we are back with former director of national intelligence james clapper. st returned from south korea and served at intelligence officer. are there any doable workable military options? >> none that i can think of. >> i think the caution that secretary of defense jim mattis expressed is well put. i believe if we did some military action against north korea that they would reflexively do what they vowed on more than one occasion which is to change into a sea of fire. i think it would be a dreadful reckless thing for us to do that. so i believe that the only option is diplomacy. and when i was in pyongyang three years ago bring out a couple of our citizens and had pretty intense and pretty nasty exchanges with north koreans. i do believe the best hope here is to engage with them. and frankly i don't find their demand for or their desire for discussions about peace treaty. all we had was a 64 year long armicist where we stopped firing. sitting in their shoes they -- i was amazed at siege of mentality and paranoia that exists in north korea. everywhere they loo

it's the director of national intelligence who sits atop all the intelligence community. it's the former director of national intelligence and president trump's current director of national intelligence who supports the assessment that there was russian influence on the campaign. the former fbi director, the bipartisan chair and vice-chair of the senate intelligence committee. basically everybody in a position of authority to understand this intelligence supports the intelligence communi community's assessment, it's only the president that doesn't. >> mike mcfaul, what is the job of the ambassador, that is gathering something that people don't like, this is commonplace for the diplomatic community. what was the opportunity missed today? >> you know in my opinion, he should have gone into that meeting and said president putin, i know what you did in our election. there is no doubt about it. and now that i am president that can never happen again, if it does happen again here are the consequences and spell them out. >> and to be clear, there are lots of consequences. >> the

it's the director of national intelligence who sits atop all of the intelligence community. it's the former director of national intelligence and president trump's current director of national intelligence who supports the assessment that that there was russian influence on the campaign. the former fbi director, the bipartisan chair and vice sir chair of the senate intelligence committee, basically everybody in a position of authority to understand in intelligence supports the intelligence community's assessment. it's only the president that doesn't. >> mike mcfall, what is ray brody what does a chief diplomat, the secretary of state how are you supposed to handle the matters. >> once all the evidence has been gathered that a country is doing something you don't like this is commonplace for the diplomatic community what was the opportunity missed today? >> you know, in my opinion he should have gone into that meeting and said president putin i know what you did in our election. there is no doubt about it. and now that i'm president that can never happen again. and if it does

if your national intelligence estimate, and not iran, but the u.s.elligence community, if your own national intelligence estimates in 2007, and establishes that iran is no longer pursuing nuclear weapons, why is it so difficult for american officials to recognize that? we believe that nuclear weapons norot augment our security, to be honest do they augment anyone else's security. that is a division of principle. we remain very compliant with that principle throughout our history. there are cases to prove it, including the use of chemical weapons against iran by iraq. with the support of everybody in the international community. reportas a report, after at the united nations that established that iraq had used those weapons against us, and more reports saying that we had not. so, this is the record on which we stand. you made a point that was valid. on that is, that i tweeted the day of the signing of the agreement, on the day that we reached the day of the nuclear deal, that this was the foundation, this was -- the foundation and not the ceiling. thr

within that, there are certain certifications executed by the director of national intelligence which describes specific kind of foreign intelligence information. those certifications are classified, so i cannot get into them here. and importantly, to your point about targeting an innocent foreigner overseas, a foreigner overseas can only be targeted under section 702 if there is a reasonablebelief leave that that person is likely to communicate or possess foreign intelligence information as it results -- relates to specific certifications. that justification laying out why that person is likely to communicate or possess that information has to be documented by the analyst and is subject to back end auditing by the department of justice and the director of intelligence to make sure it is directly related to the actual topic of the certification. >> mr. chairman, is it ok if the answers? >> thank you. this is about the discussion for tomorrow when we can go into the detail of the type of targets under 702. >> thank you mr. chairman. i would like to thank you and the inking member for h

