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D-day commemoration, flew to ireland, flu to normandy for the d-day remembrance and had a bilateral meeting with french president macron. and then he returned to the united states and attended an intel briefing and then had the indy 500 champ. today he was off again to iowa. im tired just reading that. all of this demonstrates that trump is going to be formidable in 2020. i think biden knows it. >> i see all of these polls. they dont mean a thing right now. this is a marathon. this is a marathon...

And called democratic minority leader harry reid and briefed him on russian interference into the trump campaign about the steel dossier and about carter page. this is why bill barr is saying this stuff doesnt add up about the origins of this investigation and why he is, why he says it doesnt jive and we need to get to the bottom of it. >> here we are, the presidents candidate trump, he supposed to get this intel briefing, they tell him yes you had to be careful about china and russia, but they ...

So you had a big story this week about basically, something known as a defensive briefing, not warning the trump campaign back in 2016. whats that all about. >> so a defensive briefing is done by the intelligence community to warn the presidential campaign about eminent national security threats. we confirm that august of 2016, there was a defensive briefing for the trump campaign but no warning about the russian outreach to the campaign, nor is there warning that two trump campaign aides were a...

Hopefully prevent crime or are we trying to build a case, and the problem that catherine talked about, peter struck is probably the exact wrong guy, base bod what we have seen from his text messages, the exact wrong guy to make that kind of decision as to what should be given over to the trump campaign. >> charles, your thoughts? >> you know, i think its pretty ridiculous to even consider the idea that if youre investigating somebody, youre going to tell them youre investigating them. you know, ...

But this is not the kind of action thats really going to sit well with this judge. auto a very lawyerly response from the government. he didnt quite ask us for those transcripts as well. so they are going to buy their time here. but its not going to sit well with this judge who seems to have lost patience. >> great stuff. thank you much. >> youre welcome. >> so the trump campaign was not warned that two aides were already under fbispace investigation during a between the 16 intel briefing. lets ...

Kerry, and ash carter and i guess the president of the united states was eventually brought into the loop. this is fascinating. were learning how brennan would brief the president and keepin e info out of the daily intel briefing. that came out in the new york times today. i think well learn more about thatut very interesting double cone of silence. >> absolutely. some of the other things werere getting reminded about right nop is the fact that british intelligence to the obama ministration in 2...

So its very tight and thin it included vice president biden, carey, and ash carter and i guess the president of the united states was eventually brought into the loop. this is fascinating. were learning how brennan would brief the president and keep th info out of the daily intel briefing. that came out in the new york times today. i think well learn more about that very interesting double cone of silence purkey absolutely. some of the other things were getting reminded about right no is the fac...

Has been going on over the past two years. >> one thing we know for sure from four years ago at this time is we have no idea who that person is going to be, especially in this giant field. we know a lot of names and who the early favorites are but we got a long way to go here. >> during 2016 donald trump called on russia to hack hillary clintons e-mails. he received an intel briefing that russia was meddling in americas elections and he repeatedly praised vladimir putin while attacking just abou...

I am even more convinced that the fbi did exactly what my fellow citizens would want them to do when they got the information they got and that it has nothing to do with donald trump. >> okay. that was significant. because that was republican house oversight chair trey gowdy who has seen the evidence, defending the fbis conduct in the russia investigation. hes the one who got the classified intel briefing. however, the white house continues to push president trumps debunked claim that the fbi pl...

Campaign so that the fbi could put an end to that russian conduct and they had a confidential source talk with folks in the campaign so that they could learn what was happening, and protect the american people from interference. >> so in this intel briefing you had chief of staff john kelly and emmitt flood in attendance to "relay the presidents desire for as much openness as possible under the law." the two did leave the meeting before it officially began. they did hear a little bit of what was...