allies in the region and as general michael flynn who was the head of the defense intelligence agency at that time admitted on al jazeera the united states took a willful decision to support those extremists so the united states back then was supporting an attempt to take over the eastern. syria later on when the tide turned when the tide turned with the help of russia iran hezbollah the iraqis on the volunteers and isis began to lose ground and territory it was only then that the united states changes policy before that the united states was allowing isis to thrive. to go on between turkey and i say this we know from kerry the secretary of state of the united states in the audio file that he told the syrian opposition people that the united states allowed isis advance on damascus to put pressure on president assad so only when the tide turned that the united states decided to start fighting isis and that was because they wanted a piece of syria so that they could. basically pursue the same policy which mohamed let me let me let me point out a rise of the let me point out to our viewe

allies in the region and as general michael flynn who was the head of the defense intelligence agency at that time admitted on al jazeera the united states took a willful decision to support those extremists so the united states back then was supporting an attempt to take over the east of syria later on when the tide turned when the tide turned with the help of russia iran hezbollah the iraqis on the volunteers and isis began to lose ground and territory it was only then that the united states change its policy before that the united states was allowing isis to thrive without the right to go on between turkey and isis we know from kerry the secretary of state of the united states in the audio file that he told the syrian opposition people that the united states allowed isis advance on damascus to put pressure on president assad so only when the tide turned to the united states decided to start fighting. and that was because they wanted a piece of syria so that they could. basically pursue the same policy which mohamed let me let me let me point out a rise of the let me point out to ou

allies in the region and as general michael flynn who was the head of the defense intelligence agency at that time admitted on al jazeera the united states took a willful decision to support those extremists so the united states back then was supporting an attempt to take over the east of syria later on when the tide turned when the tide turned with the help of russia iran hezbollah the iraqis on the volunteers and isis began to lose ground and territory it was only then that the united states changes policy before that the united states was allowing isis to thrive without the right to go on between turkey and isis we know from kerry the secretary of state of the united states in a leaked audio file that he told the syrian opposition people that the united states allowed isis advance on damascus to put pressure on president assad so only when the tide turned to the united states decided to start fighting isis and that was because they wanted a piece of syria so that they could. basically pursue. same policy let me let me let me point out a rise of the let me point out to our viewers o

allies in the region and as general michael flynn who was the head of the defense intelligence agency at that time admitted on al jazeera the united states took a willful decision to support those extremists so the united states back then was supporting an attempt to take over the east of syria later on when the tide turned when the tide turned with the help of russia iran hezbollah the iraqis on the volunteers and isis began to lose ground and territory it was only then that the united states change its policy before that the united states was allowing isis to thrive without the right to go on between turkey and isis we know from kerry the secretary of state of the united states in the audio file that he told the syrian opposition people that the united states allowed isis advance on damascus to put pressure on president assad so only when the tide turned to the united states decided to start fighting isis and that was because they wanted a piece of syria so that they could. basically pursue. same policy which mohamed let me let me let me point out your eyes of the let me point out t

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welcome director of national intelligence dan coats, director of the central intelligence agency mike pompeo, director of the defenseligence agency general robert ashley, director of the federal bureau of investigation chris wray, director of the national security agency, admiral mike rogers and director of the geospatial intelligence agency robert cardillo. we have a long day in front of us. i thank you all for being here. i know how forward you look to this one occasion on an annual basis. since 1995, this committee's met in open forum to discuss the security threats facing the united states of america. this has never been nor will it ever be a comfortable conversation to have. the threats this country face are complex, evolving and without easy answers. they exist in multiple domains. they're asymmetrical and conventional. they can be launched from across the ocean or be planned in the heart of our homeland. nonetheless, this conversation serves a vital purpose. and it's essential it takes place in the public square with as much detail and candor as is possible. in my view, that is the true value and public servi

intelligence agencies. it wasn't vet you had with the majority of agencies. including the defenseligence agency and homeland security. it was written by a small group of hand-picked analysts. now, a committee source a source with the house intelligence committee told me they are looking at every word of this ica and trying to find out how were these hand picked analysts picked. as a former cia analysts i can tell you that's not the way it's done. >> martha: in that vein why were we told by james clamp and others. james -- clapper and others. 17 agencies all agreed that there was obvious meddling by the russians in our election. >> if you pars exactly what he said, he admitted it was written by the hand picked analysts that actually came from clapper and he named the agencies they came from. he is has tried to say is it reflects the views of the entire community. i have discussed this on fox before. if you look at the cover page of this assessment, it lacks a key caveat that this is an intelligence community coordinated product. you can look at other ones on the web and that caveat

