phil mudd, let me start with you.the president in this new york times interview, without providing any evidence, said he thinks president obama's former national security adviser susan rice committed a crime. what is the precedence of even a president even saying that. >> we have the president's own advisers, including former national security adviser asking for immunity from the government because they don't want to admit in public what presumably was collusion with the russians. this is his people under investigation for violating the law. meanwhile, in the past few weeks, he's accused president obama of violating the law and forcing the fbi director to humiliate the president in public by saying that's nonsense and he doubles down on that. you have to ask why the president is spending energy and capital to accuse people of violating the law when that's not even the purchase viview of branch that he manages. >> what do you think when you heard the president's remarks in this n this new yo"new york times" int? >> the

>> yes, heading towards syria, and i want you to know that. >> i'm anxious to get phil mudd's reaction to that. go ahead, phil. >> i feel like i'm getting a nervous tick and let's break this down into two pieces. number one, i believe he had to notify the chinese president, he had to. the chinese president walks upstairs to half an hour later, looks on cnn and says, hey, there's been a missile strike and the american president now this and didn't tell me. there's a separate piece about the decision at the table. i'm going to try to give the president the benefit of the doubt. i can't believe he made the decision at the table. that's the defense secretary, the national security adviser, the secretary of state, the cia director have got to sit down in a secure room and say what targets do we want? what will the targets be ready? when will the ships be ready, and the president simply said, yeah, go ahead. if he made the decision at the table, we've got to have another conversation because i don't believe it. you know, it's interesting, rebecca, the u.n. security council resolution condemn

phil mudd, the white house, as you heard, they say there's no consensus in the u.s.ntelligence community right now about whether russia was actually complicit in organizing the actual chemical attack, but one u.s. official is telling us that russia will have to answer how it could share that air base that was knocked out by those tomahawk cruise missiles with syrian regime forces and not know of this chemical weapons strike. what's your answer to that? >> look, i think this is simpler. i think they are complicit. let me tell you what's happening in the intelligence community. before the attack i suppose you can make an argument about the difference in intelligence between what you think. for example, we're 70% certain at cia that the russians know, and what you know. we can guarantee, mr. president, that they were aware of the attack. the significant question though is, wolf, let's go to the past four days. what do they know "now"? presumably they have talked to syrian officials. they are on the ground there at the air base, but furthermore, they have got their own i

. >> important test, phil mudd. there is no easy answer. if there were one, it would have been found already. when you look at north korea and syr syria, they are complex. they are involved. they are multipart. if you have a solution, it requires lots of negotiation. these are things we have not seen in the early presidency. syria, let's pivot to that. you have trump when he was a candidate, judging government, he said don't go into syria. that is crazy. there's no upside. the white house taking the opposite view. it is all about obama being weak and should have done more. >> it is a problem. you have a president who issued a statement in the north korea case suggesting he will do something. i think there are parallels in both situations. as he saw with health care and immigration reform, there are limits to the presidential power. take syria. you have two observers who are critical are making this simple. one is the continuation of the civil war. refusal to deal with bashar al assad and maybe the arming of syrian opposition who proven unab

we have abby philfilphillip and drucker and cia counterterrorism official phil mudd.he citing of the gchb the intelligence agency in britain. there was an issue of president obama went around the fisa order and used gchb. we now know it was british intel agency that tapped u.s. on the shoulder and saying we are finding something that looks suspicious to us. >> time-out. the fox news analysts suggested the british were targeting american politicians. that's a lie. i can't wait to see this play out in washington today and tomorrow. i guarantee there will be some conspiracy theory that's nuts. let me tell you reality. a huge volume of what we call traffic in the intelligence business. e-mail, phone. that includes russians, chinese, iranians. think of this as burden sharing. americans don't want to collect all of it. maybe the british collect the same stuff. they have agreements of what they collect. when they collect it, they share it. in this case, the americans might collect some russian lines. the british collect the others. the british are not looking through it and

let's bring in david gregory and phil mudd.ver reported on the dossier because cnn has never been able to confirm. we know it exists, but we have not reported on the contents because they are sensational. how did the fbi get a judge to agree to this fisa warrant based on the contents? >> let's step there this. a judge has to have probable cause to do something that the fbi records as an iintrusive technique. i can listen to russians talking to you. i can have a human source listen to what you say. we have a retired british security official has a source or sources in moscow. they may have sub sources. we are in the game of phone a couple lines down. that information is back and forth. you want to tell me we went to a judge and we will be that i intrusive? i think there is more information here. intercepts to implicate you or something that led a judge to say that. i cannot believe this is a primary source. >> nobody said this is a primary source. they said it is helpful. >> helpful? how is that in. >> they say the fbi used part

