right now, the c.i.a. and the n.s.a. are obligated to inform the public how many searches of americans they conduct. the f.b.i. is not. i don't see a good argument why congress shouldn't change that. the american people desire to know how often the c.i.a. and the n.s.a. conduct warrantless searches looking for information on them, they deserve to know how often the c.i.a. -- the f.b.i. does so, particularly because the f.b.i. conducts searches for evidence of a crime as well as for intelligence. so i believe i've outlined the faults of the bill. this is not reform, mr. president. it is not even business as usual. it is a retreat. it is, in fact, worse than just extending the program's business as usual, because for the first time it writes into black letter law problematic practices as i have outlined. there is not real oversight, there is not transparency. that's what the public demands. that's what i heard people asking for at the town hall meeting i held last weekend in oregon. there are a lot of unanswered questions

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right now the c.i.a., the n.s.a., the f.b.i. can all search that database without a warrant requirement. the underlying bill before lawmakers would say that the f.b.i. needs a warrant when they're in the final stage of their investigative process. what rules did last night is they also allowed an alternative measure that's going to be voted on. it's called the u.s.a. rights act. it's been endorsed by about 40 lawmakers and counting and what that says is, to even look at this massive database of communications, you need a warrant. no matter what agency you're at, you can be at the i.r.s., the n.s.a., the c.i.a., the f.b.i., you need a warrant to even look at the stuff. >> this is a bipartisan measure headed by justin amash, which you tweeted about. what have been concerns of this bipartisan group? why did they want this alternative debated? >> they just believe that right now the 702 programs are illegal. they say that you're going -- they're saying if you're at the c.i.a. or f.b.i., you can go in, query a u.s. person who has bee

they were their houseguests for about three months before the c.i.a. was able to successfully extricate them from the country. as you can see in the image, we have a pair of fake eyeglasses. this was part of the costume given to one of the canadian six. her name was kathleen stafford. the c.i.a. provided them with costumes and fake personas, and fake documents. they had to take on and memorize these cover stories to pass through the revolutionary guards at the tehran airport. these fake eyeglasses are a wonderful representation of that successful extrication. alison: we have two sides of the story. one who was held and another who made it out. katie in addition, we have items : that show the end of the story, the welcome home. on 52 hostages were released january 20 1, 1981, the day after ronald reagan's inauguration. they were showered with gifts and memorabilia. and certificates. we have a button that was a gift to ann swift. she was one of the two women of the 52 held captive. the button celebrates their welcome home and incorporates a yellow ribbon.

citizen, served in the army before his asme at the c.i.a. >> 55,000. eporter: he most recently worked at christie's auction house in hong kong. on monday, he flew to j.f.k. airport in new york where he was arrested. >> the way you caught aimes, the way you caught hanson, was in the act of passing information. >> reporter: michael morell impared the lee case to soviet moles to aldrich ames and robert hanssen. >> if the reporting here is true ath regard to the loss of chinese assets and if the reporting is accurate with regard to mr. lee's role in that, and if that was t tentional on his part, then this is the equivalent of ames and hanssen. ha reporter: lee was not charged with espionage but he is accused of illegally having classified information. tonight we were unable to reach a lawyer for lee. jeff. >> glor: jeff pegues, thanks very much. on the senate floor today, arizona republican jeff flake condemned what he called president trump's shameful and repulsive attacks on some in the media. flake said when a figure in power calls news that doesn't suit

. >> jon: a fox news alert on this tuesday and the director of the c.i.a. mike pompeo set to discuss the most pressing national security challenges facing the united states. a live look there at the american enterprise institute in washington as we await the c.i.a. director's remarks. expected to touch on north korea's nuclear program, the rise of china and russia and ongoing threats from terror groups like isis and al qaeda. we'll keep you updated on this very important story. we begin today with uncle sam turning the lights back on all across the country as president trump signs a bill reopening the government after a three-day shutdown. good morning to you. i'm jon scott. >> melissa: i'm melissa francis. the president praising a big win for republicans after congress voted for a stopgap funding bill but it is a different picture on the other side of the aisle with democrats blasting chuck schumer for agreeing to the deal. white house press secretary sarah sanders saying that democrats had no choice but to compromise. >> democrats realized that the positio