top officials from the cia, nsa, fbi and the defense intelligence agency agree americans should not buy phones made by chinese tech companies. testifying before the senate intel panel the intel experts said the smart phone makers pose a security threat to u.s. customers. the company disputes that, rushing to the defense saying the u.s. spy agencies are trying to protect domestic brands like the i phone. international aid group sells it's taking action on 24 cases of sexual harassment or abuse among employees last year and dismissed 19 people. msf is known as doctors without worlders. it came as they face widespread criticism that they paid for sex while working in hatie. after the 2010 earthquake. el salvador supreme court commuting the centers after woman serving 30 years in prison for getting an abortion. she said it was a still birth. the court ruled the evidence did not prove she took any specific action to abort the pregnancy. which is illegal in el salvador, was eligible for a form of clemency. el salvador one of four latin american countries with total complete bans on abortion.

>> he was promoted above the level he was suited for when he was appointed to lead the defense intelligence agencypent years and years on the battle field. he was a door kicker like what's over that hill? how should we take this convoy so our people don't get hurt? when he got back to washington, he got into a system where he had strong views about what should be done but not the subtlety or the experience, and then when he got fired during the obama administration, i think set him off a course i can't explain entirely. it's very different from what he was in the military. >> you also -- nobody comes off well, i should say in the book. spoiler alert. the state department comes off marginally has having a slightly better understanding at some points. are you concerned about the real atrophy of the state department under tillerson? >> deeply. we keep going out to afghanistan and saying we can't win this war militarily, and yet, and generals say there, not just civilians. and yet we keep prioritizing military action to ultimately make -- replace it. we need diplomacy. we need a state department that'

hearing from the director of national intelligence, the head of the fbi, the head of the dia, defense intelligence agency and others. i want to bring my panel back in to talk about this. we have josh campbell, former fbi special agent, now a cnn law enforcement analyst, dana bash with us, and chris cillizza, cnn politics reporter and editor at large. there are so many places where we could start. this has been a pretty informative hearing as we were hoping it would be that we could learn more information. i want to start with the rob porter scandal. and how the fbi, we just heard from the director, christopher wray, he was asked about as we really don't know the timeline coming from the white house, about what they knew about rob porter, allegations that he had physically assaulted his two ex-wives and a girlfriend as well. and the -- and christopher wray said this when asked about the interactions between the fbi, which does that background check for security clearances, did one on rob porter. here is what he said. >> the fbi submitted a partial report on the investigation in question in march. and then

today, director of national intelligence dan coats, director of the central intelligence agency mike pompeo, director of defense intelligence agency general robert ashley, director of the federal bureau of investigation chris wray, director of the national security agency admiral mike rogers and the director of the geo spacial intelligence agency robert cardale. we've got a long day in front of us and i thinkal of you for being here. i now how forward you look to this one occasion on an annual basis. since 1995, this committee's met in open forum to discuss the security threats facing the united states of america. this has never been nor will it ever be a comfortable conversation to have. the threats this country face are complex, evolving, and without easy answers. they exist in multiple domains. they're asymmetrical and conventional. they can be launched from across the ocean or planned in our homeland. none of less, this conversation serves a vital purpose and it's essential that it takes place in the public square with as much detail and candor as is possible. in my view, that is the true value and public s

one, you look at dia and thanks for all the support that the committee provides to the defense intelligence agency, if you look at our coordination, you look at foreign militaries and the operational environment, so this is central to looking at doctrine and what they're developing, you think about artificial intelligence, our near peer competitors, our pursuing this and it is commercial technology that is available. but you look at the volume and big data and what is available, the ability to digest and pull all that information in, artificial intelligence will be integral to that. an example of one of the projects we work on, at the open source level, project maven. you look at full motion video, for example, social media, full motion video, you're never going to be able to afford the workforce that is going to be able to go through all the material, whether it is video, whether it is what admiral rogers works in the way of intelligence or what is available on the social media. so artificial intelligence, machine learning, really where we are now, more mesh learning than it is artificial intelli

