woolsey, let me start with you upon. you heard senator risch, say this was a good thing the president did not a bad thing. do you agree? >> it depends on whether the information gets out and damages our-- either our relations with another country or our ability to keep sources and methods held very closely. it-- it may be that it will not cause a major difficulty. but i think giving anything away to the russians is something thathas to pass about half a dozen levels of scrutiny. and that's the real problem here. unlike president regan, who was faced with declassification decisions on the aircraft that was shot down, the russian aircraft, and so forth. here, we've just turned it loose and to the russians. and that ought to have been preceded by a day or two, anyway, of high-level discussions noong top-level officials to make sure we knew exactly what we were turning loose and exactly why. >> yang: andrew, what's your take on this? >> well, no, that's exactly right. with all due respect to the senator from idaho, any time-

>> well, director woolsey is absolutely right., this bank is in essence an arm of the fsb, the kgb. gorkov was a former kgb officer. everything he does, he reports back to the kgb. he is not particularly a great back channel to putin. i just don't buy that. you get ahold of peskov if for some reason you want to send a message to putin. he is his aide. everybody knows that. i've got his e-mail. i've got his phone number and the rest of it, if you want to get to him. the real question is was kushner talking about business. and that's the question hanging over this whole investigation. was he looking for a quid pro quo? you invest in our properties, and then we'll lift the sanctions on your bank and russia as well. i don't know that that's true. but the investigators are certainly going to be looking at that, whether there is any financial transactions related to these meetings. >> and ambassador, the big question here is one of good judgment. given what we know about gorkov and his relationship with putin and his possible or at leas

lou: we are back with jim woolsey, former cia director. you are sit hearing to surmise from the evidence that this is a terrorist attack. it's being treated as one. one can hardly imagine an alternative. jim: there is an old saying the race is not always to the swift, but that's a good way to bet. lou: gregg palkot pointing out this explosion happened while they were exiting. there is no level of viciousness, there is simply viciousness, but this is terrorism that is destroying innocent people, maiming others like the boston marathon. jim: and like the ex floating paris discoteque, going after young people, projecting fear in their being able to get together and the sporting event. the terrorists are really quite nasty. lou: and evil. there is no question about that. jim: absolutely. lou: there is another coincidence here. and it maybe something more. march 22, the attempted attack on parliament, perhaps an attempted attack on parliament. that was the last incident. and here we are 22nd of may. these things are a coincidence, but it looks

james woolsey, who was also a past director of the cia. he had been an adviser to the trump campaign and the transition team, but he quit before the inauguration. here with me in new york, cristin a-rna rodriguez is a professor at yale law school who specializes in constitutional law. and timothy naftali is a cnn presidential historian. he is a past director of the richard nixon library. mike hayden, let me start with you. you said on seeing the events of this week that it reminded you of nicaragua, or it made you think that america was turning into nicaragua. what did you mean? >> by that, fareed, i meant that the president was going beyond those normal restraints that you referred to. i mean, he was within his technical legal authority to fire jim comey, but the motivation was questionable. i don't mean that the motivation was in question. we know why he did it. it was the russian investigation. but that motivation is very questionable. and then he did it in the most thuggish manner. he used the power of his office to publicly humiliate

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but first, i want to bring in former cia director, ambassador james wooly, who is -- james woolsey for his analysis of this heinous terror attack in manchester. welcome, ambassador. odo have you here, unfortunately casion. they now need find who the accomplices are. i mean, how challenging is this for them, and how do you prevent this kind of stuff from happening? because i'll tell ya, it's happening way too often. >> right. it's very difficult, because these are ideologically motivated individuals and groups, it looks like, radical islamists. but they may not be part of a big group that you could, might have penetrated with an agent or intercept a telephone communications or something like that. and if it's a very small group, if it's two brothers as it was in boston a couple years ago, then it's very hard to get any intelligence on them in advance. the best you can do really is make sure that your systems are deployed properly and guarded and you don't have, you search people in groups when they go through barriers. trish: well, that's the other thing. think about all those people, t

