hypocrisy. that is the suggestion. look, all of these directors, both republicans and democrats that precede her are supporting her. in addition to that we work daily i work daily with people from other countries that are involved in the intelligence gathering methods and working with our c.i.a. and they are just delighted that gina haspel will be running this agency. bill: thank you for your time. james risch the republican from idaho on the hill. we ll speak about. sandra: our coverage of gina haspel s road to senate confirmation continues in our next hour. dr. james mitchell, who helped develop the c.i.a. s enhanced interrogation program joins us at 10:40 to discuss haspel s 30-plus year career at the agency. bill: always an interesting man, right? based on the experience he has. that s next hour. sandra: we ll chat with him shortly. students at the university of
analyst michael zeldin and good evening to all of you. jim, so according to this newly released transcript former british spy christopher steele was so concerned that then candidate trump was being blackmailed that he personally went to the fbi. what more can you tell us? listen, don, from the beginning the republican argument and really the trump argument has been that the dossier was purely a political document. that it was democratic conceive wrs ed, manufactured and delivered. but if you listen to the testimony before the senate judiciary committee about christopher steele you hear a different genesis to this. he s a former agent in the mi 6, the british international intelligence services. he served in russia. he knows russia s intelligence gathering methods. he begins to gather this information, and he becomes so concerned he thinks there s a national security risk to the u.s., a british intelligence
the u.s. will be dealing with for years the sensitive information, the potential. he even has information about war plans. have a listen to what general flynn had to say. as far as capabilities, are we talking about u.s. war plans? are we talking about intelligence gathering methods. what exactly is it? it is sort of an all of the above. it is intelligence capabilities, operational capabilities, technology, weapons systems. do you thisnk that russia ha access to the kind of materials we are talking about here? you have to assume that if they don t have access, you have to assume they are going to fight against the system. they have to look at the potential worse case scenario.
we ll discuss all of that now. joining me is jim sciutto, legal analyst michael zeldin and good evening to all of you. jim, so according to this newly released transcript former british spy christopher steele was so concerned that then candidate trump was being blackmailed that he personally went to the fbi. what more can you tell us? listen, don, from the beginning the republican argument and really the trump argument has been that the dossier was purely a political document. that it was democratic conceived, manufactured and delivered. but if you listen to the testimony before the senate judiciary committee about christopher steele you hear a different genesis to this. here s christopher steele. he s a former agent in the mi6, the british international intelligence services. he served in russia. he knows russia s intelligence gathering methods.