we also have colonel thomas toller, commander of the national security agency georgia and deputy commanderrian goodman. gentlemen, we thank you for your service. we would like to recognize you if you will please stand. [ applause ] ft. gordon is already home to the cyber center of excellence, a training facility for cyberspace operations, and soon, we, the state of georgia, will begin construction on another tool in our arsenal for security and economic development in the form of the georgia cyberinnovation and training center. my proposed budget includes $50 million for this state-owned facility designed to promote modernization in cybersecurity and technology for both the private and the public industries, in conjunction with the department of defense and the nsa. this invaluable resource will put georgia at the pinnacle of efforts to enhance american cybersecurity in both of those public and private arenas, with a resource unlike any other in the country. this will solidify georgia's reputation as the silicon valley of the south. i want to take this opportunity to thank the other partne

so you have the fires of amendments act, which allows the government and the national security agency to collect the communications of foreign officials, even if there is a u.s. person at the other end of that communication. that is done for foreign intelligence purposes. that is one of the ways general flynn was ensnared. the other is executive order that governsan era the day-to-day operations in the intelligence community. former state official john a beer time wrote a piece a couple years ago talking about -- drawn tie wrote aier piece about this a couple years ago. that is why the complaints of ,olks really ring hollow because they knew what they were voting for when they did that. host: take us deeper. what would have triggered the monitoring of general flynn and the phone calls to the russians? guest: the national security agency especially is tasked with monitoring communications of foreign officials, whether military or civilian. without question, if they picked in whichications someone asked senior as general that willinvolved, get flagged for top level attention. just in th

he still tops the current document while working as a contractor for the national security agency.he gave those documents to journalists. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu visiting the white house next week for a much anticipated visit to president trump. looking to get his relationship with the u.s. back on track after years of tension with the obama administration but just days before the visit he's taking a tougher tone on the issue of israeli settlements. they could actually hinder peace talks. the former israeli ambassador to the un in a fox news contributor. in the quest for peace his he's morning israel he did this on friday that building more homes was not good for peace. that is in contrary to what netanyahu was hoping to do. how they resonate as a u.s. tried to broker peace talks. i think that those comments were heard loud and clear and i think the prime minister will be coming to the white house and prepared to have a very frank and open dialogue with the discussion. i think the meeting in fact is a classic case of there being no second chance to make a first im

although michael fallon portrayed the kremlin as the aggressor in terms of hacking, america's national security agencyso have targets ona and britain's gchq also have targets on a regular basis. the russians may be hacking, the west hacking as well. let's move on to sleep. do you like camping? i like sleeping. do you like sleeping out under the stars 7 you like sleeping out under the stars? last time i went camping at poured with rain. this is a great story which says that if you really wa nt to story which says that if you really want to reset your circadian rhythms and geta want to reset your circadian rhythms and get a better night's sleep, spend the night under the stars. you have to go to bed early because you have to go to bed early because you have lots of light, natural light, and they have given people a digital detox. if you go unless camping test you are not allowed to take your phone or a torch. you have to go to bed when the natural light goes, and that resets your body clock by 2.5 hours and you sleep better as a result of that. what happens in summer result of that. what happens in summ

we have a national security advisor who had inappropriate conversations with the russians and lied to his boss. and the blame goes on the national security agency, are you kidding me? happens every year, every administration, wolf. and i think this president is having a hard time accepting that. >> and look at this tweet, phil. quote, this is the president. information is being illegally given to the failing new york times and washington post by the intelligence community, nsa, that's the national security agency, and fbi. and then he adds these words. just like russia. now, he's not comparing them to nazi germany, but he's saying just like russia. that is a real smear, if you will. >> sort of, but people like me who are inside the business that have been inside the business for decades are transitioning within 30 days of a president of the united states taking office from paying attention and being offended by this stuff to realizing that this is the way life works every day and ignoring what the president says. if you're at the cia, you're at the fbi, you're listening to mike pompeo and jim comey saying we have a president of the united state

