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A total fiasc co and the cover-up was horrible. thats what president trump was saying of the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi. but the president continues to echo the denials from top saudi leaders who say they had nothing to do with it. >> i would say it was a total fiasco from day one. the cover-up was horrible, the execution was horrible, but they should have never been an execution or cover-up because it should i never happened. the crown prince yesterday, he strongly said that he had no...

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Columnist for "the new york times." john, youre the one who famously revealed nixons enemy list. is what we are seeing from this president, john brennen, and he has this list of other people, general clapper and others, now bruce orr, is this the same thing? >> nixons revenge was very general. there were people he had accumulated over the years he disliked. there were partisans he didnt like. but he was more talk than he was action. but this is more nixonian than nixon for that reason because tr...

That britains intelligence service first became aware in late 2015 of suspicious interactions between trump advisers and russian intelligence agents. this information was passed on to u.s. intelligence agencies. over the spring of 2016, multiple european allies passed on additional information to the united states about contacts between the trump campaign and russians. is this accurate? >> i cant answer that. >> general clapper? is that accurate? >> yes, it is. it is also quite sensitive. >> oka...

Regarding sanctions occurred. that would require me to reveal classified information. >> guardian has reported that britains intelligence service first became aware in late 2015 of suspicious interactions between trump advisers and russian intelligence agents. this information was passed on to u.s. intelligence agencies. over the spring of 2016, multiple european allies passed on additional information to the united states about contacts between the trump campaign and russians. is this accurate?...

Increasingly, hes gotten more and more aggressive about, at one point, never mentioned mueller by name. now its gotten very personal and all that. so -- and fran is right. he could use that power under article 2 to fire mueller. another way to do it, again, using the clearance, the eligibility as a political weapon to attack the special counsel. >> all right. general clapper, i appreciate your time. thank you, sir. next, hundreds of newspapers from coast to coast taking a stand on the presiden...

It happened. on that note, general, mueller as we know, weve listed at least five were aware of of stones close associates that have been subpoenaed or he has interviewed. should roger stone himself be worried? because hes not on that list and mueller has not yet reached out to him directly. >> well, if it were i, id be a little nervous frankly. he doesnt seem to be watching his interview with you. he feels hes not done anything wrong and all that. given the five associates of his that have been...

Widely distributed, lots of people had it. in the runup to the briefing and the only reason in the no good deed goes unpunished department we thought that the president-elect at the time, trump, should know about the existence of the dossier and what was in it and we tried to be as discreet about that as possible ergo necking down to just james comey and the president-elect after the formal briefing on the intelligence community assessment which didnt include findings from the dossier. >> thank ...

And in that way russia did win because they wanted trump. >> lets look at the report published in january 2017, general clapper said russias overarching aim was to degrade our trust in the democratic process. so russias interference made us wonder whether they influenced people as thinking but under no circumstances has anyone said russia succeeded. that is unknown. it is impossible to prove that. general clapper wrote in his book that russia tilted the election to donald trump he admitted he wa...

They concluded, general clapper, who said that russias overarching aim was to degrade our trust in the democratic process. so russias interference in the election would have perhaps made us wonder whether, the extent to which they might of influence peoples thinking. under no circumstances are anyone ever said that russia succeeded. thats an unknown. its impossible to prove that. when general clapper wrote in his book recently that russia had actually tilted the election to president trump, he a...