nsa, the national security agency, is the principal agency involved in implementing the 702 program. the fbi can nominate a much smaller percentage of what is in the database as targets, based on its own investigations and so on. but the data is stored and collected by the national security agency. the fbi actually only gets access to a very small part of that data. 3.2%, according to the latest statistical or port, which was issued by the national intelligence about three weeks ago at the end of april. so it is a large surveillance program. there are 246,000-plus foreign targets. but the fbi getting exist to 3.2% of the database only seizes the data for 8000 of those. that said, let's cut to the chase. the fbi's querying of the database as been a foreign for a decade or more. it continues to be problematic. because the fbi is in a position of having both a foreign counter intelligence mission and a law enforcement mission. i might point out that it is congress who in 1978 said, you can use data derived from foreign intelligence searches for foreign moore intelligence searches and fo

council we call our national security principals meeting, as our traditional national security agencies to talk by the department of defense, states come intelligence. the department of justice. what is different when we think about critical infrastructure and events a critical structure agencies are really on the front line from a national haperspective. like tsa like apa like hhs security guidance and like. as we have been working present by calling to say cybersecurity is going to improve our digital infrastructure so secure at home, secure atpa broad. it's that the intelligence communities in some cases and some may have been made an intelligence briefing before learning about what elements of a water system are most important to securing that water system? just like david today actually improving cybersecurity on the ground for critical infrastructure with the rubber meets the road and many other things you highlighted today across states, across internationally. how do we ensure the leadership of the companies about him? a big part of government working together has been to say wh

wanted to butev in fact we authorize and train personnel in a small number of agencies, national security agency cia, fbi the national counterterrorism agency have at sun -- axis 2702 data. that inr officers only receive access to disseminate a serialized reporting that has become sevens or two data. it means the raw data has been reviewed for valid intelligence information by authorized personnel at the collection agency sanitized of u.s. persons information and formally published in a report made available to the broader intelligence community and cleared for that information.. one report published oftentimes by the nsa inr analyst can use it to inform their institutions and policymakers. like other agencies inr has robust internal compliance and oversightt mechanism for intelligence programs like 702. first we have the department state guidelines approved by the attorney general which among other things govern how inr retains and uses information concerning u.s. persons. second we have established internal processes and procedures for inr analysted to submit the identity of the u.s. person in

americans in this field don't be alone later, as stuxnet is a joint product of the american national security agency and the only 82200 zionist regime, which specializes in electronic eavesdropping and decryption , remini tv service , this virus caught it security experts with pepper for the first time. kaspersky anti-virus laboratory said in this regard that after this incident , it defined our way of thinking about threats, the way to fight cyber attacks and what may happen in the future. despite the widespread penetration of this virus, half of the infected computers were in iran . stuxnet was designed for a specific purpose. iran's enrichment facilities were disrupted. part of the code of this virus, which worked for windows , was encoded to attack siemens' industrial facilities in natanz, and was designed in such a way that it identified and collected files related to siemens software . it is a multinational company in 1847 berlin was founded and is active in the field of telecommunication equipment, supply of industrial electrical parts , medical equipment and household appliances. this was no

later, stuxnet is a joint product of the us national security agency and the only 82200 zionist regimet specializes in electronic eavesdropping to decipher a hand in a restaurant in the most poren campus. tv, the smallest of this virus, informed it security experts for the first time, when the director of the kaspersky anti-virus laboratory was caught, he said that after this , our way of thinking about the threats, the way to fight against cyber attacks and what might happen in the coming years has changed. despite the widespread penetration of this virus, half of the infected computers were in iran. stuxnet was designed for a specific purpose , disrupting iran's enrichment facilities from the code of this virus that worked for windows, to attack industrial facilities made by siemens in an encrypted and designed manner . it was the files associated with soft it identified and collected the software of siemens company. siemens is a multinational company founded in berlin in 1847 and is active in the field of telecommunication equipment, supply of industrial electrical parts, medical eq

