-- defense intelligence agency as we work for advantage. rebecca. rachel: thank you very much for those remarks. the one thing that caught my ear when you are talking about testing, the russians have been conducting tests that are inconsistent with ctbt. and with our understanding of zero yield. can you talk more about that and explain the implications of that and how that benefits their program? gen. ashley: i can't get into the details of that. the protocols and our understanding and belief is they are set up in such a way that they are able to operate beyond what would be necessary for a zero yield. the facilities they are operating have that capacity to operate in something other than zero yield. the other concern is as my , closing statement with the p5 language not willing to affirm they are adhering to that, which is where the u.s. is and how we have operated. rebecca: and with china as well. gen. ashley: with china as well. rebecca: oftentimes, when we talk publicly about russia, let's stick with russia, with russia's approach to it

lieutenant general robert p ashley junior become the 21st director of defense intelligence agency in october 2017. he formerly served as army chief of staff senior advisor to the chief of the army and all aspects of intelligence, counter intelligence and security. he's a career military army intelligence with washington d.c., fort gordon in georgia and a squadron commander and j-2. i could go on and on and he has a very illustrious career so i do commend his bio to you, but i want to get to the point of his remarks here and we had he a like to have a conversation about the chinese and russian missile and nuclear program, so, with that, sir, i will turn it over to you. >> thanks. get up to the podium. good morning, everybody. so, good morning, everybody. >> all right, make sure you're with me, i didn't get my snack this morning for still having breakfast. we thank the hudson institute for hosting event and the opportunity to speak with you today about the russian and chinese nuclear modernization that we're tracking. the forefront of the critical work for the intelligence community and

voting machines officials from the justice department the federal elections commission and intelligence agencies as well as special counsel robert mueller all agree action is critical if we don't act.

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the problem isn't with the intelligence or how it's being represented by the intelligence agencies. although there have been several occasions where the administration has been misrepresenting things about a whole host of issues. but the problem is that unable to certify that iran was falling out of compliance, the president ultimately decided we're going to leave anyway. renege on the truth. of course, this also meant that we were the ones reneging on the agreement, not iran. it meant that in future, other world powers were going to have to consider whether america keeps its word anymore or whether a treaty was only as good as the life of that administration. that's really not how we've viewed treaties, this a treaty dies when you change presidents. but not -- we have sought to get europe to leave the agreement. not consent with trying to get europe to leave the agreement through the revocation of waivers on the oil sales. we were trying to get iran to leave the agreement. i don't really understand that. where is that supposed to lead? i've never understood that. and i think it's w

intelligence agency, very much including the cia who are simultaneously and objectively, some of the most restrategictiv agencies than the other foreign intelligence agencies and the most effective at what we do. the reason that's not a paradox is because of that public pressure to get it right, and people want us to get it right in all of those ways because they have those privacy and civic liberty concerns, and concerns about national security. it literally makes us better and on the transparency front, i think that really is that shift, particularly into this new digital environment. i've certainly spoken many times to folks with some of our foreign allies. some of them think we are a little bit crazy to be as transparent as we are. and that might seem somewhat shocking. many americans say the cia is not a transparent organization. our foreign partners look at us and think we have gone way off the deep end sometimes in terms of what we do. we think it's critical because of those public expectations on us, on what we do. we think it's critical because we have to be able to work with

import evidence and information gathered by their own intelligence agencies when an individual is targeted and particularly the case of similar houses where she was thinking that different into government agencies countries should have been sharing information to prevent the killing of questions because it was given to reassure says that he was going to go into the consulate meet with senior officials of the consulate richey of documents he needed to finalize his wedding to . junkies who he was not aware that he could face a danger and i think what. the united nations special report always trying to convey by the fine it findings of the report and the presentation she's making as we speak at the united nations human rights council is the need to look for new in the counties to protect journalists and to vigils and where the international community has to be involved to ensure that this does not happen in the future and that anyone who's going to be involved in the wrongdoings or the killing of journalists have to be brought before justice. thank you very much. we move on hong kong democrac