anyone else because of what happened in syria we know from the two thousand and twelve defense and intelligence agency document where the united states knew that the extremists were the major fighting force in syria from early on in the fighting and they knew that neighboring countries were supporting these groups and as general flynn michael frayn on al-jazeera admitted the united states took a willful this edition to support these extremists and they wrongly saw that europe paid the price there is read the regime is also for its so-called national interest it's supporting isis at least indirectly and al-qaeda directly and this is something that i think the international community should take note of countries like china and russia should take note that israel is a country that alongside the united states who will use extremist sense as tools and that could be dangerous for central asia in the future so i think that ultimately israel is paying a price at the international level and also it's being seen as the aggressor in syria because it downs a drone allegedly flying over syria by bombing syria and

intelligence. this is what should be dealt by our defense and intelligence agencies, not by a prosecutor filing a criminalt against people that are not in the united states, and this is never going to go to trial. >> tucker: because it's inherently political. it's making the ruling class feel better about themselves. >> they should feel worse because it shows -- the president's right. it does not show any kind of collusion, cooperation whatsoever with the trump campaign. the only collusion there might o be is what's going on with the left and the russians since the election. >> tucker: how about since 1917? some of us remember. great to see you. the next u.s. census is just two years away and could be having your voting power diluted by illegal immigrants. that's a real thing. we will explain how it works next. ♪ friends, colleagues, gathered here are the world's finest insurance experts. rodney -- mastermind of discounts like safe driver, paperless. the list goes on. how about a discount for long lists? gold. mara, you save our customers hundreds for switching almost effortlessly. it's a gift. and jamie.

intelligence. this is what should be dealt with our defense and intelligence agencies, not by a prosecutor filing aindictment against people that are not in the united states, and this is never going to go to trial. >> tucker: it's inherently political. it's making them feel better about themselves. >> they should feel worse because it shows -- the president's right. it does not show any kind of collusion, cooperation whatsoever with the trump campaign. the only collusion there might be is what's going on with the left and the russians since the election. >> tucker: how about since 1917? some of us remember. great to see you. the next u.s. census is just two years away and could be having your voting power diluted by illegal immigrants. that's a real thing. we will explain how it works next. ♪ [screaming & crying] [phone ping] with esurance photo claims, you could have money for repairs within a day... wow! that was really fast. huh. ...so it doesn't have to hurt for long. hmm. that's insurance for the modern world. esurance. an allstate company. click or call. in your noise cancelling trheadphones

unlike other agencies, the department of defense and intelligence agencies, the white house polices itswn through a new office, the office of security, it's part of the office of management and administration, they're the ones who receive the fbi background reports and have to make a judgment about whether somebody is cleared for a security clearance. whether the chief of staff knew about that, remember that john kelly was not the chief of staff when rob porter came on -- >> good point. >> -- he was the secretary of homeland security. so what did the chief of staff know and when did he know it? i don't know. but as you've been pointing out tonight, the chief of staff's own statements have been sort of slow to recognize the gravity of this until a few moments ago in that statement he read where he says that domestic violence has no place in society. >> greg gourdy white house correspondent, thank you for your reporting and thank you for your time today. we'll be right back. stay with us. there are two types of people in the world. those who fear the future... and those who embrace it. th

i think the defense department as well as intelligence agencies as well as the public have a role tolay here. >> jack, you have said in the past that you do believe that russia was involved in this way do you believe that russia has changed any tactics now that the usa has more information about what happened in 2016? >> no, the pattern has always been the historically that the russians will probe, they'll look for weak spots and unfortunately, there are plenty of weak spots. this topic is so rich we could spend the next day talking about this, i don't know where to start. the tactics haven't changed, no. >> alex, does the federal government have a handle on their opponent here, the enemy in this, what jack calls, cold war 2.0, they have come out with some guidelines here, prevents unauthorized access or manipulation of communication data, audit records, are they approaching this wholistically. >> we're starting to see the beginnings of serious erts efforts that could prevent foreign hacking of voting machines. talking about cold war 2.0, it might not be russia next time. plenty of v

