of the senate afterwards republicans and democrats alike said they were unsatisfied and an persuaded by what they heard in that room afterward madison pompei oh that is jim that is the defense secretary and mike pompei of the secretary of state came out and said there was no smoking gun that links the crown prince of saudi arabia mohammed bin

a building which today bears his name. >> cia, i love one year only.ed defending the culture at a time when everyone was down on it. >> during the 1976 campaign, it fell to cia director bush, to provide intelligence briefing to the democratic candidate, jimmy carter. when carter beat president ford, bush was again out of a job. >> george bush told jimmy carter, he will quit as director of the cia on january 20th. we're told that bush was willing to stay on, but that carter gave him no encouragement. what he will do next, he didn't say. >> george bush today declared himself a candidate for the republican nomination for president. >> bush wanted jimmy carter's job, but first he'd have to fight ronald reagan for the gop nomination. he was asked his opinion of reagan. >> i think he'd be a good president, much better than carter. i'll throw that in there. but i would be a better president. that's the point i got to get across. >> the bush resume proved no match for the reagan revolution. he appeared ready to make history by picking a former president, geral

why isn't the cia director here? >> i was asked to be here and i'm here. >> that is what we call a stonewall. the administration's response prompted a furious response from lindsey graham. he changed hislast minute to support the war against yemen. the executive director of the arabia foundation in washington d.c. joins me now. ali shahabi, welcome to the program. >> thank you. >> we have been wanting to get the perspective of this terrible story that happened in october. we're very happy to have you on to answer some questions. >> thank you. >> first and foremost, this has been an ever-changing narrative from saudi arabia about precisely what happened to jamal khashoggi, from denials to outright expressions that he had left safe and sound to then saying he had been killed in an altercation, to then saying it was a strange yulationstrangula saying it was an overdose of a pain killer and a sedative and to admit that he was dismembered. how do you account for the impact and the reasons behind all this changing testimon

the director of the cia will brief u.s. senate leaders on the killing of saudi journalist on tuesday absence from a trumpet ministration briefing on saudi arabia last week sparked controversy. a former cia officer glenn kahl says he is not expecting any big revelations from jena. since the report has leaked some i think that she will speak clearly to that and i don't expect that she would go any further than anything that we know she'll never reveal in a briefing like this the sources or or the methods which she will reveal the substance the main point here is that this you can have the at this two ways it's the trump administration just as our colleague in washington proved an excellent briefing said no it's the from administration backing water or or trying to get out from some of the pressure that it is now under from the congress and it is congress's effort to reassert its part prerogatives that's that's really the news here with trump's continuing to try to carry the water for him have been some if trump can bury it he

he was revered by the cia and in fact it is named after him. he worked very well with democrats and he did make it more transparent and open and helped bring back the prestige and confident in the agency. he appreciated what they did and the integrity of the people and the difficulty. it's not an easy job but it has to be done and it worked well under him. >> host: i want to talk about the former h. w. bush legacy with the media relationship in the news media. this is from an interview in 1999 with brian lamb. the former president talking about that relationship and his interactions in the news media. here's what he ha he had to say. >> . >> i didn't write the editors of the publishers. i wrote one letter to sulzberger when i thought i was smeared by an ugly story about being disconnected because of the scanner. i never knew what a scanner was and what we had done in this brand-new technology and most of the other media people reported that way. it was in a convention unveiling new machinery could take it crushed package for the first time in h

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talk about what the cia provides. >> so what the cia provided was detailed evidence, as i understand it, of the conversations that mohammed bin salman had with his key lieutenant about what was taking place in istanbul and conversations from is tan bull to riyadh, filling riyadh in on what is going on, what happened. the key thing is, the senators wouldn't just accept the kind of -- well, there's no smoking gun, we don't know, we'll see. the policy whitewashed this. senators like lindsey graham said we want gina haspel here. it was the day when gina haspel became cia director for real. >> it's a bit like tennis. you're not sure what side the ball is going to be on. but there are days when you're actually very glad that lindsey graham remembers what he and john mccain did together. yesterday was one of those days. now, today, who knows. >> i know. >> but he actually referenced mccain yesterday, lindsey graham did. if john mccain were standing here right now, here is what he would be saying. >> so talking about the state department, talking about mattis and policy, versus gina haspel a

cia director gina housefull has been speaking to u.s. senators on capitol hill a group of about eight of them are. we have not heard from her after there were never likely true but we have heard from senator lindsey graham and bob corker who have been v. in their criticism of mohammed been some of the saudi crown prince saying there was absolutely no doubt in the briefing left them absolutely no doubt that jamal khashoggi murder had been ordered by the saudi crown prince that he had to know he had to have been involved we're waiting to hear more reaction from perhaps more senators and potentially who knows from the president as well santa maria thanks for staying with us more news from the team in london in just a moment. when the on line for you looking at wildlife and how the solutions come together to benefit all parties and that's where we're going to need long term or if you join us on sand if you take me around the continent well. you don't have to set up your experiment and for your experiment in the universe this is a dialogue ev

