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Pick to replace dan coats as director of national intelligence. coats set to step down in just a couple week. the republican congressman john ratcliffe now wont be offered that job. mr. trumps plan fell flat when it was announced just days ago and it became clear that ratcliffes lack of experience in the intelligence field would be hard to sell in the senate. but none of that figured into the presidents explanation. listen. >> independent you wa said you h this or maybe do something else. i said...

Number one is a freeze frame from fox coverage this week. look at their banner headline. fbi didnt explain that lying would put flynn in legal jeopardy. thats not in jest. that was put on the screen seriously. required general mark hertling was on twitter today saying this -- as a former lieutenant general, i can attest that one learns not to lie to the fbi much earlier in ones career and much lower in rank. you get my drift. do you think this was all for the federal judge, and was this federal ...

Retired general mark hurtling was on twitter today saying this. as a former lieutenant general, i can attest that one learns not to lie to the fbi much earlier in ones career and at a much lower rank. so congresswoman, you get my drift. do you think this was all for this federal judge, and is this federal judge, was he ever going to have a any of this argument that he was somehow set up? >> i think it actually could undermine his case for, you know, real leniency in the case. look, anybody who w...

Lower rank. so congresswoman, you get my drift. do you think this was all for this federal judge, and is this federal judge, was he ever going to have an argument that he was somehow set up? >> i think it actually could undermine his case for, you know, real leniencesy in the case. look, anybody who watches television, you dont have to be lieutenant general, you dont have to have been in the intelligence field. you know youre not supposed to lie to the fbi. and so its such a ridiculous statement...

Five alternatives and two very good al teternatives that wouldt be acceptableb to me. okay. but we are looking for the answer. i think that probably you will have an answer sooner than people think. >> and so as someone who has worked in the intelligence field, at the cia and at the nsc and how remarkable is this because turkey says they have audio and video, and nbc has good reason to believe it is true. what do we do when we have hard intelligence that this happened against someone who is such...

And i can just tell you just from personal acquaintances who work in the intelligence field, it was -- it was a blow like none that has come before and they had to ask themselves about the loyalty of the president of the united states. and thats a stark question. >> yeah. >> for people to face. and it implies that they then have to think of their own responsibility and the oaths they have taken and their service to the nation. >> and how to express that service, how to best express it. frank, we...

Of punctuation mark for a lot of people. and i can just tell you just from personal acquaintances who work in the intelligence field, it was -- it was a blow like none that has come before and they had to ask themselves about the loyalty of the president of the united states. and thats a stark question. >> yeah. >> for people to face. and it implies that they then have to think of their own responsibility and the oaths they have taken and their service to the nation. >> and how to express that s...

Force. is that what you are saying here? and if so what options are on the table for the us right now? >> i think the specter of sears diplomatic action that you would push for greater sanctions on what the russian individuals. cutouts for the russian government.he would contest with the russians more broadly in syria by an expression of support to especially sunni and arab groups. and then in the intelligence field whether the nsa that it is simply assessing what the russians are doing.you hit ...

Otherwise youve got to go do this again. i thought it was a magnificent statement. >> finally, you lost an old football coach this week, americans know him as an ambassador, americans knew him, dan rooney, as the chairman of the pittsburgh steelers, but he was actually your coach in, what, sixth, seventh grade? >> sixth, seventh and eighth grade in the catholic football league in pittsburgh. i was dans quarterback in eighth grade. he gave me my first job with the pittsburgh steelers. i stayed in...

This again. i thought it was a magnificent statement. >> finally, you lost an old football coach this week, americans know him as an ambassador, americans knew him, dan rooney, as the chairman of the pittsburgh steelers, but he was actually your coach in, what, sixth, seventh grade? >> sixth, seventh and eighth grade in the catholic football league in pittsburgh. i was dans quarterback in eighth grade. he gave me my first job with the pittsburgh steelers. i stayed in contact with dan throughout ...