the time. he was debriefed by cia. kelly johnson, the designer of the airplane, air force officials and state department officials. three weeks of debriefing at a safe house in maryland followed by a senate select committee hearing downtown washington, d.c. three of the senators that were on the committee that reviewed my father's case where prescott bush, president bush's grandfather, barry goldwater out of arizona and senator russell. the house office building is now named after him in downtown washington, d.c. there are eight hours of deliberation back and forth. at the end of the session my father is given a standing ovation, a pat on his back and good job for your country. he has been exonerated for any wrongdoing. but the miss information continue to circle -- circulate around. even today it continues to circulate around. which is one of the reasons i want the book to be published. which is titled letters from a soviet prison. the personal journal and correspondence of cia you to pilate -- u-2 pilot francis powers

towas developed by the cia do overhead reconnaissance. it was pacific we designed by kelly johnson. .e designs the plane the cia are trend figure out who's going to control it. eisenhower wanted to be run by the cia. following,le was the it is a military plane with a military pilot flying over a foreign hostile country. they'll be considered an act of war. but if it's a civilian pilot and civilian plane flying over a foreign hostile country, it would be espionage, a slap on the wrist. program,ontrol of this scour the air force to try and dod fighter pilots that can missions. he starts to fly in 1956. orthe left of the stage you're right, we have one of the evils. this particular photo's of baghdad, the presidential palace. that was one of the targets of this particular mission on november 6, 1956. the other image is his flight map. my father is recruited by the cia in 1955, he is trained at area 51 in the nevada desert, he starts to serve in turkey near a donna. years he'st 4.5 flying these flights over the former soviet union and other in

the cia and only the cia had access. the creation of the directorate of national intelligence was supposed to stop that and contribute to broader document sharing some other parts of the intelligence community could perform analyses. without important that people in the defense intelligence agency get their hands on it because they were applying the information to people on the battlefield. dia was for a long time a blocked. there were not given access in the cia said, you do not get it. they did not have to give much of an explanation. there was a long, protracted bureaucratic turf battle and i will not for you with the details. the details in most cases are not boring, they are interesting. skipping forward, we pushed extensively to get these documents released. ahey were ultimately -- provision requiring them to be released was required in an intelligent authorization act, which required the director of national intelligence to start releasing these products. jamesi at the time, clapper, was reluctant to do this. they

only the cia had access. the creation of the director of national intelligence was supposed to contribute to broader sharing so other parts of the intelligence community could perform analyses of the materials. thehought it important intelligence agency get their hands on this since they were the ones supplying the information to the people on the battlefield. the dia was blocked. they were not given access and the cia said you do not get it. they did not give an explanation. there was a long bureaucratic turf battle and i will not bore you. the details are anything but boring but we do not have enough time. pushedg forward, we extensively to get these documents released. -- a provision requiring them to be released was included in an authorization act and that required the director of national intelligence released documents to the public. ni was reluctant to do this. tom is going to give you an idea why. they put up 40 documents here and 50 documents here and some of them included interesting material. some

and he said that at the time he was running the cia. and he said, i want to be clear, i'm not denigrating people that work here. we have brilliant people working here but tom is the best. i tell you that story just so you have some idea of what you're getting. maybe just a second before i break rule number two and reed this thing, tom, a second how and why you moved from being an economist and doing the work that you were doing into this field? >> so i was reading steve's stuff. after 9/11 i actually wrote an algorithm that downloaded every article or reference to al qaeda or jihadist terrorism you could find, dumped in an email in box to myself. it is running every day, i get it 4:00 in the morning and i read everything available publicly on the stuff. steve's articles came up in there. i thought they were much smarter than the average articles can on jihad terrorism. he was able to see things, able to put together details in ways that other sort of journalists and writers on these issues were not able to do. he could put together a com

