and at the same time, johnson had people in his administration suggesting that there be better, more liberal, more market-oriented positions to open up new technology for things like cable tv. but he wouldn't go there. he was compromised by the fact he did not want there to be focused on this because he had his own conflicts to worry about. he literally kept that stuff that day. finally after that, starting in the 1970's, there is a tendency to look more favorably on market competition and freedom of speech to the first amendment actors in the market. host: who was at when armstrong and why did -- who was edwin armstrong and why did he commit suicide? guest: a great inventor, a student at columbia university in the early part of the last century. by the time he graduated, he had in a.m.in a radio -- radio. first a professor when he graduated. also, a very wealthy investor. for a time, he was the leading shareholder in rca. of the zenithrt of his inventive career in the 1930's, came up with a better technology, fm radio, which was excellent in terms of high fidelity reception. it took

and, at the same time, johnson had people in his administration suggesting that there be better, more market oriented positions and to open up new technology for things like network tv. but he would not go there. he was compromised on the fact that he did not want there to be much focus on this little because he had his own conflict. atliterally kept that stuff bay. finally, starting in the 1970's there is a tendency to look more favorably on market competition and freedom of speech to the first amendment actors in the market. brian: who was edwin armstrong and why did he commit suicide? tom: a great inventor. a student at columbia university in the early part of the last century and by the time he amaduated he had patents in radio that made him first a professor and as a young man at columbia, a very wealthy investor. for a time he was a leading shareholder in rca. he then, as sort of the zenith of his inventive career in the 1930's came up with a better technology. fm radio. which was excellent in terms of high fidelity reception. it took them quite a while to get the regulators to

sova one guy served from johnson all the way through reagan bin reagan and bush had the same chaff -- shaft and the assistant was in the clinton administration mortgages promoted and iss w ben there ever since. >> is there a food budget?. >> yes. so they had to pay for food out of their own pocket so the air force one that was not a free-for-all. in to have more history is the creation is a reflection of this because in with the intent -- installation of air-conditioning. they called them the deal to nothing congress.ss which so that is why the navy operations saw a lot of the food is not run by the white house kitchen staff but the navy staff. >> is there any more elaborate meal so did somebody ever having an allergic reaction?.at >> so first so created by an african american chef who was offered the executive chef job under president clinton and then turns it down because it was a pay cut he was making well into six figures at the hotel across street but at that time the chef was 58,000. that was a definite drop off with several kids but thel clintons ask him to create a meal that w

and, at the same time, johnson had people in his administration suggesting that there be better, more market oriented positions and to open up new technology for things like network tv. but he would not go there. he was compromised on the fact that he did not want there to be much at all. he literally kept that stuff that they. finally, starting in the 1970's there is a tendency to look more favorably on market competition speech to the first amendment actors in the market. brian: who was edwin armstrong and why did he commit suicide? inventor.at a student at columbia university at the later part of the century and by the time he graduated he had patents in a.m. radio that and him first a professor as a young man at columbia, a .ery wealthy investor for a time he was a leading shareholder in rca. the zenith sort of of his inventive career in the 1930's came up with a better technology. fm radio. which was excellent in terms of high fidelity reception. it took them quite a while to get the regulators to give him any help at all because there had to be spectrum allocated for this new te

the navy films on the johnson administration are archived at the lbj presidential library and you can watch many of them on their youtube channel. ♪ >> on the second of june, prime minister wilson of great britain was welcomed to the white house. the visit had been arranged to discuss the urgent problems common to both governments. however, a crisis that developed with suddenness would be given priority. the recent impasse in the historically explosive middle east situation. president johnson: we come here today in another time of trouble when peace and justice are again in the balance. it is on occasions like this that the council of old and trusted friends is most welcome. >> israel facing yet another climactic point in her 19 year struggle for survival saw not only the threat of maritime blockade but the threat of extinction. with all attempts at private negotiations failing, solutions through diplomacy and united nations intervention seemed increasingly remote. the time for talk was over. to gather, great britain and the united states drafted a maritime declaration to be circula