defense is excellent. u.s. intelligence agency combined with web scale companies do a great job. web scale companies are very good and growing in their ability to rapidly identify disinformation campaigns and response. and we need -- will need some help from the legislative side. specifically for dod, five recommendations that track very closely with what senator nelson was talking about. i think the-to-jump start this sponsored task nelson was talking about. i think to jump-start this nsc-sponsored task force, we should coordinate with the secretary of defense to immediately stand up and a joint interagency task force. inside of that again, empowered private sector players. we typically don't think about that, but this really is something where we need to work together in a public/private partnership. we need to make arrangements with state and local officials through dhs and the national guard bureau. second recommendation is to the ngb and working with the national guard bureau to really not only inventory what we have on cyber units and information operations units, but to be

defense enterprise with emphasis on the development of improved center networks combined with an interceptor capability and capacity and reliability. we continue to work with the missile defense agency. the intelligence community and other combat and commands to ensure our collaborative effort in outpacing the threat. russia continues to modernize its long-range bombers and its submarines and has developed new cruise missiles with the capability to hold targets at risk at ranges that we haven't seen before. to defend against advanced cruise missiles it's important that we continue to make prudent and savvy investments and dwa advance weapons and these advancements in fleets to demonstrate our capability to threaten our homelands for the years to come. the threats mentioned are the most serious, however, we remain vigilant against the adapting threat of terrorism as well as unpredictable, natural disasters. as we review the 2017 hurricane response and prepare for the 2018 season, we are working with our mission partners to include the active, guard, reserve, forces to incorporate the lessons learned to ensure that we provide our best support to lead federal agencies. with respect to canada, we are bui

this allowed intelligence agencies to keep sharing information and the commissioner told a defense conference that the alliances should be maintained. that we do not want to take revenge for what british people have decided and this security bridge will the it.tained and we still need >> global news in 120 countries. this is bloomberg. >> it is a shortened holiday week and the floodgates will upn for treasury to step bond auctions this week. here with morean and the action. >> we know the higher yields triggered this and we want to be close with the rebound underway for stocks and we go into the market snapshot and some analysts say we are not out of the woods yet with the correction and there is focus on the dollar and the treasury show you how will much the after supply costs the taxpayer. it will be auctioned off and you charte this fascinating a citigroup analyst issuing a healthy morning that off atasury yield may be citigrouphese are not targets. these are his he says the information could take seven years and it could 2025.t in he called the stock market decline recently. >> i cannot s

it provided tools and a deadline to go after entities who support the same intelligence and defense agencies. isn't it true that yesterday the company ministration failed to apply one single new sanctions on anyone who may be supporting these efforts? >> we very much agree with the purpose, there was an extraordinary amount of work. i assume you haven't reviewed the classified version. >> a simple yes or no is what i want. have you imposed any new sanctions on any of these entities? >> the intent was not to have sanctions by the delivery report last night. the intent was to do an extremely thorough analysis. hundreds of pages. there will be sanctions that come out of this. >> the law is pretty clear. it seems to me not only do you have to describe the entities, he also had to pursue sanctions. i look forward in continuing to press that question. >> thank you for taking time and being with us today. i'm sure you recall last august when you came to las vegas and had a round table with prominent business people. i am pleased about the questions sharedcerns that were were delivered four months l

tools and a deadline of yesterday to go after entities who support the very same russian intelligence and defense agencies, however isn't it true yesterday the trumpet ministration failed to apply a single new sanction against anyone who might be supporting these russian efforts. >> we very much agree with the purpose of the report. there was an extraordinary amount of work. i assume you haven't seen the classified version i look forward to. >> yes or no. have you, the administration imposed any new sanctions on any of these entities? >> the intent was not to have sanctions by the delivery report last night, it was to do an extremely thorough analysis, hundreds of pages and there will be sanctions that come out of this. >> the law was pretty clear and it seems not only did you have to describe the entities but you had to pursue sanctions and i look forward to continuing to press that question. >> senator heller. >> thank you. and thanks for taking time to be with us today. i'm sure you recall last august when you came to las vegas with a roundtable with business leaders in my state, the promises and quest

