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You are giving them hard currency. all of those are steps to weaken and constrain russia as a country. in that sense he gets a bad rap. the other side is, the obama people who have been the harshest, brennan who used the word traitor or treason, clapper, comey who said nobody can vote republican and be a patriot in one of the nutier guys failed. they all failed. they were in charge of our national security. they have failed and they are now hysterical trying to get us to look at trump rather tha...

States in the roosevelt room clarifying what he said with the press conference with vladimir putin in helsinki. a fox news contributor and great new book out trumps america newt gingrich. before he clarified you said of the mistake he said it was the most serious mistake of his presidency. now you have heard him clarify. says he misspoke. the probable with the double negative. what do you think? >> well, if you read the entire text of what he said in the roosevelt room, he goes on at length rein...

Sharper than that? >> you are darn right. disciplinary action on these making comments like that? not part of the probe? he started it. he was with it for its first couple of months. mueller kept him on. how much did he infect the probe with his own very, very extreme positions? i dont know. but i sure want to find out before i go forward. i mean, this is a case where its crying out for someone to investigate the investigators. >> sean: absolutely. even deep states i could affiant turn cnn fake ...

To turn over transcripts to determine if the witnesses pu r perjured themse sfselvethemselv. >> joining us is james clapper. thank you so much for joining us. what stands out to you from this latest revelation about stone and caputo having this meeting? apparently didnt go anywhere, meeting with a russian who want 2d milli wanted $2 million in exchange for dirt on hillary clinton. >> what strikes me is why so many meetings with the russians? they are our adversaries. i dont understand why any of...

Passiona passionately, as strongly as you are? >> im not alone. there are actually quite surprisingly a lot of folks with kind of my background, jim clapper, john brennan, john mclaughlin, who are out there expressing this. maybe its because in our intelligence lives we have seen the face of evil. maybe in our intelligence lives we have seen societies that should have been healthy turned very unhealthy. maybe in our intelligence lives we have recognized how fragile these things really are. wolf,...

Hold on, let me go through the democrats, christopher wray, no hes a republican. donald trump appointed. the attorney general is, no, way, jeff sessions he appointed, rod rosenstein, no, hes a republican, too. rod rosenstein is a republican, too. theyre all republicans. >> jim comey? >> republican. >> jon meachum, how you doing this morning? >> i tell you what, jon? >> anything going on up there? >> you have an ig report that comes out. and it is completely twisted by the president of the united...

You immunity from arrest and prosecution. bringing children with you doesnt guarantee you wont get prosecuted. i would cite you to the apostle paul in his clear and wise command in romans 13, to obey the laws of the government, because god has ordained the government for his purposes. >> i can say that it is very biblical to enforce the law, thats repeated a number of times throughout the bible. however -- hold on, jim if youll let me finish. im not going to comment on the attorneys specific com...

And then the two letters in the days before the election. theyre making the case without saying explicitly that he put his thumb on the scale for donald trump. >> he absolutely did and not just what he did with hillary clinton. theres an e-mail in this report he sent to jim clapper and john brennan, that comey sent on october 5 that is really -- its kind of hard to read because he talks about why he wont sign his name on to a report or statement from the intelligence community saying the russian...

Just like c.i.a. and fbi agents said horrible things about george w. bush in the lead-up to the iraq war. there was a civil war inside the c.i.a. about george w. bush. there were constant leaks against george w. bush. starting in the fall of 2002. these things happen, jon. and youve got rudy giuliani with his bulging eyeballs, acting like a snowflake, like this is the first time that this has happened in any bureaucracy. its happened in the state department since thomas jefferson walked in there...

Talked about over and over again. that is going to take years perhaps or at least months to set up the kind of protocols for that and years to actually execute. >> sure, the what of denuclearization is the easy part of the ask. it gets into when it happens and how. we have a ton of great guests. as we wait for this meeting. anderson and i will take you through it as it happens. we have cnn former director of national intelligence, jim clapper. thank you for being with us. some of the things that...