in fact, when authorized and trained personnel at a small number of agencies, national security agency, cia, fbi, the national national encounters an agency, have access to subsets of 702 data. instead at inr our offices only receive access to disseminated,, serialized reporting that contains 702 data. so what does this refer to? it means the rod david has been reviewed for valid intelligence information by authorized personnel at the collection agency, sanitized of u.s. person information and then formally published in a report that's made available to the product intelligence community who are cleared for that information. once the report is published, oftentimes by the nsa, inr analysts can then use to inform their own strategic assessments or to support policymakers. like other agencies inr nevertheless, has a robust internal complaints and oversight mechanism for intelligence programs like 702. first we have department of state guidelines for intelligence activities approved by the attorney general which among other things govern how inr retains and uses any information concerning

very interested in receiving this information through these actions, the fbi and the us national security agencygovernment of taking action in this regard. thousands of zionists on saturday night in the cities of tel aviv and haifa, netanyahu and behrouz sabz came to the streets and chanted slogans against the prime minister of the zionist regime and his cabinet. according to news sources, this is the 24th week in a row that the protesters are against the policies of benjamin netanyahu's cabinet, especially marriage. in the past 23 weeks, dozens of cities from the north to the south of occupied palestine, including tel aviv and haifa, and the empty head of rishon letzion and the delirium of the demonstrations in netanyahu's far-right cabinet, the french security forces clashed with the opponents of the railway construction project. report afp, the police of this country used tear gas during clashes with protesters who were trying to prevent the construction of a new danger for high-speed trains between the country and italy on saturday. the protester with vietnam, the ban on gathering in the pro

documents, from seven different of our top intelligence agencies, the cia, the dod, the national security agency, the national geospatial intelligence agency, the national reconnaissance office, department of energy, in charge of our nuclear secrets, department of state, bureau of intelligence and research, these documents are in a storage room near where the liquor is kept. >> right, right. >> it is pretty -- >> norah: the bathroom, i know, is amusing for people, and that is why, but the storage room, you know, underneath the resort where what lots of people go in it out to get boxes of liquor and that kind of stuff -- >> it speaks to the higgledy-piggledy nature of the former president as outlined in the indictment to keep them anywhere so they wouldn't be found, including by his own legal team, in the way the indictment puts at. these aren't the christmas ornaments. these are the most sensitive parts of american intelligence, and that, of course, raises a second political question, if we can touch on it briefly. this is a person who is being asked to be given the secrets an essential question

mentioned in the indictment are the central intelligence agency, the department of defense, the national security agency, and there's also the level of sensitivity of these documents. so how damning is the information here? hugo: i think the constellation of the agencies that were listed were stunningful but when you look at the document that is they list in the indictment, there were some document where is even the classification markings are redacted. that speaks to the extent and the sensitivity of some of the material that trump had kept at myrrh lago. we knew there was top secret stuff and special -- mar-a-lago, we knew there was top secret stuff and special documents. i think that speaks to a whole different category. laura: and the justice department has been extremely care to feel show how independent they are. this is a special counsel. and the justice department is saying we're not talking to the white house about this. what has president biden said so far. >> as little as he can. he was asked about it just hours before the foreman president announced the indictment who said what would you say

skaz , er, among those five people when i said er- the head of the national security council or the secretary of the national security agencyas what does anyone know about the counteroffensive operation, but i know that the kherson direction was not the main direction. we have other directions, which are zaporizhzhia, there is an eastern direction, and there is the beilogorod region, we have enough directions where the main concentration will be efforts and where i am not i know the decision of the supreme commander or the commander-in-chief to strike, that's why russia wasn't the main one there, uh, it just secured itself by the fact that they deprived the crimea of ​​water for a long time and flooded a large number of territories there, it says that it is possible in them somehow and the plans have changed, of course i don't believe it shall we say so, i don't believe that they will turn around and leave, but this suggests that they probably have nadia to pay gradually there, but if they come to such methods and they once again show that they remember about kherson is forever with us, when we liberated it, these big board

apple responded to a russian fsb accusation of helping the us national security agency spy on iphonethe company said it had never worked with any government to implement programs that provide unauthorized access to apple products and never will . yesterday, the fsb announced that, together with the fso, it had uncovered a quote from an intelligence action american intelligence agencies, carried out using apple mobile devices usa end of quote. what exactly this intelligence action was expressed in and what information was transmitted by the fsb did not specify, but a few hours later the kaspersky lab reported that several dozen iphones of its employees were infected with spyware . the purpose of the attack, according to the head of the company, evgeny kaspersky, was the top management and middle managers of the laboratory, and an effective way to remove the program has not yet been found, but the russian officials did not succumb to panic, for example, the first deputy chairman of the duma committee on information policy, alexander yushchenko , told rtvi that they use the iphone becau