former fbi director james woolsey.elizabeth is telling staff een philip is stepping back maria: welcome back, massive flooding in parts of the midwest and the south. cheryl casone on that right now in details in headlines, cheryl, over to you. cheryl: big weather to talk about this morning, major flood asking occurring in the missouri river and the mississippi river, pretty hard right now, these are pictures that we got from yesterday but the worst of the damage is along some of the smaller rivers in the area, the block river causing the damage in arkansas and missouri. that river is levy breached yesterday and forced residents to leave their homes. more rain today in that region, expected to worsen flood conditions there. we will keep you posted as the sun comes up there. apple to create more manufacturg jobs in u.s. the company starting a 1 billion-dollar fund to invest in advance manufacturing, this comes amid criticism against apple for relying on overseas factories to make most of their iphones and devices but the

. >> jim woolsey, do you think this is as consequential as michael hayden is describing it?it's a very important series of events. i do think that the fbi had gotten off into given press conferences with some frequency. he headed not the federal bureau of public information but the federal bureau of investigation. i'm not used to seeing in my cia job or otherwise seeing fbi directors giving lots of press conferences. this is a strange situation. he felt it was necessary for him to do that given the circumstances he was in each time. i think it was a slippery slope. as far as loyalty is concerned, senior government officials, our loyalty ought to be to the constitution. we are not in medieval england. people aren't trying to stage coups and so forth or nicaragua. so i think a perfectly appropriate answer to the question, are you loyal to me, is certainly as long as you are within the operating room that you are given by the constitution, mr. president. but i find this whole thing, this whole week to be really troubling for sort of incoat reasons and ways. i think it is going

director woolsey is an attorney. would trust his legal alarm bells when they're going off. >> it certainly was interesting. thank you very much for joining us, sir. >> glad to be with you, greta. >> sally yates blackmail testimony getting headlines but it was something former director of national intelligence james clapper said today that was fascinate, a big revelation. >>> next, the healthcare backlash, republicans under fire at town halls. allergies with nasal congestion? find fast relief behind the counter with claritin-d. [ upbeat music ] strut past that aisle for the allergy relief that starts working in as little as 30 minutes and contains the best oral decongestant. live claritin clear, with claritin-d. usaa gives me the and the security just like the marines did. the process through usaa is so effortless, that you feel like you're a part of the family. i love that i can pass the membership to my children. we're the williams family, and we're usaa members for life. ...one of many pieces in my life. so when my

director comey, ambassador woolsey, i want to ask you about director comey.e said that the suggestion made by hillary clinton as recently as questioned, i'm sure you saw that yesterday, the suggestion that he swayed the election of her e-mail investigation but not candidate trump in russia made him, quote, mildly nauseous, unquote. what's your reaction to that? >> i think that it was a mistake for him and i'm reluctant to criticizing because i think he's a very public fine servant and he did the best that he could in difficult circumstances. i think it was a mistake to get into the business of making the announcements because after you make the first one, he can see how he had to make the second one and so on. i think it's -- it is the federal bureau of investigation, not the federal bureau of information. i think it was a bad idea to start but i can see why he was torn and why he was drawn to do it and i think he's a very able individual. >> thanks to all of you. when we come back, how is the art of the deal working out for the president? i'm going to speak

james woolsey, stewart kaplan, a former fbi agent and juliette kayyen.isten to this dire warning on russia. >> so what kind of threat do you believe russia presents to our democratic process, given what you know about russia's behavior of late? >> well, certainly in my view, the biggest threat of any nation on earth given their intention and capability. >> so, sir, you say that you've never seen an fbi director so worried and that plays a role in that, explain what you mean by that. >> well, i mean, don, will tell you this, when i was working high-profile national security cases when i was assigned to the special operations in new york, russia then was a high-profile star get. i don't think anything has changed other than it's being played out in the public domain. i have to tell you, it's quite unusual that we have a director putting it out there for public dissemination under former direct direct direct director muller, this would not have been acceptable to talk about ongoing investigations. >> putin favored trump, he says. listen to this. >> what is

