we had been showing you the confirmation hearing this morning for the next cia director mike pompeo. everything was moving along fine until we lost the signal from the office building on capitol hill. it turns out the hearing room and the whole building lost power. the hearing, as we understand it , has come to a stop. it's being investigated and of course we will return to live coverage when we get word that the power has been restored here on c-span2. right now we will show you the hearing from the start, all the way up until when they lost power. [inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] i would like to call this hearing to order. one procedural matter before we begin, we meet today prior to president-elect trump's inauguration and therefore have not yet received pompeo's nomination to be director of central intelligence agency. we cannot vote on a record denomination until it's received in the u.s. senate. today we will have a hearing and expectation

the cia operates in the shadows. its officers are often undercover and sometimes work in hostile and austere vibes. environments. it's not simply a job for many,s but a lifestyle. the clandestine nature of the agency's work, however, is both the greatest capability and mose challenging liability as its activities are outside the public view. we address that liability by calling upon the president to nominate be individuals with unwavering integrity, and the senate approves only those we are assured will lead this organization ethically and morally. mike, i've reviewed the material provided by you prior to this confirmation hearing and and have spoken with you personally. you enrolled in the united states military academy at west point as a teenager. you graduated first in your class before serving as a cavalry officer. you went on to earn a law degree at harvard and founded an aerospace be company where you served as ceo for more than a cy decade. you are in your third term representing the people from the 4th distri

the cia must continue to be at the forefront of this issue. as the president-elect has made clear, one of my top priorities if confirmed is to assist in the defeat of isis. we must maintain an aggressive counterterrorism posture and address manifestations of this great threat beyond isis and al qaeda. with respect to iran, we must be rigorously objective in assessing the progress made under the joint plan of action. while i opposed the iran deal, if confirmed, my role will change. i will lead the agency to ensure analysts have the time, political space, and resources to make objective and sound judgments. similarly, it's a policy decision with respect to how we will deal with russia. but it will be essential that the agency provide policymakers with accurate, timely, robust, and complete intelligence and clear-eyed analyst of russian activities to the greatest extent feasible. as a member of the house intelligence committee, i fully appreciate the need for transparency and support from members of congress. i've lived it. we owe it to our stets

the cia must continue to be at the forefront of this issue. as the president-elect has made clear, what of my top priorities if confirmed is to assist in the defeat of isis. we must maintain an aggressive counterterrorism posture and also addressed address manifesf this great threat beyond isis and al-qaeda. with respect to iran, we must be rigorously objective in assessing the progress made under the joint, hence a plan of action prayed while i opposed the iran deal as a member of congress, if confirmed my role will change. i will leave the agency to aggressively pursue collection operations and ensure analysts have the time, political space, and resources to make objective and sound judgments. similarly, if the policy decision with respect to how we will deal with russia, but it will be a unessential thing that the agencies provide accurate, timely, robust and clear intelligence and analysis of russian activities to the greatest extent feasible. as a member of the house intelligence committee, i fully appreciate the need for transparency and

the cia must continue to be at the forefront of this issue. one of my top priorities if confirmed is to assist in the defeat of isis. we must maintain an aggressive count counterterrorism process. we must be assess the progress made. while i opposed the iran deal as a member of congress, if confirmed, my role will change. i'll lead the agency to aggressively pursue operations, and make sure analysts have the time and resources to make objective and sound judgments. similarly, it's a policy decision with respect to how we will deal with russia but essential that the agency provide accurate, timely, robust and complete analysis of russian activities to the greatest extent feasible. as a member of the house intelligence committee, i fully appreciate the need for transparency and support from members of congress. i've lived it. we owe it to our consistetitueno get to the bottom of intelligence failures and not to shirk our responsibility or when snowden misleads the american people about intelligence activities. on my first visit to cia headquarte

the former cia director, john brennan, coming out against president trump about his visit today to the. brennan's former deputy chief of staff tweeting this. former cia director brennan is deeply saddened and angered at trump's despicable display of self-aggrandizement in front of cia's memorial wall of agency heros. brennan says that trump should be ashamed of himself. it's one of multiple fights already brewing in washington for president trump on the second day of his presidency, the first full day. manu raju is "outfront." >> reporter: moments after he was sworn into office, president donald trump and the leaders of congress were all smiles. but now he'll have to navigate the land mines his foes are setting for him on capitol hill frump is still waiting for the senate to confirm most of his cabinet, with just duoof his nominees confirmed on his first day in office. at the cia on saturday, he complained that democrats were holding up a final vote on his nominee to run the agency. congressman mike pompeo, who is expected to be confirmed on monday. >> they're doing little political ga

