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Recent months. >> and the -- you have reporting in your story that indicates that the acting director of national intelligence maguire is torn, is not pleased with what the justice department has done in its intervention in this case and is not pleased with what the white house has done. >> well, what we know, what were hearing, first of all, the acting dni joseph maguire is not someone who was angling for this job. he was kind of put into it after dni daniel coats was, you know, basically asked...

Said it was a phone call in recent months. >> and the -- you have reporting in your story that indicates that the acting director of national intelligence maguire is torn, is not pleased with what the justice department has done in its intervention in this case and is not pleased with what the white house has done. >> well, what we know, what were hearing, first of all, the acting dni joseph maguire is not someone who was angling for this job. he was kind of put into it after dni daniel coats wa...

When my intelligence people tell if you dont mind im going to go by my own counsel. >> now hes getting a chance to actually reshape it. malcolm nance is an msnbc counter terrorism and intelligence analyst. malcolm, the president talked about in january that clip we showed from january 31st he said his intelligence people were misquoting him and taken out of context. that was at congressional testimony. so im not sure what he thought was misquoted and taken out of context because weve got the tap...

Showed from january 31st he said his intelligence people were misquoting him and taken out of context. that was at congressional testimony. so im not sure what he thought was misquoted and taken out of context because weve got the tape. this is just remarkable, that the president of the united states is choosing loyalty over career intelligence officials. >> i think at this point by the choice of admiral joe mcgwire he thinks hes choosing loyalty over intelligence experience. look, sue gordon wa...

Intelligence agencies with some confidence that their identities will be kept secret. to see this power go into the and hands of one person who is a political appointee and democrated an allegiance to president trump maybe over the national security interest of the country, i think that causes our allies to be concerned about whether our secret will be kept protected. i also worry about what has prompted this change. has william barr gone to the president and said theres information the cia said...

Have any additional information at this point. >> ambassador bolton, thanks for joining us. >> glad to be with you. the presidents criticism of the russia probe this weekend comes after an extraordinary public betrayal by his former fixer and lawyer michael cohen. >> i am ashamed because i know what mr. trump is. he is a racist. he is a con man. and he is a cheat. >> democratic lawmakers are gearing up to launch even more investigations into the presidency. the latest, the house oversight comm...

The presidents criticism of the russia probe this weekend comes after an extraordinary public betrayal by his former fixer and lawyer michael cohen. >> i am ashamed because i know what mr. trump is. he is a racist. he is a con man. and he is a cheat. >> democratic lawmakers are gearing up to launch even more investigations into the presidency. the latest, the house oversight committee is demand nfrg from the white house on the security clearances of top officials, including and especially the pr...

In their view stone walls requests for information about the new york times report that the president ordered officials to give cukushner security clearance. it is one written by white house counsel about this issue and that the white house hasnt responded multiple times. i asked them abiliout that. it is clearly one more issue raising tensions wean this white house and new house majority. >> tonight the white house now defending president trumps power to grant a top secret clearance and top whi...

Allies are weighing in. take a listen to chris christie. >> this is part of the problem. i think, with having family in official positions, because its hard to be objective. hard to be objective with the people youre having thanksgiving dinner with. all the president would have had to have done is say, i trust them, i believe them, i know them longer than you know them, im giving them the clearance, if you dont like it, too bad, im the president, i get to decide. when you play around the edges o...

Clearance forms, background forms, or are at risk of security concern, but whether this is part of the same conspiracy we want people to have access to this information so it could be shared with russia as all part of this conspiracy that in exchange for assisting the president and becoming elected there were certain quid pro quos they would get in exchange, one of which may have been the sharing of classified information i think it absolutely fits within the scope of that investigation and so w...