does the president have a. the president believes in states rights, number. . care coverage goes up and cost go down. the. i want to go back to some things that he said about russia. one of the things he said was the russian government is still involved in politics. is that the view of this white house? i think that s the view of the fbi. we rely on them and the rest of the intelligence community to provide the presidents with updates on what they re learning. it doesn t go that way. the director and the intelligence committee update the president on all of the threats the united states faces and all of the intelligence activity that need to be
short time after that, bloomberg suggesting that rice was the person who would request the identities of trump transition officials whose phone conversations of foreign officials were collected. joining me now is susan hennessy of the national security agency. all right, it s very clear to me now you ve got all of the parts of the let s say benghazi industrial complex working to send this idea that the real scandal here is the obama folks spying on the trump campaign, what do you make of it? right. so,again, again, they re sort of trying to advance this narrative that the real story is something else, leaks, the fact incidental collection. the issue is that they re describing perfectly legal and what appears to be proper conduct of intelligence activity. the question becomes either their advocating for major intelligence reform, pretty
officials whose phone conversations of foreign officials were collected. joining me now is susan hennessy of the national security agency. all right, it s very clear to me now you ve got all of the parts of the let s say benghazi industrial complex working to send this idea that the real scandal here is the obama folks spying on the trump campaign, what do you make of it? right. so, again, again, they re sort of trying to advance this narrative that the real story is something else, leaks, the fact incidental collection. the issue is that they re describing perfectly legal and what appears to be proper conduct of intelligence activity. the question becomes either their advocating for major intelligence reform, pretty dramatic of the traditional republican tradition on these issues. or they re being offered to distract from the real story.
that gives them 72 hours to leave the country and the government is shutting down two russian-government owned compounds, one in maryland, another in new york that were used they say to conduct intelligence activity. the government is also going to be releasing information, the department of homeland security and the federal bureau the fbi are going to be releasing declassified technical information on russian civilian and military intelligence service activity to provide those who try to help defense networks and defense cyber networks, it will give them the information they need that could help them t detect and disrupt any ongoing efforts by russian hackers. so a lot of information coming out today. we re still digesting it, frankly, fred. athena, thank you so much. evan, that you can us through what specifics we know about these retaliatory measures. one of the things that s most interesting in listening to a white house call that s still
believe. we don t want anybody to know that we know what they re doing. that gives us the opportunity to monitor their activities to provide warning and the applicable mediums that help us control that activity. so it s like any other type of intelligence activity you don t really want to reveal sources and methods unless there s a very good reason to do to it .so that s the reason attribution was not made public very frequently. mark rash i was hearing here in los angeles at the beginning of this that there was some it layoffs at sony in the last few months, and that there s possibilities there. and it siems to me that one question i have is might it be possible that all of this could come together? that there could be actually some former i.t. employee from sony who got smo involved with the north koreans on this? it s possible but it s