counsels to the national intelligence kpunl and director of national belkys. next rod skroon overover a senior analyst with the at the bureau of intelligence and research at the department of state. and finalry mr. jeffrey hinge howson senior naval intelligence manager for russia and eurasia at the office of national intelligence. thank you for being here. i i understand you consolidated or opening statements into a single statement. and mr. assessments kemil are you limping dlifrpg the opening statement. >> that's correct. i'll deliver the opening statements if the committee would like jeffrey can also add contents on the arctic in particular as part of the opening statement. >> okay, great. why don't you begin. thank you. >> all right. well thank you, mr. chairman. and thank you ranking member nunes and zing wishtd members of the committee for the opportunity to discuss the intelligence community ace assessment of the national security implications of climb climate change. in my opening remarks i will speak broke briefly about how the ic reproaches this topic

>> i would say, sir, that from a navy intelligence perspective, the national i.c.e. center which is part of noaa under the department of commerce is literally right across the street from where navy intelligence is essentially, most of its man power is, and it's an inter-agency organization led by the navy in partnership with noaa and the coast guard, so that's where we go for our i.c.e. and our maritime information and we work with them. and for the question of, i haven't, the question of earlier, about off of mr. himes' question about authorization and those kinds of things and mr. heck's bill, the drivers to national maritime economic security is going to be economic so having economic analysis and thought baked into that i think would be important because that's going to be the preceding indicator of military issues. >> thank you. >> any further questions from my colleagues? >> all right, well i want to thank the witnesses for testimony today and we are adjourned. testimony today and we are adjourned. t testimony today and we are adjourned. h testimony today and w

maria: let me talk about the china national intelligence law. enacted in june of 2017 requires chinese nationals and entities to gather intelligence if asked. this means huawei is under a compulsion to spy for beijing by itself, the requirement is sufficient reason to ban huawei. >> the u.s. government does and does not believe the law has any significance. they believe huawei would be forced to do this whether or not there was a law. maria: because it is a communist country! >> fact is the huawei network does not touch the customer network and even the huawei u.s. network does not touch the customer appeared only specially configured laptops, after written permission from the customer, can touch the customer network and every keystroke that is logged and recorded. anything we ship back would be known to the customers and known to the u.s. government. maria: there was an article this week in the wall street journal. huawei telecom gear much more vulnerable to hackers then rivaled equipment, report says. this as the story from the journal that bas

>> i would say, sir, from a navy intelligence perspective, the national center which is part of right across the street from the navy intelligence, where most of its man power is. it's an interagency organization led by the navy in partnership with noaa and the coast guard. that's where we go for our information. the question earlier about authorization and those things in respect to mr. heck's bill, the drivers of maritime climate change to national security are going to be economic, so having economic analysis and thought baked into that, i think, would be important because that's going to be the proceeding indicator of military issues. >> thank you. any further questions from my colleagues? all right. i want to thank the witnesses for the testimony today and we are adjourned. >>> the house intelligence committee begins a series of hearings next week on the mueller report. former white house counsel john dean will testify on capitol hill along with former u.s. attorneys and legal experts on some of the lessons learned from such investigations. we will have live coverage here on c-sp

>> i'm referencing the principle director of national intelligence who said we can do it. there are companies and processes that could find it. but more importantly we're for getting it is not just about the equipment, it is the network operator and the at&t and verizon of the world, they monitor the network and in bound and outbound because we know the bad guys will get in and we have to maintain the resilience of our communication and that is why we have to more toward a more comprehensive approach in this country. >> you and dan have expertise in security. say there are no back doors. it is perfectly safe. but the chinese government decides that it wants to shut down telecommunications. could they -- could a router, a device of 5g network to switch it off from a central location? >> well, you would need to have a back door in there. >> it would have to be pre-built into that. >> you could understand the reason for concern of something like that. >> which is why we don't want to have an approach that is not going to make america safer. banning hauwei is not going to make

