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Make some kind of concerted military action, but it is illegal. what are the stakes? what are the options? >> well, first of all, i want to say that im in the wilma camp with alisyn. i want to make that clear. >> thank you for giving that the prominence it deserves, clapper. now back to the potential world war iii scenario. >> ever since russia started operate anything syria, this is a very confined space there particularly when you have a lot of airplanes flying around. so the potential for inc...

Game here, issuing app ominous warning to the u.s. russian ambassador to lebanon said russia will shoot down any american missiles fired at syria. lets do that again. russia says that it will shoot down any american missiles fired at syria. okay. thats the simple message if you know how to speak. it comes as we wait to see what president trumps military response is going to be to the apparent chemical attack. there is a game afoot. lets discuss this and the deadly implications with jim clapper, ...

You know, i respect mr. boltons right to have his own team. but when youconstantly turningr national security advisers, each one of which is going to do their own house cleaning, that creates all kinds of distraction and turmoil. >> in good government sometimes they say constancy breeds consistency is. jim clapper, thank you very much. appreciate you weighing in on these weighty issues. >> and and the flintstopbs. flintstones. >> thats what i meant. >> meanwhile, porn star stormy daniels coopera...

Spent there. lets see what they come up with, jim. let me ask you a political question when i have you. tom bossert, homeland security adviser, is out. do you see this as a problem of attrition or mr. bolton coming in and having his right to have his own people on the team? >> it is both. clearly mr. bolton does center the right to have his own team. but thats the problem with this constant is turnover. and the white house is a difficult enough place given the, you know, the in tractable issues ...

And he gets fired for the same thing. whats your pulse on this now, given what chuck cooper, sessions lawyer said today? >> i am absolutely appalled by this. laura, this is to me the most scandalous thing ive ever talked about on your show. there are three big stories here. there are three big parts of this. first, as kim said, its highly unusual for something like this to happen. the administration officials from both parties go before congress all the time, they make misstatements, theyre accu...

Thing. whats your pulse on this now, given what chuck cooper, sessions lawyer said today? >> i am absolutely appalled by this. laura, this is to me the most scandalous thing ive ever talked about on your show. there are three big stories here. there are three big parts of this. first, as kim said, its highly unusual for something like this to happen. the administration officials from both parties go before congress all the time, they make misstatements, theyre accused by the other side of perjur...

Regime. >> i want to ask you on this idea, youve got brennan and youve heard it from the brennan and you have moral and clapper, general mccaffrey, and i want to throw in one more set of facts here. president has had tough words for the london mayor, called him a pathetic excuse and hit the prime minister of u.k. theresa may for not focusing on radical terror and appeared to refuse to shake angela merkels hand, hes not shy about criticizing other world leaders except for one. do you think hes be...

Coming from the same place. >> i want to ask you about the president and his inability to criticize vladimir putin. we have a former cia director, and a retired four-star general, a former head of the dni jim clapper and a former acting cia director who all believe this president is somehow compromised or that putin has something -- it is their only explanation for the behavior. this is in the words of brennan, mccaffrey, clapper, moral. have you seen anything that makes you think that the presi...

People at this point? >> im going to reserve judgment on both of them. i voted for mike pompeo going to the cia. i felt he had the technical background and skills to run that agency. the cia is essentially a fact agency. their job is to provide policymakers with information. state is an entirely different job. it is a policy job. it is not a technical fact job. he is the smokesman for the united states of america across the world. i have questions about that because he has views expressed over t...

Intelligence communitys assessment in january of 2017 that russias meddling in the campaign was intended to help donald trump and hurt hillary clinton, saying in effect that they dont read the intelligence the same way that the intelligence chiefs and the career professionals that prepared that report read the intelligence. and thats something that we of course reached out -- i reached out to jim clapper, who was the director of national intelligence when this came out, and others, and they say ...