watts: they have it at the defense intelligence agency, central intelligence agencies , which how to evaluate information outlets, evaluate expertise. it's unclassified. there's no secret course. it's how you adapt that into the online space. the audience i'm most worried about is not young people in social media. it's older generation that's come to the technology late, that doesn't really understand -- they understand the way newspapers are produced, where the outlet is coming from, who the authors are. i was with a group at new york city media lab and they had a group of students, that was how do we help older generation that is new to social media. you can send them tips and cues, do you know where the information is located at? do you know who the author is or the content provider is? i think there are simple tools like that we could develop or social media companies could develop for all audiences. young people have done this more than parents have. i think in terms of thinking about approaches, it's what's the generation, what are the platforms they are on. do they understand

agency policy committee. want to be clear about the role of the intelligence committee. the job down to analyze the activity that has implications for countries international obligations. they do not use the word compliant but rather characterizes actions inconsistent with the intent of such related. uses those assessments to help the interagency process. the united states has determined that russia actions have strained key pillars of arms architecture. chemical weapons, open skies, the vienna documents and the treaty on conventional armed forces in europe. in addition to the anticipating nonstrategic nuclear weapons russia claims to be developing new warhead designs for strategic systems such as a new high yield earth penetrating warhead to attack ardent military targets like the u.s., allied and chinese command and control. the development of these designs and overall stockpile management has been enhanced by the approach nuclear testing. the united states believes that russia is probably not adhering to the nuclear testing moratorium in a matter consistent with the s

and so the intelligence agencies, the foreign intelligence agencies that are engaged in them are going to adjust. and they're going to try to find ways to get around it. i think these are important reforms and i hope that congress will pursue them. and then we also need to recognize the limitations of them which is why it's important that we have candidates that are -- have their eyes opened about not receiving and being willing to receive this type of information, because the foreign intelligence agencies will be coming at them. >> thank you. and dr. polyakova, you co-authored a report for a counsel that describes measures for a european union, you wrote in an op ed the united states is lagging behind. what are some of the key lessons that we can learn from what appears to be working in europe in. >> thank you. that is correct. the u.s. is lagging behind addressing the threat we see emanating from countries like russia and other actors. some of the key issues -- steps our european colleagues have taken are one, for example, establish intraagency group that coordinates, has a mandate t

intelligence agency including the cia who are simultaneously, and objectively, some of the most restricted agencies in terms of what we are allowed to do and how we can do it compared to other foreign intelligence agencies but also the most effective at what we do. the reason that is not a paradox is because of that public pressure to get it right. people want us to get it right and all of those ways because it has privacy and civil liberties concerns and concerns about national security. it literally makes us better. on the transparency front, i think it is the shift, article he into this new digital environment, -- particularly into this new digital environment, i have spoken to foreign allies, something we are a little bit crazy to be as transparent as we are. that may seem somewhat shocking, americans say the cia is not very transparent but our foreign adversaries think we have gotten off the deep end in terms of what we do. we think it is critical because of those public expectations on us and critical because we have to be able to work with the private sector and others, and they hav

in a written statement signed by i think two of the intelligence agency heads. or one of the agency heads and the secretary of homeland security. it was, of course, the day that the "access hollywood" tape came out and the day that the podesta stuff started being dumped. and i think the administration figures have since said that was really unfortunate timing. i don't think that's an adequate answer. if the attribution didn't get sufficient attention, there were other ways to highlight the importance of what was going on. but i think what stayed their hand was concerns over there appearing to be meddling. and i think that was a mistake. and i've said that all along. it is true also, though, that in terms of congressional recognition of what was going on, in terms of congressional outreach to the states to put them on notice, to urge their attention to the threat to their voting systems, that we could not get bipartisan support to do it, except in a very milk toast way. that was in itself delayed. and, yes, mcconnell was not willing to make the full-throated kind

