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Was really said. but there is no video recording of the presidents meeting in the oval office today. there is no transcript of it. but you can be absolutely sure that the president is mischaracterizing the meeting when he says that the intelligence directors told him that their testimony was mischaracterized by the media. their testimony was not mischaracterized by the media. it was shown by the media. on video. so you got to see just how wrong the intelligence directors say the president of the...

The oval office today. there is no transcript of it. but you can be absolutely sure that the president is mischaracterizing the meeting when he says that the intelligence directors told him that their testimony was mischaracterized by the media. their testimony was not mischaracterized by the media. it was shown by the media. on video. so you got to see just how wrong the intelligence directors say the president of the united states is. >> isis is intent on resurging and still commands thousands...

Now. for any press outlets to follow that, shame on them. so, tom, i just -- you talked about how when he to hold people to account. i think we do. i think its not enough any more to just make this about donald trump. its not about donald trump. its about our relatives. its about our friends. its about our former republican party members who say that they support donald trump regardless. well i dont listen to him doing this, that or the other. you know, thats a bunch of garbage. we can say that ...

In both cases, american interests are undermined. >> from the point of view of governance, a one-on-one meeting is a problem in itself. the translator doesnt have a record of what was said on both sides, shes busy trying to translate in real time. no one has a complete record. michael mcfaul has talked about this, jeremy has, you do a quick, comprehensive debrief as you can get. >> you were the vice presidents chief of staff in the white house. >> you dictate a memorandum of the conversation and...

There really should not be. two weeks before his inauguration, the heads of the fbi, cia, nsa and director of national intelligence provided the president elect evidence that putin ordered -- the "new york times" reported that trump was shown texts and e-mails from russian military officials and intelligence from british u dutch and american intel services, but the president keeps disputing these professionals, like this tweet from january of this year which says russia continues to say they had...

Intelligence services. but the president continues to publicly dispute the intelligence. for example, this tweet from january of this year, a year after he got this information. russia continues to say they had nothing to do with meddling in our election. two weeks after this, the nations intelligence directors, led by the cia director and trumps appointee, mike pompeo, said this. >> no change in my view of the 2017 assessment. i support that and i agree with director pompeos assessment about th...

What happens if president trump dismisses those warning signs, not coming from previous intelligence directors, but his own people. >> most of my life, wolf, has been spent in law enforcement. and regardless of these insidious attacks, whether by house republicans on the fbi, or the president of the united states on his own intelligence community, that these guys and gals are going to do their job, they go to work every day defending america, they are the real patriots in this country, and they ...

Completely destroyed the fbi, he even put quotes in there from former fbi directors, from intelligence directors, really hammering on comey and his handling of the case. i can tell you this. horwitz is going to have a scathing report against comey. comey knows is coming out way that is why he is lawyered up. >> sean: who also is likely to be mentioned? >> andrew mccabe certainly. >> sean: bruce ohr? >> peter strzok elusive page ohr. there is going to be very -- >> sean: loretta lynch? >> yes, ab...

>> its not as if our intelligence directors are going to come out and put out a memo and say here are all the specific things where weve caught on what theyre doing. theyre still working through it and making sure it doesnt happen. we cant have any foreign interference in the 2018 elections, period, point blank. i dont think anyone disagrees with that. but i dont want our intelligence chiefs to go out and telegraph every single thing. the last administration would telegraph all of their moves. t...

Do we not think that vladimir putin wants the u.s. to give aid to ukraine where they have troops, whereby the way vice president biden say, go ahead and invade kcrimea. weve now given aid to the ukrainians. is that not standing up to vladimir putin? >> im talking about the homeland and our electoral processes and hes giving putin the green light to go ahead and do what hes done before. >> or hes giving congress leverage to -- >> how do you negotiate on a covert operation? >> its not as if our in...