do you believe that no one feels as strongly about the cia as donald trump? >> he's trying to communicate he has great respect for them. >> but he lied about what he has said in the past. what he said was not true about what he has said in the past. he has -- well, he claims that it is the media trying to pretend as if he has been antagonistic. >> anderson, today, today, i love this whole -- i guess i'm a part of the media now or whatever. i love this whole media bashing thing because it is as if we created this today. we did not. the press secretary of the united states of america chose to speak about this. >> he was told to speak about it. >> in fairness, i think that's right. >> that's very true. to be accurate, he was told to speak about this. from the briefing room, words that embodied and represented the president of the united states. this is not something that anderson cooper and the left-wing media came up with and said we're going to discuss today. this is not how that was created. >> there was no plan to reporting on the size or the magnetometers on

host: the cia. guest: yes. ey had a source that he was at the site, and that is when george tenet went to the white house and when they decided, let's go now because they were moving had earlier than planned. it turned out to be not true. host: what else did you ask him? what else did you personally want to know that maybe you were not asked to ask him? guest: i wanted to know more about his relationship with his family. know aboutnted to his handling of internal regime, and his handling of the shia, and his relationships with the sunni tribes. i also wanted to know more about him. one of the things i did when i first met him, when we first set down the first day of the debriefing, i had a couple of books with me and i held them up and i said, saddam, these are books written about you in english available in the west. in these titles there are truths, half-truths and lies, and it is your chance to tell us which are which. and he was more than willing to discuss -- he loved to talk about himself. he was more than

the cia operates in the shadows. its offices are often undercover and sometimes work in hostile and austere environments. it's not simply a job for many of the lifestyle. the clandestine nature of the agency's work is both the greatest capability and most challenging liability since the activities are outside of the public view. we addressed that by calling upon the president to nominate apresident to nominatean indivig integrity and the senate approves those that are on the shore or to lead the organization lawfully, ethically and morally. i have heard you and the material provided by you prior to the hearing and have spoken with you personally. you graduated first in her class and went on to learn a law degree at harvard and founded the company. you are in your third term representing people from the fourth district of kansas as a member of the committee on intelligence i believe in the outstanding judgment to make you a natural friend to leave the cia. there would be real-time oversight over the operations and act

the cia came up with a plan. they would protect him. they would not tell the israelis or the justice department or anyone else. they would not tell any of the nazi hunters i commend's former aide was living a quiet life in new york city. but there was one condition. they said he had to drop the bid for the state department job because they could not risk him to be tied to the cia and i in closing, i will read you this little bit meet from the names the cia held in 1961. so two officials who worked with him sat him down to deliver the ultimatum. either the language the state department job or risk the messy consequences. they'd struck a conciliatory tone. the cia, his old handler began, valued their continued friendship. the agency did feel a bit duped upon learning of the close ties with adolf eichmann, but no one was angry with him. it was not a punishment but the purpose was to draw attention to scandal. his arrest made it impossible to serve in a government post. he protested. it was ridiculous to suggest he was a collaborator, he sai

i have been in the cia headquarters six or seven times during my military career. every time i go in i stopped at the wall because one of our cia operatives was killed during that time and his star is on the wall. we stop and say a prayer. it is at the entrance to the cia as you well know because everybody passes by and remembers the sol lomness of that part of the headquarters. if mr. trump did not see that as a critically important place not to do the kinds of things he did today, then he is very much lacking in situational awareness and a leader needs to have that. >> well, i mean, i'd ask the question. if all of this is to believed, i'm not doubting anyone here, but there were 300 cia employees sitting there in front of that wall and they were laughing. is that appropriate. >> they didn't laugh at the wall. there were a couple lines that drew applause. we had a poll reporter inside there and some were applauding and some were not. >> these are people who chose to come in on a saturday. >> i understand what you're saying. but if it was inappropriate to say these

