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sally yates went to the white house. by that time, cia officials had attended meetings with fbi agents about mike flynn and reviewed the transcripts of his conversations with the russian ambassador. intelligence officials knew a sally yates later told congress they were looking at quote a compromise situation. a situation where the national security advisor essentially could be blackmailed by the russians. at the fbi, at the justice department, at the office of the director of national intelligence and yes, at the cia career officials agreed that mike flynn represented an urgent problem. yet, nearly every day for three weeks the new cia director went to the oval office and briefed president trump on the nation's most sensitive intelligence with mike flynn sitting right there listening in. the white house went on including mike flynn in the top secret presidents' daily briefs for 18 days after the white house was warned about flynn after cia officials according to the new york times had granular specific information about mike flynn being

sally yates went to the white house. by that time, cia officials had attended meetings with fbi agents about mike flynn and reviewed the transcripts of his conversations with the russian ambassador. intelligence officials knew a sally yates later told congress they were looking at quote a compromise situation. a situation where the national security advisor essentially could be blackmailed by the russians. at the fbi, at the justice department, at the office of the intelligence and yes, at the cia career officials agreed that mike flynn represented an urgent problem. yet, nearly every day for three weeks the new cia director went to the oval office and briefed president trump on the nation's most sensitive intelligence with mike flynn sitting right there listening in. the white house went on including mike flynn in the top secret presidents' daily briefs for 18 days after the white house was warned about flynn after cia officials according to the new york times had granular specific information about mike flynn being compromised with russ

unpunished by the obama administration in fact the only person president obama did send to jail for the cia's torture program was john kiriakou agent who blew the whistle on it. so with the united states once again being tied to claims of torture and abuse let us hope history is not repeating itself as we start watching the hawks. you. already see the street it looks like the real thing we see. as you see to the bottom it. would be like you that i got. with the please. please please. please. welcome everyone the watching the hawks i am a robot i have a lot of stuff so here we sit. torture is being bandied about again extremely horrific torture you know looking at that a.p. report and believe human rights watch put out a report on this as well. wow they have a right to feel great keep having this conversation about once every year is that suddenly someone think oh wow we're doing something really horrible in relation to torture i wonder if anything what happened with the really came of the renditions program right it's not always assumed it just went away or i would assume that you know i mean

ehrlichman directed the cia to tell the fbi to hold off a bit on the investigation of watergate becauset might compromise cia secrets. that messageered on behalf of the cia but when he went back to langley he checked to see whether it was in fact true, and discovered the cia had no participation as an organization in the watergate break-in and that it had no secrets to worry about being disclosed. this sets up a very big obstruction of justice problem for richard nixon that when it was ultimately resolved over a year ago -- padilla year later, chris -- a year later, precipitated his resignation. richard next tape recorded his oval office conversations because alexander butterfield testifies to that before the senate watergate committee. it will be possible to tell objectively whether richard nixon obstructed justice, whether he gave the order to have the cia shut off the fbi investigation. the watergate committee and archibald cox immediately requested takes because they are what is essential to finding out who was telling the truth and whether a crime has been committed. nixon claims e

. >> narrator: the secret history of isis began at the cia in the aftermath of 9/11. there was an urgent question about abu musab al-zarqawi. >> i was an analyst working on the team that was charged with evaluating whether or not al-qaeda and iraq had conspired together to conduct 9/11 attacks. >> narrator: at the agency's counterterrorism center, analyst nada bakos was tasked with learning everything she could about zarqawi. >> on the team, as an analyst, the big question was whether or not zarqawi was part of al-qaeda at the time. >> narrator: bakos began by piecing together zarqawi's life. >> zarqawi grew up in zarqa, jordan, which was also near a palestinian refugee camp. he was a tough kid in a tough neighborhood. >> narrator: poor and angry, it didn't take long for zarqawi to get into trouble. >> he was a thug. he was in and out of prison. he was a petty criminal. it was rumored that he had worked as a pimp. >> he was into drugs. he was into tattoos. you know, his friends in zarqa used to call him the "green man" because of all the tattoos that he had on his bod

