dangerous and anytime, especially dangerous to mess around with the top leadership of our national security agencies during the transition of power. that is what the 9/11 mission told us and yet, what you are seeing president trump do is play with matches it comes to our national security. tol put personal political peevs against thete national security interest of the united states. in addition to purging individuals from our national security agencies, the president ishe prohibiting the governmentf the u.s. which belongs to the people of the united states in providing daily intelligence briefings and other intelligenct briefings to the incoming president, presidentsi elect joe biden. we all know resident trump has been notorious for not being interested in those intelligence briefings but i think all of us who know joe biden from the time he served as senator and vice president, we know he takes these things seriously and he takes threats that might be learned to the intelligence briefings seriously. to deny the next president of the united states access to those briefings, which is part of the tr

what i said there is, it is not clear yet what any new national security agency would be responsible for . it could simply be responsible for public education, publish it in promotion. you know, you cannot come to the conclusion that they are, they will be enforcing hong kong law. that's what they bring. that's what they do when they bring in their national security organs of the central police government does it. it was sent to people's government. that's what they are looking for. education is it, you don't know that again, you aren't, you, and you have no, no factual basis for making those sort of statements you are simply making are sweeping allegations based on your own assumptions and bias when there's no assumptions and bias. when you look at how the national security organs of the central people's government operate when they're in on the mainland, and we're not talking about mainland, we're talking about one country 2 systems. let's come back to hong kong. it doesn't look as though it's one country 2 systems that have really in the national security organs have and imposing

what i said there is, it is not clear yet what any new national security agency would be responsible for . it could simply be responsible for public education, publicized here and promotion. you know, you cannot come to the conclusion that they are, they will be enforcing hong kong law. that's what they bring. that's what they do when they bring in the national security organs of the central police government does it. it was sent to people's government. that's what they are looking for. education is it, you don't know that again, you aren't, you, and you have no, no factual basis for making those sort of statements you are simply making are sweeping allegations based on your own assumptions and bias when there's no assumptions and bias. when you look at how the national security organs of the central people's government operate when they're in on the mainland, we're not talking about mainland. we're talking about one country 2 systems. let's come back to hong kong. it doesn't look as though it's one country 2 systems that have running in the national security organs have and imposing

they did not say what it is, what they only said that some national security agency may be set up on the need basis, as in a couple hours. our national security council, you have known what is that? and i'm an ashkenazi doing a hunch, that means doesn't mean the baby you know. so he created really well it's actually we don't know for that tito's so you can't be a little culpable as well. you should not, you can't give any comfort to, but as you are not about this. and you cannot give any unwarranted accusations. if there are no facts, you are making unwarranted accusations. will these agencies operate under mainland law or hong kong law or you don't know? do you no, no, no, it's in the basic law. they must obey hong kong law. when i said this, it is not clear yet what any new national security agency would be responsible for . it could simply be responsible for public education, publicized here and promotion. you know, you cannot come to the conclusion that they are, they will be enforcing hong kong law. that's what they bring. that's what they do when they bring in the national secu

what they only said that some national security agency made me set up on the need basis as an mocambo macao as a national security council. yeah. well what was, i'm an ashram are selling a house. that means doesn't mean the baby creatively waves. actually, we don't know for that tito's so you can't be late, culpable as well. you should not. you can't give any comforting, but as you are not about this. and you cannot give any unwarranted accusations. if there are no facts, you are making unwarranted accusations. will these agencies operate under a mainland law or hong kong law? you don't know, do you? no, no, no. it's in the basic law. they must obey hong kong law. when i said this, it is not clear yet what any new national security agency would be responsible for . it could simply be responsible for public education publicized here and promotion . you know, you cannot come to the conclusion that they are, they will be enforcing hong kong law. that's what they brit, that's what they do when they bring in the national security organs of the central police. government is a central people

what i said there is, it is not clear yet what any new national security agency would be responsible for . it could simply be responsible for public education publicized here and promotion . you know, you cannot come to the conclusion that they are, they will be enforcing hong kong law. that's what they bring. that's what they do when they bring in their national security organs of the central police government does it. it was sent to people's government. that's what they are looking for. education is it, you don't know that again, you aren't, you and you have no, no factual basis for making those sort of statements you are simply making are sweeping allegations based on your own assumptions and bias. but there's no assumptions and bias when you look at how the national security organs of the central people's government operate when they're in on the mainland. we're not talking about mainland, we're talking about one country 2 systems. let's come back to hong kong. it doesn't look as though it's one country 2 systems that have really international security organs have an imposing the