everybody always likes to kick the cia because the cia doesn't kick back.room people are clapping but it's important that this is an attempt to show the media and the rest of the world that there is no wedge between the president and the intelligence community. he went on to talk about how great mike pompeo was and was the most important pick and because this was a russian covert action campaign. it's because of the wedge whether real or received that it created against the president and the intelligence community and the american public. this was -- i'm glad he went there first to show his commitment to these people and i'm ready for mike pompeo to get approved so that he can start helming such a great organization. >> so you think the past is simply, quickly forgotten. the president comes who had clearly disparaged the brothers and sisters in your former community at the cia. he blamed it on the media. you should be smart enough to know what this is about. that would be good enough for the men and women in that room. >> i spent 9.5 years as an undercover

in washington donald trump's pick to run the cia is getting a grilling. despite trumps calls for closer ties to russia, mike pompeo has parted ways with his boss with some hard talk. russia's efforts to interfere with the u.s. election were very real. an aggressive act ordered by top leadership. voicing strong support for the cia saying he had seen staff walk through fire. it is clearly in contrast to what donald trump has been saying. he lashed out at u.s. intelligence agencies accusing them of leaking the story about russia having compromising information. >> two days after dimming revelations of questionable origin were published tensions between trump and u.s. intelligence agencies reached a new level. u.s. director of national intelligence said he told trump the lake had not come within the intelligence community. trump blame them for the inflammatory dossier. the people suggest trump and russia had closer ties than previously thought. >> the title is allowed. the content of the report is poor. not to mention it is weird. we have seen loads of strange

the fact that his first official stop was to the cia, and he told the men and women of the cia that he loved them and they were important and mike pompeo was probably his most important selection for the cabinet was an important message to deliver to the men and women in the cia. and the reason is because of grizzle steppe, the hacking by the russians of the dccc and the dnc. that was a successful covert action operation because it drove a wedge, whether real or perceived, between the white house, the intelligence community, and the american people. and this was an attempt to say, there is not a wedge, you are important, you're vital to the global war on terrorism. i think that was an important step. >> i think it was an important step, too, to go visit cia headquarters, friday he's going to go to the pentagon, another important step. these are men and women who risk their lives for u.s. national security. but then he was rambling and talking about all sorts of other issues in front of that wall. i don't know if you know any of the 117 men and women who died -- >> i know several. >> --

the president had his differences with the head of cia. do you think the spat he had with brennan spilled over to the staff, meaning they sided with brennan as opposed to the incoming the president? >> the fight that donald trump has is not with just the executive leadership. his fight was with the day-to-day work, the analysis of what the people are doing there. their collection operations, their operations out in the field. he said these were the exact same people who brought us the iraq war. he's claimed that some of these people are, you know, in their analysis of what was going on with the russian and the russian hacking, were equal to the nazis. i mean, this is just absolutely ludicrous. that is street-level collections operators, analysts, and people who are doing the day-to-day work, keeping this nation safe. it's not just about john brennan. bringing in mike pompeo is going to help. but he'll have to reset his relations with the entirety of not just that agency, the other 15 intelligence agencies that he's spent months insulting, a

that crowd count for the inaugural and he was out at the cia giving remarks that really did not fit the moment. and i have talked to several advisors in and around this white house, who said that they believe yesterday was a mistake, and donald trump today, president trump was making a pivot intentionally here and you could tell also, poppy, he was prereadi reading from prepared remarks, something he did not do before he came to the cia. something he did on the campaign trail, when he's off the cuff, sometimes not on message. today he was very much on the presidential message. >> he thanked the 400 officers in the room for their service. but it was controversial about how he went on about the war with the media and the crowd size at the inaugural. in front of these intelligence officers many saying this wasn't the appropriate place or time for that and john brennan, the former head of the cia, saying through his spokesperson, that the president should be ashamed of himself. >> you did hear applause in the room and those were rank and file members of the cia, no question. but i actually

and it got pretty ugly. >> seems like he has got a thing for the cia. nk brennen has him possibly outbein outfoxed here. play the role of a cia director. >> you used to work with them. >> i spent 25 years with them. when john brennan puts on the record, when the president-elect criticized the cia, the cia director comes out to object. what happens if there is a tweet after the incoming individual, mike pompeo, going through confirmation hearings now, if he comes through, if the president-elect starts tweeting then. the work force will say, you going to get out and talk to him? the previous director did. the leadership of that organization, what we call the 7th floor, will walk in face to face to mr. pompeo and say we expect you to issue a statement. >> to be undermined by the people in the cia. not just -- not pompeo but the people who work there if he continues this. >> this is all about branding. let's be simple here. what he's setting himself up to do is -- the cia has a deep organization. five days in the president-elect after he becomes president wi

