i'll ask dianne feinstein, chair of the telligence committee about the threat posed to the u.s. and whether the president's recent comments so weakness. >>> facing doup an old adversary. ukraine says its country is near full scale war with russia. how far will vladimir putin go. can president obama and the allies get him to back down. >>> plus a new era on "meet the press." a revealing look at chuck todd from those who know him best. >> announcer: from nbc news in washington, this is "meet the press." >> good morning. two major military flash points this sunday, both with strong consequences for the u.s. after fierce fighting iraqi troops have reached a town in northern iraq that was under siege by isis militants. overnight u.s. launched strikes against isis fighters near the town and dropped humanitarian aid. an estimated 15,000 people have been trapped in the siege. >>> the ukraine crisis, european union giving russian ultimate mate im. change course in one week or face tougher sanctions. this morning a defiant president putin calling for talks on state hood for eastern ukrain

i'm joined by dianne feinstein, chair of the senate intelligence committee. senator feinstein, welcome. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. >>> we're approaching another 9/11 anniversary and we've heard of this dire warning. great britain has raised its security level. how serious is the isis threat, the threat from isis and other related groups to the american homeland? >> i believe it's potentially very serious. they have announced that they don't intend to stop. they have announced they will come after us if they can, they will, quote, spill our blood. they have indeed done that by beheading mr. foley and who knows how many others that are unknown. this is a vicious, vicious movement and it has to be confronted. i think senator mccain and senator graham really laid the basis in saturday's "new york times" in an op-ed for confrontation. i happen to agree with what they said. >> then is the president wrong to signal indecision by saying we still don't have a strategy against isis. >> well, in that same newspaper, down below the mccain op-ed is one b

but tonight intelligence chair dianne feinstein is complaining that the white house, which has the final say on who gets -- what gets declassified and released to the public, cut too much out of it and she's not going to release it in its edited form. the fight continues. >> andrea mitchell here with us in new york.

on capitol hill, senate intelligence chair dianne feinstein said in a statement, "these are positive first steps. this i.g. report corrects the record." now, all of this is preliminary to the main event, the committee's long-awaited report on the interrogation program itself is expected to be released in the next week or so. james, it's expected to be highly critical of the c.i.a.'s actions after 9/11. >> brown: bob orr in our washington news bureau, thanks. aete today, israel and hamas

because yesterday, senator dianne feinstein of california, who's the chair of the intelligence committee, said the cia has taken this report and over-redacted it. that it has abused its power to redact. that it is trying to keep too much secret. she said the redactions, quote, obscure key facts that support the report's findings and conclusions. and now, she's vowing not to release that final report until and unless the cia and her committee can come up with some compromise. she's also sent a letter to the white house registering her complaints. democratic senator carl levin called the cia's redactions totally unacceptable. quote, the classification process should be used to protect sources and methods where the disclosure of information that could compromise national security, not to avoid disclosure or improper acts or embarrassing

i'll ask dianne feinstein, chair of the inlligence committee about the threat posed to the u.s.nd whether the president's recent comments so weakness. >>> facing doup an old adversary. ukraine says itsco

dianne feinstein did not call for his resignation, so i think he will carry on. but it certainly damages his credibility with the people he relies on to support him in this job, and as you set up before, the backdrop of this whole saga is this 6,000 page interrogation report that's coming out soon, that's going to be very damning toward the cia, not john brennan's cia, but to the cia in general, and brennan finds himself in the position of defending the agency, even at a time when the obama administration, president obama, himself, has criticized these methods of torture. it's a very difficult situation for brennan, and it also is going to ramp up the pressure on him. >> right. it's really interesting here. all of this controversy, this huge story coming out before the huge story of this actual report comes out. there's a part two to this. mark mazzetti, national security correspondent for "the new york times." thanks for your time tonight. >>> things are getting serious and not in a good way for one of the most prominent governors in america. stay tuned. the sum