when i said this, it is not clear yet what any new national security agency would be responsible for . it could simply be responsible for public education publicized here and promotion . you know, you cannot come to the conclusion that they are, they will be enforcing hong kong law. that's what they brit, that's what they do when they bring in their national security organs of the central police. government is a central people's government. that's what they are looking for. education is it, you don't know that again, you aren't me and you have no, no factual basis for making those sort of statements you are simply making. are sweeping allegations based on your own assumptions and bias when there's no assumptions and bias. when you look at how the national security organs of the central people's government operate when they're in on the mainland, and we're not talking about mainland, we're talking about one country 2 systems. let's come back to hong kong. it doesn't look as though it's one country 2 systems that have running in the national security organs have and imposing their secu

they only said that some national security agency may be set up on the need basis as an mocambo macao, as our national security council, you have known what is that 1000000 and marshalling homes. that means doesn't mean the bay. we must all be creative only when it's actually we know enough for the details. so you can't delay culpable resolution not you can't give any comforting but as you have not about this. and you cannot give any unwarranted accusations if there are no facts, you are making unwarranted accusations. will these agencies operate under mainland law or hong kong law? you don't know, do you? no, no, no. it's in the basic law. they must obey hong kong law that i said this, it is not clear yet what any new national security agency would be responsible for . it could simply be responsible for public education publicized here and promotion . you know, you cannot come to the conclusion that they are, they will be enforcing hong kong law. that's what they bring. that's what they do when they bring in their national security organs of the central police. government does a cent

when i said this, it is not clear yet what any new national security agency would be responsible for . it could simply be responsible for public education publicized here and promotion . you know, you cannot come to the conclusion that they are, they will be enforcing hong kong law. that's what they bring. that's what they do when they bring in their national security organs of the central police government does it, it was central people's government. that's what they are looking for.

the dots here. >> there's a griff there, conspiracy theories and griffs pip worked for the national security agencythe time. my background was foreign eastern affairs europe. i was on "operation allied force" and saw how crazy things could get with people. i think looking at bigfoot and the people that believe systems encompass their life, it takes over their lives and there's all these different belief systems and it's very difficult to argue crazy, and here's what i want to tell you, is that there's some people out there who are good people that have bought into this stuff but even like bigfoot conspiracy theories or belief systems he was beamed down from a ufo or long jumped to talk to me and you but i saw in my wife 20 2000 4 on a bigfoot expedition, never do that. listen, my wife, we've been married 31 years and 15-year anniversary was almost the end of it for me. i told her i was going to hawaii and took her on a bigfoot expedition. i've been a prankster my whole life, but anyhow, i saw people the belief systems had taken over their entire life and that it taken over their entire life and i s

former national security agency whistleblower edward snowden is applying for russian citizenship.nowden and his wife are expecting a baby. he cited the child as motivation to become a dual citizen. vladimir putin granted edward snowden asylum in 2013 after he revealed highly classified nsa surveillance programs. global news 24 hours a day, on air and on quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. i am mark crumpton. this is bloomberg. david? david: the latino vote could play in important role in the presidential contest tomorrow as latinos grow as a proportion of the overall population, eve or as voter turnout lags behind. we welcome mike madrid, he was director of policy at the california state republican party and went on to cofound the lincoln project and as a principal at grassroots political consulting and lobbying firm in california. thanks for being with us. address the question about how important is it. there is a perception that latinos do not turn out as much, is that accurate? mike: it is accurate. the size and segm

nation's history. homeland security secretary will be alejandro ma giourkas. he was in the obama administration under secretary jeh johnson and is the first latino to head that agency. the director of national intelligence will be another first, first time a woman has held that job. it will be avrial haynes. she's worked with biden forever, is a former deputy director of the cia and former senior intelligence official. jake sullivan will be national security adviser. he was the top national security adviser to biden as vice president. now he will be so to biden as president. the united nations ambassador will be linda thomas-greenfield. she was the head of the foreign service under the obama administration. she is a bit of a force of nature. she will also raise the profile of that role simply by dent of her charisma and gravitas in that position. all of these people will appear with biden and harris tomorrow at an event where biden will start the process of publicly rolling out the new administration. and yes, this is the new administration, which means all of these people will need, you know, fbi background checks and all of the other things you need to start the

