the nominee's name was john brennan. opposed specifically about brennan's nomination to head the cia was the agency's drone program. its unmanned drones. drones, of course, the cia uses to secretly target and kill what it says are terrorists but what many cases end up being innocent civilians killed as collateral damage. countries like pakistan and yemen. paul was and still is opposed to the drone program and wanted more information about the program brought to light. so filibustering john brennan's nomination to run the cia was going to be his way of doing that. was going to be his way of drawing attention to this issue. since you can't leave the senate floor while you are filibustering something, that's what the rules say, paul went on and on and on for hour after hour until he got to the point that we will all eventually get to, the point where you just can't ignore nature's call any longer. >> and i would go for another 12 hours to try to break strom thurmond's record, but i discovered there are some limits to filibu

say it spied on the senate intelligence committee well it's pretty important if you had heard john brennan deny that any of his staffers had access to senate information and even then accuse the senate of having spied on and here are the cia so i mean this is quite. quite a revelation and unfortunately it remains to be seen what congress is going to do about it. let's look at the reasons why the cia was so interested in what the senate intel committee was investigating what do you think the cia was so afraid of that they breached the trust of congress. well for starters the cia was afraid of this report it seems like they've done more than foot dragging since the investigation began and they've actually tried authority this report from getting out it's six thousand pages and i think it cost forty million dollars of taxpayers' money to actually investigate they didn't want the american public to know what they had done in terms of the black sites and the authorizing waterboarding etc that's obvious because they destroyed the tapes from before i mean there's been all kinds of cover ups on th

report on the cia's rendition detention and interrogation activities this is what cia director john brennan said about those allegations back in march as far as the allegations in the cia. and some computers nothing that we know it's prompted calls for him to apologize and even to resign or have asked for an apology and a recognition that this cia search of computers used by its oversight committee was in appropriate besides the constitutional implication the cia's search may also have violated before commending the computer fraud and abuse act as well as an executive order to triple three. i was joined by former f.b.i. agent and whistleblower coleen rowley i first asked her how important it is for this admission to be public that the cia had spied on the senate intelligence committee well it's pretty important if you had heard john brennan deny that any of his staffers had access to senate information and even then i've cuse the senate of having spied on and here are the cia so i mean this is quite. quite a revelation and unfortunately it remains to be seen what congress is going to do abo

the million-dollar question is john brennan's future. is that in some jeopardy now? >> at the end of the day, do i think brennan is going to survive this and continue on? i do. he's got the support of the president. i don't think there's going to be enough republicans or democrats who are going to join udall and call for his resignati resignation. 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 contr

you've got democratic senator mark udall now calling for john brennan's resignation. also got senator martin hinrich, also a democrat in the senate intelligence committee. you've got another democrat, oregon senator ron wyden calling for potential criminal charges filed against whoever it was in the cia who spied on the senate. >> if a 19-year-old hacker searched senate files this way, that hacker would be sitting in jail right now. i want a public accounting at this point. i want to know who authorized this act. i want to know why they thought it was legal, and i want to know who is going to be legally held responsible. >> and now tonight, the first republican senator to all for brennan's resignation has emerged, not surprisingly, it is senator rand paul. president today said he has, quote, full confidence in john brennan as director of the cia, even as he went on to talk about the poor judgment the cia showed when it decided it was a good idea to spy on congress. joining us, siobhan gorman, the intelligence correspondent at "the wall street journal." thanks for join

dan pfeiffer went on as far as telling abc this week, john brennan is a man of integrity.hy hasn't the president fired him and what does it take to anger the president and make him lose trust in his staffers? >> well, the president i think is going to find himself in a difficult situation. first, maintaining confidence. we've seen this before. maintaining confidence in his advisers and cabinet members of directors. i do think we'll see outrage from both sides of the aisle on this issue. we've seen some democrats who are up for re-election in the senate this year really frustrated about this and republicans, too. and of course, this comes as that report invests looking at the interrogation techniques used. that report is going to be huge, so this is an element of that. >> let's talk about that. let's talk about our twitter question of the day, i asked viewers, the senate is set to release at least part of what is being called a stark report on torture. is it a good idea to release this? some of the replies and there have been dozens upon dozens. brian earl nelson writes me

