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Challenges, a former national security adviser to president obama, and richard haas, president of the council on foreign relations. welcome, both. ben, first to you, this is the first time weve heard from the intelligence community itself, really striking back after the dismissive comments the president made on cbs, saying that his intelligence briefers need to go back to school. this was after, of course, they disagreed with many of his conclusions in their global threat warning. this is a dang...

With our words. >> councilman, you mentioned that moonwalk moment. i want to show our viewers what youre talking about. lets watch. >> it was a dance contest. i had always liked michael jackson. i actually won the contest because i had learned how to do the moonwalk. >> are you still able to moonwalk? >> my wife says inappropriate circumstances. >> his wife appropriately shut that down, but there were so many people who looked at that, so many observers who said, what is he thinking? this doesnt...

And even allegations of intoxication. again, allegation the i.g. investigating after nearly a year because they are unable to come to any conclusions. theyre still interviewing people about all of this. so in the meantime, president trump has now put admiral jackson up for, once again, a second star no navy promotion board. the president just nominating him for that on his own. it does not look like congress will take up that promotion, which it has to approve through the senate before the i.g. ...

Guys last night. so disturbing, so racist. >> dana: all right, juan, let me ask you about the governor. hes in this position now. hes asking for time to clear his name, you can understand that. the entire party is falling out from under him. >> juan: it was almost immediate. i can think of one exception that said we need to give him time. you dont want to leap to conclusions. i think lots of people, including on this panel, said maybe the democrats have some regret over al franken. remember how ...

That were surrounding it. it did obviously have a sense of chaos about it from which people had concerns overall as to what it meant from the presidents style and management. i think we see that as we go through the mtumultuousness tha we see at the white house. that doesnt change the underlying basis on which the mueller investigation has proceeded. we have to see what this final report is. i absolutely believe it has to be public because it has been right to the heart of the issue of of sancti...

The house committee available to the public. everybody has to have the ability to look at the information, look at what o occurred and at the conclusions that the committee delivers. >> the president say hes has been the toughest president on russia ever. has the president been tough on russia at all? >> he has. he increased sanctions -- >> really? he increased sanctions? i believe it was a bipartisan congress that increased this many over the presidents objection. >> he certainly has kept thing...

Terrorist attack in london? what happened with the israelis when the president shared classified information? >> to the russians. >> exactly. thats where we go. and the worst thing is and to marks point, the president is allowed to make these decisions, but it should be based on more than how hes feeling that day. he -- we know he does not read those intel reports. he does not know the history. he does not -- >> the root, the guiding, the motivating forces, the entire russia thing. and his disag...

Mannerisms are inherited. >> seem to be inherited. >> its disturbing. we dont like that. people dont like to hear this. i have free will. we would prefer that we have some influence over our lives. wouldnt you rather know that, that you have some control over this? and so finding out, never mind, doesnt matter what you do. so i think its upsetting to people, to see how little influence they have, how little control they have. we dont like that. we fight that. >> if the conclusions of the study w...

>> if the conclusions of the study were so shocking and so earth-shaking, why havent you published your study? theres a lot that we dont know. we have anecdotes that are very provocative, but we dont know. we dont have the data. >> i dont know what happened to the study. i moved to switzerland in 1965, and lost touch with what was going on. all that research should be seen. this study was the first, and its also the last. it will never be done again. it will never be replicated. its monomeumentm...

President bush had intel people who said saddam hussein in iraq has nuclear weapons, had all sorts of weapons of mass destruction. guess what? those intel people didnt know what the hell they were doing. >> betsy, his intel people are the people that should be helping him keep an eye on iran, watching syria. the list goes on. once again we find ourselves asking, what impact does it have to see the president questioning his own intel people? >> the first thing i would say the point he made about ...