my exclusive sitdown with john brennan on the biggest threats today, the war with isis and whether we're safer now than we were five years ago. >>> finally, president obama says good-bye for the last time to washington on the night that washington loves to love itself. the white house correspondents dinner. >> with that i just have two more words to say, obama out. and joining me for insight and analysis this sunday morning, thomas friedman and kristin welker and historian doris kaernz goodwin. >> good sunday morning. you want to appreciate how dominant donald trump's candidacy has become, trump didn't just won all five states on tuesday, all of pennsylvania's 67 counties and all 23 in maryland and all eight in connecticut and five in rhode island and all three in delaware. in other words, each and every one of the 106 counties that voted last tuesday and won all but two by double digits. trump now needs just 47% of the remaining delegates to go to cleveland with the magic number of 1237. ted cruz and john kasich are mathematically eliminated. they need each 100% of delegates. journalist

. >> this morning, my exclusive sitdown with john brennan on the greatest threats today, the war with isis and whether we're safer now than we were five years ago. >>> finally, president obama says good-bye for the last time to washington on the night that washington lost to love itself. the white house correspondents' dinner. >> with that i have two more words to say. obama out. >>> and joining me for site and analys analysis, nbc's kristen welker, and ron foreign yay of the national journal. welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press kwtsz. >> from nbc news in washington, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >>> good sunday morning. you want to appreciate how dominate donald trump's can sency has become, consider this. trump didn't just win all five states on tuesday, he won all of pennsylvania counties, all 22 counties in maryland, all in rhode island and all three in delaware. in other words each and every one of the 106 counties that voted last tuesday, and he won all but two of those counties by double digits. trump now needs 47% of the remaining delegates to go to cleveland w

the man who is supposed to stop that attack is john brennan, the director of the c.i.a. tonight, in a rare interview first broadcast in february, we hear from brennan about a world of trouble and we start with the most pressing danger. is isis coming here? >> john brennan: i think isil does want to eventually find it's, it's mark here. >> pelley: you're expecting an attack in the united states? >> brennan: i'm expecting them to try to put in place-- the operatives, the material or whatever else that they need to do or to incite people to carry out these attacks-- clearly. so i believe that their attempts are inevitable. i don't think their successes necessarily are. >> pelley: can you explain to the folks watching this interview why these people want to kill us? how does attacking the united states further their interests? >> brennan: i think they're trying to provoke a clash between the west and the muslim world, or the world that they are in as a way to gain more adherents. because what they are claiming is that the united states is trying to take over their countries w

john brennan was in the raid in capacity as the president's chief of homeland security adviser.e's now director of the cia. welcome to "meet the press." >> good to be here. >> five years ago, i remember going to the white house and hearing cheers. hearing people gather in the streets. of washington, and it was happening in other cities and there was a sense of relief. like this moment of, wow, is this the end? have we won whatever this was we were fighting, this war with al qaeda? have we won? it doesn't feel like that five years later. >> i remember the same evening when i left the white house at about midnight, it was bright as day, and the chants of usa and cia, cia. it was the culmination of a lot of hard work by some very good people, cia and other agencies. we have destroyed a large part of al qaeda. it's not completely eliminated so we have to stay focused on what it can do. now, with the new phenomenon of isil, this is going to challenge us for years to >> isil leader is a gentleman by the name of al baghdadi. if we announced today, if you and the president, you know, an

>> well, it depends on whether what john brennan said is true or not. a corroboration of material some true some not. all read by the 9/11 commission. and they decided that not be released. then it might injure us if it gets published. i think if that's not the case, we should obviously put it out even if it is going to hurt our relations. but, i mean recommendation the larger story is we have always known that saudi arabia is ultimately responsible for 9/11. the with a hab buy ideology spread all over the world, the that drosses, everything that has come out of it. this was a tiny minority sect of islam which has become world wild and dominant precisely because of the money, influence and occupation of saudi arabia in its spread. whether it was involved individuals in this case or not is, i think, less important than it is responsible. no way to hide it everybody understands it. >> 9/11 widows up on capitol hill late last week had to say about this whole thing. >> it's been 15 years. it's way past time. to say a resolution of this. and it's not a sense

