the c.i.a.'s general counsel. i wanted to take a moment to discuss the nomination and put it in the context of the extraordinary national security challenges our country faces. and it is hard to imagine a more despicable act than the terrorist attack in manchester monday night. killing innocence, teenagers and children, who were out just to enjoy a concert. the suffering that americans and all in the senate have been reading about, watching on television is just heartbreaking by any standards. i think it's fair to say that as americans we stand in strong solidarity with our british friends, our allies, as they confront this horror, and our country will, as we have for so many years, will stand shoulder to shoulder with them as there is an effort to collect more information about this attack -- what actually happened and work to prevent future attacks. now, not everything is known about the attack. but one thing americans do know is that it can happen here and that's why, as i begin this discussio

and before that, the c.i.a. had monitored the russian's efforts or conversations that said they wanted to influence the election and they wanted to influence it where donald trump winning over hillary clinton. that's significant. because during a campaign act presidential campaign, why are there these and meetings taking place between a presidential candidate and a foreign authorities? that was strange to the former c.i.a. director and sure enough, once he got done monitoring the conversations, he saw them reach out to the campaign and to cuddle up with these individuals to in anticipation either a bribe or cuddling up and making them an unwith itting witness for their efforts. so this is kind of espionage c.i.a. stuff. that's why they're interested in kushner. not just what he can tell them. but what he can tell them about others as well >> specifically what do you mean? others as in what the russians had to say? what types of interactions are they going to be looking at? i know we weren't in the room at the tim

the c.i.a. is working to rebuild its china spy network, according to the "new york times," following china's killing of a dozen c.i.a. informants and its jailing half-a-dozen more between 2010 and 2012." the times" says the network had helped reveal "inner workings of the chinese government," but u.s. intelligence officials are divided over how it was unmasked, whether it was a betrayal by a mole inside the c.i.a. or carelessness by the informants, or even hacking of agency communications. the c.i.a. did not comment in the story, which was based on interviews with current and former government officials. >> stewart: the united states ranks first among developed nations in teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. numerous studies show one contributing factor may be what schools are teaching, or not teaching, young people about sex. the research shows a correlation between high teen pregnancy rates and the "abstinence only until marriage" curriculum that has shaped sex-ed in much of the co

the president shared he shouldn't have shared, why doesn't the counterterrorism advisor contact the c.i.a. about what he said? general mcmaster: maybe from an overabundance of caution. i have not talked to him about that. about why he reached out. reporter: what he knew and understand -- general mcmaster: i was in the room. the secretary of state was in the room. the deputy advisor for national security was in the room. and none of us felt in any way that that conversation was inappropriate. reporter: when was the decision made to share that information with the russians? did the president spontaneously on the spot decide to give that information over? or was there an interagency process or decision-making process? general mcmaster: the president -- it is appropriate for the president to share whatever he thinks is necessary to advance the security of the american people. hat's what he did. as to your question on how that information been shared previously, i'm not sure about that. when did he make the ecision?

and the former head of the c.i.a. tells congress he saw evidence last year of russian officials interacting with people involved in the trump campaign but stopped short of calling it collusion. >> these are contacts that might have totally, totally innocent and benign. >> meanwhile, overseas, the president walks a diplomatic tightrope, pushing his america first agenda and taking nato to task on military spending. >> 23 of the 28 member nations are still not paying what they should be paying and what they're supposed to be paying for their defense. this is not fair to the people and taxpayers of the united states. >> plus, a new probe into u.s. intelligence leaks surrounding the manchester attack. we tackle it all, with peter baker of the new york times, vivian salama of the associated press, adam entous of the washington post, and erica werner of the associated press. >> celebrating 50 years, this is "washington week." funding is provided by... aragon. midway. normandy. medina ridge. these are places history will never

