on. yes, sir. i remember when you talked with us shortly after february 14th when the new york times wrote an article that suggested that the trump campaign was colluding with the russians. do you remember reading that article when it first came out? i do, it was about allegedly extensive electronic under surveillance. that upset you to the point where you went out and surveyed the spell jens community to see if you were missing something in that. is that correct? that s correct. i want to be careful. i m not going to go further than that. so thank you. in addition to that, after that, you sought out both republican and democrat senators to tell them that, hey, i don t know where this is coming from, but this is not the case. this is not factual, do you recall that? yes. okay. so again, so the american people can understand this, that report by the new york times was not
some tension between the white house and cia. this investigation is going to cause a lot of people to have meetings, discussions and maybe tensions over whether the cia under a trump administration will cooperate with the investigation. jeremy, can the trump white house, or the trump white house counsel or the president himself order the cia not to comply with a senate subpoena in a case like this? that would be very dangerous. it would be very risky. i don t think the cia leadership would abide that. the requirements of the law are that under the 1947 national security act the intelligence committee has the right to get any material that is in the possession of the agency. it would be treading on thin legal ice for the white house to do it. but the reality is that the cia works for the president. the white house is involved in discussions about what the spell jens community turns over to the
that under the 1947 national security act the intelligence committee has the right to get any material that is in the possession of the agency. it would be treading on thin legal ice for the white house to do it. but the reality is that the cia works for the president. the white house is involved in discussions about what the spell jens community turns over to the congress. sometimes it s for a political reason. sometimes it is for executive branch privilege reasons. some of the fights have been whether to turn over the president s daily brief on the theory this is executive branch material,s delivertive information that it should not be turned over to congress. david corn, i read some of the passages in the release the committee made today about being specifically instructional to the people in the trump transition who have never been here before and doesn t understand how this works, spelling out what they intended to use the subpoena powers for,
unsubstantiated? i don t understand why that rises to the highest level of a briefing in the first place. in the second pleas, the real damage, hold on trgs real damage done here is if the president gets a briefing from the intelligence community and read about it in the newspaper the next day or three days later, it is going to undermine the credibility of people who brief him, if he thinks they re leaking. whether the spell jens community that did the leaking. it wasn t the obama white house that received this information and donald trump, too. i think no spell jens briefing to the president should be leaked. i think the first part was answered earlier by leon panetta. he spoke earlier. he said he believed the information was the important enough and that it was out there, that the president must have been briefed on. ion they think that some of it is true, but that the information was important to know that it should be in the briefing. that s what he said. so i think he answered
not clear whether this came from a human intelligence source or somebody inside or close to the isis terrorist group was with able to get information back to handlers in the west or from enhanced surveillance of isis communications. reporter: despite the success, the intelligence community taking a potential hit. the new york times reports the prague pentagon s inspector general is investigating an allegation that some isis intelligence reports were altered to paint a rosier picture. the pentagon says it knows nothing about it since the ig operates independently. the president places a premium on getting an unvarnished assessment from the spell jens community. reporter: barbara starr, cnn, the pentagon. our coverage of the virginia tv news crew murders continues. ahead, we will hear from the gunman s former television boss. plus, germany s chancellor