there's this whole story about dianne feinstein is at war with the cia. the cia and dianne feinstein have certainly had a very cozy relationship. but for her to be on the warpath against them is very significant. >> i feel the pushing of the envelope is consistent with feinstein who has been incredibly combative, at times accepting. this seems like a bridge too far. >> remember, senator of oregon has sort of implied he might use various procedures to put this report on the public report. if it gets pushed like this, if dianne feinstein jumps into that camp, the white house has a serious problem on its hands. >> you assert that this threat, this presidency has exceeded the bounds of authority. the atlantic talk, about the expectations when obama first came into office ending the bush era torture program and how that has in a way served a a smoke screen. drawing on the credibility he gained to present what the bush administration did in more flattering terms than reality justifies. even as he tib continues lettine cia continue to press much of the cia tortu

by dianne feinstein senator feinstein simply because she feels like the aggrieved party here i mean is this similar to you that are chic i don't think she really does have the best interests of the intelligence community at heart to a point where it sometimes been difficult to try to convince her that we should have some more progressive reforms on surveillance of average americans versus surveillance of her staff members so i don't think this is a matter of personal pique i think if senator feinstein is saying that there may be actions went too far then i think we can safely assume that they did go too far i would also say that it's hard to imagine really what the rationale could be at this point for redacting information about a program that has been discontinued that you know the intelligence community has pledged with these techniques will never be used to good rationales that immediately heard me as number one these were crimes under international conventions and if you name names those people could be brought up in a and two if there were done by cop. a large chunk of this was th

after he made that statement, dianne feinstein, senator dianne feinstein said this report apparentlyy redacted at the behest of the cia. what do you make of president obama coming out today and bluntly saying, i think the words he used were, there were folks who were tortured. >> yeah. i think he said, we tortured some folks. >> there it is. yeah. >> i think what we saw with president obama today was trying to walk this fine line where he was still strongly backing his former adviser and now cia director john brennan and the same time aligning himself with senate democrats. it's tough to align yourself with two parties who are battling it out right now. that seems to be what he was doing in advance of this report which is certainly going to catch people's attention from all the indications we've gotten. >> yeah, i mean, tell us a little more fact what you're hearing about this report. again, the idea of heavy redactions, dianne feinstein coming out and saying this. some people were looking at this and saying, is president obama coming forward today and actually using the word torture

here's what senator dianne feinstein had to say.en. >> i've learned one thing about this president and that is he's very cautious. maybe in this instance, too cautious. i do know the military i know the state department i know others have been putting plans together. so hopefully those plans will coalesce into a strategy. >> somewhat critical comments from feinstein come after president obama earlier this week said he doesn't yet have a strategy for confronting isis in syria. some of the options would include air strikes in syria, alex. also providing more military aid to the opposition forces inside of syria. so, those are some of the things being worked out. there is broad bipartisan agreement, though that any response should come with an international coalition. we know secretary kerry will be traveling to the middle east to be working on that and president obama will travel to nato to begin that coalition. >> thank you. on the heels of that report, let's see what they're doing in britain as prime minister david cameron is set to

bush administration cia officials were busy spying on those investigating them remembers senator dianne feinstein had a huge the agency of spying on committee staffers back in march but the agency denied any involvement until now when cia inspector general david funk we made it clear that agency tech specialists had improperly access. stake a hacked database that only committee staff is permitted to use now larry asli lawmakers are up in arms over the spine it seems like they don't really like it when their communications are being monitored several committee members are even calling for cia director john brennan's resignation citing the hacking of senate leaders illegal and in violation of the constitution's requirement of separation of powers another member of the committee senator angus king added quote we're the only people watching these organizations and if we can't rely on the information that we're given as being accurate then it makes a mockery of the entire oversight function. but don't worry brennan has a solution of his own create a whole other oversight committee within the

statements by lawmakers who have seen it already painting a grim grim picture committee chairwoman dianne feinstein has called the report shellene adding that the use of rendition and torture is quote far more systematic and widespread than we thought senator ron wyden added to the american people will be profoundly disturbed about what will be revealed in this report were understandably there's been a lot of pressure on the white house to respond to the findings as well and that's exactly what president obama did at a recent press conference an extremely professional and serious manner. in the immediate aftermath of nine eleven. we did some things that were wrong. we did a whole lot of things that were right. but we tortured some folks. we tortured some folks really dude look i know how much you love to use the word folks to try to resonate with average americans but this isn't something to take lightly and torture is the last thing that should be casually minimized but while obama tries to shrug off the systematic use of torture as u.s. policy other than other government officials are s