yes, national security agency and i think some measures could be taken that may or may not be ones thatld agree with day to day but ultimately if somebody has been badly treated oi'i if somebody has been badly treated ona if somebody has been badly treated on a circumstance if somebody has been badly treated on a circumstance that is what the courts rule. it is like seeing the hugh andl courts rule. it is like seeing the hugh and i wood badly interfaced appearance fees and go and do some illegal activity. it is nonsense. the idea of monitoring how he was going to spend the money, that is a secondary point. why give him so much money in the first place. what we re much money in the first place. what were they trying to hide?” much money in the first place. what were they trying to hide? i think people are good to look at why that payment was made. he was deemed to be innocent. actually deemed to be for security. he was monitored. nobody believed. it was a blemish. what it said was that they did not wa nt to what it said was that they did not want to go to court, and have the intelligence

judge robart, nordstrom, nbc, abc, mark cuban, "the washington post," cbs as well as the national security agency does that concern you that he is at one hand -- and we also have a graphic of someone just to make a point that he has not criticized. vladimir putin. he's not targeted him on twitter as he has these others. is that appropriate -- >> he hasn't? well, again, it's style. but look what he has -- >> how is that style? just explain to me, how is that style and not substance? >> because it's rhetoric. it's rhetoric. look what he has focused on. we've got $20 trillion in debt. a failed healthcare policy from the last administration, tax code needs to be fixed. >> i hear you on that, congressman. >> he's commented on that. i think that's a good thing. >> let's talk about relations with russia. if you want to say that is style and not substance because it's rhetoric, then how is it -- how is it when we're talking about russia, we're not talking about economic issues or domestic issues. why is that okay for him to do that and on -- explain to me how that is not substantive on russia? >> well, y

we remember her cell phone was tapped by the national security agency and that brought her to reviewhat spying on friends was not successful -- is not good. then it turned out the german spies were helping the nsa do just that. >> she was seen as the most powerful woman in europe, some even said the whole world. the testimony from the nsa investigation indicates that angela merkel's influence ended with her intelligence services. after the news broke that u.s. intelligence services had cap angela merkel's phone for years, the chancellor declared spying on friends is not ok. but in 2015 came a new revelation, germany's intelligence service had spied on european politicians, government agencies and politicians, something angela merkel said she did not know. >> chancellor merkel presented a convincing case that she made the statements without knowing that the bnd spied on allies. it is up to you if you think that makes the matter better. >> the former bnd boss lost his job as part of the fallout in the service saw its activities rated by berlin. merkel claimed she did not do anything wr

thai raid in between 7am and 8am this morning, suggesting that the fbi and the nsa, the national security agencynal security agency, they were interfering in politics, that what they were doing was an american, they were indulging in illegal leaks. this american, they were indulging in illegal lea ks. this is american, they were indulging in illegal leaks. this is all part of the problems that led to the downfall of michael flynn, his national security adviser, and a whole bunch of stories that emerged in the american press about the extent to which michael flynn was in contact with russia. then again, last night, the extent to which the trump campaign, during the election campaign, to what extent some other people associated with the trump campaign were in touch with russian intelligence officers. he has described that particular allegation as nonsense. but he is furious with the intelligence establishment, not for the first time. it is an extraordinary position where the president is at such loggerheads with those people he has to rely on to keep the country safe. part of the problem for the p

we are coordinating or they are coordinating with the national security agencies. they're coordinating with the central intention agency, and however, getting that warrant also allowed them to take in intelligence from other foreign intelligence collectors. the ukrainians, estonia, french ghq in england. there's an enormous amount of collection power. i would scrub every correction and try to determine exactly what they're trying to determine now. are these people connected to russian spies? are they being handled by russian spies? are they russian spies? >> can we tell using modern electronics and data collection if somebody has talked on the phone? can we get a universal look at all communication pretty much now? how -- what percentage of communication can we nail down? >> well, not universal look at communications. we get a focussed look, target oriented look. if we're going after a specific target, we'll use specific multibillion dollar systems to hone down on what we know about their communications and branch out from there and see if it interconnects with any

