basically taking the weirdest, most conspiratorial nut job on the message board and saying give that guy the c.i.a., f.b.i., and the world's most powerful military. let's just see what happens. >> can you hear me? >> trevor: is that roy wood, jr.? >> trevor, trevor, hey, hey. i don't have a lot of time, man, but you're missing the bigger picture. the key to all of this is not trump. it's hillary. >> the presidential candidates talking candidly about opening up the government's files on u.f.o.s. >> i have sailed i want to opponent files as much as we can. but there are enough stories out there that i don't think everybody is just sitting, you know, in their kitchen making them up. >> you see? hillary promised to tell us the truth about area 51. you know about area 51, right? i think in africa you all call it district nine. >> trevor: that's a totally different-- roy what, is this all about? >> just follow me for a second! when hillary releases those files, everyone will know donald trump is an alien! that's not spray tan. he's dmoferred that mars dirt. >> trevor: oh, come oroy. you mean like an out

. >> the 1975 church committee hearings convened to investigate the activities of the c.i.a., f.b.i., n.s.a. tom charles huston on a plan he presented to president nixon. using burglary, electronic surveillance and o it's opening of mail. >> you have taken black bag jobs for a number of years up until 1966, it has been successful and valuable again particularly in matters involving espionage. ey felt that again given the revolutionary climate, they needed to have the authority to do. >> just before 7:00 p.m. eastern. >> and she said, you were chosen -- she was iraqi. she was there for four years attend of the concentration camp. she spoke hungarian also. they asked her what's happening? that said, you see smoke? >> holocaust survivor anna gross recalled her experiences at a a chu wits memorial. then at 8:00 on lectures and history. >> an an arc kist named alexander berkman broke into frick's office in nearby pittsburgh, shot him twice and repeated stabbed hip. berkman is one of the great failures in assassination history. not only did he fail to kill frick, he also unders can fine min

just a matter of weeks you're getting classified briefings by the c.i.a. and the fbi. will your style be the same on the campaign trail? throwing things against the wall? >> when i cite reports. or when i cite major magazine articles, it's up to believe it or not believe it i'm not writing it myself. i think that's a very acceptable thing to do. as far as briefings and all, i will do much better than hillary clinton ever did with her emails, which she exposed the entire country to whatever she's learning as secretary of ate. you don't get any worse than that. so i think that frankly, yes, i can keep a secret probably better than anybody i know. maybe better than anybody i know. >> on the email issue, you saw the story about hackers speaking out, the gucifer guy that apparently hacked into hillary clinton's emails. what do you think about it? >> i think it's very serious. it sounds true to me, but what do i do. it's not a question of him, it's what she did and why did she do it? bernie sanders said she's not qualified to be president. he said one of the reasons she's no

he was among a group of former special ops soldiers hired by the c.i.a. to provide security in benghazi, libya, the group that defied orders to stand down when the consulate was unterrorist attack, on september 11, 2012. >> you want to get down to the exact words, wait five minutes into it stand down we were told to 15 minutes later, another wait, 25 minutes into it and that last is when we decideed to make a team decision and said we need to go. >> he has no idea why his team was told to stand down. he believes they were dispatched from the beginning some of the americans including ambassador stevens who be alive. >> he should not have died. he was history out to dry. he was a guy a patriot and benghazi people loved him. >> at house committee investigating the benghazi attack said it will release the report before the democratic and g.o.p. conventions in july. as for the author, it will reach the masses when "13 hours," is released on dvd next month. >> an abc exclusive, tom brady, is aping the four game suspension imposed bit nfl with the tons saying the

. >> pelley: the man who was supposed to stop that attack is john brennan, the director of the c.i.a. tonight, in a rare interview, we talked to brennan about a world of trouble. does isis have chemical weapons? >> we have a number of instances where isil has used chemical munitions on the battlefield. >> i am no expert but from what i know, what happened in the things that were torn up in there, it had to be like an ic

i would emphasize we had a transcript released today by what is france's equivalent of the c.i.a. director and he gave a rare and private brief to a government committee in paris, just last week, in which he said that there was evidence that isis was planning a wave or a series of package bomb attacks, that would coincide with the large sporting events that are coming up in france. it's important to note that the state of emergency has been extended in france over the next two months, to cover that period. now whether this intelligence that was picked up goes beyond encryption and is based on human sources, but it tells you it's a very high state of alert. what we don't know is whether that kind of threat information is in any way tied to eat egypt heir downing and whether there is a terrorist connection or whether it's simply a dramatic, catastrophic mechanical failure on this flight. >> thank you, catherine. >> the plane crash turning political here at home. donald trump and hillary clinton are saying, next. with twenty-five percent more base horsepower. once driven, there's no

