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Warn that the president is endangering american security with what they say is a stubborn disregard for their assessments. citing multiple in-person episodes, these intelligence officials say trump displays what with calls ignorance when presented withal knees generated by americas 81 milli$81 millio. they describe futile attempts to keep his attention by using visual aids, confining some briefing points to two or three sentences and repeating his name and title as frequently as possible. and le...

What with calls ignorance when presented withal knees generated by americas $81 million a year. they describe futile attempts to keep his attention by using visual aids, confining some briefing points to two or three sentences and repeating his name and title as frequently as possible. and leading off our discussion now are john walcott, who broke that story for "time" magazine about what senior intelligence fficials call trumps willful ignorance that cannot be overcome by senior intelligence an...

Good morning its friday, january 11th. im yasmin vossoughian alongside burg. its friday and a missed payday for federal workers or contractors who are furloughed or not being paid. a standoff that entered today 21 and joins the december 1995 shutdown as the longest in history. yesterday saw protests around the country including washington, chicago, detroit, new york, kentucky, dallas and ogden, utah where the irs is one of the areas largest employers and three quarters of the workforce is furlou...

President to not meet with president putin. remember that we have just come off a decision that nothing is wrong with saudi arabia killing a journalist. and so our relationship with them is important and should remain in place. but the russians have had a skirmish in a strait of waters thats, by the way, very contested with very questionable provocations on both sides that intelligence analysts are debating do this day, and the president decides that thats enough for him to cancel his meeting wi...

Wrong with saudi arabia killing a journalist. and so our relationship with them is important and should remain in place. but the russians have had a skirmish in a strait of waters thats, by the way, very contested with very questionable provocations on both sides that intelligence analysts are debating do this day, and the president decides that thats enough for him to cancel his meeting with vladimir putin. this is about optics. this is about fear and perceptions of the public, and i think we a...

As simple as scheduling a national security council meeting. intelligence is supposed to be an input, if the president doesnt convene a meeting his policy team, this intelligence even if it is crystal clear could die and go away. if the president wants to kick the can down the road and not actually make a decision on what to do, he could refuse to convene his team with his intelligence analysts so they can develop a response together. >> so what are the global consequences if there is inaction, ...

A washington, d.c.-based think tank and no, they have satellites that seem to be military bases where north koreas still developing, working on actively pursuing some sort of missile technology. we dont know exactly what that means, of course. we dont know if that means theyre continuing to build more icbms. the reality is they were already an icbm nation when they stopped testing in 2017. and the agreement that president trump and kim jong-un came to was specifically about nukes, their nuclear ...

Someones clearance so as mr. ackerman said, this seems to be unprecedented, im not aware of a president revoking clearances personally in the past. but during my time in the intelligence community, i found the analysis was very fiercely apolitical, fiercely non-ideological. the intelligence analysts call t i like they see it, theyre providing information to policymakers to enable them to make the best policy decisions possible on behalf of the united states. so once people leave the intelligence...

And what john bolton then said was, well, according to president putin, president trump did bring up election interference. president putin is our source for what happened in that meeting? >> right, alisyn, its mind-boggling that were getting a readout of a two hour meeting between president trump and one of our main adversaries who his own intelligence community said directed an attack on our election and democracy. were getting that readout from president putin. its mind-boggling the director ...

But the fact he indicated he doesnt know what happened, is highly concerning. i know him. hes a good man. the fact he wasnt briefed by the president on what took place in the meeting is going to do a disservice to the intelligence community. what should have happen second down the president should have been sitting down at cia head quarters with the head of cia and all the intelligence analysts working on russia and should have given them a full debriefing on what took place to inform their anal...