it didn't it took some time for the c.i.a. to figure out what was going on. because they were slowly losing these sources over a long period of time. the bureau didn't think that doj would go along with charging jerry lee many years ago. this is something that changed in may. we wrote about this story. we wrote about the difficulties that there was in trying to find this mole. and identify him. and today, they've gone in and charged him. jerry lee came in to jfk airport over the weekend. and that's where he was arrested. >> arrested as he stepped off a plane. amazing story. michael schmidt. thanks so much as always. >>> still ahead, on line they're calling it the girther conspiracy. the doctor to president trump released his physical examine findings. how do you win at business? stay at la quinta. where we're changing with stylish make-overs. then at your next meeting, set your seat height to its maximum level. bravo, tall meeting man. start winning today. book now at lq.com but prevagen helps your brain with an ingredient start winning today. originally disco

and we conservatives were proud to defend the c.i.a. we were proud to defend the fbi and the people who we believe defend us. now it is republicans that are slandering and slurring the fbi at every turn. >> so with ron johnson, it's clearly one of two things. either he is of such limited intellect that he couldn't pick up upon reading those text messages, that it was a joke in the aftermath of the election and was literally written right after the aftermath of the election. or it's with malicious intent that he and others have combined, in a cabal -- >> who are the others? you had trey gowdy. and who was he standing next to talking about the, the secret society? it's a secret society. we're going to look into it. who was it? >> you have elements of people on television, on cable netwo networks, with a concerted effort to destroy, the hope, the underpinnings the trust that people have in the fbi. >> go ahead, willie and toss it to me. >> the republican senator from texas who was standing with trey gowdy. he gave a speech about the secret

and the c.i.a. and everybody else. how did he feel about them up screwing that from the public?guest: we have to be clear about what the pentagon papers revealed. paragraphs of "the new york times" report made it clear the government's own history of its own decision-making processes over the better part of a quarter of a century indicated government officials misled if not lied to the american people about the goals they were pursuing in vietnam, how well the war was going, and what their plans were for how the war was going to end. that was a very serious charge. it was a charge that captivated the american public at the time. as far as i know, and i am a student of the hillary clinton emails, there is nothing like that whatsoever. she made a serious mistake by having her own server and not doing everything through the government stuff. i may not know any more about that than you do. as i understand it, it was not illegal. whether she improperly disclosed national security matters inappropriately is something congress has looked at. i do not know if they have reached a definit

having served in a few hardship places during my career with the c.i.a., i understand the model that is created in order to innocent that behavior. we eems within your ranks that.have mr. judd? mr. judd: we have. i think c.b.p. is looking at addressing that issue. we have a very good leader at the top. if you look at the structure th. mr. judd? mr. judd: we have. i think within c.b.p. and the border patrol, our top leader, second, and third are fantastic. they are looking at these issues. i think they'll address them. chairman hurd: i would welcome, the committee would welcome the suggestions and points you do have so we can get familiar with that. mr. reardon? mr. reardon: i do. thank you. there are recruitment, relocation, and retention bonus that is are available. -- bonuses that are veilable. the opportunity to provide those exists already. whether there's funding or not is a different matter. think better utilizing those sorts of bonuses would be helpful. i will also tell you where we talk about morale, i think we need to deal, as i indicated before with appropriations for addit

the conclusions. so i remember having meetings with individual c.i.a. -- groups of people with the c.i.a.e disagree with this conclusion and here is a fact that's off. so that went through about a six-month period. >> okay. the fact that the house intel committee is not doing that and not showing to the fbi though the fbi asked and not showing to the d.o.j. though they asked, what does that tell you? >> it's not a responsible process. let me finish the story about the other. after we voted to release the report, it went to the white house where it's another six months to redact it to be sure we weren't compromising national security. here is the problem. you can have something that may look innocent to you and i in a report that's based on intelligence data and our adversaries can reverse engineer that data and figure out how we got it. and that's why the intelligence agencies are so upset about this and that's why the fbi said this would be reckless to release it. it could expose sources, people who may be embedded in another country. >> now it's up to the president to have five days to