look at some of the kind of compl complicating factors involved with doing more in syria. >> hey, phil muddforward looking do you have to be with the calculus with the ships near the waters of the korean peninsula. we will send them there so they know we're ready. do they have to be careful about all kinds of scenarios that could come about because of putting the ships there? >> i think this is a much riskier situation than syria because north korea is a potential threat to the united states. syria isn't. i think sending ships is a simple move. now if they get into something, you have to talk to the japanese and south koreans. we just talked to the chinese. you cannot presume the opponent is doing something rational. will he move the north korean leader down south? will you shoot down missiles? does that mean he starts sending more missiles to the pacific ocean? i think the move of ships is a good sign tounlast raleigh. >>> and the man who mailed a manifesto to president trump. what police fear he is planning next. look, she's sweet, she's got natural stevia, no bitter aftertaste and she's

let's discuss with david gregory and carol lee and counterterrorism analyst phil mudd. press secretary sean spicer explaining the lack of accountable from the white house. >> then he asked for documents prior to january 20th. as you know through the constitution, we did not assume the white house until january 20th at noon. we don't have the documents prior to assuming the white house. the third would be they listed for every call and contact that he made. which is an extraordinary number that is a -- that's a very unwieldy request. >> phil mudd, please when you hear that explanation, just the word please pops into your head. how could they not have known? put the video up of flynn sitting at the table. it has been talked about since flynn entered the picture during the campaign. about what was he doing there. this was in december 2015. nobody is saying this is i inherently wrong. phil, there was speculation and questions and the money and if it was right or wrong. how can the white house in the form of sean spicer put up any front like they didn't know about this? >> l

. >> cnn counterterrorism analyst phil mudd and with me dana bash, cnn chief correspondent. dana, my fellow lady in white, let me begin with you. all of these world issues dumped on the president's desk this week, huge test watching him in the rose garden, how do you think he did? >> i thought it was a different donald trump in that you could see that the fact that he is not just a guy sitting in trump tower tweeting about the latest world events, whether it's syria or, you know, his favorite celebrities breaking up. this is a guy who is the leader of the free world and although unfortunately what happened is horrible and tragic and just impossible for us to wrap our minds around using chemical attacks to kill children, innocent children, these kinds of things with these different weapons has been going on for years and years and he clearly -- it's those images, sometimes you need that as president or anybody with that kind of responsibility realized, okay, this is my watch now. what we didn't hear and you just heard jeff zeleny say this and it's important to underscore, is

phil mudd, this is a significant development, but from your perspective how significant?think there are two pieces that are significant. first, if you're bashar al assad and you look those tomahawk missiles last week you have to be saying, i hope this one is not dropped on us. i think whether the message was meant to be sent or not, it had been to be received. i think it is more sult will but hugely significant. december of 2001, where does bin laden lead through? eastern afghanistan through a cave and tunnel complex. fast forward to know, april of 2017. what are we using a bomb on after 16 years of warfare? a cave and tunnel complex in eastern afghanistan, now not against al qaeda but against isis. it gives a message of the length of this war. furthermore, it gives a message of how difficult it will be to win this war. the u.s. government says last year in 2016 the afghans lost ground to the taliban. we're going to be in this forever and this is an indication of why. >> and, chris tal, as you know, during the campaign then candidate donald trump promised if he were promi

joining us is counterterrorism analy analyst phil mudd.mer chairman of the house intel committee mike rogers. and author of "besieged." anthony j.tata. it is good to have you with us. mike rogers. what a difference a day makes. we went from a posture of pacivity. how how does this change? >> this is significant not only for the message it sends to assad, this sent a message to the arab league partners. this was their alka-seltzer to the hangover. they taublked about boxing in assad for years. this was a plan four or five years ago when the other chemical weapons happened. you can't look at it as the strike on this air base. it was surgical. it was designed to strike facilitate loading and unloading and delivery of chemical weapons. that message was sent. assad got that one. it also told the russians. put them on notice. it told arab league partners the united states is serious about getting this right. i think this is a very important step for a host of reasons. >> general tata, how do you see what happened with what transpired last night?

