intelligence legacy. of them is the president's daily brief which was created for kennedy as the president's intelligence checklist. when i first came to cia in 1990, i was -- i learned that one of the nicknames that insiders used was the pickle factory. they never used the company, but they used the term the pickle factory. i couldn't figure out what it was until i heard of a cia. i heard of the pickle, the president's intelligence checklist. it was renamed the president's daily brief. every president has used it and most have benefitted from it. it was new in the sense that -- well, i mean, president truman started the tradition of cia presenting to him a daily intelligence summary. but the pickle and later the pdb, was the first specifically presidential product that was tailored to the president's agenda, his style and his interests, with extremely limited distribution. so, this was a major intelligence legacy from the kennedy administration. another very important development was the creation of the

intelligence community. as we have discussed doing important work in human intelligence and also specialized technical intelligence. so i got those important developments out of the way, and where want to focus on the two biggest intelligence subjects of the kennedy administration, which often are the two major historical episodes that people remember from this period. the bay of pigs fiasco, and the cuban missile crisis. so we have a fiasco and we have a crisis. and they're both big problems. what they have in common is, obviously, cuba. otherwise, they are vastly different kinds of problems. the bay of pigs fiasco was a cia covert paramilitary operation specifically a regime change operation that went very badly. the cuban missile crisis by contrast was a confrontation of superpowers, the united states and the ussr, over nuclear weapons. what the two big problems have in common, other than cuba, is both largely were the result of shortcomings in american intelligence. in both situations, bad intelligence a

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was, quote, a grave counter intelligence threat, end quote because of his ties to russian intelligence. so think about that for a moment. the president's campaign manager had ties to russian intelligence and could have used them to share confidential campaign information. mr. chairman, of course the fbi should have investigated. unfortunately, the president and his allies have been trying to rewrite the russia investigation since the day it concluded. they have seized on-airers in the fbi's applications for fisa surveillance on carter page to assert that the entire russian investigation was corrupt. those errors were serious. but the errors and the so-called steele dossier, this is important, played no part in the broader russia investigation. this was confirmed by inspector general horowitz and former deputy attorney general rod rosenstein who told the committee that none of the mueller report's findings of criminal charges rely on the steele dossier, none of them. president trump and his allies also claim that the russia investigation was a political witch hunt overseen by investigat

intelligence officials. the role of u.s. intelligence officials. so here we go again, right?t this time we're not blindsided, right? this time we know what this is and what they're doing and why. i mean this time we can recognize it instead of being surprised and bewildered by it the way we were when it happened for the first time. and this time instead of the obama administration being in charge while this is happening, trying to get their heads around this problem, trying to marshal resources to figure out what's happening and try and combat it, this time it's not the obama administration trying to protect us. this time it's the trump administration in charge while all this is happening again and apparently at a much higher pitch. when the russian government attacked the 2016 election to benefit trump, you will remember four years ago that the top u.s. intelligence official at the time leading the effort to recognize and then respond to the attack was the director of central intelligence, john brennan. what's happened to john brennan since? he has been vilified relentlessly

according to the nate intelligence committee. in 2016 it was the president's campaign chairman, paul manafort who was working closely in that election. while russia -- it is his personal lawyer, rudy giuliani. again, working closely while russia is again messing with our election to keep trump in the white house. it is not just that russia wants to do this or russia wants to do this again. it is that point that you are getting a lot of help and those closest to the president. there is more. russian hackers have targeted 200 groups tied to u.s. elections. in addition to political consultants and state and national parties, its recent target included advocacies and state and national parties. >> the hackers relied on spear fishing and attack that voinvols another person, to steal log-in potential and it deploy force attacks. microsoft detected these eattacs from china and iran. microsoft says it took time for the firm to tie this activity to russia. the russian hackers had become savvier this time running their operations through a

by the national intelligence director intelligence director seems like a particularly good time to talk to mr. strzok and on top of all of that, there is this senior homeland security whistle alleges in a whistleblower complaint, reported today by shane harris, a senior department of homeland security official alleges that he was told to stop providing intelligence interference in the 2020 election in part because it made the president looked bad. official who was in charge said in a whistleblower complaint today that on two occasions he was told him to stand down on the reporting of the russian threat on july 8th this year, he says chad wolf told him that an intelligence notification regarding russian disinformation efforts should be "held" because it was unflattering to trump the official alleges and ongoing efforts -- chad wolf told him to stop producing intelligence assessment in russia these instructions originated from the white house, the white house national security adviser, robert o'brien this is a serving official in the trump administration he filed an official complaint whi