guest: reports on the activities of the johnson administration? caller: activities of the own department. guest: that is pretty common now. when i went to the clinton library, not much was open when i first started researching there. what was open was the exact reports written by each of the cabinet departments on their activity and accomplishments during the clinton administration. those would be a part of those presidential libraries. host: we have a library of congress that can preserve presidential papers, why do they need memorial libraries? guest: pretty excellent question. the obama presidential center will test that question by having the presidential records go to the national archives, not to the presidential center in chicago and the obama presidential foundation will operate the museum and legacy exhibits on their own. the library of congress does have presidential records up to 1920s and the national archives has them from herbert hoover on. host: to virginia, mike, independent, go ahead. caller: i want to let you know, i really appre

administration to start his catering business in the washington, d.c. area. daisy who i mentioned, james carter, there was a jimmy carter in the white house before president carter. loretta deans who is assistant cook, lizzie mcduffie, elizabeth moore and catherine smith. in her diary henrietta nesbitt has a lot of praise, she said even though she was temperamental she could work magic can make anything happen if it needed to. so you get an idea of the plan the white house staff. when the roosevelts come to the white house they actually and a segregated practice. back on the time of president taft he hired a woman named mrsa segregationist. even though there is a multiracial cooking staff she created cap segregated evening's spaces. she had a separate table for whites and blacks. by the time eleanor roosevelt gets to the white house she rectifies the situation by fiery most of the white people. i'll let you decide if that's progress or not. no longer segregation is he pretty much of one race working in the kitchen overall we see we have cooks who are cu

busy day for president johnson administration did the commander in chief will travel to wisconsin as he pushes to get americans back to work at the president will expand apprenticeship programs to help close the so-called skills gap. labor secretary alex acosta discussed plans at the white house yesterday. >> currently 6 million jobs open in the united states. this is the highest number of job vacancies ever. american companies want to hire the mismatch for jobs had prospective employee job skills. president trump is made clear to expand job opportunities here in

what went into the thinking of president johnson, how other actors in the administration approached these issues, and the lasting imprint of the decisions made in those fateful days of may and june, on american policy in the middle east. to start, i am going to turn to my colleague, dennis ross. in addition to his own personal experience in the making of middle east policy over the last 25 years, dennis is an author and historian on america's engagement in these issues. if you haven't already read "doo to succeedmed", now is a great time to pick it up. among its final chapters is one and -- ine 67 war, the middle east, in which there are fascinating nuggets that give us a window into the thinking of president johnson. tost i will turn to dennis give us the strategic context of this episode. then, i am pleased to turn to nicholas roughed up -- nicholas, 's title is a wonderful mouthful. colgate university, down the -- former advisor to president reagan and president bush. also a wonderful historian, who likes to delve deeply into these issues. he brings the special -- the of knowingribute

another burning question put to jay johnson. >> why did it take the administration so long to make a public statement that a foreign adversary was trying to influence the american election? >> i'm going to disagree there was a delay. this was a big decision. one of the candidates, as you recall, was predicting that the election was going to be rigged in some way. we were concerned that by making the statement we might in and of itself be challenging the integrity of the election process itself. >> with the nbc chief white house correspondent hallie jackson. how is the jay johnson testimony resonating at the white house? >> reporter: quiet day at the white house. the president has left now. he's headed to iowa. he's got that rally coming up later tonight. that's something we'll be watching to see if and how he responds to a lot of conversations we have been having on this. you heard jay johnson talk about

the navy films on the johnson administration are archived at the lbj presidential library and you can watch many of them on their youtube channel. ♪

so back in 1960s, the lyndon johnson administration was faced with the problem of whether nonproliferation should be a goal of the u.s. policy. they created the gillpatrick commission that produced this consensus report that should not be nondiscriminatory. now we hear there is a nuclear posture review where disarmament is being assessed as to whether it should be a goal of policy. what do you think will be the outcome of this assessment and what will be the effects if this goal is abandoned? thank you. >> very quickly. i'm not answering the questions. the arms control agency was abolished on april fool's day, 1999. woi i won't say anything further. we always had a robust arms control, safeguards, nonproliferation bureaucracy and in contrast to many other countries that do not, i think that gave us the opportunity to -- we had a responsibility to do more work interacting with our foreign partners through diplomacy, engaging with foreign partners, educating. because we have this large bureaucracy, we could do that if we wanted to do that. i can't comment on today because i've been retired n