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in fact, just moments ago right here on cnn the former director of national intelligence jim clapper responded directly to trump. >> well, that's news to me. we saw no evidence whatsoever that was anyone involved in this other than the russians. >> couldn't be more clear. the question is whether the president of the united states will turn a blind eye to the newest charges of russian espionage in the united states. evan perez along with pamela brown broke this story of more russian spies and an embolden russia after the election and, evan, what are you learning? >> we're learning that russian spies are ramping up their intelligence gathering efforts in the united states according to current and former u.s. intelligence officials who say they have noticed an increase since the election. the russians have not been slowed by retaliatory efforts after it meddled in the u.s. election according to u.s. intelligence community. since the election u.s. authorities have detected an uptick in suspected russian intelligence officers entering the country. they have been replenishing their ranks a

as i understand from the director of national intelligence coats, basically the reason why the intelligence community cannot produce that is because by structure, design, by law, by regulation, the intelligence community is prohibited from gathering intelligence against domestic targets, like american citizens, without a court order and a showing of probable cause that some crime has been committed. and so it strikes me as not intentionally unfair but unfair in the sense of the design and structure of the intelligence oversight and regulatory framework to then ask you to produce the names of americans incidentally collected against when the whole law is designed to limit, if not to prohibit, that collection absent a court order. so i know that on the intelligence committee, which i had the privilege of sitting on with senator feinstein, i know senator wyden has been an ardent advocate of producing a number, but i think it would create, if possible -- which i agree under the circumstances is not possible to come up with a reliable number and for the reasons i mentioned, but i think it would

glawe was awarded the national intelligence superior service medal for his extraordinary contribution to the u.s. intelligence community and our nation's security. the nominee is an iowa native as i said. still has family in iowa. he's a graduate of my alma mater of the university of northern iowa and also a graduate of harvard university's jfk school of government. he got started in law enforcement and advanced his impressive career with characteristically outstanding iowa work ethic. he shared with me how much these roots mean to him. and i appreciate his commitment to putting them to work in this new position for our nation as he has several positions in the past. mr. glawe's mother nancy is someone who i have crossed paths with for a long time in iowa as well. i'm proud to say. and i know she's glad to be here with the rest of her family and his friends today to celebrate with him and to support him through this process. thank you for holding this hearing and i urge you to support his nomination to fill this very important post. thank you. >> chairman grassley, thank you for for t

. >> james clapper was then the director of national intelligence. the senior most intelligence official. >> was it clear to you how serious it would become? >> i don't think it was because obviously the russians have us as maybe the primary intelligence target anyway. >> the first quiet warning came september 2015 when a midlevel fbi agent notified the democratic national committee that russian hackers had compromised at least one dnc computer. >> they left a phone message at the help desk at the dnc. they didn't treat it the seriousness that it deserved. >> that was the i's first direct contact with the dnc. a mesge leftd for a low level computer technician that did not return the bureau's call. >> i suspect if they had to do over again, they would do it differently in retrospect. >> found nothing. and the it department apparently did not share the fbi's concerns with more senior dnc staff. hackers gaining access to countless emails, communications, and documents. >> i can imagine him sitting down a couple weeks later and saying we're in. >> and as

i was around when that occurred the weapons of mass destruction, national intelligence assessment that was promulgated in october 2002 and i was in the intelligence community then. that was 15 years ago, almost. and it's too bad he won't a acknowledge the many improvements that have since been built into the system to preclude an eventual aity like that. having lived through that experience that i had such high hop hopes about. >> as far as we know that meeting is still going on, far longer than one expected. two hours now they've been in this meeting together. if president trump does not raise the issue of russian hacking, russian meddling in our election, what's the impact? >> well, i think one thing is that putin will be even more emboldened to continue their activities. looking ahead to 2018 elections they'll be more aggressive about it. reports that came out yesterday about increased soviet -- russian collection activity in this country, which i think is probably part of this. and simply -- >> they're sending more spies here. >> exactly. and i would expect them to, having lost 35

if your national intelligence estimate, and this is not iran but the u.s.ntelligence , community, if your own national intelligence estimates in 2007 establishes that iran is no longer pursuing nuclear weapons, why is it so difficult for american officials to recognize that? we believe that nuclear weapons do not augment our security, nor , to be honest, do they augment anyone else's security. that is our position of principal. -- principle. we remain very compliant with that principle throughout our history. there are cases to prove it, including the use of chemical weapons against iran by iraq. with the support of everybody in the international community. report after report at the u.n. established that iraq had used those weapons against us, and report after report of the u.n. established that they had not. charlie: you are the victim -- mr. javad sharif: and we never retaliated. so, this is the record on which we stand. you made a point that was valid. and that is, that i tweeted on the day of the signing of the reaching of the agreement, because nothin

