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Point. on the day this president is inaugurated. these protests follow almost 60 democratic lawmakers who boycotted the election, a number we have not seen in a very, very long time. congressman john lewis saying he is boycotting because he doesnt believe that trump is a legitimate president. you know, this is not exactly extending an olive branch. >> no, it is not, but he says it is based on maybe russians interference with this election. we have a senate investigation that is going on, and the...

Why hes denying what the intelligence shows. >> what has your reporting shown in terms of we do know that donald trump gets the intelligence briefings just like hillary clinton does and we know in the media that 17 intelligence agencies have said that there is a connection between the hacking and russia. so, why wont donald trump say that publicly? >> as one british official told me, there are a lot of conspiracy theories. it is known right now. this is absolutely true, that the russians have ga...

>> you said there is no way to know. that is not what the intelligence shows. what would make you say that? >> thats a horrible thing that happened. it is disgusting and disgrace l disgraceful. putvladimir putiputin said they. possibly it was russia. but they are totally denying it. >> i think some people are worried you are defending russia. >> i think it is despicable and horrible. they deny it totally. they dont say what was it and where it came from. nobody knows. im sure reports will be don...

To blame for the jetliner being shot down over ukraine. dutch investigators say with confidence that pro russian separatists downed an airliner used a russian made rocket to down the plane. trump said that is not enough. it is time to move on. >> you said there is no way to know if russia is behind shooting down mh-17. that is is not what the intelligence shows. >> that is a horrible thing that happened. putin and russia said they didnt do it. putin probably knows who did it. >> i think some peo...

Aboard. >> russia, you said today there was no way to know if russia was behind shooting down mh-17. that is not what the intelligence shows. >> you know what? that is a horrible thing that happened. it is disgusting. putin and russia said they did not do it. the other side said they did. nobody knows who did it. >> i think some people might be worried you are defending russia. >> im not defending russia. it is despicable. it is horrible. they deny it totally. they dont say what was it or where ...

We saw indications, public and private, of what he was preparing to do. and so we undertook a very aggressive effort, publicly and privately, directly with him and his cohorts, but also with our other allies to make sure that this did not happen. because the implications of it are very robust, very negative for our national security interests. and what this intelligence shows, what weve debated and what weve briefed and nobody has debated or rebutted is that he did it. >> before you go, i want t...

Docket. i was sitting in the national security council staff at that time. we saw indications, public and private, of what he was preparing to do. and so we undertook a very aggressive effort, publicly and privately, directly with him and his cohorts, but also with our other allies to make sure that this did not happen. because the implications of it are very robust, very negative for our national security interests. and what this intelligence shows, what weve debated and what weve briefed and n...

An authorization to use force here. i dont think it is in americas interest. i dont think we should in effect take sides in the syrian conflict. theres very little to recommend either side to me and i think the notion that a limited strike which is what the president seems to be pursuing will not create a deterrent effect with respect to either to syrias use of chemical weapons or more seriously, irans nuclear weapons program. so all in all, since i dont see any utility to, to the use of militar...

Quite a bit of carnage and if they could get in their hands any type of nuclear device or dirty bomb they certainly could but the point i was making its much more spread out and have someone like al qaeda -- im sorry, al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, aqap working on implanting bombs in peoples body, we could have very significant -- just not small amounts of people, not 3,000 like 9/11 but still very large. >> with regard to the timing weve been looking to today, august 4th as being the day so...

Iran. >> they at least now agree that containment is not a policy, the united states and israel are aligned and iran cannot go in and clear. the president said this before but he said it in the oval office. he said it publicly. said it at the state of the union. he made it very forceful, thats a commitment. they are in -- grave disagreement over how long one can wait. what the intelligence shows. the u.s. position is that the intelligence will let us know when iran makes the decision to build a ...