believes that the company is working closely with intelligence, in particular the american national security agency, and also the department believes that the policy confidentiality of personal data that declare is not true. the issues of the international agenda and development prospects and the possible launch of a single currency, these topics and not only will be discussed by the foreign ministers of the brix countries sergey lavrov will hold a number of bilateral meetings in cape town . for more details on the agenda, we will learn more about the agenda from our special correspondent natalia solovyova. she went live. hello natalia. what other topics will be in the spotlight, maybe some statements have already been made. really was several statements have already been made, the meeting itself is underway. here in this beautiful place. this is a hotel called 12 apostles after the name of the mountain range. here in china it 's part of its famous dining sights and mountains, and the south african republic this year is presiding over brix and getting ready to host it themselves. this is already in

government, in addition to the department of threat of the us department of defense ditra, the national security agency and the state department of the united states are indicated in the documents, flexible methods of metabiota activity are described, allowing open participation of the us government in foreign projects and solve bureaucratic issues by hiring local officials , however, due to increasing unrest the world community. the pentagon is forced to change its tactics in the organization of dual -use work earlier, we talked about the unauthorized selection of an employee and company during the outbreak. ela in west africa in 2014, they did not have transportation laws in the usa in 2022 , the american administration officially stopped the activities of metals in africa, as the illegal method of the company began to raise too many questions at the level of national projects, all functions were transferred to a commercial organization and cameroon which announced the acquisition of metabots. as a subsidiary of an organization in a company press release dated october 14, 2022, the non-profit organiz

it was done by the national security agency. yeah. ce and home phones of all the members of the security council so that they would vote for a war that would otherwise be illegal and unjustified, illegitimate. a war of aggression like iraq. that was iraq. and actually, i think the very good movie about her did not bring out the fact that she did succeed in keeping the security council from voting in favour of that war. what i'm saying is that if you put it out in time, you have a chance to do something. she should have been able to stop that war, but blair wouldn't allow that. the flip side of that is if you leak information in real time while conflict is continuing, the danger is you put people's lives in danger. and the us government's case againstjulian assange to this day is that with his leaking of information provided by chelsea manning, a raft of information which we've actually discussed with chelsea manning on hardtalk... good. the accusation remains that theyjeopardised key us national security interests, but they also jeopar

in particular, the national security agency and confirms that the declared policy of ensuring the privacy of personal data of apple device users is not true. the space as it has confiscated thousands of vice phones with such malware. the device is offsets were being used with foreign sim tots registered with diplomatic emissions on the embassies in russia, originating from nato and post soviet states, as well as, as well south africa and china. apple has been quick to deny the allegations and claims that it never has. it never will work with any government to insert the vulnerabilities into its products. meanwhile, china has reported the express concerns about surveillance operations inside russia by foreign diplomats using i phones. let's not discuss this with boma new york university professor handles a. michael rex involves many thanks for joining us on the program. now following the denial from apple, russia's deputy national security chief is accused the american company of lying and hiding the truth. what's your take on the story? well it's, it's a s, b is probably correct that ther

governments or national security agencies, to ensure thatd is to if going back on that in a is very concerning. maria: request republicans have told me in the past ccp uses information to potentially blackmail that person, later on, this is the reason we request whether or not joe biden is compromised we know that is an issue on this program a lot, it is because of issues that are important to the american people and his response to them the biden administration has been promising report on tiktok security, security, right? we heard two years ago, still not delivered, we heard that there were going to come up with new legislation, to bandt they came up with thune bill, tiktok not mentioned i am wonk if this is smoke and mirrorors trying to make us believe they want to do something about securing americans privacy really rolling over once again for the ccp your reaction. >> was i disappointed in that hearing, would show you have this wonderful you bipartisan support for doing something about the fact that the chinese communist party has creat