bush administration cia officials were busy spying on those investigating them remembers senator dianne feinstein how to use the agency of spying on committee staff. back in march but the agency had denied any involvement until now when cia inspector general david funk we made it clear that agency tech specialists had improperly accessed aka hacked a database that only committee staff was permitted to use now larry asli lawmakers are up in arms over the spine it seems like they don't really like it when their communications are being monitored several committee members are even calling for cia director john brennan's resignation citing the hacking of senate leaders illegal and in violation of the constitution's requirement of separation of powers another member of the committee senator angus king added quote we're the only people watching these organizations and if we can't rely on the information that we're given as being accurate then it makes a mockery of the entire oversight function. but don't worry brennan has a solution of his own create a whole other oversight committee within t

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we did some things that were contrary to our values senator dianne feinstein has been pushing the white house to reject the cia's redacted version of the report but so far the obama administration has stood its ground in defense of it and earlier i spoke with former congressman ron paul about the report's findings and i first asked him if he thinks senator feinstein will win the fight to make the six thousand page report available to the public. well probably not i hope she is but you know she's been on both sides of this issue she's a very strong supporter of policies that we've been following these past ten years she's a strong supporter for an n.s.a. of course she changed her mind when the cia started spying on her which is ok better late than never but you know. there's powerful special interests and they'll say oh you don't want to give up our secrets and one of their arguments is absolutely bizarre to say well you know what if people find out that we torture people they're going to be angry with us and they might have you know and they might motivate them to bomb as well they alre

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but at this point, dianne feinstein was present.ain needs to admit that he had, along with lindsey graham a in a top, top hotel a meeting with prince bander. prince bander was really a big part of all of this and that is referenced in an excellent book, the house of bush, the house of saad, clay unger, ung-n-g-e-u-n it goes into the whole thing, play by play. and we need to understand this since in 016, we could be looking at a third bush for the presidency so thank you for your time and i appreciate to a little bit more of this outside information that is presented to the american people only through journalists who risk a lot. host: let's hear from our guest. guest: that goes to some other countries engaging hear. one of thing that can be said about the -- about isil is that they have created, you know, enemies everywhere. there is a lot of criticism that some have helped to feed the financing in particular of the group, which is now so well financed but what's interesting is everybody is kind of concerned about this and so if you

the probe validated claims of cia spying made by senate intelligence committee chair dianne feinstein and forced cia director john brennan to issue an apology after he adamantly denied those claims. a number of senators have called for brennan to resign. we'll have more on the story after headlines. the senate report on cia torture and rendition remains classified but new revelations emerged from it this week when the white house accidentally emailed talking points to the associated press. the leaked document reveals the report's conclusion that cia officials instructed u.s. ambassadors in countries hosting secret prisons not to tell their superiors at the state department. a summary of the report is expected for release in the coming weeks. in related news, the european court of human rights has issued ruling on the torture and rendition program, confirming the existence of a secret us prison in poland. last week, the court found poland violated the european convention on human rights by failing to intervene in the secret detention, torture and transfer of two terrorism suspects curr

senator dianne feinstein seems to have accepted it. if he knew, he goes.don't think he knew. >> you think he should not go. >> i think it is the wrong time for him to go. he can embark on the cleanup of a rogue agency. he has not done it yet. he should do it now and i think he will. >> maybe we will find out -- >> placidity. >> fort apache. >> aren't you the head of the cia? >> let me turn to another subject. they ruled mcdonald's is liable for the treatment of workers, including compensation for franchises. good or bad? >> he has 13,000 franchisees. being liable for all those. i would say anything that makes corporations more responsible for the goodness associated with them is a good thing. >> it is a dumb decision that is not going to stand long-term. one of the major routes into the middle class are franchises. they are small business owners. they are responsible for who they hire and fire. saying you going to introduce a third party. two third parties is not tenable. that would be bad for business and america. >> thank you for joining us. we will see