he worked at the national security agency in cyber operations.oreign governments have been successful in stealing american secrets. >> if you notice the new stealth night america china looks like an f-35. that's not a coincidence. >> reporter: he said that the worst is yet to come. >> i do think we will see a devastating cyber attack in 2017. >> reporter: he said america's power grids, dams, water system, all connected to the internet and not as secure as it should be. the of hoover dam and someone hacks it and opens it we have a big problem. >> reporter:the cost is just a few key strokes. the modern war will be never ending and america needs to keep its guard up. >> there will always be this problem. there will always be a cat and mouse game. >>> there are several reports that alden smith the linebacker is involved in some way with a san francisco police investigation. the smith who was suspended all of last season reportedly is cooperating the police. these reports say that police were called last weekend to a domestic incident in the city. rep

. >> yes, the national security agency. that suggests to me the kind of evidence they have got in the classified world is not all that conclusive. that's number one. the second thing is given the political atmosphere that we're experiencing now in washington which i think paul has very accurately described the degree to which we're able to keep these sorts of things secret generally in that atmosphere i'm suspicious that if we really had that kind of evidence in the classified world that we would know that either directly or indirectly in the public domain so i suspect we really don't have that kind of conclusive evidence in the classified world. how do we end up with a report we wound up with? a lot of explanations, the biological tendencies we all share, the pressures that can occur bureaucratly, timelines underway, the separations of sets of expertise within the community, all of that may have had a role to play in all of this, but i'm speculating. >> the dossier, i thought i got a reprieve from senator roberts but appar

one of the tweets he sent out this morning was directly attacking the fbi and the national security agencyhe intelligence community. donald trump and michael flynn have made no bones about this. they have taken on the intelligence agencies before taking office and now, and if you take them on, it will come back to bite you. he doesn't have loyalty from those agencies and they are talking to reporters. it is a problem. if they start talking about sensitive issues like north korea, it could be a national security problem. but the real story here is that donald trump's campaign team members, it is reported by the new york times, had beenin reported by the new york times, had been in regular contact with russian intelligence officials. make no mistake, the story here is russia and donald trump's relationship with russia. some questions from viewers. john says, it is hard to know what to make of all the tweets and the statements. are they to appease supporters or is he out of his depth? sum is to appease his supporters. people who voted for donald trump like his style, they like his tweets. the

. >>> a former contractor for the national security agency has been charged in a massive breach of secretuments. harold martin is accused of spending years collecting large amounts of classified information and storing it in his home and in his car. he's been charged with 20 counts of taking national defense information. he faces decades in prison if convicted. >>> a phoenix man has been sentenced to 30 years behind bars on charges he provided support to isis. authorities say abdul malik abdul kareem, an american born muslim convert, helped two followers carry through an attempted attack outside a prophet muhammad cartoon contest. in texas in 2015. the two were killed in a shoot-out with police. >>> the pentagon announcing at least 11 al qaeda operatives were killed during u.s. air strikes in syria, including anside operative with close ties to osama bin laden and the man who replaced him. the pentagon says abu hami al masri was in charge of training camps in the '80s and '90s. >>> and white house press secretary sean spicer says critics of the u.s. raid in yemen should apologize. spicer

first public comments since firing his national security adviser, president trump lashed out today at perceived enemies -- the f.b.i., the national security agency, and the media. he suggested that the f.b.i. and the n.s.a. are behind what he called "illegal leaks of classified information" that led to the downfall of michael flynn. the president wrote that the fake news media is going crazy with their conspiracy theories and blind hatred. mr. trump blamed the flynn controversy on the hillary clinton campaign, and for the second time in three days, he reminded a news conference at the white house of his margin of victory in the electoral college. major garrett on a busy day of deflection. >> general flynn is a wonderful man. i think he's been treated very, very unfairly by the media. >> reporter: president trump praised ousted national security adviser michael flynn just one day after the white house said mr. trump asked for flynn's resignation because he could not be trusted. flynn misled white house officials, including vice president mike pence, about conversations he had with russia's ambassador before mr. trump took office. the president bl

