we can talk now to chris phillips he's a former head of the national counterterrorism security office responsible for the u.k. places strategy he joins us this afternoon thank you very much for time thanks for coming on. how do you see these latest string of attacks crist you view them as isolated cases or are you more inclined to think these are perhaps a coordinated wave of terrorism. i think it's almost certainly isolated in as much as individual. the courts there's a long held beliefs that. it's. oh. oh oh oh you know i says come on others on how to do. this is a long term issue a long time ago on. the mayor of nice has described today's attack as islamic fascism she think is justified in using such words. well it's an interesting i mean the it's extreme. but i willing to go beyond. what incredible i do believe that france and the west the a lot of this on themselves because they invited people to come to there and they. know who know all protest but. it. isn't a very difficult i mean when people arrive in the country maybe they've claimed asylum as we saw or i think in the battin

national security. these threats continue to develop and our national security agencies are willing to adapt. the national counterterrorism center and the fbi to work together to provide a unified effort to defend the homeland. as we discussed at yesterday's hearing on concern the dhs suffered because of lack of qualified and consistent, stable leadership at the agency, while i am disappointed the department does not believe the acting secretary can testify alongside his counterparts from the fbi during our national counter terrorism center during this important confirmation process, testimony from all of the officials here today. many americans will never know the names of the thousands of personnel who worked tirelessly behind-the-scenes at each of your agencies to keep the country safe. we are counting on you and your teams with no threats to our safety. the unknown dangers, the months, years and decades. i am grateful for each of you. look forward to hearing about the threats, each of these threats and how this committee and agency will continue to work together to protect our national security. >> our witnesses will

intelligence community, not law enforcement personnel, is being asked to use tools meant for counterterrorism or national security threats against americans who are exercising their constitutional rights. so my question to you, sir, is that did dhs ina, the unit you lead, receive a request to exploit and conduct network analysis on the phones of protestors in portland? >> congressman, my understanding is that we have not exploited any cell phones of private individuals. >> sir, with due respect, that wasn't my question. it was did ina receive a request to exploit those phones? >> i have heard that, but let me say that inspector general f of our department is investigating in portland. he asked me not to interview individuals with ina about things that are under investigation, so i have not spoken to all the people one might normally speak sto if you were investigating that. >> sir, you just said you wehad heard that. those were your words. who had you heard that from. >> i don't recall. >> you said you heard it. you repeated it here today. do you believe there's credibility to what you heard? >> i didn't repeat i

national security. as threats continue to develop and to evolve our national security agencies, must be willing to adapt. we count on dhs, the national counterterrorism center, and the fbi to work together and to provide a unified effort to defend the homeland. as we discussed at yesterday's hearing, i'm concerned that the dhs has suffered because of a lack of qualified, consistent and stable leadership at the agency's home. and while i'm disappointed the department does not believe the acting secretary can testify alongside his counterparts from the fbi and the national counterism center, i'm looking forward to testimony from all three of the officials here today. many americans will never know the names of the thousands of personnel that work tirelessly behind the scenes at each of your agencies to keep our country safe. but we're all counting on you and your teams to address the known threats to our safety. anticipate the emerging as well as the unknown dangers our communities are going to face in the weeks, the months, years, and decades ahead. i'm grateful for each of you for joining us here today. i look forward to hearing from you about the th

visiting the world's biggest muslim majority nation is part of a regional trip to bolster trade and security ties. we know that there is no counterterrorism justification for you for forcing we were muslims to eat pork during ramadan or destroying a muslim cemetery there's no poverty alleviation guff occasion for forced sterilization or taking children away from their parents to be we had to be educated in state run boarding schools. i know i know that the chinese government authorities tried to convince the leaders to look away when you hear these arguments i just ask you to do this search your hearts. look at the facts listen to the tales of the survivors and of their families and. to sarah jessica washington and the forest jessica what prompted these comments by the secretary of state and what's been the reaction. well the secretary of state just wrapped up a meeting with into the asia's largest islamic organization the youth wing of that organization and there he spoke to them and told them that he believes indonesia is a model for the world of religious pluralism and shows how different religions can live in harmony and he used the e

from the country disarmament demobilization and reintegration security arrangements and counterterrorism cooperation in addition to a national effort aimed at unification of the armed forces. and if he had. been a send up coleman said he and be added to a legend and that at that comes his a mc. leave bed. will have the heelys and set the 10 no one mentioned that misled sahabat whatley b.m. in the edge of the head one lead that it will more to. b.m. in the lead when as. with discrete way at the till it measure to better media what talent fee measure it had. been what on the at them a little way the elected. i would like to extend my thanks to the 10 members of the 5 plus 5 joint military commission what they have accomplished here today took a great deal of courage they demonstrated their patriotism love of country and commitment in coming together to reach an agreement that can help secure a better and more peaceful future for all of the libyan people i salute their sense of responsibility and commitment to preserve libya's unity and to reassert libya's sovereignty while what dual and noisy has shook. them says that it's a l