if your national intelligence estimate and this is not iran, it's u.s. intelligence community. if your own national intelligence estimate in 2007 and again in another year that i can't recall, established that iran is no longer pursuing nuclear weapons, why is it so difficult for american officials to recognize that. now we believe that nuclear weapons do not augment our security, nor to be honest, do they augment anybody else's security. so that's our position of principle. we remain very compliant with that principle throughout our history, and there are cases to prove it. including the use of chemical weapons against iran by iraq with the support of everybody international community, report after the report of the un and established that iraq used chemical weapons against us and the report at the un established that they did not. >> rose: you were a victim of -- >> of chemical weapons and we never retailate in kind. this is the record on which we stand. but you made a point that was a valid point and that is i tweed on the day of the signing of the reaching of the agreement

, he is nation's intelligence chief, james clapper, he testified behind closed-doors before the house and senate intelligence committees. this issue of unmasks will be central to the line of questioning. unmasking is identification of american citizens in intelligence reports. >> this is not anything political has been alleged. allegation is that somehow obama administration officials utilized intelligence for political importance, that is false. reporter: republican chairman of house intelligence committee nunez separately issued subpoenas to three agency, requesting records about unmasking of americans by rice as far as john brennan and former u.s. ambassador to united nations power. a source close to this element of the investigation till tells fox they have complied, and records suggest that unmasking by members of obama administration did go beyond these 3 players, we do not know if they violated laws or regulations. the review of the records is just beginning and the volume is high. lou: thank you catherine herridge. susan rice not the only obama administration national security

there are 16 intelligence agencies plus the directorate of national intelligence, that's 17, all have their own seal. we need to put that to rest. there are 17 agencies and that's a fact the president of the united states should know. >> reporter: and he's been receiving briefings from the intelligence community since he became the republican nominee for president so roughly a year now. and in the context of where he said do we even have 17 today in response to questions back in poland, it did raise a question of was he uncertain about the number of intelligence agencies. in kind of a kmob way we tend to think of the cia or nsa but there's the defense intelligence agency and many others that are attached to different parts of the federal government. when he referred to only three or four may have that information, that may be what he's referring to in terms of which of those agencies has the specific responsibility to investigate and have sort of the portfolio that would cover russian interference, cyber warfair, that type of thing. but the intelligence community of the 17 agencies ha

national security agency. the head of the fbi. all of these intelligence experts saying russia hacked the election, they tried to interfere in the election. no votes were changed but misinformation campaigns. president trump is contradicting it and your siding with him. sidingd not say i was with president trump. he has not made the decision to sign that bill one way or the other. >> big issues of the week, the house and the senate seemed to have come to an agreement with tough sanctions for russia. will the president sign that billion go -- bill? russia, tough on ridiculous and in putting the sanctions in place. the original legislation was poorly written, but we were able to work with the house and senate, and the administration is happy with the ability to do that and make the changes necessary. we support where the legislation is now and will continue working with the house and senate to put those tough sanctions in place on russia until the situation in ukraine is fully resolved. it certainly is not right now. also on "abc's this week," senate minorit

national security policy. first, the role intelligence gathering plays in countering terror threats. a little bit letter chris county and mad lib albright and marco rubio and nikki haley. >> good morning. i'm catherine herridge, the chief intelligence correspondent from knox fuse channel. i would like to thank mike mccaul and dutch russberger and marco rubio and chris kuntz for sponsoring the event today. between my time in fox news channel and in london i've been covering terrorism since 1987. so for 30 years. and i was reminded that it was about six years ago that we were celebrating the takedown of osama bin laden at his compound in pakistan, which was in so many respects an extraordinary accomplishment. and then later in 2011, a successful drone strike took out anwar al awlaki targeted for death by the cia and the father of this digital jihad that we are living today. and i'm reminded that it is one thing to kill a man, and another to kill his ideas. and here we are today in a threatened environment which is extremely dynamic and extremely diverse. and the topic of our panel toda