so—called fa ke the washington post, the so—called fake media in general, the fbi and the national security agencysemitism, let's bring company backing from washington. this repeatedly comes up but do we have any evidence there has been a rise in anti—semitic activity, and that we can connect it in to mrtrump? activity, and that we can connect it in to mr trump? i think people point out things like a series of bomb threats made againstjewish community centres here in the us. incidents of people painting swastikas on various public buildings. it's all anecdotal. swastikas on various public buildings. it's allanecdotal. i think when people get upset, when critics go after donald trump for connections to anti—semitism, they look at some of the supporters from the ultra—right, white nationalists, who have been very ardent donald trump backers, particularly online, using anti—semitic language to jewish journalists. you also see donald trump's rhetoric. he retweeted an image of a star of david on a background of dollar bills to attack hillary clinton a nswered bills to attack hillary clinton answered hi

continue for the snowdon revelations, you had snowed who stole the information from the national security agency the garden. this would make no distinction between the guardian and edward snowden. -- in the guardian. they would still be treated as if they had been stealing documents. they would still be treated as if they had been stealing documentsm they had been stealing documentsm the consultation was taken to the final thing, we know the way consultations were, you throw out interesting suggestions as you grow back and sometimes the government says we have dismissed some of the extreme suggestions, this is middle of the road and that may happen but at the moment yes, free—speech advocates are concerned saying we expect this in china or russia but not in britain. there have been clashes between police and demonstrators in a suburb to the north east of paris, after a march in protest over the alleged rape of young black man by a police officer. the victim, a twenty two—year—old youth worker suffered severe injuries. 0ne police man has been charged with rape and suspended from duties. campaigne

that includes multiple international agencies, it includes multiple national security agencies here. there is no problem with vetting. so when this president says, i want extreme vetting, i hate to tell him but we've already got extreme vetting. in fact, it is the most rigorous refugee program and process that we have in the world. i also want to say that just yesterday a dreamer was picked up, somebody who has been awarded daca status twice, has gone through the vetting process for the daca program twice, he was picked up in seattle, i spent most of last night and this morning on the phone with his attorneys, on the phone with community allies, our community colleges, are in tremendous disarray, they're terrified of what this means for their students. and this morning i had a chance talk to i.c.e. agents, or i.c.e. congressional lee asouthern officers about this case. what i will tell you that deeply, deeply disturbs me is there seemed to be absolutely no limits to what an i.c.e. agent can do in a home. so this was somebody who had daca status, legal status, presented those papers a

the first is the amendment act which essentially allows government and the national security agency to collect communications of foreign individuals, particularly those that pass communications in the united states. even if there's a us person at the other end of that communication. that's the foreign intelligence purposes and that's one of the ways the general plan was ensnared in all this. the other story would've been executive order 1223 which is an reagan era executive order that governs the day-to-day operations of the intelligence community. former state department official actually wrote a piece in the washington post a couple years ago and in essence talking about how that particular executive order has been used to ultimately capture communications in the absence of warrants and there are ways that happened. that's why folks like nc chairman in california said it rang hollow to me because they knew what they were for. >> take it a little deeper, what would have triggered the monitoring of the general's phone calls to the russians? >> our government and the nsa is tasked with

of all of the national security agencies, we have a staff of about half of what they do. we have made an appeal to increase our staff and i'm hoping that will be approved by even so, we are very limited in resources. in my view, we out to be doing our investigation jointly with the senate intelligence committee. it makes little sense in my view that we bring in the same innesses, do the same work parallel. i think we could multiply our resources and capabilities jointly as they did the joint inquiry and congress after 9/11. so those are a few thoughts on where we are. it again, just to summarize before i go to questions, we are agreeing on our terms of reference. we've largely agreed already, we just need to put them down on paper. hopefully we can declassify any portion of that and share with you. we have reached no conclusion nor could we on issues of collusion because we are not called in a single witness or reviewed a siegel document as of yet and it is very important i prejudge the not conclusions of our investigation conclusion that our intelligence agencies may or