indirect experience means a person who was a consumer or user of intelligence in a former -- foreign policy or national security position, not practitioner but someone who had all the clearances needed, use intelligence to inform decision-making and 10 of them had that background. general rayborn -- admiral raborn was the only individual who had no background at all in intelligence. some would argue leon panetta didn't because other than engaging with it when he was in congress and chief of staff at the white house, no direct or even indirect contact in any depth. that is an arguable proposition. it is a definite job for the middle agers. who do you think was the youngest dci ever? >> [booing] -- [indiscernible] david: no. james schlesinger. he was 41. who do you think is the oldest? casey. casey was in his 70's when he was appointed. the tendency of the spread is toward that mid-50's age range. it is not a job with a lot of security though. we do have again a bit of a scatterplot area we have dulles -- scatterplot. we have dulles serving over eight years, one of them over six. but almost like figure s

evidence were those who had been removed and there he revealed that even his chief of the national intelligence had been removed or sacked now here's his reason why moammar the market i will not send anyone who is currently working for the defense ministry or police department before the select committee and i will take primary responsibility because revealing intelligence chiefs intelligence directors and criminal investigation chiefs through the media is not something that is done anywhere in the world. present my policy receive talking about the number of cases before the supreme court saying that his attorney general had pointed out that it's the same issues that the select committee is looking at so he says he has informed the speaker you know essentially implying that the select committee should defer to the supreme court however we are hearing that a special emergency cabinet meeting that the president called essentially on friday evening to discuss these issues reached no sort of conclusive decision and that we are expecting that the select committee will resume sittings on tuesday. wel

as the fourth-ever director of the national intelligence, general clapper provided the president's dailyloyees worldwide and a $52 billion budget. he has served with distinction in the obama administration and both bush administrations. known as president obama said, for his willingness to tell leaders what they need to know even when it's not what they want to hear. general clapper has been awarded the defense distinguished service medal and the air force distinguished service medal and the department of defense medal for distinguished public service. twice. now an author and a national security analyst the international spy museum proudly welcomes general james r. clapper jr.! ♪[music]♪ [spy music] [laughter] >> well... i don't have the issue that lori has, you know, with the hair, so... i'm really pleased and honored to be able to help open the new international spy museum. by the way, that term, in this context, perfectly acceptable. that's a joke. to have such an institution that illuminates the critical work of the unsung heroes that work behind the scenes to keep this nation safe

national security. the house intelligence committee heard from intelligence analysts from the national security council the office of naval intelligence and the state department. the committee will come to order. before we begin, i want to remind all members we are an open session and as such we will discuss unclassified matters only. without objection made a clear basis at any time. good morning. at today's hearintoday's hearinn a series to examine the intersection of the national security challenges and in the prior hearings we've explore the rise of authoritarianism, russian intelligence tradecraft and china's use of technology as a tool of repression. today we take a look at climate change which is the greatest long-term national security threat to the u.s. and which will affect every dimension of the decades and possibly centuries. global environmental and ecological degradation as well as climate change are likely to field competition for the resources, economic distress and social discontent for 2019 and beyond. climate hazards such as extreme weather, high temperature, drought, floods, wildfires

this is more important on the director of national intelligence who is superior to the director of cia. would it be so from the dni's perspective? that is a work in progress but we will talk about how the directors of central intelligence have tried to manage that issue with the president as a factor. very important oversight element. the cia being a wide-open organization and when it gets in trouble for the oversight process. does the president supported -- support it? how does the cia manage the difficult balance between the cia and congress and relying on the president for backstopping. let's start with legal authorities. in 1947, the national security act is passed and in addition to creating the air force as a andrate branch of military the office of secretary defense, and establishing the national security council, the national security act created the cia. in that language, you find an interesting dynamic. lawou want to interpret a -- i would suggest you look at the verbs, the action words. those of the words that vista with authority -- are the words that bestow authority and p