national security atmosphere, what else do we know they're doing? well, it's also involved the president installing a "star wars" bar scene full of really weird dudes in senior roles at the pentagon and the national security agency, including a new guy he's just put in charge of policy at the pentagon, who says that president obama is a terrorist leader. he's also put not one, not two, but three different guys who were at the heart of that whole thing where trump said obama wiretapped trump tower. three junior staffers who made up that whole debacle are now the chief of staff at the pentagon, the top legal counsel at the national security agency, and the intelligence chief at the pentagon. and that last guy, all of 34 years old, who is now the intelligence chief at the pentagon, who was seen as too nuts for even the trump administration at one point and was forced out of the national security council job he had in the trump white house after he got caught trying to sell all that nonsense about how obama was doing the wiretapping and the unmasking scandal and all that other made-up nonsense -- he was literally laughed out of even the trump administration, but they brought him back and after the election, installe

national security side? >> well, ali, here's my evaluation. the people he's elevated to these roles at dod and the national security agency are not the kind of people you would turn to to start a war or even to use the military to somehow stay in power. these are the same conspiracy theorists that worked for devin nunez that have been trying to undermine the russia unvest interrogation since the beginning of his administration. it includes the guy that moved the call to try to hide it. it includes the guy who came up with the theory that it was unmasks done by obama officials that was the root of the russia investigation. to me, the signal he's sending is less he's going to use the military to stay in power and more he's going to use the remaining time in office to continue to try to validate in some fashion his conspiracy theories by selectively releasing classified information. that's what this is about. it's about trying to exonerate donald trump for the reality that russia helped him get elected in 2016. >> right. >> and it's about trying to undermine the incoming biden administration in some right wing cloud conspiracy theory scandal. >> that'

national security. you have big barr issuing this memo to all prosecutors in this country, from coast to coast, the national security agencies as been reported refusing to share classified information from the homeland security department to the fbi to the cia to the state department to the pentagon i would imagine that would really hinder joe biden's ability to transition into any of those agencies and we have new reporting that the budget forwarded to congress in february is donald trump's budget. >> this is in some ways gearing up to be a constitutional crisis but joe biden doesn't want do lean into that. people i talk to close to the biden campaign say they are realizing that the clock is ticking and things need to be get done but joe biden wants to exude optimism and that he will be in control and that things will be okay because he wants to address the idea that americans are on edge and they want civility in this country. i think the things that are happening in this country, the things that you just laid out, happening in any other country we would be alarmed and looking and saying they're in chaos but in the united

will receive intelligence briefings at the highest levels of government including from the national security agencythe office of the director of national intelligence, and all of that will happen in due course. if, in fact it is determined he is an ex-president. >> as we have been saying, the gsa is not determining the winner, it is saying the transition process has been unlocked. how significant is this in your opinion? >> well, if there is going to be a transition and power it has to happen and should happen smoothly. because the next president needs to hit the ground running, in terms of defending our national interests and national security. i expect it will happen. in past elections it has happened sometimes smoothly and sometimes less smoothly. in this case joe biden has spent eight years in the white house. ron klain, his designated chief of staff, has been with him for decades. so i expect if it is determined he is the president this will happen. and it is important that it happened so he can be up to speed, protect our national interest, and the classified information he is provided, is ke

of influence, such as defense, head of intelligence, policy, and general counsel of the national security agency. some analysts suggest it sounds a bit like sort of a political coup. how should we read these moves? it's very, very strange. i don't think anyone has a really good handle on exactly what's going on. it's almost unprecedented for a u.s. president to fire his secretary of defense, a key national security person in any government to fire such a person during the transition period from even if it's to a 2nd trump term. we're in a transition period from the election to the are not an occupation in january, a time of unique vulnerability in american politics for the united states. so it's really unprecedented, and the person that trump has put in as the acting secretary of defense does not have a long history with president trump. so it's hard to even portray him as a loyalist to president trump. the people that trump is installing at the defense department have been there. what they're known for are their extreme views, their extreme views, particularly toward the middle east. some of th

