one, the cia did not want him there. he was a cia outsider. no one wanted ted sorensen. two, there was this whisper campaign that ted sorensen was a pacifist to resisted the korean war. three, 10 sorensen was one of the people involved and the aftermath of the chappaquiddick incident where teddy kennedy was drunk and drove off a bridge, resulting in the death of a young woman. biden is sort of like playing defense for the carter white house at the time and trying to resolve the issues. biden is tipped off by republican colleague that ted sorensen had given -- written and affidavit in support of daniel ellsberg during the pentagon papers prosecution where ellsberg was facing more than a century in prison under the espionage act. biden gets wind of this and gets one of his staffers to dig up the this affidavit that wasn't even officially filed. they had to dig deep. the affidavit basically said everybody in washington leaks, it is the culture of the elite. ted sorensen also said, i took government documents on when i was writing my biography. this is a common practice. eit

it's that around the cia has one. the person who is in charge of all of those as the director central intelligence was also the head of the cia. we had the strange situation which we had all this different reporting but obviously the director cia was human. he trusted his own intelligence agency, more than the others that were supposed to be over. and we found that some of the counter evidence about what was going on in iraq's mass destruction programs, probably did not get the airing and the hearing that it might have, so we created the director of national intelligence, who is not the director of the cia. it's a separate person who colt intelligence, helped the president understand when it was a disagreement in the intelligence agency, and give more of a total picture of what's going on with intelligence. that was the big reform. >> you also have talked in at least one speech i know about. the disciplinary of self-defense as part of the context we're making the decision to go into iraq i really want to ask you when

the cia was one. the person who was in charge of all of those as the director of central intelligence was also the head of the cia. so we had this strange situation in which we had all of this different intelligence reporting but obviously, the director of the cia was human. he trusted his own intelligence agency more than all of these others that he was supposed to be over. and we found that some of the counter evidence about what was going on in iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs probably didn't get the airing and the hearing that it might have been. so we created the director of national intelligence, who is not the director of the cia, he's a separate person, to cull the intelligence, help the president understand when there are disagreements in the intelligence agency, and give more of a total picture of what's going on within intelligence. so that was the big reform that was made. >> you also have talked in at least one speech that i know of about anticipatory self-defense as part of th

two of five cia directorates are focused on tech and cyber issues right now. nearly one third of our officers of our entire workforce are focused on the technology and cyber mission today. so that's a reflection of the priority we need to attach. partnerships are equally important not just across the intelligence community and with the private sector, but also with foreign partners as well. as you know we had some success over the last few years working with foreign partners to help highlight the risk on 5g technology dependency on -- on criminal dependencies on huawei can provide and working with them to find ways we can become more resilient, including on semiconductors as well. i think we need to make sure we draw upon all parts of the government, the commerce department, ostp others, our friends on the dod side of the house. i don't feel we have that one centralized place to make those assessments about china and the vast majority of members of this committee have joined in bipartisan legislation to try to create, in a sense, technology alliances amongst d

forces there -- contingent of glenda stein cia forces there -- contingent of clandestine cia forces there? robin: they can, but it will be much harder. katty: robin wright, think you for joining the program. robin: thank you. katty: it is a gamble that president biden has taken. he is determined to have those troops out. the special climate envoy, john kerry, has become the biden administration's first senior official to visit china. he is in shanghai, discussing effos to tackle global warming. he says despite current political tensions between america and beijing, the climate issue stand apart. our correspondent has more. reporter: superpowers and super polluters. the world cannot address climate change unless both are willing to turn away from fossil fuels, and both are ready to cooperate. that is the mission of the u.s. climate envoy, john kerry. visiting china in the hope that the rebels can pause their political discord for the sake of the planet. china has as much coal-fired power capacity as the rest of the world put together. it is offering informally to freeze emissions by