the director of the cia will brief u.s. senate leaders on the killing of saudi journalist america shuggie on tuesday assholes absence from a trumpet ministration briefing on saudi arabia last week sparked controversy. dozens of wounded fighters have arrived in yemen that's after being allowed to leave the country for medical treatment. the evacuation was a condition sent by the rebels to the saudi u.a.e. coalition for un backed talks in sweden later this year the conflict which erupted in two thousand and fifteen has brought yemen to the brink of famine hammered haiti is a member of the hoodies political bureau he explains how the evacuation agreement came about how the how he. talks about this deal have started months or a year ago we offered to the muted to a deal to release or hostages and detainees in exchange for releasing prisoners and hostages at the other side and this is because there are a source of pain and suffering to their families the war has been going on for a long time and there is no justification for not

we talked to sources at the fbi, cia and elsewhere. they don't believe that happened >> we don't know if michael cohen maybe offering them. >> that's right. >> on another question or two. i want to get out and then we can turn the microphone over to the audience. so, the end of the book you wonder as many of us continue to wonder what it is exactly that vladimir putin has on trump and you write even if the russian said steel dossier suggest there's a compromising image of trump in moscow that it may not be decisive leverage given everything else he's been able to survive, but we are left wondering, so what explains, you know, trumps continuing and bizarre submissiveness to the russian leader? where do you come out? >> i think i sort of look at these and categories and then i assigned them category of various levels of plausibility so i think the more we have seen with trump it certainly as i said seems plausible that the russians have some sort of compromising tape of him, but it's impossible that it would get vladimir putin leverage,

himself and he also worked at the cia during the period when george bush was director of the cia.s why he was so celebrated by the spooks, as we call them, the cia people. >> 1999, i think it was rob portman, i think he was then a representative. >> senator from ohio. >> senator now. he proposed to congress that the headquarters at cia be named after george bush. we applauded that because george bush is revered as a former cia director. he came to cia at a difficult time. some viewers may remember something of those years. >> the church committee. >> the church committee which had brought to light a number of things that were very controversial about the cia. morale was kind of in the tank at that point when george bush came. and he lifted things up. he was not political at all. he was very objective. he roamed the halls, he had coffee with brand-new officers like myself, asked us what we thought. to this day he's looked upon, in fact 16 cia directors and former directors today issued a statement basically saying george bush is sort of the lodestar, the north star, if you will, fo

, a building which today bears his name. >> cia i love one year only. love defending the culture at a time when everybody was down on it. >> during the 1986 campaign, it fell to cia director bush to provide intelligence brief together democratic candidate jimmy carter. when carter beat president ford, bush was again out of a job. >> george bush has told jimmy carter he will quit as director of the cia on january 20th, inauguration day. we're told that bush was willing to stay on but carter gave him no encouragement. >> george bush today declared himself a candidate for the republican nomination for president. >> bush wanted jimmy carter's job but first i would have to fight ronald reagan for the gop nomination. he was asked his opinion of reagan. >> i think he would be a good president, much better than carter. but i would be a better president. that's the point i've got to get across. >> the bush resume proved no match for the reagan revolution. ronald reagan won the nomination and appeared ready to make history by picking a former president gerald for

asked for as director of cia controls the pipeline of information from the cia to the prosecution to us is there any evidence that it is an impediment in the first and. i can't answer that question you can't answer that question. is there a suggestion that you might i can answer that question. so are you saying that the u.s. government is the prosecution holds all the cards in their hand is that what all of you. in this military commission. which was set up for the express purpose of preventing information about torture from getting out to the public the prosecution really believe that it's not to prevent information about getting out the public was not set up for due process justice none of the victims was not well no there's no question that the reason why we are here in guantanamo bay on an inaccessible military base with strict controls on the media trick controls on the defense attorneys strict controls on the defendants themselves for controls on every other participant in the process is to prevent information from talk about torture from getting out to the public the departmen

as director of cia controls the pipeline of information from the cia to the prosecution to us is there any evidence that it is an impediment in the first and. i can't answer that question you can't answer that question. is there a suggestion that you might i can answer that question. so are you saying that the u.s. government is the prosecution holds all the cards in their hand is that what your view. in this military commission. which was set up for the express purpose of preventing information about torture from getting out to the public the prosecution really believe that it's not to prevent information about getting out the vote it was not set up for due process justice one of the victims was not well no there's no question that the reason why we are here in guantanamo bay on an inaccessible military base with strict controls on the media trick controls on the defense attorneys strict controls on the defendants themselves for controls on every other participant in the process is to prevent information from talk about torture from getting out to the public the department of defense

he is revered by the cia. and by impressive people in the cia. after george bush.e worked at that she worked really well with democrats. he did make it more transparent and open. he helped bring back the oppressed age and confidence in the agency. was not a director for a very long time. he enjoyed it. he appreciated what they did and the integrity of the people and difficulty of the work of the cia. it is not an easy job. it has to be done. it worked well under him. the formerabout president legacy with the news media. his relationship with the news media. this from an interview from 1999. ryan lamb. the former president talking about that relationship and his interactions with the news media. here's what he had to say. >> i did not write that editors, i did not write the publishers want present. i wrote one of letter when i was -- i thought smeared by an ugly story about being disconnected because of the scanner. i never knew what a scanner was. and what we had done is brand-new technology. and most of the other media people reported it that way. in a convention.