administration was facing the problem of whether the nonproliferation should be a us policy. they created a real pacs solution and produced this report, yes it should and it should not be nondiscriminatory. how are we hear that the nuclear posture where government is now being assessed as to whether it should have a goal of this policy? what could be the outcome of this assessment and what would be the effects of this goal is abandoned, thank you? >> very quickly, because i'm not answering the question what the arms control agency was abolished on april fools' day 1999 . from my experience, they always had a robust arms control nonproliferation bureaucracy and in contrast to many other countries that do not. i think that gave us the opportunity , we had a responsibility to do more work interacting with our partners through diplomacy, engaging with foreign partners, providing information, that sort of thing and because we had bureaucracy, we could do that if we wanted to do that. i can't comment on today, but i can address at least the part of the deluge. >> your first questio

administration, when he was present at the creation of so much of what we now call history, which is perfectly fitting for journalists because it's always been said that journalists write the first draft ofistory, but much of what he has seen and covered and reported has become itself history, and the way he has written it and the way he has spoken it to us will stand as a landmark of the great journalism that is produced. i'm so glad that you're watching this program. and supporting this television station. >> what an absolute privilege it is to be watching this superb program with you this evening. it is truly remarkable to hear bill moyers tell us about his life experiences. imagine, he is the only one still living from that plane on the day that kennedy died. wow. hi, i'm margaret pressrud and i'm a member of public television and i'm asking you to give your support this evening, as well, around this wonderful program. when you do it with a gift of $84 or $7 a month, we will be happy to gift you the wonderful program that we're enjoying. as don mentioned, it's not just the progra

administration, when he was present at the creation of so much of what we now call history, which is perfectly fitting for journalists because it's always been said that journalists write the first draft of history, but much of what he has seen and covered and reported has become itself history, and the way he has written it and the way he has spoken it to us will stand as a landmark of the great journalism that is produced. i'm so glad that you're watching this program. and supporting this television station. >> what an absolute privilege it is to be watching this superb program with you this evening. it is truly remarkable to hear bill moyers tell us about his life experiences. imagine, he is the only one still living from that plane on the day that kennedy died. wow. hi, i'm margaret pressrud and i'm a member of public television and i'm asking you to give your support this evening, as well, around this wonderful program. when you do it with a gift of $84 or $7 a month, we will be happy to gift you the wonderful program that we're enjoying. as don mentioned, it's not just the prog

administration, when he was present at the creation of so much of what we now call history, which is perfectly fitting for journalists because journalists write the first draft of history, but much of what he has seen and covered and reported has become itself history, and the way he has written it and the way he has spoken it to us will stand as a landmark of the great journalism that is produced. i'm so glad that you're watching this program. and supporting this television station. >> what an absolute privilege it is to be watching this superb program with you this evening. it is truly remarkable to hear bill moyers tell us about his life experiences. imagine, he is the only one still living from that plane on the day that kennedy died. wow. hi, i'm margaret pressrud and i'm a member of public television and i'm asking you to give your support this evening, as well, around this wonderful program. when you do it with a gift of $84 or $7 a month, we will be happy to gift you the wonderful program that we're enjoying. as don mentioned, it's not just the program that we're seeing, that

administration, when he was present at the creation of so much of what we now call history, which is perfectly fitting for journalists because it's always been said that journalists write the first draft of history, but much of what he has seen and covered and reported has become itself history, and the way he has written it and the way he has spoken it to us will stand as a landmark of the great jourlism thais proced. i'm so glad that you're watching this program. and supporting this television station. >> what an absolute privilege it is to be watching this superb program with you this evening. it is truly remarkable to hear bill moyers tell us about his life experiences. imagine, he is the only one still living from that plane on the day that kennedy died. wow. hi, i'm margaret pressrud and i'm a member of public television and i'm asking you to give your support this evening, as well, around this wonderful program. when you do it with a gift of $84 or $7 a month, we will be happy to gift you the wonderful program that we're enjoying. as don mentioned, it's not just the program th