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house intelligence committee released the complaint in the same day. both times murphy said he objected and then he was removed from his job and demoted. the demotion, the alleged retaliation for his righteous objections to the sort of political manipulation of intelligence that he's complaining about in his whistle-blower complaint, that's the basis for legal action that will go forward around this complaint now. now, i should tell you, the intelligence kminlt kmit tee is going great guns on this along with the complaint dated yesterday, and they published it today. the committee has also published a letter providing testimony of brian murphy, very soon, september 21st at 10:00 a.m. joining us now is jeh johnson. he's served under president obama and former attorney general. secretary johnson, it's great having you here. thank you for taking the time. >> thanks for having me rachel. >> the way i've described the reporting, i've read the report, the "washington post" and other news organizations describing it, i want to ask you if you think there's any

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but donald trump's director of national intelligence is refusing to brief the intelligence committees on that interference. the chairman ofs the house intelligence committee, adam schiff joins us next. sfli sfli >>> it's hard to be shocked anymore at the abuse of power of this administration, isn't it? it is very clear that the president wants, invites, appreciates russia's involvement in our election, which is not lawful. >> that was speaker nancy pelosi's reaction tonight to donald trump's director of national intelligence refusing to continue intelligence briefings on foreign interference in our election, even though the intelligence community has already found that russia is once again interfering in this election to try to help donald trump win. the current trump director of national intelligence is a former member of the house intelligence committee who caught donald trump's attention for his fact free defenses of the president during the impeachment inquiry. john radcliff, who is the most politicized director of national intelligence in the history of the office, released a sta

censoring intelligence, withholding intelligence, because it would make the president look bad becausentelligence shows russia is pushing out the same false narratives as the president, once again helping the president in his campaign. but they're also minimizing the threat from white supremacy. they're exaggerating the threat at our southern border. it's just plain dishonest and dangerous, because it doesn't let us protect the country the way that we should if we're getting good and honest intelligence work product. >> and he points out that he was demoted, he says it's retaliation under the whistle-blower act, obviously an actionable issue. but so was alexander vindman, and there was no price to be paid by the white house for what they did to him and his brother. >> andrea, you're right. and this is one of the sad realizations. the gop leadership in the congress and all too much of its membership has become a cult of personality around the president. they are amazingly silent in the face of this whistle-blower complaint, in the face of these allegations in the woodward book, that the

what we have to remember is artificial intelligence is a tool and is coming. it will be disruptive and we will have to manage that but we are in a competition and in a competition with china and in a competition with russia. vladimir putin famously said whoever masters ai will master the world and the future of artificial intelligence will be driven by autocratic countries who don't care about civil liberties or will it be developed with an ethics that is based in democratic values and so that was the impetus for this and we rolled out a couple of the papers and we have a few more papers coming out and then we will be introducing legislation as well. >> host: let's bring ashley gold into the conversation spirit hello, congressman. you brought up china and how the u.s. needs to be more advanced than china and russia and other adversaries in artificial intelligence for many reasons but of course what is in the news is president trump desire to either ban social media app tiktok or you know, arrange a sale the microsoft was purchasing tiktok with the blessing of

intelligence post on the nsc staff. former senior intelligence official describes today's state of the cia as one that will, quote, haunt the living bleep out of us for years to come and describes reports out today about the cia cheeld schishield white house from the most harrowing intelligence about russia as, quote, the most chilling f'ing thing i've ever watched. joining us now, senior intelligence security for nbc news and former director of the cia, john brennan. mr. brennan, your take on the reporting yesterday that vladimir putin is most likely directing the disinformation campaign that is front and center in the donald trump campaign smearing joe biden. and the follow-up reporting today from politico confirmed by nine individuals, nine officials that either worked in or work in the cia and intelligence agencies, that they don't tell the president the bad news about russia. >> well, nicole, in 2016, it was vladimir putin who directed and authorized the russian intelligence services to try to interfere in our pres