evidence were those who had been removed and there he revealed that even his chief of the national intelligence had been removed or sacked now here's his reason why moammar marble i will not send anyone who is currently working for the defense ministry or police department before the select committee and i will take primary responsibility because revealing intelligence chiefs intelligence directors and criminal investigation chiefs through the media is not something that is done anywhere in the world. present my policy receive talking about the number of cases before the supreme court saying that his attorney general had pointed out that it's the same issues that the select committee is looking at so he says he has informed the speaker you know essentially implying that the select committee should defer to the supreme court however we are hearing that a special emergency cabinet meeting that the president called essentially on friday evening to discuss these issues reached no sort of conclusive decision and that we are expecting that the select committee will resume sittings on tuesday. iran sa

taking less and less to surprise people the head of the intelligence the chief of national intelligence basically has been removed and we heard this basically from president my pal a citizen or he was addressing senior police officers last evening when he referred to the parliamentary select committee the special parliamentary select committee which is looking into into those attacks and he said that everyone who had come before the committee were those who had been removed he mentioned to sort of mendis by name saying he had removed him and that was essentially the 1st that people of fishley heard that the chief of national intelligence had been removed now obviously present by 3 policy ricin is livid with the way the parliamentary select committee is progressing we've heard from system and as we've heard from the police chief inspector general. who currently is on compulsory leave we heard from the former defense secretary who resigned and all of them seem to be laying part of the blame at the president's door saying that he did not respond the way he should have that he had been info

financial times he joins us live via skype from colombo this apparent sucking of the chief of national intelligence is it all but it seems on the face of it. oh well yes mysticism and is laws in front of the select committee last week and he actually came out when suddenly information according to president bill is information could jeopardize the national security one of those issues which came up was that the presidency to say about has deliberately kept the prime minister and the minister of security statements of the past away from national security meetings and apart from that. the development of course the development has led c. to say and. to be you know weak position i had of the presidential election according to analysts but the chief of staff national intelligence as it was only on a one year contract was and he's a retired police officer yeah absolutely right because this particular position was created for coordinating purposes because we have in sri lanka several agencies handling that state intelligence. because the military forces are there police divisions are there so he's positio

are prepared for these diseases to be weaponize in a way to affect - - affect national security quick. >> the intelligenceommunity has highly qualified experts to talk about infectious diseases and global health that this topic is a good illustration why national security has broadened over the years and with infectious diseases with the potential of the national security concerns with climate change going the same direction. we could spend an entire hearing on this topic. so a simple direct answer to your question but let me answer your very first question arguably we are not ready for a lot of these even without climate change effects given the element of surprise of infectious diseases and the onset but just looking at climate hazards and climate change hazards some are especially susceptible to periods of extreme heat with children and elderly populations and the social marginalization. we could talk about a number of direct risks. >> in terms of global health organizations how are those types of things affecting our ability to be prepared for these global risks that exist because of climate change qu

nowadays before president trump's inauguration, the officers of director of national intelligence pushed to overhaul the sharing of raw intelligence which expanded the sharing of this raw intelligence from just three agencies to 15. -- 17. why would they want to impose standards on the in coming administration. standards they never impossessed on themselves for 8 years? according to new documents, the director of national intelligence office was eager to get the new procedures signed by the attorney general before the conclusion of this administration. not only that, around the same time the general counsel wrote: i really want to get this done and so does the boss, likely reference to clapper. any chance that the boss is obama? what did obama and biden know? hopefully we will get answers one day. all of this russian interference happened on the biden and obama watch. even devin nunes was warning the obama administration that russia was going to do all of this. he warned them in early 2014. they did nothing. it happened on their watch; not trump's watch. the nsa discussed in january 2017