eastern on real america, the 1975 church convened to rings, investigate the intelligence hearings of the c.i.a., i.r.s. nd n.s.a., they hear testimony from two f.b.i. informants, mary joe cook, and gary thomas roe klan and rated the participated in violence against civil rights activists. birmingham the freedom set up the ride ers and you told the f.b.i. that? and were they beaten? badly, yes. >> and did the police give you the time they promised to give. >> yes, sir. 15 minutes with absolutely no intervention from any police officers whatsoever. announcer: then at 8, on lectures in history. >> what that opportunity gave them, is an opportunity to go to college. they saved some of that money. they sent themselves through ollege. they sent siblings through college. .hey became doctors and lawyers ne became the first female manager of any department at north repair line. they became principals. surgeons. politicians. pilots. and they were able to do that because they had access to professional baseball. announcer: marshall university professor cat williams on how war effort in factories and mili

host: who would have been -- what about the c.i.a. that were in the area and this criticism that a standdown order was given? caller: a standdown from the state department? host: that -- caller: the state department doesn't control the c.i.a. assets in the area. host: right. caller: so, yeah. so whatever, you know, was going on which will probably continue to be classified was not in hillary clinton's set of responsibilities as secretary of state. host: ok. that's patty, pentagon -- former pentagon employee and now with central intelligence. is that right, patty? caller: d.n.i., which is not quite the same thing. director of national intelligence. host: adam in arlington, virginia, active military. you're on the air. caller: hi. i'm active duty navy. served on the marine corps. i'm an afghanistan veteran. i have to completely disagree with the previous caller. the bottom line is even if hillary did not know about all the details which she did know is that it was not caused by a video and she and her direct people got on national televi

we have the director of the c.i.a.uggesting his men or employees would not waterboard, which is encouraging but also very disturbing in terms of it's a recognition of where we can go and we can still go back to where we were and we may go back to something far worse. so there needs to be an honest narrative about not only what it does to the personnel who were put in these positions but to the kind of things it does to people in our prisoner of war camps. >> woodruff: did you come away of a clear idea of what is within the bounds of what should be permitted when interrogating someone who has done something terrible against the united states, whether it's i.s.i.s. or al quaida or something, and what steps over the line? did you come away knowing what that line is? >> no, and i think that's abexcellent question because i think once you begin to push the limits of interrogation, which in and of itself is already a potentially abusive sort of thing, forcing someone to talk to you, the minute you begin to push those limits

the n.s.a. with testimony by c.i.a. director william colby, the f.b.i.'s james adams, general lou allen. f.b.i. informants and others. >> we are here to review the major findings of f.b.i. domestic intelligence including the cointel programs and other programs aimed at domestic targets. f.b.i. surveillance of law-abiding citizens and groups. political abuses of f.b.i. intelligence, and several specific cases of unjustified intelligence operations. >> for the complete american history tv weekend schedule, go to c-span.org. >> earlier today, u.s. forces commander lieutenant general charles brown held a briefing about the ongoing military operations against isis. he spoke with reporters from southeast asia through skype. this is about 45 minutes. >> good morning, general. just want to confirm you can hear us. general brown: got you loud and clear. >> good morning, everybody. we're pleased to be joined by lieutenant general charles q. brown jr. who is the commander of u.s. air forces central command giving us an update today on operation inherent resolve. general, we'll turn it over to you f

here's the former c.i.a. director on the possibilities out there. >> if you're a terrorist hangars and maintenance facilities are very attractive places, because you can put a small bomb in some portion of the hull, that if you know what you're doing, were to put it. you could well have something that would go off at an appropriate altitude, appropriate time and no fingerprints. >> the tough part, tucker is that this is all speculation. until we have black box data, we hear that the satellite infrared satellites didn't pick up any heat signature. but there are reports that some fishermen saw flash in the sky. >> we will know at some point. we do know there are going to be terror attacks on airplanes, the only way to respond is with common sense measures, you don't unionize your security guards at the airport. any more than you would unionize your s.e.a.l. teams. you have to ask yourself, what do we want out of this? we want cheap and convenient air travel. that's why they're attacking airplanes, because it's a

