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Figured hes not going to be around very long. the president doesnt want people to challenge him. when you think about an intelligence director, you want independent advice. you want the best available intelligence to make decisions that are based on facts and reality. that is not something our current president wants. >> richard burr "the new york times" has voiced some concerns that the pick may be too political. do you see him having problems getting through the smath? >> i think certainly wit...

From the president of the united states. but that was ivanka trump. if the president says something of consequence, coming up, we will bring that to you. we had with us, i think we have the special adviser to president moon jae-in. mr. moon, thank you for joining us this morning. >> youre welcome. we heard a strong degree of confidence from president moon, meeting with chairman kim and crossing into north korea, would be performtive in the denuclearization talks. the intelligence director said, ...

Intelligence director. deploy to a foreign country to silence a critic of the administration. those people who were on that operation, they believe firmly that they were doing that in concert with saudi policy and in concert with saudi culture and handling this. to think that they could walk away from that and say, we have no culpability is absurd. that is what is so frustrating. >> martha: about the dynamic in the middle east, some were saying that turkey is sort of using this as much as they c...

Apparatus speaking there from the white house in a way we have not seen before. to have the director of the fbi, the intelligence director, the homeland security secretary, and others speaking about this, it seemed that the white house was turning a page on russian election meddling. then the president, of course, with the biggest megaphone of all not talking about that, not amplifying that message. the white house says they are on the same page. they say privately the president is giving this d...

Appears to be the first identified case of russian interference. the daily beast reporting the russian intelligence agency behind the 2016 election cyber attacks targeted senator clare mccaskill. missouri democrat is in a tight race for her seat and has been a critic of both russia and donald trump. she said i will not be intimidated. ive said it before and i will say it again, putin is a thug and a bully. >> andrew desi derrio joins me tonight. what happened? >> the main intelligence director i...

It was 2, 2 1/2 hours. we dont know what happened in there. the national intelligence director, the top intelligence aide for the united states, dan coats, says he has no idea what happened in there. i have to play exactly what he did say. he has no clue. >> i dont know what happened in that meeting. i think as time goes by and the president has already mentioned some things that happened in that meeting, i think we will learn more, but that is the presidents prerogative. if he had asked me how ...

Assessments was specifically aimed at getting trump elected. today, a year and a half later, the president appeared to return the favor for putins help, taking the russian presidents side over the u.s. government, the intelligence community, and his own hand-picked intelligence director. >> just now president putin denied having anything to do with the election interference in 2016. every u.s. intelligence agency has concluded that russia did. what -- who -- my first question for you, sir, is wh...

Today, a year and a half later, the president appeared to return the favor for putins help, taking the russian presidents side over the u.s. government, the intelligence community, and his own hand-picked intelligence director. >> just now president putin denied having anything to do with the election interference in 2016. every u.s. intelligence agency has concluded that russia did. what -- who -- my first question for you, sir, is who do you believe? my second question is would you now, with t...

Them. john great white death bolton has really cleaned the place out quickly but its worth noting that he hasnt replaced these people. weve had word thus far about john bolton hiring one person since he started. someone he brought over from the white house personnel office. but thats it. all of those -- these new folks are out since bolton started just three weeks ago. and actually, while weve got the wall here, there is one more change involving the wall that you should know about. it concerns ...

Theres one more change involves -- it concerns a guy. do we have him up here? this guy. oh, look, its gone. we killed the wall -- oh, its back. the control room just got in my ear and said, no idea. that guy was fired months ago as the intelligence director at the national security council, he was fired apparently after he helped devin nunes pull off the weird stunt at the white house that got him investigated for mishandling classified material. nunes said he tried to say he had the proof that ...