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but donald trump's director of national intelligence is refusing to brief the intelligence committees on that interference. adam schiff joins us next. next. and still going for my best. even though i live with a higher risk of stroke due to afib... ...not caused by a heart valve problem. so if there's a better treatment than warfarin, i'm reaching for that. eliquis. eliquis is proven to reduce stroke risk better than warfarin. plus has significantly less major bleeding than warfarin. eliquis is fda-approved and has both. what's next? i'm on board. don't stop taking eliquis unless your doctor tells you to, as stopping increases your risk of having a stroke. eliquis can cause serious and in rare cases fatal bleeding. don't take eliquis if you have an artificial heart valve or abnormal bleeding. while taking eliquis, you may bruise more easily- -and it may take longer than usual for any bleeding to stop. seek immediate medical care for sudden signs of bleeding, like unusual bruising. eliquis may increase your bleeding risk if you take certain medicines. tell your doctor about all planned

when you ask a national security official, an intelligence officer to shape or reframe intelligence tort a political objective, you're asking our national security officials, the people who have the responsibility of keeping americans safe, asking them to lie to us, and that's so important because, look, you know, at some point this president is going to have to make a decision about national security matters, and when they have to make that decision what they need more than anything is the trust of the american people, the intelligence community has to have the trust of the american people, and incidents like this call into question whether or not leaders are accurately representing intelligence, but i'll just -- you know, there's one other aspect of this, jim. this isn't just about being asked to reshape or reframe intelligence. there's also the substance of this intelligence. i mean, this was particularly egregious. we're talking about, as we get ready to go into an election, the -- the intelligence community being asked to -- to downplay what russia is doing to interfere in that el

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nor did he give you any finished intelligence projects , products that use these reports. these documents will likely show that the request to unmask were not politically motivated, but were rather driven by intelligence needs. this is true we can avoid hauling more people and for depositions in this highly partisan investigation. second, this committee should receive a briefing from nsa so we can understand how the unmasking process works. including who has the authority to request unmasking. what scrutiny is involved in what is involved in unmasking a name in his intelligence report? and who has the authority to view these unmask names. under saying the process will provide context of how and why unmasking is an important part of intelligence and investigations. we should start with the basics before moving directly to subpoenas. >> thank you, senator peters but i think if you are well aware, one of our first people scheduled for interviews, patrick conlin who is part of the treasury department and the whole purpose of this is due for him to describe the process of unmas

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that is that they're censoring intelligence, withholding intelligence because it would make the presidentse that intelligence shows that russia is pushing out the same false narratives as the president? once again helping the president and his campaign, but they're also minimizing the threat from white supremacy. they're exaggerating the threat at our southern border. it's just plain dishonest and dangerous because it doesn't let us protect the country the way that we should if we're getting good and honest intelligent work products. >> hi again, everybody. it's 5:00 in the east. stop me if you've heard this one before. a whistleblower says donald trump's white house is threatening u.s. national security by politicizing intelligence. a new whistleblower with a new complaint about donald trump's willingness to put americans in harm's way and to conceal threats to the homeland including from white supremacists and from russia. from "the new york times," quote, top officials with the department of homeland security directed agency analysts to downplay threats from violent white supremacy and

national intelligence talks about foreign interference in the 2020 election and how the u.s. government should respond. this is an hour and 15 minutes. >> so glad you are here for the kickoff session on protecting democracy, foreign interference, voter confidence, and defensive strategies in 2020 election and beyond. i'm carrie cordero of the center for new american security. we have two sessions this morning. this session will run until 10:45 a.m. eastern, and i hope you will join us again at 11:30 a.m. eastern for a session i will be moderating on foreign influence and voter attitudes. today's conversations are part of a broader collaboration between the center for new american security, the center for ethics and the rule of law, which is part of penn law, and the annenberg public policy center, also on the university of pennsylvania. there i hand it over to moderator, this discussion is being livestreamed, and you can post your comments and questions on twitter using the #protectdemocracy2020. our team will be monitoring the #-- monitoring the hash tag and pose your questi