it was the same information that chun shing lee was privy to before he retired from the c.i.a. 007. it appears that information was provided to chinese authorities who then began the process of disassembling the c.i.a.'s u.s. human intelligence network in china. "the new york times" today said the collapse of the spy network was one of the worst intelligence failures in recent years. lee was arrested on monday and made his first appearance in brooklyn federal court tuesday and awaiting transfer to federal court in virginia. >> sandra: why did authorities wait so long to arrest this retired c.i.a. agent when they knew what he was up to six years ago? >> that's a question for former c.i.a. director john brennan who was in charge of the agency at the time this was going on. we can only speculate it may be that the damage was done by the time the c.i.a. began to see its undercover operations in china fall apart and once compromised they trailed him in an effort to find out who his contacts were to infiltrate his operation and we know he knew he was being trailed. the f.b.i. intervie

and the c.i.a. and everybody else. how did he feel about them up screwing that from the public?guest: we have to be clear about what the pentagon papers revealed. paragraphs of "the new york times" report made it clear the government's own history of its own decision-making processes over the better part of a quarter of a century indicated government officials misled if not lied to the american people about the goals they were pursuing in vietnam, how well the war was going, and what their plans were for how the war was going to end. that was a very serious charge. it was a charge that captivated the american public at the time. as far as i know, and i am a student of the hillary clinton emails, there is nothing like that whatsoever. she made a serious mistake by having her own server and not doing everything through the government stuff. i may not know any more about that than you do. as i understand it, it was not illegal. whether she improperly disclosed national security matters inappropriately is something congress has looked at. i do not know if they have reached a definit

former chief of staff at the c.i.a. and department of defense, jeremy bash. former fbi special agent and msnbc contributor clint watts. former aide to the george w. bush white house and state departments, elise jordan and donnie deutsche is here, how are you feeling, all right, buddy? >> a couple of white nationalists and i got into a little tussle in a bar. >> bar fight. >> mika will be back with us on monday. >> a source with firsthand knowledge confirms to nbc news that president trump ordered special counsel robert mueller be fired last june. "the new york times" was first to report the news and that the president backed down after white house counsel don mcgann threatened to resign according to four people told of the matter. the "washington post" adds that mcgann did not deliver his resignation threat directly to trump, but was serious about his threat to leave. according to a person familiar. last night, the white house put out a statement from one of the president's lawyers declining to comment, quote out of respect for the off the of the special couns

section 702 was used by the c.i.a. to alert a partner nation to the presence of an al qaeda operative who was turning into a cooperating source. section 702 was used to intercept al qaeda communications about a united states person seeking instructions on how to make explosives in the united states. and it was used to understand proliferation networks used by adversary nations to evade sanctions, including military communications equipment. in 2014, the privacy and civil liberties oversight board, what we call pclob, reported and i quote, over a quarter of n.s.a. reports concerning international terrorism include information based in whole or in part on section 702 collection. and this percentage has increased every year since the statute was enacted. the law expressly prohibits the target of u.s. persons or the targeting of persons located in the united states. 702 is a foreign content collection program. i also believe it's equally important that reauthorization include reforms to ensure the program continues to opera

easy chore rebuilding the c.i.a. it took the entire rest of the it administration because takes a long time to recruit, train, deploy, right? -- that was a us big heavy lift. it was a huge investment. all hayden, who i know you know, was out there and led that charge. increased the numbers, but of course, because of the had most of them focused on al qaeda and the terror mission. place, we're now in a between the dni and other sort of capabilities that we've that, look, balance you ask like you, yourself, why is bashar al-assad alive, why is kim just one ill still alive. not somebody around them that does not want to see them in power? c-span. is a live [laughter] >> trying to keep you promotable here. >> i do think we have to reinvest, right? to rebalance our capability. in terms of the data, look, i adequately we've exploited the data that's available. that whening earlier, i go on amazon, the side bar what hey know exactly designer dresses i buy and they know exactly what i've been and i think it's fair to say in t