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heard the senator intel chair, senator burr looking at those lists to see if anybody here's the former c.i.aor on the possibilities out there. >> if you're a terrorist hangars and maintenance facilities are very attractive places, because you can put a small bomb in some portion of the hull, that if you know what you're doing, were to put it. you could well have something that would go off at an appropriate altitude, appropriate time and no fingerprints. >> the tough part, tucker is that this is all speculation. until we have black box data, we hear that the satellite infrared satellites didn't pick up any heat signature. but there are reports that some fishermen saw flash in the sky. >> we will know at some point. we do know there are going to be terror attacks on airplanes, the only way to respond is with common sense measures, you don't unionize your security guards at the airport. any more than you would unionize your s.e.a.l. teams. you have to ask yourself, what do we want out of this? we want cheap and convenient air travel. that's why they're attacking airplanes, because it's a very

the c.i.a. and the department of state have also identified climate change as a national security challenge. if congress continues to refuse -- yet, congress continues to refuse to address this issue. we have superstorms in the u.s. to devastating droughts in the middle east. as climate change continues to strain economies and societies across the world, it will only create additional resource burdens and impact the way our military executes its missions, forcing our military to spend more on crisis prevention, humanitarian assistance and government stabilization. this is why we have to act now. it's time for my colleagues to realize that debate is over and that now is the time to deal with the very real consequences of climate change. as president obama said, to make collective decisions on behalf of a common good, we have to use our heads. we have to agree that facts and evidence matter and we have to hold our leaders and ourselves accountable. while we can't reverse climate change, we can work

america, the 1975 church committee hearings, convened to investigate the intelligence activities of the c.i.a., f.b.i., i.r.s. and the n.s.a. saturday night at 10:00 p.m. eastern, the commission questions committee staffers frederick schwartz and curt smoothers, detailing f.b.i. abuses including attempted intimidation of martin luther king jr. >> king, there's only one thing left for you to do, you know what it is. you have just 34 days in which to do it. this exact number has been selected for a reason. it was 4 days before the award. you are done. >> then associate f.b.i. director james adams admitted to some of the excesses while defending a number of other f.b.i. practices. then at 8:00 on lectures in history -- >> the rest of us may see a death or two. they see hundreds. and so they're the first to sort of see patterns or shifts in how people are going out of the world. so they are the ones who sound the alarm. >> university of georgia professor on the role of a coroner and how they shed light on the emerging patterns of death within a society as -- and spot potential threats to public h

. >> one of the guests at the conference, former c.i.a. director david petraeus went off script. took aim at trump's foreign policy. writing when western politicians propose blanket discrimination against islam, they bolster the terrorists propaganda. democrats are turning up the heat on trump over his refusal to release tax returns. hillary clinton intimating he has something to hide. >> my husband and i have released 33 years of tax returns. we got eight years on our website right now. so you got to ask yourself -- why doesn't he want to release them? >> trump says he hopes to put the returns out before the election but wristled this morning when pressed for more. >> what is your tax rate? >> it's none of your business, you'll see it when i release, but i fight very hard to pay as little tax as possible. >> in a hint of what lies ahead for trump, the "washington post" recycled an audio recording from 25 years ago, where trump appears to be playing his own pr person. >> what's your name again? >> john miller. >> ex-wife marla maples identified the caller as trump in 1991, he insi

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the deaths of c.i.a. contractor glen doherty and tyrone woods nine hours later haunt many within the military community. >> they got killed in a mortar attack at the end of the battle. when the sun was coming up. when they shouldn't have been killed. because we is had plenty of time at that point. hours and hours of time, to be able to do something. >> on the night of the attack. mike was at delta force headquarters in the u.s., monitoring events as they happened. shortly after he returned to libya, and he says u.s. special forces had multiple chances to kill or capture the terrorists responsible. but were repeatedly denied by the state department. >> at our level we're doing everything we're supposed to be doing. at everybody else's level above us, it was political. i read the emails. i read the emails where they're saying we can't do this now. now is not the right timing. it's just politically we can't do it. >> in mid june 2014 u.s. delta force s captured abu khatalla. while the u.s. sat idle for weeks

the deaths of c.i.a. contractor glen doherty and tyrone woods nine hours later haunt many within the military community. >> they got killed in a mortar attack at the end of the battle. when the sun was coming up. when they shouldn't have been killed. because we is had plenty of time at that point. hours and hours of time, to be able to do something. >> on the night of the attack. mike was at delta force headquarters in the u.s., monitoring events as they happened. shortly after he returned to libya, and he says u.s. special forces had multiple chances to kill or capture the terrorists responsible. but were repeatedly denied by the state department. >> at our level we're doing everything we're supposed to be doing. at everybody else's level above us, it was political. i read the emails. i read the emails where they're saying we can't do this now. now is not the right timing. it's just politically we can't do it. >> in mid june 2014 u.s. delta force s captured abu khatalla. while the u.s. sat idle for weeks