i a, the department of defense on the national security agency, page 27 and the narrative of the prosecution with the f. b i set of mar logo, the found $103.00 more classified documents in august last year. laura con, i'll just there on. all right, let's look at how we got to this historic moment and how the charges will affect the 2024 presidential race. ellen fisher reports from miami in a city which ultimately prepares for coming storms. miami is cranking up security around the federal court house has been increasing throughout the day. all agencies getting ready for the historic 1st quarter periods of a former us president on federal charges. we're taking this uh, this event. extremely serious. we know that there is a potential of things taking a turn for the worst, but that's not the way. anyway, donald trump landed in florida in the late afternoon met by a small group of supporters and protest. 2 i believe now if he's back to the white house, he's going to be even better pretty there. he's seeing it is there. i'll go for resort. a 30 minute ride from the court when he will surrender to

the majority of documents came from the c, i a, the department of defense and the national security agency. page 27 and the narrative of the prosecution with the f. b i set of mar logo, the found 103 more classified documents in august. last year, laura con, i'll just there a little earlier i spoke to a former federal prosecutor who is a democrat, as well as a republican strategic strategist and lawyer about the federal indictment against donald trump. there's part of that exchange, and i'm sure that what jack smith wants here is for this trial to be held before the election. and i'm sure what donald trump wants is to delay this trial any way he can until after the election. so in terms of scheduling and timeframe that is definitely a factor. and we're already seeing a potential delay right out of the chute today because trump really doesn't have a lawyer. i mean, he has the lawyers that are appearing for him. but if the 2 lawyers he had on this case quit hours after the indictment came out, i think i have theories as to why they quit, but they quit. so the 1st delay right out of the chute

united states national security agency performing institute walter reed army research and medical center of the naval forces all this is combined into a deliberately tangled network of private laboratories in africa asia latin america in the cis countries and of course in ukraine. here is one such dual-use laboratory. here, allegedly developed cardiological drugs. in fact, they collected biomaterials from the inhabitants. we filmed this laboratory immediately after the liberation of the north of donetsk and rubizhne in this black folder contracts with volunteers. the essence of the contract is simple locals agree to be subjected to medical experiments, drugs are tested on people for about 20 to 30 years. test subjects are much cheaper. whether they are outside the united states in addition, in private laboratories working for the us military , leakage incidents of bites have become more frequent, experimental animals are another reason why biolaboratories are located in other countries, while increasing the number was 25 to 43 three are already being built by the alliance countries openl

in particular, the national security agency and confirms that the declared policy of ensuring the privacy of personal data of apple device users is not true. the space as it has confiscated thousands of items with such malware. the device is also to have been used with foreign sim cards registered with the diplomatic missions and at the seas in russia, originating from nato on post soviet states as well as israel, south africa, on china. while i pull has been quick to deny the allegations and claims that it never has and never will work with any government to insert the fund we believe, sees into its products. meanwhile, china has reported the express concerns about surveillance operations inside russia by foreign diplomats using iphones from a new york university professor handles of michael rex involved face the us has a record of spying on other countries with the help of big tech firms. and i think it's very um, it's very predictable that this is going on. in fact, i'd be surprised if it weren't going on. and i'm sure there are many other off set uh, similar operations underway and su

in 18-19 years , a member of the network for the protection of national interests of the national security agencyand now we are waiting for a member of the people's deputy to join us we hope for ukraine, ms. sovsun, with us. glory to ukraine, ms. ino, we welcome you. we are glad to see you. well, it is as if little by little, parish by parish, but the process is an unceasing mass transition of religious communities, in particular , subordinated to the orthodox church of the moscow patriarchate to the united ukrainian orthodox denomination with the name ptsu. but we we are all waiting for the triumphal bell to finally ring and one or another bill to be voted on. as far as i understand, there are several, there is a bill of princely european solidarity, there are other bills promised to present the government bill, well, we would like to ask you how this story is moving, thank you. very much, as far as i can remember, such a significant figure is still for the day of the vote, and you know, it is very unfortunate that among these 47 decisions there was no decision related to the ban on the activity