we now learn that the intelligence community was divided, that there was multiple pieces of intelligencee even more strongly that russia was trying to help hillary clinton, and some to have intelligence analysts believed they weren't trying to help either, they were trying to sow the very discord we've just been through for the last three and a half years. the idea that they kept that from the public, the american congress outrageous. and we now know there's a possibility that the odni, john ratcliffe, may declassify a report that devin nuÑes' team proin mid 2018 that lays this all on the table. this could very well have been flawed in that intelligence community assessment, at least according to the sources i'm talking to. lou: well, here's one of the sources well known to our audience on this broadcast, fred fleitz. this is what he said about excluding russian intel. quote: when i was briefed on the house intelligence committee report january 2017, i uca, i was told john brennan politicized this assessment by excluding credible evidence that the russians wanted hillary clinton to win t

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look, rachel, we must make sure that we receive unvarnished intelligence assessments from intelligencenow that is not what we are receiving. they are really playing to an audience of one, the president, and not the american people. we have 65 days to go. this is our last chance. with a president who is the first impeached president to run for re-election, the first president who is probably facing criminal charges if he is not re-elected, is willing to do anything to win and will sacrifice any value that we all treasure to do so. and so we must get it right in congress, but your viewers are not helpless either. they have to ask themselves what are they willing to do to save their country? i hope it's at least being willing to vote, and i hope more than that, it's being willing to ask others to vote as well. >> congressman eric swalwell of california, member of the intelligence committee, sir, thanks for your time tonight. it's nice to see zblu my pleasure. thanks, rachel. >> all right. we'll be right back. stay with us. ur keys on the dash and we'll replace your windshield with safe, n

briefing on the threat of russian intelligence in 2020 election because it made the president look bad we're also expecting to get comments from the president this hour as the white house rushes to respond to yet another damaging and explosive story about the president's comments made in private, this time, audiotapes revealing that president trump understood the true threats of the pandemic all downplaying it to the american public in weeks after that in a series of interviews with veteran washington journalist bob woodard, trump admits that the virus is deadly and highly contagious >> so, what was president xi saying yesterday >> oh, we were talking mostly about the virus and i think he's going to have it in good shape but, you know, it's a very tricky situation it's -- it goes -- it goes through air, bob that's always tougher than the touch. you know, the touch, you don't have to touch things, right, you just breathe the air and that's how it's passed. and so to that's a very tricky one, a that's a very delicate one. it's also more deadly than your flus this is more deadly, this is

he didn't get that from the intelligence committee. he never read the reports.'t have anything to do with that. he saw the reports! he knew hem in detail. at least we know he can read. think about it. think about how misleading it was. and all of those folks, and wy d did note -- let's assume he didn't want to worry people. why in god's name didn't he move quicker on the defense production act to provide ppp, you know, the protective equipment for doctors and first responders? why didn't he do that? okay, he says he didn't want to panic people. at least make sure everybody has the equipment they need. just say, an excess of caution. he didn't even do that. >> how do you make the connection -- let me tell you something, i have relatives all over the country and all over the political spectrum. how do you make the argument to a relative i have in texas who says, yeah, this virus is horrible, but it's not trump's fault, it's china's fault? >> let's assume -- we'll take both of those points. it's china's fault. if it's china's fault, why did trump praise china. why

instead they said it is a general politicalization of intelligence. democrats pushed back that they think they're being penalized for being too aggressi or more aggressive on this issue. and some democrats do believe, as nick just reported, that this action could be illegal. a >> woodrufnd nick, you've been talking to former intelligence officials.a what are theying? >> these former officials, republicans, democrats c senireer intelligence officials, they accuse radcliffe of misleading thpublic on the threat to the election. in the fox news interview he insisted that china was the u.s. top threat, and many officials across the government do believe that china is the long-term strategic threat that s.e u. is most concerned about, but the immediate, overthreat to the election, was russia. that was in a recent statement released by the office of the diector of national intelligence. it said pro-kremlin actors were trying to boost president trump'cabdz see. ssurchina's was pre political figures considered anti-china and deflect criticism. that leaves to t

