>> speaking of people targeted, kelsey gabbert was nominated.ant to put this question to you because you're the only one here who put on the uniform like her. she is an antiwar stance and there's criticism around that having met with foreign leaders considered adversaries. what you think about kelsey gabbert as the director of national intelligence? >> i don't know to what extent she was target. i read something today, i can't remember the name of it but a lot of people travel to certain places a certain amount of time and the explanation shows that idiocy because it was a former congressman, i think peter meyer and it was like i had a top-secret clearance that was put on that list and it showed you how bad it is, uncoordinated disjointed and ineffective it is. you got someone currently serving now maybe two people if he's a correct in the assessment on the list and people serving and have security clearances put on a watchlist because it's so automated and impersonal so void of common sense nobody's checking to see who these people are and make

i mean, what happens if pete hegseth is the defense secretary, if kelsey gabbert is the director of national intelligence, if matt gaetz is the attorney general? >> you are going to see a national intelligence apparatus , and the military and national security system that will be absolutely gutted. you will lose professional officers, professional analysts. people will leave government, and you are going to see that america will be more vulnerable sarah hammond abroad. you will see our adversaries taking advantage of this, the communist chinese government, the terrorist supporting iranian regime, the dictator , putin, dictators and north korea, all of these are rubbing their hands with glee, and you will see that we will be less safe as a nation thanks to donald trump expect boeser stern warnings, senator duckworth, thank you for your time. >> thank you. >>> up next, we turn to a senate republican here, would he vote to confirm trumps pics? we will speak about that plus more on the new reporting this our, trumps the lead attorney, todd blanche now under consideration as deputy attorney gener

getting off the ground so to speak.tonight we have the great writer michael schellenberg and kelsey gabbertnight at 10 pm. let's do this. all right let's dana? >> frog. >> buzzard. >> cricket. >> i will say roll its freight >> it's a toucan. >> there are a trillion birds. >> what a delicious fruit. >> i did not get the pictures i just want to recognize and think my dad and granddad my dad died of cancer at a very young age because he was on the first ship and he saw the plume from the bomb dad i know you are up there. god bless you and thank you. >> have a great night.

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and some of the concern here is whether kelsey gabbert has the expertise and experience but also thetruth to power. geoff: the role of director of national intelligence was created after 9/11 because there was a concern other intelligence agencies were not sharing information. information had been sideload. help us understand what the dni actually does. michael: the director of national intelligence, the dni, was a result of decades of challenges and fights between the intelligence organizations, the fbi, cia, national security agency. those were epitomized in the failures of the weapons of mass destruction debacle in iraq and 9/11. the dni was supposed to take this large enterprise, coordinate budgets and efforts, and make sure the president and the cabinet had the best intelligence possible regardless of where it came from. and making sure that different views were coming to the president. it has been the subject of criticism over its 20 years as being overly bureaucratic and not efficient. but i think those core needs for the intelligence community to be well coordinated and to ma