let's will likely lead to john brennan's resignation -- >> will likely lead to john brennan's resignation? they said this has not damage them. i think we will have to see how this plays out. in particular, we will have to see what senator feinstein, the leader of the senate committee amateurs is to do, how far she takes this, how angry she is. part of why this got so hot is that feinstein and john brennan clashed. there was rare public criticism of the head of his senate oversight committee, in which he questioned i am feinstein's decision to go forward, in effect made accusations against her staff. that made this all the more personal and bitter. end, the in the end, there is a lot of pushback. the scenes and explain to us exactly what might come out of this question mark --? study0 pages, a massive of cia read addition -- rendition, interrogation, afters during the decade september 11, 2011. has been awaiting declassification. -- beyond the ethical and moral outrage, i think everybody views interrogation policy as having the -- one of them was utility in the information that was gained

on top of it, as you just heard the cia director john brennan, said it wasn't going on. then he found out that it was going on, had a separate report drawn up on the issue, which showed cleared wrong doing that some say violated the constitution separation of powers. earlier this week, brennan apologized and also set up an accountability review board. now the battle lines have been drawn with the president saying he has faith in his cia director. >> it's clear from the ig report that some very poor judgment was shown in terms of how that was handled. keep in mind, though, john brennan is the person who called for the ig report and he's already stood up a task force to make sure that lessons are learned and mistakes are resolved. >> an apol 0y isn't enough. people have to be held responsible. there has to be a full and complete investigation not by the cia. i believe that may go all the way up to the director of the cia. >> now, it's not just republicans upset about this. democrat senators udall and heinrich called for brennan's resignation whether there's growing support

at the time, cia director john brennan denied the spying allegations.ic and be further than the truth. on this,facts come out a lot of people that are claiming that has been this tremendous spying, monitoring, and hacking, would be proved wrong. >> well, cia director john brennan reversed his stance this week after an internal cia inquiry found the spying indeed took place with the involvement of ten agency employees. brennan apologized to lawmakers in a briefing earlier this week. the cia has also retracted counter-allegations that senate staffers illegally removed classified information from a top-secret facility. the white house is standing by brennan, citing president obama's quote "great confidence" in his leadership. but at least two members of the senate intelligence committee, democrats mark udall of colorao and martin heinrich of new mexico, are calling for brennan's resignation. we are joined now by the reporter who first broke the news of the cia's admission to spying on senate computers. jonathan landay is senior national security and intell

the president said he has full confidence in john brennan. we also saw john brennan say a few months ago that he didn't know about the snooping. nothing could be further from the truth. either he didn't know what was going on in his own agency or he wasn't telling the truth. doesn't that trouble the president? >> we have to look at how he responded. when there were allegations of improper conduct, he was the one who referred the allegations to the inspector general. he said -- he's setting up an accountability review board. john brennan is a man of great integrity and ability. someone the president knows very well. the president has confidence in him. >> the senate report likely to come out this week. maybe a little later. will the president order more action in the wake of the report? >> i think what this report does, which the president called to be declassified as much as possible as quickly as possible. what he's said is -- we want to acknowledge it. we want to make sure it never happens again. which is why, in his first week in office, h

least two democratic senators, mark udall and mark hinrich are calling for the resignation of john brennan. this is after the cia inspector general found that agency officials improperly found their way into the senate computers during an investigation into the agency's interrogation techniques post-9/11. according to unclassified