the congress party of china i mean i have to ask did i mean were you linked or are you linked to the cia no absolutely not because it says on your bio my says on your biography page as a consulting that you have experience working with various u.s. intelligence agencies which u.s. intelligence agencies have you worked with it i don't think it says intelligence agency it does says if those in the streets external pioneers also extensive experience working with homeland security department of defense the pentagon yet and various u.s. intelligence agencies which are you as a deliberate agencies did you work with when i was working at the leo at the architectural firm our company designed f.b.i. headquarters so that's my business development work. and i work this argument of defense state department homeland security under who leasing out those 22 oil groups from guantanamo i was working with them and advocating for those 22 years when you were working for the military contract to hell 3. i think under titan consulting which was involved in the abu ghraib torture scandal this was all just as

i know my colleagues at cia deeply appreciate your personal commitment on this issue. with regard to afghanistan, i'll begin and then turn to director haines. i guess what i would say at the start is i think we have to be clear-eyed about the reality, looking at the potential terrorism challenge that both al qaeda and isis and afghanistan remain intent on recovering the ability to attack u.s. targets, whether it's in the region and the west or ultimately in the homeland. after years of sustained counterterrorism pressure, the reality is that neither of them have that capacity today and that there are terrorist groups, whether it's al qaeda in the arabian peninsula or other parts of the world that represent more serious threats today. it is also clear that our ability to keep that threat in afghanistan in check from either al qaeda or isis in afghanistan have been fueled by intelligence, by the cia and our other intelligence partners. when the time comes for the u.s. military to withdraw, the u.s. government's ability to collect and act on threats will diminish. that's

. ♪ ♪ >>> 60 years og in 1961, exiled forces backed by the cia mounted a failed invasion at cuba's bay of pigs. next, on "reel america," a come bylation of news reels from the 1959 cuban revolution, through the end of april 1961. the chronology reveals how initial enthusiasm for castro turned to skepticism, then opposition, as the island nation allied with the soviet union and china. ♪ ♪ >>> cuba's fidel castro emerged triumphant. the revolution that began with castro a fugitive, landing with 82 followers, nearly wiped out, ended with the dictator and the entry of havana of rebel forces to be acclaimed by the city. the forces of castro's 26th of july movement, named for the anniversary of his first attack on the regime in 1953, have grown vastly. nearly two years of hit and run warfare, aimed at toppling batista's government by paralyzing cuba's economy, culminated in victory in 1958. castro led an offensive with a counterattack. and won the crucial victory. batista resigned to prevent more bloodshed and fled the country. that touched off wild rejoiing in the capital and the rebel

is a simple question. >> should the cia be spying on citizens? i mean, it's really clear that they should not be. >> more generally the purpose is not to collect domestic -- >> director, do you agree with that? >> do you think that the nsa should be under surveillance there. >> would if they break the law. can you do it then? >> again, congressman. >> and i could go through the general and others, and it's very clear that the ic has no authority to turn tools or your resources on american citizens. we agree with that. director, you have a reported and i have an executive summary here, the title of this report, the nasty violent extremism, domestic. and actually drafted with the help as well as with the cia and the fbi did you write a report about domestic terrorism? >> thank you, congressman. >> the terrorism center they actually have the statutory authority to receive domestic intelligence so that it's not collecting about receiving it and to support others as well. >> analysts actually helped to prepare. you get analysis on it, which is, in my

and the cia did not even have very good numbers on what was happening in the soviet union. but he recognized. that money was important and that money was needed. so he worked closely. with his colleague in germany hands deep creek cancer and the president worked closely with helmut cole. so that an agreement that could be a reached whereby. gorbachev had money and jim the german's head unity. so let's go on to that personal relationship, and i want to take you from europe and take you right? to syria in 1919 the fall of 1990 the united states needed syrian support in building a coalition to repel saddam hussein from kuwait syria was key. now president assad did not like saddam hussein. they were not friends. in fact, they were enemies. but to persuade president assad required sitting for hours. in the syrian palace and drinking lots of sweet tea. well, you know up to three or four hours of drinking sweet tea you do need a bathroom, but sad dad. sorry president assad was giving no bathroom breaks. and therefore they could decide it that although his relations with our sad we