it is a falsehood, as the cia so often disseminates. fight with intelligence. are they right to try to alert the incoming president that this may be going on? surely that is an intelligence agency doing itsjob, isn't it? i don't think anybody has a problem with the fact the cia told donald trump this happened. i think the problem is they called the source credible, then somebody went to cnn in a coordinated way, multiple officials, to tell cnn that this was briefed to the president and the president—elect, knowing they would report it and the document would surface. you can take the line that the cia was trying to do its job, but it is obvious there is open conflict between the intelligence community and the elected president and this was a way would that change how you view wikileaks and the way they leaked? i don't regard donald trump as a paragon of truth that we are duty bound to agree with. i want to see evidence before i believe russia did it. second, every media organisation, when they get material, ask two questions: is it authe

the cia has only begun to recover from. he might reinstate it and keep in mind, that's in defiance of other senior military officers in the trump administration, secretary mattis among them who sat down with trump. >> if i could weigh? i went to school with mike pompeo. i went to west point. i've known mike pompeo since july of 1982. >> wow. >> and i can state unequivocally, unbelievable patriot and great individual of sterling character and what he said in his testimony during his testimony was he would ask the general council's office to re-examine all of those types of issues. he didn't say he was open to reinstating water boarding or water board anybody but ask the general council's office. >> why don't i read it exactly. if confirmed, i will consult with experts of the agency and the u.s. government whether the army field manual which sets standard for interrogation is an impediment to gathering vital intelligence to protect the country. >> it doesn't say he's going to reinstate water boarding. >> i didn't say that. an

president-elect did say some nasty thinks about the cia unprovoked. at the wall he said some nice things, let's give him credit for that. but i think some of the negative reaction has been it's not appropriate to engage in kind of self-obsession that he engaged in at a memorial for people who did opposite. so that's really emotional ground zero for the cia you have to be careful when you say there. >> when he was introduced he got clapping from the cia which i suppose could be good plmanener. was that being polite or does it run deep. >> that's a hard thing to analyze. an time a president goes to cia the president is going to be welcome po litly and with a plaus. it's in the dna out there. if your cia president is customer number one. period. we don't flknow who was applauding. the applaud came from the enter range who came out there with him. they stood po litly but impassively through that. >> we have one clarification. -- >> it was a voluntary day, saturday. >> i would not try to analyze the reaction. i'm told this was not the cia every day employee

over the yea rs. part played by the cia over the years.ign speech from sean spicer. sean spicer came out today for this briefing, on the first full day of the new presidency, looking like a man who had been told to say something and knew that his boss was watching every second, watching everything he said. this was remarkably similar to what was expressed by donald trump at the cia. he clearly does feel very intensely that the media has got it wrong as far as he is concerned. he is thin—skinned when it comes to these sorts of things. and he is going to continue to fight back. it is going to be a very interesting for years. just briefly, when they say they will hold the media to account, what does he mean? say they will hold the media to account, what does he mean7m remains to be seen. there are various ways they can hold the media to account. 0ne various ways they can hold the media to account. one is by doing what sean spicer did today, coming out and angrily putting the white house's side of the fence. also, they can limit access, as ind

when we went to the cia, he said i love the cia, nobody loves the cia more than me. standard donald trump message when we goes perhaps into places where the words haven't been so kind. >> he's doing, mark, a lot of these photo opportunities on this first full working day at the white house. lets the tv pool, the tv reporters, the camera crews, come in, shoot a little bit. reporters will shout a question, he may answer, may not answer the question. we don't formnormally show all . to see the president meet not just with the republican house and senate leadership, but the democratic house and senate leadership, that's newsy. >> no doubt, it's certainly strategic on his part to send a message out across the nation he is trying to work with democrats and congressional republicans. you know, but at the same time, let's give this an hour when nancy pelosi and chuck schumer walk out of that meeting, you're not going to see testiness, of course, when you have the pool camera go in and take a quick picture. i guarantee you, nancy pelosi, chuck schumer will walk out of that mee

