three amigos to the ukraine policy. he said biden s name never came out. here he is one hour ago. there was no quid pro quo in the sense of what those folks out there would like for it to be. that we ll give you this money unless you go investigate joe biden and his son. i never heard that said anywhere any time in any conversation. bill: if he ever testifies, i m not suggesting he will at some point. democrats would like it. that will be his answer. right. so the statement by mulvaney, the general statement this is true, we do often tie aid to specific policy changes we want or to request to address corruption in various countries. now, there is no evidence to this point but if the united states is saying to other countries we want to know before the 2016 election how the u.s. intelligence community turned surveillance tools that were intended to be for spying against an opposition political party and we want your help in
john hudson. john, thank you for joining us. it was during the day friday this tweet went out, got a lot of attention because it appears that was classified material. complain what the president was posting there. absolutely. if you look at that image, that is an incredible resolution in that photo and it s not something that you re going to see with standard commercial satellite imagery. of course, the united states has some of the most technologically sophisticated spy tools and surveillance tools such as secret spy satellites, spy planes and it raised a lot of questions about the type of aerial equipment that was used and whether or not the president in an effort to perhaps taunt, perhaps troll the iranians, let go and really revealed what our highly classified american surveillance tools. take us through the process, this is something a lot of us
it s very obvious the doj and fbi under obama, all of these people tried to frame donald trump, to defrock him, to remove him from office, to prevent him from taking office. what we need now is accountability through disclosure, transparency, public reports, if there are serious crimes like let s say a group of people got together and said even though we know carter page is innocent, we are going to lie to the fisa court so we can listen in and see if we can get stuff on trump people. if that happened, i m for prosecuting that. laura: if we are using the surveillance tools as a cudgel in a political process they talk about russia all the time. that is what they do in russia. that isn t what we are supposed to be doing. that is a police state and if
under obama,er sally, mccabe, all of these people, basically tried to frame donald trump, to defrock him, to remove him from office, to prevent him from taking office. what we need now is accountability through disclosure, accountability, transparency, public reports. if there are serious crimes, like let s say a group of people got together and said even though we know carter page is innocent, we are going to lie to the fisa court so we can listen in and see if we can get stuff on the trump people. if that happened, i m for prosecuting that. laura: if we were using the surveillance tools, alan, as a cudgel in a political process, they talk about russia all the time. that is what they do in russia. that s not what we are supposed to be doing. that is a police state and, if there is any police state operation going on here, someone
photos without their knowledge or consent by using state driver s license data bases as facial recognition tools. according to thousands of facial recognition requests and internal documents and e-mails provided to the post, federal investigators have turned state dmv data bases into the bedrock of an unprecedented surveillance infrastructure. neither congress or state legislatures have authorized this system, and lawmakers from both sides of the aisle are criticizing the technology as quote dangerous, pervasive and error prone surveillance tools. officials with tsa, customs and border protection and the secret service are expected to testify before the house committee on homeland security later this week about their use of this technology. still ahead, california declares a state of emergency following another massive earthquake and a powerful series of after shocks, as residents there wonder if the big one might be next. bill karins is back with a check of your forecast. your fir