do you share that view that john brennan should resign?ink he should view his position as in real jeopardy. it's more than just that the cia hacked into senate staff. it's also that a false criminal charge was allowed to be levied against senate staff by a subject of the report, and when put on the spot about these activities director brennan repeatedly said things proven not to be true. he has a lot of explaining to do i think he's in a very, very deep hole. >> you think he's in a deep hole. would you like to see him resign? do you think he should do that? >> i want to talk more with chairman feinstein before i make that call. it's certainly well within the realm of possibility. there's nothing inappropriate about what senator heinrich and senator udall have asked for. >> in terms of this report, the president using the word torture on friday, we're also hearing now about apparently a significant number of redactions in this report, apparently the cia going to have an opportunity to respond to this report. you also have ezra talking about

senator, point blank, john brennan, should he have a job at the cia? >> chuck, right now the public deserves to know who is responsible for ordering and carrying out this unconstitutional act. and particularly i want to know whether director brennan deliberately lied to the american people. as you know, he told your network and others, oh, the search is the furthest thing from what he would be interested in. i've long felt that with the intelligence leadership there is a culture of misinformation. this may be another example.

. >> i have full confidence in john brennan. >> reporter: that senate report described by some as dynamite. 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.

if i thought john brennan knew about this, then it would be certainly we would be calling for his resignation. but the oig made azd÷# specific finding that he did not. but i will tell you the five staffers that did this, if they worked for me they would be gone now but the accountability board has been convened and they will be looking into this and they

i think we've really got to have some serious discussions about john brennan, find out what he knew about this when he was making those statements, what he knew about it at the time. i'm not calling for his resignation, but i'm pretty skeptical right now, because it really has undermined the trust between the committee, and if you go back to the report itself, candy, one of the key findings of the report is they weren't honest with us.

. >> that is cia director john brennan in march saying his agency did not spy on intelligence committee staffers. turns out yes, they did. with me now is senator angus king. he sits on the senate intelligence committee. senator king, thanks for being here. this whole thing started when

ways, as you've heard, there have been democrats and republicans calling for the resignation of john brennan at the cia. >> right. >> fairly or not, he's at the top, and the question here is, does the -- there's the nsa and all the things that it's been accused of doing, and sort of overstepping its bounds into the privacy of americans. now we have the cia, and that they overstep their bounds, looking at the very committee that's supposed to be watching over the cia and it gives you this impression that after 9/11 we just went way too far and that we have given up too much in exchange for the safety. >> and that's why it's so

i have full confidence in john brennan. i think he has technology and directly apologize to senator feinstein that cia personnel did not properly handle an investigation as to how certain documents were not authorized to be released to the senate staff got somehow into the hands of senate staff and it's clear from the ig report that some very poor judgment was shown in terms

director john brennan flatly denied. >> as far as the allegations of, you know, c.i.a. hacking into, you know, senate computers, nothing could be further from the truth. we wouldn't do that. i mean that's-- that's just beyond the--, you know, the scope of reason. >> reporter: but the c.i.a.'s own inspector general determined the agency did spy on senate investigators. i.g. findings released today revealed five agency employees improperly accessed committee files. and reviewed some of the e-mails of committee staff members. in addition to his apology, brennan ordered a broader internal review.

on top of it, the cia director john brennan, said that this wasn't going on. then found out it was and had a separate report drawn up on the issue of spying on the intelligence committee which showed clear wrongdoing. that some say violated the constitutional separation of powers. earlier this week, brennan apologized and set up an accountability review board. now the battle lines have been drawn with president obama saying he has faith in his cia director. >> john brennan was the person who called for the ig report. and he's already stood up a task force to make sure that lessons are learned and mistakes are resolved. >> an apology isn't enough. people have to be held responsible. there has to be a full and compete investigation. not by the cia. full and complete investigation. >> it's not just republicans upset about this. democratic senators mark udall and martin hinrich called for brennan's resignation. whether there will be growing support for that position is unclear as the august recess gets under way on capitol hill. also unclear is how the report on e