every american's data is being seized by the justice department, the c.i.a., n.s.a. we've asked them how many times that's been queried. they will not tell us because the information is massive. and all we're saying under the u.s.a. rights act, if you want to go into that information on americans, get a warrant from a judge, not a query. can't go search it. get a warrant under the fourth amendment or stay out of that information and still go after terrorists under 702 and under fisa. we need to have this amendment to make the bill better to protect americans overseas and at home. and that's just the way it is. i yield back, mr. speaker. . the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan is recognized. >> i referee:. the speaker pro tempore: the is eman from virginia recognized. mr. goodlatte: is recognized. mr. goodlatte: it's my pleasure to yield two minutes to the gentleman from california, mr. schiff. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. schiff: i thank. rise in opposition to the amendment. i respect and share the sponsors' commitment to pr

a live look there at the american enterprise institute in washington as we await the c.i.a. remarks. expected to touch on north korea's nuclear program, the rise of china and russia and ongoing threats from terror groups like isis and al qaeda. we'll keep you updated on this very important story. we begin today with uncle sam turning the lights back on all across the country as president trump sign

every year the c.i.a. and the n.s.a. conduct thousands of warrantless searches of 702 data for americans, and that's just for content. the conduct of these searches, where they conduct tens of thousands of warrantless searches for communication records, the f.b.i. is conducting these searches so frequently that they don't even count. but this bill might have some marginal effect on one of those searches. so the house bill is not just fake reform. it's a setback. and the last point i would make is we finally made some headway with respect to collection of communications that are neither to nor from a foreign target, but are simply about a foreign target. i went after this issue for years, this question of abuse of what's called a bouts collection. finally the government realized it was going too far and they put limits on it. now it looks like they want to get back in the business, and the other body -- the house -- basically creates a path to going back to a collection which even the government has admitted has been abus

but several federal officials say lee is suspected of giving the chinese information about c.i.a. sources and at least ten of them ended up getting killed by the chinese. savannah? >> pete this is hoda, they ended up finding those books six years ago. it seems like a long time ago. why did take so long for them to finally charge this guy? >> reporter: we're told it took all that time to build a case against lee during a long hunt for a suspected mole that began after the c.i.a. sources in china began to disappear. court documents say the fbi actually interviewed lee several times during the past four or five years. >> but, pete, the fbi thinks that he actually gave this classified information to the chinese, but he's not charged with that. >> reporter: no. they won't say why not. but here's one possibility. in cases like this, that involve very sensitive secrets, the government often chooses not to present the full case in court. because that would require disclosing classified information. as for what happens next, lee appeared briefly in a new york courtroom tuesday, he'll be bro

the f.b.i., the c.i.a.. everyone gets to vet it in addition to the vote today to feel comfortable that the information has been properly redacted so that nothing would undermine some ongoing operation. so with that full protection, suddenly they still don't want it public. the question is why don't the democrats want something public when special prosecutor mueller is being given tens of million else of dollars to make things public that have nothing to do with the election? >> melissa: what they would say and "the new york times" said today there is about going off rod rosenstein and impeaching the mueller investigation as a whole. is it about going after rob rosenstein. >> the times have made attacks and false statements and never retracted anything they didn't have to. i think the important thing is that releasing the information isn't going to be about rod. it will be about people who were in charge of potential clandestine operations before the president was sworn in, of course. but we need to know that.

