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And this issue of russia, it is so confounding to so many people within the administration because even when the president goes out on the second day and tries to clean up his earlier statements on air force one, hes just seemingly unable to give that concise answer russia meddled in the election, full stop. he struggles to just say that even though thats the implied message, what hes hope being is the implied message in the second day statement. what you see from pompeo and hear within the inte...

Two u.s. intelligence chiefs tell cnn that president trump is downplaying the threat posed by russias election meddling, and thats dangerous. after mr. trump met with russian president vladimir putin, he told reporters that he believes russia was not responsible. the president stopped short of saying russia didded me until the election, saying only he is with his intelligence agencies. he had said earlier formal officials who overstate the russian effect are, quote, political hacks. two have res...

Security standpoint. >> the russians are going to pursue like interests. with us, its slim and none. and i think its very naive, and in fact perilous to this country to make an assumption that russia is going to behave with the best interests of the world or certainly the united states in mind. theyre not. >> well have more from them in our next half hour. clapper, brennan talking about being called political hacks by the president. coming up, after the break, lebanons saad al hariri breaks hi...

>> i dont believe putin. that was joe biden speaking moments ago on the "today" show. well have more throughout our show. joining us live live from manila in the philippines, peter alexander. president trump is trying to downplay his comments about putin and as joe biden just put it, its easy, you say i dont believe putin. >> reporter: thats exactly right, this controversy was reig natured when the president aboard air force one told reporter when he saw vladimir putin during the meeting that he...

Particularly reprehensible that on veterans day that donald trump would attack and impugn the integrity and of jim clapper who served in uniform for 35 years, who responded to the call of his country to go to vietnam, flew in over 70 combat support missions over vietnam. and like senator mccain, really did put his life at risk because of this countrys national kurt. and to impugn the character of somebody like jim clapper on veterans day who has dedicated so much of his life to this country, i f...

This after president trump declared that he believes russian president vladimir putin and not the american intelligence community on whether moscow actively helped him win the white house last year. the russians saying, no, they didnt meddle. american intelligence officials across the board, even some that the president appointed, strongly disagree. earlier today, those two men, clapper and brennan, were on cnns "state of the union" with jake tapper saying that president trump is being duped by ...

. >> to impugn the character of somebody like jim clapper on veterans day who has dedicated so much of his life to this country i just find that outrageous and something that i think that the -- that mr. trump should be ashamed of but it doesnt seem as though anything he does he feels any shame whatsoever. >> former cia director john brennan on cnn after president trump called the former intelligence chiefs political hacks this weekend for their agencys assessment that russia did meddle in the 2...

Focus on with an elderly president. but this is so beyond the pale, to side with putin over the intelligence agencies, the former intelligence leaders representing the workforce, the product, the analysis, of the men and women who are still there in those agencies and to take the line political hacks against brennan and clapper, on veterans day, clapper, a man who served since the early days in vietnam in uniform and has served the country for more than 50 years before retirement is just sort of...

Richard haass has been talking about this morning, take a look at the "wall street journal"s editorial page on saturday, pointing out that the president is disadvantaging already disadvantaging the u.s. on trade. just one case in point, he -- the japanese imposed a tariff of 50% on american beef imports in recent months. they already negotiated under tpp with their tpp partners a 27% with australia, tariff. thats the difference, 27% for australians part of the trade group, 50% for the u.s., whic...

He cant say he believes and asked kgb official more than he believes his own intel. i think this is a sign of learning. i welcome it so i think its enough but i have some feelings about the criticism too. im not entirely comfortable with that. john brennan says hes being played. clapper said hes giving put in a path and then got the president treating that thing its just political acts. >> this encapsulates my concern. if i say stop, people can say jim walsh is crazy or hes reasonable, or whatev...