, 16 plus the director of national intelligence, which sometimes is a bit of an umbrella group over them. there is a reason why 16 or 17 agencies didn't chime in on this, but only four did. explain that a bit further. >> his point is, with the media, reporting sometimes over-simplifying it, saying the intelligence agency, is such and such. it's correct that only three are the agencies and actually examined it and then it became the conclusion of the director of the office of national intelligence representing the 17 agencies. it's not that the other 14 agencies had another conclusion. they just did not look at it specifically. however you want to number it the intelligence agency is in consensus about it, there was meddling, and the purpose of the meddling was to aid president trump. you heard president trump raise questions about that just yesterday as mike mcfaul just mentioned. he not only said i don't know, it's possible, this is possible that. he specifically raised again this idea of the iraq intelligence that was wrong before the invasion of 2003. they got that wrong, how do

the former director of national intelligence james clapper. served in that role for 2012 to 2017. thanks for taking the time today. your reaction to this new cnn report. you said many times in public while you were still in your role that russia was emboldened by its success in interfering in the u.s. election. do you believe that is what we are seeing here now with this stepped up espionage? >> i don't have official access to classified information, but this certainly fits the standard russian pattern which comports with their behavior going back decades. and they want to i'm sure repair the loss by virtue of the 35 operatives that were expelled by the obama administration. their general push, they are going to stretch the envelope as far as they can and collect information. i think largely if i can use the military phrase, prep the battlefield for 2018 elections. >> prepping you think, putting themselves in position for further attempts. >> i think they are here to collect as much as they possibly can on the united states who they consider as their prime. >> let's talk about th

director of national intelligence. now adjunct law professor at georgetown. kari there were six people in the meeting. president putin, president trump, sergey lavrov and rex tillerson and we still didn't get agreement on what was said in that meeting. this is atypical. there's no third party read-out. in fact, we don't know what trump said to putin and what putin said back to him about hacking the 2016 election. >> you know, we don't. and what's interesting about what rex tillerson said is that -- what he said is that the american people, that the president expressed what the american people were concerned about with respect to the russian interference in the election. he didn't say that the president expressed his concerns or his grave concerns about what happened with russian interference in the election. so i thought that was an interesting -- whether it was a choice or not in terms of how he phrased it. it was interesting, the other thing that was highlighted was the fact that the credibility problem that this white house has of their own making really came into play today

the agencies. it's the director of national intelligence who sits atop all of the intelligence community. it's the former director of national intelligence and president trump's current director of national intelligence who supports the assessment that that there was russian influence on the campaign. the former fbi director, the bipartisan chair and vice sir chair of the senate intelligence committee, basically everybody in a position of authority to understand in intelligence supports the intelligence community's assessment. it's only the president that doesn't. >> mike mcfall, what is ray brody what does a chief diplomat, the secretary of state how are you supposed to handle the matters. >> once all the evidence has been gathered that a country is doing something you don't like this is commonplace for the diplomatic community what was the opportunity missed today? >> you know, in my opinion he should have gone into that meeting and said president putin i know what you did in our election. there is no doubt about it. and now that i'm president that can never happen again. and

have an, you had a national intelligence estimate -- in 2007 there was a national intelligence estimate that iran was from their perspective no longer pursuing nuclear weapons. this is during the bush administration, before obama. it was established that iran was no longer pursuing nuclear weapons. charlie: everybody in the obama administration thought that you were pursuing nuclear reactions. john kerry fought back and he has said that, as well as president obama. they all thought it. don't suggest that they did not. javad: they made a wrong assertion. the international atomic energy 2015, intablished in november, that the so-called possible military dimensions of iran's nuclear program, were not significant. .hat is why they closed the pie there was a resolution by the governing board of the agency in which the united dates and all of its allies are represented and iran is not. charlie: let me raise this point, there are many americans who believe the following. that, the deal that was done was done in the hopes that over the next 12 year period there would be a change, a move to mode

intelligence, national security agency, fbi, and justice department. it is just under two hours. >> this is an important issue that we have before us. today's public hearing will be followed by a classified briefing tomorrow afternoon. this committee last held an oversight hearing on section 702 in may of 2016. beat ofen, the drum to terrorist attacks against the united states and other countries, particularly our allies, has continued. this has been a month after the hearing, terrorist attacks in killing 50htclubs, and wounding 53. terrorists have detonated bombs in new jersey and new york, injuring about 30. last month, great britain suffered its worst terror attack in over one decade, and a suicide bomber killed 22 and seriously injured many more in a concert in manchester. many of the dead and wounded, as you know, were children and very young people. underscore the first responsibility of thatnment is to ensure those who protect us every day have the tools to keep us safe. when i said government, i should have said the united states government under our constitution. these tools mus