the cia mounted a failed invasion at cuba's bay of pigs. next, on reel america, a compilation of universal newsreels from the january 1959 cuban revolution through the end of april 1961. the chronology reveals how initial enthusiasm for fidel castro turned to skepticism, then opposition as the island nation allied with the soviet union and china. ♪♪ ♪♪ >>> from the mountains, cuba's fidel castro emerged triumphant after two years of guerilla warfare against the batista regime. he had 82 followers to be nearly wiped out by government forces ended with the fight of dictator batista and the entry into havana of rebel forces to be claimed by the city. ♪♪ the forces of castro's 26th of july movement named for the anniversary of his first attack on the regime in 1953 have grown vastly, captured army weapons. castro led an all-out government offensive with a counterattack. and in the battle of santa clara won the crucial victory. batista resigned to prevent more bloodshed, and fled the country. the first elements of rebel forces entere

boost exports of unmanned weapons to countries including those with poor human rights records former cia analyst john kiriakou who you heard from earlier told us the terms of the espionage act leave hale with little hope. this is the really the worst part of the of the espionage act this is the reason why ed snowden can't come home this is the reason why i couldn't go to trial this is the reason why jeffrey sterling the other cia whistleblower was convicted because there is no affirmative defense we are prohibited by law from going into court and saying i did it but i did it for this reason and in in the case of daniel hale this was a war crime he did it because he was exposing a war crime he's not allowed to say that and so he really doesn't have any chance of acquittal the best thing to do for daniel as it was for me as it was for so many others here charged under the espionage act is to take a deal and to hope for the lightest possible sentence the decision that was made early on even before joe biden was inaugurated to pursue the appeal against julian his son it was that decision tha

well i'm delighted to say we can go live now on the program to former cia officer ray mcgovern for his take ray good to see you what is your take what's your what's your stance on this statement by the u.s. state department are they considering a songes rights in their thinking our stated. well it's a travesty of justice when you have the 1st principal assistant secretary of state mouthpiece saying this isn't in accordance with human rights law that's a travesty i probably should say right off the bat that julian assange is a good friend of mine a very much admired friend and when i saw him unceremoniously dragged out of the ecuadorian embassy in london exactly 2 years ago i decided that as a met matter of solidarity and also so i would not forget my friend julie and i would let my beard grow and be as to shovelled as he looked now what happened to him well he was brought to a bill marsh prison where he was tortured now don't you don't have to rely on me for that there's a un to for torture you'll smell so who looked into it. doctors and psychiatrists in there and they saw that he was

departure last friday and on the same day declassified files revealed he had been the target of our cia assassination attempt as artie's reports. raul castro reveals he's stepping down what better time to disclose your country meal the idea of assassinating him this is the perfect metaphor of cuba u.s. relations as the cia has published once top secret cables describing how in 1960 the agency offered $10000.00 to a pilot flying roll castro from prague to have to arrange an unlucky accident the plot can be added to what some say were the hundreds of assassination attempts on rolls brother legendary el commandante fidel provide.

last friday and that same day declassified files were released showing he had been the target of a cia assassination attempt as early as 1960. of explains. raul castro reveals he's stepping down what better time to disclose your country meal the idea of assassinating him this is the perfect metaphor of cuba u.s. relations as the cia has published once top secret cables describing how in 1960 the agency offered $10000.00 to a pilot flying roll castro from prague to have to arrange an unlucky accident the plot can be added to what some say were the hundreds of assassination attempts on rolls brother legendary el commandante fidel providing a glimpse into just how big a thorn in america's side cuba was and even remains to this day clearly the carriage drove regime. will not change by its own choice. but cuba must change. i don't care how i die but rest assured if they invade us i'll die in combat. you don't make friends with uncle sam by overthrowing a dictatorship ruled by his appointee or by building a socialist state right in his backyard for del castro did both his relations with the

is that people say, well, why didn't the intelligence community stop this -- you know, the nsa and cia are precluded from the domestic standpoint of using these authorities, and we trust dhs and fbi to be the first line of defense with regard to some of these events that i've talked about. and the capability just isn't there. and so addressing that in a way that will allow for these types of events from preventing these types of events from occurring in the future would have been a focus of mine. >> yeah. it would have been a great area of focus, and we certainly hope that avril haines as current d&i is tackling that issue because it is such a operator for the nation. i'm going to turn to dustin for questions from the audience. and he's been taking them in, dustin cormack, just recently rejoined heritage, and delighted to have him here as a colleague, as well. and former chief of staff to d&i radcliffe. >> good morning, sir. first question is actually from a student at patrick henry college. he asks -- silicon valley is often seen as being against supporting law enforcement, intelligen