the us director of national intelligence is warning that they could increasingly be used in campaignsuence public opinion. they are one of the reasons facebook has hired more than 30,000 people to vet the content that appears on its sites. ceo mark zuckerberg was himself the target of a deepfake uploaded on instagram this month by two artists who literally put words into his mouth. imagine this for a second. one man, with total control of billions of people's stolen data, their lives and their futures. i people's stolen data, their lives and theirfutures. i owe it all to spectre. it showed me that whoever controls the data controls the future. that is a brilliant illustration of what we're talking about, creepy really. tarek nseir is founder of the digital advertising agency. hejoins me now. they are going discuss this in congress to today, and the technology is still not as sophisticated as it will be in the near future. it is a real worry, isn't it? it is a realworry. i think this will pour notjust fuel on the fire, but it could be explosive. we rely on videos to create authenticity

me but you goto the presidents own director of the fbi and national intelligence saying watch out for others, they will be back in 2020. it's cheap and effective. i don't think we are fully prepared. i think it's amazing that when the president's own secretary of homeland security wanted to hold a cabinet meeting on election security, she was told not to does it might offend the sensibilities of john -- of donald trump. to me that's outrageous. i put forward three pieces of legislation that i would hope congress and a bipartisan way could pass if they're serious about protecting the integrity of our elections. first, if there is any ambiguity about taking foreign assistance in a presidential campaign, my legislation would make it clear that if you have an offer of a prohibited item and that's defined in law elsewhere, your obligation is not to say thank you, your obligation is to reported to the fbi. i don't know how anyone could miss that. we also need to pass bipartisan legislation, election security legislation, to make sure there is a paper ballot after everyone -- at everyone of

national security fromr within the doj 2000-2010. the bush and obama administrations. really, the poster children or lawmakers for bipartisanship on an intelligence committee, congressman rupert berger from maryland is district and includes the national security agency. and former congressman and the chairman of the house intelligence committee, mike rogers. all of you know mike and dutch. mike and dutch served on the committee as chairman and -- in ranking from 2011-2015. mike and 2016. just will start -- this is avery timely topic at such remarkable moment mark by intense partisanship, including even in national security, which is an area that has traditionally been impervious to party affiliation. bipartisanship, we know it is not necessarily always mean. everybody will always agree and let's agree all the time, but there are good reasons why there should be -- why the oversight ought to be free from partisan politics. so today in our discussion we want to get at what bipartisanship is, how do you do it and why it is so important. i will start by asking you mike and dutch to talk about the start of your partnership in 2011. and one of the firs

that was the public warning as of january from the director of national intelligence. russia, we have seen the warnings coming. russia now has the ability to turn off the lights in the united states if they want to. that statement from the dni in january, if you see it in context, that's the culmination of a few years of open source reporting and government documents to reporters and urgent and specific warnings from homeland security and intelligence about russia developing the capacity to target us in that way. when you stack up all those reports over the past few years, given the crescendo of that public reporting and the piling up of that evidence and incre e increasing urgency of the story as just pulled by the u.s. government starting christmas 2015, 2016, 2017, 18, and into this year, if you look at the urgency and specificity of the warnings we had over the past few years, now, today, at the end of that long string of news stories and warnings, it shouldn't have come as a surprise to get this report. the u.s. is doing the same thing back. that the u.s. develope

and they say the optics of it, yes, we had this great moment, but it looks like in the national intelligencey, and that's on this side, i'm sure kim jong-un will play it that way in north korea, but what looks to like for these people, they're saying that it looks like the president is running after kim jong-un instead of the opposite of kim jong-un running after us. >> the president, he likes that demarcation line of after his election and before his election and he talked about the dmz. he said that after he was elected, after the singapore summit, the danger went away and it was a mess before he got into office. we remember the propaganda messages from those speakers bei being blared across. how did you receive the president's characterization of pre-trump dmz north korea? >> you know, i looked at ben rhodes' tweet this morning, the tweet that xi replayed. i think i retweeted it. this president has his own reality. president obama really looked to diplomacy. and trying to work it out with kim jong-un the best way he could. i'm not saying he did the right thing or the wrong thing. but each