intelligence agencies say about rt-- and i'm talking about the c.i.a, f.b.i., and n.s.a.-- they describeapon in an information war. >> simonyan: all the russian intelligence agencies call the american media the same. i think that's what the intelligence agencies do. i think it's pretty much their job. >> stahl: she dismisses the u.s. intelligence report that assesses "with high confidence that putin ordered an influence campaign aimed at the u.s. election," and that rt, "russia's state-run propaganda machine contributed to the influence campaign." in this intelligence report there are, i don't even know how many references to you-- >> simonyan: 27. >> stahl: 27 references to you. a photograph of you, and a cartoon of you stepping over the white house. >> simonyan: there's nothing illegal that we did. there's nothing murky. there's no weird activity that we're involved in. nothing. >> stahl: to most of our questions, her answer was "well, what about you?" let's talk about russian interference in our election. >> simonyan: uh-huh. >> stahl: which our intelligence agencies tell us happened.

robert carlin has spent his entire career studying north korea, first as an intelligence analyst at the c.i.aate department, now as a consultant to cbs news. here's a piece of plutonium, which in any government in the world would be one of the most tightly guarded secrets, and they hand it to an american? >> carlin: nobody would believe them otherwise, right? people would say, "oh, they're just posturing. oh, it's propaganda." so how are you going to convince the americans? you get an expert who knows plutonium when he sees it, and you, you hand it to him. you say, "here it is. what do you think?" >> martin: what impact did the information you came back with have on u.s. intelligence assessments of the north korean nuclear program? >> hecker: it changed from one of "we don't know exactly what they have, if they have enough to make anything," to the fact that they actually could have four to six bombs. >> martin: well, that's a fairly major change. >> hecker: that's a big change. >> martin: u.s. intelligence relied on satellite photos of the yongbyon nuclear complex to monitor how much plutoni

he doesn't run the c.i.a. he doesn't run the f.b.i. he doesn't even run the state department. what possible purpose could this very expensive, secure phone booth have at the environmental protection agency? governor kean believes that pruitt is doing this to keep his own staff members in the dark, which begs the question what does pruitt have to hide from his own staff? it sounds like a question that my republican colleagues on e.p.w. should ask him tomorrow. pruitt's wasteful spending isn't just limited to his cone of silence. as governor kean points out, pruitt has used private jets costing taxpayers another $58,000. his princely habits have even prompted questions from senator grassley. so i ask my e.p.w. republican colleagues if senator grassley is troubled by pruitt's wasteful spending of taxpayers' money on personal luxuries, shouldn't you ask him about it at tomorrow's hearing? pruitt's penchant for secrecy goes well beyond the expensive cone of silence that was designed to keep his own staff in the dark. it also extends to his schedule where he tries to keep the americ

he knew he had to, because he knew the fbi and the c.i.a. and the national security agencies, all of them had information on his past dealings and were going to have information on his dealings. so what does he do? he undercuts them. you're exactly right. >> the message to the people is don't trust the source of the information, whether it's the press, the fbi or the c.i.a. >> and thereby, you hide your information. that is damning. >>> coming up, jonathan swann from axios just obtain and internal memo from the white house and it throws the immigration fight, even deeper. jonathan joins us with his new reporting next on "morning joe." when you say you need a heart transplant... that's a whole different ballgame. i was in shock. i am very proud of the development of drugs that can prevent the rejection and prevent the recurrence of the original disease. i never felt i was going to die. we know so much about transplantation. and we're living longer. you cannot help but be inspired by the opportunities that a transplant would offer. my donor's m

, but they are continuing with their interference in meddling and they will do it again in 2018, the c.i.a. director mike pompeo said today that they will do it again, and indeed they will, unless they are made to pay a price. the absence of sanctions speaks louder than my words. mr. president, it's time for us to stand up and speak out and i thank my colleague from the state of rhode island for being here today to join me. mr. whitehouse: mr. president, not only to follow the words of my distinguished colleague from connecticut, not only are house republicans, to use his phrase, playing into the hands of the russians, they are actually playing by the playbook of the russians. if you understand the russian information warfare that the doctrine, the way in which russians and before them soviets, for years tried to poison the factual environment around them and then you put that up against this scheme where you start with the selective release of classified material that the public can't get behind because the rest is classified, the false narrative that the ranking member has pointed out th