should the cia be accountable for this? >> i'm very concerned. i think i owe it to cia director pompeo and other officials to ask them directly about the truth of those reports before i take a position. >> didn't you ask him directly when he testified in front of your committee and he would not say whether he knew about the red flags raised about michael flynn? >> we did ask those questions. we'll have a chance to talk to director pompeo in the next couple of days and i hope to get some more clear answers. >> if he did know, and we frankly at this point do not know if he knew that, but if he did know and went on to brief the president with michael flynn in the room, would that cause you concern, would it shake your confidence in the cia director? >> listen, i am -- it would cause me concern that there seem to be a number of individuals who brought general flynn's challenges to the attention of the administration. i was disappointed it took the administration so long to act. and what we seen even since that time is not only do we have the case of

but he was also receiving money under different assume range from the cia. and even interpol girl was very stressed but the one person one people who was karl was working for was no it's very intelligence at the pentagon and that's who was controlling the whole regarding the intelligence gathering and. i know all the time it. didn't give you know steve there were a lot and i was just afraid that i was introduced later that i was working for the houston plan at the white house and. he was an organization it was being. organized by the presidents of and manned i think it was tom used and it was somewhat thinned out the intelligence agencies with the see. just like in john kennedy's murder john kennedy's. he. shot where was involved with the water and he was the guy that called the burglars and water right so that's what's so interesting about the story was that software actually people always question he was he was actually working extra hours putting over time and it was like saturday night when. all the people that were involved with software in the car think

joining us now is ned price, a former spokesman and senior analyst at the cia. pokesman and senior director of the national security council for president obama. ned, it's nice to see you. thank you for being here. >> good to see you too. >> one of the things that the washington post reports here is that there was this uptick in visas. they also report that the u.s. government believes that some of the people who participated in the attack were here on u.s. soil when they were doing that work. does that make sense to you in ermz it of what we understand about the attack, why russians would need to physically be here hoo for what we think of as an attack that happens, you know, in the cloud, in the internet? >> well, to my mind, it does, rachel, and this detail about an uptick in visas, it's a reminders in some ways spies are just like us. in order to travel overseas for work, they have to apply for visas. in this case they probably applied for diplomatic visas. they did so under the theory of traveling under official cover. what's called official cover. that is t

this is the guy who would run the cia, if approved by the senate, nominated by mr. trump. he has called for edward snowden to be executed. so, what do you make of the guy who may run the cia who at least heretofore has called for edward snowden the traitor to be executed. >> you're jumping way ahead of me. the movie was based on the idea that this congressman might see it but they haven't given any thought. they have an ideological stance and you're saying he's preset, should be executed. trump said the same thing at one point a few years ago. you know, life is much more complicated than that and you should be able to change your views as you go through life. >> sure. >> this fellow who presumably will get appointed to the cia is also advocating guantanamo opening again, more prisoners, and also torture. he seems to be fine with torture. so, it's all going in one direction, which is pretty rigid. it's another america that's going back to the dark side of mr. cheney, dick cheney. >> president obama was asked just on friday about edward snowden, as you probably already know.

head of the cia, reagan made an interesting decision. he didn't bring in from the outside a new head of the cia. he decided instead to make an internal shift within his administration to fill that crucial job at the cia. he decided he wouldn't bring up somebody from inside the cia. he wouldn't bring in somebody totally new. instead, he moved over from the fbi the director of the fbi to start being the head of the cia to replace william casey after casey died in 1987. that was an interesting decision that reagan made right at the end of his term in 1987. that, of course, even though it filled the job at the cia, it left an opening at the top of the fbi, right? move the fbi director over to the cia. interesting for the cia. but now a big hole to fill at the fbi. and they are being an opening at the top of the fbi, that was a very, very rare thing at the time. i mean, there haven't been that many people who have run the fbi. for almost the first half century of its existence, the fbi had exactly one director, its founding director jay edga

. >> do you remember when he linked the intelligence community, cia to the nazis? that was hugely, hugely damaging to the people -- the morale -- career people at cia. >> reporter: is there fear that between the administration and the cia this could effect our national security? >> well, it could. it is corros prevent morale. -- corrosive for morale. what does he really think of us and is he going to ignore us. >> this thing is a made up story. >> reporter: president trump denounced intelligence that russia meddled in the u.s. election. he said the u.s. has known about their capabilities for years. >> nay plashed their mission -- they accomplished their mission. >> reporter: this interview was conducted the day before former fbi director james comey testified before the senate intelligence committee. >> do you believe donald trump colluded with russia? >> that is a question i don't think i should answer in an open setting. >> reporter: he has been in that seat a number times before. >> keep in mind the -- politicians, what i saw during the hearings in the 1980s, po

