and sitting right next to me, mike baker, former cia operative. he knows covert ops like i know halter tops. it's true, i'm not afraid to show a little skin, mike. and you love to hate him and hate to love him. >> roll up a "new york times" and discipline the crap out of your unruly pets. it's more than just a news source, greg. that's true. >> greg: to the greg-alogue, it's extra crispy. >> so according to the "wall street journal" a paper owned by me the cia has come up with a secret plan to off al-qaeda chieftains, something the democrats claim they were never told about. for some reason the actual program was dropped. having to disclose the plan would have endangered those asked to carry it out. if your job is to sneak around killing terrorists it should be kept secret. you can find them in the phonebook under pelosi which brings me to a handy quiz you can take on a bus, a train or perhaps, bill, even a plane. it tells you if you are also an attac. one of the two statements, which would you agree with most. the first one, it is wrong that the c

mike baker, thank you. >> thank you.eather: could you imagine if more people are allowed in these briefings, the kind of leaks that would come out? jon: politicians like to talk. heather: the backdrop, as they're talking about testing the limits of executive power on this issue. now let's go back to the g-8 summit where the economy and the environment are at the top of the agenda. we will get an update on discussions from president obama. major garrett is in italy. can you give us the latest? yesterday they were talking a lot about cutting greenhouse gas emissions. g-8 countries are going to have to agree to this. the less developed nations will not. what now? >> we will get to that in a moment. i want to update the audience on a couple of things this morning. the controversy and talked about a moment ago with what the cia director may or may not have told house democrats. robert gibbs just wrapped up a briefing. we asked him about that. he said that all he had seen so far are published reports about this. the white hous

mike baker, congrats on the offfringe. >> nice job, fertile dude. >> yeah! captioned by, closed captioning services, inc. geraldo live and at large, this is what michael jackson looked like on january 27th, 1984, the day he began his descent into the personal hell of drug abuse and addiction that 25 years later would help kill him. on the very day this magazine covers, jackson at the time reveered, uncluttered by controversy and near the peak of his fame, is shooting the now infamous pepsi commercial. pyrotechnics planned for the spectacular entrance go off prematurely. unaware that his hair is ablaze, jackson keeps dancing until finally realizing what is happening, the flames extinguished by frantic stage hands rushing to jackson's rescue but the physical damage is done. the accident would leave him partially bald and his head severely scared for the rest of his life, forcing him to don wigs and constantly to wear hats. and with his legion of fans kept in the dark over the years the emotional impact for jackson becomes malignant as painful surgeries to repa

and sitting next to me, mike baker, former cia operative. if sharp commentary were chap stick he would be all over my lips. you love to hate him and hate to love him. mr. "new york times" correspondent. >> i want to make clear, bill schulz would never drink on the job. a national treasure. and underpaid national treasure. >> thank you very much. to the news. michael jackson. michael jackson. michael jackson. michael jackson. okay. to honduras. the u.n. general assembly demanded that the president be immediately returned to power. but the honduran attorney general says he will be arrested "as soon as he puts a foot on honduran soil." no word, however, about the rest of his body. meanwhile, hugo chavez puts the ass in honduras by saying that the u.s. had a lot to do with the coup. he claims american rich hondurans have turned honduras into a terror base of the north american empire. i believe we have tape of his speech. [talking in foreign language break break. >> we will get some letters over that one. >> i go to you because you have overthro

. >> mike baker is a former c.i.a. operative. >> the hearing also should be about if you inform members of congress, how likely is it that something like this would be kept secret? >> it's still not clear, according to the law whether a plan or a proposal that is not operational needs to be briefed to congress. that's why democrats want to know if any money was spent on this proposal, bret, but tonight, house -- the chairman of the house intelligence committee told fox that there is no plan for a full investigation yet. bret. bret: jennifer griffin live at the pentagon. president obama says he is looking for an exit strategy in afghanistan where the afghan army, police, courts and government will take more responsibility for security. the president made the comments after meeting with the dutch prime minister. the president says he hopes the transition can begin after upcoming afghan elections. nato, meantime, says one of its helicopters crashed today in the helmand province killing six ukrainian contractors and afghan

