gina haspel was furious. "cnn's narrative that the cia makes life or death decisions based on anything other than objective analysis instantly falls, misguided speculation of the president handling of our nations more sensitive intel which he has access to each and every date drove an alleged exfiltration operation is inaccurate." alan, i've got a show this for everyone. look at this. former intel officials who have gone into the media and they keep pushing it. ben rhodes, samantha, clapper, brennan, joe's favorite, john kirby, jen saki, anthony lincoln. those are just the ones we could fit on the graphics. alan, that used to hold the intel accountable and now they are in bed with the intel community. >> the problem is -- of course putin knew this guy was leaving russia and he knew where he was going to the united states for the theory is if you don't poke the bear, nothing's going to happen but when the media starts poking the bear and starts confronting russia in a very public way with what happened, that h

when khashoggi ends up slaughtered, donald trump's on the front lawn saying no, no, don't believe gina haspel. don't believe what you see. don't believe what you hear. i believe rogue killers. in plain view the quid, the pro and the quo are right there. do they have to think very hard to profile donald trump? >> no, he's easily manipulated by courting him and stroking the ego. we see that with state visits. we see the red carpet rolled out. we see it with north korea. think about how often trump mentions those lovely letters, beautiful letters coming from kim jong-un. those are ego strokers. kim jong-un figured him out and as a result has been able to fire off missile after missile without any retribution. it's a very simple equation with him, stroke the ego, you get what you want. >> rick stengel, heaven forbid we should end up in a military crisis with iran, i think we'll be combing through this "the new york times" magazine piece, all of us, to understand the history not just under donald trump but under president obama, how that relationship -- how the sort of tectonic plates pressed hard

our cameras just spotted gina haspel the cia director leaving. the meeting appeared to last at least an hour or so. the topic was iran and what the administration's response will be. craig, we may hear from the president at 3:00. he's meeting with the leader of bahrain. the president likes to clarify his tweets. the broader picture here, though, the administration needs to get on the same rhetorical page. mike pompeo coming out hours after the attack on sunday talking about how this is clearly iran, iran is something to blame. that's something pompeo said. excuse me, he said that saturday. the president hasn't been as clear. the president has been pretty bellicose with his rhetoric, talking about locked and loaded. we'll see how they harmonize m pompeo's finger pointing the iran. >> any idea what he meant in that locked and loaded tweet? >> he was trying to be menacing, right? i was talking with a person who's very close to the president and says the president understands he knows that he got elected by drawing down and pulling america out of the

state, you would have a former classmate west point mark running the pentagon, and you would have gina haspel who was his deputy at the cia, and that would put him in charge of the cia. that would be mike pompeo's associates curing a lot of power at the white house. but even if pompeo does not take the job, there is a real good chance that somebody who is very close to pompeo or at least pompeo really gets along well with will get the job. because it is widely believed that if not signing off on it because if you tell president trump someone else has to sign off of it, it will never happen. but pompeo will have a big influence on national security advisor if it's not him. >> it was amazing. the connections and people who are around his orbit. >> a channeled web. >> neil: yes indeed, john roberts from the white house. meanwhile the president wants to smoke out e-cigarettes. however you feel about these things, the judge said be careful what you wish for. you want the government deciding that forhe you? ince i started rg from national. because national lets me lose the wait at the counter... ..

cia presence would include the creation of new counterterrorism militia forces, but cia director gina haspel reportedly has raised concerns about ththe idea. ththe taliban n has said the cia must also leave e the country along with the military. in india, nearly 2 million people in the state of assam are at risk of being rendered stateless after the government published its national register of cititizens list s saturday. the highly contested register was first created in 1951 and lists people who are able to prove they came to the state by march 24, 1971, one day before neighboring bangladesh declared inindependence from pakistanan. the indidian government saysys e list helps identify bangladeshi migrants who are not legal citizens -- residents. critics say it is an attempt to deport millions of muslims. residents s suspected of being foforeigners can be rounded d ud sent to prprison camps. assam residentnts who dodo not apappear on the list h have 120s to appeal their exclusion before so-called foreigner tribunals. this is lawmaker asaduddin owaisi. >> i haveve spoken to many peoe inassam.

gina haspel was furious. l "cnn's narrative that the cia makes life or death decisions based on anything other than objective analysis and sound collection is simply false, misguided speculation of the president handling of our nations more sensitive intel which he has access to each and every day drove an alleged a exfiltration operation is inaccurate." alan, i've got a show this for everyone. look at this list of former intel officials who have gone into the media and they keep pushing it.ff ben rhodes, scuitto, samantha, clapper, brennan, joe's favorite, john kirby, jen saki, anthony lincoln. those are just the ones we could fit on the graphics tonight. alan, that used to hold the intel accountable, the media, and now they are in bed with the intel community. >> the problem is with the media. of t course, putin knew this guy was leaving russia and he knew where he was going to the united states for the theory is if you don't poke the bear nothing is going to happen, but when the media starts poking the bea