officer for europe on the national intelligence council. and also we have former assistant secretary of defense for on international security affairs and former senior director for strategic planning at the nsc. both of them are with the german marshall fund. thanks to both of you for being here. what is your sense out of what you heard from the meeting and while there are differences in the readouts from the russians and american, both sides seem to be implying that it is a productive meeting. >> so i was struck that they began the meeting by talking about russian interference with in the u.s. election. we heard president trump yesterday in poland say that he wasn't clear about who had intervened and that was striking because the u.s. intelligence community had assessed that there was in fact russian meddling in our election. and then when secretary tillerson spoke about the issue in his readout, he said it's unlikely that we americans and russians will agree on this and we can't let it stop cooperation in other important areas like syria.

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podesta scheme ailes and gave them to wiki leaks but i do know barack obama's director of national intelligence has not provided credible to support his claims of russia i also know he perjured himself in a senate hearing planned three months before the revelations provided by edward snowden he denied to be n.s.a. was carrying out wholesale surveillance of the us. the hyperventilating corporate media has once again proved to be an echo for government claims that cannot be verified you would have thought they would have learned something after serving as george w. bush's useful idiots in the lead up to the invasion of iraq. it is vitally important that the press remains rooted in a fact based universe especially when we enter an era when truth and fiction are becoming indistinguishable. from a trial where i've spent countless hours poring through documents that tell the story about the abuse i.

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despite a consensus agreement from the nation's intelligence agencies. the incoming white house communications director says the president does not accept the conclusions that russia interfered in last year's election. anthony scaramucci made the explosive revelation in a remarkable interview this morning. the president has not yet decided if he will sign a tough new bill increasing sanctions on russia. >> you come to the white house at a time when president trump has low approval ratings, signed into law zero major pieces of legislation. health care is on life support. i guess the big question is is president trump facing a communications problem or a substance problem. >> did you leave anything out there? there's obviously a communications problem. i don't want to say all the economic date de, but the economy is strong. business optimism is way up, and over the next six months, we're going to have phenomenal achievements, i think we're going to get the health care issue done. very confident on tax reform. if he gets those two pillars done, which i hope

in january, the director of national intelligence released a classified report detailing interference in last year's election. the report states unequivocally quote, russian president vladimir putin ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the u.s. presidential election. mr. hickey and mr. priestap, you're here today representing the justice department's national security division and the fbi's counterintelligence division. have you read the declassified intelligence assessment of the russian operation? >> i have, senator. >> thank you. >> i have as well. >> good. have either of you read the classified version of the report? >> i have. >> okay. thank you. >> i'm not sure, sir. >> okay. do you have any reason to doubt the intelligence community's assessment that the russians interfered in last year's election? >> no, sir. >> no, sir. >> well, for some reason, president trump remains unwilling to accept the fact that russia interfered in our election. we saw this during the campaign when he dismissed reports of russian meddling by suggesting that the hacking could have been carrie

now, don, if i'm the director of national intelligence, if i'm the director of the central intelligence agency, i'm going to school on this episode. and trying to figure out what it means for me when i've got to go in and tell the president something he definitely doesn't want hear. >> yeah. it has been, general, 25 days since president trump won the election. he hasn't aced off the gas when it comes to fiery campaign rhetoric. just the past few days, he shot off 34ub8 tweets calling for hillary clinton to be investigated on russia, on e-mails. is this behavior you think damaging to the presidency and ultimately to the country? >> look, as a citizen, i think it is. it is unpresidential. it is distracting. what we need to do as a nation, don, is simply get to the bottom of this whole russia thing. get it behind us. and i fear the president is getting in the way of that. and to give a little bit of human understanding to the president, i mean, a lot of americans are using this episode to challenge his legitimacy as president. the american intelligence community isn't doing that. >> right.

let's listen then we'll discuss. >> in your position as director of national intelligence oversaw the entire u.s. intelligence community. in your view, is there any doubt about russia's role? >> absolutely none. and that has been reaffirmed by those who are still in positions of responsibility in the intelligence community. there's absolutely no doubt about it, the high confidence levels, the multiple sources of information we had and its high fidelity still leave me very convinced of the veracity of that report. >> so jim clapper also told you that he believes the russians want to prep the battlefield for 2018 and that it's an attack on, quote, us, not republicans or democrats. do you think that there are members of the current administration who agree with him? >> i think there are, but clearly, the one who counts won't say that in public. i mean, you couldn't have had a more definitive dismissal of the president's comments today than you had there from former director james clapper. he said, one, no doubt, in the assessment that russia was behind it, he said, two, he has seen no ev

