george bush, bill webster, leon panetta, and mike pompeo. i will talk about pompeo because he is different in the way he was a restorer. the first three are here to stabilize the ship in times of controversy. when you think about bush becoming head of the agency right after the start of the scandals of the 1970's and the congressional investigations winding down, he is there to make the agency seem like it is not the ogre it was portrayed to be in the media and in some sectors of congress. initially, as a politician, agency professionals did not like this appointment because we didn't want the agency turned into another cabinet office with a political hack or big donors running it. bush was able to allay those concerns quickly because he was a nice guy. everybody could get along with him. he was very honest about his agenda. by the end of his 11 months he had accomplished exactly what president ford wanted him to do. webster gets appointed right after the iran-contra scandal. you can see why having a former judge and senior law enforcement o

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go to the white house in a nute to gethe back story and speak with former defense secretary leon panetta. first, richard engel in doha, qatar, for us. richard, good rning. >> good morning, savannah. some relief where i am this morning that the u.s. may have been on the brink of war with iran, but then pulled back. but also might not be over, and that the operation was just postponed. arisal attack against iran for shooting dn a ersin gul af was under way overnight.k "the new yormes" reports, planes in the air, warships in position to attack. ns and radar installat missile batteries. as late as 7:00 p.m., u.s. officials were expecting a strike unt it was called off s"th no shots fired. "the new york time reported citing multiple senior officials involved in or briefed on the deliberations. nbc has not independently confirmed the report. the white house and defenseav department he not commented. it's unclear why president trump changed course, holding his cards close to his chest after first hring iran shot down the drone. >> i think probably iran made a mistake. i would imagine it was a g

earlier i sat down with former defense secretary leon panetta and he's the former director of the cia and a former white house staff director. i asked him if president trump poses a national security threat. >> well, any time a president of the united states who swears an oath to preserve, protect and defend the constitution and who has the responsibility as president to abide by the laws of this country and not only abide by those laws, but enforce those laws, when a president says that he would take that kind of information which is a violation of law and then also says that he would not tell the fbi about that is someone who i think is breaching the oath of office that he took as president of the united states and for that reason this president i know has been trying to walk back those comments. but every time he says things like that, i think it undermines his credibility as president of the united states. >> but is he a national security threat? >> well, he's a national security threat in the sense that when he says things like that, he is inviting russia and china and north kore

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we heard leon panetta saying once you decide you should go -- let me ask you about that first. any strike against iranian territory might have resulted in escalation. >> you know, i actually very much disagree with secretary panetta we should have gone through with that strike. the reality is we've been on this path of escalation with iran since trump pulled out of the nuclear deal. if we cross the hurdle into a shooting war, we're hitting targets inside of iran. their interest and capacity to respond is widespread. they could respond in afghanistan, they could respond in iraq, they could respond in the straits of hormuz, they could respond against israel. it could become a dangerous cycle very fast and we could get drawn into a war that goes far beyond anything i think that the american people would be willing to support. and to do that just over the loss of an unmanned drone makes no sense, andrea. just as it made no sense for trump to start the cycle in motion when he pulled out of a nuclear deal that was working, when he stacked on sanctions, reporting by nbc and others sai

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i want you to listen to former defense secretary nci director leon panetta.ere's what he had to say, when asked if the president was a security threat. >> well, he's a national security threat in the sense that when he says things like that, he is inviting russia and china and north korea and iran and other adversaries to find ways to be able to directly influence our election process in this country. and by doing that, there's no question that he undermines our security. >> do you agree with that? do you think that is a legitimate portrayal of the president? >> well, i think, you know, if you look at the traffic record of president trump in meetings with vladimir putin, where he really don't have other aides in the room to kind of get a sense of what they're talking about, that raises a lot of questions. and so, remember, house democrats have tried to haul up the interpreter who was actually in the room taking notes. but the trump administration tried to block that. and so, i think if you're a foreign country, and you want to get on the president's good side

panetta: thank you, madam speaker. tur. you, chairwoman kap the e for support of flooding in this bill. included in this bill, thank goodness, is $15 million for the army corps of engineer projects in communities that have previously experienced devastating floods and where the per capita income is less than half of the state and national averages. this type of funding, as we can tell, is critical for economically disadvantaged communities across our country. to not only recover from, but prevent destructive and deadly floods. one of these areas is a valley in my district on the central coast of california. an area where flooding has consistently hit it for the past 25 years and caused millions of dollars of damage to the surrounding agriculture crops. but it has also displaced hundreds and hundreds of residents, many whom work in those fields. that's why this bill is very important. because it can provide important funding for projects to protect the people that need it the most, for businesses that need it the most, in my

