and i'm like, well, why are you taking me to djibouti? why do we have a base in djibouti? the answer was, well, because al qaeda is now is now in djibouti. and like everywhere we thought they were, we would go. we didn't make friends in that process. and by the way, casey, i, you know, i had skin in this game. i was one of those behind a microphone like this parroting the line, we need to fight them over there. i think it was zell miller. we need to fight him over there. or will we be fighting them here? no. every time we went over there, we raised the odds that they were going to hate us more. that was the lesson i took away. maybe i'm mistaken, but i've been reflecting on the last 30 years, and that's what i think. >> yeah. fascinating. all right. michael smerconish always enjoy having your perspective on the show, sir. thank you so much for being here. see you next week. thank you. do tune in to smerconish. it's tomorrow morning, 9 a.m. eastern, right here on cnn. all right. it's 52 minutes past the hour. here is your morning roundup. a bering air flight with ten people

and it's part of the so i've played around with chad djibouti. l admit that here and now among a friendly audience, you and i've noticed that it does seem to be getting better at telling me where information came from from. there are some kind of band-aids that you can put on the system to do that inherently. the way they work is they explode the information that they learn that they're trained on into lots little bits, and then they statistically reconstruct those bits and they don't really know where those bits come from. so you have to put an external tools to try to make best guesses. we call that the attribution. nobody really a solution. so for example, in some work i did earlier this year with the artist reid southam, we showed it with the visual image systems you could do things like say, show me picture of italian plumber, an italian plumber and that would come. mario from nintendo. the system can't tell that that's how it got it. it's just not built to be able to do that. well, i'm going to save your voice for half a second by reminding

most recent appointment with the military was as part of a joint special operations task force to djibouti and somalia where our mission was to support the somalis governments and military focus on defeating al-shabaab, which is al qaeda's element within east africa. one of the things we came across that i had not known previously even having served in congress for eight years because it had not been focused on was how al-shabaab was the biggest funder of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula which should be of unique concern and interest to our own national security concerns. being able to engage with world leaders in both capacities in uniform and as a member of congress, being a customer of intelligence in both of those roles gives me a unique perspective if confirmed as director of national intelligence to come in with fresh eyes and come in with their frustrations i experienced as a member of congress with the lack of information we receive from the intelligence community, often times feeling as though everything we heard in a brief could have been read in the newspaper that morning and t