repressive, the most repressive regime in the world. >> don't you think he's undermining his own intelligence agenciesere is he doesn't even read his presidential intelligence briefings. so how would he even know? >> this is the infantalization of the presidency. whatever soft spot he automatically has for autocrats, he is giving incredible insult to the men and women working in the cia. and absolutely dismissing the danger of kim jong-un and continuing to buy the absolutely obvious lie contradicted by his own national security adviser that kim is somehow complying with the agreements they allegedly verbally had. it's ridiculous. >> but it's another layer. john bolton yesterday said that north korea is one of five countries that is actively spreading misinformation about us. and then he blamed -- john bolton blamed the media. he blamed us for being north korea's stenographers. now the president gets in front of the media and says that he will not spy on north korea, this country that is actively spreading misinformation about us. and apologizes for the cia. that is remarkable. >> keith, remember this

would you go to the intelligence agencies?hat is exactly what john mccain did with the information. these situations are completely different. and what is most important is not what happened in the past. i don't understand why this network and in so many conservative circles, people are still talking about hillary clinton. hillary clinton is not on the ballot. [applause] those that are running are on the ballot. and i can tell you, i can tell you that those of us who are running want to focus on the issues that are important to americans and their families. and they also, i think americans want a president who believes -- with a belief has integrity sitting there in oval office and his honest and accountable to the american people and will put the national interest above his own personal interest. what you saw yesterday in that moment was a man who very clearly is willing to put his own selfish political interest above even the interest of national security of this country. >> bret: mr. secretary, we will move on. they hillary

him and allow him to make remarks then we will have a conversation the 21st director of the intelligence agency on octobe october 13 serving as the army deputy chief of staff for all aspects of intelligence and counterintelligence and security general ashley is a career army intelligence officer and has commanded battalion squadron and brigade levels in iraq and afghanistan i could go on and on and he has a very illustrious career his bio is included that i want to get to the point we would like to have a conversation about the chinese and russian missile nuclear program so with that i will turn it over to you. >> good morning. good morning everybody. [laughter] make sure you are with me. first thank you to the hudson institute for giving me the opportunity to speak today about the russia and chinese modernization trend we are tracking with the nuclear capabilities at the forefront of the intelligence community and the intelligence agency in particular, this is why the mission is to understand foreign military capabilities to provide the advantage for senior leadership. so let me start with rus

defense intelligence agency, military intelligence, the war fighters, defense policymakers and forcelanners in the department of defense and the intelligence community itself, the agency went to work immediately following iran's attack on a u.s. drone last week. and for more on the agent i city and what it's looking into, we turn to fox news chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge. >> reporter: in his first national television interview, the head of the defense intelligence agency told fox news he believes iran is likely at an inflection point but could not get into operational details. he provided immediate analysis for decision makers. options for future u.s. actions as well as the regime's likely response. even before today's new sanctions, director ashley said the regime was hurting. >> they're kind of at an inflection point now, and i think this uptick that you've seen is a reflection of them trying to change the status quo and the path they're on. i would say the pressure campaign is working, and there's hardship. the president has asked the question before, you kno

but even google maps will tell you that that building over there is m i 5 britain's domestic intelligence agency and even though its job is to root out the bad guys the agency itself has been accused of extraordinary and persistent illegality in a high court case civil rights group liberty brought the legal challenge against m i 5 to the high court the case against m i 5 now relates back to a law that was passed in the u.k. in 2016 the investigatory powers act back then the new legislation was sold as something that would create transparency in the wake of the snowden scandal which had revealed that the u.s. and its allies including the u.k. had been collecting vast troops of public data but the investigatory powers act quickly became dubbed the snoopers charter privacy campaigners claim it simply legalized the practices that snowden had exposed and introduced intrusive new powers there is however a government watchdog that's meant to oversee the u.k.'s sweeping surveillance laws and according to documents revealed in court that watchdog the u.k.'s investigative powers commissioner has delivered