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hearing on the foreign intelligence surveillance act also known as fisa. director of national intelligence, officials from the fbi and justice department testify before the senate judiciary committee about incidental communications, transparency and oversight. these tools must adapt to the technological landscape and evolving security threats that we face. at the same time of course the rights and liberties enshrined in the constitution are fixed. they require our constant vigilance. section 702 of fisa amendments act which provides the government, the authority to collect the electronic communications of foreigners located outside of the united states with the compelled assistance of american companies sits at the intersection of these responsibilities. under section 702 it's against law to target anyone in the united states or any american citizen where ever that citizen is on this globe. the statute also prohibits reverse targeting. that term means targeting somebody outside the united states for the purpose of targeting somebody inside. under the statute the fisa court mus

former director of national intelligence jim clapper responded directly to trump. >> well, that's news to me. we saw no evidence whatsoever that was anyone involved in this other than the russians. >> couldn't be more clear. the question is whether the president of the united states will turn a blind eye to the newest charges of russian espionage in the united states. evan perez along with pamela brown broke this story of more russian spies and an embolden russia after the election and, evan, what are you learning? >> we're learning that russian spies are ramping up their intelligence gathering efforts in the united states according to current and former u.s. intelligence officials who say they have noticed an increase since the election. the russians have not been slowed by retaliatory efforts after it meddled in the u.s. election according to u.s. intelligence community. since the election u.s. authorities have detected an uptick in suspected russian intelligence officers entering the country. they have been replenishing their ranks apparently since the u.s. expelled those 35 russian

of 2015. >> james clapper was then the director of national intelligence. the senior most intelligence official. >> was it clear to you how serious it would become? >> i don't think it was because obviously the russians have us as maybe the primary intelligence target anyway. >> the first quiet warning came september 2015 when a midlevel fbi agent notified the democratic national committee that russian hackers had compromised at least one dnc computer. >> they left a phone message at the help desk at the dnc. they didn't treat it the seriousness that it deserved. >> that was the i's first direct contact with the dnc. a mesge leftd for a low level computer technician that did not return the bureau's call. >> i suspect if they had to do over again, they would do it differently in retrospect. >> found nothing. and the it department apparently did not share the fbi's concerns with more senior dnc staff. hackers gaining access to countless emails, communications, and documents. >> i can imagine him sitting down a couple weeks later and saying we're in. >> and as the campaign fo

2012, mr. glawe was named the deputy national intelligence manager for threat and finance and transnational organized crime before serving as the chief intelligence officer for the united states custom border protection office of intelligence. mr. glawe is supporting the national security council as a special assistant to the president. you have been asked to lead the department of homeland security's intelligence and analytics component at a time when we are facing complex, evolving and continuous threats to the homeland. the intelligence community is traitzing threats from -- is tracing threats from state and nonstate actors to our critical infrastructure and we continue to debate the scope and scale of our u.s. intelligence collection and legal authorities. i expect you'll be a forceful advocate for the intelligence community in those discussions while maintaining a steadfast respect for the rule of law. as i mentioned to prior nominees before this committee, i can assure you that the senate intelligence committee will continue to faithfully follow its charter and conduct v

administration officials discuss national security policy. first, the role intelligence gathering plays in countering terror threats. a little bit letter chris county and mad lib albright and marco rubio and nikki haley. >> good morning. i'm catherine herridge, the chief intelligence correspondent from knox fuse channel. i would like to thank mike mccaul and dutch russberger and marco rubio and chris kuntz for sponsoring the event today. between my time in fox news channel and in london i've been covering terrorism since 1987. so for 30 years. and i was reminded that it was about six years ago that we were celebrating the takedown of osama bin laden at his compound in pakistan, which was in so many respects an extraordinary accomplishment. and then later in 2011, a successful drone strike took out anwar al awlaki targeted for death by the cia and the father of this digital jihad that we are living today. and i'm reminded that it is one thing to kill a man, and another to kill his ideas. and here we are today in a threatened environment which is extremely dynamic and extremely diverse. a