suing the cia over john brennan and links to top democrat harry reid. it is in the wake of the trump administration threatening to pool brennan and other security clearances. they have a case? catherine herridge is here tonight with new analysis from the heavily redacted pfizer documents. we talk about the fusion gps connection and what the documents really tell us about alleged spying on the trump campaign. and a front runner to take on donald trump in 2020, one of the favorite targets of criticism. progressives painting democrat into a far left corner that may backfire on them. donald trump is considering revoking security clearances of some of his biggest critics including the top intelligence, law enforcement and national security of the last decade.e. trace caliber packing the story from the la newsroom. >> this appears to have been touched off by a tweet from senator rand paul urging donald trump to revoke the security clearance of former b cia direcr john brennan, quote, is john brennan monetizing his security clearance, making millions of dollars

agents outsmarted the cia but in one nine hundred fifty nine step on bond era the leader of the ukrainian nationalists was killed in munich where he was hiding under the name of stefan pople it would be fair to say that pantera became a major symbol of ukrainian nationalism by sheer chance for he was neither its only leader nor its most powerful one dimitrov don't solve was the father of the far right to tell a tarion doctrine in ukraine andriy melnyk was the leader of another faction of the o. un romance you have it was a general of the ukrainian insurgent army and others contributed greatly to the movement bonder as dangerous ideology suppressed by the communist authorities but supported by external forces never really died the seeds of ukrainian nationalism or passed from generation to generation unfortunately it was just a matter of time before they would once again blossom. in one nine hundred fifty four ukraine's territory was expanded even more when nikita khrushchev the leader of the u.s.s.r. and ukrainian himself generously gave the crimean region to ukraine. historians would arg

i want to talk about the cia's playing. jump to the 22nd and look at image number four. at's two and three like. [laughter] cia operation report against other dissidents in the nixon years can you comment on this and also how you got so much space. space. >> there's a lot of it in the book because first i had a contract having to do with protecting people who were still in the career intelligence. i couldn't do the book because a typical thing. there was talk about people who viewed it as a nuisance. he was running without telling the congress and he was paying for it with billions of dollars he was parking in various banks and i know wher they know whered how it works. it's a complete violation of the constitution and the people that know this stuff she knows who knows this stuff. i don't know what i'm going to do but anyway it doesn't matter so this became because i couldn't do this but it was very kind with my publishers and my editor, my handkerchief and the six new titles for him. they said during the more and the first thing i realized -- i'm not done. wilall you do

forgotten and the irony of course is that it tends to be the liberals now that are rallying around the cia and the f.b.i. the f.b.i. which is for years in gauged infiltrating progressive organizations and peace organizations to disrupt them. to kill fred hampton a leader of the black panthers in cold blood and now somehow the f.b.i. supposed to be our it's really incredible you know brian one of the things i think it's. very interesting very tragic here is that somehow russia meddled in america's democracy i don't even really know what that means but you hear it all of the time but what really is happening i think my personal opinion is that because there isn't any questioning of the intelligence community in their behavior and i'm thinking of the f.b.i. during the two thousand and sixteen election they are damaging america's democracy because you cannot ask these questions about what they did i mean the f.b.i. the d.o.j. which was created by congress right they fund these agencies and what we see is the obstruction so i can't you know meddling ok i'm not i have no idea what that really me

"dirtyat is a clip from secrets: jennifer, everardo & the cia in what amal a." is when you were on hunger strike in guatemala city outside the u.s. embassy there? >> the very first hunger strike was in front of the politecnica, close to the u.s. embassy, but it's their army intelligence building. anand it looks likike the wicked witch of the west castle, with cannons and machine gun turrets. that was seven days. the second one, that appears in this clip, was in front of the national palace, the government seat, and that was 32 days, water only. and then the very last one was in washington because they weren't assisting me. and that lasted 12 days, before the disclosures came out, with congressman torricelli, that my husband had indeed been killed by military intelligence officials, who were also working as paid informants of the cia. amy: and link that to what we're seeing today. so that was the violence of the 1980's, the u.s.-backed death squads in guatemala. you really helped to expose this through your own personal experience. how does that relate to people