administration, when he was present at the creation of so much of what we now call history, which is perfectly fitting for journalists beuse it's always been said that journalists write the first draft of history, but much of what he has seen and covered and reported has become itself history, and the way he has written it and the way he has spoken it to us will stand as a landmark of the great journalism that is produced. i'm so glad that you're watching this program. and supporting this television station. >> what an absolute privilege it is to be watching this superb program with you this evening. it is truly remarkable to hear bill moyers tell us about his life experiences. imagine, he is the only one still living from that plane on the day that kennedy died. wow. hi, i'm margaret pressrud and i'm a member of public television and i'm asking you to give your support this evening, as well, around this wonderful program. when you do it with a gift of $84 or $7 a month, we will be happy to gift you the wonderful program that we're enjoying. as don mentioned, it's not just the progra

the big thing he has going for it, errol louis, jeh johnson, the obama administration official gave him a good basis to look back and blame. listen to what jeh johnson said in his testimony before congress. >> first, as you know well, we have to carefully consider whether declassifying the information compromises sources and methods, second, there was an ongoing election and many would criticize us for perhaps taking sides in the election. that had to be carefully considered. one of the candidates, as you'll recall, was predicting that the election was going to be rigged in some way. so we were concerned that by making the statement, we might in and of itself, be challenging the integrity of the election process itself. >> errol, could this explanation fit in the category of true, comma, but uncompelling, with democrats saying this is such a big deal and saying things need to be done about it, it shouldn't be ignored, that answer does not seem to help their position. your take. >> well, it may not help their position, but i can take myself back to the days when we were day after day, mo

during that administration bobby was called the number two man in washington. sometimes thought of a as a sustained president. lyndon johnson was telling one of his closest aides in 1963, go on, i'm past my prime. he looks defeated and then he's reinvigorated by power. he does go on to do some legislative feeds. the kennedy orbit was resentful of this, body especially. he didn't like that johnson was being praised. they say julius caesar only ran for years and is immortal. it helps if you have shakespeare to write about you. i think that when it comes to lyndon johnson, a very powerful person, dynamic person, but also a man who didn't know how to contain his appetite. towards the end of my book, you see bobby having to cut through school lunches that lyndon johnson had initiated you don't get the kennedys without johnson. that plays out i think and especially with bobby. who is going to control the future of the democratic party they couldn't come together and you know how that story ends. they had the momentum has been suggested by john kennedy. it's always of

and to tom i'd like to ask him, during the 1960s the lyndon johnson administration was faced with the problem of whether nonproliferation should be a goal of u.s. policy. they created the kilpatrick commission, produce of this consensus report that yes, it should and that it should that be nondiscriminatory. now we hear there's a nuclear posture review where disarmament is now being assessed as to whether it should be a goal of policy. what do you think will be the outcome of this assessment, and what would be the effects if this goal is abandoned? thank you. >> all right, well very quickly because i'm not really answering the questions, but the arms control agency was abolished on april fools' day 1999. i won't say anything further. i think from my experience we always had a robust arms control safeguard, nonproliferation bureaucracy, and in contrast with many of the countries that did not. i think that gave us the opportunity, we had a responsibility to do more work interacting with our foreign partners, through diplomacy, engaging with foreign partners, educating, providing informa

neil: did he say during the andrew johnson administration, the market went up? >> yes, it was, i was a cub reporter then. neil: i know varney was covering it. stuart: i knew that was coming. [ laughter ] >> good to see lizzie back, too. gas po is back, the whole gang is back. a lot going on today. the president as stuart indicated is on his way to ohio is going to be talking obamacare with, those who have been hurt by the law that republicans are working on a fix for in the senate. that's not going smoothly but they are working on it. time is the big detail and they don't have a lot of.