on terror tuesdays obama and john brennan, his former counterterrorism advisor, now cia director, gorough catalysts to identify which individuals should be assassinated that week. obama orders two different types of drone strikes, personality strikes which target named, high-value terrorists, and signature strikes which target training camps and suspicious compounds in areas controlled by militants. and we often see in newspapers like the new york times a us drone strike kills four militants are ten militants were 12 militants. not sure what a militant looks like. in the signature strikes sometimes called crowd killing, the obama administration often does not even know who it is killing. but some state department officials have complained to the white house that the criteria used by the cia sees three guys doing jumping jacks -- i'm sorry, the signature for identifying a terrorist signature was to lax. the joke was when the cia sees three guys doing jumping jacks the agency thinks it is a terrorist training camp. when loading a truck with fertilizer could be bomb makers, but they als

director john brennan sat down with "60 minutes" to discuss the biggest national security threat facing the united states. in a conversation first broadcast back in february, brennan provide insight into the fight against isis as well as concerns over cyberand biological terror. here is scott pelley. >> reporter: is isis coming here? >> i think isil does want to eventually find its mark here. >> you're expecting an attack in the united states? >> i'm expecting them to try to put in place the operatives, materiel, whatever else they need to do or to incite people to carry out these attacks. clearly. so i believe that their attempts are inevitable. i don't think their successes necessarily are. >> can you explain to the folks watching this interview why the people want to kill us? how does attack the united states further their interests? >> i think they're trying to provoke a clash between the west and the muslim world, or the world that they're in. as a way to gain more adherence, because what they're claiming is that, the united states is trying to take over their countries, which is t

. >> pelley: the man who was supposed to stop that attack is john brennan, the director of the c.i.a.ight, in a rare interview, we talked to brennan about a world of trouble. does isis have chemical weapons? >> we have a number of instances where isil has used chemical munitions on the battlefield. >> i am no expert but from what i know, what happened in the things that were torn up in there, it had to be like an atomic explosion. >> cooper: he is talking

administration could go public with the investigation into the september 11 terror attacks, and john brennan said that the material contains preliminary information about the possible link between saudi arabia and the attackers. he says that the information is not confirmed, and he adds that someone could use the report does say that saudi arabia was involved in the 9/11 attacks, and he says that would be very inaccurate. he said that the 9/11 commission followed up on the luminary information and found no evidence that there was indication that the saudi government are officials provided money to allocate a. >>> -- al-qaeda. >>> and let's check in on your commute. >> we did have a deadly crash earlier this morning, but all the lanes are open. they have completed the investigation and open the lanes before we went on air. the traffic is now light in the area. taking a look at the east shore freeway, 80 westbound looking good heading up from the carquinez bridge to the maze, no major problems. and at the bay bridge toll plaza, traffic moving along nicely as you drive through this area. and if

was supposed to stop that attack is john brennanthe director of the c.i.a. tonight, in a rare interview, we talked to brennan about a world of trouble. does isis have chemical weapons? >> we have a number of instances where isil has used chemical munitions on the battlefield. >> i am no expert but from what i know, what happened in the things that were torn up in there, it had to be like an atomic explosion.

and i'll have john brennan, director of the cia. years today of the bin laden raid. >> it was on a sunday. >> on a sunday, too. there is the president laughing it up at the dinner and literally within six hours, he's giving the final go-add to this raid th that capped off probably the five strangest days in the obama preside presidency. but we talk about the threats in europe, rise of isis. how it was missed. and, boy, do we get in to saudi arabia and this issue of do we release these redacted pages. >> a lot of ground to cover. and you can se every sunday right here on nbc 4. >>> receipts let's turn our att the weather. it's soggy out there. need the umbrella all day? >> not all day. it looks like it will taper off and getting questions about what about the game in baltimore for the orioles. it looks like there may be a little bit of drizzle. p they play in that. between now and then, moderate showers coming through. the pockets of yellow is where it's coming down pretty hard generally from richmond down to north carolina. that is

errier today, john brennan spoke on "meet the press" on how the u.s.as destroyed a large part of al qaeda but the terror group is not completely eliminated. >>> tonight, wilmington is remembering amy francis after a fight in her school's bathroom. the girls involved in the fight have not been charged a week after the incident. here is the story from the nbc 10 delaware bureau. >> reporter: hugs and huddles outside of st. paul's uam church. even stain injuries gathered to say good-bye to amy jointer francis. >> everyone is hurting. they are little kids. the high school students, a lot of them in here, they are really going through something. >> reporter: on april 121st, the 16-year-old died after a bathroom brawl at a high school. >> i never had an issue with her and she seemed to fit in well with the student body. >> reporter: grief has gripped this community and beyond ever since, whether they knew amy or not. >> that's why we're here, to show love and to say that they have our prayers and our support. >> reporter: while the three students believed to