>> the former directors of the cia retain a security clearance in the event that the director of the cia wants to call you, either back to washington or call you to brief you on what's going on and try to seek your advice. that's usually the purpose of having that kind of clearance. you know, when i was director, i called upon my former directors, actually brought them to meetings at langley and briefed them, had staff there brief them on sensitive issues and then kind of open it up to get their advice. >> how does that process work when you leave government? so you retain a clearance. do you check in? do you have to file a disclosure form once a year? do people need to know about your finances? what are the rules for sort of ex-officios? >> you know, chuck, i don't know what the rules are other than -- >> i don't either, that's why i'm asking. i don't know. i guess what we're trying to find out, is the president's threat meaningful? >> well, obviously the president has, i would assume, the authority to actually revoke somebody's clearance if that's what he wants to do. obviously the

i have friends on the wall of honor at the cia. ve friends on the wall of honor at the national security agency, all of whom were my peers as well. we do work for one. we are servants to one master, and that is the constitution of the united states. and the constitution is what keeps them in. and i'm with john. people should stay at work because, you know, the president is not the only consumer of intelligence. you have congress, you have the defense department -- >> malcolm, hold that thought. it's a very good one. hold that thought. i go to my colleague, andrea mitchell at the os 10 security forum with dni dan coats. >> let's talk with russia. you did something really extraordinary on monday. moments after the president appeared to be siding with vladimir putin over you, you personally by name, you stood up and spoke out. i'm wondering, why did you do that? >> i'm not surprised we're starting with russia. i was just doing my job. as i expressed to the president on my third visit to the oval office as his new principal advisor, i s

it's usually the successors that want them to keep it. gina haspel, current ciator, she might want to get on the phone with michael hayden and ask something about something that happened ten years ago. it's not that michael hayden is banging on the door to keep his clearance. rex tillerson probably still has his clearance. there are legitimate continuity, post 9/11 especially. >> a bipartisan consensus on foreign policy. the abuse in 2016 has destroyed it. i think it's a very bad thing for this country. i think fighting radical islamic terror, fighting iran, standing up against our enemies overseas in north korea and other places, there should be a bipartisan consensus. the fact that they politicize the intelligence process to try to stop trump, is destroyed it and it needs to be some punishment for what they did. >> i don't think -- >> shannon: we have another hot topic for you. i want to talk about the fisa applications. here is rush limbaugh weighing in and saying if it was so bad with carter page, why didn't they go to trump and tell them someone is trying to

i joined the service in 1985. >> when you say the service -- >> the cia. omenting -- when i left the service in 2010 and beyond, even going up to today, my peers who still serve look at everything from the novichok attacks in the uk to vladimir putin's support for a murderer in syria. i talk to friends who have 30-plus years, one of whom i met on the street a week ago and he looked at me, put his life on the line in an al qaeda fight and said, why did i do it? wolf, it's 1:52 a.m. go down stairs after we get off the air and explain to me over a drink why we did it so that the president can say i don't trust american intelligence, but i trust the adversary thatment forred revolution overseas in the favor of communism and that murdered people in the uk. that's why we did the service for 30 years. i don't get it, wolf. it's not only political, there are personal aspects to this of people that served in the business. it's painful. >> rick ledgett spent nearly 30 years at the national security agency. you spent almost 30 years in the u.s. navy, became an admiral

and there are things that as director of the cia that i would not share details with the president of united states or individuals outside of the cia, because you are trying to protect the capabilities and you don't want to give anybody information that they don't need. >> that is extraordinary for the former cia director saying that he needs to protect the agency, and in order to protect the agency, you would not normally give all of that information no the president. >> yeah, katy, i agree, it is extroo extraordinary, but it is what we have been hearing consistently is that the briefs cannot provide a brief iing to the president on rush sharks because he has told them that he is not interested in hearing it. >> and we are getting a advanced readout from the president in what he is saying right now, and again, it is tape playback and so it is tape and we will play it for you when we get to the tape. but this is what peter alexander sent in. this is the president saying that i have full faith and support of the intelligence community and i always have and russia's actions have no impa