from our experts. former national intelligence director, retired general james clapper. former u.s. nato ambassador ken burns and vice presidential chief of staff. former cia acting director john mclaughlin on the spy craft behind today's meeting. >>> and good day, everyone, a big day, we're in washington, breaking news as president trump holds his first meeting with vladmir putin outside the g 20 summit in germany. >> thank you very much. we appreciate it. president putin and i have been discussing various things and i think it's going very well. we've had some very, very good talks. we're going to have a talk now and obviously that will continue. but we look forward to a lot of very positive things happening for russia, for the united states, and for everybody concerned. and it's an honor to be with you. thank you. thank you. >> thank you, sir. >> putin said he was delighted to meet with president trump in person. trump did not respond to a shouted question about whether he'll bring up election meddling in this meeting. we begin with hallie jackson live in hamburg, germany. all i

believe people are pretending. if your national intelligence estimate and this is not iran, it's u.s. intelligence community. if your own national intelligence estimate in 2007 and again in another year that i can't recall, established that iran is no longer pursuing nuclear weapons, why is it so difficult for american officials to recognize that. now we believe that nuclear weapons do not augment our security, nor to be honest, do they augment anybody else's security. so that's our position of principle. we remain very compliant with that principle throughout our history, and there are cases to prove it. including the use of chemical weapons against iran by iraq with the support of everybody international community, report after the report of the un and established that iraq used chemical weapons against us and the report at the un established that they did not. >> rose: you were a victim of -- >> of chemical weapons and we never retailate in kind. this is the record on which we stand. but you made a point that was a valid point and that is i tweed on the day of the signing of the r

and gave them to wiki leaks but i do know barack obama's director of national intelligence has not provided credible to support his claims of russia i also know he perjured himself in a senate hearing planned three months before the revelations provided by edward snowden he denied to be n.s.a. was carrying out wholesale surveillance of the us. the hyperventilating corporate media has once again proved to be an echo for government claims that cannot be verified you would have thought they would have learned something after serving as george w. bush's useful idiots in the lead up to the invasion of iraq. it is vitally important that the press remains rooted in a fact based universe especially when we enter an era when truth and fiction are becoming indistinguishable. from a trial where i've spent countless hours poring through documents that tell the story about the abuse i.

for european affairs at the nsc and former national intelligence officer for europe on the national intelligence council. and also we have former assistant secretary of defense for on international security affairs and former senior director for strategic planning at the nsc. both of them are with the german marshall fund. thanks to both of you for being here. what is your sense out of what you heard from the meeting and while there are differences in the readouts from the russians and american, both sides seem to be implying that it is a productive meeting. >> so i was struck that they began the meeting by talking about russian interference with in the u.s. election. we heard president trump yesterday in poland say that he wasn't clear about who had intervened and that was striking because the u.s. intelligence community had assessed that there was in fact russian meddling in our election. and then when secretary tillerson spoke about the issue in his readout, he said it's unlikely that we americans and russians will agree on this and we can't let it stop cooperation in other impor

of national intelligence. the head of the national security agency. the head of the fbi. all of these intelligence experts saying russia hacked the election, they tried to interfere in the election. no votes were changed but misinformation campaigns. president trump is contradicting it and your siding with him. sidingd not say i was with president trump. he has not made the decision to sign that bill one way or the other. >> big issues of the week, the house and the senate seemed to have come to an agreement with tough sanctions for russia. will the president sign that billion go -- bill? russia, tough on ridiculous and in putting the sanctions in place. the original legislation was poorly written, but we were able to work with the house and senate, and the administration is happy with the ability to do that and make the changes necessary. we support where the legislation is now and will continue working with the house and senate to put those tough sanctions in place on russia until the situation in ukraine is fully resolved. it certainly is not right now. also on "abc's this we

of years ago, famously asked the director of the national intelligence james klapper, is there a huge database of americans being monitored by the nsa? and of the director of national intelligence came back and said no, there is not. it was later revealed that there was. this has been an ongoing issue regardless of who has been in various positions. >> you heard it there. it is time for some answers, right? >> it would be more news out of susan rice if she took credit for or explain the actions and the words used during the obama administration. there is so much doubletalk that came out of that administration, so much redirection and so much blaming someone else. >> is this time different? >> no. >> that's a? >> no. >> first of all, she is testifying behind closed doors. that significantly changes things. >> no. >> it's guaranteed that no one is going to get any answers, all you are going to have his feedback from the sitting senators, you won't even have a firsthand account. you won't be able to watch her testimony. >> she can also use her job as national security director and c