they once they close those secret doors they don't really know they only know what the secret intelligence agencies will tell them they don't know any more than that and they can't really verify anything that those agencies are doing a funny thing in an e-mail will take half an hour or 40 minutes time with multiple updates same day stay with us. i am. a fish to hate. the. good food descriptions sound up to tell using even for the owners so how to choose this pet food industry is telling us what to feed our pets really more based on what they want to sell us than was necessarily good for the pet turns out that food may not be associate as people believe we have animals that have you know diabetes in arthritis they have auto immune disorders they cut allergies we are actually creating these problems and it's a huge epidemic of problems all of them i believe can be linked to a very simple problem of diet and some dog owners so heartbreaking stories about their pets less treats the larger corporations are not very interested in proving or disproving the value of their food because they're already makin

they once they close those secret doors they don't really know they only know what the secret intelligence agencies will tell them they don't know any more than that and they can't really verify anything that those agencies are doing. an exhibition of all things military the annual forum army 29 team has been taking place just outside of moscow this thursday it's been a showcase of cutting edge technology here in russia with a foreign audience watching on very own egos not off to. army $21000.00 it is the event for russian and international manufacturers alike to take their brand new weapons and technologies and showcase them to the world i mean look just here we have dozens if not hundreds of pieces of military equipment full fugit exposition warehouses and this is just the geographically central part of the exposition you can take a bus and check out the naval part of the expo you can check out the military drill site and see some of these pieces of hardware in action or you can take another bus and go to an airfield and enjoy the airshow it's an international event so companies here are often no

they once they close those secret doors they don't really know they only know what the secret intelligence agencies will tell them they don't know any more than that and they can't really verify anything that those agencies are doing. it is our law for now but next it's a $1000000000.00 industry but just what is in the food our pets are charging to and on and is that actually what it say's on the tin our documentary pet food starts in moments. i don't want to talk to a news agency forgive me you'll have to find someone to. take me. going to. see into that where. i think. it's a. move towards we are the. people. we are. you know world big partisan of the movies a lot of things and conspiracy it's time to wait to be deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the shouting past each other it's hard for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. the f.t.'s primary role is in regulation of what the label says is and there is actua

they once they close those secret doors they don't really know they only know what the secret intelligence agencies will tell them they don't know any more than that and they can't really verify anything that those agencies are doing a funny thing now i'll be back around 30 minutes time with more playable updates so stay with us. for attending the st petersburg international economic forum and the topic of our panel is are we witnessing a paradigm shift in the global economic order well the answer of course is yes it's a matter of degree. welcome to our panel discussion here our proposition is are we witnessing a paradigm shift in the global economic order so as to the question yes obviously there is a paradigm shift going on what does a paradigm shift mean is it a win win situation for everyone involved and if it isn't what does it mean to lose in a paradigm shift and i class one of all our member. of our panel here to kick it off for us addressing that question whether. if you look now into the general economic development of political development globally speaking you see on the one hand that .

they once they close those secret doors they don't really know they only know what the secret intelligence agencies will tell them they don't know any more than that and they can't really verify anything that those agencies are doing a final final i'll be back around 30 minutes time and won't play ball updates a day stay with us. i don't believe that at all. my son was doing drugs my nephew's was still in drugs my sister just been doing drugs it was so. like an epidemic of drug abuse america's public enemy number one in the united states is drug abuse which is sort of going after the users in the prison population who are we started treating sick people people who are addicted to these drugs like criminals while i was on the hill i increasingly became convinced that the ready war on drugs was a mistake there are countless numbers of people who are in prison for any conceivable long sentence in this for being a minor minor offenders in the drug trade it's a lot watching your children grow up and miss you in waves and say bye daddy as you're walking out of the business it's just it doesn't get easy.