in a deeply divided america, the artists chosen by curators panetta and hockley exhibit a t quieter ton in the past. you have to listen for it, as in kota ezawa's animation of football players kneeling dualng the nanthem. and look for it, in jeffrey gibson's huge banners. >> a lot of those big socio- political issues that we're grappling with in this country wright now are there in tk. i ju think in a lot of cases there's a combination of poetry and interest on the part of the artist in infusing that content with aesthetic decisions, decisions around paint color, material. >> for us, i think we ho when people come to see the exhibition that they find it engaging, thathey find it an interesting and illuminating experience to move through the galleries, but also that perhapt it helm to reframe some of their thinking around some of the most difficult issues of our time. b wn: the biennial exhibition is up through september 22.pb for thnewshour, i'm jeffrey brown at the whitney museum in new york. on the "newshour" online now, everyone wants to save the bees as their poptations decline ever

rators rujeko hockley an jane panetta want us to see that american art today comes in many forms, and from alover. >> that's something we really wanted to foreground in the exhibition that actually there's a great diversity of work being made all across this count, in terms of medium, in terms of i ideaterms of approach, in terms of issues that are of relevance. >> you know, while dealing with big, socio-political questions that are on the table in a major way right now in the country, the work didn't feel angry or polemical, but it felt hopeful and often productive. >> brown: one thing they found, even in this high-tech age? artists still like to make things by hand. 31-year-old pat phillips, from a small town in louisiana, painted a giant mural addressing issues of race and incarceration that comes with its own wood fence and bench. there are finely-crafted sculptures by diane simpson. and daniel lind-ramos, whose assemblage of tools, branches, natural and salvaged materials, hecomes a kind of shrine to the suffering from017 hurricane in his native puerto co. shd, there's also the s

he added as a period court has dismissed our cases and wote panetta trial that has produced in 2004 people stopped disappearing in the custody of the turkish police since the attempted coup in 2016 however there's been a resurgence of illegal methods on the land you'll get i shall say the have been a lot of cases of people being coerced into spying on others. to talk to soldiers each they primarily target young people who are active in their community. by threatening them or promising the money if they work for police intelligence it can sit in church. just by. those who refuse run the risk of being tortured or killed and ask each all being arrested for no reason. was some of it of. this that in your letter he is holding a press conference to help draw public attention to a foreign case involving a member of the procurators people's democratic party or h.d. ping for months the man in question has faced harassment and threats from individuals claiming to work for the intelligence agencies they want him to spy on his own party. and you will either way i laugh. he plays a recording of a phone

leon panetta. good. i used to be one of the senior executives at the bechdel corporation. that's a final jeopardy question. john mccone. he was a classmate of stephen bechtold at cal berkeley where they both were studying engineering. i was the only person to be director of cia and director of the nsa. michael hayden. ok. i used to be an officer in our directorate of operations before i changed careers and served in another capacity for a number of years and then became director. well yes, you could say that because any of the oss grads. this is directorate of operations meeting cia position. he was a case officer for about 10 years. gates was an analyst. porter goss. he worked in the d.o., had to leave for medical reasons and became a local politician in florida and then a congressional preservative, ran the house oversight committee for a while, then became our director. i am the only person up here who is both director of central intelligence and director of cia. goss again. he was running the agency when the dni position was set up, the intelligence, terrorism -- intel

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i want you to listen together, to former cia director under president obama leon panetta and what hesay. >> well, he's a national security threat in the sense when he says things like that, he is inviting russia and china and north korea and iran and other adversaries to find ways to be able to directly influence our election process in this country. and by doing that, there's no question that he undermines our security. >> talking to our own ana cabrera there. more of that interview is later this afternoon on her show. do you believe the same? do you think that the president -- >> oh, i think it is disgusting. it is totally illegal. it is almost beyond belief that an american president would go on national television and invite foreign governments to attempt to influence our elections. it's outrageous beyond belief. and it shows that he ledge elea nothing from the mueller investigation which is doubted that the russians had influenced our elections deeply and strongly. they were part of a social media campaign to influence public opinion. they stole documents from democrats and rele