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phil mudd she didn't unmask the names in the first place. she went through paperwork. she went through a paper trail that north africaed her did he semg -- >> my guess is that's not intelligence committee but someone who wanted to divert from russia situation. the process jim was just talking about. when you're in the room and intelligence briefer gives you a document, top secret document that says, for example, russian official, russian diplomat caulking to u.s. person number one, that's how it reads. and you say in the case that i'm familiar with, you're the fbi director, i need to know who u.s. person number one is because i need to know who is communicating inappropriately maybe with the russian diplomat. that goes into a formal process. the briefer doesn't just say, well, that's john doe. you have to go back and make a formal request. your name is logged. when she made those requests, she had to know this is going to appear until the end of time, that her name was at that point potentially searchable. so to suggest that there was some sort of underhanded process h

let's bring back david gregory and maggie haberman and counterterrorism expert phil mudd. il, the idea, essentially is we didn't really have to vet him because he had been vetted by the other guys. anything that went wrong with flynn is on them. >> i love comedy at 6:20 in the morning. let me give you two sp perspectives. chris, i have two top security clearances. >> in spite of the conversation. >> my point is if i take money from the russians today. is it the white house to determine what i'm doing? to suggest that is goofy. you know the person responsible? michael flynn to tell the department what he is doing. there is a second question nobody is asking. this is what somebody should ask sean spicer. forget about security clearance. when you are in the white house, you participate in sensitive discussions and military action and defense contracts. the question is was there an ethics form where he said i took money and in is where my money is invested. if the answer is no, that is a serious question. the white house has not answered that yet. >> it is helpful to look at th

stoddard and david gregory and joining us is phil mudd. interesting, phil, to hear from cia director mike pompeo there. saying how pernicious that julian assange after president trump said i love wikileaks. look at the exciting information from wikileaks. it was about hillary clinton during the campaign. so what do you think about wikileaks and do you think they will be able to make the case that the first amendment doesn't apply here for julian assange's protection? >> this will be portrayed as a political decision. the critical question we were talking about 30 seconds ago is if the case changed. instead of revealing information, downtoid the justi department and others believe assange was moving edward snowden. alisyn, i think the horse is out of the barn on this one. in the past, leaks used to be somebody call the new york times or cnn. now a new age of transparency where a35-year-old says i don't believe in government. i'll dump data on a web site and do it anonymously and reveal tens of thousands of documents. i think this is the wav

we have with us phil mudd and steve hall. is there no proof that trump and/or his team were wrongly caught up in surveillance, but real proof a warrant gave one of his advisers was up to no good. >> that's right. watch this. what you will see is carter page say and i believe he already started to say this. it is a political witch hunt. chris, you have two pieces. the fbi and department of justice will not go to the fisa court. the special court that allows the fbi to eavesdrop on american citizens without a high degree of confidence that something is going on here. these are federal judges. a federal judge is not going to issue a warrant on someone in a campaign without probable cause that individual is breaking a federal law. there will be a lot of shucking and jiving whether this is a witch hunt. having been in the bureau and in front of the fisa court. let me tell you, they have proof this will be ugly. around carter page, it is going from a simmer to a boil. >> steve hall. let's talk about carter page. the intel community

mudd. it's good to have you all here this morning. phil, the word unmasking used in a very nefarious way now. almost like you should say it in a whisper. they were unmasking. what is unmasking and when is it right and when is it not? >> let me take you through the situation. you know a lot of stories swirling in washington about russian interference in the election. the president asks his national security adviser susan rice to look into how the government should responsibility. on the 2rd announces sanctions against russians and expels russian diplomats. i've got to judge based on what we've seen in the last 24, 48 hours that susan rice is getting intelligence not only how the russians are responding to those sanctions but communications between trump and trump officials. let's cut to the chase. what is she supposed to do? she's responsible for implementing sanctions policy of president obama and she sees intelligence that says person number one, person number one is talking to russian officials about the issue. she says i have the respon

