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From the 80s, its not true. >> ahead of pulling out, they were too eager the meet, the language was too soft. then when he stands up and walks away from the negotiating table, all of a sudden hes a big baby. >> he cant win for losing, especially with the resistance. >> he needs to ignore all the people that think they have the answers, especially those from previous administrations. >> democrats criticizing two top white house officials for showing up at the start of the classified briefings yes...

It up? there will be evidence. >> shannon: they are so much about the semantics. to have the democrats say there was nothing, to talk about how upset they were that the white house officials were there, when we are told by the right house they left before there was any discussion of classified information, seems it will remain -- >> a lot of sparring. got to get to the bottom line. >> shannon: thank you. the intelligence briefings today were in part the result of the presidents tweeting that he ...

Reason was because the deputy foreign minister not only insulted the vice president, calling him a political dummy and saying his comments were stupid but also came to the point of threatening nuclear war if diplomacy doesnt work out. so we have competing narratives here for why this thing was canceled. bottom line, martha, it may be getting back on track. >> martha: wait and watch, so fascinating. john, thank you very much. here are now in a story exclusive, newly confirmed ambassador to german...

This was known. and so what trump is trying to do is find out what there informant learned, okay? by the way, the informant is a republican. he served for republican administrations. >> thats also true. >> thats what is really the icing on the cake. he wants to find out what mueller knows. giuliani even said it, if any one of us did it, i think we would be hauled off to jail. this is a mob operation. >> and jim, i got to wonder too to jeds point about kind confident balance of power issues here....

States. none of this is normal. all of it is dangerous. >> when you were running the national security division at the justice department, did you ever face demands from either the white house or from members of congress, whether or not they were on the relevant oversight committees, that you should disclo disclose confidential human sources or ongoing evidence in ongoing investigations that had not yet come to fruition? >> so ive served in both republican and democratic administrations. and in ...

Of a president have often been sold to raise funds for his campaign fund or for charity. experts on ethics and the presidency could not cite prior examples of these items being sold for the presidents personal profit. help me with the legality of this. the president has put his businesses into a trust. hes the sole owner of that trust. how legal is this? what did experts say to you about what the president has done here apparently ? >> to be clear, the ethics experts i spoke with said there is...

Disclose confidential human sources or ongoing evidence in ongoing investigations that had not yet come to fruition? >> so ive served in both republican and democratic administrations. and in my experience, the white house, ever since watergate, has been very, very careful to avoid interfering or even creating the appearance of interference with an ongoing criminal investigation, because, again, we have a tradition of apolitical law enforcement. now, for congress, they will occasionally make dem...

Complicated. heres the deal, since the beginning of time of this country, we have been warned about foreign entanglements. if you read george washingtons farewell address, its laid out. now, the fbi is protecting us to make sure that no foreign nation gets entangled in our election. what happens is they tell donald trump to beware about it and they told hillary clinton to beware about it after they both became the final candidates for their respective parties. this was known. and so what trump i...

Despite knowing what libya means to the north koreans said it, not once, but twice. and you can parse it, you can say, they didnt mean that, but they said it. and that gets the north koreans in a total tiz. what you have is this situation now with north korea, you know, using its typical unpleasant rhetoric and making like threats and therefore getting the president of the united states to withdraw. some are suggesting maybe it was just easier to cancel the summit right now, rather than go there...

January 2017. >> i do not believe that i have seen that conclusion. what i do -- that this was to help president trump win. im not aware of that. >> the former director of national intelligence, james clapper, who served both democratic and republican administrations, warns that the presidents latest allegation of spice inside his campaign is particularly damaging. >> politicizing what is a legitimate activity on the part, and app important one on the part of the fbi. they use informants and hav...