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listen to the reaction of former cia chief james woolsey, who served for a period of time on the president's transition team. >> we have to distinguish between what's legally permitted and what is wise. it is legally permitted for the president to declassified something, even if he does it quickly and without giving it much thought. there's not a legal requirement on that. but it's not wise to do that. >> now under the heading of political irony, remember the president in many of his key supporters have a history of going after others who allegedly disclosed sensitive information. here's how speaker paul ryan, tweeting about hillary clinton last july -- "it's simple. individuals who are extremely careless with classified info should be denied further access to it," talking, of course, about the fbi director, you know, determination that she was extremely careless with her e-mail. >> yeah, the private server. white house chief of staff reince priebus, same time frame -- "those who mishandled classified info have had their security clearances revoked, lost their jobs, faced fines, and even bee

. >>> i want to turn now to ambassador james woolsey who also is a former director of the cia.mbassad ambassador, i appreciate you joining us as well. >> good to be with you. >> your reaction to our breaking news tonight. how serious is this, ambassador? >> well, we don't know yet, but it could be quite serious. this -- first of all, it's very important where the leak to the united states came from, from what country. some countries, this could be extremely damage to our ability to work with them in the future. others not. depends on the substance of what was leaked. in the press stories, there's indications about terrorist plots involving aircraft and carrying computers onto aircraft. it's not clear what was leaked or what the problem is. but if it is serious, then this is something that just has to get fixed. we can't have president or anybody else in the government just sort of randomly coming out with highly classified material like this. >> the "washington post" is reporting that one of the president's aides called the cia and the nsa after this meeting to let them know wh

former cia director jim woolsey called a quote courageous speech. former house speaker newt gingrich's ed and the "washington post" would have to look back decades quote to find a comparatively dramatic moment in the history of u.s. foreign policy and former democratic representative jane harman said she quote love the idea that he's going to the found of all three major religions. catholics air of allies praised the president's leader on his leadership. president trump's you need personality with capable of doing the impossible. the saudi foreign minister said quote this is the beginning of a turning point in the relationship between the united states and the arab and islamic world. king solomon and other key allies also gave extraordinary praise, extraordinary speeches at the summit underscoring just how much president trump had done to rally the world against terrorism. we cannot overlook the significance of so many leaders of muslim countries coming together to recognize the need to fight extremism. this was a historic event in that regard alone

and for more on the investigations into russian interference we are joined now by james woolsey, whodirector of central intelligence. do you agree with senatorjohn mccain that the real concern and real threat at the moment for the united states national security is not so much islamic state but russia? i would say iran and north korea and russia. iran and north korea and russia. iran and north korea both have strong elements of instability about them and ideology, who knows what the ideology is for north korea. iran it is islamist terrorism. and that is a very serious problem. russia, we're used to dealing with, we fought a cold war against them for several decades and more or less prevail. and several times we almost came to nuclear war. but we got through it and part of that was because russia has a certain element of stability about it in spite of its habit of wanting to capture its neighbours and whenever it is bordered seems to wa nt to and whenever it is bordered seems to want to grab a neighbour. and that is not a good thing from our point of view. i think it lost a lot at the

