necessarily explain it, but i can tell you what it is. you remember the president said i fix things, that s what i do. that s the way that he looks at his upcoming meeting with north korea. what he says when he s behind the scenes is just get me in a room with a guy and i ll figure it out. let me ask you about that a little bit. i m curious to get your thoughts about the president treating the summit with north korea as a duel of personalities of sorts. how will this play with how he deals with kim jong-un on a personal level. what the intelligence capabilities are and understanding how kim jong-un thinks? that is a good question and kind of a blind spot for us, right? like kim jong moves around and we don t really know. when he went to beijing, the intelligence community wasn t as clear on that as they are about most movements around the world.
unit is the only part of the cia that reports to him and not to the deputy director or some other official. and there is not much else that we know in terms of behind closed door stuff from mike pompeo s time. he s sometimes said things about russia that are completely untrue. when the community released the report on efforts to influence the 2016 election, that report was quite clear that the intelligence community wasn t making any assessment as to whether these activities or attack affected the outcome of the 2016 election. they did not look, we did not make an assessment of the impact that russian activities had in the outcome of the election. that was the intelligence committee s report january of last year. ten months later in october, mike pompeo said the intelligence community s assessment is that the russian medaling did not affect the outcome of the election.
are those intelligence failures? with all due respect, he is just flat out wrong. the intelligence community wasn t surprised. policymakers weren t surprised. this is before my time. i ve been doing this just a handful of months. the intelligence community has done remarkable work to deliver the policymakers the progress that the north korean regime has been making but it doesn t surprise me the folks that came before me act surprised. they did nothing. the intelligence community has delivered a consistent message about anthony scaramucci, his capacity to develop missiles, his intent, and so i don t think there s any surprised by policymakers who have been following the progress the regime has made, to put an icbm with a nuclear warhead. chris: what is your psychological profile of kim jong-un. he is pretty isolated today. for the first time we have the chinese and the russians.
what do you make of this? clearly they were after gossip because it s political. this has no intelligence value. let me be clear on this, i have run these sorts of operations before. i have had to go to the white house and brief on this sort of operation. and you instantly, and let me be clear on this for your audience. you instantly bend information relating to u.s. persons. it used to take us time, like minutes. now it can be done instantly. i mean the moment it hits so there is absolutely no technical reason. so what i have been saying is this incidental, it s incidental on purpose. they knew what they were going for. therefore, what mr. woodward was just say something absolutely correct. i believe they is much worse than watergate by order of magnitude by the fact that you had people both in the intelligence community who were political appointees and i would argue mr. trump s battle against the intelligence community wasn t against the community it s about the political appointe
russian operatives claim to have compromising information on him. cnn isn t reporting the details of those allegations because it is not independently confirmed them. but trump took to twitter to call the allegations totally made-up facts by sleez bag political operatives, both democrats and republicans, fake news. russia says nothing exists. probably released by intelligence, even knowing there is no proof and never will be. trump s latest swipe at u.s. intelligence agencies coming after the director of national intelligence, james clapper, said he assured trump the intelligence community wasn t the source for the dossier outlining unsubstantiated allegations against the president-elect. as trump publicly feuds with the intelligence community, privately his top advisors have done their own russian outreach. trump team confirming today that michael flynn, trump s pick for national security advisor, recently exchanged calls and texts with the russian ambassador. their goal, according