don't have any oversight of what they're doing with it no country in the world to trust their intelligence agenciesonce they once they close those secret doors they don't really know they only know what the secret intelligence agencies will tell them they don't know any more than that and they can't really verify anything that those agencies are doing. i tossed out a top story now a highly anticipated one to one is underway at the g 20 summit in the japanese city of. president vladimir putin and donald trump and now meeting behind closed doors on the sidelines of the catherine chavez said he was going to discuss trade protectionism and disarmament with the russian leader and that he is looking forward to spending a good time together it's the 1st face to face point to play a chunk of collusion with russia to win a $26.00 election put a notice to discuss the nuclear arms reduction treaty it's set to expire in 2021 unless moscow and washington negotiate an extension last year the leaders announce their withdrawal from a key control packed into medium range and careful is changing prompting face of a

or whoever has this is releasing this stuff since that leak foreign intelligence agencies and rogue actors have used eternal blue just spread malware that has paralyzed hospitals airports rail and shipping operators a.t.m. some factories that produce critical vaccines now the tools hitting the united states where it is most vulnerable and local governments with aging digital infrastructure and fewer resources to defend themselves so a lot of these. local governments of course or states they're near bankrupt after all these years is 0 percent interest rates where they have to pay off all these pensioners and retirees from state employees and local government and they're not earning their return so they have to spend more of their reserves but anyway they have old computer systems with old microsoft products on it that have they have not patched it because a cost money to patch and to protect yourself from this attorney blew so it's now costing tens of millions of dollars across america so i don't know if you know this is basically an investigative piece from the new york times so i don't kn

they once they close those secret doors they don't really know they only know what the secret intelligence agencieswill tell them they don't know any more than that and they can't really verify anything that those agencies are doing. i'll be back around 30 minutes time with more global updates to stay with us. donald trump hits the ground in japan for the g. 20 summit his 3rd as president is the stronger or weaker entering this one we're taking a look on this edition of politic. welcome to politicking i'm matthew cook in for larry king donald trump is in osaka japan along with other world leaders for the annual g 20 summit on the schedule for mr trump a face to face with chinese president xi jinping over trade and a meeting with saudi crown prince mohammed bin bin solomon against the backdrop of a u.n. iranian crisis does the president enter this his 3rd g 20 summit stronger or weaker than his previous summits and what does mr trump need to accomplish for this to be considered a success let's talk about that with our 1st guest he's former u.s. representative chris shays republican from connecticut

and to the credit of the intelligence agency, they told the administration that iran was complying. i think the intel community leaders and others had been very good about speaking through the power. they tell us, i think that is with the ministration as well. the problem wasn't with the intelligence or the agencies were several occasions where the ministrations were misrepresented about a whole host of issues. the problem is that unable to certify that iran was going out of compliance. they decided we will leave anyway. we are hanging on the tree. and of course, this also meant that we were the ones on the agreement, not iran. it meant that in future, other powers would have to consider whether they were anymore or whether tree was only as good as the administration. that's really never been how we viewed it before. our treaty dies when you change presidents. but not content with feeding ourselves from the agreement we sought to get for the agreement. and not content with trying to give europe to give the agreement through the ratification of waivers. we're trying to get iran to be

intelligence agencies confirmed the fact that the russians intervened in our elections. our bipartisan committee, the last bipartisan effort on the hill looking at this issue reaffirmed unanimously that the russians massively intervened. if we had not acted, if our intelligence committee and law enforcement has had not acted they would have been irresponsible and candid eli mr. barr that very little credibility with me and i think vast majority of candidly not just democrats but many americans because he time and again is not acting as our attorney general but as a personal advocate for donald trump. >> brennan: the attorney general is beginning this investigation, though, into the counterintelligence probe. >> yes. have at it, because facts will confirm what the intelligence community and law enforcement did was right. we as the intelligence committee have looked into the beginnings of this investigation. again, i will restate what i ent and the intelligence community had not started an investigation when they had evidence of russian interference they would have been --