and he became leader of a national liberation army trained by the cia. the plantations of the united fruit company became rear guard bases. in june one nine hundred fifty four the capital quite a modest city was gone. over power of how kobol our parents resigned on the twenty seventh of june in a radio broadcast. for the use communism as an excuse. but the truth is different. in reality it's about financial interests. those of the united fruit company and other north american monopolies. they've invested in latin america they fear the example of guatemala could spread to other nations. after becoming president with support from the united states custody or out of mass cancelled the measures taken by the outer bands government. land reform was abandoned land was returned to united fruit. but neither stability nor security for life. after the coup quote from allah was thrown into a civil war that continued until nineteen ninety six. it left more than one hundred thousand dead a million displaced and tens of thousands missing. the mire indians were among the

the cia, we put it up on the screen last night, if you want your clearance, you've got to act as the a current cia employee would react. >> for the rank-and-file retired intelligence officers who retain security clearance because they have a job to do as a contractor back in the intelligence committee which requires the clearance -- secondly there's no evidence that john brennan and jim klapper has revealed classified information. they have willfully spoken untruths not based on intelligence. jim klapper claims russians tilted the election to donald trump, not true andul contradicts the intelligence that was produced which he presided. brennan claims that putin could blackmail trump, there is no evidence to support that claim. they aren't exactly revealing classified information.th >> sean: i know you have a thing or two to say on this. >> i have three things to say, number one since the cia was created in 1947, no cia director has behaved as disgracefully as john brennan. the idea that within months of leaving office he's attacking the sitting president, calling him treasonous and a

or the cia and certainly progressive people or people who used to consider themselves liberal i don't even know what the word liberal means anymore it doesn't mean anything. what here's the situation is this the u.s. government says that russian meddled by hacking into the democratic national committee e-mail server and revealing e-mails that show that the democratic party leadership. violated its own rules and regulations to make sure that hillary clinton would win the nomination now if that's true and it's being described as a parallel or or synonymous with what happened on nine eleven or pearl harbor why did the f b i why did the f.b.i. not subpoena and take control of that server to carry out a forensic investigation why did it allow crowd strike a third party that had its own self-interest in its own political bias against russia why did they take their word that in fact the democratic party server was hacked by the russians that on its face would make anyone skeptical but again if you're in a religious situation you don't need proof you only take things as an article of faith an

and how do you look at the mueller indictments of those 12 russians that are the equivalent of our ciatives, they are never coming to america, there will never be a trial, mueller indicted these bot companies thinking they would never respond, now he is asking the judge in that case if they could literally not turn over any documents, in other words, that there won't be any disclosure.ld >> and remember, it's not just about the warnings that i gave in 2014, '15, '16, it is also a fact that a year and a half ago, the house intelligence committee had more than thete mueller indictment of the 12 russian officers. okay? we had more information than that. we put it in our report in march, it was in our report that was made public in april, it is heavily redacted, remember, by the department of justice and fbi. we had all this information. the thing that i brought up,p, i just find the timing of this to be very hard to believe. right? it might give them the benefit of the doubt, why does this always happen? every time something happens on one side where we find out a new revelation about wha

the cia briefed members of the gang of eight that, essentially, the cia believed the russians were interferingld trump. the briefing revealed a critical split between the cia and counter parts at the fbi where a number of officials continued to believe through last fall that russia's cyber attacks were aped at the political system, not specifically at getting donald trump elected. the fisa warrant about carter page didn't come until after the election. do you believe the fbi's reluctance to tie the interference until late in the game hampered america's ability to respond? >> i don't think so. i think, you know, in my dealings with the fbi, for which i have great respect, i find that they have a different way of thinking about evidence than the intelligence community does. i used to discuss this, actually, with director mueller, often. when the intelligence community says evidence, it tends to refer to agent reports and intercepted messages and so forth. when the fbi thinks about evidence, they think about it from a prosecutal point of view, what is unable to be challenged. often, the intellige