in particular, the national security agency and confirms that the declared policy of ensuring the privacy of personal data of apple device users is not true. as the size of the house confiscated thousands of i phones with such malware. the device is all such with being used with foreign sim cards, registered with diplomatic missions on the seas in russia, originating from nato on post soviet states as well as israel, south africa, and china level as being quick to deny the allegations and claims, but it never housings never will work with any government between such a song we're balanced cheese into his products. meanwhile, china as before, to be expressed concerns about surveillance operations inside russia by foreign diplomats using ice buttons. well menu you will could invest the professor and also michael rex. and bolton says the us have a right code of spying on other countries with the help of big tech phones. i think it's very uh, it's very predictable that this is going on. in fact, i'd be surprised if it weren't going on. i'm sure there are many other upset, similar operations un

agencies into line. anne, you should start with that one. anne: when the national security council holds the national security deputies and principals meeting, those are traditional national security agencies that you would think about. the department of defense, state, the intelligence committee, the department of justice. what is different when we think about critical infrastructure and defense of kriegel infrastructure is that the agencies who are on the frontline are those sector agencies like tsa, like epa, like hhs, and sisa. as we have been working to achieve president biden's calling to say we need a relentless improvement in cybersecurity of kriegel infrastructure. we need to improve digital infrastructure. that means bridging the communities. briefing individuals that may not have gotten an intelligence briefing before. learning about what elements of a water system are most important to securing that water system? just listening to david today. actually improving cybersecurity on the ground for critical infrastructure where the rubber meets the road. the things y

the cia, the department of defense, national security agency, the national geospatial intelligence agency, you go on and on. but the firsts 16 pages are all about the sloppy retention. they really focus on who was having access to these documents, namely, trump's own employees, including mr. nauta. they talk about the fact right on page 2 that trump stored his boxes containing classified documents in various locations in the mar-a-lago club, including in a ballroom, a bathroom, a shower, an office space, his bedroom, and a storage room. they show pictures take not by the fbi, but by his employees of the boxes containing classified information. then you jump to the point in which of may of 2021, trump is warned specifically by the national archives, if you don't give them back, you're going to be referred to the department of justice. and then after that, you have months of these same employees, who again have no security clearances, have no right to see these documents, then going on a mission to try to get trump to focus and get these documents and get them back in the boxes and get them

saves the majority of documents, came from the c, i a, the department of defense and the national security agency page 27 and the narrative of the prosecution with the f. b, i set of mar logo. the found $103.00 more classified documents in august last year. laura con. i'll just, sarah. well, jason, and it is an attorney, a member of the florida and district of columbia boss. he joins us live from maryville in tennessee, a very warm welcome, and jason to the program. we've just been looking at the live pictures of us. we have saved the court room and we've just seen those pictures. they are of the documents, the boxes in the bathroom and, and so on. i think a lot of yours are going to be asking themselves, you know, how strong is the evidence again, 6 president, trump, a. hi, thanks for having me on a i would say the evidence is quite strong. the look is going to be up to those limited what a jury views is important and how they weigh the evidence and, and also what the, what the judge allows in with judge can allows into court. so it's gonna be a process that we're just going to have to play out,

epola responded to the accusation of the russian fsb that it helps the us national security agency tousers the company said that it had never worked with any government on the introduction of programs that provide unauthorized access to apple products and will never do so. yesterday, the fsb announced that, together with the fso, it had uncovered a quote from an intelligence operation of the american intelligence services, carried out using mobile devices firm apple usa end quote. what exactly this reconnaissance action was expressed in and what information was transmitted by the fsb did not specify, but a few hours later the kaspersky lab reported that several dozen iphones of its employees were infected with spyware. , and an effective way to remove the program has not yet been found, but russian officials. the panic did not subside. example of the first deputy chairman of the duma committee on information policy alexander yushchenko told rtvi what is the use of the iphone because there is no russian-made alternative to it? i have all thanks. marina pimenova with business news, then

national security and whether we ever got answers to the questions you and the committee posed about trump being a threat to our security and our country's national security agencieswe got the answers. it was very clear that he was a national security threat, and the republican members of the house all voted against impeachment and the republican senators other than mitt romney, who voted to acquit him now are seeing the repercussions of those votes because his disregard for national security, his disregard for our intelligence community, for classified information and our sources and methods was quite evident from the beginning. as you pointed out in that meeting in the oval office with the russian foreign minister essentially giving up a source to russia with information. and now we see it play out in shocking detail and i think director brennan hit it so poignantly about all of the trickle down effects of this investigation that go far beyond this indictment but even in this indictment what you see are two examples, two instances and those are only the ones that the special counsel can prove of donald trump showing highly sensitive classified information, inclu