>> because i've seen the intelligence. that's what i've concluded. >> the fbi does not believe that, chairman rogers. the cia does not believe that but the attorney general of the united states says he has concluded, at least he attributes it to himself, china, and he says he's seen some preliminary activity that they might try again in the context of russia. the that is not what he has been told. he's told there's active activity, major activity, that they are trying again, not that they might. why? >> well, i can't -- i don't understand this notion that we're going to give russia a pass, and by the way, when i was chairman, i had some -- some information, some intel that came across my desk that suggested that the russians were working on certain members of congress, and there's ways to handle this had. one, i just invited the members to a meeting in my spaces with -- with the fbi to give them and run down the assessment on what those threats were and why they needed to be caution, and so i -- you know, everybody needs t

elizabeth: joining me now is former acting director of national intelligence.bassador ric grenell. great to see you back on, ric. good to see you. >> thanks for having me. elizabeth: senator lindsey graham said quote, damning, good to see you. more quote damning government documents will soon be declassified in the fbi botched trump-russia probe. what is the next shoe to drop? >> that is a good question, elizabeth. i'm not sure exactly what comes next but there is plenty there. there are many reports, many letters, many pieces of information which really just point to the very early days of how this investigation was developed. the many warning signs were ignored and i think that is where many people have trouble is that if we would have been able to see the full package of the information, instead of having it really edited down and pushed into a direction that the head of the fbi clearly wanted it to go in, i think most people would have come to the same conclusion that russian propaganda from the beginning had infiltrated into the steele dossier. and so, the

why were you saying to the intelligence community, was it russia hacked? >> let's go on to what we can anticipate in the next 50 days. we haven't seen that kind of this time around and maybe it's yet to come, but let's -- since you've highlighted that with the hacking side of things for the moment. jim, what have we done, from what you know, and obviously you are not in office anymore, but from public reports or from anything else that you know, what have we done to protect ourselves against this kind of hacking content in the run-up to the 2020 election? dir. clapper: well, i think the first thing that is important, there's a lot more awareness and threatvity to the whole posed by the russians, so i'm sure a lot has been done through the state and local level to improve cybersecurity, and that's probably uneven in places, i'm sure are better than others. there is the greater awareness of it and if it were to occur, i would hope, i don't know, that there would be a more aggressive publicity about it. i do think that there could effortbe another such made b

rather than artificial intelligence a i call it. because i don't really think we'll ever achieve the quote unquote artificial intelligence because we don't really even know what human intelligence is i mean we we think we see it when we know it when we see it but it's not necessarily something that we can now quantify exactly so it's a world away i know that we're going to the question is all of us have to make is who's going to be in control of it is going to be a major corporation and it's going to be in the cloud open for anybody to have its way with your contacts or is going to be hyper local and blocked change so that you can actually have ownership of everything you've ever seen or heard and and read you know and that's that's the direction that i've been building in my garage. you well part of your work and what you're talking about here in that we need to get away from the keyboard the keyboard is archaic and as a way to interface with computers it doesn't catch the nuance it doesn't catch the intentions of what we're doing

>> if there is that intelligence, the intelligence community has not shared that with the public. what we have seen is what the top intelligence official in charge of election security said if had just the last couple of weeks. he said of the three countries of concern, russia, china and iran, there is one country that is actively interfering and trying to damage the biden campaign. and that is the russians. the chinese, according to bill eastbound nina, have a preference for president trump to lose re-election. but what the attorney general in his answer seems to try to do is minimize the threat that the russians pose. we can only guess what that is and that is because the president doesn't like to hear that. again, the chinese are a serious threat. but that's not what the intelligence community has told us, what they're seeing right now. >> and of course we're at a disadvantage to assess because we haven't seen what the attorney general has seen. we just know what intelligence officials have said publicly. and also what we're hearing from sources. evan stay with me because we're

two military intelligence and to the field of intelligence, in general. intelligence was a way that which women contributed, and my book is about 10,000 women who came to the war doing during the war to do a signals intelligence work. they comprise more than half of our code breaking force. and these are women who up rooted themselves from their universities in towns to come to washington. and the lynn olson's book is such an important contribution to how women contributed to espionage and to the resistance movement. and sarah rose, who will be presenting on saturday has also contributed to that. there's a whole body of scholarship now filling out the story about women's contributions to intelligence and to resistance work. so i would like to start my presentation with a photo i think of as depicting the plight of the college educated woman in 1942. this photo shows that may court at goucher college. the ritual in which graduating senior women are dressed in virginal white and ushered into the marriage market. what you would not know from this photo, afte