national intelligence james clapper was still publicly denying it in 2013. sen. wyden: does the nsa collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of americans? dir. clapper: no, sir. sen. wyden: it does not? dir. clapper: not wittingly. sharyl: a month later, national security agency whistleblower edward snowden exposed the shocking extent to which the u.s. government had been spying on law-abiding citizens, including so-called "incidental" surveillance, without a court warrant, of americans who simply communicated with a foreign target. on that basis, the government has secretly recorded members of congress, we've learned, including jane harmon speaking with pro-israel lobbyists and dennis kucinich speaking with a libyan official. someone illegally leaked the conversations to the press. some people today may not realize that privacy of our citizens and controlling the government from doing these sorts of things is sort of a basic tenet in our society. elizabeth goitein: it is. i mean, it's right there in the fourth amendment. sharyl: elizabeth goitein leads th

intelligence agencies plus the directorate of national intelligence, that's 17, all have their own seal. we need to put that to rest. there are 17 agencies and that's a fact the president of the united states should know. >> reporter: and he's been receiving briefings from the intelligence community since he became the republican nominee for president so roughly a year now. and in the context of where he said do we even have 17 today in response to questions back in poland, it did raise a question of was he uncertain about the number of intelligence agencies. in kind of a kmob way we tend to think of the cia or nsa but there's the defense intelligence agency and many others that are attached to different parts of the federal government. when he referred to only three or four may have that information, that may be what he's referring to in terms of which of those agencies has the specific responsibility to investigate and have sort of the portfolio that would cover russian interference, cyber warfair, that type of thing. but the intelligence community of the 17 agencies has accepted the conc

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before house intelligence panel, today we had testimony from the former director of national intelligence, he is nation's intelligence chief, james clapper, he testified behind closed-doors before the house and senate intelligence committees. this issue of unmasks will be central to the line of questioning. unmasking is identification of american citizens in intelligence reports. >> this is not anything political has been alleged. allegation is that somehow obama administration officials utilized intelligence for political importance, that is false. reporter: republican chairman of house intelligence committee nunez separately issued subpoenas to three agency, requesting records about unmasking of americans by rice as far as john brennan and former u.s. ambassador to united nations power. a source close to this element of the investigation till tells fox they have complied, and records suggest that unmasking by members of obama administration did go beyond these 3 players, we do not know if they violated laws or regulations. the review of the records is just beginning and the

you for being with me. despite a consensus agreement from the nation's intelligence agencies. the incoming white house communications director says the president does not accept the conclusions that russia interfered in last year's election. anthony scaramucci made the explosive revelation in a remarkable interview this morning. the president has not yet decided if he will sign a tough new bill increasing sanctions on russia. >> you come to the white house at a time when president trump has low approval ratings, signed into law zero major pieces of legislation. health care is on life support. i guess the big question is is president trump facing a communications problem or a substance problem. >> did you leave anything out there? there's obviously a communications problem. i don't want to say all the economic date de, but the economy is strong. business optimism is way up, and over the next six months, we're going to have phenomenal achievements, i think we're going to get the health care issue done. very confident on tax reform. if he gets those two pillars done, which i hope he

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ethical demands of his profession. now, don, if i'm the director of national intelligence, if i'm the director of the central intelligence agency, i'm going to school on this episode. and trying to figure out what it means for me when i've got to go in and tell the president something he definitely doesn't want hear. >> yeah. it has been, general, 25 days since president trump won the election. he hasn't aced off the gas when it comes to fiery campaign rhetoric. just the past few days, he shot off 34ub8 tweets calling for hillary clinton to be investigated on russia, on e-mails. is this behavior you think damaging to the presidency and ultimately to the country? >> look, as a citizen, i think it is. it is unpresidential. it is distracting. what we need to do as a nation, don, is simply get to the bottom of this whole russia thing. get it behind us. and i fear the president is getting in the way of that. and to give a little bit of human understanding to the president, i mean, a lot of americans are using this episode to challenge his legitimacy as president. the american intelligence

