vice president daniel hoffman, i thought that presentationth yesterday was perhaps one of the biggest breakthroughs intelligence-wise that i have seen in my lifetime. i wanted to get your thoughts and the fact that the prime minister did it without notes, i am told, and put this thing out there with all of that evidence, corroborated by our own intelligence, i want to get your thoughts. israel is on the front lines, and they have been very good at tracking iran s development as the nuclear program, and concerned about iran s use of syria, building up the military capability with a powerful expression with prime minister netanyahu briefing, from our perspective, president trump does not want to bequeath to his successor a failed iranian policy. similar to the one that he is dealing with on north korea where iran is enriched with sanctions relief and an icbm because that is not covered in
australia. had issues with other countries but been there with the united states throughout war in iraq, afghanistan, intelligence-wise and counterterrorism. so to have a blowup in the first call as commander in chief is significant. thank you very much. bring in white house correspondent sara murray. what are you hearing? a lot of things similar to what greg just said. tense call between donald trump and australian prime minister after a long day of dipping toe into diplomacy. fifth call and may have been fatigued but curt, ended call abruptly and took issue with agreement about refugees settled under the obama administration. don the thing to look at is not what ally he was having the call with, but the fact how he s
member of that correspondence pool april, ryan. is this no-barack obama who is planning retaliation against russia that he s not telling us about, or do you think he s being too low-key. he s not being low-key. behind the scenes is what is really the issue. and he s doing exactly what putin as the president says, you know, he says that nothing happens in russia without putin s okay. so he s doing exactly what he believes that is happening in russia. he is giving a response, retaliation privately, behind the scenes, intelligence-wise, cyber security wise, and joy, not only is this an issue right now, but there is a bigger issue. there has been attempts to hack the government systems every day. a senior former obama official told me that they have to change their e-mail every year, because there is a constant attempt. but now there is something that
intelligence-wise and i tr s our intelligence services are given accurate targeting information throughout the nato campaign to maybe have a better handle on this than we re getting now. but this is a very, very high priority, al-qaeda is in neighboring states like algeria, there s no doubt that activists will try to take the opportunity in libya. gregg: we are helping the libyan officials try to locate moammar qaddafi, we have agents on the ground and using surveillance equipment as well to try to locate him. i imagine that it extends to weapons stockpiles as well. what do you make of this report that qaddafi may be cornered, still in tripoli at a residential compound? obviously, i support any effort to corner him and eliminate him, with all due speed. but i think that it s a little troubling we have invested so many millions of dollars in our intelligence services and in collaboration with allies in this kind of a campaign. there s a little bit of a where s waldo exercise in
government? we have had contact with the on the night of the well, the calls on that evening from the president to president zardari, i will not read out here, but we have contact with senior members of the pakistani government reg yaw lar larly. on the issue of the photograph, you say that there are concerns about inflaming passions, but are you concerned about people outside of the united states? no, i leave it that we are reviewing the situation. i don t have details on the consultation, because we are going about this in a methodical way and trying to make the best call. anything new to add yesterday to john brennan wouldn t characterize what was gotten intelligence-wise from the compound, and after that, there are descriptions of the amount of data, and do you have anything to add? well, i don t have a quall rather quantitative assessment,