it's also that those are recruitment opportunities for the foreign intelligence agencies in question. as a general matter, you don't want people who are, you know, going to go on to get security clearances, you know, meeting in a sort of secret fashion with foreign intelligence operatives. >> danielle, which way is this legislation, these pieces of legislation that ben and i were just discussing, how do they look? >> well, you have a divided congress. >> is there bipartisan support of this? no, right? >> absolutely, no. and so the house can pass what they would like and mark warner can push this but the very real question is, those people like lindsey graham, for example, who might come out and say -- push back against the president, well, how far does that go. >> thank you so much. ben, danielle, thank you. rick, you're going to stick with us. >>> new documents released by the white house show the president's family is still making money from the trump name. nbc news reports ivanka trump, the president's daughter and senior adviser, took in $4 million from her stake in the trump inte

intelligence and director of cia. goss again. he was running the agency when the dni position was set up, the intelligence, terrorism -- intelligence reform and prevention act passed in 2004, effective 2005. it abolished the position of dci and for the first time in history created statutory the director of central intelligence agency. we will talk about the effect that had in the prominence of the dci and the different authorities that they had. i think that is a pretty good warm-up. you all did really well, super job. let me go on and talk about the main points of tonight's presentation. when the cia was set up, a couple of different models came to mind for the leaders. you had allen dulles, who at the time had his oss experience. he thought based in part on that and his dealings with the british service during world war ii, that the cia should pretty much always be run by a careerist, somebody who grew up in the agency and was whetted to, devoted to that particular line of work. -- wedded to, devoted to, that particular line of work. we have only had a

mind boggling story and the malware that is the weapons grade and developed by intelligence agencies gets out there in the open and is used for a malevolent you know we often feared the presence of suitcase atomic weapons you know what havoc that could bring and meanwhile we actually have this suitcase portable all thumb drive version of n.s.a. corruptions. malware that is in the open that is causing havoc so it was released on april 2017 by a group called the shadow brokers again the n.s.a. doesn't know if it's some foreign power group of hackers or they're on their own disgruntled employees so it could be somebody still in that n.s.a. or whoever has this is releasing this stuff since that leak foreign intelligence agencies and rogue actors have used eternal blue to spread malware that has paralyzed hospitals airports rail and shipping operators a.t.m. some factories that produce critical vaccines now the tools hitting the united states where it is most vulnerable and local governments with aging digital infrastructure and fewer resources to defend themselves so a lot of these local

i think everybody in the space and the intelligence agency would prefer a campaign would work.er investigation, the report says that the trump campaign not ohm essentially encouraged this, but they were expecting this kind of help from the russian government. that's why we had this investigation and i think that's why there's still a lot of concern about what will happen in 2020. >> let me go back to katelyn at the white house. do you have another point you want to make? >> we're looking at this and thinking about the president's reaction. is this something you would do again as we saw in the last campaign? a lot of what this would likely have to do with is this is a president who doesn't like mistakes or missteps. even his campaign manager paul manafort. the president does not like to admit mistakes. he's saying instead of agrees with what the fbi director christopher wray said, yes, they should have called the fbi, the president is standing by their actions. >> very interesting. you used to be an attorney at the national security agency. when you heard what the president just

intelligence agency. it's to what degree and how will they attempt toer in fear. that's the view of national security establishment and the president made light of it again. i don't think we can under estimate what a moment that is for this president. >> even our banner right now, trump offhand comment to putin, don't meddle in election. offhand is giving it more credit than it deserves. jimmy, max, ron, thank you very much. 100%. anyway you want to qualify it is mitigating its strength. gentlemen, thank you for helping me. let's take a quick break. when we come back, let's reset on what happened tonight in this debate. if we get more information about what's coming out of the meeting with the president and putin, we'll bring it to you straight away. a lot to figure out whether this president gets a second term. we'll take that on right after this. hey, who are you? oh, hey jeff, i'm a car thief... what?! i'm here to steal your car because, well, that's my job. what? what?? what?! (laughing) what?? what?! what?! [crash] what?! haha, it happens. and if you've got c