len col columnist for newsweek and for my death the national intelligence officer for the cia in london klinsmann moratti a geopolitical advisor and c.e.o. of the consultancy pangea why a group and in moscow dimitri babich political analyst for so bosnia a news agency in russia a warm welcome to all if i could start with glenn in boston so what do you think glenn do these sanctions indicate that the by the administration is going to take a very different approach to russia than we saw under the donald trump administration oh absolutely that is the case it's a return to a more traditional kind of relationship for tat and carrot and stick early ship between rivals which is how international relations function until biden took office we had for 4 years someone who was very least compromised by russian intelligence and pretty clearly involved with the very how do we know that glenn just like just to get factual on you about how do we know he was compromised i know the allegations about golden showers and all but how do we know for sure. well by observing every statement and every policies a

flag in this return i don't want to get caught of the detail but do we have i mean you're a former cia officer did you see are you saying you saw evidence of the of don't trump actually being compromised i mean we i mean i understand what you're saying about deducing from how he would approach is only. now i'm asking you know the statement you made about he's actually compromised if if we say we need a photograph of him doing something accepting an envelope of money you know in the classic example that we do not have we do have however overwhelming numbers of. evidence substantiating dramatic financial interest we don't buy russian all of our and other figures and russian intelligence officers with members of the crime family not around for decades so it's a yes ok well that constitutes it's all right let's bring in dimitri the mitri how do you think moscow is reading the new biden administration does it see a tougher u.s. approach to russia under the biden. well. basically of course roger was unpleasantly surprised when trump used that was mildly under political language about our pre

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house republican leader kevin mccarthy now demanding a brief of congressional leadership by the fbi and cia over suspected terrorists crossing the border. democrats also doing this, they will try to ram through border changes without any gop votes through budget reconciliation. according to a new report. thanks for joining us. i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪. elizabeth: welcome to the show. you're watching the fox business network. we begin tonight with former georgia congressman doug collins. sir, great to have you on. we hear you may be considering a senate run. are you? >> we're doing, that liz. one good to see you and talking to you again. we're considering that. with the craziness down here where senator rafael warnock who is actually encouraging and money and business to leave georgia, acting surprise when it happens, there is lot of consideration going on here, liz. elizabeth: gotcha. we'll stay on that story about you. now to this. president biden doing a swing and a miss telling folks in georgia to smarten up, avoid losing businesses but this is af

total number comes to $934000000000.00 when you take into account the budget for homeland security the cia and other american agencies so with a more assertive china the united states and the philippines restarted joint military exercises after last year's cancellation due to the pandemic but the 50 plus year defense pact hangs in the balance because of the philippines president roderigo to tertius initial decision to walk away from it for counting the costs al-jazeera has more now from manila. the u.s. they are duros yvel to a strike group returns to the south china sea for a 2nd time this year the u.s. 7th fleet says the visit is part of its routine operations. but regional tensions are flaring because of china's reclamation of many areas and its use of maritime militia to enforce its illegal claims in the south china sea. the u.s. considers the philippines one of its strongest allies in the region and these so-called balikatan exercises allow both countries to conduct joint military and humanitarian exercises. they resumed this week after being cancelled last year because of the pandemi

going to work for the set of policies i've been working on all my life including the last four years of cia director and secretary of state i believe america first makes of awful lot of sense and we have to do that on school choice issues in the broad array and what happens in 22 means a lot and i'll go to conservative candidates to be elected and will consider it 2024 is an opportunity to go into elected office. i love the fight. gerry: a brief final question if president trump decides to run again, would you run against him? >> that's a long way off i don't think any of us have figured about 2024 will make those decisions another time. >> secretary mike pompeo, thank you for joining me. >> think you have a good day. gerry: democrats planning to subvert democracy and legislation to pack the court, that is a dangerous precedent, (vo) ideas exist inside you, electrify you. they grow from our imagination, but they can't be held back. they want to be set free. to make the world more responsible, and even more incredible. ideas start the future, just like that. when it comes to autism, finding