cea director john brennan will also join the show to talk about u.s. foreign policy and the five year anniversary of the u.s. killing of osama bin laden. that is coming up at 10:30 right after "news 4 today." >>> well, it is the end of an era for president obama. last night he attended his final white house correspondents' dinner and provided plenty of political punch lines. >> drop the mike. >> he did. >> he also joked about the anxiousness some are feel to go leave the white house. >> but the prospect of leaving the white house is a mixed ba someone jumped the white house fence last week, but i have to give secret service credit, they found michelle, brought her back, she's safe back at home now. only nine more months, baby. settle down. >> she probably is ready to leave. he also talked a bit about the other candidates in the race for the oval office. >> hillary is trying to appeal to young voters is a little bit like your relative who just signed up for facebook. dear america, did you get my poke? is it appearing on your wall? i'm not sure i'm using

. >>> the raid that killed osama bin laden, cia director john brennan spoke exclusively to chuck todd on "meet the press." he was asked about saudi arabia's potential role in the 9/11 attacks. here's what he had to say. >> i think there's a combination of things that are accurate and inaccurate. i think the 9/11 commission took that joint inquiry and 28 pages or so and followed through on the investigation. and it came out with a very clear judgment that there was no evidence that indicated that the saudi government, as an institution or saudi officials individually, had financially supported al qaeda. >>> heavy rains over the weekend brought major flooding across southwest louisiana, causing stalled vehicles and stranded residents. what does the week ahead look like? with that, here is meteorologist bill karins to give us a look ahead. >> jazz fest got washed out, pga event there got washed out. more thunderstorms this morning. severe thunderstorm watch this morning. we need that to stay off the coast. if that drifts inland, watch out. we already have rivers heading for major flood s

. >>> on the fifth anniversary of the raid that killed osama bin laden, cia director john brennan spoke exclusively to nbc's chuck todd. he was asked about the 28 pages of the congressional investigation and how that may indicate saudi arabia's potential role in the 9/11 attacks. here's what he had to say. >> i think of things that's accurate and inquiry and those 28 pages or so and followed through on the investigation. they came out with a very clear judgment that there was no evidence that indicated that the saudi government as an institution or saudi officials individually had provided financial support to al qaeda. >>> heavy rains over the weekend brought major flooding throughout southwest louisiana. it caused major disruptions in the area, stalled vehicles, and stranded residents. so what does the week have ahead for the rest of us? nbc meteorologist bill karins is here. >> they need a break in louisiana. we saw pictures from jazz fest. it was nuts down there. they had one round of rain after another. they have one more that's going to come, then they should get a little bit of a

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. >>> on the fifth anniversary of the raid that killed osama bin laden, cia director john brennan spoke exclusively to nbc's chuck todd on "meet the press." he was asked about the 28 pages of a congressional investigation may indicate saudi arabia's potential role in the 9/11 attacks. here's what he had to say. >> i think there's a combination of things that are accurate and inaccurate. and i think the 9/11 commission took that inquiry and those 28 pages or so and followed through on the investigation. and they came out with a very clear judgment that there was no evidence that indicated that the saudi government as an institution or saudi officials individually had provided financial support to al qaeda. >>> let's get down to business with cnbc's landon dowdy. good morning. >> reporter: good monday morning to you. yahoo!'s ceo golden mayer, a government filing on friday mayer who's led the struggling tech company since 2012 is entitled to nearly $55 million in severance in case she's fired without cause. the payment would also be triggered if yahoo! is sold. it's currently seeking a bu