secretary nominee, one of those pulled out last night, and that is in a week where he lost his national security agencyd people from those seven predominantly muslim countries from coming into america for 90 days has been caught up in the courts, has been caught up in the courts, has been put on hold by the courts. he's promised to redraft that and issue a new one of those next week, as he puts it, to protect the american people. he promised that would happen this week. it's going to happen this week. it's going to happen next week now. he's just about to start to take questions from reporters. we'll see whether he ta kes a ny from reporters. we'll see whether he takes any from unfriendly organisations or those who are less friendly towards him. the first question he answered, he said that michael flynn had effectively lost hisjob because of michael flynn had effectively lost his job because of the actions of the media. gary o'donoghue with the latest from the white house, thank you. in wales more patients are having to wait over 12 hours at accident and emergency units — than a year ago. in january 4,

continuing of the snowdon revelations, you had snowden who still be information from the national security agencythey would be treated as if they had? if this consultation was taken to the final points. 0ften consultation was taken to the final points. often you throw out some very interesting suggestions and then you roll back to the middle and sometimes the government say we have dismissed some of the extreme suggestions. that is possibly what is going to happen here. at the moment free speech advocates are very concerned. they say we expect this kind of stuff in china or russia not in britain. fascinating stuff. thank you. clashes in the iraqi capital, baghdad, between the security forces and supporters of a powerful shia muslim cleric have left at least five people dead. the trouble began with a demonstration against corruption by tens of thousands of protesters waving iraqi flags. alan johnston reports huge numbers of demonstraters convergd on a square in the heart of baghdad. they chanted anti—government slogans. they complained of corruption and demanded changes to a commission which overs

the obama administration expanded the power of thehe national security agency to share globally interceptedpersonnel communications withon the government's 16 other intelligence agencies before applying privacy protections. does that mean the list of potential leakers is that much bigger or not? >> if that is the case, we were never notified of that at the house intelligence committee. what i will say is that it's not just about what leaked, the transcripts that leaked on general flynn, the transcripts that donald trump talking to the mexican president, the australian prime minister, those also leaked. this is a state here that is falling apart and it is totallye unacceptable for anyone withinis government to be doing this. i think most of this is probably from people who are in the old administration. but there still could be some people that have burrowed in and are providing classified information to the media. >> sean: it's clearly a violation of law, is it not? is this not the type of thing that if you have a intelligence people, illegally intercepting phone calls of americans, that's

martin is accused of stealing top secret and classified documents from the national security agency and other docume government agencies over a period of 20 years. officials say he kept those documents in his house, his car and in an outdoor shed. martin's lawyers say he has a compulsive >>> developing tonight in fairfax county, an urgent plea from police to help find a missing 17-year-old girl. they believe she may be in danger. they say she knew a maryland teen found dead over the weekend. what do we know about possible gang involvement? >> reporter: police gathered us here late today for what is an urgent plea, trying to find the missing 17-year-old. they are determined to spare another family from going through what one gaithersburg family is going through right now. she was a sweet person, trusting in people, those words from the grieving mother of alexandra reyes. she asked we not show her face or use her name. tonight she is hoping desperately for an arrest in her daughter's murder. i hope ty us justice, she told me. it's here in this wooded area where fairfax county police respo

