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Counterpart on august 4th and told him, if you go down this road, its going to have serious consequences not only for the bilateral relationship but for our ability to work with russia on any issue because it is an assault on our democracy. and president obama confronted president putin in september. jim clapper and jeh johnson announced publicly about russian efforts. after we did that, i wonder whether or not the russians then took a step back and said, wait a minute now. were not going to be ...

Of people and thats certainly my experience, having worked there for 30 years. theyre used to dealing with different administration and different political parties. they will do their jobs, and clapper indicated that. i am out of it so i can express my own personal outrage. it is unconscionable for the president to basically cast dispersions yet again on the intelligence community and on those men and women, the sacrifices are amazing to produce the type of intelligence specifically for the pres...

Election. >> in a foreign country next to a foreign leader the day before he meets russia, the president of russia, did he just throw the u.s. intelligence community under the bus? >> well, its hard not to reach that conclusion, that exactly so. >> exactly so. well outfront now, chris cillizza, juliet and steve hall, steve with all of this breaking news at this hour, lets start with what james clapper just said. exactly so, he says. what do you think? >> you know, i heard jim clappers comments a...

Of national intelligence jim clapper responded directly to trump. >> well, thats news to me. we saw no evidence whatsoever that was anyone involved in this other than the russians. >> couldnt be more clear. the question is whether the president of the united states will turn a blind eye to the newest charges of russian espionage in the united states. evan perez along with pamela brown broke this story of more russian spies and an embolden russia after the election and, evan, what are you learnin...

Fixodent plus adhesives. theres a denture adhesive that holds strong until evening. just one application gives you superior hold even at the end of the day fixodent. strong more like natural teeth. the nations former top spy, the former national intelligence director james clapper accusing president trump of throwing the intelligence community under the bus today. heres what he said moments ago to our own jim sciutto. after trump criticized the intelligence community earlier today, for its con...

Yesterday just drips with urgency from the intelligence guys, john brennan and jim clapper. and theyve remained urgent about this even out of government. the problem is what do the policy guys do about this? again, i think were agreeing they didnt do enough. i think they regret, i regret, they didnt do enough. but i understand why they were reluctant to be more active. and look at the circumstances we have here, michael. we have a political campaign. and its mr. trumps that seemed to legitimate ...

Strongly that we had to tell the american public what we knew. that was not an easy decision. given the rhetoric of the campaign, given the fact that in national security, we typically stay out of elections, we stay out of campaigns, but with the intelligence, which was overwhelming, we felt an obligation to tell the public on october 7th. now, frankly, the larger issue here is when we -- when jim clapper and i issued that statement, we all thought this was going to be big news, full banner, but...

>> the october 7 statement was an administration statement. that was the result of an intelligence community assessment. the president approved the statement. i know wasnted ehe wanted us statement. that was a statement by the united states government not just jim clapper and me. >> the reality, most american people were not aware of it. i just would have thought during that 32 days, if they had done as much from october 7 to november 8 as they did in december and january, i think the american p...

Astatemea statement should come from the intelligence community. clapper was atop the intelligence community. separately, we wanted to put out a statement from dhs about what state election officials can do about this. again, encourage them to come to us at some point in the discussion, jim and i decided to make it a joint statement. thats what happened. >> there have been public reports in the last week or two that the russian infrastructure has been more widespread and may have affected dozens...

This was, this was a very difficult decision, but in my personal view, its something we had to do. it got careful consideration. a lot of discussion. my view is that we needed to do it and we needed to do it well before the election to inform the american voters of what we knew and what we saw and that it would be unforgivable if we did not preelection. im glad we did it. you know, congressman, every big national security and homeland security decision ive made in my time, somebody always critic...