defense. and what's really interesting is he's a contract for the the russian intelligence agency, the g.r.u. e same man, pergoagz is accused of doing contracts forsi the ru contracts serving in ukraine and sishia, officially not as russian military troops. d he's been in the news twice this week because he was also in the news when there was that incident of the russian contract forths being hiby u.s. air strike in syria, and the russian state not wanti to take responsibility for the fact that pr happened. buoagz was the contractor for that. >> kimberly marten of column wra and bar ourd. >> thanko much for surgeons describe what a bullet does to a human body. read more, at pbs.org/newshour. >> sreenivasan: if you commit a crime and then do your time, you might think you've paid etur debt to so but having a criminal record haunts the resumes ofillions of americans, who find-- perhaps not surprisingly-- employers aren't eager to re them. enter a four-year old program in baltimore that's trying to change t odds for ex-offenders who are out of prison and ready to work. it helps them gea job, and

because unlike other agencies, the department of defense and the intelligence community, the white houseurity clearances through an obscure office in the new executive office building, the office of security. it's pat of the office of management and administration. and they are the ones who receive the fbi background reports and have to make an ultimate judgment about whether or not somebody is cleared for a security clearance. whether the chief of staff knew about that. remember, john kelly was not the chief of staff when rob porter came on on inauguration day. >> right. good point. >> he was the second of homeland security. so what did the chief of staff know, and when did he know it? i don't know. buy as you have been pointing out tonight, the chief of staff's own statements have been sort of slow to recognize the gravity of this until just a few moments ago in that statement that you read where he says that domestic violence has no place in society. >> greg courty, white house correspondent at u.s.a. today thank you for helping us understand this evolving reporting. appreciate your t

in his late knees could not get into the army so went to the civilian intelligence agency so worked for the oss. >> part of the defense department a forerunner to the caa funded by wild bill donovan. and lansdale shared some characteristics because they were both mavericks constantly at war with whatever bureaucracy and ultimately it is a sign they were born rebels. >> but the inability to enjoy that infighting and prevail does have an influence. he can't get into the army but does not deploy through the oss. >> he interviews travelers to gain information where allied troops and is quite successful eventually he gets into the army and by happenstance in the fall of 1945 he gets to point to the philippines and spends the next several years there and then transferring from an intelligence officer to public affairs but really doing a job that it is not in the normal rv chain of command like a cultural affairs ambassador because primarily not enough soldiers or diplomats do but he tried to learn about the people he was surrounded by the course part of that is the fact he met this filipino lady she struck up a romance and

army right away so he got into the oss the civilian intelligence agency and worked for the oss in the united states. >> which was part of the defense department at the time. for civilian intelligence. wild bill donovan. >> a great character and lansdale shared characteristics because they were both mavericks who were constantly at war with whatever bureaucracy they happen to be in. it was a sign that they were born rebels. we will come back to lansdale's inability to really join bureaucratic infighting and to prevail in it as well. so he can't get in the army and goes into oss but he doesn't deploy. >> he stays in the u.s. and interviews travelers and gave them information about where allies of the landing. during the war he gets into the army and just by happenstance in the fall of 1945 as the wars ending he gets deployed to the philippines and spends the next several years there eventually transferring to the air force as a public affairs officer but really i would say it really is not in the normal army chain of command which in some ways he was a goodwill ambassador. he was a cultural affairs ambassadors because what he is doin

regardless of the outcome of the election in 2016 want to equip our intelligence agencies, law enforcement agencies and the department of defense with just an understanding. we don't even have to counter. just an understanding of what russian active measures are doing around the world. there is no excuse for it. i can't understand it. >> thank you, senator baldwin. senator udall? >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. really appreciate you and the ranking member pursuing this very, very important topic. terrorism in social media is a challenging and i think pressing subject. i recognize the technology companies cannot solve this alone. they must do more. i think that's been highlighted by the questioning you have seen here today. i'm focusing my first question, similar to senator baldwin's. i am particularly concerned about the explosion of white supremacists online. in december, after years of posting fantasies about school shootings and hate-filled racist rants over many internet platforms and many other identities, a young man took a gun to a local high school in aztec, new mexico and killed two students before taking his own