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>> he said it residence the russian interference despite being told the opposite by his own intelligence agency. is this troubling? if so why? >> it is the definitive assessment of u.s. intelligence committee as well documented in the report that there was a russian government intelligence operation directed at the 2016 campaign. that is for me intelligence perspective indisputable. as the commander in chief and the individual who has executive responsibility to protect the country, it is deeply concerning that the president legitimately does not believe that assessment. >> the gentleman yelled back. the young lady from arizona. >> thank you mr. chairman. i would like to yield how much time he would like. a few minutes. >> i do appreciate them admitting he did not know what was going on. i appreciate you saying that. you were given by having to go to the five-minute rounds. i want to give you a moment. >> that's in the context my statement. they have exceeded their constitutional powers. if you believe starting the war was unconstitutional, that is on impeachable offense. my statement applied t

director of counterintelligence traveling around the world, engaging with foreign intelligence agencies hundreds of contacts of eitheriduals that would talk to me, stop by, have a conversation. and i think part of this is when it gets into the aspect of when individuals are not reporting that, the second they start having clandestine i'm or -- clandestine or secret meetings, it puts them in a very vulnerable position. >> leaves them open to blackmail and -- >> it is definitely a vulnerable position because there is no one in the room with you to say this is exactly how the conversation went. these are all tricks of the trade when it comes to hostile adversaries and intelligence services. >> thank you, chairman. i yield back. >> mr. crawford? >> thank you, mr. chairman. the witnesses for being here today. in 2017, former cia director brennan stated in an open hearing in this committee that russian active measures to impact the u.s. had been going on for decades. in 2012, then-presidential candidate mitt romney said he believed russia posed the greatest threat united states, to which pres

[inaudible] all of this as barr defends the president -- is hurting the credibility of our intelligence agenciest against critics who accuse him of hurting the credibility of our intelligence agencies. watch. >> i think one of the ironies today is that people are saying that it's president trump that's. >> shredding our institutions.

next to him she does with the central intelligence agency as an analyst and has been working quite extensively on korea, japan and the affairs. we have the professor here at the institute over the studies and now this one [inaudible] also been teaching you can expect in the discussion over the nuclear delegation some input from the european union perspective. currently a senior researcher at the policy institute where very interestingly she is a nuclear scientist and has a phd and currently the issues that relate to north korea so she's an expert. each expert on this labor war to make a presentation on their own after they commit, a lot more than ten minutes. it is a privilege to be here and share my thoughts on what we are trying to achieve in the korean peninsula we have very frustrating. co. in hanoi not having a working level negotiation that we have a very exciting week ahead. [inaudible] if so, before i proceed, let me show you what we are trying to achieve at this critical juncture of history in the korean peninsula. peninsula. i would ask you to recall what happened in 2017, particular

, the preeminent intelligence agency in this nation, cia officers, you have documented this on your podcast and in your book -- this is a huge development in this investigation. >> here's why brennan and his lieutenants are in trouble, not the wreck and officers. it's only in christopher steele's information, whatever you want to call, the dossier. he said he hasn't seen the dossier until september, that's not possible if he told harry reid about it. one more thing, lisa page and the fbi when questioned appears genuinely astonished when asked by mark meadows about the fact that the cia may have had information from christopher steele prior to when the fbi knew about it, meaning there may have been a parallel construction path going on here which is bad. >> let's have some hearings and talk it out. i'm sure jim jordan will do a great job questioning these people and they will make him look like a fool and it will hurt the president because we will be talking about the present colluding with russia. >> you've been on the collusion hoax the whole time. >> bring me some more inf