to identify whether or not hijackers were on the loose in the united states to begin with national security agency and uncle hayden had a program that would be made public and we will talk about that but i knew on that day the life of this nation would not be the same for it's never been the same and can never be the same. i want to take a couple minutes. wrote and the emotional piece a couple of years ago and what was it like? had a program that would be made public and we will talk about that but i knew on that day the life of this nation would not be the same for it's never been the same and can never be the same. i want to take a couple minutes. wrote and the emotional piece a couple of years ago and what was it like? you are at the department of justice a relatively new employee at the time, tell us if you can, in a minute or two what it was like that first day and the weeks immediately after. >> it's great to be with all of you today at this conference. have to be back with all of you and appreciate historical context starting off here as he launched into a series of conversations about surv

to identify whether or not hijackers were on the loose in the united states to begin with national security agency and uncle hayden had a program that would be made public and we will talk about that but i knew on that day the life of this nation would not be the same for it's never been the same and can never be the same. i want to take a couple minutes. wrote and the emotional piece a couple of years ago and what was it like? you are at the department of justice a relatively new employee at the time, tell us if you can, in a minute or two what it was like that first day and the weeks immediately after. >> it's great to be with all of you today at this conference. have to be back with all of you and appreciate historical context starting off here as he launched into a series of conversations about surveillance activity and the future of surveillance. wonderful law, that particular piece in a number of your viewers the 20th anniversary so that was published september 112021. from time to time, i've been able to write reflections on my experience and i taught intelligence reform in the national sec

>> this is one where you get a hold of the national security council which is the integrating agency ational security agency and cyber command and what's going on and you present the case, you could not do in silos and say this is a d.o.j. issue, this is more than a legal issue. it's a national security issue, that case has not been presented to the american people or anybody else and you need to understand there is a threat there and they do not address as a threat until we declare a threat that they are an adversary then you don't take any actions. it's not informing the american people, this is the end of the radar. that's what this administration does frankly quite well they ignore and help american people ignore as well it is something that cannot be ignored in the future. maria: they come out with statements that are half true or not true including what they are trying to get us to believe with this by balloon prude will keep a spotlight on it, we appreciate your time and effort, thank you so much for being here this morning. maria: thank you maria. general keith kellogg, we'll

and these same contacts document everything every time you call the national security agency receivesthis call, who when and where you called. they track the geolocation of people around the world. they create archival databases that store, as they say, swallowed up everything that has passed through them, think about it. they have every message , every email, every search term. they know where every phone in the world is. if you put it all together , everything they store is more and more like the first ever detailed daily chronicle of every human life. one of the first centers where embedded intelligence officers intercepted calls since the reagan era was equipped with the largest new york pbx. in a 29-story skyscraper without windows, as snowden claimed , there is a top-secret room in which a huge archive is stored, wiretapping millions of intercepted conversations and messages. basically. these are contacts of foreign subscribers. the main object of surveillance is the un headquarters and the personal secretary general that the american intelligence services are watching antonio g

national security threats facing the united states. it is important for the american people to understand mission states and non- nation state actors remain serious concern for intelligence agencies national security united states. north korea starting behavior toward the united states under south korean alleys continue at a high clip. even as the missile program ask progress. articulate malign and threatened behavior in the region towards the united states threatens us in the region, our allies in the region and i fear iran's nuclear program is advanced a point we have little warning if they decided to produce a weapons grade uranium and move on to the weaponization of that uranium. rush it remains a central threat one year into putin's brutal invasion of ukraine. last year chairman turner to have the opportunity to visit and meet president zelenskyy in his leadership to see firsthand the courage of the ukrainian people who were defending their homeland. the assistance and support we provide along with our allies and frustrated putin's ambitions we have clearly a long way to go and some thinking to do about how to make sure that conflict does not continue being the meat grinder