the u.k. and, ex-c.i.a. chief brennan said he had "worried" about the number of contacts russian officials were having with trump associates last year. that i was concerned about because of known russian efforts to sub born such individuals. >> it's a really simple question. >> reporter: brennan was pressed by trey gowdy of south carolina on whether actual collusion took place. >> i don't know whether or not such collusion -- and that's your that's your term-- existed. i don't know. but i know that there was a sufficient basis of information and intelligence that required further investigation by the bureau to determine whether or not u.s. persons were actively conspiring, colluding with russian officials. >> reporter: brennan also added an ominous warning: >> the russians are watching very carefully what's going on in washington right now, and they will try to exploit it for their own purposes. >> reporter: late last year, the obama administration ordered sanctions on russian spy agencies over the election m

going to turn to michael morell, a cbs news national security figure and a former number two at the c.i.a. michael, how serious is this? how could it happen? >> scott, i think this is highly damaging for two reasons. first, the russians will undoubtedly try to figure out the source or the method of this is not also collecting on their activities in syria, and in trying to do that, they could well disrupt the source. i think the second damage is that third countries who provide the united states with intelligence information will now have pause to do so. if the united states is sharing such information with the russians without their permission. so highly damaging. how could it happen, scott? i think this is a president who does not stick to the script. when presidents meet with foreign officials, they are given talking points. they are told, here's what to say on an issue. here's what not to say. the president doesn't seem to stick to the script. >> pelley: the national security adviser today said that no methods or sources were compromised in what the president had to say. does that make

intelligence sharing by the f.b.i., the c.i.a. and the european nations dramatically improved. >> before 9/11 we were stove piping the intelligence. we change that. we now share the information and it has paid off major dividends. is it foolproof? no. the society is an open society. scott: but it doesn't always mean change. when the smat shooting at sandy hook elementary school happened there were bills for assault weapons bans and it failed. to prevent attack like one in manchester, president trump has proposal like the travel ban. putting the pressure on the middle eastern leaders. directly or indirectly who on capitol hill, scott thuman, abc7 news. >> newly released video shows a moment that the fairfax county man confronted police with a knife. next, hear the call that led to the confrontation. >> we are not going to hurt you. just fall to your knees and stay there. jonathan: a frantic teenager accused of serious crimes only ones want thing. ♪ [doorbell] ♪ ♪ when you have doctors working as a team for your health, you get the c

. >> reporter: across the capitol, former c.i.a. ctor, john brennan, described in the greatest detail yet why the trump campaign team first came under scrutiny. >> i was aware of intelligence and information about contacts between russian fors and u.s. persons that raised concerns, in my mind bwhether or not those individuals were cooperating with the russians. >> reporter: by last july, he said, the volume of contacts was large enough to warrant the creation of a working group made up of agents from the c.i.a., f.b.i., and n.s.a. >> having been involved in many counter-intelligence cases in the past, i know what the russians try to do. they try to suborn individuals, and they try to get individuals, including u.s. persons, to act on their behalf, either wittingly or unwittingly. and frequently individuals who go along the treasonous path do not even realize they're along that path until it gets to be a bit too late. >> reporter: california democrat jackie speier. >> were you aware that they were attempting to cultivate then-real est

be worse -- i don't know what's >> they already had a briefing on the books with the director of the c.i.a. today. that will happen in an hour on capitol hill. more members of congress want to hear from the white house on what was said in the meeting with the russians. reporting live on northwest, kenneth moton, abc7 news. >> thank you very much. the president did sweet today he has the right to share information. and as the president he has ultimate authority when it comes to declassifying information. abc7 chief political correspondent scott thuman joins us now from the capitol hill bureau. now the national security advisor is saying the president wasn't even aware of the full details of the nervous that was given to -- details of the information given to him. what do you make of that? scott: we're trying to sort that out. we don't know if it means he wasn't briefed where it came from or he didn't have the entire context of where the information was relevant to what he was discussing with the russians. that is another story. you get back to the legal till of it, it seems that the preside

