david sanger, i'm going to start with you. and your colleagues at the "new york times" wrote a pretty remarkable story yesterday about, well, you can't use any words other than disarray, chaos, inside the national security council. given that, and the events of today, where do things stand? >> well, i think that everybody in the national security council is wondering when they're going to begin to get to what the council is supposed to be doing which is coordinate among the different agencies of government, bring intelligence debate debate policy. several things have gotten in the way of doing that, judy. the first is that as you reported before, general flynn has been under this crowd and investigation and now we hear just a little while ago that president trump and vice president pence are considering his fate. that just an hour after we were told that he's got the president's full confidence. the secretary thing that is going on is that the staff itself is a little bit paranoid rate now. they know that mr. flin has-- flynn

i begin first with david sanger.why are they doing flynn, mike flynn, the national security adviser, that-- issued a statement today in which he said that the old method of watching a missile firing and then gathering the united nations general assembly or security council together to issue a pronouncement against iran, that those days were over, that that was ineffective. so he announced a series of sanctions that, quite frankly, looked a fair bit like the kind of sanctions the obama administration issued just a year ago. the difference was that in announcing it, they revealed a bit more of what they knew about the networks of suppliers that the iranians have for their missile program, blowing the cover of a number of front companies and signaling to the iranians, "we know where you live, and you're in a new era now where we can make your life a little more miserable." >> rose: will it have an impact on the iranians or how will they react? >> charlie, i think iranian's comfort zone is to have contained condition 41i

first i begin with david sanger. david, why are they doing this? will it be successful, and what will it achieve? >> well, charlie, they're doing this because they want to set a new tone and they want to set it right away. you heard from general flynn, mike flynn, the national security advisor, he issued a statement today in which he said the old method of washing a missile firing and then gathering the united nations general assembly or security council together to issue a pronouncement against iran, that those days were over and that was ineffective, so h he announce advise of sanctions that quite frankly looked a fair bit like the kind of sanctions the obama administration issued just a year ago. the difference was that, in announcing it, they revealed a bit more of what they knew about the networks of suppliers that the iranians have for their missile programs, blowing the cover of a number of front companies, and signaling to the iranians, we know where you live and you're in a new era now where we can make your life a little more miserable. t

david? mr. sanger: first of all, this is a setup because jim was a graduate student trying to keep track of all of us when i was a student. he has seen the agitprop close-up here. it is a very good question, and i think it is one of the reasons that use saw so many committees in congress and many efforts by the obama administration to set up investigations that would live beyond the obama administration. i think you are going to see a lot of efforts by the trump administration to try to make sure that this either goes away or there are distractions from it, and so forth. but fundamentally, the hacking investigation fell victim to the same divisions within the country that made it so effective. dr. hill: i think what we are going to have to do, and it is going to be incumbent on all of us, is basically change the discussion and narrative and actually depoliticize this stuff if at all possible. it is right that it fell victim to partisan politics, and i have to say with due respect to some former senior

host: david? sanger: it is now making its way into u.s. doctrine, as well, so when you look at what the cyber special mission forces are supposed to be doing, the 100 groups that have been distributed among the more traditional military units, it is to use cyber in the opening hours or at some point in a otherct together with events. if you are looking for a description of this, what has been written about a u.s. program which was the u.s. program against iran if we had gotten into conflict with iran, and it described it in days, and that describes the competition, and that so int that is all about, many ways, they are significant differences in it. the way the russians have thought about this for a while has got parallels, not exact, with the way that the u.s. military is doing it. ofon data, we have examples cyber attacks, no killing, some carried out by the russians, and there was the first publicly , by russia,t caused and that in 2016, we saw another. these are is that developing capabilities, but as much as we are talking about influ

first, our colleague ben buchanan, david sanger, and fiona hill joins us from washington, currently at the brookings institution, had been national intelligence officer for russia. also a harvard alumnus several times over. welcome back. thank you everyone for cramming in here to the absolute full house. absolutely packed. we will note that if you have your cell phone on, please turn it to silent or turn it off, a remarkable idea. if you'd like to live tweet, go for it. it is on the record. have at it. what we would ask is when it comes time for q&a, we do have microphones on the left and right. when it is time for questions, please use them. that way our audience here and on tv will be able to be able t participate and hear e are talking about for the q&a. with that, let's begin. let me ask our guest, fiona, tell us a little bit about where we are at with russia today. where have we been? we have a new administration that comes in with a slightly different approach and thought about russia then previous administrations. set the stage for us, if you would, where we are at with russia t