these are documents created for and by agencies like the krth ia, department of defense, national security agency and the department of energy. the indictment gives us a real sense of what's in these documents. it includes information about our defense and weapons capabilities. our potential capabilities to attack and nuclear programs and possible retaliation by the united states to other countries. it doesn't get much more sensitive than that. it matters legally because the first law donald trump is required under requires the documents contain national defense information, that's why this is so important. >> it's tough to rank what's the most jarring elements of this indictment but one has to be the photos of how they were kept at mar-a-lago. walk us through this. >> they took a wild ride. they were stored here, yes, that is a stage in a ballroom. the white and gold ballroom where events were still being held at the time. they were then moved out of the white and gold ballroom into the business center briefly and then their next stop on the mar-a-lago tour was -- this is a bathroom, a shower an

have to tell you whenever information comes from some of these agencies, particularly the national security agencynaissance office, the national geospatial agency, they are almost automatically top secret and then compartmented information. to hear that some of this was sitting on a stage in a ballroom at mar-a-lago is really cringing for me. u just to give you a sense of the sensitivity of these agencies in common conversation at fbi headquarters or if you're out at lunch, we typically use a code name for these agencies so that we know what we're talking about and where something came from but that people sitting next to us would not know what we're talking about. this is the kind of classified information that he kept openly at mar-a-lago. >> and joyce vance, why don't you weigh in here as well. >> well, while y'all have been diligently working through the specifics of the indictment and talking about the details and the evidence, i'm the person who skipped ahead to read the ending and something stunning is the scope and breadth of this indictment. there are not seven counts in this indictment a

and i began with the national -- that began with the national security agency and then-director of n.s.a. michael hayden, to activate any program that would be made public. we'll talk about that as we get into it. but i knew on that day the life of this nation, you know, would simply not be the same. i'm sure it's never been the same, can never be the same, for the victims. but i wanted to just take a couple of minutes for each of you to kind of talk about, you know, where you were and what you were doing and thinking and i'd like to start with you. you wrote a very, very fascinating and clearly emotional piece for the just security blog a couple of years ago, as a remembrance, essentially. you were at the department of justice, a relatively new employee at the time. tell us, if you can, in a minute or two, what it was like that first day and the weeks immediately after. >> sure. so it is great to be with all of you today. at the cato surveillance conference. again, i've been able to be part of this conference in past year glad to be back with all of you. and appreciate the historical co

and won a pulitzer prize for his reporting of warrantless wiretapping of americans by the national security agencyed a seven year battle risking jail after the bush administration come obama administration sought to force them to testify and reveal his confidential sources in a leak investigation. he never gave in and the government finally backed down. now he has written a piece for the intercept headlined "don't compare donald trump to reality winner. he's no whistleblower. he's just a thief!" can you elaborate on this? >> i think one of the things that bothered me right after the trump indictment was that there were a lot of pundits starting to compare trump to people who have been caught up in other espionage cases, including reality winner, who was a whistleblower about russian efforts to hack into and you can election systems in the 2016 presidential race. i just thought it was a ridiculous comparison because trump was just doing this for selfish reasons. he clearly came to believe that keeping classified information was like keeping gold coins. it was a way of keeping something of value and

letting biden do whatever he wants with the executive branch, that they're protecting the national security agenciesbut they are not. they're simply allowing those agencies to become more and more discredited in the eyes of the public. every republican senator who wants to have a strong fbi should be furious with what the biden administration is doing because its actions are weakening a vital u.s. institution. and thus they're endangering the united states. one senator is giving it right back to the democrats, ohio's jd vance today threatened to block all of biden's judicial nominees until merrick garland stops using his agencies to harass joe biden's political opponents. senator vance joins me now. senator, any other of your colleagues going to join your effort? >> i think a few of my colleagues will. a few are already actively pushing back against joe biden's department of justice. here's the crazy thing here is we actually have some authority and we can use it to do something good for the american people. what so many senators i think are terrified of doing is using the constitutional authority t

direct the system at moments like that, and as a result of that, i would say our pros at the national security agencyere they analyze all of that information have been up on the front foot, on the balls of their feet, leaning forward, gathering immense intelligence. they've done a good job of conveying that. >> admiral, let's talk about what this weekend means to putin. he still remains in charge certainly, but does he come out of this weaker than before? >> oh, i think extremely weakened as in to put a percentage on it, 30% less, and there's both a domestic component to that where he starts out responding by saying i'm going to crush this guy like a bug, i'm going to put this thing down, and all of a sudden he cuts a deal and prigozhin, so far anyway, fights to live another day. if i were him, i would not stand near any third floor windows or tall buildings. putin will find a way to take revenge. the the point is putin looks weaker domestically and weaker tin nare actionleally. you see the chinese and iranians put out lukewarm support, and you can feel their confidence in putin slipping hour by hour