he will receive intelligence briefings at the highest levels of government, including the national security agency from the cia, from the office of the director of national intelligence. and all of that will happen in due course, if in fact it is determined that me is the next president. ok, as we've been saying, the g.s.a. is not actually determining the winner. it's saying that this transition process has been unlocked, but still, how significant is this in your opinion? well, if there is going to be a transition in power, it has to happen and it should happen smoothly. because the next president, whoever that is, needs to hit the ground running in terms of defending our national interests and national security. i expect that it will happen in past elections. it has happened some time smoothly, sometimes less moodily. in this case, joe biden has spent 8 years in the white house, ron klain, his designated chief of staff, has been with import decades. so i expect that it is determined that he is the president, that this will happen, and it's important that it happened so that he can be up to speed

the farn blue boxes assessment of the five key agencies if there is a national security crisis and there is a sixth agency which is equally critical but we highlighted it in red because in the current moment, it is so understaffed. i would like to get reflections from you, how important is it to fill these positions quickly, particularly when there is a crisis that is ongoing. how do these agencies work together in addressing the coronavirus crisis? what does the next few months look like in terms of filling these positions? sec. chertoff: ironically, the problem is usually people who are confirmed leave go on to their next job, so you often find vacancies in the last month or two. the irony here is the positions were never filled. so it's not a question of leaving, it's a question of people not arriving. we have seen particular with homeland security is the actions of confirmed positions have made it very difficult for the agency to carry out its mission. it difficult for the agency to deal with the pandemic and take a leadership role that was originally envisioned by the national respo

just said, because a day and president told president of the fattah el-sisi to allow the national security agency officers involved in the crime to choose a lawyer for them in italy. regina disappeared in january 26th, seen his body was found with signs of torture. next month in the desert outside of cairo. donald trump's latest attempt to overturn the u.s. election result appears to be slipping away. michigan's republican leaders met with him at the white house, but certain there was no new information that would change joe biden's victory in the state. trump is reportedly putting pressure on politicians in republican run states to ignore the popular vote and send to the electoral college who will install him as president of fisher house more from washington d.c. . thank you very much. the event at the white house was to talk prescription prices, but donald trump couldn't help talking about the election claiming pharmaceutical companies. the lead news of a covert vaccine to hurt template eclipse. big pharma ran millions of dollars of negative advertisements against me during the campaign. which

we have been put in blue boxes, the are assessment of the five key agencies if there's a national security crisis and there is a sixth agency which is the one that is equally critical. we have highlighted in red because of the current moment, it is so understaffed. i would just like to get a reflection from you, how important is it to fill these positions quickly, particularly when there is a crisis that is ongoing. how do some of these agencies work together in addressing the coronavirus crisis or any other crisis? what does the next few months look like as far as filling these positions? >> i can begin, ironically the problem usually is in it administration with people who are confirmed because they are moving on to their next job. you often find vacancies in the last month. the irony here is that the positions were never felt. so it is not a question of believing, it is question of having them filled. but we have seen with homeland security is the absence of confirmed positions that has made it very difficult for the agency to carry out its missions with. the -- that made it very diffic

bush, former director of the national security agency before that. spent his entire life in national security world. general hyten said that what the russian did to us in 2016 and what their continuing to do to us today is the most successful covert operation in history of modern intelligence. and it succeeded in part because vladimir putin has in donald trump and agent of influence. trump amplifies russian propaganda. pretty much every day. trump distorts american foreign policy in the kremlin's favor. he kowtowed to vladimir putin. and that is no secret. the question is why. i mentioned before the american congressman samuel dickstein was an agent of influence from moscow in the '30s. donald trump is an agent of influence for the russian federation in the white house. it is no secret that he kisses putin. the question is why. that question, which is the great counterintelligence question of the 21st century has never been addressed. it is never been investigated. the fbi started an investigation and vanished into thin air. it is possible that it is