or the cia and certainly progressive people or people who used to consider themselves liberal i don't even know what the word liberal means anymore it doesn't mean anything. what here's the situation is this the u.s. government says that russian meddled by hacking into the democratic national committee e-mail server and revealing e-mails that show that the democratic party leadership. violated its own rules and regulations to make sure that hillary clinton would win the nomination now if that's true and it's being described as a parallel or or synonymous with what happened on nine eleven or pearl harbor why did the f b i why did the f.b.i. not subpoena and take control of that server to carry out a forensic investigation why did it allow crowd strike a third party that had its own self-interest and its own political bias against russia why did they take their word that in fact the democratic party server was hacked by the russians that on its face would make anyone skeptical but again if you're in a religious situation you don't need proof you only take things as an article of faith a

trump did yesterday was to to betray the men and women of the fbi, cia, and others. can public. that's why i use the terms that this is nothing short of treasonous. it is treason. he is giving comfort to the enemy. >> window we see a shadow government come out and say, we cannot side with the government. that's the biggest question. >> this president basically coddled mr. putin. it was clear that he was intimidated by that situation. whether the russians have something on this president or not, no one really knows. but, the way he behaves, there is a clear signal that the russians have something on him. >> that is where families were separated. look, i know we are not nazi germany, all right? but there is a commonality there, and a fear on my part. >> sean: if that's not enough to make the point, remember when senator chuckie schumer said, don't ever mess with the intel community. never mess with them. >> taking these shots of antagonism, taunting the intelligence community. >> if you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways of sunday from getting back a

that is the balance the cia has. they want to go out and help the nation and protect the nation to gather the intelligence they have to but certain pieces make it difficult and that is why i love writing about a private intelligence agency where you've got guys out there, we hope there are scott -- scot harvaths out there, people who can do what needs to be done. marcus futrell's story was told, first time i ever saw him speak that was how marcus ended his talk when the book was out there. one of the greatest things you could do for us in the special operations community is look away, doesn't mean there is no accountability but let us do what we trained to do, to do the right thing. there's an incredible story where they decided three inmates were killed because they made the decision to let go of herders in afghanistan go and brought it out of an army on top of them and marcus was the only survivor. >> host: before we get into specific books can you pick up any one of your 18 booklet you have to read them in order? >

frighteningly, he used the same words to describe the cyber threat today as the former head of the cia used to describe the terrorist threat before 9/11. he said the system is blinking red. >> michael, i mean, the fact that he's using the exact same terminology, that is not a coincidence. if anything, it's trying to

trump did yesterday was to betray the women and men of the fbi, the cia, nsa, and others and to betrayhe american public. that's why i use the term of this is nothing short of treasonous. it is the betrayal of the natio nation. he is giving aid and comfort to the enemy, he needs to understands there will be consequences for him, too >> sean: and i can't wait to get to all of brennan's nefarious activities. his deep state partner in crime james comey tweeted out, "this is a day the president stood on foreign soil next to a murderous lying thug and refused to back his own country, patriots need to stand up and reject the behavior of this president. we reject the abuse of power that rightly got you fired. you have two indignant anti-trump bureaucrats chastising the president all while they knew about russia's attempts to meddle in our elections. it happened on their watch, they did nothing to sound the alarm. all because they thought their chosen candidate -- jim helped hillary, remember? they thought she was going to win. more and not in a moment. first, we have one key issue. comey, bre

over the men and women of the cia. you can go look at yourself from the level of a snake and that's where i consider whatever hooty i hold both countries or the white house is now struggling to explain why trump has aligned himself so closely with the russian leader we'll have analysis for you in just a couple of minutes. also coming up on this program a hero's welcome in paris for the world cup champions hundreds of thousands of fans turning out to see the blue in their victory parade down in shoals easy each member of the team is to receive france's highest civilian. honor. hello and welcome my name is christopher spring date thanks for joining us president trump has triggered a wave of condemnation in the united states after appearing to favor the russian president over his own intelligence agency. yes after their first ever summit in helsinki yesterday vladimir putin denied that russia had meddled in the twenty sixteen u.s. election trump accepted that assurance contradicting the findings of his own intelligence age