china, the second point is associated with the cooperation of apple corporation and the us national security agencyland. this structure is responsible for cyber, operations and cyber intelligence a few hours later, the kaspersky lab makes a statement, the head of these companies, evgeny kaspersky, in his own name on the corporate website, publishes an article called the apple triangle and writes that the management of the laboratory also uses iphones. subjected to targeted attack name trojan delete triacculation. and a few hours later , apple corporation reacts, which gives its comment through the reuters agency, the company has never cooperated with any government to install software traps in any apple product and will never do so. and today, after all this chain , kaspersky lab investigators gave more detailed comments on what is happening with some iphones , while the attack was also called a targeted vulnerability found on the phones of those who are of theoretical interest for technological intelligence or political intelligence. let's hear how it happened. in a very interesting way , an invis

it is not only partnerships with the national security agency but broadly how do we partner with the fbi and sisa? how do we provide our nation greater capacity and how do we partner with the private sector? this is what we learned in russia-ukraine. the power of partnering with the private sector provides our nation a tremendous advantage that no other nation has. mr. lalota: thank you. i will close by saying i join with my colleague from texas in the thought that you were on the frontlines of our next biggest battle and we appreciate the work you're doing. i yield. mr. gallagher: mr. mccormick. mr. mccormick: in medicine we talk about a blind spot. in business when you talk about it, it can be something you get used to and you forget with the new guy coming in, you can see it. when we talk about military and preparedness, one thing that concerns me, especially in this arena, because it's so quick moving, we are watching china in so many other ways go after our resources, go after critical alliances. they're outpacing us in port production. valuable resources we're not going to be a

there is the case involving national security agency developer who in 2017 pleaded guilty to one count of willfully retaining national defense information when he regularly took classified documents home from his office. he claimed it was to get extra work done on nights and weekends. he was not charged with spying or being a traitor, but he did get 5 1/2 years in prison. and there was a case of another nsa contractor, harold martin, who in 2019 pleaded guilty to the same count after a massive amount of classified material was found both in his house and in his car. his lawyer described him as an impulsive horder, does that sound familiar to anyone? he was not charged with spying or being a traitor. but was sentenced to nine years in prison. and there are plenty more examples just like this. but the trump doj's most aggressive prosecutions under the espionage act were for people who took classified information and leaked it to the press, specifically when those leaks were unflattering information about trump or his administration. and especially if it had to do with russia, russia, rus

national security agencies are evaluating maybe new or newly-revealed weaknesses in russia? >> yet nicole. that's really the question that we've been asking ourselves now, in the last few hours. things like this situation have come to a head, and the immediate crisis for putin may have been contained. is what does the fact of this apparent uprising mean for russia, and for president putin? and i think it really made -- it may have the potential to sort of take the lid off at a very controlled situation, where public criticism has been really disallowed incrementally made more difficult. critics have left russia, there have been laws that have been passed that made it more difficult to voice opposition to what putin calls a special military operation in ukraine. media has been consolidated under the control of the state, and what the people i'm talking to say is that this actually could result in a more repressive russia. one of the few new tools that putin has is his repression of the public, and now that he has had this real public challenge, he couldn't need to resort to t

he's a former national security agency employee.enced him to two weeks in prison for storming the u.s. capital on january 6th. the nsa employee did so with associates whom authorities described as members of the white nationalist america first movement. if you remember, their leader it's internet personality nick fuentes, who is known for promoting white supremacy and antisemitism. he's also the person donald trump had with dinner with at mar-a-lago last fall, and also kanye west was there. and earlier this week, two marines that worked in intelligence gathering pleaded guilty to their involvement in the january 6th insurrection. they were on active duty when they stormed the capitol. according to the court record, they travel to d. c. from their base at quantico, they entered the capital minutes after it was breached, and they joined in chance of stop the steal and four more years. so, deep state and that january 6th right pushing the big lie, demanding four more years of donald trump. these are not isolated examples. there are at