national security adviser. lisa monaco was president obama's homeland security and counterterrorism advisor, and john podesta who was counselor to president obama and chief of staff to president bill clinton. i want to thank you all for being with us f this morning and looking forward to diving into the conversation. with that, barbara, i would like to start with you. as sinister and, as someone who can always put the sample bit of context. because -- [inaudible] melody, fortunately i lost sound but i think i know what the first question was. we had talked about this before, so thank you to everyone for putting together this wonderful panel to allll of our partners d want to leave plenty of time for the true experts on this panel, including yourself, melody, who have participated in transitions and administration but i think my roleon was to talk about litransitions historically. one caveat is i have not stated all 44 presidential transitions in depth but it did occur to me that there may be two ways in which we using the trump transition one is the obvious one of the handing over of the rains, and the developme

national security advisor. president obama's counterterrorism advisor and john podesta, who was counselor to president obama and chief of staff to president bill clinton. i want to thank you all for being with us this morning and looking forward to diving into the conversation. with that, i would like to start with you. as a historian and someone who can put this in a little bit of context. >> unfortunately i've lost sound, but i think i know the first question was, we had talked about this before, so thank you to everyone for putting together this wonderful panel into all of our partners. i wanted to leave plenty of time for the true experts on this panel. participated in transitions and administrations, my role was to talk about transitions historically and one caveat is i've not studied all 44 presidential transitions in depth, but it did occur to me there may be two ways in which we are using transition, one is the handing over of the rains and the development of a new administration. particularly in the modern era post fdr where we have a hasation the bureaucracy moved on words. even more important to popu

national security adviser. lisa monaco was president obama's homeland security and counterterrorism advisor, and john podesta who was counsel to president obama and chief of staff to president bill clinton. i want to thank you all for being with us this morning and looking for to diving into the conversation. with that, barbara, i would like to start with you as an historian, as some of you can help us with a single bit of context because -- [inaudible] >> unfortunately i have lost them but but i think i know whe first question was. we talked about this before so thank you to everyone for putting together this wonderful panel, to all of our partners. i want to leave plenty of time for the true experts on this panel including yourself, melody, who participate in transitions and in administrations. i think my role was to talk a little bit about transition historically and one catgut is i have not studied all 44 presidential transition staffs but it did occur to me that there may be two ways in which were using the term transition period what is the obvious one of the anti-over the reins and the development of a ne

that stands out to me would be china, counterterrorism, negotiating a new arms deal with russia, north korea, those are the most we could be challenging national security add iran to that list. todd: let's kick it off with terrorism breaking down the track records, starting with joe biden and terrorism. >> i think the hallmark of the obama administration was the successful elimination of usama bin laden. there was a desire to reduce our military footprint but they did launch a major surge in afghanistan. that proved costly nationbuilding was out of the question. look at the trump administration we continue to wipe out al qaeda and use our partners to do that. afghan national security forces took out one of the chief lieutenants in ghazni. todd: let's not forget the finishing of isis during the trump administration in october of 2015 not looking like the jv team but nowhere on the map in october of 2019. china, a lot of people in the know saying china china china for years. let's compare the records. >> what we have seen in the past few years is a contrast, chinese president xi in the rose garden promising not to authorize the south china sea and went o

white house coronavirus task force and homeland security and counterterrorism adviser to vice president mike pence. also with us john heilemann, national affairs analyst and nbc news and msnbc. he is the executive editor of "the recount" and co-host of showtime's "the circus." >>> and we have breaking news. as i was speaking, donald trump has begun his reversal of his utterly insane tweet, shutting down coronavirus relief legislation. he's just tweeted, the house and senate should immediately approve $25 billion for airline payroll support, $135 billion for paycheck protection program for small business. both of these will be fully paid for. and, olivia, as we know, that would all be part of a larger coronavirus relief legislation package that was being negotiated, that the president shut down today. and i want to get your reaction to that as someone who worked with this president, was in the room with him, spent a lot of time with mike pence. when you saw him do that, it struck me as very much a part of the way he has defied the experts on the coronavirus task force and defied experts consistently in his presidency. >> correct. when i

counterterrorism purposes, but for others in afghanistan should be clear, but obviously it isn't. it's not that we are eager to have wars go on forever. the question should be what is america's national security interest. america fromtect terrorists or more conventional enemies, that will apply. this knee-jerk assumption that home, itng the forces has been disproved so many times frustrating to hear. >> i think the tragedy of in a sense and iraq is the case to put up our government following the military victory. whoeverto accepting of emerged as a leader in the case. karzai and prime minister maliki and we did not spend enough time making sure that it was capable and spend a lot of time on reform. revival and we are not going to do nationbuilding. i think that this is a big mistake. right.ink he's been there and done that and understands what we have to achieve in afghanistan. the bottom line, however, it seems to me is to put our trust way thatliban in a does not enable us to assure against the takeover by the taliban in the months ahead is misguided. i think, to go back to your , today, there is a meeting of an alliance taking isce in eastern europe, and all those countries that have lose