because i think one of the most stressful moments for any president is that morning briefing from the c.i.ahich you are really discussing all the potential hot spots around the world. what was more irrational and more a sign of derangement in my opinion was obama's unwillingness to have his presidential daily briefing every day. the president, i think, handles that well and i think he handles the substance of issues as well as possible. what i go back to what i said at the beginning, what people are focusing on is style, which we may not all be thrilled with but it is a style that has brought success and he is using that to get additional success for the country. >> sandra: just a few seconds left. you have to think this is causing a lot of frustration inside that white house while they have an ambitious agenda for 2018 having to spend so much time defending the things said in that book has to be difficult. last comment. >> that's the desire the democrats have in pushing this around to their friends in the media. >> sandra: thanks for coming on this morning. >> bill: topic of immigration. r

backed force is majority arab which received strong support from the c.i.a. > they've done good work trying to bring the sunnis in alongside our kurdish partners as well. i think they've made real progress there. >> there are roughly 2,000 troops on the ground in syria and not going anywhere until isis is defeated. >> bill: thank you from the pentagon. >> part of a package. it was the first thing the president and i talked about was finishing it by tuesday night. we will have to start on a new basis and the wall offer is off the table. >> sandra: the senate's top democrat a slamming a deal to fund president trump's border wall as fellow democrats accuse him of kaifg to political pressure from republicans. president says on twitter crying chuck schumer understands after his humiliating defeat if there is no wall, there is no daca. brad blakeman is a former assistant to george w. bush and richard fowler is a radio talk show host. brad, it doesn't look like chuck schumer isn't making anybody happy here. >> it shows the bad faith of chuck schumer. he suffered a cr

administration officials took to the airwaves sunday to defend their boss, c.i.a. director mike pompeo talking to chris wallace. >> those statements are absurd, chris, just pure fantasy. the president is engaged, he understands the complexity and asks really difficult questions of our team at c.i.a. so we can provide him the information he needs. statements like the one mr. wolff made about how we all think about the president, they're just ridiculous on their face. >> the president has so far refrained from any comment on the "fire and fury" book so far today. he is going to nashville this afternoon to become the first sitting president in 25 years to talk with the farm bureau federation convention giving a speech on agricultural and trade policy and then he heads down to atlanta, georgia, to watch the face-off between the georgia bulldogs and the crimson tide. >> the day is still young. plenty of time to go. >> we'll be watching twitter. john roberts. >> how lawmakers are back from the holiday break for work cut out for them as they look to the november mid-terms

the c.i.a., the n.s.a., all of these defense programs under the nondefense portion of the budget have suffered, and they need help too. so what i would like to do is to ask the congress to stop the s show and grow up. act consistent with the greatness of this country, find a way to work together on the lay-up. if you're looking for political cover to deal with increased military funding, 70% of the people-plus believe we need more military funding. if you're looking for political cover to deal with the daca population, 82% of the daca population are supported by the public. 82% of the public supports a pathway to citizenship for the daca population. i can't find too many issues that poll like that. this is fox news poll, which means it's true. 79% of americans and 63% of trump voters favor granting citizenship to illegal immigrants under 30 brought here as children. 63% of trump voters understand that we need border security, but they have no animosity towards these young people who came here at the age of six on average and literally have lived their lives here with no place else to

every year the c.i.a. and the n.s.a. conduct thousands of warrantless searches of 702 data for americans, and that's just for content. the conduct of these searches, where they conduct tens of thousands of warrantless searches for communication records, the f.b.i. is conducting these searches so frequently that they don't even count. but this bill might have some marginal effect on one of those searches. so the house bill is not just fake reform. it's a setback. and the last point i would make is we finally made some headway with respect to collection of communications that are neither to nor from a foreign target, but are simply about a foreign target. i went after this issue for years, this question of abuse of what's called a bouts collection. finally the government realized it was going too far and they put limits on it. now it looks like they want to get back in the business, and the other body -- the house -- basically creates a path to going back to a collection which even the government has admitted has been abus

