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Lovely to see you all again. the taliban are in controljust 45 miles south of kabul, the regional warlords and militia groups to whom the president has turned in afghanistans hour of need, evidence that his army trained by the now departed americans is inadequate in the fight. one by one provincial capitals have fallen, clive, when you look at the picture in afghanistan the director of national intelligence who worked withjoe biden when he was vice president, jake clapper, said was inevitable,

Lack impulse control, he does seem to sometimes fly off the hand m, and as i said earlier, be reactive. he also seems to be vengeful. on the other hand, we know its true that in the modern era, the president has, you know, the president could not to alarm people out there, but the president could start a nuclear war. any president could, without congressional approval, like this is the way it works in the modern era. so you know, we have seen, remember linden johnson runs for president in 1964 a...

I love the great state of arizona, not a fan of jeff flake, weak on crime and borders. jake, thank you for joining us, i wonder what you thought about trumps attacks on two senators from that state. a war hero who right now is battling brain cancer, going through very extensive medical treatment, did not even wish senator mccain a speedy recovery. >> yeah, its disappointing is probably the most nice thing i can say about that. john mccain, i have gotten to know him since i have been in congress ...

North korea? >> the rhetoric is not useful, specifically the presidents rhetoric. i think general mattis was more of a caution to the north koreans and not a threat. the president was clearly using a threat yesterday. im sort of siding to where rex tillerson is. its a problem. its a serious issue, but we dont need to hyper ventilate about it right now. we have a little bit of time. there are other things going on. so serious, need to work the issue, but i dont think were facing some imminent cat...

Ice cream, he gets two. look, my two children would gladly be president if they could get double the number of scoops of ice cream. >> sean: hey, jake clapper, cnn, are you really proud of that? two scoops of ice cream. everyone else gets one. thats news? sadly that coverage is just a small sample and frankly its a somewhat not in example -- its a some innocent example of what the president is facing. in the past 24 hours, the anti-trump media has been in overdrive. >> you have to stop putting k...

About it and so was jake clapper. >> its really a tale of two hearings, its democrats like yourself that were asking about any potential collusion in the election, and essentially all the republicans are asking about are leakings and we saw that again today, we saw that in the house and on the senate side. >> thats right, it is a tale of two hearings, except they are importantly for senator graham, some of the republicans and my hope is there will be more of them who will see what jim clapper de...

Sally yates did leak something, just hypothetically, there are a lot of leaks in this white house they cant control. >> were going to have to leave it there. the panel will return during the next two hours. a big day on capitol hill in the russian-white house watch. ill talk to one of the congressmen who questioned clapper and sally yates next. love mom and dad im takin a nap. dude, you just woke up! ♪ ♪ im goin up the country, baby dont you wanna go? ♪ ♪ im goin up the country, baby don...

President. >> and matthew, the president tweeted again a short time ago, director clapper reiterated what everybody already knows, there is no collusion with russia and trump. based on what he had seen on january 6 when he left, he saw no evidence. but he also didnt even know about the fbi counter intelligence investigation. >> clapper made it pretty clear that he was staying out of this. and we heard that from the white house too, that they saw the investigation as separate and they couldnt med...

Owns of the time. before she was thrust into main justice, she had a reputation as a prosecutor who put away a lot of democrats in georgia. eric holder, loretta lynch, maybe those are slightly more partisan people at the white house. sally yates, that was not her reputation. i think it was very interesting what we show there, the different responses to the collusion question. clapper who was the dni and did not have visibility into the fbi investigation said, he didnt know about collusion. yates...

Bombshell. when i go back an google, there were a bunch of reports saying there was going to be this bombshell testimony. >> a week ago it was leaked out what sally yates was going to say and was specifically saying theres not going to be a bombshell. >> and that wasnt one single piece of evidence saying there was coordination between the campaign and some foreign entity. and now were into may of 2017 and there still hasnt been one single thing thats been put forward. i think this is getting rea...