community which that's the reason why the national intelligenceup. and within it we already have a counterterrorism center. we already have a counterproliferation center. this is a logical extension of it. the fact of the matter is if you straight line out what's happening now climate change, severe weather events, rising sea levels, chrop shortages, water shortages, droughts, increased conflict between nations, this is what constitutes or the tinder that could result in a kinetic war, a fire as it were. we need to run toward this problem, not away from this problem and one of the ways that we can do that is to better coordinate the sharing and gathering of information within the intelligence community, as we have done for counterterrorism and counterproliferation. >> congressman, thank you for your time. >>> the justice department is looking to question senior cia officers who spent months calling for them to investigate the russia investigators. . ♪ ♪ award winning interface. award winning design. award winning engine. the volvo xc90. the most a

for the most part the intelligence community is made up of nonpartisan and nonpolitical people who are working to keep the country safe. it does not help the national security of the united states to have the commander-in-chief disparage the intelligence community in a way that then sows distrust. in order for the intelligence community to be effective, it needs to have the trust and confidence of the american people. comments and disparagement actually hurts the national security because it is sowing distrust out in the rest of the country. >> i think the women and intelligence committee are fantastic people. i think when they are disparage, one of the reasons is a narcissistic personality. it so series that these agencies are going to look at him or investigate him. we have to deal with what is on the table at this point. the only thing we can do is make sure we hold them accountable and get the facts. thes pushing back on congress role, the checks and balances, we have to stand up. havencern is if you would the facts, the senate is not going to do it. this point, keep searching for the facts. if he refuses to give us the facts to protect ourselv

. >>> next a discussion on intelligence community oversight and national security. we heard about the current public and political divide over russian interference in the 2016 elections. and why it is critical that both republicans and democrats work together on intelligence issues. held by the center for a new american security, this is an hour. >>> i would like to welcome all of you today. >>> thank you to all of us for joining us here. we will enjoy talking and watching you eat. we have a great panel for this topic, fostering bipartisanship and intelligence oversight. carrie cordero, senior fellow at the center for national american security, and a former national securities lawyer with the doj and dni from 2000 to 2010. so, the bush and all,, first year of obama administration. and then, really, the sort of poster children are poster lawmakers for bipartisanship on an intelligence committee, congressman dutch roethlisberger from maryland, whose district includes the national security agency. and former congressman and former chairman of the house intelligence com

the chief of sri lanka's national intelligence, sisira mendis, has left hisjob a week after he told aer sunday suicide bombings could have been averted. the investigation is looking into possible lapses that allowed islamist militants to target churches and hotels in april. here's our south asia editor anbarasan ethirajan. we have to understand the context about why it happened. 0n easter sunday, more than 250 people were killed by islamist extremists and the government admitted that there was intelligence warning from neighbouring india, at least on two occasions before the attacks happened, that there could be attacks by suspected islamist militants. so there was a lot of political blame game going on after the incident. both the president, maithripala sirisena, and the prime minister, ranil wickremesinghe they both belong to different parties and they were blaming each other and each group was blaming the other for the security lapses. now, the sri lankan parliament set up a parliamentary committee to investigate into lapses and why this happened and how this happened. and the sri

i take a republican partner, and deputy director of national intelligence, senior levels from dhs, fbi and our intelligence center and bring in venture capitalists, academics to really share in a one-day classified read-in some of the challenges that china presents and some of the tactics that they use to try to advance their government's interest. we need a short-term strategy. here we need a lot of work. and frankly i've seen little articulate development from the administration. the trump administration has done the right thing, vis-a-vis china, in saying the status quo is not working. if the status quo is not working, he has to offer an alternative. emerging china have been counter to the united states and frankly have been counter all of the west. in many ways the countries that first raised the challenges around china before they were fully recognized were japan, korea and australia. there was a time when we could have built a grand coalition and gone to china and said you're a great nation but you've got to play by the rules. instead of building that grand coalition the administ

