at 4:00 a.m., the u.s. president donald trump is explaining his decision to call off strikes against iran but then pull back on that decision. on twitter. on friday morning, he pointed out the shootdown of a u.s. drone saying the u.s. was cocked and loaded to strike three iranian missile sites in retaliation. mr. trump later told nbc he is willing to sit down with iran s leader, but also warned this i m not looking for war. and if there is, it will be ob lit race like you ve never seen before. but i m not looking to do that. but you can t have a nuclear weapon. you want to talk good, otherwise you can have a bad economy the next three years. no pre-conditions. the commander in chief s decision to attack and then pull
counsel bob lit has gone on record that the dossier wasn t the basis of the assessment or investigation. even though you could fact check the other assertions he makes including it does fbi the corroborated some elements not all elements of the dossier and disproven others, you know clearly it was not a part of the sort of the basis of this investigation if in the first place. the warrant process, the process of going to obtain warrants from the foreign intelligence surveillance court, the notion that what amounts to essentially unsubstituted rumors right this private intelligence document, that that s the kind of thing that a judge would issue the warrants we ve seen reported in the media, you know that s just not how the process works. steve, president seems to be referring to a fox abfriends segment when he calls the dossier boegz. but u.s. intelligence corroborated some of the contents of the dossier and found russia was trying to interfere with the 2016 election from their own
lenl analyst susan hency. and chris swik era former assistant director at the fbi. thank you for yoing me. susan president trump was up bright and early attacking the now infamous trump dossier calling it a crooked hillary piling of garbage. he said wow fox and friends dossier is boegz. dnc funded dossier. fbi can t after all the time verify claims in dossier of russia trump collusion. fbi tainted. they used this crooked hillary pile of garbage as basis for going after the trump campaign. that wasn t the main basis of going after the trump campaign. there are some fact checks that can be done with that tweet. but the president implies that the dossier is a basis for the mueller investigation that s not accurate. no fantastic obama era intelligence official have gone on record from odi general
women could be deposed and the information brought forward. but also, wolf, the participants could be deposed in that investigation as well. at this point the president has not been able up to this point to prove that the women were lying, and the white house press secretary echoed the president s accusation today again earlier without offering any proof. all right, jim acosta at the white house, thank you. and the former general counsel for the director of counsel intelligence, bob, thank you for joining us. thanks for having me. you served during the obama administration? correct. let s talk about your reaction to this tweet from the president today, this is what he tweeted. it is now commonly agreed after many months of costly looking that there was no collusion between russia and trump, was conclusion with hc hillary clinton? could this be seen as trying to
reporter: martha, house lawmakers want to take a closer look at some of the obama administration s government surveillance programs. you can expect lawmakers will have tough questions for a key obama administration officials about these surveillance efforts that have been underway. you can expect officials will warn congress that lawmakers should not limit intelligence-gathering because it could lead to missed warnings that took place before the 9/11 attacks. james cole from the justice department, the deputy attorney general, is here on capitol hill to testify as is bob lit, the director of national intelligence general counsel. lawmakers will also hear from representatives the aclu who is expected to argue for more transparency in the surveillance efforts that are underway. martha? martha: so what are some of the challenges of the fisa court, considering the nature of what it does, mike? reporter: lawmakers have heard from a former fisa judge, challenges the government comes