want to hear this apology publicly from john brennan? >> i want a public accounting at this point. i want to know who authorized this act. i want to know why they thought it was legal, and i want to know who is going to be legally held responsible. you've got to have the ability on our committee to get straight answers. and again and again, as you know, i asked director clapper at one point whether the government collected any type of information at all on americans. they said no. we have another example here where director brennan's spokesperson said they had a strong interest in looking at these files and then director brennan told your andrea mitchell and various other networks they had no interest in it. the facts don't add up and this is part of the culture of misinformation. >> what were they trying to do when they hacked into the computers? are they afraid of the

of course cia director john brennan had vehemently denied that charge when it was first made a few months ago. >> the facts will come out, but let me assure you that cia in no way was spying on the ssci or the senate. >> well, that was march. now the cia admits, yes, it was spying on the senate. in a statement, quote, the director subsequently informed the ssci chairman and the vice chairman of the findings and apologized to them of such actions by cia officers as described in the oig report. but senators on both sides of the aisle on thursday expressed outrage with the agency, calling on cia leadership to repair trust with congress, including oregon democratic senator ron widen who demanded an apology

it's particularly shocking because if you go back to the clips in the spring, candy, you'll see john brennan, the chief of the cia, the director of the cia, saying this was absurd and nobody should make these kind of irresponsible charges, and all of those kinds of things and now the cia's own inspector-general has confirmed that they did just that, that they went into the computer system that was supposedly separated and within the control of the senate committee and essentially phished around. they even created false identities to pretend to be senate staff members going into the computers. it was, it's not good. i mean, the more important thing is the report itself, but this certainly undermines the kind of trust that you got to have, and here's the deal, candy. when we do oversight of these

i agree with senator mark udall, cia director john brennan should resign. that's not all.more. i smell a ratted and a squishy apology from the cia director should not push this matter under the rug. earlier today, cia director john brennan apologized toot senate intelligence committee leaders for spying on them. that's not a mistake. that is a crime and a big one. on the cia's own web site, it says domestic spying by the cia is a crime. and the only way it is not a crime and this is where i get a bit suspicious, is if the attorney general of the united states authorizes domestic spying. that, of course, would be eric holder. so, did the attorney general authorize domestic spying? if he did, he needs to tell us why. he owes the american people those answers. and if eric holder didn't authorize the spying, he needs to do his job and prosecute, convene a grand jury immediately. i don't buy for one second the department of justice previous statement that there is not enough evidence for a a criminal investigation. that statement is a lie. testimony t. smells like a coverup to

tuvimos la oportunidad de ir a hablar con el director de la cia, john brennan. que se hiciera todo lo posible para ponerle coto al terrorismo, pero despuÉs de ver lo que pasÓ con los aeropuertos, con la direcciÓn de seguridad y con el transporte o tsa y los cateos invasivos a chicos de seis aÑos en los aeropuertos la gente reaccionÓ, y ahora el tsa ha moderado un poco su conducta. yo tambiÉn pienso que si uno le permite a los espÍas que pongan las reglas ellos siempre dirÁn que cuanto mÁs espionaje, mejor, asÍ que tiene que haber gente como yo que cree en las libertades civiles y en la libertad para contrarrestar a los que propugnan el espionaje, asÍ que es un tira y jala hasta que se encuentre un balance, pero hay que ser muy cuidadosos. y creo que si le preguntas a la mayorÍa de los estadounidenses "¿debe el gobierno recopilar sus registros telefÓnicos sin una orden judicial y sin sospecha alguna?", la mayorÍa de los estadounidenses dirÍa que no. >> en la cia nos decÍan "estÁ bien, pero nadie quiere otro 11 de septiembre", y ese es el lema de todos, nadie quie