expand the cia's presence, the cia presence would include new counterterrorism blissful forces but gina haspel reportedly has raised concerns about the idea. they must alsod leave afghanistan along with the military. >> you might at also since president trump took office, there is been a 65% increase in private security contractors in afghanistan being paid by the united states. there is a lot of skepticism on the part of young peace activists whom i know. they don't any longer expxpect that negotiators are going to help them have a more secure future. they t tell us about others in their clalasses who canan't popy find j jobs. and so for the sake of an income, and list in one mililita or another. and begin to wonder themselves if their own fellow students will begin to take up weaponons. [indiscernible] on the part t of people e livinn a war-torn a area and haveve ben deeply traumatized b events s of the pastst year. so m many of them have their o o friends -- the lossss of life hs been s staggering. so i donon't think t the united states is showing much concern for people on the verge of civ

the other hand, military leaders that have fought and sent troops to die are joined by the cia's gina haspel and john bolton who know what happens when u.s. forces withdraw, loose intelligence networks and leave vacuums. the c.i.a. has relied on the u.s. military for air support and used former special operators as part of their ground branch operators and omega teams in afghanistan since 9-11. these malitias would have a hart time operating and keeping isis and others in check without help from the u.s. military. even the president is convinced we must stay in afghanistan. >> we're reducing the presence but we will always have a presence. we'll have high intelligence. i'll put this word out and i already said it, if they ever did anything from afghanistan, we will come back with a force like they have never seen before. >> the president said u.s. troop levels will go from 14,000 to 8,600 by the end of the year, trace. >> jennifer, the taliban refusing to allow u.s. air force and cia military advisers to stay in afghanistan. >> after nine records of talks, the taliban are claiming that all u

brian: gina haspel is the current director has to put her senior officers through renewed series of investigations and scrutiny, really? >> i think so. how can you say or believe that that is not the case? look at a couple different things what we've seen in the past few years. a guy named ned price was on the nsc down with obama. eventually transitioned over to the trump administration. came out with this scathing op-ed in the "washington post" said all these terrible things about the president. fine. he can have an opinion. but he didn't disclose the fact he is a democrat and since gone on and become a contributor with msnbc or nbc the point is if people in the intelligence community bash the president, done about all the terrible things they have to acknowledge their bias. that is the problem i have with this whistleblower. we know from the ig they have a bias they didn't disclose that the i.g. had to find out about. but now the american people are being told look, we're going to impeach the president on the allegations of anonymous whistleblower who didn't have first-hand access to the informa

he and our nation are well served by leaders like secretary pompeo, expect esper and director haspel. these national security leaders have been chosen by the president and c-span's washington journal live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up thursday morning, pennsylvania democratic congress roman susan wild -- congresswoman susan wild discusses her legislation in the wake of her partner's suicide. also, the ceo of the climate leadership council talks about his organization's support of a carbon tax. watch c-span's washington journal live at 7:00 eastern thursday morning. join the discussion. announcer: president trump joined chief of staff general dunford and defense secretary ethicallong with officials to mark the 18th anniversary of the september 11th, 2001 terror attack with a memorial service at the pentagon. almost 3000 people died in the attacks. the ceremony is one hour and a half.

he and our nation are well served by leaders like secretary pompeo, expect esper and director haspel. these national security leaders have been chosen by the ♪ announcer: c-span's washington journal. live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up this morning, pennsylvania democrat congresswoman susan wilde discusses her push for mental health care legislation in the wake of her partners suicide earlier this year. also, the ceo of the climate leadership council, a group backed by major oil and power companies, talks about his organization's support of a carbon tax. watch washington journal live at 7:00 eastern this morning. join the discussion. . announcer: here's a look at our live coverage thursday. on c-span, the house returns at 9:00 a.m. to consider a bill that would prohibit oil and gas exploration and alaska's arctic national wildlife refuge. house minority leader kevin mccarthy holds a news conference in baltimore where house republicans are meeting on their annual retreat. later in the day, president trump will speak at a g.o.p. gathering live at 7:00

he and our nation are well served by leaders like secretary pompeo, expect esper and director haspel. these national security leaders have been chosen by the president and confirmed by the senate. now, on another entirely different matter, for 18 years, today's date has held a tragic meaning. september 11 is a day of mourning, a date stained by the terrorist murders of so many innocent people in new york, arlington, and pennsylvania. each passing day, the reality is still shocking. the wounds are still painful. each year, we remember the innocent men, women, and children who lost their lives, workers rushing to meetings, vacationers headed home, emergency personnel whose quick response immortalized them as heroes. and each year, we honor the memories of the heroes who have sacrificed their lives to bring the perpetrators of this evil to justice and to prevent similar attacks. 9/11 changed our way of life. it changed our approach to security. it awakened us to determined new enemies. the dangers of radical islamic terrorists remain real. al qaeda, its enablers and its allies still plot