is looking into the easter sunday attacks now right on the very 1st day we had the chief of national intelligence is that amanda's going before that committee and giving testimony giving evidence as you mentioned he did talk about the huge sort of almost lackadaisical attitude towards intelligence towards national security he did say that there hadn't been drag uli sessions and there were issues that he revealed now the very 2nd day we heard that there was a whole lot of efforts from various quarters to try and stop the select committee sessions because there were 2 sort of key witnesses that were due to appear but we did see these witnesses on the 3rd day that's the police chief who is on compulsory leave and the former defense secretary so the president very unhappy with all the information that's coming out saying that you know this this is not right saying that there are a number of cases before the supreme court that he had been sort of told by the attorney general that these cases relate to things that are being taken up by the select committee so that is his position that no where in the w

it was not for nothing that the director of national intelligence, jim clapper, went to north korea to bring hostages back here. that didn't just happen. there are things that happen in this world that protect americans, that keep us safe, and we need to continue to ensure that that can happen. when we were negotiating during the clinton administration, last point, we discussed, in fact, opening liaison offices and we were all very clear with each other that that would include intelligence capability because it's important to every country. i can assure you kim jong-un has not stopped looking for assets to help him. nor should we. >> ned price, here is a murderous dictator who has attacked the united states. he actually -- he attacked the sony studios in los angeles. he's actually launched a successful cyber attack in the united states. he has murdered countless people. he starves people to death. we desperately need intelligence on him. and donald trump is saying he won't use an intelligence source if the intelligence source is actually that close to kim jong-un. if it's actually a me

early show they don't go eat that there is a group and they are linking this where to the national intelligenceservices to try and change activists at the moment. the council has to respond by swift and small. part of the show this video government of the legitimate request of the people of sudan so this is what we have asked for. a year the e.u. all of the policy makers that it's time to hand over no more but that's all very well in terms of a demand but at the end these stages these scenarios take small steps and we've seen everything going backwards in the last few weeks what is it going to take for you to actually or for your groups to come to the table come to talk what do the military have to do. you want to say for them to gain your trust. i think today has proved that transitional knows your current so let's not have any mandate it's very clear that it spawns from the people of sudan so actually we don't have to compromise anything at all what is have to have to happen that this has to be mediated and monitored because we have been trying to get this achieved since the 11th of april and

frame the meeting would be the intelligence assessment as to what happened, we had multiple assessments from multiple agencies. unlike when we did terrorism, you had the national counter terrorism center, there was one approved view of the intelligence community, sometimes with dissent, and then we would base our response based on the intelligence community's assessment of what happened. and it was clear that there was a gap when it came to cyber, and no such mechanisms existed. let me segue from there to you on, number one, how are we doing? is that gap closed? and two, what are your top priorities? erin: thank you. it's a pleasure to be here as well, especially with my partner, tonya. i've been in the f.b.i. as an agent for over 22 years now with , the last several years spent in cyber division, so i feel very fortunate to be here with tonya and to continue building upon what she really put into place. and she did some very important foundational work in that center, and we benefited greatly from her work. and now it's just a matter of seeing where we can take it from here. but in a nutshell, some of the things that we do very, very well are building awarene

you oversaw this report as director of national intelligence.a high confidence assessments that the preference here was, one, to damage hillary clinton, and two to advantage donald trump? >> it was with one exception. admiral mike rogers, then director of nsa ascribed moderate conference, which is kind of next in the tier and i certainly didn't insist on anonymity. that's his prerogative. his privilege. i think that was a personal determination. it might be useful to understand how this report was done. we assembled about 30 people from the three agencies involved plus a few people from my office and we formalized a working group that had already started under john brennan's office who was then director of cia. at no time was there any wind or direction given for the outcome of that report. they were tosome p comply with president obama asked us to do which was assemble all the reporting that accrued about russian meddling in our political processes. i didn't even meet with this group until after the report was done. afterwards, of course, the t