his only source of information besides the news we have is the cia. how does he have this relationship develop here? how does it work? >> and he can get angry at director brennan, but even when director pompeo comes in on friday, the very first day, it's the same intelligence professionals providing the same assessment, that russia tried to interfere with our election. his intelligence officials will be watching to see what al qaeda does, what china does, what isis does. >> if there's a troop movement somewhere, mobilization by the russians -- [ all speak at once ] >> perhaps the baltics, god hope that never happens because that's nato. >> what brennan told me in the interview yesterday, look, we need a president who knows this is credible, apolitical intelligence. what are our allies going to think if the president is openly questioning the integrity of the cia? you don't need the president going out, saying, i think what they're giving me is garbage. >> do you think it's possible trump doesn't know what objective truth is? >> i don't know. i can't g

it was an expression of appreciation for the cia. ets to a part where he says the media has been dishonest. he's accusing them of lying about a war between his administration and the intel community. he says they didn't tell the truth about the size of the crowd at the inauguration. and they didn't tell the truth about the martin luther king bust in the oval office. that consumed 3 minutes of the whole thing. it seems listening from the applause, i was not there, that he received a reasonably warm reception, and he did point out several times that he chose to make his first visit to a federal agency to the cia arthel: this morning white house chief of staff reince priebus was on with chris wallace on fox news sunday. >> brennan prepare man has a lot of things he should answer for in regards to these leaked documents. he was replaced the day before. he was not asked to hold over like clapper was. i don't know what's in his head. arthel: there is reince priebus talking about mr. brennan's remarks about president obama. what do you make

on behalf of the men and women of the cia, thank you for taking the time to join us. it means a great deal that you chose to come to cia on your first full day as president. [applause] >> and now it is my pleasure and privilege to introduce the vice president of the united states mike pence. [applause] vice president pence: thank you to the acting director, thank you for 27 years serving the united states of america here at the cia. [applause] it's a great privilege for me to be with you today. and to have the opportunity to introduce at his first event on his first full day the new president of the united states donald trump. [applause] as you can imagine it is equally humbling for my family and i do find ourselves in this role. i'm grateful for the president for the opportunity he has given me. it is humbling for me to be an cerd fo ts t wl,hewh t uim frdo ys ouenat m e es i've gotten to know our new president, we've traveled a lot together. when the cameras are off. i can tell you two things for sure. number one, i have never met anyone more dedicated to the safety

obviously, the cia might very well conduct a similar investigation. you would hope those efforts would be coordinated. but the reality is, when it comes to investigating something that may involve a violation of law, the white house really does not have much authority to be able to shut those investigations down. normally it happens at the justice department. and while it can be frustrating for a president, the reality is that the justice department is free to conduct that kind of investigation along with other agencies. >> you've worked with agents, and i can tell you have a lot of feelings for those agents, the people that risk their lives. you used to get the medal of freedom for that. they go into frightening situations in these foreign countries that maybe hate us and like to kill us. what does that do to the morale of those being called nazis by trump? those were his words. >> i really regret that. it's not a good situation for our country, chris, to have the president of the united states and soon-to-be commander in chief having this kind of con

when the cia gets things right, fewer people will die. radical islamic terrorists terrorists. he said they are going to go out and kill the jihadists around the world and they will be eliminate the. those were major statements that he made yesterday that nobody is covering. >> and what do you make -- just to note just for our viewers, we believe that mike pompeo will be voted on in the senate to be cia director tomorrow evening, monday evening, and it looks as though he will clear, he will be confirmed. what do you make of the criticism that is standing in front of the memorial wall talking about crowd sizes, that that was inappropriate? >> you know, look, donald trump is a citizen politician. he's really enjoying what he's doing. he's going to take the media on every single day. he's never been in politics, and i think you -- you're going to see more of this, and i've seen him on the campaign trail. he was just having a good time. as a matter of fact, this week, this past week, inauguration week, he was showing up to events he wasn't even