he worked at the national security agency in cyber operations. foreign governments have been successful in stealing american secrets. >> if you notice the new stealth fighter in china looks like an f-3. that's not a coincidence. >> but he says the worse is yet to come. >> i do think we will see a devastating cyber attack. >> kerr says the infrastructure and power grids and dams and water systems connected to the internet and not as secure as they should be. >> if we are talking about the hoofver dam and somebody hacks into that and opens it up and we don't want it we got big problems. >> the price of an attack is key strokes, that is cheap especially for a terrorist organization losing ground in iraq and syria. kerr says the modern war in cyberspace will be never ending and america needs to keep its guard up. >> there will always be this problem. a cat and mouse game between the tacker and defender. >> where do they get these guys? >> all or the world. the classic hackers, young male in his 20s. most of them -- half of them from the united states

he is, of course, the former national security agency contractor who leaked classified information.eport russia wants to send snowden to the u.s. to curry favor with president trump. snowden says this report alone proves he was never a spy. brian ennis is following the story. >> reporter: a government source tells fox news' catherine herridge that russia believes they have exhausted edward snowden's value, and he is more useful as a bargaining chip to russian president vladimir putin which implies the russians would give up snowden to the u.s. in return for something. what, we don't know. president trump has called the nsa whistleblower a, quote, terrible traitor and tweeted before he was president that snowden deserves to be executed. this information comes after an nbc report which seems to take things a step further than our reporting, citing two government officials. nbc reports that russia is considering handing over snowden to the u.s. as, quote, a gift to president trump in an attempt to curry favor with the president. the concept of a gift speaks the intent. a gift could mea

national security council. he was the acting security advisor. no surprise there. general davis petraeus. these are new names now being added to the list. general keith alexander who was the head of the national security agency. that's the electronic spying agency. lieutenant general h.r. mcmaster who has a reputation of bucking the status quo. we're hold that stephen hadley, the national security advisor under george h.w. bush is on the list. he's less likely. a couple of people have waived me off of this one. i'm told general stanley mcchrystal is still on the list. he was fired by president obama after the interview that was done and the article was done in "rolling stone" magazine. though he's already done on record saying if he were offered a position in the trump administration, he would turn it down. i'm not sure how real that is. i was told by a senior source that he's on a list of sorts. now back to vice admiral harwood. he's been living overseas, working for lockheed. probably making a lot of money after he was with the military for 40 years. probably away from his family for 39 1/2 of those 40 years. so the whole thing with vice admiral harwood was contingent on his family signing off on it. a lot

national security council. this isn't just about national security. the complexity of the u.s. government. if you want to deal with north korea, department of state, treasury department, cia, the national security agencyelements of the department of defense. it's coordinating those people at the situation room at the white house on stuff that's incredibly complex. i'll anticipate that the white house will name somebody quickly. with the north korean missile launch you have to have someone at the white house coordinating those -- >> i know bob harrward, great guy, a great guy, i think he'd be terrific. >> that's the high praise. >> here's the void, we need to know the flows of russian money. that's indispensable national security information and we don't have that. >> david, you have pointed out now more than ever the power of the free press is on display. that's how we all know about this morning. panel, thank you very much for the expertise. chris? >> flynn and manafort both resigned over their deals with russia, was did that mean? we need to keep digging into here. what was happening inside the white house with the controversy of michael flynn unravel? much more of our coverage, new questions ahead.

national security adviser, retired general michael flynn. what did the nation's spies tell schindler and what's the impact within the trump administration. he joins me now. >> you are saying spy agencies beginning to withhold intelligence from the white house fearing sensitive information is at risk. that's a pretty strong claim. who told you that? >> horse's mouth. friends of mine who are still in senior positions in the intelligence community. my report referenced the national security agency, nsa, my former employer which contributes the lion's share of the intelligence that our government has, frankly. holding back anything has a lot of important implications for our national security. i think we have reached a crisis point here. >> why would they worry about sharing information with the president of the united states, who is the commander in chief after all? why would they not share the information? >> part of it is counter intelligence concerns. people in trump's inner circle have ties to particularly the kremlin that are deeply concerning to anyone experienced in counter intelligence. there is that reality. on top of it, trump blows off a lot of his intelligence briefings. the