, but you can come out and say, listen, the fact we're talking about systemic fraud, the national security agency, we're talking about sharpie-gate, watermarks and white vans driving up and night add dumping ballots. you can say a lot of this stuff is not correct, we're going to have a new president. we can look at one another if there's small cases, but right now we need to move on with the transition government and realize what this is. i don't know what the difficulty of that is, brianna, to say that. i guess i'm having a tough time with that. it seems like this is what we're doing as americans. where we're looking at things based on fact, and not on things that are fantasy. congressman riggleman, good luck with your next endeavor. >> i appreciate you. thank you, ma'am. >>> the balance of power in the senate is coming down to two senate races in georgia. nearly $300 million has already been spent on ads. this sunday night two of the candidates will face off in person. one final time, you can watch it live sunday at 7:00 p.m. eastern. >>> iran is vowing retaliation today as the funeral takes pl

men and the women of his agency along with the fbi and an agency i am familiar with the national security agencycure this election. i can attest the dramatic improvement over the situation in 2016. >> director our time is short. i wanted to thank you. sorry that we have to cut it short. have a good evening. >> thanks, don. >> we have a lot more breaking news out of michigan tonight. is what republicans trying to do there even legal? make sure that you stay with us. we will be right back. and you get the biggest spot, and you swam in the river all day in the warm afternoon sun... that's pure gold. at university of phoenix, students with relevant life experience and eligible transfer credits save on average $11k and 1 year off their undergrad degree. see how much you can save. to help you build a flexible wealth plan. you'll have access to tax-smart investing strategies, and with brokerage accounts online trades are commission free. personalized advice. unmatched value. at fidelity, you can have both. it turns out i have tardive dyskinesia, a condition that may be related to important medications

. >> i'm confident that the professionals in the national security agencies and deptsd departments will their best to ensure that the incoming team needs everything it needs. i'm not confident that some of the individuals that mr. trump put in place will make available. so again i think the institutions nems and the professionals within the institutions will carry out the responsibilities the way they should but i don't know whether or not mr. trump will give directives that could undermine the very important transition process. >> you think that when avril haines goes in she should be prepared to not get everything from the outgoing dni ratcliffe? >> ratcliffe i think demonstrated that he is willing to politicize his position on behalf of donald trump and so therefore i don't know whether or not there are notes or memos or other type of things to reveal that type of politicization where he may not want to have other people see. i think the professionals in the intelligence community including the director of office of national intelligence will try to make sure avril has what she needs

national security. if there continue to be delays in getting transition officials with the biden transition security clearances and getting them into these national security -- getting these landing teams into these national security agencies. i think we have a long way to go and there needs to be more movement, but that is largely up to president trump because he remains the head of the executive branch and the only thing i think that might move the president at this point is if more republicans speaks up more loudly and frankly more clearly because even what james langford is saying, senator langford is saying in that statement, seems to leave open the possibility that the president can overturn the results of the election which we all know is not going to happen. so i think more clarity on the republican side is definitely necessary to get the president moving along on this. >> i'm laughing because karl rove wrote this op-ed that was 2,000 words and six of them were basically but nothing is going to overturn the outcome of the election. those six words are probably the most important. thank you, great to see you. >> thank you. >>> dr. sanjay gupta calls this morning the record breaking and deadly pandemic in the united

national security have on the security of this country? i spoke a short time ago with retired united states four star general michael hayden, the former director of the cia and the national security agency. general hayden, it is nine days since the election. it is a little under two months of the inauguration, and the president-elect, joseph biden, is still being denied access to the highest level intelligence briefings. what danger does that put this country in? >> that was inevitable, and i'm sorry. it will be very bad for america. he should have done it every day september sunday. you know? that's what i was accustomed to. >> do america's adversaries see opportunity by not having the president-elect briefed on this intelligence? >> oh, yes, indeed. now, president biden will be okay, because he knows a lot about it. but still, it's not good at all for america to do that. you know what i mean? we have a system. a system. and right now it's not working. and that's a problem. it's a real problem. >> you can imagine a foreign adversary like a russia or a china dreaming of creating the division over this election that exists right now, the failure to accept the results that's happening rig

