About russian interference in 2016 with republicans and democrats still debating of those investigations were handled properly four years ago and if you do the right conclusions about russian actio action. Your book opens with a scene paid for the delegation and after the election to brave trump entertainment there is a deep partisan divide in congress was the inevitable given the politics of the moment or should something have been done differently . I was asked to brave the gang of eight usually is a members of congress the house and senate who are entrusted with the most sensitive secrets and intelligence the us community has so i went to brave the eight of them. There were is a very strong concern in a curious reaction on of six of those individuals was senator feinstein as well as adam schiff and concerned with they were hearing what the russians were doing and speaker of the house also took the information very very seriously also the cia and to look into this matter to find out
Director brennan, thank you for sitting down with me today. Your book provides really interesting background and detail, not just about your career and on intelligence debates of the past but very much the news of our current days. Its four years later, were style fighting about russian interference in 2016. The republican and democrats are still debating whether the investigations were handled properly four years ago, whether you and Intelligence Leaders of 2016 drew the right conclusions about russian action. Your book opens with a scene after the election before the inauguration, youre briefing first congressional leaders and then go to new york to brief the trump and his team. A sharp partisan divide when you brief congress. Describe that and talk pout whether that was inevitable given the politics of the moment or could something have been done differently . Well, julien, i was asked to brief the gang of eight when we learned about what the russias were doing, the full extent of i
Local news station. That breaking news tonight at 10 takes us to oakland where more than a 100 people are protesting as we speak you say this is new video just in from the citizen app some of the protesters here taking those orange traffic barriers moving them out of the way you can also see some Police Officers walking the streets in riot gear, it is tense. This is happening near 14th street, the protesters of course for the 3rd night in a row demanding justice for Breonna Taylor after the decision was made wednesday. Not to file charges in her death. Good evening, everybody thanks for being here 10 oclock im grant lotus as we said the 3rd straight night of demonstrations, not only here in some parts of the bay area but in louisville as well in just minutes ago opd sent out this tweet the Department Says the crowd has started to become a little bit violent throwing bottles and cans among other objects you see this video froze but it will play right here. And as we saw earlier folks ar
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