mike baker is a former covert operations officer. his hair to help us straighten us out.i have to say congratulations on your second baby boy just a couple days ago. >> thank you very much. i should be in my scrubs shouldn't i. >> dave: congratulations on young sam to you and your wife are at basically seven immigrants have leaked that man and a essentially admitted the cia has misled congress since 2001. what you make of this? some say there trying to provide political cover for nancy pelosi >> the timing is suspect coming up on 82000 and intelligence bill the house will take up for debate. a key part the democrats are trying to show through as they want to expand the number of numbers of the intelligence committee who get the privilege to be briefed on the most important classified information that this world has to from our perspective of national security. right now the gang of eight, the two top members of each committee and the two top members of the house and senate are privy to this information. some democrats want to expand that 240. not even the white house, the

japan has been the embassy that has been inhabited by the walter mondales, the howard bakers, tom foley. mikeical pro, and the clinton state department tried to do that with harvard professor joe nye and instead the person who went is a big contributor. so the obama people have certainly taken hold of the ambassadorship. the other point is dennis ross going from the state department to the white house. major figure. big player in many administrations on the mideast and now is right at the president's arm helping him at the president's elbow sitting in on every meeting, every phone call. >> andrea, i want to ask you about the cia story, the democrats in the house are pursuing an investigation here. is this an effort of high moral importance or political suicide? >> i think it's certainly partly political cover your rear end. that has been discussed by all of you as well. but at the same time leon panetta brought this to them. panetta clearly felt it needed to be briefed. i think if you went around america and asked people do you think we should have a program after 9/11 to go after top al qaed

baker. peter? i'm sorry, your mike's not working. >> hello? we were told you made your appeal for the food security money during the meetings personal by citing your family experience in kenya, your cousin and so forth. i wondered if you could relate to us what you said to them and talk about your family experience how that influences your policies and approach. >> well, you heard it true. i started with this fairly telling point that when my father traveled the united states from kenya to study. at that time per capita income and gross domestic product of kenya was higher than south korea's. today obviously south korea is a highly developed and relatively wealthy country, and kenya's still struggling with deep poverty and much of the country. the question i asked in the meeting was, why is that? there had been some talk about the legacies of colonialism and other policies by wealthier nations, and without in any way diminishing that history. the point i've made was that the south korean government working with the private sector and civil soc

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baker. peter. >> thank you. >> i'm sorry, your mike didn't -- is not working there. >> hello. >> yeah. >> that'ssecurity money during the meetings personal by citing your family experience in kenya, your cousin, and so forth. i wonder if you could relate what you said then and talk about what your family experience -- how that influences your policies and approach. >> well, what you heard is true, and i started with this fairly telling point that when my father traveled to the united states from kenya to study, at that time the per capita income and gross domestic product of kenya was higher than south korea's. today obviously south korea is a highly developed and relatively wealthy country and kenya is still struggling with deep poverty in much of the country, and the question i asked in the meeting was why is that? there had been some talk about the legacies of colonialism and other policies by wealthier nations, and without in any way diminishing that history, the point i made was that the south korean government working with the private sector and civil society was able to create a set of in

former secretaries of state, james baker, c rice, and henry kissinger, and defense secretary robert gates who served president bush and president obama, admiral mike mullen chairman of the joint chiefs of staff; and general david petraeus. these are not politicians. these are men who represent both sides of the political aisle, democrat and republican, who have concluded that keeping guantanamo open, unfortunately, is going to continue to give encouragement to the recruitment of terrorists around the world. president obama announced that we should start to close guantanamo. we should start deciding the fate of each of these prisoners. and it's high time we do. unpresident george w. bush, hundreds of guantanamo detainees were released. they were arrested, incarcerated, questioned, and released. no charges against them. it was accepted. we made mistakes on the battlefield. people came up collecting bounties for turning in prisoners that turned out now to be dangerous. these people were released. the overwhelming majority of these people didn't cause any trouble beyond that. some did. that's a fact. i won't ignore it. but new comes the republican sid

as has john mccain and lindsey graham, james baker, henry kissinger and condoleezza rice. admiral mike molen and general petraeus have called for us to close guantanamo. as long as it's open, it's a recruiting tool for terrorists around the world. it's time to turn the page and acknowledge history. we have successfully prosecuted and incarcerated terrorists in the united states much more succe successfully than any military commission in guantanamo. thank you. >> let me introduce our first panel. our first witness is david kris, sworn in as an assistant attorney general of national security on march 25, 2009. he's worked in both the public and private second forps he's served in the department of justice from 1929 do 2003 as an special deputy attorney general from july 2000 to may 2003. his work focused on national security issue ins colluding supervisoring the government's use of fisa, learepresenting th department of national security council and assisting the intelligence community. our second conditions is jeh charles johnson, general counsel for the department of defense, followin