>> i made sure the components within the c.i.a. have responsibility for counter intelligence, cyber, and russia, were actively working to understand as much as possible about the reliability, accuracy of the information that they already collected and information that was available that needed further corroboration. >> we'll come back to it next round. >> i thank you, director brennan for being here. good to see you again. i want to use my five minutes to try to paint a more specific picture around the methods and mechanisms the russians used to sub born, the word we've used here today our democracy and electoral process. i want the start with a quote by a report i know you're familiar with, the kremlin playbook in which they say that russia quote seeks to corrode democracy from within by deepening political divides, unquote. the russians stir the pot, heighten anxieties and know when they trigger chaos, even if it ends up negatively effecting them they're weakening us. i want to talk about people because you made reference to peop

in july of 1969, bill colby, then the head of cords, later head of the c.i.a., pulled me out of the field and took me up to saigon and give me a bureaucrats job to coordinate the u.s. government and the south vietnamese government in decentralizing power to all the villages in vietnam. during that experience, i learned a lot, came back, went to law school. in my year of language training i learned to speak and read , vietnamese, which i can still do so-so. then i became more of an academic, if you will. after 1975, i was able to convince the ford foundation to fund a project at harvard law school for the english translation of the vietnamese law code of the lei dynasty in 1433. when i left wall street to go back to the harvard law school, i only wanted to be assistant dean part-time. i got the money to do halftime working on this translation. with my friend and colleague, this book later published at yale is about human rights in china and vietnam. subsequently, i did a couple of law review articles, boring stuff. the law of privileges 1428-1788. when i got to know general westmoreland i

all of this coming from the former c.i.a. director, john brennan. testified before the house intelligence committee. he did not specify in any of those communications involved the president himself, though. >> i encountered and am aware of information intelligence that revealed contacts and interactions between russian officials and u.s. persons involved in the trump campaign that i was concerned about because of known russian individuals to subborn such individuals and it raised questions whether or not the russians were able to gain the cooperation of those individuals. i don't know whether or not such collusion, your term, existed. i don't know. >> what was the nature of the information? >> it is classified and i am happy to talk about it in a classified session. >> that would have been directly between the candidate and russian state actors? >> that's not what i said. >> that was my question. you answered it. you didn't answer it that way. >> i responded to your query. i am not going to respond to particular elements because it would be inapprop

unexpected disclosure prompted the president's homeland security adviser, tom bosser, to notify the c.i.a. and n.s.a. sources tell cbs news some of the ioformation came from israel. onere is now concern russia could share that intelligence with some of its allies, like iran, an enemy of israel, but today the president's national security adviser, h.r. mcmaster, denied that mr. trump had done anything wrong. >> he shares information in a way that is wholly appropriate, and i should just make maybe the statement here that the president wasn't even aware, you know, where this information came from. he wasn't briefed on the source and health of the information either. >> reporter: it is unclear why the president was not aware of where the intelligence came buom, but some former and current intelligence officials fear the disclosure could jeopardize lives. n former official warned, "not p ly could a person be killed, but isis could speed up plots." n e u.s. intelligence community has been focused on the laptop threat for over a year. e february of 2016, a laptop bomb caused extensive damage to

director brennan was really important, the head of the c.i.a. e already talked to director comey, admiral rogers and mike pompeo. he is a really important witness and we have both the public and private setting. it was helpful i think for your viewers. some of that information members of the committee already knew. this is a really important issue when a foreign country seeks to interfere with our democratic process and i appreciate brennan coming. >> bill: what he talked about was the contacts between russian officials and some of those connected to the trump team. what you were asking specifically was about collusion for the election and points after. so did you get greater clarification on number one or number two, the collusion or the contact? >> well, we already knew -- this won't surprise anybody. foreign actors seek to contact members of campaigns during campaigns. that should not surprise anyone. the collusion is a specific word but also the specific word that my colleagues on the other side of the aisle like to use. three california demo

