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Unbridled, unleashed, unchaperoned trump. and that to me is -- that pattern is very disturbing. >> clapper served under every u.s. president going back to and including jfk. today trump went after clapper tweeting james clapper who got caught lying to congress is now an authority on donald trump. will he show you his beautiful letter to me? well, i reached out to general clapper today about that, quote, beautiful letter. and clapper composed notes to both candidates, trump and clinton, to be inc...

His colleagues are rallying behind majority leader mitch mcconnell after some sharp attacks by president trump. sources say their last phone call broke down in a shouting match with the president cursing at mcconnell. there may be efforts to patch up that rift. mcconnell has just issued a statement saying both sides are working together. but there is even more serious fallout from the off the rails phoenix speech. more critics are now suggesting the president is unfit for office, including the f...

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>> i would also appeal to those in the media to tone down the rhetoric as well. the rhetoric itself now is becoming quite incendiary. i dont think it is very productive to engage in this dueling banjo rhetoric back and forth, which is quite provocative. the val cheng fchallenge is have the president of the united states, whose words matter, what he says matters. you have a conflict that is very dangerous. we are reporting this. what do you make about what james clapper said? >> general clapper...

>> you called on her first so i just wanted to give her the question you promised her before skpil follow up from there. i want to ask you, president trump seemed to rely on james clapper this morning when he tweeted that he and everyone else was knowledgeable of the witch hunt and said there was no collusion. james clapper today told andrea mitchell, i dont know if theres collusion or not, i dont know if theres evidence of collusion or not, nor should i. when he was asked a similar question, he...

Michael smerconish. >> david, what could we learn from sally yates today? >> i think there is a big question about whether michael flynn was a contained problem or whether he is a gateway to learn more about potential contacts with the trump campaign and russia. what is revealing and what yates can really speak to in detail is what she learned of the intelligence she gathered with phone calls with the russian ambassador and the same time the obama administration was leveling sanctions for the 20...

Interest regarding general flynn. >> without objection. general clapper, on march 5, 2017, you said the following to a question. heres the question. does intelligence exist that can answer the following question: were there any improper contacts between the trump campaign and russian officials. you said we did not include any evidence in our report, i say our, the fbi, the cia, with our office that had any reflection of collusion between members of the trump campaign and the russians. there was ...

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>> yes yes, i have. and no, i cant give you details. >> how did the conversation between the russian ambassador and mr. flynn make it to the "the washington post"? >> i dont know the answer to that. >> no. nor i do know the answer to that. brian: they both said they werent sources. ainsley: they did ask for the unmasking one time each. they said they did not leak it to the post. they are under oath so they have to tell the truth. steve: that is the big story. mr. clapper, of course, has got a hi...

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