government had, the cia treating this as intensely intensely secret. information that he had last summer about what was going on with the attack and the authorship of it, who could be blamed for it. was that secrecy driven in part or driven entirely because of the source of the intelligence, how they knew. the way that you guys wrote the story today, it makes it seem like there may be very sensitive intelligence sortss close to pute -- sources close to poutin whether it is u.s. and the u.s. was willing to go to extreme lengthths to keep those sources protected. >> this is highly classified information and i don't wan to get into -- i can't go much beyond what we say in the story as to the sources. because we don't want to -- we were asked to withhold some of that information to protect the sources and methods of that. but yes, it was very sensitive and very highly classified. and so was restricted. initially in fact to just the president and three senior aides. >> and one last question for you on this, because there is so much new in this reporting day

i spent 9.5 years as an undercover officer in the cia. i was one of the early employees in the unit that prosecuted the war in afghanistan of 9/11. if on september 12th, you would have told me that it would be 16 years before there was another major attack on the homeland, i would have said you were crazy. the reason there hasn't been a major attack on the homeland is because of the men and women in the intelligence community, law enforcement community and the military that are still operating as if it's september 12th. these are men and women of integrity that are working hard every single day putting themselves in harm's way in order to protect us. and they are not going to worry about whatever drama comes up in this place, in this building, because they're going to do their job despite who is in power because they're real professionals. >> one quick thought to that. won't wade into the politics. as a serving career person, i shouldn't. i can say from a work force perspective nothing makes the day of an officer working for me more than h

the cia becoming more operationally potent in the field? >> i hope so. it is fervently my expectation that the tradition, right, we came out of the oss and wild bill donovan. it is fervently my hope that i can spur this organization, and frankly, don't even have to spur it. the warriors are here, release the bridle and allow this agency to do the things that will serve and protect america in ways that frankly the last administration just didn't let them do. we're going to do it. we're going to get out there. you can't win if you don't take risk. the president has directed the cia to win and we're going to do it. >> on that note, director mike pompeo, thank you for the time today. >> thank you very much, hugh. >> for more of the conversation, visit msnbc.com. send me your comments via twitter. my account there is the same as the name of this show, hugh hewitt. we'll be right back. for mom" per roll more "doing chores for dad" per roll more "earning something you love" per roll bounty is more absorbent, so the roll can last 50% longer... ...than the leadin

and the fbi, robert hanson fbi and aldridge ames in the cia. so they were concerned that i might be running somebody in the government. and so it took them three, four years to investigate me very, very carefully. and supposedly at that time i was, i was the number one case on their list of, you know,down intelligence cases. counterintelligence cases. and then one day, eventually, they decided to go for the kill so to speak, and they said hello. that was a tense moment, trust me. [laughter] >> well, the man who said hello is an fbi agent, now retired -- >> right. >> -- named joe reilly. you're really close friends with him now. >> yes, i am. i spent four days at his house while we -- i'm on a book tour, and we went to the leing highing valley -- lehighing valley. he's godfather to my last child, my daughter. yeah, we're really close. we're close in many respects. we like golf, we are politically sort of, have the same ideas. and, you know, obviously, we also have a similar background. >> right. >> except at one point we were supposedly enemies.

not every cia director is involved directly in things like the president's daily brief, not every cia director is at the white house every single day. in this administration, though, mike pompeo apparently has been. what the times were able to point out at the beginning of this week was when sally yates, acting attorney general, came to the white house during the second week -- no, the first week, actually, to give them that dire historically present warning that mike flynn, the security adviser, was lying to his contacts about the russia governor, he was vulnerable to blackmail or coercion by russia. the times was able to report at the beginning of this week that that warning from sally yates, that wasn't something that the upper echelons of the department of justice concluded and worked on in isolation. what the times reported at the beginning of this week was the cia, cia officers were also involved in forming that assessment about mike flynn and reviewing the evidence that led to that warning. cia officers had apparently reviewed the intercepted communications between mike flynn a

