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Do can believes everything must be done to get aid into venezuela he did not say if that should include military intervention. health care workers in nigeria have gone on strike a days before the countrys general election highlighting the anger felt by many nigerians of the government of the governments management of the public sector and the economy the strike put so theres no pressure on president mohamed to bihari who is facing a neck and neck race with the main opposition candidates p.w. cor...

Policy objective, he invokes national security, tries to say that its a national security crisis. the difference is that in this public forum, the intelligence chiefs had to say under oath to the senate intelligence committee what their true assessment is of national security threat, and those two things didnt mary up. >> carrie cordero, phil mudd, thank you for being with us. missouri investigators do know who was on the other end of the blocked phone calls by don trump jr. ill speak with pam...

Policy objective, he invokes national security, tries to say that its a national security crisis. the difference is, is that in this public forum, the intelligence chiefs had to say under oath to the senate intelligence committee what their true assessment is of national security threats and those two things didnt marry up. >> carrie cordero, phil mudd, thank you for being with us. more breaking news next. senate investigators now know who was on the other end of the mysterious blocked phone c...

Not a national security threat as defined by the intelligence chiefs was the issue that the president just shut the government down by, and thats the so-called crisis on the southern border. they did not portray that as a national security threat, even though he has been saying it, because its a political objective. he even tweeted once it was a political promise that he made. so what he is finding is that whether or not they privately tell him in his classified briefings what their assessment i...

Even if the national security team had checked in with dan coats, its not clear what the national security team knows of what the president is really thinking. or what hes done. >> well, the great irony is that president putin knows more. >> right. >> about the situation than we do. >> yeah. >> and that is not only unorthodox, i think its very dangerous to the security of this country, that one person, the president of the united states, believes that he and only he can make these decisions with...

President himself -- even if the national security team had checked in with dan coats, its not clear what the national security team knows what the president is really thinking. >> well, the great irony is that president putin knows more. >> right. >> about the situation than we do. >> yeah. >> and that is not only unorthodox, i think its very dangerous to the security of this country, that one person, the president of the united states believes that he and only he can make these decisions witho...

Dni. so he is getting the presidents daily brief. i suspect what happened was he saw the reaction on capitol hill. he hadnt paid attention to what the details of what the briefing bore today. so he said let me look at what they actually said, especially when republican senators came out after him and said this aint working too well. let me backtrack a bit. this is about politics. its not about national security. >> carrie, to your point and to phils point about this being about politics, essenti...

Not a national security threat as defined by the intelligence chiefs was the issue that the president just shut the government down by, and thats the so-called crisis on the southern border. they did not portray that as a national security threat, even though he has been saying it, because its a political objective. he even tweeted once it was a political promise that he made. so what he is finding is that whether or not they privately tell him in his classified briefings what their assessment i...

And information, as past residents have done. we have some new reporting, phil, from pam brown tonight that says aide were able to calm the president down by saying the full transcript has more context to what they said. but im assuming the president doesnt even read the full -- if thats how they calm him down, by just telling him the full transcript has more. you would think then a smart guy would be oh, let me see the full transcript. i doubt thats happened. >> he does get the presidents daily...

With the cia director and the dni. so he is getting the presidents daily brief. i suspect what happened was he saw the reaction on capitol hill. he hadnt paid attention to what the details of what the briefing bore today. and so, he said, let me look at what they actually said, especially when republican senators came out after him and he said, this aint working too well, let me backtrack real fast. this is about politics. its not about national security. >> well, then, carrie, to your point, an...