the cia and centcom and it is believed that by some that the some of the i am i a e a inspectors may have passed on information i think that ultimately the iranians will respond and they will respond in a big way for a number of things that the israelis have done but the iranians are patient and they're known for their patience but i think the last 20 years have shown that iran knows where to push things and write your news returns in half an hour. there are calls for a living style investigation into the capitol building of january 6th is this an effort to seek the truth or to fabricate another massive political hoax also. i'm absent and sam we're going on the ground for another lockdown edition as further draconian lockdown measures are eased here in the u.k. in part 2 we'll hear from one of america's most influential conservative thinkers about what happens when law fails those it's there to protect from the george floyd trial to identity politics dead ends but 1st to reports of genocide in china i'm joined from head to virginia by russian executive director of the campaign for we

foreign ministry hit back accusing washington of hypocrisy we've got reaction to the story from former cia officer ray mcgovern well we have here now is a situation where julian is surprisingly very rates the main the main reason being that if they get him and put him in prison for the rest of us late no one no one will try to expose us what crime surely empires war crimes there julian it was slander it was a rush it was shorter and now god knows what you don't have to rely on me for that there is a un rapporteur for torture you'll smell so who looked into it so i hope he he is able to escape the ultimate penalty but it judging from people who have seen him most recently he has already been in. really ruined by by that the treatment that he has been subjected to i do have hope that julian will will be able to persist and finally find a new life with his partner in this to a little boy who play in a way waiting for him to come home. beijing is lashed out at washington after a u.s. ambassador made his 1st official visit to taiwan in more than 40 years china considers the island to be part of

though has hit back and accuse washington of the pa kristie we've got reaction to the story from former cia officer ray mcgovern well we have here now is a situation where julian is surprised of any rights the main the main reason being that if they get him put him in prison for the rest of us like no one no one will try to expose us what crimes are the empire's war crimes there julian it was slander it was a rush it was torture and now god knows what you don't have to rely on me for that there is a un rapporteurs for torture and you'll smell so who looked into it so i hope he he is able to escape the ultimate penalty but it judging from people who have seen him most recently he has already been in. really ruined by by that the treatment that he has been subjected to i do have hope that julian will will be able to persist and finally find a new life with his partner and his 2 little boys who play in a way waiting for him to come home. for the u.s. government there's no bigger responsibility than guarding the new clear launch codes so to reassure americans that they're in safe hands strategi

so today i sent a letter to the director of the fbi, the director of the cia,ia to give a classified briefing to myself, pelosi, schumer, mcconnell, and bring in the vice president. if she is so-called supposed to be in charge but won't go to the border, she should hear the classified briefing because what's happening to us and the policies that president biden put in has made us less secure. we are vulnerable to terrorist attacks. you talk about the two terrorists who have been caught, they didn't catch them together, they caught the two separately and a thousand people are coming across every day and not being caught, how many terrorists are in that thousand? >> the fbi director may be busy finally offering discipline to those mentioned in the inspector general, so he's probably very busy. what we really have here is a health crisis. we do have a humanitarian crisis, but really a national security crisis and a financial burden on the american people, the likes of which which will be in the billions and billions of dollars. do you see this getting resolved because i don't, i only se

when kevin mccarthy now demanding more from a briefing of congressional leadership by the fbi and the cia over suspected terrorist crossing the border democrats also doing this will try to run through border changes without any gop vote through budget reconciliation that's according to a new report. thank you for joining us i'm elizabeth macdonald in "the evening edit" start right now. ♪. liz: welcome to the show you're watching the fox business network. we begin with former georgia congressman doug collins, we hear you might consider a senate run, are you? >> it is good to see you and we are considering that, i have a senator raphael warnock who is encouraging businesses and money to leave georgia and then acting surprised what happens, there's been a lot of consideration going on. liz: gotcha, we will stay on the story. president biden really doing a swing and a miss telling folks in georgia to avoid losing businesses, this is after he used the massive power of his own bully pulpit to say yes baseball should boycott georgia pulled our star game out of it and barack obama also endorsin