the u.s. elections. cia spokesperson pushing back on that to nbc news saying it is not worth responding to and pointing out that is the same argument made on a number of state news channels here in russia. suggesting, yasmin, that argument by president putin is predictable. >> keir, i know you spoke with sm economic voices in russia with the u.s. pulling out of the paris agreement. we will hear more on that in a bit. you can watch the interview with vladimir putin tomorrow during the premiere of sunday night with megyn kelly. >>> let's get into this. molly hooper and jeremy is with the reporter of the new york times. what is your reaction to the putin remarks? not unexpected? what do you gather from the economic forum? >> vladimir putin is backtra backtracking from the statements earlier this week. maybe it could have been someone from russia. some russian patriot who wanted to help the cause as he put it. let's not forget who we're dealing with here. we're not dealing with the russian president, but skilled

what could the cia have conceivably got to do with the death of the best selling artist of all time the inimitable whitney houston we will cointelpro with award winning filmmaker broomfield trained on whether to raise them a good deal with. means the end of the northern ireland peace process. coming up in today's going underground but first no one really knows how many people have been killed by government austerity to bail out the bankrupt city of london since twenty zero eight the journal of the royal society of medicine says thirty thousand deaths alone could be linked to health service cuts but if anyone wanted member for the slashing of emergency services social housing and capitalist regulation this week's tragic and lethal inferno in london was it no wonder social cleansing emerges an issue within minutes of the fire breaking out in west london and increasing inequality that amaze chief of staff gavin barwell who allegedly sat on a tower block fire safety review even state mandated u.k. broadcasters at the scene couldn't avoid the topic of rich was as poor as they sought opinion

know you have laid it out for us but can you kind of recap what are your thoughts at the cli with the cia using technology this way and do you think they have the right without the american people's consent of course not of course not there's nothing in the american constitution which gives the government the right to invade the privacy of my home or any place that i am where i am i have the presumption of privacy of course it's not ethical of goods it's unconscionable and we have very few means of combat in this my own company m.g.t. is has a product coming out soon called sentinel which will prevent this from happening in corporations but nothing for the home yet and we're working on that but it will be six months or year before that comes out so we're totally helpless we are we are in . a situation with our government where we they know everything about us and we know nothing about what the government is doing well they have the right to privacy and secrecy but the individual does not anymore well good to know and will certainly be careful on where we go online nowadays thank you so mu

statement inblical the main hall of the cia it is coded all the time. the truth shall set you free. orge h.w. bush when he was cia director was responsible for putting that statement there. all is a hallowed hall, you know that with the stars on the wall. some of those who cannot be identified still, they gave their life to keep this country robust need the most intelligence community we can field. we worked on helping to reshape it in 2004 after the failures of 9/11 and the iraq wmd analysis. we reshape it in a better way. the director of national intelligence authorities are not perfect. it was congress, we work closely together. we were the big for working on that bill. adequate,ities are tools that it needs to do its best job. there is not job, such thing, with 100% security. you just heard that terrorists are very agile and will try to work beyond us. we have to scramble to keep up. is exactly right by the way. my bottom line is we need to praise the icy and give them the tools and get the robust oversight on a bipartisan basis. -- theyf her comments recount is used to be is tru

one of the people sitting there in the room as he was briefing him was the cia director, both sittingat the same time. he was asked directly whether he knew of all these flynn concerns in congress and i just want to play again briefly that exchange with ron white and here he is. >> did you have any indication, second-hand, any sense at all that the national security advisor might be vulnerable to blackmail by the russians? that is a yes or no question. >> it is actually not a yes or no question. i can't answer yes or no. i regret that i'm unable to do so. >> from your reporting, is it possible the sitting cia director briefing flynn did not know about cia concerns that flip could be blackmailed? >> you know, that's one of the big questions here. look, there are two options. we know that the cia shared the same concerns that the doj and fbi and department of justice, that's what drove sallyuates to go talk to the white house. we know the cia had those concerns. there were 21 days between when he was confirmed to when flynn was fired. as you also know from what we've been told, he did n

and the other is i had worked at cia, and what's the worst thing -- what's your worst nightmare at cia? anybody? >> [inaudible] >> finding your friend's a spy. that's the worst thing x. if you look at some of the recent spy literature, a couple of those books about aldrich james who spied for the soviets in the '80s and early '90s, they're written by people who worked at the, worked with him. they shared cubicles and what not. so i felt kind of like them. i felt like, well, you know, this guy who had been my companion of a sort for all these years, now he's working for the bad guys. he's kind of the rick ames. .. >> now should i look at ernest hemming way now? the fact he signed up with the nkvd in 1940 and '4 and i couldn't find anybody. there's one book which has a thin chapter that says this is a anomaly in hemingway's life. get looking and i didn't find any secondary sources, so you go back to primary sources, and i started looking for primary sources that would help to tell the story, and i evenly got to a point -- eventually got to a point where i could satisfy myself about the s