. >> john brennan is looking to clarify information from a secret an chapter of the 9/11 congressional inquiry. he says the 9/11 commission made a very clear judgment that there was no evinc government financially backing al qaeda. the obama administration, however, may soon release the documents and brennan is concerned that people might seize on uncorroborated information about possible saudi links to the attackers. >>> it's been five years since american operatives killed osama bin laden. and the cia relived the anniversary with live tweets. the agency posted step by step updates of the raid as if it were happening that the moment complete with photos of president obama and his inner circle in the situation room. they reveal exactly when u.s. helicopters departed for pakistan to the moment bin laden was confirmed dead on the third floor of his zmund schools in detroit will be closed in detroit after the teachers union called for a sickout. the school system's emergency manager is warning the district won't be able to pay its employees after june 30th and says today's sickout will ma

why did john brennan say don't release it. democrat in congress want it released. what's he hiding.ed that that's going to put the smoking gun in the hand of the saudis. >> you are suggesting he is hiding something or we as a country have something to hide. >> he says there is no connection. maybe there isn't. maybe there is. the wording of the september 11 commission report that has been made public says there is no evidence of an official saudi connection. there is no evidence that senior members of the government participated. we should know what that is. bill: maybe that's the case, or maybe that's not the case. >> we are grown-ups, let us decide for ourselves. >> we needed their oil. they need our protection. the saudis have always played both sides. but they are not helping us fight isis. they are trying to fight iran. we are 15 years down the road. and you are suggesting we don't need the saudis anymore. tough neighborhood, right, k.t.? >> we want friend to do something for us as well. we are no longer dependent on middle eastern oil. so we don't have the same relationship or

the cia director john brennan said on meet the press that the material contains preliminary information about possible links between saudi arabia and the attackers. he says that the information is not confirmed and as that he is concerned that someone could use the report to say that saudi arabia was involved in the 9/11 attacks. he said that that would be "very inaccurate." and he said that the 9/11 commission followed up on the culinary evidence of found no evidence indicating that the saudi arabian government or officials gave money to al- qaeda. >>> a soup -- a few circus performers packing the trucks for good as barnum & bailey safety bite the biggest performers last night in providence, rhode island. the elephants have performed their last show, and the circus is retiring the elephants after years of allegations of animal abuse. they've been part of the show for 145 years, and the elephants will about the retirement at the conservation park in florida. >>> the focus is now turning to indiana, and how this week could be the determining factor in the race for the white house.>>> are

john brennan said today on meet the press that the material contains preliminary information about possiblelinks between saudi arabia and the attackers. information that was not substantiated. brandon said the 9/11 commission followed up on the plant -- culinary information and found there was no evidence indicating the saudi government or saudi officials that they provided money to al qaeda. >>> tomorrow is five years since the navy seals team killed in lawton. -- osama bin laden. >> reporter: it's one of those moments in history that almost everyone can remember where they were or what they were doing when they heard, we got him. tomorrow on the fifth anniversary of the raid that killed its -- osama bin laden, there are no events scheduled to commemorate the mission but we are hearing new details from the president about that night and what went into his decision to greenlight the mission. in an interview with cnn the president said it was their best chance to get about -- osama bin laden and if they didn't, it could have been years before they were able to find them again. >> if it wasn'

. >> pelley: the man who was supposed to stop that attack is john brennan, the director of the c.i.a. tonight, in a rare interview, we talked to brennan about a world of trouble. does isis have chemical weapons? >> we have a number of instances where isil has used chemical munitions on the battlefield. >> i am no expert but from what i know, what happened in the things that were torn up in there, it had to be like an ic

the cia director john brennan said on meet the press that the preliminary information contains possible links between saudi arabia and the attackers, and get the information is not being confirmed, and confirmed that someone could use the report to say that saudi arabia was involved in the 9/11 attacks. but he says that would be very inaccurate. he says that the 9/11 commission followed up on the pulmonary information and found no evidence indicating that the saudi arabian government or officials gave money to al- qaeda. 15 of the 19 hijackers were from saudi arabia. >>> new billboards being a -- installed across the country calls in privacy concerns, and senator chuck schumer says they could be spying on you on your cell phone and then using it for marketing and advertising. he is calling for an investigation, and clear channel, the company that operates the board, says they only use anonymous data collected by the companies. >> we think this data is so pervasive that they have to get your permission even if they say that they do not have your name attached to it, who knows. >> clear c