we've seen vulnerability stored by the c.i.a. show up on wikileaks and now this vulnerable stolen from the n.s.a. has affected customers around the world. microsoft said users should if they haven't already, install a security update released in march. many feared different, more harmful versions of this malware are likely to follow. >> let's come back here now to paris and the french capital is hosting the evaluation commission for the international olympic committee. paris is on the charm offensive to make sure the 2024 games are held here and not in the biggest rival for the olympics, los angeles. that three-day visit got off to a good start with the evaluation chairman giving high praise already for paris' bid for the 2024 games. france 24's sports editor told us more. >> we're here at probably one of the most famous of the paris 2024 venues, a stadium that was inaugurated just ahead of the football world cup back in 19 98. this stadium should be hosting the opening and closing ceremonies of the olympics as well as all of the

the f.b.i. ity of 9/11.he c.i.a. ever since maybe i'm the only one, but the make comment i wanted to is perhaps if james comey is the that could possibly carry this investigation donald trump needs to drain the f.b.i. swamp, your i'd appreciate comment. guest: well, james, i think that a lot of folks share your there is irony in 9/11, which i wrote about previously a column. there were a series of mistakes made by the f.b.i. and the c.i.a., some mistakes could have potentially avoided 9/11. it is this curiosity in our agencies show n negligence, we tend to give them more esources and authority, which seems counter intuitive. at t of folks are looking the expansion of powers under even this last week, feinstein e senator suggested expanding further the powers of the f.b.i. in terms of looking at evidence on the internet, the sites that people etcetera. james, your point is a good one, don't think it is a matter of draining the swamp of the f.b.i., but a matter of telling to show that we do need a little degree of contr

the story goes the c.i.a. counterpart agency turned a north korean fellow, paid him off and geared him up with satellite communications device and armed him with a dirty bomb with radioactive material to use that to kill kim jong-un at that public event. we were there. we can attest security was tight. they are always looking for any kind of iphone or ipad that might have a gps homing device. playing into that concept. we were about 200 or 300 yards from the guy. nothing happened on that day. those claim to have been involved have had no comment. >> bill: north korea released new images of kim jong-un. what do we see of him? >> exactly. it maybe to attest he is very much alive and well. north korean state media releasing these images of kim jong-un checking out front line north korean troops near the south korean island. it was the target of a deadly artillery tack in 2010 on the maritime border between north korea and south korea. no coincidence that just in this past week cia director pompeo was there checki

this is george push, i guess director of the c.i.a. >> director of the c.i.a. >> rose: what's this about? well, the first thing, when i do a portrait, i have many choices to be completely subjective, balance subjective with objective or completely objective. this is an election year, so it meant, and the son was to do the power, elite of the country. so bankers, harry kissingers, union heads, from cesar chavez to amine. i have no deep feelings about these people or politicians. >> rose: so what are you trying to reveal? >> in this case, i pulled back and let whatever they wanted to show, show. >> rose: the late richard -- there is a selection of pictures in the book, but i find it interesting, in 1976, really, when we were less than ten years old or around there, that we would have the audacity to decide we would define the american establishment, we would appoint ourselves to be the arbiter of it. that's ballsy. >> rose: yeah. pictures of george bush and a whole other range of people. gus, we'll get to you in a moment. are you born -- are you bored yet? >> no, fascinating. >> rose: the

we just learned according to politico we expect the c.i.a. director mike pompeo to be on capitol hill later on this evening to brief lawmakers on what is happening and they'll be pressing him for answers and we'll see what happens in the days ahead with that information. reporting live on capitol hill, i'm sam sweeney, back to you in the studio. lindsey: all right, sam, thank you. this story is changing by the minute. trust abc 7 to have the latest for you on air and online at wjla.com. and coming up on abc 7 news at noon, a fiery crash. right now the quest to find out a small plane went down in new jersey. plus, miss u.s.a. taking heat over health care. the backlash she's facing on social media. and luxury cars at the touch of a button. find out where you can get your hands on these. but first, we'll also have weather and be back in a moment. havertys furniture helps your home look perfect, even when life isn't. and now with our memorial day sale - get free delivery -- -- save big on our most p