about the fbi dropping the investigation into general flynn. we reported last week that cia director mike pompeo missed the deadline for responding to that question from congress. he just did not respond. well tonight we have this brand-new reporting from the "new york times" about cia director mike pompeo and trump national security adviser mike flynn. it concerns the what happened during the 18 days between the time that salary yates warned the white house that mike flynn was vulnerable to russian blackmail. what happened between the time of that warning and the white house fired him. despite concern that flynn could be black mailed he was privy to cia secrets. that tells you a big part of what they're reporting tonight. quote, mr. pompeo was sworn in three days before sally yates went to the white house. he testified last month that he can dp didn't know what was said at that sally yates meeting. by that time c rks airks officials had attended meetings with fbi agents about mr. flynn and reviewed the transcripts of flynn's conversations with the russian ambassador, accord

the cia delivered the intelligence by courier to president obama in august. the post interviews with officials revealed the frustrations now among some of them that more was not done the punish russia. it's the hardest thing about my time in government to defend. i feel like we sort of choked. they say the administration was worried about provoking russia. our primary interest in september and october was to prevent them from doing the max they could do. and after the election, some of the hasher options for punishing russia, like a massive cyber attack on them were sweeping sanctions faced concerns and road blocks from a number of corners. deputy national security adviser defended the obama administration. >> maybe the judgment was wrong. maybe we should have done certain things that dwlid. but given everything we were dealing with, the perception that russia's main objectivity was to undermine confidence in fact elections, that was the one thing that motivated us to be careful about how we played this in public. >> the obama administration started with cybe

described asis distractible and overly critical of the cia and the bush -- george w.ush administration. at one point, he called the report nothing more than "a footnote." in history could you explain why he thinks republicans are so averse to releasing this report and what we can speculate is in the report that might be particularly critical of them? >> that is the million-dollar question. this is the -- 6000 plus footnote. the product of intensive labor by senate staffers. unanimously. it is mysterious why they want to bury it. i think the only clue we have is what feinstein has said about what is in there which is precisely that it undercuts the cia's arguments that the program was somehow effective in producing intelligence, and disrupting active terrorist threats and helping find osama bin laden. with a republican president out there, extolling the virtues of torture once again in a way that remarkable inmed 2008 when john mccain and senator obama were saying we need to move on from, i think it is pretty clear this is simply an attempt to make sure the public is n

>> you have to understand when the information comes in it is just coming from cia sources. it is effectively raw intelligence. it hasn't been properly and fully analyzed. the national security agency had yet to pull in comparable intelligence that would back up what the cia was reporting. the president directs the intelligence community to basically come up with what is known as high confidence assessment. that means he wants them from the fbi, cia, nsa and other agencies to kind of reach a consensus on this intelligence. when he gets that he is prepared to issue the public statement that takes place. it's not in his name because he is worried about it looking like a political action on the part of the white house. so he has the intelligence community issue that statement on october 7. that's the first time the u.s. government says anything that attributes the hacking to wiki leaks. -- excuse me, to the russians through wiki leaks then there is a debate about whether or not there should be retaliation before the election or after the election. obama is very concerned that if

is did the cia not tell mr. pompeo about its concerns that other people in the cia not share them because he had just been confirmed? or were they shared and he decided there was no gain in telling the president this either way, what we do know is that for 21 days in between when pompeo was confirmed and when flynn was fired, pompeo was doing a presidential daily brief almost every day, flynn was in the room and his agency at that time had serious concerns about whether michael flynn had been basically was now at risk of being blackmailed by the russians. >> so the take away is we don't know what pompeo knew. so given that, julie, still, given matthew's reporting, what do you make of flynn sitting around that table. >> it's very troubling from the get go, if in fact pompeo knew. and you know, there are a lot of investigations going on right now. obviously we saw former director mueller talking with the senate judiciary committee, both the special counsel and multiple committees of congress are looking into these

