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Acting director. when youre confronted with a situation where the president of the appears to be falling in the o orbit of a foreign leader, you have to find out the truth. that doesnt mean youre insubordina insubordinate. >> sounds like theres a lot to talk about from the mccabe interview. another clip where he describes an intelligence briefing. >> the president said he does not believe they have the capability to hit us with ballistic missiles. president putin told him the

The norms of our democracy. we dont yet know if hes vieltding the law. its possible that even though this seems to be a clear violation of the constitution, its possible that a supreme court packed by the republicans may grant trump the authority to do this, just as they granted him the authority on the travel ban. that should not obviate the fact this is a violation of our democratic norms, the separation of powers. theres so many other norms that president trump has violated. i mean, small one...

A barrageover new questions about how president trump spends his time after someone leaked his private scheduled. today all the president has is an intelligence briefing. how is he feeling? you could do that courtesy after filled with hundreds of hours of what is called kpaektiexecutive. it is cable channel surfing, the head of oval operations called a disgraceful breach of trust. it is not the hundreds of calls and meetings. it says a lot about how people

About reporting the white house was considering inviting the russian president here to washington. the president was angry at him then. they say that subsided but its unclear what this will do to their relationship going forward. the president did only have one thing on his schedule today, an intelligence briefing. its unclear if dan coats was there or his deputy. the senate minority leader, chuck schumer, has sent a letter saying that he is very concerned about the criticism that was shown in t...

Location. most of you know where the location is. i dont think its any secret. we will announce the location and the date. it will be the end of february. >> reporter: the white house has released this picture today of president trump with his intel chiefs. this is a typical scene during the intelligence briefing. of course, what makes this so unique is it comes a day after the president tweeted that those intel chiefs need to go back to school and called them naive. today, he is saying that act...

The president was angered by the coverage here. the tv chyrons that said the intelligence chiefs contradicted him on this. >> so its not the first time the president has been unhappy with coats, but is he in danger of being fired, do we know? >> reporter: an official said, no, his job is safe for now. they do not think dan coats is at risk of being fired but really their relationship had just started to recover from the wobbly position it had been in. youll remember, last summer, when dan coats ...

President is irresponsible in terms of how he puts messaging out. i think thats a little bit apoll jea papoll jettic. whatever. angela. still. the point stands. youre not going to disagree with what mr. james is saying. if you have reason to push on the intel, you should. should hold power to account. thats not whats going on here. >> i guess wheres the smoking gun here, what intelligence do we have, no pun intended, what intelligence do we have that demonstrates that that is, in if fact, the ca...

Fact, the case, that donald trump is somehow infallible and knows something -- >> takes putins word about russian interference over his own intel chiefs. twice. >> not only that, donald trump is so -- he regularly has typos on twitter. im going to sign with john brennan who said theres intellectual bankruptcy going on with commander in chief. thats the reality of this. donald trump, again, will not even read the intelligence briefing. why are yes taking his word? >> hes the president of the unit...

Russia did the same in 2018. it is part of a continuing attack on the u.s. election system and something they are taking seriously. >> when they all testified before the senate. thanks very much. >> president trump slammed at the heads of the u.s. intelligence agencies for daring to publicly dispute this global threat. lets go live to the white house correspondent. whats the latest? >> wolf, there was one thing on president trumps schedule today that was an intelligence briefing that he spent th...

Operation worked. we know general kelly had concerns about this. as a result, not just with jared, with other people, ended the idea of temporary, you know, temporary clearances. so, you know, i dont know. i dont think that in the end this is going to be anything thats debilitating to his ability to continue to advise the president because the president wants to be advised by jared. >> lets talk a little bit about jareds tenure. on the campaign, he aligned himself with paul manafort, now awaitin...