correspondent ed henry. ed, the only frustrating part was every time they said we will talk about that later in closed session. yeah. sean: i want to hear it now. there are certainly things we want to hear about and other things we can t hear about because it might be classified. so they did have a classified session later and as you noted, sean, a lot of major ground covered as the nation s top intelligence officials ran through a litany of grave national security threats that are piling up for the u.s. yet all that many of the senators wanted to talk about was russia, russia, russia. intel officials particularly sounding the alarm bells about north korea being deadly serious about potentially using their nuclear weapons. bluntly saying we should not believe the north korean smile campaign as some of the officials called it they olympics despite the gushing headlines we have seen in some media outlets. they also warned about the continued threat from islamic militants from the m
some getting worse for the united states. all around the world. and, yet, many democratic senators at this hearing, all they wanted to talk about was russia, russia, russia. and, yet, as you heard there, these intel officials were running through particularly sounding the alarm bells about north korea being deadly serious about potentially using their nuclear weapons. and, in fact, they were bluntly saying we should not believe the north korean smile campaign at the olympics despite the gushing headlines in some media outlets. they also warned about the continued threat from islamist militants in the middle east and added that cheaply made fentanyl being smuggled into the u.s. is now its own national security threat because the opioid crisis is killing thousands of americans here every year. yet, those three major threats were not mention you had until the 19th paragraph of the new york times write up of this hearing because senators kept trying to hammer president trump about allege
near future. we talked about trying to engage in conversations and what conditions would be, et cetera. i think we re still in the process of refining that. but that s moving. we all watched over the last week the smile campaign that north korea has inflicted on the south korean people. the south korean people seem to be charmed by it to some degree. some of them seem to be captivated by it. for my point of view, i think it is nothing more than a stall by the north koreans to further develop what they re trying to do and i suspect in my judgment i think we need to be very, very cautious of pompeo, rogers and ashley, i would like to hear your view of this supposed turn in the last couple of weeks by the north koreans. well, this is an existential threat.
process of refining that but that s moving. we ve all watched over the last week the smile campaign that north korea has had inflicted on the south korea people. the south korea people seemed to be charmed by it to some degree. some seem to be captivated by it. from my point of view i think it s nothing more than a stall by the north koreans to develop what they re trying to do and in my judgment i think we need to be very, very cautious of this. director coats, pompeo, rogers and ashley, i would like to hear your view of this supposed turn in the last couple of weeks by the north koreans. well, this is an threat to the united states but also to north korea.
when no scents makes sense. we re back now live. day five of the winter olympics and relations between north and south korea seem to be warming up, but as leaders of the u.s. intelligence committee spoke out today on national security, here s their warning. don t be fooled. we ve all watched over the last week the smile campaign that north korea has inflicted on the south korean people. the south korean people seem to be charmed by it, to some degree. some of them seem to be captivated by it. i would like to hear your view of this supposed turn in the last couple of weeks by the