so basically what happened is, the cia sent this very sensitive document by courier to the white house. it was clearly instructed to be given only to a select group of the president and his top advisers for their eyes only. after they read the document they were instructsed to put it back in the envelope, send it back to langley via courier as soon as they finished reading it, it was that sensitive. so sensitive, in fact, that the initial meetings excluded some very senior top officials, including the secretary of state and the secretary of defense. that's how sensitive this was, and how restricted this information was held within the obama administration. >> and this intelligence, which you know is stunning from where it came from, the sources within side russia said what? that vladimir putin was directing attacks -- to hurt hillary clinton and to help continue to? >> righ >> -- donald trump? >> right. the cia obtained precise instruction from putin. this, again, came from a very sensitive source of information. we are withholding some details of that per request of the cia and other

what's the cia director supposed to say? he's got a security clearance, mr. president, but i've chosen not to brief him? the question is more broadly, was it appropriate for general flynn to maintain his clearance at that point. i think as long as he's good the clearance, you got to talk to him because otherwise the onus is on the cia director to say i don't care if he has a clearance or not, i decided personally not to give him information. that doesn't make sense. >> the president made a political decision to put him in the room, that the president has made a decision, it is not for the cia director to weigh in one way or another. we have these russia briefings today on capitol hill. special counsel, bob mueller, meeting with the senate. we're about to hear from jeh johnson, former secretary of homeland security, about what he saw on russian hacking. he hasn't spoken much in public about this recently. it will be interesting. and the question about what this current white house has done about russian hacking or how much it cares is all of a sudden back in th

i am not saying the entire cia programme was justifiable. ogating with a handgun, a power drill. they did things that were completely not authorised, like keeping people's elbows together and taking them to their head and taping them up. in my view, that violates the law because it does not go along with thejustice department. and then the detainees, the abu ghraib iraqi detainees, naked and being leashed up and in guantanamo bay and people being detained without legal process and so on. obviously you are not part of that. but nevertheless you could be seen as part of this whole programme which, in some people's minds, really does denote... i can understand people thinking that way. and i accept there are people that think that way. you know? i don't know how to respond to it beyond that. i believe there are people who think that way. a lot of it comes from ignorance. some of it is based on the mistaken notion that we can somehow make the islamists who are attacking us like us. that if we just spent more time with the islamists, trying to con

he didn't just run with what brennan presented him, the former cia director. he instructed the other intelligence chiefs to go out there and confirm what the cia had shown him in early august. so the same information that was presented to obama was then presented in early january to trump. initially, he sounded like he was receptive, that maybe he was convinced based on what he was told in that early january meeting. but since then, you can see through his social media commentary and public statements that this skepticism is back, seems to be back. >> but you can't read your reporting on this and not be alarmed at the extent of russia's intervention, the high level support of it within russia itself, and seemingly the lack of interest by the current president in that russian intervention. obviously, there's a lot of issues, he's arguing there was no collusion. he feels that he's being unfairly tarred with that. but just the very fact of the intervention, you have both jeff sessions and former director comey testifying that they haven't had any conversations wit

well let me ask this you know so who is this guy who is a bad why why why do you guys think that the cia the administration and the powers that be at the time just became so obsessed with him what was the value. i was a bit is a palestinian that was raised in saudi arabia he as a child he even as a as a young teenager he started questioning the status quo he started questioning you know the how he was treated as a palestinian living in saudi arabia he started questioning how the palestinians were treated by the israelis he was always he was a good kid he was a smart kid but he was he was rebellious and and had a lot of beliefs he was always looking for for his place in life and i think when he went to afghanistan for a job he training. many many he went to india for college in the meant someone who was going for a job any training in afghanistan which is not uncommon in the middle east. for someone to do this he really thought he found his niche and thought he felt were saudis down where he was supposed to be was was a move to the. and so beta is. i think one of the biggest things that t