. >> one of the guests at the conference, former c.i.a. director david petraeus went off script. ook aim at trump's foreign policy. writing when western politicians propose blanket discrimination against islam, they bolster the terrorists propaganda. democrats are turning up the heat on trump over his refusal to release tax returns. hillary clinton intimating he has something to hide. >> my husband and i have released 33 years of tax returns. we got eight years on our website right now. so you got to ask yourself -- why doesn't he want to release them? >> trump says he hopes to put the returns out before the election but wristled this morning when pressed for more. >> what is your tax rate? >> it's none of your business, you'll see it when i release, but i fight very hard to pay as little tax as possible. >> in a hint of what lies ahead for trump, the "washington post" recycled an audio recording from 25 years ago, where trump appears to be playing his own pr person. >> what's your name again? >> john miller. >> ex-wife marla maples identified the caller as trump in 1991, he insis

real america," the church committee hearings convened to investigate the intelligence activities of the c.i.a., f.b.i., i.r.s. and n.s.a. the commission questions committee staffers detailing f.b.i. abuses and attempted intimidation ever martin luther king junior. >> you have just 34 days in which to do it. this exact number has been selected for a specific reason. it has definite practical experience. you are done. >> then associate f.b.i. director admits to some of the excesses while defending a number of other f.b.i. practices. then at 8:00. >> the rest of us may see data or two. they see hundreds. and first sort of see pattern or shift in how people are going out in the world. so they are the ones who sound the alarm. >> university of georgia professor on the role and how they shed light within a society and start potential threats. sunday evening at 6:30. secretary of state john kerry who served in the vietnam war. shares his views on vietnam in austin, texas. >> our veterans did not receive the welcome home, benefits nor the treatment that they not only deserved but needed and fundament

. >> reporter: late last month, margaret cormack, the piano playing u.s. ambassador hosted c.i.a. ctor john brennan when he made a surprise visit to sarajevo to discuss the country's counter terrorism efforts. ambassador cormack regards the bosnian islamic community as a crucial partner in the battle against radicalization. she had a clear message for muslim nations and their vested interests. >> we need these countries to allow bosnia and herzegovina to maintain its traditional moderate version of islam. >> reporter: but given the uncertainty about which muslims potentially pose the greatest risk, can she be certain that the u.s. and its allies are getting the right information from sarajevo? >> certainly all the u.s. security teams who either work inside of our embassy or who have visited from washington feel that we have a really positive, open information sharing with our colleagues, our counterparts in bosnia herzegovina. we don't have a sense that there are blockages on that. what we have worked with them on is establishing better information sharing between the services in t

the federal government. when it comes to law enforcement or c.i.a. intelligence issues, we've talked about that on the show before and how does silicon valley strike that balance and work appropriately with law enforcement when it needs to. i also think that a lot of those campaigns like ben carson's campaign for example, really was fuelled by its ability to utilize facebook. share content with voters or potential voters. and remember all of those donations, he ran successful campaigns, interestingly, barry bennett. who is going to be here at this meeting for donald trump's team, he was on. >> i think that this concern about suppression of news stories when it comes to conservatives, ran the risk of upsetting some of those good partnerships. i will also leave with you this one. two weeks ago facebook was pressured to withdraw from the republican convention by leftist groups and facebook said no. we are dentally going to go to the republican convention. and the democratic convention, but they weren't intimidated to leaving the cleveland party that they

the attacks in 2012. militants stormed a u.s. compound and c.i.a complex. >> sreenivasan: a baltimore police officer chose today to go before a judge rather than a jury, in the freddie gray case. edward nero is charged with assault, reckless endangerment and misconduct in office. he was involved in arresting gray, who died of injuries in custody, touching off riots. the first case resulting from the arrest ended in a hung jury. >> woodruff: on wall street stocks had their biggest day since march, boosted in part by china's efforts to stimulate its economy. the dow jones industrial average gained 222 points to close at 17,928. the nasdaq rose 59 points and the s&p 500 added 25. >> sreenivasan: and another year, another white house visit for the university of connecticut women's basketball team. president obama welcomed the huskies today, to celebrate their fourth straight national title, and the school's 11th overall. the president said uconn has defied the old saying that "you can't win all of the time." >> sreenivasan: still to come on the newshou

the intelligence that was there. it was wrong. that was a mistake. it wasn't any kind of purposeful desire to deceive. >> what was your role in outing valer valerie plame as a c.i.a. operator? >> i had no role. >> chaffetz reported and other republicans cited other areas of alleged deception of the obama administration. >> if you like your plan you can keep it it's not the first time the administration has done it not the first time mr. rhodes has done it, i think he did it on the benghazi issue. >> rhodes told the center for new american security he intends to serve until the very last day of the obama administration and then as he put it, take a vacation. bret? >> james, thank you. >>> let's get more on this iran story from syndicated columnist charles krauthammer who joins me tonight from washington. your thoughts on the story? and all the different facets of it, including the executive privilege? >> well when you listen to josh earnest, that was an exercise in linguistic ak row battics. if it's a ubpoena, you call it executive privilege. it's exactly the same idea, i think the administration is right. if this were a republican administration you would not wan