brennan's resignation? >> the initial response from the white house today from press secretary john earnest was to defend brennan, to say that this had not damaged him. i think we'll have to see how this plays out. in particular, we'll have to see what senator feinstein the leader of the senate committee chooses to do, how far she takes this, how angry she is. part of why this got so hot was that feinstein an brennan clashed personally. and brennan made a public speech, a rare public criticism of the head of his senate oversight committee in which he questioned feinstein's decision to go forward. in effect, made accusations against her staff. that made this all the more personal and bitter. >> but in the end it's really about this report that might-- that's coming forward, so-called panetta report. there's a lot of pushback from the cia about disclosing this. fake us behind the scenes and explain to us exactly what might come out of this and who said what when. >> the report which is said to total 6,000 pages, a massive study of cia rendition and detention and interrogation, actions during the decade after-- aft

he also said he still has confidence in cia chief john brennan after revelations this week the agency the congressional investigation. >>> i have full confidence in john brennan, cia personnel did not properly handle an investigation as to how certain documents were not authorized to be released to the senate staff got somehow into the hands of the senate staff. >> but two democratic senators have now called on brennan to resign. >>> the house goes into overtime to get a deal done on immigration, and the president threatens to go it alone again. we'll break it down with a fox panel when we come right back. at legalzoom you can take care of virtually all your important legal matters in just minutes. now it's quicker and easier for you to start your business, protect your family, and launch your dreams. at legalzoom.com we put the law on your side. been all fun and games, here at the harrison household. but one dark, stormy evening... she needed a good meal and a good family. so we gave her purina cat chow complete. it's great because it has the four cornerstones of nutrition. everythin

as senator chambliss said earlier there is not evidence that john brennan knew about it.that in a sense puts him outside of this issue. but it was a terrible mistake. and a final point i would make is we should not forget that the issues of interrogation will happen in realtime. i mean this is being conducted entirely as an historical exercise but we are getting involved in a tough fight against isis in iraq and syria where the issues what do you do with the people you capture will come up. >> i want to turn to the situation in israel and gaza this morning another attack likely by israeli air strike on a u.n. school. that was sheltering thousands of palestinians. at least 10 dead and 35 injured. margaret you cover the state department and travel with secretary kerry another cease fire collapsed. what does the administration do? >> there's tremendous frustration because the administration will very sort of plainly acknowledge that in 140 square-mile area, the size of gaza you cannot truly have a pinpoint operation. are you going to have mass civilian casualties. 2000 civil

john brennan worked for clinton. he worked in the cia under bush and was in charge of some of the secret prisons and enhanced interrogation techniques. when president obama came in and cancelled those enhanced interrogation practices, the senate intelligence committee began investigating. next week, the report you mentioned is the report that is set to be released on what the cia was doing. >> they were trying to get a look? >> trying to get a look at that. and that has precipitated this enormous tension between the cia director, john brennan, and the senate intelligence committee. and what happened really was that in a very public statement, dianne feinstein, who is the head of the committee from camera, came out and said -- this was last ma, we believe that the cia is hacking into the senate computers. and it was a shocking public statement and then the next thing we know, john brennan, the cia director says absolutely not. at a time never happened. denies it completely and then this week, we find out there was an

now, the january 15, 2014 meeting with director john brennan.n late 2013, i requested in writing that the c.i.a. provide a final and complete version of the internal panetta review to the committee, as opposed to the partial document the committee currently possesses. in december, during an open committee hearing, senator mark udall echoed this request. in early january, 2014, the c.i.a. informed the committee it would not provide the internal panetta review to the committee, citing the deliberative nature of the document. shortly thereafter, on january 15, 2014, c.i.a. director brennan requested an emergency meeting to inform me and vice chairman chambliss that without prior notification or approval, c.i.a. personnel had conducted a search -- that was john brennan's word -- of the committee computers at the offcite facility. -- offsite facility. this search was not only of documents provided by the committee by the c.i.a. but also a search of the stand-alone and walled-off committee network drive containing the committee's own internal work pro