busy day for president johnson administration did the commander in chief will travel to wisconsin as he pushes to get americans back to work at the president will expand apprenticeship programs to help close the so-called skills gap. labor secretary alex acosta discussed plans at the white house yesterday. >> currently 6 million jobs open in the united states. this is the highest number of job vacancies ever. american companies want to hire the mismatch for jobs had prospective employee job skills. president trump is made clear to expand job opportunities here in america. dagen: the treasury department announces new plans of its own recommended going back restrictions implemented by the obama frustration following the financial crisis deregulation this morning. the fox interview coming up 7:00 a.m. eastern. join us for this special interview. jeff sessions taking the hill today set to testify publicly because the senate intelligence committee over alleged russian meddling and the firing of fbi or jim comey after 2:00 p.m. eastern. fox business bringing it to you live. testimony begin

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the director ellen ochoa and the nasa team at johnson space center. i can't tell you how privileged and honored i feel today to be able to congratulate the newest class of american heroes, the 2017 class of america's astronauts. these are 12 men and women whose personal excellence and personal courage will carry our nation to greater heights and discovery and who i know will inspire our children and grandchildren every bit as much as your forebearers have done so in this storied american program. and to this newest class of astronauts it's my honor to bring the sincere congratulations of the 45th president of the united states of america, president donald trump. [ applause ] your president is proud of you. and so am i. and president donald trump is firmly committed to nasa's noble mission, leading america in space. [ applause ] earlier this year after the signs of the first nasa authorization act in seven years, the president renewed in his words our national commitment to nasa's mission of exploration and discovery, the president said that we must ha

there are questions too for former homeland security official jeh johnson why the obama administration didn't alert the american public sooner. >> why did we wait from july to october to make that statement many >> one of the candidates, as you recall, was predicting that the election was going to be rigged in some way. and so we were concerned that by making the statement, we might in and of itself be, uh, challenging the integrity of the election process. >> reporter: in the senate hearing, one member asked if donald trump was unwittingly acting as a russian agent by calling the election rigged. another asked if hillary clinton was by, as he put it, blaming her loss on things like hacking and fake news. >> michelle joins us now. as you mentioned before, we may finally at last perhaps get more information this week on whether these tapes exist or not. >> reporter: this has been one of the enduring mysteries, are there tapes or are there not tapes? the white house hasn't wanted to answer that with a yes or no question. even though it was the president himself who first alluded to this,

administration, jay johnson has been out, michael. one of the things he said, basically, this is his defense on the decision making process. we were going to be seen as taking sides in the middle of an election. you have one candidate already saying that the election was rigged against them, rigged against him, that being president trump. was it is damned if you do, damned if you don't? >> maybe. i have great respect for jay johnson. this should have been seen strictly through national security limbs. i'm afraid it was a pattern of the obama administration, paralysis by analysis. this is and was so serious, they had to have seen it that way and approached russia strongly. they chill to the response of this great threat. so, you know, at the end of the day, i think they should have acted and should have acted a lot stronger than they did. >> michael, let me ask you. if you look tat the bigger picture here, you had a candidate trump, then protect trump and now president trump. who was behind the hack or downplaying how serious the meddl

i uh, hated the war and uh, by the end of the administration i hated johnson as well. >>dick: it was a year of gut-wrenching calamities. martin luther king, jr. was assassinated. bobby kennedy entered the presidential race. he, too, was gunned down. with his death, the democratic nomination would go to vice president hubert humphrey. >>hubert: it doesn't make any difference where you are from. it's what you stand for. >>dick: bad news for nixon was the entry into the race of alabama governor george wallace. america's most outspoken segregationist was running as an indeent. >>boo! >>dick: he threatened to cost nixon precious southern votes. nixon, it seemed, could kiss his southern strategy goodbye. >>dick: nixon was back, but had yet to secure the republican nomination. the convention in miami beach was the first for the gop south of the mason/dixon line in more than 100 years. this nod to the south and the sun belt played right into nixon's hands. many of the delegates here owed him favors. others who had turned out for goldwater four years earlier would remember how