>> can you confirm that the president-elect has plans to go to the cia in the near future for lack of a better term to make nice after everything that has happened? >> i would say that there is -- sorry? cecilia asked if he had plans to go to the cia a. i am sure that at some point he is going to be visiting not just the cia, but a lot of the departments, and i mentioned that in the briefing the president continues to be held by the people who serve the nation, and so many times without the proper recognition with the sacrifices they make, and so many more could make it in the proper sector, but i think that the enthusiasm to serve in government and be aer part tof the administration has gotten better by the day. there are so many people who have submit ad resume or said that i want to go back into the public service or join the military, because they have been inspired by the president-elect's message, and not just the cia, but every department to go and tell them how much he appreciates the service to the country, and the commitment of enacting agenda of change, and recognizing how

as you heard he lashed out at the cia earlier today. d then sean spicer his, his press secretary, at his very first briefing inside the white house, uptz eused the opportuni go after the news media. here's what he had to say. >> this was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration period. both in person and around the globe. even "the new york times" printed a photograph showing a misrepresentation of the crowd in the original tweet. in their paper which showed the full extent of this support depth and crowd and intensity that existed. these attempts to lessen the enthusiasm of the inauguration are shameful, and wrong. the president is committed to unifying our country, and that was the focus of his inaugural address. this kind of dishonesty in the media that challenging bringing abut our nation together is making it more difficult. there has been a lot of talk in the media about the responsibility to hold donald trump accountable. i am here to till you that it goes two ways. we are going to hold the press accountable as well. t

the cia headquarters on saturday, he may have forgotten that he was president of the united> yeah, and he seemed pretty emotional in talking about it, wolf. look, he's a former cia director who lost seven people, as he pointed out to you. he understands the meaning of that wall. he compared it to arlington national cemetery. and he, you know, you can't forget where you are. and that he forgot he was president. and i think that -- one thing we have to remember about leon panetta is that not only was he cia director and secretary of defense, but he served as a white house chief of staff. and he talked to you about the transformation that occurs when somebody walks into that oval office and stops campaigning and actually becomes president. and i think his clear message to donald trump, through you, was that the campaign is over, you won, you're president, you need to act like a president and don't forget that you are. >> act -- deal with the big issues. you have aides who can deal with the little, the politics. >> understand where you are. >> remember, coming from the private s

the cia does not do the options part. the cia does not do policy options. they collect information about threats facing the united states. what we like to say is collect information on the plans, intentions and capabilities of our adversaries, whether they be al qaeda or whether they be vladimir putin. then, we take all of that information and put together an assessment for the president on how to think about threats, why it exists, how it might in -- how might evolve and what factors might advance it for the good and the bad. then, the policymakers take all that have been together policy. charlie: and that would in this case be the national security council? michael: the deputies of the national security council and the executives of the national security council. is there often disagreements among the agencies or is that a rare occurrence? there are often small differences of opinion. it is very rare there's a difference of opinion that matters to the president. that is the dni last job. -- dni's job. you need to know everyone in my community thinks that

do you have any reason to doubt the assessment of these cia analysts? >> senator, i haven't had a chance to read those materials with respect to climate change. i do know the agency's role there. its role is to collect foreign intelligence, to understand threats to the world, that would certainly include threats from poor governance, regional instability, threats from all sources, and deliver that information to policymakers. and to the extent that changes in climactic activity are part of that foreign intelligence collection task, we will deliver that information to you all into the president. >> in the past you have questioned the scientific consensus on climate change. nevertheless, according to nasa, multiple studies published in peer-reviewed scientific journals show that 97% or more of actively published climate scientists agree that climate warning trends warming trends over the past century are extremely likely due to human activities. in addition, most of the leading scientific organizations worldwide have issued public statements endorsing this

from the outgoing cia director. george, does that statement and the very vituperative language improve relationships with the intelligence community? we have an outgoing cia director sounding like a partisan political hack. about the president of the united states. i think everybody needs to take a step back and a very deep breath, george, and think about what their words are. you had president trump calling for unity, patriotism, giving america back to its people in his inaugural address. the government back to its people. the outgoing cia director making a statement like that. how in the world does that improve relationships with our intelligence community? it was deeply disappointing and unnecessary. >> while we're still on the intelligence community, you know several agencies and the fbi are now investigating possible contacts between trump associates and the russians during the campaign. will president trump pledge to allow those investigations to go forward without any interference from anyone in the white hous

i went to the cia. i have great respect for the people of cia and intelligence. i don't have respect for one of leaders, but that's okay, but i have a lot of respect for the people in the cia. that speech was a home run. that speech, if you look at fox, okay? i'll mention. see what fox said. they said it was one of the great speeches. they showed the people applauding and screaming. they were all cia. somebody was asking sean were they trump people? they were cia people. that location was given to me. mike pence went up before me, i then went up and paid homage to the wall. i then spoke to the crowd. i got a standing owe vags. >> you would give the same speech if you went back? >> absolutely. people loved it. they gave me a standing occasion for a long period of time. there was love in the room. you and other networks covered it inaccurately. i hate to say this to you, and you probably won't turn it on, but turn on fox and see how people responded to the speech. that speech was a good speech, and you and a couple of other networks tried to down play that speech. >