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knows, nobody really knows for sure." but you asked the former director of national intelligence james clapper about that. let's listen then we'll discuss. >> in your position as director of national intelligence oversaw the entire u.s. intelligence community. in your view, is there any doubt about russia's role? >> absolutely none. and that has been reaffirmed by those who are still in positions of responsibility in the intelligence community. there's absolutely no doubt about it, the high confidence levels, the multiple sources of information we had and its high fidelity still leave me very convinced of the veracity of that report. >> so jim clapper also told you that he believes the russians want to prep the battlefield for 2018 and that it's an attack on, quote, us, not republicans or democrats. do you think that there are members of the current administration who agree with him? >> i think there are, but clearly, the one who counts won't say that in public. i mean, you couldn't have had a more definitive dismissal of the president's comments today than you had there from former di

i'm the director of national intelligence and central intelligence agency, i'm going to school on this episode in trying to figure out what it means for me, when i've got to go in and tell the president something he definitely doesn't want to hear. >> it has been, general, 259 days since president trump won the election. just the past few days, shot out multiple tweets calling hillary clinton to be investigated on russia in e-mails. is this behavior damaging you think to the president and the country? >> look, as a citizen i think it is. it is unpresidential, it is dramaticing. what we need to do as a nation damage is get to the bottom of this whole russia thing, get it bind us. i fear the president is getting in the way of that. to give a little bit understanding to the president. a lot of americans are using this episode to challenge his legitimatesy as president. the ic simply wants to make america better defended and we can only do that if we get to the facts of this case. >> which is interesting. he's got the ultimate, he can say -- the intel communities are not saying that i'm no

national intelligence released a report documenting some of the ways they tried to do this. including through news outlets and they say that russia -- rt america was explicitly set up to avoid the national act. can one of you, can you elaborate on why rt is not currently registered under fara? >> senator, eprobably shouldn't -- i probably shouldn't comment on any individuals or entities but it strikes me that when congress passed fara or amended it recently, maybe in the '60s this is when this changed or the '40s it deliberately carved out u.s. owned media organizations. it was very precise about that. what that tells me as a prosecutor is that that intended to capture potentially -- not u.s. owned. >> were not. >> i'm familiar with the reporting you have referred to and i'm familiar with that provision of the statute. >> it would be good if we could pursue that line if the statute says that, they have carved out u.s. owned from foreign owned. it could be not only just russia but another government as well. do you think -- this is just to the panel who ever wants to take this one, do

or even malicious uses. last year, former direct tore of national intelligence james clapper called the editing a potential weapon of mass destruction and congress banned turning gene-edited embryos into babies. in the lab, the embryos weren't allowed to develop more than a few days but the debate over what they may have started moves on. kristen dahlgren, nbc news, new rights. over billions and billions of dollars. for a little while today, amazon founder and washington post owner jeff bazos was the richest person on the planet but won't go to bed with that planet. he bought a fortress in washington and his net worth cla climbed to $90 billion. that's about what bill gates is worth. fluctuations in the market kept gates on top. with amazon's continued growth, he seems poised to take over as world's richest. >> you wonder if those two call each other up taunting each other. [ laughter ] >> this afternoon. i'm up now -- >> my goodness. >> i have something up my sleeve for later in the week. >> look out. [ laughter ] >> that's right. >>> i wish you had something up your sleeve to chan

grids, hospitals and election systems. director of national intelligence dan coates. >> the potential impact of these cyber threats is amplified by the ongoing integration of technology into our critical infrastructure and into our daily lives. >> people familiar with the operation say nuclear power plants are actually less vulnerable than other targets because safety systems are not connected to the internet, and lewis says many are outdated. >> it's specialized, it's probably you knee neck. it might be tailored to fit the particular plant. it's not off the shelf like the operating system or the office devices you get from a store. >> a motive for the cyber attacks on nuclear facilities could be to gather intelligence, but, jane, the hackers could also have been planning for future intrusions. >> pauley: all right, jeff pegues, thank you. with congress in recess till monday, we have been following members as may meet with constituents back home. here is dean reynolds, chasing speaker ryan. >> hey, everybody! ( applause ) how where you doing? >> reporter: it was only six years ago tha

other nations the former director of u.s. national intelligence james clapper has been fairly outspoken by russians and that's supposed to genetics the historical practices of the russians. typically almost genetically driven to coopt. penetrate. to gain favor whatever is there any reason to believe that russia is not continuing to attempt to or to infiltrate u.s. political organizations or individuals or are true or do we think it's in their d.n.a. . those critical of u.s. policies that targeted with such rhetoric not only abroad but inside the u.s. as well one of america's most prominent philosophers name chomsky explain to an ati america how the anti americanism label is used by politicians suddenly critics of american empire or american capitalism got tarred with this at the american ism and american is a very interesting concept it's a concept that only exists and to filter and states in the soviet union old soviet union you could be condemned for being the soviet the brazilian military dictatorship you could be brazilian but aside from the united states i don't know of a