you oversaw this report as director of national intelligence.ments that the preference here was, one, to damage hillary clinton, and two to advantage donald trump? >> it was with one exception. admiral mike rogers, then director of nsa ascribed moderate conference, which is kind of next in the tier and i certainly didn't insist on anonymity. that's his prerogative. his privilege. i think that was a personal determination. rather than institutional. it might be useful to understand how this report was done. we assembled about 30 people from the three agencies involved plus a few people from my office and we formalized a working group that had already started under john brennan's office who was then director of cia. at no time was there any wind or direction given for the outcome of that report. they were to comply with what president obama asked us to do which was assemble all the reporting that accrued about russian meddling in our political processes. i didn't even meet with this group until after the report was done. afterwards, of course, the

evidence were those who had been removed and there he revealed that even his chief of the national intelligence had been removed or sacked now here's his reason why moammar marble i will not send anyone who is currently working for the defense ministry or police department before the select committee and i will take primary responsibility because revealing intelligence chiefs intelligence directors and criminal investigation chiefs through the media is not something that is done anywhere in the world. present my policy receive talking about the number of cases before the supreme court saying that his attorney general had pointed out that it's the same issues that the select committee is looking at so he says he has informed the speaker you know essentially implying that the select committee should defer to the supreme court however we are hearing that a special emergency cabinet meeting that the president called essentially on friday evening to discuss these issues reached no sort of conclusive decision and that we are expecting that the select committee will resume sittings on tuesday. malawi'

evidence were those who had been removed and there he revealed that even his chief of the national intelligence had been removed or sacked now here's his reason why moammar marble i will not send anyone who is currently working for the defense ministry or police department before the select committee i will take primary responsibility because revealing intelligence chiefs intelligence directors and criminal investigation chiefs through the media is not something that is done anywhere in the world. present my policy receive talking about the number of cases before the supreme court saying that his attorney general had pointed out that it's the same issues that the select committee is looking at so he says he has informed the speaker you know essentially implying that the select committee should defer to the supreme court however we are hearing that a special emergency cabinet meeting that the president called essentially on friday evening to discuss these issues reached no sort of conclusive decision and that we are expecting that the select committee will resume sittings on tuesday. amnesty int

so that was the public warning as of january this year from the director of national intelligence. russia, you know, we've seen all these warnings coming. russia now has the ability to turn off the lights in the united states if they want to. right? that statement from the dni in january, i mean, if you see it in context, that's the culmination of a few years of open-source reporting and leaks of official government documents to reporters and increasingly urgent and specific warnings from homeland security and law enforcement and intelligence about russia developing this capacity to target us in that way. now, when you stack up all those reports over the past few years, you know, given the crescendo of that public reporting and the piling up of that evidence and the increasing urgency of that story, even as it was just told by the u.s. government, starting, you know, christmas 2015 into 2016, 2017, 2018 and into this year. if you look at the increasing urgency and specificity of those warnings that we've had over the past few years, well, now, today, at the end of that long string

the part of mr trump once again trampling upon the statutory authorities of the director of national intelligence and the heads of the independent intelligence agencies how dead trump what true american would ever question why they're being wiretapped and spied upon good thing america has m.s.m. be she true patriots. with the bread and full time so he can vent his frustrations for everyone to hear of course to do that m.s.n. b.c. had to sacrifice their principles and integrity president obama said today he still stands by his cia chief john brennan even though it turns out the cia was indeed spying on the senate and some senators are calling for brennan to be fired now just to be clear that was in 2014 when they weren't on the same side and spying than everyone your own elected leaders included was considered dubious these is 2019 and the word spying is now considered politically incorrect it offends people who see people who secretly eavesdrop and record and film everyone agents the good guys. a talking point from the president and those around him telling congress buying did occur on the trump