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. >> listen to what leon panetta, former cia director and defense secretary under president obama told>> i think that was a disgraceful moment for the president of the united states. the president doesn't realize that when he does that it sends a terrible message to the world that the united states is weak and that the president is weak in the presence of vladimir putin. >> the president is weak in the face of vladimir putin. what does it mean for america? >> i think there is a bigger issue. if you look at what president has done. there is rampant murder in the philippines but they are a problem. when you look at what the president said about the murder of jamal khashoggi and saying we don't know what will happen after the intelligence community said this is murder and now we see the president joking with the russians about -- with vladimir putin about journalists and they are murdered in russia. the impression is not just about journalism or the first amendment, it is about america who built a reputation on human rights saying i'm not sure they matter that much any more. i think peopl

i had a chance to talk to former defense secretary leon panetta. here is part of our conversation.retary, first, do you have any doubt iran was behind this attack? >> i think from all the evidence i've seen, both the video and obviously what intelligence seems to be providing, that it was probably a pretty good case that iran was involved behind these attacks. >> why? why would iran take this action? what are they trying to accomplish? >> you know, my experience with iran going back to when i was director of the cia and also secretary of defense, is that when iran wants to send a message and they feel cornered, they tend to use their threats in the strait of hormuz as their weapon. and so i can remember in the past, we would have small ships deploying out and threatening vessels going through the straits of hormuz, and we would have to deal with that. and so what they do when they feel like they have no alternative is to go ahead and send a signal to the world that they could shut down the straits of hormuz. a third of the oil of the world goes through those straits. and it would d

panetta: his assistant coaches, kevin, selena, are also to be commended. again, i congratulate the team, the coaches, and, of course, principal church. job well done. congratulations, grizzlies. madam, i yield the remainder of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the chair announces the speaker's appointment pursuant to 27 united states code clause 10 of rule 1 and the order of the house of january 3, 2019 of the following membership on the particulate of the house to the u.s.-mexico interparliamentary group. the clerk: mr. mccaul of texas. mr. duffy of wisconsin. mr. hurd of texas. mr. cloud of texas. r. spano of florida. the speaker pro tempore: the chair announces the speaker's appointment pursuant to 14 u.s. code 1903-b and the order of the house of january 3, 2019, of the following member on the part of the house to the board of visitors of the united states coast guard academy. the clerk: mr. rutherford of florida. the speaker pro tempore: under the speaker's announced policy of january 3, 2019, the gentleman from texas, mr. gohmert, is recognized for 6

. >> reporter: former defense secretary leon panetta says national security is at stake. >> any timeon't have that secretary in place, it raises issues with regards to the military and the strategies you have to implement in order to protect our country. >> reporter: the president says he will likely nominate army secretary mark esper to be his next secretary of defense, but he will be acting secretary until the fbi completes its background investigation and the senate confirms him. anthony? >> david, thanks. another period of temporary leadership for the defense department. >>> for the first time, lawmakers are hearing from one of president trump's most entrusted former aides following the release of the mueller report. former white house communications director hope hicks is meeting with the house judiciary committee right now behind closed doors after the white house tried to block it. nancy cordes is on capitol hill. nancy, what do the members plan to ask her? >> reporter: they're going to ask her about a series of episodes that are in the mueller report of which she's listed qui

many of the members, including my good friend and fellow co-chair of the ag research caucus, jimmy panetta of california, who finally likes to remind us all that he represents the salad bowl of america. mr. davis: this year i led a bipartisan letter signed by 111 of my colleagues advocating for robust funding for usda's agriculture food and research initiative in the 2020 appropriations. i'm extremely excited that the house appropriators increased funding by $45 million over f.y. 2019 levels to $460 million. i'm proud to see such bipartisan support for ag research because ensuring research necessary is vital. i thank you. i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman from nebraska is recognized. mr. fortenberry: i reserve, madam chair. the chair: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from georgia is recognized. i thank the chairwoman. at this time i'd like to yield one minute to the gentleman from maryland, mr. trone. the chair: the gentleman from maryland is recognized. mr. trone: thank you, madam chair. i'm pleased that the four amendments i proposed to this bill have bee

said that the release of the political part of the plan might well be affected by israel's election panetta you know the election is bound up with his own legal fate he faces 3 pending charges for corruption failing to form a government has hurt his chances of passing immunity legislation ahead of his 1st indictment hearing in early october. on sunday his wife sarra was ordered to pay $15000.00 u.s. dollars after being convicted of benefiting from a mistake in a case involving the use of public money to purchase meals for her family. taking public funding significant amounts throughout several years against the rules and struction is a criminal offense that carries conviction and concrete financial punishment but it's benjamin netanyahu own pending cases would resent by far the bigger threat to his position electioneering is under way and as of a netanyahu the stakes are high perry force at al-jazeera western. sudan's ousted leader omar al bashir has been taken to the public priest's prosecutor's office after he was charged with corruption this was his 1st public appearance since he was ove