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i begin first with david sanger. david, why are they doing this?ill it be successful and what will achieve? charlie, they are doing this because they want to set a new tone and they want to set it right away. general flynn, michael flynn, the national security advisor. he issued a statement in which he said the old method of watching a missile firing and then gathering the united nations general assembly or security council together to issue a pronouncement against were over.those days that that was an effective. so, he announced a series of , quite friendly, looked a fair bit like the kind of sanctions the obama administration -- quite frankly, looked a fair bit like the kind of sanctions the obama administration and now -- announced a year ago. they revealed a little bit more about what they knew about suppliers the a rainy and -- had anrs the iranians signaling to them, we know where you live and we are in a new era now we can make your life a little more reasonable. the question is, what do they do after this? sanctions are within the 40-yard l

david sanger of the "new york times," national security correspondent, joins us now. good morning. good to be with you, norah. >> given that the justice department had warned the white house about this late last month how long was the white house planning to keep a security threat as the head of the nse? >> it's a great question. these questions have been swirling around general flynn for at least a month. what started all of this was the imposition of sanctions against russia by president obama in return for their interference in the election. so the question here is, if president trump knew about this and knew of the justice department concern, which appears to have come from sally yates, the deputy attorney general who he fired not long ago for her unwillingness to enforce the immigration restrictions, was he planning to just ignore this piece of evidence until it became public and he couldn't any longer? >> david, is your reporting that general flynn was acting on his own when he discussed these sanctions with the russians, or was it an authorized discussion, which

student of life and i want to follow up on the influence of fake news especially domestically with david sanger. you may clear this is an old playbook on steroids and should be taken seriously. everyone sitting and standing in this room takes it seriously but it is also fair to say that we are 90% of the eastern intellectual elite in this room and there is a whole group of people who don't take it as seriously as we do. the new york times several weeks ago had an article about trump supporters and their reaction to wrecking hacking and there were three positions was on one spectrum it was it didn't happen. in the middle of the spectrum it happens, didn't influence the election and on the far end of the spectrum was if it influence the election this was a good thing, it got trump elected. nowhere was a sense that this was a problem so if 35% of the electorate who are trump supporters come what may don't see russian hacking is a problem, what is the political will, what is the reality domestically about how we can move forward on this with the money, staff, policy that we all think it deserves? >

and civilians and militants are murky, though eric schmidt and david sanger of the "new york times" describedat could go wrong did. this is not the only recent action in yemen. the u.s. has ramped up activity in the skies over this war-torn nation in recent years. as many as 174 aqap members were killed in strikes rast last year according to "the long war journal." that's up from 97 the previous year. there were 38 strikes in 2016 up from 22 in 2015. there have been at least five strikes already this year as the "new york times" points out. what is going on? for one, al qaeda and the arabian peninsula is considered to be the most capable al qaeda offshoot. while isis is target number one globally a resurgent al qaeda would be troublesome. the government has requested a review of last month's operation following joe outcries over the civilian casualties. yemen was included in the trump travel ban increasing tensions with that country. it will be hard to fight isis or al qaeda without friends on the ground in that region. >>> the correct answer to the "qup "gps" challenge question is "c." when

we talk to david sanger of the "new york times" and karim sadjadpour of the carnegie endowment for internationalce. >> we are in the early stages of an escalation which could culminate in a military conflict either between the united states and iran or israel and iran. you know, i think the issue here is that iran argues that any new sanctions are a violation and abrogation of the nuclear deal, and they've said on several occasions that if the u.s. violates its end of the deal, then iran will reconstitute it's nuclear program, and i think i think it's going -- what we saw in the nuclear deal a

i would say one thing else, a third character that's sort of involved, my colleague david sanger a couplef days ago reported the decision to make the attack in yemen was in part made at a dinner in which mr. bannon was present, secretary of defense mattis was present, and jared kushner, the president's son-in-law was present at this dinner as well, so i think we are in general looking at a white house that either, a, isn't quite sure, hasn't been quite briefed on the traditions and the wisdoms of the chains of command that had previously been established or is attempting to do it another way. i'm thinking that it's the former, not the latter. i've seen over the course of the last couple of days them moving back into a more conventional, a conventional mind-set on this, for instance, having the joint chiefs of staff being included albeit informally as a permanent member of the principals committee. >> "snl" spoofed sean spicer's daily press briefings this weekend and i can't not do to this, sorry, glenn, you were included. let's watch. >> glenn thrush, "new york times," boo, go ahead. >> y