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and of the director of national intelligence came back and said no, there is not.revealed that there was. this has been an ongoing issue regardless of who has been in various positions. >> you heard it there. it is time for some answers, right? >> it would be more news out of susan rice if she took credit for or explain the actions and the words used during the obama administration. there is so much doubletalk that came out of that administration, so much redirection and so much blaming someone else. >> is this time different? >> no. >> that's a? >> no. >> first of all, she is testifying behind closed doors. that significantly changes things. >> no. >> it's guaranteed that no one is going to get any answers, all you are going to have his feedback from the sitting senators, you won't even have a firsthand account. you won't be able to watch her testimony. >> she can also use her job as national security director and cover for the unmasking. she can simply say it wasn't politically motivated, she was doing her job. talking about samantha powers, that that is differen

adversarial nations are not just using their intelligence services to conduct these assaults. they are pursuing their goals on economic, technological, military, diplomatic, and intelligence fronts. the his people from throughout their government and all walks inlike in pursuit -- like pursuit of strategic advantage of the united states in whatever ways they can. a lack of understanding of the scope and scale of the threat, combined with the fact that the threat is a gradual one, leads to many people to estimate -- underestimated. our economy, national security, and way of life are being actively threatened by state actors in their proxies today and every day. one example, i number engage in activities designed to influence u.s. public opinion, policy, and laws. by requiring these to be conducted in an overt manner, by requiring agents to publicly disclose relationships with foreign principles, the american public and the u.s. government can evaluate the information these agents provide. when they do not disclose relationships with their foreign principles, we are more suscept

intelligence committee. you know, there have been a lot of issues raised about what the national security agency, how much havehey been listening in to americans. you know, they are not supposed to listen to americans. there is foreign intelligence. that's what the nsa does. they are not supposed to target or capture american conversations. sometimes they do. and so, you know, if they get their act together, they get the right information, they find out how many times susan rice unmasked individuals, who these individuals were, what the topics were. but they need that information before the hearing. they are not going to get it at the hearing. they need the information before so they can have the right questions >> what do you mean by that? >> what's that? >> what do you mean by that? you are saying the preparation for this is so key as far as the questioning is concerned. >> yeah. >> what can they do beforehand to actually get answers from this? >> what they can get is, you know, the intelligence community should be able to provide them, okay, here are the number of times that, you know, in the last half of 2

it was gathered by the national intelligence and the fbi. and the director of national intelligence represents the intelligence community. that's where the confusion of the number 17 rolled in. secondly, their conversation was very specific. not only that was ordered up by russia but it was ordered by president putin, who he is meeting tomorrow. and the routine he went into about president obama knew and didn't know. you can make an argument that president obama underreacted. many former members of the obama administration wish they acted more strongly. he may be right if they would have acted differently if they thought that hillary clinton was going to lose. we will never know this. but none of this is new. this was playing out on the front pages in real-time. we reported in "the times" in july, before he said that president obama knew of this in august. it's not like any of this was not publicly known as this was all playing out. and president obama would tell you, he sat down with putin in his last meeting with him, warned him off of thi

in january the office of the director of national intelligence released a report documenting some of the ways they tried do this, including through news outlets and they say that russia rt america was explicitly set up to avoid the foreign agents registration act because it's registered as a nonprofit instead of a government affiliate. can one of, you mr. hickey, mr. prestep, you can elaborate on why they're not currently registered under faira? >> senator, irrelevant probably shouldn't comment on any particular individuals or entities, but it triekz me that when congress passed faira or amended it recently, maybe in the '60s this is when this chaked or the '40s, it deliberately carved out u.s.-owned media organizations. was it was very precise about that. what that tells me as a prosecutor is that that intended to capture potentially others or not u.s. zbloend or not. >> i'm familiar with the reporting you've referred to, and i'm familiar with that provision of the statute. >> very good. well, it would be good if we could pursue that line, if, in fact, the statute says that, that th