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my team was telling me -- i was like rihanna is floating above the field like 100 feet. that to me is cool. >> yeah. >> scary. >> speaking of flying objects. she looked great, though. all right, guys, we know you have a busy show ahead of you so we will let you take it from here. >> enjoy your day. >> have a good day, guys. >> very good morning to you this monday, im jim sciutto. >> and im erica hill. so this morning president biden is facing pressure to respond after the u.s. military...

national security. dni haynes that she will work closely with the justice department to avoid interfering with its criminal code into the matter. to put it lightly, the intelligence community is rattled by more than the obvious here. a former president which used to be so reckless with top secret information. that he was sworn to protect. his actions may have very well put the lives of americans and american assets on the line. . i >> as a cia officer, our job is to recruit human asset...

Thank you. Ms. Divine. Thank you, mr. Maguire, for being here. We appreciate your life of Public Service. My question relates to prior to the transmission on august 26 from the ig to the dni, were there any conversations that you had with the ig prior to august 26 related to this matter . Congresswoman, theres been a lot thats happened in the last several weeks. As far as the timeline is concerned, i think that id like to get back to you and give you a full chronology if i may on the actual time...

Choices, one is they can say, fine, bring us to court and we will handle each question at the time in front of the judge, the other is to say come on in, we will ask you the questions and you can answer some and maybe not answer others. ultimately the specifics of the questions will have to land in front of the judge. >> so thats going to happen. timing would come into play here, which weve been talking about from the moment we knew that there was a subpoena, right? in case executive privilege w...

The quest for special master is adding to the element of their having waited two weeks to make this request, and the fact that the judge who has proved this request is a trump appointee. does that factor in? >> its more common for a special masters to be appointed in cases involving civil actions whether those are criminal investigations but its not unprecedented in a situation like this. a criminal investigation that involves the government recovery of disputed documents that you would have a s...

Senator for interference in our elections, and thats in your jurisdiction, correct? >> well, election interference, yes, congressman welch. wu once again, congressman, although it is, as far as what the legal responsibility to do in compliance with the intelligence reform act, the whistle-blower protection act, the statute did not allow for that to be done. >> well, i disagree with that. but here is the dilemma that you were in and were in but were not going to be able to follow up because execu...

I was -- >> thats t. i want to make sure viewers see it, not just you, doug. heres what he said. im going to read it. i do not believe it exists here at all as we learned from the nixon tapes case executive privilege cannot be used to hide wrongdoing. in that case the supreme court 9-0 ordered that all the claims of executive privilege will be overridden. the president may try to assert it, try to hide things behind it, but i dont think thats right or will be successful. >> he states the legal s...

Of silence the president sends out his first tweets. it is make it one of the longest absences from twitter. open to the public, democrats are demanding full transparency calling for the release of the entire report and a warning from the white house not to interfere. >> again, transparency is key. as we learn from the case executive privilege cannot be used to hide your own doing. >> just wrapped up her campaign kickoff speech in new york city. the democratic senator taking the president to t...