i will see you tomorrow night when my guest will be peter strzok former fbi counter intelligence director that's an interview that you will want to see now it is time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnel >> good evening rachel word" with lawrence o'donnell. >> good evening, rachel. do you find yourself capable of ranking the enormity of the different revelations of the bob woodward book? >> the thing that pushes the covid stuff to the top is the unexpected fact that the president did understand the public health risk of covid. it has been easy for those of us who have been critical of the president's response to assume that he did not get it to learn and hear that he did get it and he deliberately lied to the american people while understanding how big of a lie he was telling it is hard to shock me in the trump era but i am legitimately shocked about that learning about what dan coats thought about the president is shocking, too. >> yes >> but the covid stuff and hearing him do it in his own word is worse than nixon's oval office tapes in terms of what the president is admitting bec

the intelligence services are doing what they always do. spies are being spies, looking to collect information on what is really going on in the country, what is the status of the vaccine development, what is the economic health of the country? they look at that shifting the relationship with china over the last six or seven months. chinese intelligence services have been very active, as have the russians. there is a second bucket of activity, cyber criminal activity. that is going to be focused on fraud and criminal type activities. it has been fascinating to watch have just about every single war out there with phishing scams, for instance, has been linked to covid, some kind of covid theme, whether it is the early days of sign up here to get tested, and now we are starting to see things about sign up here for a vaccine, early trials for vaccines, things like that. they are praying on the fact that people are concerned about covid. also, i don't know about you, but on my phone i get a weekly activity update, and my numbers keep going up,

intelligence that had it wrong. reason the un resolution 1441 past in 2010 unanimously was the intelligence services of every major country including russia and china thought saddam hussein was working on weapons of mass destruction so that demanded he allow international inspectors to come in. it was an error of all the intelligence services because saddam hussein wanted people to believe he had weapons of mass distraction he wanted his military to believe it and his own people to believe it as well as the israelis. it was a huge strategic mistake on his part there were several occasions in which the invasion was in 199800 president clinton when he and the british launched a military attack to get international inspectors back into iraq after saddam hussein had thrown them out. they stop the campaign without achieving their objectives. 1998 marks the point the international inspectors were out of iraq and saddam never allowed them back. i argue in the book one thing that could have been done would be to continue th

intelligence report concerning russia was withheld because it was poorly written.his complaint, murphy says that the pressure to change the intelligence came straight from the white house, through national security adviser robert o'brien. we just got a statement from the white house saying that o'brien never sought to dictate such changes. those are their words. d.h.s. also got back to us with a statement saying that it flatly denies murphy's claims. norah. >> o'donnell: some stunning charges there. jeff pegues, thank you. we're going to turn now to those exploding wildfires in the pacific northwest. oregon's governor describes the conditions in her state as a once-in-a-generation firestorm. we're talking about 50-mile-an- hour gusts that are blasting flames across acres of dry timber. nearly 100 fires are raging in almost a dozen western states. entire towns have been wiped out in oregon and washington, and across the region, massive evacuations are underway, and skies are eerily discolored from smoke and ash. cbs' lilia luciano reports tonight from phoenix, orego

we were as intelligence people traditionally are concerned about sources and methods. the mold report when the toothpicks into detail about the technical basis and the evidentiary basis for extended russian interference. so allll these things, this is a good thing, that have come out since the assessment we did which we put together in one month. >> jim, could i -- >> have one follow up with you, jim and i will come back to you kathleen. the hacking that took place, there were supposedly hacking of the rnc, not just the dnc. but we never saw an e-mail dump from the rnc. what exactly were d think the russians thinking when they hacked the dnc and then released them on to wikileaks, , as far s wewe know? >> i don't know what they were thinking. i'm not a mind reader of the russians' i assume they felt there was political hay to be made here, since they clearly, and this starts with putin himself had aa very strong animus for both clintons but specifically hillary since he held responsible for attempting a full revolution against him in their elections in 2011. i guess th