now it is threatened, so donilon, the only.the embassy isolates the president and goes down the road which is reminiscent -- first they minimize, they marginalize, they misdirect, and they mislead. all of that process is going on in the white house. >> and directed by tom doni lone. >> we have talk about him on a previous show and we brought up, maybe a year ago, we brought up that he was the leaker in chief, repeatedly leaking classified information about the computer virus that we or the israelis in iran and leaked constitute after the bin laden raid and was never investigated or punished and got away with it because the media and the democrats in the senate let him. >>gregg: the president's press secretary has for eight months insisted that the white house and the state made no substantive changes. last november, here he is. take a listen. >> the white house and the state department have made clear that the single adjustment made to the talking point by either of these two institutions were changing the word "consulate" to "

i think donilon does what the president wants.makes sure the cabinets hugh to what the white house want. it is a very different style to other presidents who have given secretary of defenses and secretary of states a lot of leeway. >>brian: bush had advisorses -- advisors that proved effect kwreufplt it -- effective. >> the white house's main concern seemed to be what can we do to protect americans in the middle east than what spin are we going to have. >>brian: we don't know where the president was or tom donilon was after 8:00. it does matter what room he was in and the situation room is not like any other room. ambassador bolton thanks so much. >>> straight ahead, a story creating a lot of controversy at this hour. should federal employees on furlough be allowed to collect unemployment benefits? we report you decide. >>> do you catch up on sleep by sleeping late on the weekend? i do a lot of research on angie's list before i do any projects on my own. at angie's list, you'll find reviews written by people just like you. i love

you are not a big fan of tom donilon's. >> i know him.he is the first political operative who has been appointed national security advisor. and he is -- he has a whole history of politicizing everything. he is not of the statue henry kissinger or some of the people we have had or condoleezza rice in that job. and he is the invisible man in all of this. >> megyn: again national security advisor. >> who do you think was coordinating all of this? and he -- what he does is he leaks selectively. people leave him out of the source. he at the bottom of all of this i guarantee you on the talking points and all of what happened that night is tom donilon. not only does he need to be interviewed under oath, we need a select committee until we have a full investigation because the white house is in a full mode which is not to be truthful with the american people. let's face it they want to say it's politics. the president was just, i thought, really angry and we need to know the truth. those families need to know the truth. it wasn't a video that kil

two listen we are in the same boat this is the main message should be to his counterpart or to tom donilon because as you can see those people who were killed in the russians they start killing americans please my dear american friends stop calling terrorists freedom fighters as they are not. well add to as we speak in a russian security chief nicolo patrushev is in washington for talks to meet his counterpart on global security is bound to feature highly on the or jan of the agenda of these stocks. where do both countries now stand on the security issues. well of course the median visit the preparations for the visit began long before the. attack. but it was same time of course it should be a kind of a counterpoint during these negotiations because as i have just told you the main message that should convey to you is that in the same boat. we need to do something about it you need you again my american friends you need to stop providing the status of refugees the chechen terrorists you need to disband the so called american community. which is now action is called american committed for p

kind of a counterpoint during these negotiations because the main message that should convey to tom donilon is that where in the same boat. we need to do something about it to my american friends you need to stop providing the status of refugees the chechen terrorists you need to disband the so-called american committee for peace. which is now actually called american committed for peace in the caucasus as you can see those people who were killed in the russians they start killing americans unfortunately in the last several decades the position of the united states was so different from the position of russia regard in chechnya regarding the caucasus regarding the overall disintegration of the russian federation i believe it. was a boston attack and they have a kind of a healing psychological effect on the american society on the american government three and a half months into the guantanamo hunger strike and the u.s. military running the facility under fresh pressure to close the camp and the tories international group of had to his known as anonymous has threatened to destruct prison act

colleague thomas donilon in washington the details from marty's a corpus going off. security services have managed to eliminate the you wake of russia's number one terrorist. in the republic of the caucasus plus just on monday authorities announced that the four for a plan to attack moscow all this gives weight to the head of russia's security council and you go i see this is the u.s. since he does have some useful experience he could share with us american counterparts when it comes to battling terrorism because it does come shortly after the recent terror attack in boston which was planned and conducted by the brothers both of whom were of church in origin and for russia the caucasus is the most volatile region just on monday four people were killed in two bomb explosions in the republic of biggest star definitely the security services of both countries have things where they could work together on and joint threats and just earlier beleaguered so both are going to use did call on them to work together more intensely and it's a fact that they can help each other an

