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When were trying to lift intelligence out of the political soup. something that, you know, dan coats tried to do on a regular basis and he should be applauded for that. >> so his confirmation would seem not to be assured, there are a handful of senators who will carry his face in their hands. >> this will be a lot of hand to hand combat and i dont think the presidents comments in the last couple of weeks which are certainly making a lot of republicans uncomfortable are going to help ratcliffes c...

Many that were all wrestling with every week for the past couple of years and for weeks ahead and i think this weekend shows that in particularly important relief. on the one hand, the noise, the attacks of representative cummings were generally offensive, genuinely racist and offensive and i think in the stark way that had been somewhat concealed in some of donald trumps previous distractions so they deserved actual attention while the announcement made that same day about having representative...

This is from a man who has said that atlanta is falling apart. described philadelphia as struggling. and chicago totally out of control. called san francisco disgusting. and now baltimore a filthy place. we talk about the significance of it all beyond the outrage that the president always hopes to elicit but the damage hes committing here. but we begin with president donald trump announcing the departure of the director of national intelligence via tweet yesterday afternoon. he wrote, i am pleas...

Country on fire, so many of us who have listened to that argument from our republican friends who tell us dont take away our ability to try to talk to him and influence him quietly. were going to call that out as the bs that it is and try to get them to finally do the things that many did in the 1950s to finally marginalize joe mccarthy. it was the republicans who did that, but not democrats ultimately. thing is a week in which there are probably harder conversations in the senate between democr...

The cooperation of key intelligence partners around the world who can get to places that our intelligence officers cant. those services i know are increasingly worried about sharing their most precious secrets with the united states because of this wobble from president trump, from the white house, from his nominees in terms of oversight of intelligence. it worries them if they began to reduce the flow of information to the united states, we are less safe period. >> james fellows, i want you to ...

Country. the acting director will be named shortly. "the new york times" reports that coats a veteran republican lawmaker and former ambassador to germany had long wanted to go and told the president and vice president that he was ready to move on during a meeting last week. coats was known to give blunt intelligence assessments, breaking with the president on big topics like north korea and vladimir putin. >> we have some breaking news. the white house has announced on twitter that vladimir put...

Better than loyalist. >> we have to take a look at all of the foreign policy and intelligence positions. top positions. its disturbing. plus, the president starts this morning with fresh attacks against congressman elijah cummings and the city of baltimore. extending now to a third straight day. >> and now hes attacking al sharpton. >> author, veteran and baltimore native, wes moore joins us with his thoughts. and well talk to senator chris murphy who says he can no longer stomach the presiden...

Sue gordon a career person should be stepping up and should immediately become acting dni. so its clear hes planning to bring someone in from the political sector and thats troubling to the intelligence community. >> i was going to ask you, david ignatius, you spent years obviously covering the intel community closely and you have from time to time talked about events in the past administrations that have caused a real crisis of confidence inside the intel community. how does this stack up? >> i...