. >>> and the cia scandal you weren't expecting. the agents alleged scam involving, wait for it, vending machines. we've had a similar epidemic here at abc with snacks going missing all the time. but now weav video evidence. it's a "world news now" who done it on this friday june 23rd. >>> from abc news, this is "world news now." >>> big investigation going on here now. >> brian ross is busy investigating a number of different things, we actually got him to tap in and figure out who was stealing from our vending machine. >> we will solve that mystery for you in a little bit. but we're going to start this half hour off with the latest reaction on republicans trying to replace obamacare. >> the new plan slashes medicated for the poor and offers tax cuts for higher-income americans. former president obama said the heart of the legislation was what he called fundamental meanness. and some republicans are failing to vote for it. >> republicans who crafted it said it will make insurance more affordable and are eager to put it to a vote nex

congresswoman talking about completely convinced that the cia introduced crack into l.a. and then right across america. well i think that was the funding you know that was the whole all of a no thing which was funding the contra war and massive amounts of cocaine was shipped out of nicaragua and mainly dispersed in the ghetto areas south central being the first stopping off point to destroy communism in central america but then you're talking about whitney's brother taking that was heroin but it was crack with whitney houston it was crying of course it went right up america wasn't just sound central conscious decision not the dilv into the cointelpro cia bad thing is there are great with me history is a great different film. which will cause very careful coverage i mean i think it's a hard pill for american public to swallow he went frightened off it because it was very low at why we miss lee does it and i was not up to all frightened off from it i mean i've sort of slightly touched on it on the south central film i remember when i was doing the film about death row record

the cia delivered the intelligence by courier to obama in august. the post reviewed by senior obama officials revealed the frustrations now among some of them that more was not done to punish russia, quoting one, it's the hardest thing about my entire time in government to defend. i feel like we sort of choked. they say the administration was worried about appearing to try to influence the election themselves as well as provoking russia. one official explained our primary interest in september, october was to prevent them from doing what they could do. and like a massive cyber attack on them sweeping sanctions, faced concerns and road blocks from a number of corners, former national security adviser tony blanken defends the administration. >> we we should have done different things that we didn't do. given that russia's main objective was to undermine confidence in the elections, that was one thing that motivated us to be careful of how we played this public. >> reporter: the obama administration did set the ball rolling with cyberweapons controlled

had sent to africa including the fact his wife was a covert operative for the cia. they named her. they outed her. and the ensuing investigation into that, a sort of bad ass u.s. attorney gotta pointed as a special prosecutor got appointed to look into the cia agent. the bush folks and the conservative media went after him, too. a guy named bill krystal went on news saying patrick fitzgerald is a partisan, he's out to politically wound the bush administration. >>> in this current administration, we are used to this new president doing stuff his own way. he does stuff in kind of a crazy way for politicians, right? but going after the investigators who are looking into a president or looking into a scandal, trying to smear the investigators? that's not something that only crazy seeming presidents do. that's something normal political figures do and have done since the beginning of time. and we are now seeing a concerted effort on the right to try to attack former fbi director james comey and former fbi director robert mueller -- amazing to see the conservative media tr

he told his counterpart, the head of the cia, we don't need your help. we can win the arabs without your help. we want you to sit aside, say nothing. but the crucial thing is if the soviets would try to intervene, you would move to neutralize them. and that happens on the very last hours of the war, because people in moscow are livid. it seems that the israel army's about to march on damascus, and then keseghan delivers a telegram through the hotline to the white house saying we will take any measure to stop this including military. including military? johnson says, okay. you take the navy, and you start moving it towards the mediterranean, the eastern mediterranean. nothing came out of it. eventually, all the sides backed off. washington kept its side of the deal. >> thank you. we'll take the questions over here. yeah. and then ross. >> thank you very much. i was wondering -- >> if you could introduce yourself, please. >> laura -- [inaudible] the earth in lands. i was wondering -- the the netherlands. i was wondering whether you could say a little bit mo

the cia capturing russian president vladimir putin issuing orders to hack the u.s.ion to help donald trump and defeat hillary clinton. >>> number two -- alisyn, actually not this tall. and president trump is admitting he does not have any tapes of his conversations with former fbi director jim comey. >> number three -- prove it. the senate health care bill facing resistance from all sides. four gop senators publicly saying they oppose the plan, meaning currently not enough vee votes to pass it. >>> qatar accused of leaking a list of demands from arab neighbors to undercut negotiations with them. demands include shutting down al jazeera and afill channels, balk reign a bahrain cutting ties that fend terrorism. >>> david's favorite stories, hoop dreams can come true. the philadelphia 76ers making freshman point guard markelle fultz -- >> mercy. markelle fultz. >> why did i read this one? >> he's from the district of virginia where i live, didn't even make his varsity basketball team until a junior. it's not a straight line to the nba. good for him. >> keep reaching fo