questions. just how far did some of these proposals go? as we reported, the top of the assassination was in-house. at one point there are requests from the seventh floor, that s where the cia director s offices, for sketches, for her proposals about how it should be done. but these never got forwarded to the white house. i think there was a sort of pretty quick realization that, you know, we can t do. that on the other hand, the abduction, the snatch operation that was pushing, did get all the way to the white house. and did provoke these internal debates within the trump administration that we documented with these. this was one of the more contentious intelligent debates of the trump presidency. and it was all done in secret to public, and no one had any idea what s going. on it s absolutely alarming i wanted to actually really quickly, just compare for us
talks between the cia and trump administration officials about the legality of such actions and if it should go further. michael isikoff is one of the reporters on this story and spoke with cnn this morning. listen to this. when the seventh floor of the cia, that s where the cia director s office is located, asked for aggressive plans to attack and dismantle wikileaks, that s when the kidnapping, the snatch operation plans first started to form late. there was also talk about assassination and in fact there was even sort of options that were prepared as to how that could take place. i do want to emphasize, this never went to the white house and i think even inside the cia there were concerns this went too far. so it never got approved. but there were operations that were approved. the cia was getting live audio