the u.s. has someone inside, we have inside control. one of these ex-cia agents went on television and said we have a double agent and nobody needs to worry. it looks like the double agent was still there. so john brennan has already been involved when he was on the inside leaking information to people who still had top-secret clearance who are now talking heads. john brennan leaked information that almost cost the life of a double agent. this is four years ago now. he should have been fired for that but he wasn't fired by president obama because i think he was a partisan, but now he's a talking head on the outside saying that basically president trump should be executed. that's what we do for treason and so i'm very concerned about him having privileges because of his past history, but i would make it more universal. i don't think that ex-cia agents of any stripe who are now talking heads should continue to get classified information. i think it's wrong. >> martha: i guess that's the main difference in what you are saying. you are suggesting that they sho

the fbi. that's when i was so supportive of haskell's director cia. felt she has the stealing is to push back because she needs to. that's what we need is leadership. again, that's next her burden that they have not had to bear in the past. >> were almost out of time, to questions the first is, people who want to paint the intelligence committee as politically biased as the president and point to the intelligence leading up to the war. they say my fingerprints run that assessment. has the intelligence community learned from that experience? such as today being pressured from the vice president. >> guest: i think the changes that were begun immediately after the what were referring to with weapons of mass destruction in iraq which was published in october 2002, yes, my fingerprints are on it. but i said as a member on the board and approve that. we said set about immediately to make changes and enhancements to ensure we do not repeat such a thing. not the least of which is greater insight into the sources that go into national intelligence. so, for exa

if jim klapper appears to have 12, the same with michael hayden a former cia director. ecently suggested the president is carrying out a second holocaust on the mexican border. in case you're wondering how classified information winds up in the media on a daily basis, "the new york times" story this morning, all of it designed to undermine the elected president and bolster the democratic party, now you have some sense. you would hate to think that deep state is real, there is a permanent government that operates independently of voters and of democracy itself. as long as guys like this have security clearances, you've got to wonder. senator rand paul represents the commonwealth of kentucky, he is worried about this. we talked to him about it a short time ago. john brennan is an irresponsible partisan combatant who works for a cable news channel and has threatened the president on twitter. why in the world would he have a top-secret federal security clearance? >> this is alarming. if you still have top-secret clearance, can he research donald trump? and he researches fami

high up in the cia had never been known. there are phonebooks then. lly the wife's name was in the phonebook. i could find a lot of people. he is running for president. this is the saturday and friday. the two days before the story ran. that's why he run the presidency. john carey was running in 2004. i have the same issue with him. i was at a dinner. one of the veterans that through rocks. they decided instead to run on the record. that one them the election too. i called -- six or seven major people i know what you been doing. the have of that. angleton said you are helping them run it was over a hundred thousand files they have. what i could never get to. the big person they were looking at. they were killed in that process. i always wondered. i got a lot of stuff. it was a big story. it was given. i knew the game. without saying that. with seven different people. i go home for dinner. they go back. about two or three in the morning. i'm just going to spin offshore. they ran the sunday paper. it was a big paper for the times. it had 574 pages in it.

secondly, your advice is requested by your successors so that the new cia director can listen to you. does not want john brennan's advice, therefore the president should strip him of his security clearance right now. >> sean: how do you get to call yourself nbc news and have people under that banner suggesting that without any evidence, the president may be an agent of russia, an agent and he is compromised when the president has been ten times stronger against russia then mr. apologize for america and bribe the mullahs of iran with american dollars in cash. >> john brennan later walk that back. >> sean: the damage was done. >> because a lot of our allies who share intelligence with us heard him, same with our sources in russia who might worry about their safety because he's claiming the president could be blackmailed by vladimir putin. he needed to be taking the hippocratic oath of do no harm to our national security when he exercised his right to free speech. >> every time john brennan spins these insinuations, he is doing vladimir putin's dirty work. that's who he is today. he is u

