but, did call it a sacred mission to do so. these new comments are coming, as we are seeing a whole lot unfold on the ground there as well, over the last 24 hours or so, including residents fleeing parts of southern gaza today, under a warning to do so from israel, as the idf strikes on the southern city of in announces what they call expanding operational activities. we re going to have a live report from jay gray in tel aviv, in just a moment. we want to start first though, with ambassador dennis roth, counselor at the washington institute for near east policy. msnbc foreign affairs analyst, he was the on the peace process in the clinton administration, and was instrumental in assisting israelis and palestinians to reach an interim agreement in 1995. ambassador, thanks for joining us on, this inflation. i have wanted to speak to you, ambassador, throughout this entire conflict. i m so happy that you are joining us this hour. i want to talk first about this new op-ed out
from things such as the british, canadians and australians, new zealand, are they going to be reticent to do this. i was on last week when joe and mika had come back from the state dinner with the french president. remember, there are reports out there that trump, for whatever reason, had actually kept a document, perhaps a personality profile of french president macron, is that important? well, it might be. what does that document say? does that document have things such as, you know, perhaps, intelligence collection methodology that we used to make an assessment on the french president, so i think in terms of our bilateral liaison relationships, it s quite important to see what happens, and of course just the ongoing kind of saga, if anything, of sources and methods that were compromised about it. it hasn t gotten a lot of play. it remains to be seen what happens.
intelligence estimate on weapons of mass destruction in iraq, which turned out to be wrong. after that i was one in congress who co-led the effort to reform the intelligence process, creating the director of national intelligence and new way of doing national intelligence estimates. that relies on outside input, people critique what our intelligence officials are putting in these estimates, they sort of red team it, they do like book critiques and a lot of those people are on this list to lose their clearances. that makes absolutely no sense. the other point is we rely on liaison relationships with other countries. many of them warn us about possible intelligence attacks. the cart ridge bomb attack coming our way was warned to us by middle east intelligence services. if they have no confidence that the people who work in our intelligence services are speaking truth to power but instead are political appoint
if somebody has already been killed, and no harm should come to anybody related to this honest work. that puts more pressure on the media organizations who publish this information and expense by fbi director christopher barre is very cautious. this house intelligence committee has requested documents from the so-called steel dossier. in many instances where dealing with sources and methods which is the lifeblood of foreign intelligence and our liaison relationships with foreign partners. a colleague wrote a op-ed headline saying republicans faked investigations, but this showed it simpson applied to answer questions about how fusion was paid. in the months since, republicans have gotten their hands on bank records showing hillary clinton s presidential camp and the dnc paid for some of this
why have you failed to produce these documents? in many instances we are dealing with very, very dicey questions of sources and methods which is the life blood of foreign intelligence and for our liaison relationships with our foreign partners. as for simpson and fusion gps he and a colleague wrote a recent new york times op-ed highlighting the republican s fake investigations saying they were all about transparency new transcript shows simpson declined to answer questions about how he was paid. since last summer s testimony republicans have gotten bank records showing that hillary clinton s presidential campaign and the dnc paid for this dirt through an intermediary democratic attorney mark allies. yet when simpson was pressed by the committee in private about whether he was a democratic linked firm, he said he didn t think. so martha? martha: ed, thank you very much. here now congressman jim jordan he sits on both the house judiciary and oversight committees. congressman, goo