heather: even bill clinton's former cia director james woolsey says the real issue in washington is the>> a lot of things have been disclosed too much and that is the real scandal. people who have broken these tacit and formal agreements and taking classified information and turned it loose are basically traitors to the country. heather: setting back channels for communication is nothing new. >> the trump administration sending a stern message to north korea, if you fire a nuclear missile we can block it and the u.s. navy bolstered fleet presence in front of kim jung un. details on a difficult defense test that was mastered yesterday. >> reporter: the technology is so precise it is like hitting a bullet with another bullet and the us military pulled it off. a big moment, crucial test conducted over the pacific ocean we mock enemy missiles near the marshall islands, targeted by an interceptor north of santa barbara. stakes couldn't be higher, and kim jung un fires a dozen missiles this year alone. >> the missile tested last we can reach a why. electromagnetic pulse over hawaii would shut

we are with former cia james woolsey this morning on the panel. your reaction?>> well, it's interesting they got these the arrests relatively quickly. i would say that is one of two things. either we've somehow been able to get informants inside a number of these groups that would be good, the british police and the domestically focused part of their law enforcement to send a really quite good. probably more likely they immediately turned to interviewing kids and neighbors and particularly brothers, better at. a lot of these terrorist attacks, just two or three people plan that will be one family. i remember what happened in boss and at the time of the marathon a couple of years. they are very different routes they can use to see if they can get a better handle on a larger group and stop the larger group from doing something that none of it is foolproof. maria: clearly they had some intelligence to say, teresa may say another attack is highly late late or perhaps a minute. >> it seems to me they are very nervous. i get this emotional feeling like we seem to. whe

it could be when they have a hit change that's when woolsey the troops starting to arrive. and i just passed westminster. there weren't any troops there. the idea is as more people start to converge on some of the landmarks particularly during the tourist system they are going to be seeing an increased preps in the army and so on and owe forth. theresa may saying this is a proportional response to the threat this country is facing. which pris me to the threat level. critical. the most severe threat level for this country. it's only the third time it has been put in place. it was put in place after theresa may chaired a cobra meeting. she will chair another one an hour or so from now. maybe she will take to the steps of 10 downing street to give a further update on the investigation. it seems as though the reason why they have decided to upgrade the threat level here is they cannot figure out whether this sid was acting alone or if he had help. if he did have help they have to figure out who is in the cell with him. it's meaning that another attack may be imminent. we are ge

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woolsey he started a commission a year ago but thank you will see that amount women as deacons and women preaching and when we start hearing women give a sermon what it was like for merry to give birth because no priest gives birth that will change the way people think about merry and donkeys and cows to go through the pain that little think any priest can talk about with any authority think those will change the structure of the catholic church is a fast enough? know but too much for others yes will he change? settled here any discussion about that but when he comes to america he is in a fiat but president obama gets the as 2 feet he is deemed in the back of a little car he is sending a message and when he invites homeless people to his birthday party he is sending a message so you can say he is not doing enough on this but he moves us talk about planting in ordering seeds from previous generations he said replant today will receive them sprout in our lifetime? node he doesn't worry about that. but the women deacons will change things. being the first guy to take the name princess. talk

. >> final question, do you agree with former cia director james woolsey who said to fareed zakaria it's hard to find someone in comey's shoes willing to operate under the current circumstances? >> i'll tell you, it's not the norm for the fbi agents association to come out publicly in the press as much as we're doing, and we feel very strongly that this is a very important decision that needs to be made, and that's why we're putting a voice to this. we want people to know that the fbi agents and the fbi agents executive board took a vote and it was unanimous by that board that we would back mike rodgers for this position. he's someone as i said has agent experience and we believe he can be completely apolitical and swear allegiance to that constitution to support it. >> thomas o'connor, thank you so much for being with us. thank you for your service, and i think it's very interesting, we can read between the lines of what you are willing to say and not willing to say. >> and not answer, exactly. thank you. >> appreciate it, sir. >> thank you very much. >>> all kinds of reports this weeke