. >> david sanger talked about a drop box that the times has offered to people and he indicated that there was a higher percentage of available information he thought there would be. he said he thought it would be 99% of non-information. he sees 10% of useable information. >> they have something similar to us. i don't flknow what the volume . we have people that review it. it's sirlated to the people who examine it. it's i don't know what the percentage would be even if it's 1%. we'll take it. >> do you have something like that. >> we do. it's on the home page of the website. it's offers eight different ways to send us information. that's how the "new york times" was able to get a portion of donald trump's taxes. >> it sound good. susan and pat, can you us through the route how this will play out in terms of someone who decides to provide information to someone like the new york or "washington post." is a procedures where they need to be counselled by attorneys. i know els burg talk people with disabilities -- talked about that last night. can you see that things have happened in ter

joining me now from washington, david sanger from the "washington times." this friday afternoon. i begin first with david

at the end, another familiar name, david sanger. thanks for joining us. the national security correspondent interior "new york times." i'd like to talk about the here and now. leaks seems the inappropriate word. it seems like a deluge of information coming out of this administration right now and if we put aside for a minute the massive dumps of information, the pentagon papers, snowden, chelsea manning, i'm wondering, bob and david, if you have ever seen this volume of leaks coming out in the administration? is it unprecedented or not, bob? >> i wouldn't use the word leaks. i think it's aggressive reporting and it's the transfer of administrations that has created the environment and a good deal coming from former people, but i agree with ellsburg, more leaks. and i think david would agree on this, there's this sense that reporters just sit around waiting for somebody to bring in a grocery cart of documents like ellsburg did or to call and i think the best sources are not volunteers. somebody who comes to us, but people we recruit and go to and say, we w

. >> david sanger, we leave it there. morning. >> thank you, good to talk to you. >>> medication might not be the best way to treat your aching back. our dr. tara narula, there she is, in the green . >>> more men want women to make the first move. ahead, the new study that are changing. what is the first move? we'll get into that. >> hello. there's a good song to play with this. you're watching "cbs this morning." [ piercing sound ] daddy! lets play! sorry kids. feeling dead on your feet? i've been on my feet all day. dr. scholl's massaging gel insoles have a unique gel wave design for outrageous comfort that helps you feel more energized. dr. scholl's. feel the energy! ♪ >>> in our "morning rounds" new recommendations for the treatment of low back pain. a quarter of americans have had back pain at least once in the past three months. a new review finds the best therapy may not, may not, include a pill. the american college of physicians is now telling doctors

under both republican and democratic administrations and on the end, another very familiar name, david sanger. he is the national security correspondent for the "new york times." i would like to talk about the here and now. leaks seems to be the inappropriate word. there is a deluge of information coming out of this administration right now. and if we put aside for a minute the massive dumps of information, the pentagon papers manning, havelsea you ever ever seen this volume of leaks coming out in an administration? is it unprecedented or not? >> i wouldn't use the word leaks. it's aggressive reporting. and it's the transfer of administrations that has created the enretirement and a good deal of this is coming from former people. but i agree, more leaks. and i think david would agree on this, there is this sense that reporters just sit around waiting for someone to bring in a grocery cart of documents like aniel did, or to call -- and i think the best sources are not volunteers, somebody who comes to us but people we recruit and go to and say, we want to understand what's going on. >> spy cra

. >> david sanger, we leave it there. morning. >> thank you, good to talk to you. >>> medication might not be the best way to treat your aching back. our dr. tara narula, there she is, in the green time, by . >>> more men want women to make the first move. ahead, the new study that reveals how the rules for dating are changing. what is the first move? we'll get into that. >> hello. there's a good song to play with this. you're watching "cbs this morning." daddy! lets play! sorry kids. feeling dead on your feet? i've been on my feet all day. dr. scholl's massaging gel insoles have a unique gel wave design for outrageous comfort that helps you feel more energized. dr. scholl's. feel the energy! told you have cancer? start with a specialist. start where you'll find advanced technology, precision treatment options and truly compassionate care. start here with a team of experts who treat only cancer. every stage. every day. it's not one thing we do. it's they thing we do. start at cancer treatment centers of ameca in philadelp

. >> and david sanger from the new york times in the last panel talked about the drop box that the "times" has now offered to people, and he indicated that there was a higher percentage of the valuable information than he thought that there would be. he thought 99% just noninformation, but he sees more like 10% now of usable quantifiable information. >> they have something similar to us. i don't know what the volume s and i don't look at it myself, but we do have people who review it. it is circulated to the appropriate people to examine, and it is generally a small percentage that is worthy of a publication and our efforts. i don't know what that percentage would be. even if it is wone percent, we will take it. >> and do you have is something like that? >> we do. it is right there on the home page of the website and when you click through, it offers about eight different ways that you can send us information. confidentially. >> great. >> there is always the mail, too, by the way. >> old school. >> that is how "the new york times" was able to get a portion of donald trump's taxes, ordinar