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With kim jong-un. he sees someone trying to undercut him in that summit by doing what an intelligence official is supposed to do, which is speak clearly, asked under oath, as he was, about the assessment. he shares these views to president trump as well. president trump tends to lash out to his advisers, though, when they say things he does not want to hear. >> clint, given the fact that he sees someone trying to undercut him in that summit by doing what an intelligence official is supposed to d...

Court, right? if the investigative team needed that, they had tools when it became a full counterintelligence investigation? >> sure. you wouldnt do that right away. its the beginning of the investigation. would you start with basic investigative steps of trying to understand the person youre investigating, in this case the president of the united states, the network of people around him, their communications, their relationships, all of those sorts of things, things that investigators do every ...

Letters hes received from north korea, and his view goes against the intelligence assessment that theyre never going to stop their nuclear program. >> thats right, they have been clear about this outside the government as well. the regime is required for its survival, and when they come out publicly in testimony like they did recently and said what their conclusion is, trump sees that as trying to undercut him. i think its not accidental or coincidental that the presidents frustration with dan c...

Wall. congress approved only $1.3 billion for the fencing and repair. >> white house expected legal challenges to the emergency declaration. they are a host of other issues to occupy president trumps attention. we have details. >> hello, miami. >> the president maybe considering firing his top intelligence official. as he fires back as his former acting fbi director. one of closest confidants telling cnn the president may get rid of the director of national intelligence. >> the intelligence chie...

In the latest interviews as well as in his new book the former fbi acting director andrew mccabe recounts a time president trump refused to believe information from top u.s. intelligence officials, preferred, instead, to take the word of russias vladimir putin. cnns brian todd has found other instances of the presidents belittling the u.s. intelligence community. brian, this is the president in his own words. >> it is, wolf, and we get word of this tonight as we also hear from the presidents all...

To be, because their responsibility is to present to the president the intelligence about what is happening in the wor world. we have a president who doesnt want to listen to the truth because he has his own version of that. he said isis was defeated. our intelligence chief said thats not the case, that there are thousands that are continuing to work. thats a fact. this president says that iran is cheating on the nuclear agreement. our intelligence official says thats not the case. the president...

We should also note, and you and i were just talking about, this president tweeted just about a month ago. we have defeated isis in syria. my only reason for being there during the trump presidency. now the nations senior most intelligence official will say isis still commands thousands of fighters in iraq and syria and the group will exploit any reduction in our presence. >> do you know, i mean, does this go to the white house first? >> no. because the white house does not approve these reports...

>> i cant imagine -- especially, that puts people at risk when you enter a house that way. ive never seen anything like it, sean. even with violent murderers, nothing like this. >> sean: you went into this imran iwan case, there was a bigger scandal that the media ignored, to the extent you can, explain. this book is phenomenal. >> its such a big juxtaposition between what you see them doing knocking down the door of a 66-year-oldat fashionista because he tweeted about wikileaks, thats the close...

Documents its 80 pages of exhibits and evidence essentially against paul manafort and then 30 pages of an affidavit from an fbi agent that really gives you a blow by blow list of how paul manafort lied to the special counsel. and one of the things that we learned is that he lied about the frequency of contacts that he had with this russian by the name of konstantin kilimnik, that the fbi and muellers team has accused him of working for the russian government, being an intelligence official for t...

Shutdown, all about nothing. >> what happens when there is a real crisis, when there is a real emergency? does he take to the airways? do we give him the airwaves? do we believe him? >> some question if there is a crisis at all, as the president has claimed. >> there is not a crisis at the border. its a manufactured crisis for the president to get a political win. >> crisis can have, as we see now, a very elastic definition. >> hest is determined to convince you there is a crisis at the border. ...