look, it is some push for an fbi director with no political ties, but former cia director james woolsey says finding someone who actually wants this job could be difficult. listen. >> i think it's going to be very hard to find a good fbi director who is willing to operate under the circumstances that we've seen this week. >> all right, let's bring in our panel, james galliano is a cnn law enforcement analyst and retired fbi supervisory special agent. richard painter is a former white house ethics lawyer. and mike baker is here, former cia operative and co-founder of "diligent tell-all: a global intelligence security forum." nice to have you all here. mike, let me begin with you. you seem to be on the side of lindsey graham and those who say absolutely no one with any political background whatsoever. why? >> well, i think, first of all, i think it's what's needed at this time. i think it's what's needed by the fbi. i think that would be the best step for them. to bring in an independent, low-profile director. look, we don't need a high-profile individual in this position. it's the direct

i want to bring in ambassador james woolsey. he former director of the central intelligence agency. and cnn counterterrorism analyst philip mudd, a former counterterrorism cia official. good evening to both of you. ambassador, trump administration officials say having two countries communicate through a back channel is a standard procedure and a good thing. do you agree with that, ambassador? >> sure. and it happens a lot, and it happens in different ways. when i was director, i had people ask me if i could explore some issues because i was going to have a private lunch with yeltsin, a trip coming up to russia. i did. it worked fine. it's a complicated thing to have back channel. i think, given the american electoral system, we have a new administration selected by early november, and they don't take office until late january. and so there's a period of two-plus months in which the old abbott and costello routine, who's on first -- >> but isn't there one president at a time? and if the trump administration had abided by that, they may not be in this? >> well, there is only one presi

james woolsey is a former director chair at the cia. special assistant and national security council spokesperson with the obama administration, and daniel iline is ambassador to the u.s. james, let's start with you. this is potentially going to be a credibility war. if this memo is seen by a closed door hearing in congress or potentially an open door hearing in congress, who is going to win credibility more when it comes to donald trump and the former fbi director, james comey? >> well, first of all, we had to get clear what investigation we're talking about. the fbi runs two kinds of investigations. one is a criminal investigation which everybody is familiar with. you try to penetrate the mafia and see if they're struggling heroin and so forth. the other is a counterintelligence investigation. that is not something that is focused on prosecution, it's focused on protecting the country from foreign intrusion and stealing of secrets. it's my understanding that what we have been talking about with respect to the russians, for example, is

former cia director jim woolsey called it a courageous speech. former house speaker newt gingrich said we have to look back decades to, quote, find a comparatively dramatic moment in the history of u.s. foreign policy and former democratic representative jane harmon said she, quote, loved the idea he's going to the found of all three major religions. countless arab allies praised the president's leadership on the visit. pral-sisi, said this is the beginning of a turning point in the relationship between the united states and the arab and islamic world. king salman and other key allies gave extraordinary speeches at the summit, underscoring how much president trump has done to rally the world against terrorism. we cannot overlook the significance of so many leaders of muslim countries coming together to fight extremists. this was a historic event in that regard alone. king salman shares the president's determination to, quote, renounce extremism and work on countering terrorism in all forms and manifestations. king abdullah agreed it demands coord

jim woolsey called it a courageous speech. newt gingrich said we have to look back decades to find a comparatively dramatic moment in the history of u.s. foreign policy and former democratic representative jane harmon said she, quote, loved the idea that he's going to the font of all three religions. allies also praised the president's leadership. el sisi of europe said capable of doing the impossible and said this is the beginning of a turning point in the relationship between the united states and the arab and islamic world. king salman and other key allies also gave extraordinary praise -- speeches at the summit underscoring just how much president trump has done to rally the world against terrorism. we cannot overlook the significance of so many countries coming together to recognize the need to fight extremists. this was a historic event in that regard alone. king salman said he shares the president's determination to, quote, renounce extremism and work on countering terrorism in all of its forms and manifestation. king a