the president never respected the government and led alone the national security agency. he never respected the government. the flip side is most of joe biden's people, they know the agency. jen saki knows where the buildings are and they know the conference room and the bathrooms. especially when it comes to the pandemic, we need access to critical information. what is being done now if we have a plan to do the same, great? we need the number and s and we the people and charts and graphs. people are getting infected everyday. especially during a pandemic and it is dangerous and reckless. sorry to ramble. mcconnell, this is kentucky, president trump got 1.3 million votes. mitch mcconnell got reelected. he got viewer votes than the president. this is about power. mitch mcconnell likes being the majority leader. if democrats win the two senate seats in georgia, mcconnell is the minority leader. this is about power. they need to keep the president on their side as gloria noted. there are two words. prov prove it. show it or else go away. >> they are still counting votes. we a

given your role response and reopening commission or task force, about the role of various national security agencies in that -- in the next six months or so. mr. johnson: sure. i'm going to go back to what we were just talking about, the rankings. problems with doing that exercise is what you just pointed out, richard. , and ihe audience here have to believe it is a pretty sophisticated audience, only 1% believe north korea is the number one threat. each one of those countries on that list represents a threat of a different kind and character. and to put north korea at 1% suggests to the unsophisticated consumer, don't worry about them. that is obviously not the case. it is a little like saying there is an 85% probability that someone is going to be elected. each one of those represents a different type of threat. i know from personal experience that the chinese government, chinese government leaders in particular, get really upset when you indict chinese government officials. even if the defendant is indicted in absentia and never sees the inside of a federal courtroom in the u.s. it does have an i

intelligence, national security agencies view rt as a source of russian propaganda, disinformation backedlin. source of that kind of disinformation in the country. in a tweet dr. atlas says he regrets the interview and was unaware that rt was a registered foreign agent. matthew chance is in moscow. i imagine russia saw that interview as something of a victory, matthew? >> reporter: i imagine they did. one of the main reasons that media arm exists of the kremlin that is used to spread propaganda around the world and d disseminate disinformation about covid-19 one of the things it likes to do is highlight differences, highlight the chaos in other parts of the world, specifically in the united states. and you're right, dr. atlas has apologized for this, said he wasn't aware that rt, russia today, was registered as a foreign agent. but he did get 27 minutes of unchallenged international air time in which he was able to make various claims like the lockdown in america is killing americans, like the health leadership in the united states have failed in their responsibilities, he dismissed the a

and others in the cabinet and the national security agencies to watch carefully in that you outlined a situation where you've got your first -- one of your first points is the most important resource is the president. and everybody knows this. the leaders know it around the world. the allies know it. so it is -- there is no substitute in some regards, right? at the same time you've got an unbelievably huge agenda here that the president-elect has made clear he wants to focus on. and empower his cabinet. but on the other edge of that is you have to be mindful of, if i'm mistaken and correct me if i'm wrong again, is you don't want to appear distracted, you need the requisite level of engagement and you have serious foreign policy challenges that will force themselves on the agenda early. how do you balance that from your vantage point as both white house chief of staff and deputy national security advisor? denis: yeah, i think you put your finger on it and i think that's where your team becomes so critical and that's where the relationships with the cabinet become so critical and then

it is demoralizing to the people in the national security agencies who stay behind. yes, it's very hurtful. and of course this is very characteristic of donald trump who is angry. he wants to hurt people and break things. and he's never been happy, really, with the national security apparatus, because they've never really supported his theory about cozying up to russia, russia is a is such a great friend, et cetera, et cete cetera, get rid of our allies. it's a good way to strike back. but don, it also demonstrates his power. this is part of keeping the republicans in the senate cowed. it's part of keeping the focus on donald trump and his power in the news media as he goes out of office. so he doesn't look like he is cowering in the white house. no, no, he is in charge. he is going to fire people. and so i guess there are a lot of people throughout who support him. 57% of white americans voted for donald trump. >> isn't that amazing? >> collectively, despite covid, despite the mismanagement of covid, despite his threat to u.s. national security, despite the fact tha

one they want to put him in national security agency top lawyer. one of the things he will be recalled for doing is hiding the infamous phone call with ukrainian president. to get rid of it. he put the phone call into deep freeze. so people couldn't see it. ally of nunes who wants to manufacture conspiracy theories about the investigation into trump. people like that being left behind is yet another threat. it's almost as if vladimir putin were writing this and it's coming to life. >> well, one thing we'll need when it's over and outside the party system is some kind of investigation of exactly what happened. i talked in the thread the need to think about the future not in bipartisan terms but in non-partisan terms. one of the party is broken in commitment no democratic norms. you can recruit people from outside the party system. in a non-party way that is not distract from the normal business of government. we have to get to the bottom of kpagtly what happened in the trump years. there's so many things we should know and we don't. who the people a