we also have reports and testimony from jay johnson saying the obama administration didn't want to say anything about the russia probe. they are politicizing the facts. the obama administration politicized everything, obama was campaigning for hillary while all this was going on. the only reason they didn't want to talk about this stuff is because they thought it would hurt hillary or help a trump. whole thing has been politicized from the beginning. >> tucker: it doesn't really make sense, this is one of the many ways the press has fallen down on the job recently. every newspaper and tv channel in america is hyping the idea that russia hacked our election. the majority of state election officials have testified recently that they've heard nothing from the obama administration about this so-called russia threat. i haven't read anything about that in "the new york times." that seems a big story. if this was going on, if our democracy was being subverted by the russians, why wouldn't the obama people tell state elections about it before the presidential election it doesn't make any sense

jeh johnson suggested the dnc was not responsive to offers of help from dhs. and jeh johnson, former secretary, also said something interesting. he was reluctant to come forward sooner and perhaps more clearly because of political ramifications. donald trump as a candidate had been saying the election was rigged and he was nervous about how he would be received politic politically. do you think in retrospect that was a smart move, letting politics get in the way of what you perceive to be national security? >> i think there were -- they didn't fully connect all of the dots, even though jeh johnson and former odni director clapper, i believe on october 7th, put out a letter saying that there was this possible russian intervention. but i don't think the intelligence community fully connected all the dots until after the election. >> senator, there's a deadline on friday, the house intelligence committee and the senate intelligence committee has given to the president to produce whatever recordings exist from the white house. recordings perhaps of james comey. th

the obama administration. what will you be listening for in that testimony? >> the sort of issues that michael is talking about. you know, they need to know what went on behind the scenes and who was involved and did anybody once the obama administration was out and the trump administration was brought in, did anybody try to hinder that investigation? because keep in mind, the russia investigation was started under the obama administration and it was, you know, on the whole done by career officials, not partisans. i know we like to hear a lot about the deep state, but these are people who have been working in the fbi and justice department for years. they take their job very seriously, so the question is going to be what was happening before donald trump came in and what was happening after -- after he came in. >> and on the -- the testimony that i think is really going to be important is the testimony that's upcoming by the intelligence community, coats, rogers, pompeo. they were all going to be asked by muel

jeh johnson followed by tonight their classified session with mike rogers, tomorrow those same senators from the intelligence committee are going to get jeff sessions in person in open session. i don't personally know, i don't have a personal relationship with any of the senators on the intelligence committee. if you do by chance, send them health food. send them vitamins. some of those creepy green juices or something. everybody makes fun of congress and their easy work schedule. but right now, at least those senators are really earning their keep. we'll see a lot of that tomorrow. we'll be right back tonight. marianne gaspard... it was her french name. then she came to louisiana as a slave. i became curious where in africa she was from. so i took the ancestry dna test to find out more about my african roots. the ancestry dna results were really specific. they told me all of these places in west africa. i feel really proud of my lineage, and i feel really proud of my ancestry. ancestry has many paths to discovering your story, get started for free at ancestry.com can we at least analyz

. >> congressman schiff pressing jeh johnson on why the administration took so long for the intelligence community to say anything about the russian hacking. joining me now is clint watts, on the joint terrorism task force, an nbc national security analyst, happily for us. thank you for being with us. in tracking this hearing today, there was a lot of back and forth about why they didn't say something sooner. and there seems to be some suggestion by some, even some democrats, that it was because frankly the white house thought that hillary clinton was going to win and didn't want to take on all the conspiracy theories that were spinning out of the -- out of the republican candidate donald trump and the republican campaign. >> right. if they had gone forward and brought this out to the public in a more robust way, they fear that they would likely be confirming the narrative of those being put out by two entities, russia was promoting this theme, the meddling and the voter roles was to create the impression that the election might be rigged, that there could be voter fraud. that's why they