. >> ambassador woolsey, we're learning now that these memos, i think it's fair to say extensive. the fbi director james comey documented everything he could remember, and he did so because you realize something momentous has happened and memories fade and he wanted to memorialize it at the earliest time. comey included a description what trump said to him about crowd size at the inauguration, which we all remember was something the president claimed which was not true. ambassador, when you take the base memo that we have right now, that comey says trump asked him to end the investigation into general flynn, donald trump and the white house denying that happened, who do you believe? >> the important thing is to get straight what type of investigation is going on. there are really two kinds that the fishbi runs, there's crimin investigations, which is what everybody thinks of with grand juries and prosecutors and so forth. and then there's intelligence collection, the fbi collects information about counter intelligence in the u.s., the cia collects it overseas. but it's not a crimi

. >> former cia director james woolsey, all of you, very much appreciated. >>> we'll talk about the democrats reacting to the wild week at the white house. what they're saying this morning about president trump's meeting with russian officials and what they're demanding from the administration. i'll be talking with a congresswoman who is on a key committee committee. >>> at any moment at the white house, we're expecting to hear from h.r. mcmaster and we'll have that for you live. i like that. [ music stops suddenly ] ah. when your pain reliever stops working, your whole day stops. awww. try this. for minor arthritis pain, only aleve can stop pain for up to 12 straight hours with just one pill. thank you. ♪ come on everybody. you can't quit, neither should your pain reliever. stay all day strong with 12 hour aleve. i don't know why i didn't get screened a long time ago. i kept putting it off... what was i thinking? ok, mr. jones... we're all done. i told you it was easy. with life line screening, getting screened for unknown health conditions is so quick, painless and affordable, you'll wonder

newark to be responsible for fiscal policy you brought up the debt ceiling earlier to dave director woolsey was talking about to approve the debt ceiling earlier as revenues were coming in slower so it could be a larger issue. day you believe this is a mortgagor issue that we need to pass this so we don't wait until last minute to provide certainty and stability to do this right away?. >> it is absolutely important this is passed before the august recess and as far as i am concerned, the sooner the better. >> so right when we get back and this needs to be a clean fill?. >> i am supporting this is done as quickly as possible. >> so why worry that people have played politics of the past for your record to say this leads to be a clean bill? to back my preferences is the fifth pass as quickly as they can however of the house of the senate passed it but my objective is to get it done quickly. >> that means a clean bill. >> that is my preference. >> also with a responsible budget with concerns that tax cuts will pay for themselves but looking at assumptions of the future economy said publicly the

next guest gives this president very high marks for how things are going, former cia director james woolseyto be with you. neil: you know what struck me as the business nerd here, ambassador, these transactions, the $100 plus billion this deals, and quickly i saw how some in the media pooh-poohed those, but those are real deals, real money and right now translating into real gains for some of the defense contractors chief among them today. >> it should not be anything that would make the iranians smile. i think seeing a substantial military buildup among 50 arab countries with the united states having a very major role ought to give them a bit of pause about their imperial ambitions. i think they do have a small empire, but nonetheless imperial ambitions. neil: you were mentioning this idea that this president seems to be surgically -- i'm putting the words in there -- removing a lot of the policy of the prior administration. >> yes. neil: what do you make ofç tha? because that could be interpreted both ways. >> well, i think the obama administration had some substantive bad decisions, but

later, we will speak with jim woolsey.berg. ♪ alix: the movement in the commodity market, oil. proposal by the world's two gainst crude producers confidence. the market looks like it will tighten the opec has to do a lot more. joining us from london is commodities reporter copy of loss -- javier blas. javier: it was good news in a way for opec because it says we are consuming more oil at the moment. the bad news is opec is going to need to do more in the assessment of the international agency, probably with an extension of production cuts into the end of the year. it will not be enough to bring inventories to that five-year average, so that iea is endorsing or telling opec that they need to do what russians decide yesterday, that they are extending production cuts into 2018. alix: do you have a read on how big the cuts will be? javier: opec, saudi arabia and russia are given an extension, so it will be the 1.8 million barrels a day that the agreed in the first of the year. talkedec countries have about deepening those prod