. >> john brennan is a chair of the intelligence committee.long advocated the release of the 28 pages. joining me now is senator bob graham. senator, when i heard him say that, i was thinking of bob nicholson saying, you can't handle the truth. is that the point he's trying to make? >> i guess that's the point he's trying to make. i guess he has added another explanation for why we've gone 13 years without this being made available to the american people, that the american people aren't smart enough to understand. i frankly think the reasons primarily have to do with our -- the effect that this may have on our relationship with saudi arabia and the public perception of some of its intelligence agencies' competence. >> you wrote for the washingt"wn post" this week and you said that release of the 28 pages might shed light on some outstanding questions, including this. should we believe that the 19 hijackers, most of whom spoke little english, had limited education, had never before visited the united states acted alone in perpetuating the sophi

they're rapacious with them as -- sandra: the point john brennan, cia director was making.of isis, he said their expansion into libya is deeply-worrying factor of all this. not to mention franchises in places like indonesia, somalia, yemen and pakistan, but i heard the navy seal who killed usama bin laden on fox news say how in the world could not be a safer place with the death? >> because doesn't matter how you quantify it. no matter how you look we are less safe. number of groups, number of people joining them. james clapper says there are more sunni extremist violent groups and safe havens than anytime in history. there is a lot more physical danger out there. you can argue how we got here but there is no question we're in a lot more danger. >> to david's point those vacuums created that fertile environment. meanwhile former defense secretary robert gates who was in office when bin laden was taken down he is now getting political. suggesting that the real estate mogul does not have the experience or temperment to negotiate with world leaders. voicing concerns about trum

and a sitdown with the cia director, john brennan, to talk about our country's drone strategist.t report on assignment, which airs tonight at 7:00 eastern, 6:00 central on nbc. >>> coming up, "meet the press" end game. brought to you by boeing. building the future one century >>> "meet the press" end game is brought to you by boeing. building the future one century at a time. >>> end game time. panelists here. you know, there was another player in the trump-clinton campaign this week. and it was president obama overseas in japan. an historic visit to here owe sheem. but he was asked about what foreign leaders of the g7 meeting are saying about donald trump. here's what he said. >> it's fair to say they are surprised by the republican nominee. they are not sure how seriously to take some of his pronouncements. but they're rattled by him. and for good reason. >> gerry, there's a couple unusual things about that statement. number one, that he did it overseas. and there was some criticism, was that appropriate or not. at the same time, trump embraced the attack. >> yeah, exactly. wel

my exclusive sitdown with john brennan on the biggest threats today, the war with isis and whether we'rehan we were five years ago. >>> fiy, says good-bye for the last time to washington on the night that washington loves to love itself. the white house correspondents dinner. >> with that i just have two more words to say, obama out. and joining me for insight and analysis this sunday morning, thomas friedman and kristin welker and historian doris kaernz goodwin. >> good sunday morning. you want to appreciate how dominant donald trump's candidacy has become, trump didn't just won all five states on tuesday, all of pennsylvania's 67 counties and all 23 in maryland and all eight in connecticut and five in rhode island and all three in delaware. o one of the 106 counties that voted last tuesday and won all but two by double digits. trump now needs just 47% of the remaining delegates to go to cleveland with the magic number of 1237. ted cruz and john kasich are mathematically eliminated. they need each 100% of delegates. journalists have gone to the cliche handbook, going for a hail mary and

. >> one of the architects of that national security policy is john brennan, director of the cia. >>ou're okay with being considered one of the architects of this changed way of war fare? >> i take great pride in being part of a national security team that has done some great things to protect this country. >> reporter: the drone revolution can be traced back to this moment when a cia drone picked up a figure in white believed to be osama bin laden. no one took a shot because back then drones weren't armed. that was a year before 9/11. soon drones went from intelligence gathering to killing. >> counter terrorism professionals always would prefer to capture individuals and devices they might have with them, taking kinetic action against a target or individual is usually a last resort. >> the cia director told us his agency would prefer to capture a terror suspect than kill him. is that true? >> i'm sure they would prefer to if both were equally riskless. the reality is they are not so we have chosen kill rather than capture. >> under president obama drones strikes surged sharply. the

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director john brennan when he made a surprise visit to sarajevo to discuss the country's counter terrorismorts. ambassador cormack regards the bosnian islamic community as a crucial partner in the battle against radicalization. she had a clear message for muslim nations and their vested interests. >> we need these countries to allow bosnia and herzegovina to maintain its traditional moderate version of islam. >> reporter: but given the uncertainty about which muslims potentially pose the greatest risk, can she be certain that the u.s. and its allies are getting the right information from sarajevo? >> certainly all the u.s. security teams who either work inside of our embassy or who have visited from washington feel that we have a really positive, open information sharing with our colleagues, our counterparts in bosnia herzegovina. we don't have a sense that there are blockages on that. what we have worked with them on is establishing better information sharing between the services in the country and i think we're making progress in that regard as well. >> reporter: analysts like dino abazo