. >> that is cia director john brennan in march saying his agency did not spy on intelligence committee staffers. turns out yes, they did. with me now is senator angus king. he sits on the senate intelligence committee. senator king, thanks for being here. this whole thing started when your committee began to look at the bush era anti-terrorism plan of the cia, looking at what happened there, looking at if torture was committed, did we send folks to other countries to have them tortured there, et cetera, et cetera. so the cia believing that you all had gotten a hold of documents you shouldn't have, hacks into the computer and essentially spies on your committee, and your reaction to that admission now? >> well, it's shocking and it's particularly shocking because if you go back to the clips in the spring, candy, you'll see john brennan, the chief of the cia, the director of the cia, saying this was absurd and nobody should make these kind of irresponsible charges, and all of those kinds of things and now the cia's own inspector-general has confirmed that they did just that, that they we

i want to be careful not to call john brennan a criminal. powers as was violated by having the executive branch spy on the legislative branch that's a serious breach of the constitutional trust that should exist. john brennan should go. you had two democrats who say that. god bless them for having the integrity of really their own constitutional principles to say that. but he ought to be glad that all he's being asked to do is walk the plank rather than, you know, to be cuffed and stuffed over this. >> but here's why i'm confused. the cia spies on senators. >> yeah. >> that's beyond dispute and only two of them call for his resignation. why the impulse to defend that. it's indefensible. >> same reasoning you have democrats who defend what the president does by completely running the country by executive order as if he's a monarch rather than a president. >> would you call him a liar. let's look at some video from march. is john brennan a liar. >> when the facts come out on this a lot of people who are claiming that there's been this tremendo

john brennan totally denied that at the time. and then yesterday and then yesterday after the ig report came out, he admitted it. the president expresses full confidence in brennan which is good tore brennan but the calls for him to resign have just begun. senators will still want to know what did he know and when and did he mislead congress before any determines nation as to whether or not the drive to call for hess resignation in combination with the fact we're about to learn from this report really gets going. >> the calls for brennan to resign have come from democrats who think that if he in any way knew about this spying on the senate, which after all, oversees the cia. their responsibility is oversight of the cia, and the cia was spying on them. and that if brennan knew in any way, shape, or form that he should not be there and this is coming from democrats, so this is going to have to play out over the next few weeks. >> bob baer, how real though is the oversight? i mean, we've talked about this in the discussion of nsa. it

it cia director john brennan said it was not going on and then found out it was. nd had a separate report that showed wrongdoing and violated the separation of the constitution of powers. brennan apologized. now the battle lines are drawn. president obama said he has faith in the cia director. >> john brennan was the person calling for the ig report and stood up a task force to make sure that lessonsdc.ñ are learn and mistakes are resolved. >> an apology is not enough. people have to be held responsible and there needs to be a full and complete investigation. >> reporter: it is not just republicans upset. democrats called for the resignation. also unclear is how the enhanced techniques and like will come in to the coming debate. >> thank you very much. the president spoke yesterday about the looms cia report. and used in the wake of the september 11th attacks. president obama said the u.s. crossed a line and tortured al-qaeda terrorist suspects. >> when we engaged in the enhanced interrogation techniques, techniques that i believe and any fair- minded person believ

cia director john brennan apologized for the breach to leaders of the senate foreign intelligence committee. the admission follows a long fued between the cia and the senate. diane feinstein accused the cia in march of tampering with the committee's work. many within the intelligence community believe an apology from mr. brennan was not enough. mark udall says he is concerned about mr. brennan's ability to find any flaws in the agency he leads. joining me is david ignatius, of "the washington post." he knows the cia better than anyone. let me begin with this. just explain what they did, and what the investigation concluded about the cia, and why it was important that john brennan had to apologize to the senators? >> the core issue is that the cia inspector general was looking at was how cia employees learned that senate committee staffers, who since 2009 have been preparing a report on cia interrogation practices, learned of the fact that senate staffers had a document, which is the panetta review document, when the cia officials didn't believe that had been provided to the senate investiga