that they had against hillary clinton to have susan rice now a character of this drama is like, phil mudd, said it is like turning the conversation away from potential collusion and cooperation to the politics of oh, obama administration were coming after trump officials and instead of potentially doing what film mud is actual lyanly an expert on ts likely the scenario. >> the white house is seizing to try to get credibility of those tweets of the president initially -- early saturday morning suggesting predecessors that president obama was wiretapping trump tower in new york. >> that piece is not going to work out well for them. >> as janna says. when thaey're talking about russia, it is not winning. >> and to be clear, the trump alleged surveillance of obama wiretapping. >>> nothing. >> this is surveillance of foreign individuals, part of regular, legal collection where either u.s. citizens were discussed on the other end of the phone line. being on the other end of the phone line is not a bad thing of some of these conversations. that's not what the president alleges. even if it is tru

joining us now, phil mudd and steve hall who oversaw operations.ean, in terms of how the intelligence was collected by the british does it make sense to you that they would have had incidental interception between communications between trump associates and russian officials? >> sure, anderson, not an uncommon event. the brits and our other allied five partners will try to monitor what the russians are up to in their own countries. and just like in the united states, the process of that collection in an adversarial country, like america, you will get the reporting sometimes against an american. and then the process is of course that do our cooperate with our five allies, that information will be passed usually to the u.s. government, usually to the fbi who of course has the mandate for u.s. persons and american citizens, not cia or fbi. or nsa. so wyeah, this is not an uncommn thing and i would expect and hope that our five allies monitored what the russians were doing, and i would hope that it happens. >> and the brits made this known -- >> i can'

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we have david and carl bernstein and phil mudd. carl, why is mike pompeo making a point of talking about wikileaks in the sinister tones now? >> because it is true and because we are in the midst of the huge series of investigations of the whole question of what russia did in our election campaign to interfere with the democratic system. part of the story are the wikileaks disclosures that were aimed to destabilize us. wikileaks was used, knowingly or unknowingly, by the russians. wikileaks started as an admirable concept. divulging secrets it should divulge. it has turned into a simply ant ant anti-american jihad of information and not adhering to its original supposed purpose. that's what pompeo said it is. on top of which trump is part of right now trying to impede what we need to know about what russia did and the collusion among people around him in the effort to destabilize the election campaign. >> we have not heard from president trump in condemning wikileaks. david, when you hear the cia director mike pompeo, former politi

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phil mudd is with us.ent trump and his supporters have been trying to find some way to back up his tweets from several weeks ago that trump tower was wiretapped by former president obama. i want to read to you a couple of the most recent tweets from the president, president trump. such amazing reporting on unmasking and the crooked scheme against us by "fox and friends" spied on before nomination the real story a little bit later. he tweeted, fox news sources, there was surveillance of people close to trump, this is unprecedented. is unmasking what president trump is making it out to be, that it was surveillance, inappropriate surveillance of him and his campaign? >> the most disturbing part of this, wolf, is the president of the united states is looking to fox news to understand how government works. and he's revealing through tweets that as the chief executive in government, he does not understand the national security process. let me make this easy. let's switch the tables. the national security adviser

phil mudd, the dia we are now told specifically told general flynn he could not accept any sort of consultings, gifts, travel expenses, honoria or will salary from foreign government. it sounds like he took a it lot of money from two foreign governments, indirectly maybe, but still foreign government, from russia and turkey. >> yes. look at this. the net is tightening and at some point you have to feel bad for this man who did service for the country. the fbi has a legal piece. he has tremendous jeopardy. the congress is going to hammer him in hearings. let's look at one angle we have not discussed. when you leave government as i did, one of the question is how do i make a second income. two implications from what we're seeing from the defense intelligence agency today, number one you have to believe he will not have a security clearance in the future. his ability to make a living in the secure world will disappear. over time the defense intelligence agency will say your future in terms of consulting on contracts we have, all disappearing. so i think you've got a financial implication that wi

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let's discuss this with paul cruickshank and phillip mudd. philthe impetus is for how alarm bells with setoff for laptops? >> we have seen intelligence in the law enforcement committee about progress and bomb making by isis and al qaeda for a few years now. i have to believe the intel guys have specific information. they understand the implications for travelers and airports and airlines asking for these restrictions. you are not looking at general warning saying we're kind ever worried. you are looking at individual bombmakers with isis or al qaeda hollowing out a laptop and enabling those laptops to be turned on if an airport security guy wants them open to get through security. a lot of progress by al qaeda and isis. >> paul, you have reporting on what the wake-up call was for airport screeners. >> the big concern is from al qaeda in yemen. this group has had isis when it comes to the sophisticated devices. there is an expert bombmaker experimenting with shoe bombs and underwear bombs and surgi l surgically implanting bombs on humans. he has be