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
Take this into saturday night and into sunday morning. Look at the humidity values. The brighter colors represent the strong wind speeds. Avery in napa county and celano county. As you can see into the afternoon hours, wind is still a factor but so is the heat and is still very dry. Could have relative humidity right around 15 to 16 . Later in the day sunday the winds will back off. The wind is one factor. Of the heat is another. We will talk about a few neighborhoods right around 100 degrees as we head into your sundays forecast. We will talk more about the hot weekend, fire danger coming up in a little bit. Pg e is warming warning about the power shut off this weekend. And outage would affect 97,000 customers in northern counties, most outside the bay area. Only 200 customers in napa county and 50 in lake county affected. On pg es website you can enter your address to see if your home or business is in the impacted area. First responders are bracing for the hot windy weather this wee
Interview top nonfiction authors about the latest work. All programs are also available as podcasts. Thanks for sitting down with me today, your book provides the interesting background and detail not just about your career and intelligence debates of the past but its very much relevant to the news of our current days. Its four years later, we are still fighting about russian interference in 2016, republicans and democrats are still debating about whether the investigations were handled property four years ago whether you of 2016, drew the right conclusions about russian acti action. Your book opens with a scene after the election, before the inauguration. Your breathing congressional leaders in going to new york to meet trump and his team. In the sharp partisan divide when you brief congress, describe that and talk about whether that was inevitable given the politics of our moment will could something have been done differently . I was asked to brief them we learned about what was doi
This hearing will look at a range of violent antigovernment actors, movements, and organizations, highlighting recent threats from militia extremists and accelerationists, including the Boogaloo Movement, who seek to accelerate society toward violent collapse. Anything that is threatening institutions, we also look at it. That is what we are doing today. It is incredibly irrelevant to me which groups we look at so long that we are looking at the principal ones that threaten peoples lives. Some of these Extremist Movements stream from ideologies that are decades old. Others are both having new. Others are relatively new. These threats range from decentralized and leaderless accelerationist networks to more structured militia groups. Antigovernment extremism is one of the Common Threads, but we often see overlap with antiimmigrant, antisemitic, antiblack, antimuslim ideologies as well, bringing these extremists into common cause with others who are extremist in nature. We have an opportu
This hearing will look at a range of violent antigovernment this aint about politics here. This is something that happens on the political spectrum that involves violence, threatening institutions, and we have got to look at it, and that is what we are doing today. So these threats range from decentralized and leaderless it is incredibly irrelevant to me which groups we look at so long that we are looking at the principal ones that threaten peoples lives. Some of these extremist movements stream from ideologies that are decades old. Others are relatively new. These threats range from decentralized and leaderless accelerationist networks to more structured militia groups. Antigovernment extremism is one of the Common Threads, but we often see overlap with antiimmigrant, antisemitic, antiblack, antimuslim ideologies as well, bringing these extremists into common cause with others who are extremist in nature. We have an opportunity to discuss the current Threat Landscape from these moveme