he is john negropon at the, former director of national intelligence. he was also a former u.s.mbassador to iraq. thank you very much for taking the time. >> u that. >> let me ask you this, in your previous roles, you often took classified intelligence briefings. what does it say to you that the intelligence community included these and i should say unsubstantiated claims in the briefings to the president and the president-elect? why would they do that? >> i personally is am of mixed mind. i can see where you might make the argument to yourself that, gee, this is so explosive that i just got to show it to somebody because otherwise, i might later on as things develop might be accused of having tried to sweep things under the rug. on the other hand, it's a little bit counter to our trade craft to surface an unsubstantiated report all the way up to the president and president-elect of the united states, so you could also make the argument that it had no business getting into documents that were put before these high ranking officials until there was more to it. it's a little bit l