. >> joining us from the leon panetta institute, former congressman, former cia director, former secretary defense, leon panetta thank you so much for being with us. >> thank you, brian. >> and up next here as we take one more break from twitter with love. what the president's tweets are telling spies across the world. when "the 11th hour" continues. >>> welcome back to our broadcast, as we mentioned another busy day for the president on twitter. but americans are not the only ones watching what he says in that medium. "the washington post" piece says, quote, this is what foreign spies see when they read president trump's tweets. it goes on, trump's twitter feed is a gold mine for every foreign intelligence agency. the president's unfiltered thoughts are available night and day, broadcast to his 32.7 million twitter followers immediately and without much obvious mediation by diplomats, strategists or handlers. the author of this piece is a former cia analyst with us tonight. s thank you so much for being with us. the first question for those who have yet to read your piece, what are we ame

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. >> joining us from the panetta institute, formerly congressman, formerly cia director, formerly secretarye leon panetta thank you for being with us. >> thank you, brian. >> and up next here as we take one more break from twitter with love. what the president's tweets are telling spies across the world. when "the 11th hour" continues. broadcast. as we mentioned another busy day for the president on twitter, but americans aren't the only ones watching what he says in that medium. this "washington post" piece comes from a former cia veteran. quote, this is what foreign spies see when they reed president trump's tweets. it goes on, trump's twitter feed is a gold mine for every foreign intelligence agency. the president's unfiltered thoughts are available night and day broadcast to his 32.7 million twitter followers immediately and without much obvious mediation by diplomats, strategists or handlers. the author of this piece is former cia nada bakos. thank you so much for being with us. i guess the first question for those who have yet to read your piece, what are we americans not seeing that

. >> i'm joined right now by leon panetta, the former secretary of defense for this country, a director of the instituteblic policy. mr. panetta, thank you for joining us. you have so many perspectives on this, i'm sure. but one would be as a patriot, thinking about a president of the united states not asking the man responsible for counterintelligence what's happening with the russians and what are they up to with regard to our democracy. he never had a conversation in all those months with the president. >> well, chris, it's a little bit astounding because the first responsibility of a president of the united states is to protect our country and clearly to protect it from foreign adversaries who would attack our country. i mean we just -- we just experienced a major cyber attack by russia against the united states of america, trying to interfere with our election process. that is a big deal, and it ought to concern this president that we need to look and see what happened and how do we protect it from ever happening again. and the fact that at no time did he seem to have any curiosity about exactly wh