national intelligence richard grinnell says berlin is undermining native's mission of nuclear containment this comes after plans to buy u.s. f. 18 fighter jets met resistance from within german chancellor angela merkel's own government the planes are capable of launching nuclear warheads germany has repeatedly said it intends to play a larger role in nato but decisions on how the country should approach its own defense capabilities they are often hampered by political infighting w.'s chief political editor mcculloch has more. this is what many wants to avoid america's drone who went from being considered a violation of international law to washington's compact method of choice the us example has sparked concerns among the opposition and the public that german drones could see berlin on the wrong side of history as a driving force towards also mated machine warfare. is going to other countries have it isn't a good argument to say we need it to the tendency towards automated warfare which means killing off as a depressing outlook. german defense minister and i can't come come by once the ro

ambassador to germany and director of national intelligence richard grinnell says that berlin is undermining native's mission of nuclear containment this comes after plans to buy u.s. f. 18 fighter jets met resistance from within the german chancellor angela merkel's own government the planes are capable of launching nuclear warheads germany has repeatedly said that it intends to play a larger role in nato but decisions on how the country should approach its own defense capabilities well they are often hampered by political infighting. the chief political editor. reports. this is what many wants to own for weight america's drone who went from being considered a violation of international to washington's compact method of choice the u.s. example has concerns among the opposition and the public that arming drones could see by land on the wrong side of history and driving force towards also mated machine wolf. i'm going to end this kind. other countries have it isn't a good argument to say we need it to keep the tendency towards automated warfare which means automated killing offers a depressin

document dump what we're waiting on right now is if you have the current director of national intelligence richard grinnell in his last few weeks actually is marse every bill barring say he is going to give over the full list of those in the administration mainly the obama administration that knew of the unmasking of general flynn as well as a lot of other documents that is going to unclassified declassified he has done this now we're just waiting for those documents to be made public record all of this just comes the idea that we're just starting to get the beginning of how the last 3 years we've been spent obsessing with this idea of russia including not only with the trump campaign but with the targeting ira intelligence agencies and the question is why michael why did they want michael flynn to be out well a lot of it comes back to the original criticism back in 2012 of the about mr actions of syria and when he came into the trumpet mr ation when the 1st thing he said he was going to do was scale back and the i cia and use a restructuring and it minimized the power that a lot of our intelligence agenci

under wraps in fact both attorney general william barr and the acting director of national intelligence richard grinnell and filed motions with the court saying that any information relating to the saudi embassy official and all internal f.b.i. documents about this matter were so sensitive they were state secrets that means that if they were revealed they could cause grave damage to the national security and then i'm reading this declaration that was filed by the f.b.i. assistant director for counterterrorism which was basically designed to justify bars position that this is sensitive information in every instance in the declaration they blacked out the name of the saudi embassy official except for one paragraph where it appears and it is the name of somebody who the lawyers for the families of 911 victims have had on their radar screen for some time but have investigated this individual's activities and what the f.b.i. documents appear to show is this is the guy ok f.b.i. agent suspect they're having directed support for the hijacker ok so we're not naming the saudi embassy official but what do we know

national intelligence. but right now richard grinnell is. before that he was the ambassador to germany.nt trump made a number of angry tweets about a new tv ad created by republicans who do not support him. called mourning in america, mourning with a u like a funeral. it's a play on president reagan's really great ad in the '80s called morning in america, more like day break. i will play president reagan's political ad first and then the ad attacking the president. >> it's morning again in america and under the of president reagan our country is prouder and stronger and better. >> there's mourning in america and under the leadership of donald trump our country is weaker and sicker and poorer. >> president trump with three tweets in a row late night last night calling many of the people in that organization that made that ad names and pointing out they had lost several elections. >>> the u.s. treasury says it will borrow $2.9 trillion for the quarter or a trillion dollars a month, its largest borrowing in history. some will go to california to help us pay people who are out of work. i'll

sam, last week richard grinnell declassified a list of names of individual who is unmasked the identity of former national security adviser michael flynn. how does that impact the intelligencecommunity? >> well, this mud and out of context declassification by grinnell politicizes the intelligence community that he's supposed to be leading. i've been involved none masking requests. they are a routine part of national security work. air ic routinely collecting on foreign targets and sometimes those foreign targets are talking about or two an american. now, certain u.s. officials can request that that american be unmasked, when they have a justifiable reason to do so. grinnell lefto out all of that context when he declassified his names, and he also left out the underlying intelligence that flynn was caught up and the justification for the unmasking itself. grinnell's actions really make the ic look like part of a political hit job. the reality is that the intelligence community and the policy makers that made the unmasking request were actually just doing their jobs. >> i'm going to turn to china now, sam. because officials around the world are working hard to try to determin

richard burr. all four senators denied doing anything illegal. declassifying documents, acting director of national intelligence rick grinnell declassified new russianuments as john ratcliffe faces the decision on whether to make the documents public. the new files include transcripts of phone calls of michael flynn and russian ambassador sergey kislyak. joining us now is congressman william herd. great to see you this morning. thank you for joining us. >> always a pleasure to be on, maria. maria: should more conversations be declassified and shown to the public? >> if it doesn't reveal anything about sources and methods, then yes. i remember at the height of all this debate and when republicans were in charge of the house select committee on intelligence, adam schiff almost every day was on tv saying more things should be opened and now when he has a responsibility to do this it's getting tough on getting him to declassify and show some of this information that we already said, we already voted on should be released. that's what director grinnell was doing in his time as the director of national intelligence. maria: you know, john ratcliffe told me