there has never been a president of the united states that went to war with our own national security agencies and won, and that's what this is. the moment donald trump started insulting our spies and national spwaour t security people, it was, like, really? we have receipts. they will take down who they can until they have somebody that will respect the work they do. these guys are going to be so dirty and so steeped in russian intelligence they will be incapable of running this country, and mike pence may be the one that wins. >> kasie hunt, i want you to join in here. this is a tough spot the gop is in again. do you think we will see an independent investigation? >> so i want to zero in on one particular piece of information, and key distinction between what we knew yesterday and what is being reported today and what now congressional -- official lawmakers are reacting to, and that's this idea that there was contact between trump campaign officials and russian intelligence officials, and i am making that distinction as separate from mike flynn talking to the russian ambassador. i think that

the "new york times" was talking about the national security agency doesn't want to brief the white house what's going on for fear that it is all compromised. even the situation room is compromised with regard to russia. what kind of a white house is this anyway? donald trump was elected on the premise that he would actually be cleaning up not only the swamp in washington but would be applying tough business practices to management. well, this is actually the sloppiest management i frankly have ever seen. >> that was donald trump's selling point during the campaign. he knows. he picks the best people and knows how to run an organization. is this the way the white house should be run? i mean, do you think it's really running at optimal speed? >> i do think, anderson, as i said to you last night, i went back and took a look. every single administration has some version of the story out there. all i did was type in turmoil and white house and add a president's name, and it was there, and i might add for secretary reich, the clinton was described two years after it took office as being terrib

former national security agency contractor who leaked classified documents could soon land back on americanoil. rush is reportedly considering returning edward snowden to the u.s. in order to gain favor with president trump. if rush is willing to send him back it proves he is not a spy. what story do we believe? bryan llenas is in our newsroom. no, he's not here. >> it's been a long day. julie: i'm not ron burgundy. go ahead and tell me what is happening with this because you are hearing two totally different sites. >> it depends on who you ask. a government so -- source tells catherine herridge he is now more useful having a bargaining chip to russian president vladimir putin. the implication is the russians would give up snowden to the u.s. in return for something, what we don't know. could be anything. we do know the obama administration, present donald trump's explored -- call them the terrible traitor and someone who deserves to be executed. the cia director mike pompeo says snowdon deserves the death penalty for this information to "fox news" comes after an nbc report which seems to t

. >> it's particularly scary in the national security agencies where so much is at stake internationallyof political appointees that say they get high marks in their building, the department they work in, that is not necessarily a plus. the mandate that donald trump has in many areas but in national security in particular, is to change the policies of the past. if the bureaucrats are we'ded to the policies of the pass aren't going to let it go, the elected representative of the people can't do what he was elected to do. that has constitutional implications. >> neil: you're a rock star there, aren't you, john? >> i love cpac. it's a great gathering. privileged to speak every year. glad to do it. >> neil: are you going to tell us what administration position you're taking or no? >> well, no. if you hear anything, neil, let me know. >> neil: a coy way of handling it. thanks very much. >> thank you. >> neil: and puerto rico, what do we about that? why should we care? puerto rico is in a world of hurt. we've gotten indications that washington is serious about addressing this for no less than

delete documents show the national security agency monitored thousands of phone conversation, including angela merkel's. >> our allies and our enemies all engage in this activity, and the american public better hope that the u.s. does it as well and is good at it, is the best at it, because it is an extremely aggressive world out there. we are not operating as a community of nations on this planet. it would be nice to think so. >> one republican congressman says he reject pneumatic rejects this revelation. >> we don't want the russians know what we are doing or how we are doing it, if it was done. >> there is also the issue of corporate espionage, where a spy agency will focus in on a private company and take trade secrets and pass them along to companies and businesses in their country. federal bureau of investigation says that u.s. businesses are cost hundreds of thousands of dollars a year from intellectual property threat. chris? >> chris: as secretary tiller's returns from his first set of meetings in europe, a number of top positions in the state department are still unfilled. how