that would allow both businesses and intelligence agencies to keep sharing information across borders. there was a minute defense conference and it must be maintained. believee say that i since we are not at war with the u.k. and we do not want to take revenge on the u.k. for what the --tish people have decided the security bridge between the u.k. anti-e.u. will be maintained. we still needed. the uco bank says it has exposure of about $412 million to afford against the national bank in a case plaintiff. the reviewable have been arrested over the $2 billion gap including two employees of pmb. they are accused of fraudulently paying loans. state bank and union bank are said to be at risk. a quick check of the markets in asia. thailand trading, they are hired by about 1%, and into gains on thursday. the as easy up by half a percent and looking elsewhere in the region, australia and new zealand looking at, the nikkei up by 1.3%. this is bloomberg. >> welcome to bloomberg businessweek. we are here inside the headquarters in new york. in this week's issue, can jeff bezos, jamie dimon create a new model for the americ

few years our intelligence agencies across the west dropping the ball in terms of getting tips being aware of potential threats and not following up on those threats and. taking out defensive measures it seems lessons not being learned they need to have a proper view about you know what exactly are the threats what are they trying to do how can they best protect the people if they can try to protect against these threats and that doesn't seem to be done. in france intelligence sources say that almost two thousand citizens known to have travel to join islamic state in the middle east sixty seven of them came from one particular suburb of paris and so we dispatched artie shaw to do penske to speak to people that. a short train ride from paris is trapped on the surface there's nothing much to set it aside from the thousands of other towns in the country but you don't have to scratch very deep to see that trap is very different where you won't see any. butcher shops there were i think at the moment over fifteen hundred prayer rooms and five mosques if you look at people on the street you won't see couples holding hands you'll see the women are dressed in strict islamic dress.

last he is our intelligence agencies across the west dropping the pool in terms of getting tips being aware of potential threats and not following up on those threats and. taking out defensive measures it seems lessons not being heard and they need to have a proper view about you know what exactly are the threats what are they trying to do how can they best protect the people if they country to protect against these threats and that doesn't seem to be done it's not like these federal law enforcement agencies are lazy just recently we heard from the f.b.i. that chinese foreign exchange students are a threat to national security we also had federal agencies urging us not to buy chinese brand cellphones and more recently congress renewed the power of the n.s.a. to wiretap and spy on american citizens some might come to the conclusion that it's not incompetence or a lack of effort the issue is rather the type of threat these agencies are choosing to focus on cable poppen r t new york. palestinian school teacher has been left scarred after being more by an israeli army dog. that was assaulted in the west bank during a raid conducted by the israeli defense forces they were search

few years our intelligence agencies across the west dropping the ball in terms of getting tips being aware of potential threats and not following up on those threats and. taking out defensive measures it seems lessons not being learned they need to have a proper view about you know what exactly are the threats what are they trying to do how can they best protect the people of fair contract to protect against these threats and that doesn't seem to be done in a tweet president trump slammed the f.b.i. smith's handling of the parts about the shooter he suggested the blame lies with the intelligence agency because it dedicates too much time to the investigation into alleged russian collusion of which she added there was none. this week the first legal cases were brought regarding the alleged russian meddling in the twenty sixteen presidential election all those targeted were indicted with a conspiracy to defraud the u.s. we'll have all the details on that later on in the program. the winter games in south korea just past the halfway mark russian freestyle skier burrup has just won a bronze and sunday earlier on sunday the athletes from russia all the way our team won silver in

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. >> chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge has been watching all of this with us. a strong defense christopher wray of his agency there. >> it was, sandra. good afternoon. christopher wray the f.b.i. director took questions from two senior senate democrats on the committee pressing him on this issue if he would defend the bureau against what they describe as attacks by the president, describing corruption within the executive branch of the f.b.i. and that the bureau's reputation was in tatters. here is another one of those exchanges. >> i'm a big believer in the idea that the f.b.i. speaks through its work. through its cases, through the victims it protects. and i encourage our folks not to get too hung up on what i consider to be the noise on tv and in social media. >> f.b.i. director also took a number of questions again from democrats on the republican staff memo that alleged abuse under the f.b.i. and the justice department during the 2016 campaign. director wray repeated some of the comments that he put out in a paper statement about a week and a half ago that he felt the memo was somewhat misleading becaus