and we know the russians are trying. c.i.a. director, pompeo, former member of the house, said as much on the weekend. john huntsman, foreign affairs committee met with him and confirmed it again when he met with our members. putin views 2016 as a successful operation. russia got what it wanted and acting with impunity. why wouldn't they do it? my question for republican leaders is simple, what are we going to do about it? what steps are we going to take to protect our democracy before americans go back to the polls or leave the door open to another attack? you see, it doesn't matter to me whether they tried to help donald trump or hillary clinton. the fact of the matter is, i don't want russians interfering in our democracy and the house of representatives has been silent and that is not acceptable to anybody. we passed new tough sanctions last year on a bipartisan way out of the foreign affairs committee onto the floor. and the sanctions held russia accountable for election interference. these tools have sat on the shelf. the

the c.i.a. director said it's imperative. day the president tweeted out a question whether it should go forward and maybe not a good deal. then he tweeted a second time and said no, we need to pass this, get smart. so it was conflicting. twitter called it a cleanup on aisle 702 and there was some pulling of hair out in the intel community and on the house floor as house members are really trying to get this across the finish line. >> sandra: you know, when i just told you the news from adam schiff the house intel committee ranking member saying this bill should be withdrawn from consideration to address privacy questions and get a clear statement from the administration about the bill. well, the president's tweeting, he is actively tweeting about this this morning. in his most recent tweet he said house votes on controversial fisa act today, the act that may have been used for the discredited phony dossier to abuse the trump campaign by the previous administration and others. after reaction to that, brett, a few moments later

something the c.i.a. station chief in collaboration with others in the u.s. intelligence community, decided was not worth while. this article said mr. mccabe's abrupt departure is the latest event between the trump administration and federal law enforcement establishment that is both investigating him as it works for him and cherishes its independence. well, we know that's not true. oh yeah, the f.b.i. and other levels absolutely does, but at the same time, they also cherish their good working relationships with local and state local law enforcement. but this article said mccabe's resignation as the f.b.i. faces fallout between the f.b.i. agent and lawyer who were involved in the russian investigation including texts critical of mr. trump. the lawyer working for mr. mccabe. t apparently mr. mccabe is retiring with full benefits as the president himself tweeted out. and i can't help but still go back to former director of the f.b.i., mr. mueller, who set up a personnel program that would ensure that the thousands and thousands of years of incredible law enforc

woodruff: on the sunday talk shows, several members of the trump administration also defended the president. c.i.arector mike pompeo rejected wolff's claims that the president gets bored during intelligence briefings. >> those statements are just absurd. this president reads material that we provide to him. he listens closely to his daily briefing. >> woodruff: others, inside and outside the administration, have challenged the validity of some of what's in the book. but wolff says the situation is so alarming that white house aides have even talked about invoking the 25th amendment to the constitution. in part, it provides for the vice president to take over if he and most cabinet members deem the president unable to discharge his duties. >> so the 25th amendment is a concept that is alive and well every day in the white house. >> woodruff: to bolster his case, the author maintains that he had relatively free access to the white house. >> i guess sloppy steve brought him into the white house quite a bit, and it was one of those things. that's why sloppy steve is now looking for a job. >> woodruff:

. >> possibly go over to the c.i.a. >> so c.i.a. person will lie for the president about his profanity. that's fantastic. that will be good for america. >> it's very interesting that one georgia senator reacted so differently than another republican senator from georgia. i think johnny isaacson came out early on. >> very strong. >> in a way that shows that johnny isaacson gives a damn about america more than he wants to suck up. i just wonder if purdue has also gone through his starbucks collection. whether he's sending up people that are getting paid by the federal government, by getting paid by taxpayers, to go out and buy lots of starbursts and taking out the pink and the red. is that it in. >> i thought that was -- >> someone else. >> they're lying so badly. it's like if you're going to lie, you know at least lie in a kind of semi credible clever way. this is so transparent. >> these people are bad liars. and the thing is, what are they lying about? martin luther king jr. weekend? about a bigoted president. >> so the "washington

