released, put out information about this unverified dossier in order to undercut him. this is what he said in the press conference. i think it was disgraceful, disgraceful that the intelligence agencies allowed any information that turned out to be so false and fake out. i think it s a disgrace and i say that and i say that and that s something that nazi germany would have done and did do. chris: mr. brennan, your response. this information has been out for months so it s not leaking or releasing the information. it was already out there. chris: one of the reasons it hadn t is because it hadn t been verified and when you briefed the president on it, you collectively briefed the president on it, the president elect, that had been news. nothing is unverified. it had been circulating in the private sector and the media as
thus far, we hear in this program we re not. i want to clear this up. we ll start with the nomination of john brenan as cia director said we should not call terrorists jihadists. really? listen. describing terrorists this way seems to clarify ourselves. risk giving these murderers legitimacy they seek but no n.no way deserve. sean: john ker year, i voted for 87 billion before i voted against it. he once accused our brave u.s. troops of the following. they personally raped, cutoff ears, cutoff heads, taped wires from portable
graduations, weddings, kids of their own. reporter: so the president pausing repeatedly to wipe away tears. but he wasn t just emotional and sad, alex. he was also resolved, it seemed. he said now is the time to take meaningful action regardless of the politics. what specifically does that mean we will have to wait for the coming days and weeks to find out. now in terms of the tick tock, i can tell you president obama was alerted about this at 10:30 a.m. by his national security adviser john brenan. he spent the rest of the morning and afternoon receiving updates on the situation. he reached out to fbi director robert muller, he also reached out to the governor of connecticut, dan malloy, not only to express his condolences you will abouts to make it clear the federal government will stand with connecticut not only emotionally but in terms of offering resources and other supports, alex. kristen will kerr at the white house. kristen, many thanks for that.
bomber, that this was a way to upgrade the technology into an ie d and explosive device. what do you know? just speaking to a senior administration official tells us while there are many similarities to the past bombs we heard out of aqap, there was differences to this which is why they want to take the time to being make sure the fbi goes through the forensicing. we have heard a number of threats about body bombs and senior administration officials tell cnn this was not intended to be a body bomb. this was more in line with the sort of underwear bomber type of thing. look, they really feel strongly this is a success. they worked with their international partners, make no mistake about it, the best internal service against this target is the saudi service. we know that the saudi service is tipped off the americans when it came to the cargo plane threat and worked with them, and the head of the saudi service, muhammed benaif was the target of the one of the al bombs so they
taliban leaders, do we know generally who is being targeted here, yogi? brennan didn t want to go into detail, but what do we know about those kill lists? it s a good question. to go back briefly to bob s point, it s not that the number of drone strikes have decreased but the rules about them havelessened and loosened considerably. you had john brenan yesterday talk about one of the more controversial aspects of this, which is the president s decision to order the deaths of american citizens abroad. there was an al qaeda propagandist who was killed in a drone strike. and his son, as well. exactly, and his son as well. and neither soft those were discussed in any way. there was no allusion to killing u.s. citizens but there was no discussion about killing a propagandist and his son who was in control of these types of terror attacks. u.s. officials have said they re very careful.