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With anyone in the intelligence community? imagine if youre a u.s. intelligence asset sitting on the other side of the world, and you see communications coming in from kushner, who is in a meeting with flynn, who is under investigation in counterintelligence. weve just seen russia meddling in the election, and you want to know why does he want to communicate this information without the intel community knowing. >> well, forme members of the u.s. intelligence community have said why they have con...

Ability to take advice from them? hes a man who has nothing but contempt for washington. these other presidents actually believed washington could work, im not sure he does. and im not sure hes going to take any advice. >> sounds like he also has contempt for the people around him, if he didnt he wouldnt put them in those positions. >> you know one chief told me presidents sometimes have to hit rock bottom to realry make a change like this. it happened with bill clinton. happened with jimmy cart...

Relinquish power and tell me what to do, how do i make myself better and this administration better? >> in most cases presidents learn from people, they listen to people. ron reagan, he realized it was a disaster. he set up a system that was going to collapse. californians came in and didnt know how the run the white house. he listens to james bake, he baker, who was in ifr if a of george herbert walker bush. reagan understand it. carter understood. it clinton took lessons. clintons white house ...

Accomplish should the channel be exposed, be made public. anderson, i flew into islamabad with mike mcconnell, the director of national intelligence, after benazir bhutto was killed to conifer with president musharraf. we went in there secretly. we met secretly. we left secretly. president bush wanted us to share a certain message with president musharraf. i mean, this is what governments do. thats fine. and youve got good people in the administration, secretary kelly, secretary mattis, h.r. mcm...

That assassinate journalists, that murder political rivals, that shut down popular dissent and shows contempt to our longstanding allies that actually come from democratic traditions which, at least seems to me, every day that goes by, it seems he has more and more contempt for. >> i think a lot of this early on obviously is rhetoric. what we havent seen is how hes going to deal with these countries and nato and such in a real crisis. were four months in. on the international sphere, theres been...

Vicious threats, in some cases obscene and profane threats. so he is unambiguously on the side of the donald trump. so it is not surprising that he would sort of use the kind of caustic language we heard saying they dont know what theyre doing. its overly broad. i cant respond of course. if they present him with a valid subpoena, hell have to make a choice, stay in contempt or meet the terms of the subpoena. i think for us its also important to understand that this is somebody who actually knows...

Place was an administration that was refusing assistance from the professionals inside the united states government, because they were so suspicious of them. and frankly, had a bit of contempt with the administration they were replacing. they refused state department help to actually set up the calls with foreign leaders, to suggest what the foreign leaders might want to bring up with the president-elect, not controlling the president-elect, trying to help him. the administration in waiting push...

These things when they were not subsequently disclosed, right? until they leaked. and yesterday i had a chance to talk to the former cia director michael hayden. he has come out and spoken about this. and here is what he has been saying about these latest developments and kushners motives specifically. here is michael hayden. >> im going with naivete. and that is not particularly very comforting for me. i mean, what manner of ignorance, chaos, hubris, suspicion, contempt would you have to have t...

Want mr. kushner to come before our committee. there ought to be a e a review his security clearance to find out whether he was truthful. if not, then there is no way he can maintain that kind of a clearance. >> first son-in-law jared kushner now himself the subject of scrutiny in the russia investigation. in part about over his reported attempts to establish secret lines of communication between the trump administration and the kremt are lyn cell can lynn. a move michael hayden blames on naivet...

The coming episodes that this president underwood has the same sort of problem the current real president has, which is not quite understanding the checks and balances to put it lightly. what he does with the congress and shows what underwood in showing his absolute physical contempt for the existence of congress is definitely way up there over the top. your thoughts about that compared to trump? >> i mean, look, well, we are over the top. the good thing about our show is that it is make believe...