>> i don't. >> did the cia rely on it? >> no. >> why not? >> because we didn't. it was not anyway used as a basis for the intel community assessment that was done. >> laura: [laughs] every time i hear that. in fact, two former intel chiefs, jim clapper and mike rogers, they disputed brennan's claims that the dossier was not part of their assessment. rogers in a letter to congress and brennan last october on cnn. >> some of the content of the dossier, we were able to cooperate in the intelligence community assessment. >> laura: given brennan's history of lying and obscure ob obfuscation, any sane person was question his objectivity and credibility. trump is right to be skeptical on brennan and call him out on his misinformation campaign. as "the wall street journal"'s kimberley strassel noted, brennan has been bragging that it was he who started the ball rolling on this entire russian closure narrative. >> i encountered animal aware of information and intelligence that reveals contacts and interactions between russian officials and u.s. persons involved in the trum

but that being here is the cia has secretly financed its overseas activities of the national student association but then there came to light a fantastic way of the cia penetration so when the reagan administration came in there was this concept that instead of having the cia which traditionally would go into these different target countries funding their media funding n.g.o.s funding different political operations that was essentially farmed out to a new organization called the national endowment for democracy which was created in one thousand nine hundred three and it would do pretty much with the agency used to do it would go into one of these countries and it would support various political groups train activists deal with journalists business groups and try to advance u.s. foreign policy interests sometimes against the interests of the of the host government the target government and beyond that they receive financial and other logistical help from the national endowment for democracy and other u.s. agencies that help them training activists working with journalists to get their

kgb overhe word of the the men and women of the cia. blame onan placing , the president put what is best for him over what is and for the security well-being of the united states. what if now looms, anything will congress do in response to this awful trip? where are our republican colleagues? where are the republicans who roared approval when reagan told gorbachev to do it on the wall? where are the republicans you demanded a strong response when pugin annexed crimea? -- when putin annexed crimea. now is the time for republican colleagues to join us and stand up. if we wait much longer, our global lines is will fracture, ,he institutions will crumble our allies will consider , and pugin's russia will emerge stronger for it and that's what he wants -- putin'ssia -- russia will emerge stronger for it. speaker ryan today said nice things but talk is not enough. we need action. action.an, strong we need a republican colleagues to stand up for the good of this country. i am asking a republican colleagues to do for things. first, they can star

putin who has described to the cia how the kremlin intended to hack. mr. trump sounded grudgingly convinced, according to several people who attended the intelligence briefing. but ever since, mr. trump has tried to cloud the very clear findings he received on january 6th, 2017, which his own intelligence leaders have unanimously endorsed. >> this is two weeks before the inauguration? he was shown direct, raw evidence not only that the hack happened but that putin ordered it? >> e-mails and texts from russian military officers. perhaps some of those same russian military officers who got indicted last week by robert mueller. >> if that reporting is true, then every single time the president since then has cast doubt on whether or not russia did it or whether or not vladimir putin should be believed when he -- when he denies responsibility for the attack, every single time, that's the president not just being unconvinced of something that other people believe or casting doubt or muddying the waters, that's the president activity covering up something that h

breaking tonight, suing the cia over embattled former director john brennan and alleged leaks to then former top democrat harry reid. it is all in the wake of the trump administration threatening to pull brennan and other security clearances. do they have a case? stick around vinyl. chief intelligence correspond to catherine herridge is here tonight with new analysis on the heavily redacted fisa documents about former trump campaign advisor carter page. jason chaffetz uncovers meant matt gaetz join us live to investigate the fusion gps connection and answer the critics about what the fisa documents really tell us about

the president continues to say this. what's going on in his head. there have been former cia-- why not go to hearing and say why is it the president continues to think this? >> that's completely fine. we should try to get to that understanding. whether the answer, i think is going to likely be you have to speak to the president and we've had hearings about how the oversight intelligence community works, that needs to continue and these are questions that should be brought up. >> will hurd of texas, thank you for being with us and we thank you for everything you've done for the country in the past. >> appreciate it. >>> we are waiting to see if the white house decides to weigh in anew on this controversy. to let's stay on it. >> president putin was extremely strong in his denial today. >> the president took the word of the kgb over the men and women of the cia. >> it was the most cowardly surrender of american his american history. >> president trump will always put the security of america fir first. >> he did not put america first, he put himself first. >> where was his staff