the transcripts of the fbi of the intercepts that probably would have been gleaned by the national security agency through an appeal to the fisa court, the international wiretapping. he wouldn't get into the details of that. "the new york times" is reporting that the fbi interviewed michael flynn about all of this in his tenure as the national security advisor. >> shepard: what are members of congress saying? >> depends on the side of the aisle. democrats say this needs to be further investigated. some democrats held a press conference where they talked at length about it. republicans were talking about it. watch the difference between paul ryan and congressman elijah cummings had to say. we'll play it back to back. >> the president made the right decision to ask for his resignation. you cannot have a national security advisor misleading the president and others. >> i know he's resigned. but he's not going to get off that easy. we need some answers to a lot of questions. >> and the questions that they say they want the answers to on the democratic side, what did the president know and when did he

in its final days, the obama administration expanded the power of the national security agency to shareintercepted personal communications with the government, 16 other agencies, intelligence agencies, before applying privacy protections. explain the severity of this. this means that information that most people would never see it is now spread all throughout the entire intelligence community. >> the question i asked, why did the old obama administration wt until 17 days if they waited and i thought it was so important. they had eight years. that's number one. changed executive order back to ronald reagan that has been in place until 17 days before the obama administration was going to end. the nsa gets the raw data and they determine dissemination. instead this change that the president put in place, signed off on, by the way, by james clapper, signed off by loretta lynch, the attorney general, january 3rd, 2017. they decide that now all of a sudden 16 agencies can get the raw data. what that does, creates a shadow government. you of all of these people that are not agreeing with the p

wondering whether russia had been able to extract so much from edward snowden about the national security agencyat its capabilities were. that this was, in fact, an elaborate ruse by the russians to get snowden over there. he has throughout denied this and found his way into this kind of particularly interesting political space in russia where he's neither permanently there, but not able to go anywhere else. so i think that the big thing is, he has -- he looks at himself as a person of principle. as someone who did this for reasons of honor, and as he saw it, protecting the interests of the american people. and a lot of other people disagree. i think he is celebrating it saying, if he is going to go to jail or tried, at least he will be able to show the russians were in fact not the pawns pushing him around. >> and should he be extradited, whatever the term, part of his defense once he makes it back stateside. switching gears to national security adviser mike flynn. talking with ken delanny, under fire over reports he discussed american sanctions against russia with russia's ambassador during th

presuming the russian ambassador's phone is tapped, the national security agency is intercepting that phone call and there's a transcript. that transcript can be viewed by people like the attorney general and the fbi director and they can ask for the name of the american in that call. that name is general flynn. over the period people should have known that there was a conversation and that conversation included presumably talk about sanctions. the timing here to me is key here. lastly, chris, i can't understand how if you're general flynn with the history of national security you can go to the vice president and say, i don't remember having that conversation. it's written down in the transcript. what happened here? >> david, help us understand that. to chris' point, unless mike flynn went rogue and decided to do this on his own that means that the vice president didn't know what he was doing and the president didn't know what he was doing? or he was acting with the permission of somebody else? >> well, it's a serious question. let's reremember the broader context, pence is so mad abo

the former national security agency contractor remains held up in russia after he leaked a ton of classifieduments, but could potentially he could land back on u.s. soil. moscow reportedly considering returning him to the us, the spec elation being that type of move would potentially gain favor with presidential. snowden would face espionage charges but he said he heads nothing to fear. he tweeted, i don't know if the rumors are true, know if the rumors are true, i can tell you this. i am not afraid. there are things that must be said, no matter the consequence. before he was a presidential candidate, president trump called snowden a traitor traitor who deserves to pay the ultimate price. listen to these comments from 2013 on fox and friends. >> spies in the old days used to be executed. now nobody knows where he is. we have to get him back and get it back fast. it could take years, could take months or maybe years, that would be pathetic. this guy's a bad guy. you guy. you know, there's still a thing called execution. you have to take a strong -- you have thousands of people with access to