Page 45 - Jim Clapper News Today

Mr. gowdy, i have one question to ask you, and i realize were in open session, so im going to word it a certain way, but i think youll understand what im saying. in the preparation of the report on the 2016 election, which concluded that russia favored the election of donald trump, who would have made the decision to include or exclude any evidence or indications of russian intentions that were contrary to that conclusion? >> myself, jim comey, mike rogers, and jim clapper relied on the experts ...

Would have despised. >> before i yield to mr. gowdy, i have one question to ask you. i realize we are in open session so ill word it a certain way but i think you are understand what im saying. in preparation of the report on the 2016 election which concluded that russian favored the election of donald trump, who would have made the decision to include or exclude any evidence or indications of russian intentions that were contrary to that conclusion? >> myself, jim comey, mike rogers, and jim cl...

>> lets go through this, all right? so i want to get back to this meeting, okay? the meeting. its in the oval office. according to president trump, vladimir putin asked him to have that meeting. this is while the russia investigation is going on and only one day after the president fired the fbi director, james comey, which the president would later admit to lester holt on nbc news that he did because of the russia story and now stories of boasting about classified information, is this everythin...

Honest, everything the russians ever dreamed of? >> oh, oh, my. look, let me join consensus with former dni jim clapper who said that the russians effort here has had a massive return on investment and succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. this is the most successful covert influence campaign in the history of covert influence campaigns. the russians by what they have done, in fractures within american society and the american political dialogue, have opened these seams and have us now shooting...

Information -- thats the source of information from the white house. its the information a democracy needs to function. we know we cannot function as a democracy because some reliable information. we expect some of that from our leaders. we are getting none of it. instead we are getting confusion, lies, contradictions. and so to satirize that you almost -- you have to go to the level of the surreal. you have to go to melissa mccarthy on the podium which, seeing the video of it friday afternoon w...

Television show. it is the television -- in the last couple of weeks the testimony last week or two weeks ago with james comey on the hill. this week with sally yates and jim clapper. >> he dvrd us and he was watching it. >> he said come on, i want to show you something. he cued it up and wanted to show it to us and do color commentary on it which was vicious. he was saying they were choking like dogs in the hearing. exaggerating the reactions of the crowds. he was trying to get some emotional s...

Somebody who has been in the justice system, who has been in the fbi to sign off on what theyre going to ask them for. >> also, again, if the president is not under any type of investigation, which he says hes not in this letter, but at the same time is doing things that would thwart the proper investigation. how is that not some type of cover up in the eyes of folks administrating the law? >> here is the thing that caught them off guard, i think, at the hearing where sally yates and jim clapper...

He felt comfortable with you guys. he showed you what was on his tivo. what did you watch? >> the sally yates and jim clapper testimony on monday testifying before the senate. it wasnt exactly his primetime lineup. but, you know, the president was essentially giving us his color kmem te commentary in his private dining room off the oval office pointing out when he thought senator grassley did a great job questioning or lindsey graham, hes a good questioner. then analyzes the responses to the cro...

Thing he wants to do. i think the question that remains unanswered is, what was his motivation for doing this? al career official that the attorney general above him is recused from all of this. why did he decide, this is the first thing he need to do. >> and republicans control all of the committees on capitol hill, so the question is, which republican chairman and will the leadership, whether its the speaker of the majority leader support that and say, its tame to put rod rosenstein in the cha...

Then the clapper/yates testimony on capitol hill, he hears russia, russia, rust continuing, expanding, long-term investigations and hes mad about it. how does that get you to fire the guy leading the investigation? thats a different question. but he was very hot. the vice president in answer to questions from you and others on capitol hill, heres one of the things the vice president said. >> as you know, very clearly, as has been stated repeatedly and the president has been told, hes not under i...