we'll show you the amazing lou: c.i.a. or mike pompeo told cbs north korea is on the precipice of being able to strike the u.s. mainland with a nuclear weapon. >> north korea's nuclear weapons program is continuing to stand, advance, become more powerful, more cape panel, more reliable. each those things have been shared with policy makers. >> how close is kim jong-un to being able to deliver a nuclear attack to the territorial united states? >> a handsful of months. lou: the trump administration has said a nuclear north korea is fully unacceptable. >> it's time for north korea to realize that the denuke a jarrization is its only -- that the denuclearization is its only option. we'll not allow american cities to be threatened with destruction. we'll not be intimidated. lou: joining us next, john bowling on, am balings doer, good to have you with us. a handful of months. >> he made a similar point before. he said a few months. after years of presidents and political leaders, democrat and republican saying it's unacceptable f

has been leaning forward and the c.i.a. has been leaning forward. if america is sitting home waiting for congress to act on this, then we have a long time. i would not -- donna: but we need presidential leadership. mr. swalwell: i thought the -- libby: the news of the day. we saw the f.b.i. deputy director andrew mccabe is stepping down. news out today. phil rucker said that earlier. what do you do from a communications standpoint? will that overshadow tomorrow night, ari? ari: no. the number of people in america who knows who the f.b.i. director is nobody. the deputy director, this is washington news. what is important is we have an f.b.i. we can have faith in, trust in. i do think the investigation of hillary has raised a whole lot of issues that have not been adequately addressed including the fact now we learn hillary was sending emails to barack obama as president. when the comey investigation came out they took obama -- they cleaned it up, took obama out and made it a government official. libby: this seems like your communications strategy of

means that they are likely to go at it again in the future. >> i was pleased to hear the director of the c.i.aout and say that. it's clearly as he did. unfortunately, other people in the administration haven't done that. it's sort of a follow up on what john heilemann was saying before, where are we as a nation when you have one political party that is being aided by russian intelligence agencies, whether it's on a government shutdown by sending out bots, putin sending out bots that are calling it hashtag the schumer shutdown. or a week later, russian intelligence agencies guiding their twitter bots to start talking about releasing a memo that they know would hurt the united states' intel community. where are we as a nation when you have paul ryan's party and kevin mccarthy's party, embracing the support of russian intelligence agencies, directly or indirectly and doing their bidding? >> as republicans like lindsey graham have reminded his colleagues, russians are not by nature republicans. they are aligned with that party temporarily today, because they think it suits their interests, because

still to come on the newshour: a former c.i.a. officer arrested on suspicion of helping china. usa gymnasts confront the man who abused them. trumponomics, the president's influence on the nation's economy, and much more. >> woodruff: we return to the eleventh hour race to fund the government and avoid a shutdown. this evening, i spoke with republican senator mike rounds of south dakota. a key question facing republicans: will they support a short term solution if it passes the house? senator mike rounds, thank you very much for joining us. if the house of representatives goes ahead and passes a short-term spending measure tonight and it goes to the senate, are you prepared to vote for it? >> not until we know what's in their proposal. if it's a propoasessal that they've offered earler which was until february 26th, then i think we've got a problem with it, just in terms of the impact that it has on the department of defense. we've been asking for some assurances that the department of defense would be able to move forward with a contractual obligations, that they would be able

hearing, sara, we'll learn a lot more between the connection between some people in the intelligence community, c.i.ad elsewhere about their relationships with the media. my question for the moment, one of the worst parts of this is they are looking up the names of the family, the kids of a particular "new york times" reporter? they don't like his reporting? >> we don't know, do we? these are the questions that the committee members want to have answered and why they want to interview strzok, they want to interview lisa page. remember, this is just what we've been looking at. these text messages between the two of them. you also have general counsel james baker, who they want to question and andrew wiseman who is over at the doj. >> sean: about what page advising mccabe? >> exactly. the questions they have regarding the insurance policy with mccabe. so they will want to question andrew mccabe, the deputy director. he will be leaving in march. >> sean: a few hundred texts and slow release to these house and senate committees. 9500? >> 9500. they will receive those soon. we're expecting a lot by januar