. >> there is one guy we've got to hear from, tom donilon, the national security adviser. >> yeah. >>int person, jedediah, on september 11th, and he is leaker par excellence,hey leaking. lou: and the modified limited hangout established so importantly, if you will, and regrettably by the nixon administration and watergate is being practiced here by this administration. and in my judgme, you're the professional, it's rather clumsy, the way they're doing it. >> yeah. lou, there is not a direct nexus between what they're saying and what's coming out. it's almost, to me, like just the big lie technique. it's old news, he spoke of it, it's a side show, it's all politics. at doesn't answer the very real questions you're talking about. lou: let me ask you all this. this president looks as if he's at sea speaking to the press here in the last couple -- in the last two appearances. it's as if he doesn't know how to behave without a compliant and even comicit media. your thoughts. >> yeah. he's not used to being challenged. he's not used to tough questions. he figured that he would be able to s

but where is national security advisor tom donilon?e was the first to brief the president and has been kept quiet since. our next guest has an idea why. lieutenant colonel dan hampton wrote a book called "viper pilot." what is your best estimate on why we haven't seen someone like that on the talk shows front and center like condoleezza rice when she had that spot. >> if you screwed something like that of that magnitude, would you talk about it? >>brian: i would demand it. >> his boss is barack obama and through him hillary clinton. between the three of them, who knows. >>brian: the night it happens, we don't really know what the president did after the early evening. we don't know who was in the situation room making the calls, if anyone. we do know this. former secretary of defense gates over the weekend weighed in and said if you want to talk about once the riots happened, i wouldn't. if i was in charge, i wouldn't have recommended the president send an f-16 or f-22 out there to buzz the area or help out the guys who would eventuall

now, tom donilon, the national security advisor has been over there and he spoke about the urgency andm. the pentagon has directly said that the chinese government is responsible for this that they had in the past have said well, chinese companies but the defense-out pentagon, the defense department has now said those are agencies of the chinese military that are in fact conducting these kinds of attacks then you have had recent months attacks on the "new york times." the "wall street journal." again, directly tied to the chinese. president obama is supposed to meet next week chinese president ping. and when we heard today at the white house from jay carney is he plans to make this a priority in terms of their talks. >> bret: but, you know, jonah, to hear the white house talk about it, seeking china to investigate our concerns and start a dialogue on cyber issues. i mean, it's not exactly strong talk. >> no. i mean they are sloganning off the dime. you do hear that they are starting to realize the scope of this. maybe that's what this report will do is push them even more i like charle

with national security advisor tom donilon concluding beijing trip tuesday where he laid the groundworkh california summit in early june the white house spoke in careful terms even readings from prepared comments about the u.s. government's growing concerns and its commitment to protect national networks. >> what we have been seeking from china is for it to investigate our concerns and to start a dialogue with us on cyber issues. i want to reiterate and you have heard it from the president and from senior members of his national security team that this is a very high priority. >> china has denied all allegations that this theft is organized. and backed by their government. harris. >> harris: catherine, thank you. you know, a lot of companies and organizations give employee reviews. so apparently does al qaeda. in a scathing 10 page letter the associated press obtained. leaders of the terror group reprimanded one of the world's most wanted terrorist for essentially being a bad employee. the guy is a mastermind of last january's algerian gas plant raid. in a letter, al qaeda leaders point

and that's tom donilon, national security advisor, 2013. this is a national security issue. and how could the polluters have so much power to overwhelm our national security people? but that's where it's at. that's where it's at. climate change can hinder ability to combat terrorism. climate change effects, particularly those related to water and food and security, can create conditions terrorists and extremists seek to exploit. therefore, they are significant factors in combating terrorism. department of defense, october, 2011. department of defense. national security advisors. the c.i.a. has been telling us this for a long time. we have to act. we have to act. i have to say there are a number of my colleagues here, a small number, who feel the way i do. we're all pushing hard. senator sanders and i have a bill. it's the sanders-boxer bill. it would put a price on carbon. carbon could cost us the planet. the least we can do is put a little charge on it so people move to clean energy. clean energy. and we take the issue of the keystone pipeline. it's a big controversy. well,

in march, national security advisor thomas donilon told an audience that the attacks had to stop. >> increasingly, u.s. businesses are speaking out about their serious concerns about sophisticated, targeted theft of confidential business information and proprietary technologies through cyber intrusions emaning from china at a very large scale. the international community cannot afford to tolerate such activity from any country. >> brown: in february, cyber security firm mandiant issued a report saying that this building in shanghai houses one of the chinese military's most active hacking groups. and earlier this month, a pentagon report said that u.s. government computers were targets of break-ins that could be "attributable directly to the chinese government and military." for more on all of this, we turn to: dmitri alperovitch, co- founder and c.e.o. of rowdstrike, a cyber-security company; and james lewis is director and senior fellow of the technology and public policy program at the center for strategic and international studies here in washington. dmitri alperovitch, starting w

in bob woodward's books obama's wars, the secretary of defense at the time said donilon would be a disaster as national security advisor. >>brian: that guy was told to leave. >>steve: i was saying if don i lon was said to be a disaster, and there he is, you've got to wonder if his finger prints are all over this. >>gretchen: did you see the press conference where jay carney had to ask pointed questions for the first time with regard to benghazi, whether or not the white house had any involvement with that, specifically, regarding those talking points? abc had done a report that came out earlier in the morning that said those talking points had been edited as much as 12 times. so is the mainstream media now going to be continuing on with this story? it appears that they may be. here's a snippet from the sunday show. >> clearly there's a credibility question that the white house has to deal with because it directly contradicts what they have said about this. >> a week ago mr. carney whose you feelness to this administration -- whose usefulness to this administration is diminishing rapidly --