trump out the cia is unreliable, pointed out wmd's. uck schumer when on the rachel maddow show yesterday and asked him about this conflict between the cia and trump. he said something incredibly important. and very revealing. he said, it is really stupid of trump, just from the perspective of self interest, to go to war with the intelligence community because they have six different ifs to sunday to destroy you you stand up to them -- which is something that people have known forever, that the deep state can destroy even politicians were supposed to be more powerful than they are. i think a lot of this is exactly what julian said, the cia is attending to undermine and subvert trump because they never wanted him to be president in the first place and they're trying to weaken and subvert his agenda that they oppose. amy: on friday, president t elet trump is meeting with cia director john brennan, fbi director james comey, in the dni briefedapper as they him, summarize what the 17 intelligence agencies say. tell us who these three men are.

president tom tauke to the cia his administration taking a swing at the press and protesters around the nation and the world take to the streets. i'm jenna lee and this is "the fox report." the new president starting his term this morning with the traditional prayer service at the washington national cathedral followed by the afternoon visit to the cia headquarters. mr. trump's relationship with the intelligence community is center stage over the last several weeks because of the questions raised about his relationship with russia and debate over russia's hacking and his debatable influence in the u.s. election. during his remarks mr. trump that cheers for his criticism of the news media and its promise to take on terrorism once and for all. >> radical islamic terrorism. and i said it yesterday. it has to be eradicated. just off the face of the earth. this is evil. this is evil and i can understand the other side. we can all understand the other side. there can be wars between countries and you can understand what happened. this is a level of evil that we haven't seen and you are going

let me ask about the role of the cia and its face and the direction that it looks. can you walk me throughior philosophical perspective of it being a foreign face and what is the role in the united states for the cia? >> senator, thanks for the kind words. i enjoyed working alongside you on foreign policy matters as well. and right back at you. look, the central agency agency has a mission to steal secrets. and it's to be an espionage agency. getting hold of information that bad actors around the world don't want us to know. these are foreign entities, foreign actors, foreign countries, whether it's iran or russia or whoever that actor may be, the intelligence agency's fundamental role is to deliver that information to policymakers so you all can make informed judgments about how to respond and to keep america safe. that's its function. it has lots of pieces to it. people pieces. we have to have the finest talent from all across america so that it can deliver that product. we have to have policies and processes in place so that we can deliver that. we need to make s

something happen inside the cia that was wrong. tchell who is pretty tough about these things but it was probably torture. but, it wasn't. wasn't part of the official program and leaders of the cia found that those things out and they took the appropriate action. host: i will close by saying simply that the american people never turned on you. 2015 "washington post" poll found 76% of americans said they would do it again if necessary to protect the country. looking forward, should we use these techniques and 17% said we should use them often, 40% said sometimes, 19% really and only 20% never justified. guest: let me say this. i'm not for legally torturing anyone. if it's torture, don't do it. if it's illegal, don't do it. if, if our government believes that the death of 3000 people because you want to use the army fueled manual is a way to go and we can live with those losses because it's on a next essential threat to the people who live in this area, then i would expect the american people would not put up with that crap. i'm not a

he didn't have to affirm himself in the way when he said yesterday at the cia, hey, did you all vote for me? he was with his family literally and the family of his appointees. so that had to do with the difference of tone. he was able to talk about the very short-term future, the leaders that are coming to the white house, mentioning the news event of the tornado. so the letter from obama. so it just was kind of an easier lift where he didn't have to get into any kind of policy detail at the cia. he might have wanted to talk about something more tailored for the cia. i think he thought he did. and he had, therefore, since he was in his now white house, i think that is really accounts for all the change in tone. i think it's temporal. isn't everything? so i think we'll end a lot of these discussions as we'll see more tomorrow. i think there is this kind of explanation for today. >> we'll talk more about that. this is the second full day in office. we saw that swearing in taking place in the east room with the president and vice president side by side. jeff zeleny, lynn sweet and david