the administration took once they learned about the extent of the russian cyber attacks during the last year's elections. and also according to prepared testimony, going to talk about disagreements between the federal government and state governments about how to secure infrastructure -- election infrastructure to prevent these attacks from going forward. one thing is he going to say is, he had no knowledge that any ballots themselves were affected in november's elections. but he says he has no way of judging whether or not public opinion was influenced in any way. he will also say what the white house would not say yesterday, that vladimir putin in his view -- and there is no doubt, according to jeh johnson -- that vladimir putin was behind these cyber attacks as well. this comes as the russia investigations and several committees are taking shape. bob mueller, special counsel, did meet with house intelligence committee leaders last night and is zbrg to meet with senate judiciary committee leaders today. these xlits a to make sure these investigations move forward and do not conflict w

but there were plenty of questions, too, for homeland security secretary jeh johnson on why the obama administration didn't alert the american public sooner once they detected russian activity last summer. >> why did we wait from july to october to make that statement? >> we were concerned that by making the statement, we might, in and of itself, be challenging the integrity of the election process. >> reporter: there are also more questions now surrounding fired national security adviser michael flynn, the "new york times" reporting that even though senior intelligence officials believed by january that flynn was vulnerable to russian blackmail, he was still present every day for weeks in the president's top secret intelligence briefing. today a top house democrat, elijah cummings, writing to the president's chief of staff raises serious concerns about why the white house didn't suspend the security clearances for not only flynn then, but for trump's son-in-law jared kushner now, since he also failed to disclose multiple contacts with russians. neither the white house nor flynn's att

. >> reporter: johnson deflected when he was asked if the trump administration was taking the russia threat seriously, but he warned that the u.s. shouldn't lose sight of the big picture, stopping cyberattacks on our democracy. >>> millions of dollars was wasted by the pentagon on afghanistan's army uniforms, $28 million in unnecessary spending was managing the reconstruction. >>> we have video do show you of a dog named maverick to show that he is the only sheriff in one particular town. >> this happened right outside of seattle. see the bear? maverick didn't like that very much. and off they went. >> this is my driveway. maverick is a 3-year-old labrador. he's not having it. forces the bear to turn around, and the bear left for good. maveri maverick uno. bear zero. >>> the mother of all technical meltdowns. this is a nightmare for anyone in rc. see the news anchor who managed to keep a very cool head during a painful four-minimal function. that's ahead in the mix. >>> but first, the fiery crash of an f-16 houston. it forced the evacuation of nearby homes. what we're learning this m

what is more, jay johnson, homeland security secretary under president obama had to defend why the administration took so long to announce the unprecedented infiltration, the hacking first became known -- >> a lot of considerations that went into it, this was an unprecedented step. there was an ongoing election and many would criticize us for perhaps taking sides in the election. so, that had to be carefully considered. one of the candidates, as you recall, was predicting that the election was going to be rigged in some way. and so, we were concerned that by making the statement, we might, in and of itself, be challenging the integrity of the election process. >> in another hearing, those currently at the top level in homeland security revealed that russian hackers potentially targeted the election systems of 21 states. let's talk about all of this. i have cnn national security analyst steve hall, retired cia chief of russia operations. steve hall, you heard jay johnson's defense there on why it took so long. what did you make of that? >> i sort of take him at his word on that, brooke. this was a

schiff, the ranking democrat on the committee, wondering why the obama administration did not announce sooner last year that russia was involved behind these cyber attacks, waiting until the fall instead to make that declaration, johnson said that one reason why was that one of the candidates being president trump was saying that the election was rigged and they did not want to look like they were tipping the scales to help hillary clinton, which is one reason why they waited on this to inform this investigation which is on the house side of the capitol house committee. other investigations are willing taking shape, wolf. >> stand by, sarah, the former homeland security secretary jeh johnson also explained why he and the obama administration waited until early object to make a statement about russia's involvement in the u.s. presidential election. listen to this. >> there was an ongoing election and many would criticize us for perhaps taking sides in the election. so that had to be carefully considered. one of the candidates, as you'll recall, was predicting that the election was going