john mccain s rebuke of h.r. mcmaster over the lack of information about the ambush in niger being shared with the u.s. senate. we ll bring you the latest on the investigation and their talks with the senate. also, two former presidents take center stage and remind america that we were already pretty darn great. maybe even better before the politics of fear and the casual cruelty of today s political climate took over. today the white house forced to respond to its previous occupants. and the cia director goes off message claiming that russian meddling did not affect the outcome of the election. the problem? that s not the assessment of the intelligence community. we ll show you the cleanup effort under way. stay with us. i don t want to sound paranoid, but d ya think our recent online sales success seems a little. strange? na. ever since we switched to fedex ground business has been great. they re affordable and fast. maybe too affordable and fast. what if. people aren t buyin
because they do not have their political appointees filled up. he s sometimes calling desk officers trying to get information, doing the job that normal under secretaries and assistant secretaries would do. today we had two significant developments. it looked like mccain and mattis are trying to play nice in front of the cameras. matt sis is being clear they ne to do a better job on communication. and senator graham talked about potentially another authorization for use for military force. we had some remarkable comments talking about how isis has morphed, they want to go to more threat-based targeting. this will involve potential new authorization from congress. that s what i heard from senator graham as well as chairman mccain. more information on this specific mission in niger but also a broader, more expansive conversation about what the authorities are going to be, especially since president trump has delegated a lot more authority down to the ground commander level. and, kevin,
lindsey graham and john mccain are typically, ideologically supportive. dod having these kinds of authorities. they just want to maintain their congressional oversight role. yeah, so let s separate those out. and it s important because what senator graham said today is new. the rules of engagement have not changed since trump came into office. that s different than lowering authorities to different levels so that commanders in the field can call in an air strike without having to call the white house to put it bluntly. the idea of an actual change of engage; lindsey graham was right to make a point of that. that sets up a whole new argument and something congress will have to go through and it does play to the importance of the new terrorism going forward and these missions and training missions and security systems force missions all around the world. that s a lot different than what we ve heard in the past. hans, it seems like nobody in the administration was able to explain to t
constitutional authority of whether or not we want to authorize this operation through the appropriations process. senator lindsey graham addressing the need for oversight committees. before that, secretary mattis briefed senate armed services committee chairman john mccain on what we know and presumably all the things we still dont know about the ambush in niger. there are still gaps in the story and the white house refuses to fill them in until the story is complete. mattis visit is the culmination of several frustrating days on the part of the senator who has been vocal about the lack of communication from the pentagon and white house. a short time ago, he and mattis addressed that on camera. let me just close by saying, the secretary and i have had a 20-year relationship. we have had our problems and issues. i m proud to work with him and i m proud of the work that he s doing, and we will continue these regular meetings so that
important part is misguided. lastly, i have to say, it is critical our directors of cia check their politics at the door. amen. we need them to check their politics at the door to trust the information they send this president. and weigh in on one of john mccain s new priorities, which is to seems to regulate or require more transparency from facebook and social media companies. john mccain swinging at social media companies seems like a battle and a standoff i m looking forward to watching. i like forward to it, too. a larger point. we ll be okay. i have faith about core systems, faith in i want whatever you are having for lunch. are you sure? yes. i m positive. here s why we re better than this, i said before. our core values and core issues who we are we can withstand this. it s bumpy but there s a better tomorrow than there is today and it takes all of us collectively coming together saying, no, this