and women of his agency, i know what the fbi and an agency i'm pretty familiar with, the national security agencyto secure this election. and i can attest the dramatic improvement over this situation if 2016. >> our time is short because there's so much breaking news. sorry that we have to cut it short. have a good evening, okay? >> thank you. >> we've got a lot more breaking news out of michigan tonight. is what republicans tried to do there even legal? make sure you stay with us. we'll be right back. some hot cocoa? mom, look! are you okay? s for exceptional lease and financing offers at the mercedes-benz winter event. sarah: for a while i've negative self image. there was like this contrast between like the way that i was thinking about my personality and the way that i was thinking about my body. with noom, i was able to learn how to interrupt those habits and create new ones. so my goal was 35 pounds and i've lost about 30 pounds now. so.. i've never been this confident in my body. my name is sara and i changed my life with noom. visit noom.com and lose the weight for good. do you have a lif

trump elevated a fierce loyalist to the powerful position of general counsel of the national security agency, someone that just so happens to be named in the articles of impeachment against the president. and the concerns do not end there. the daily beast reports trump's national security advisor is enabling trump's post election mayhem by supporting the moves to install loyalists and pushing national security officials to publicly endorse trump's claims that the election is not over. there is more. officials tell the daily beast that robert o'brien is actively working against the biden transition. once national security official says tonight if you even mention biden's name, that is a no-go. you would be fired. everyone is scared of even talking about the chance of working with the biden transition. wow. just 70 days to go until inauguration day what does it mean for the country's national security. congressman adam schiff, the chairman of the house intelligence committee. you get the highest intelligence that the country has access to and there are concerns that others raised that this is

he served at the national security agency during the 2016 election -- actually served under presidents trump. glen, thank you so much for being with us. we appreciate it. before we get into some of that -- the security questions there, i know that you had a most recent article in "baron's" magazine, an interesting piece, i highly recommend it for people to read it. and you say that america's elections are actually more secure than you think. and you write this, "chances are we'll soon look back on the 2020 electi elections as the most secure in history." . >> we should look to 2016 when the russians were poking around our elections system, trying every door handle to see what doors were locked, to see what windows were open in our election security system, and spewing disinformation. that was four years ago. two years later in the midterm elections we learned our lessons and pushed back very strongly on the russians in terms of election -- voting interference as well as disinformation. and so now two years later, ready for the largest presidential elections of 2020, we're now in a much

that covid response, and reopening commission or task force about the role of the various national security agencies in that, over, you know, the next at least, say, six months or so? >> sure. so, i'm going to go back to what we were just talking about, the rankings. most serious national security threat. you know, one of the problems with doing that exercise is what you just pointed out, richard. 1% of the audience here, and i have to believe it's a pretty sophisticated audience, only 1% believe north korea is the number one threat. each one of those countries on that list represents a threat of a different kind and character and to, you know, put north korea at 1% suggests to the unsophisticated consumers, don't worry about him. that's obviously not the case. it's a little like saying there's an 85% probability and so you have to be careful with the rankings because each one of those represents a different type of threat. so i know from personal experience that the chinese government, chinese government leaders in particular, get really, really upset when you indict chinese government officials. e

of defense secretary mark esper and the purge of other top officials at the pentagon and national security agencyfollowing the election. former secretary of defense william cohen said trump's conduct is "more akin to a dictatorship than a democracy." trump has replaced esper with miller. he has faced criticism for refusing to promise intelligence agencies would not target merrick and's based on their political views. miller's hired retired army colonel douglas mcgregor is a top advisor. macgregor has called for instituting martial law at the u.s.-mexico border and shooting unarmed migrants. he has also called for a speedy withdrawal from afghanistan. trump has also installed anthony tata as acting undersecretary of defense policy. he is a former fox news commentator who once called former president barack obama "a terrorist leader" and has called islam an "oppressive" and "violent" religion. former national security council official ezra cohen-watnick has become acting undersecretary of defense for intelligence and security. in 2017, he pushed for the surveillance of white house staffers as a mea