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Faced with the material that comes through their processes. we cannot as a government direct them what to do. but we certainly are spending every effort we can to work with them to provide some answers to this question. >> i would agree with director coats. it is a team effort. one of the things that has jumped out at me being back in government is how much more of a team the intelligence community is than the last time i was in this space. i have one of mikes people who sits right in my inner t...

Beginning to recognize ever more the issues that are faced the material that comes through their processes. we cannot as a government direct them what to do but we are spending every effort we can to work with them to provide answers to this question. >> i think its a team effort and one of the things that jumped out at me is how much more were connected than the last time i was in this space. i have one of mikes people that sits in my inner team and vice versa and were dealing with each other e...

Sympathetic to russias foreign policy objectives? >> not only are we concerned, the 29 nations of nato are concerned. i returned not that long ago from a meeting in brussels with the intelligence arm of nato. all 29 nations that the topic was addressed primarily on russian meddling in elections. in trying to undermine democratic values. at the end of that, the new director of that organization asked for a show of hands of or any verbal response from any representatives of the 29 nations if they ...

State and election processes with the federal government. department of homeland security, department of fbi, obviously were involved given domestic issues but we do look to every piece of intelligence we can gather so that we can provide these warnings. it is an effort that i think the government needs to put together at the state and local level and work with those individuals who are engaged in the election process in terms of the security of their machines, cyber plays a major role here so i...

911 call said, the restraining order said, the picture said. thats one part. the other is more processes but no less important but the point amanda touches on is how this guy literally touched every piece of information and paper that went to president trump, which means he touched stuff that was top secret and classified. john kelly knew well in advance of it last week that his -- porters security clearance hadnt come through. why was john kelly not interested in finding out why, thats one. two...

Investigation that needs to be brought to conclusion notwithstanding roadblocks that seem to be politically thrown in front of it. >> let me ask you about the prism of another case you know a lot about. whitewater. cnns court records reviewing how ken star forced a grand jury appearance from president bill clinton p what do you think trumps team can learn interest this in terms of defending the president? >> certainly they know that if it comes to a subpoena, there isnt really an objection. hist...

Obviously he said that multiple times in the past. in this particular instance you are talking about source i cant verify because i have not had that conversation with him. i know for a fact i have talked to the president about issues surrounding this type of behavior, and he finds it disgusting. steve: sure, the abuse allegations his stories are horrific. they are bad stories. but something else that is just as troubling is apparently mr. porter did not ultimately have his security clearance be...

The president of the united states. is there a higher standard for that than when a jury convicts someone of a crime. i think he sort of is conflating two different processes here. once again, president trumps messaging is out of sync with the rest of his white house. the rest of his white house has been quite contrite for how this played out. they admitted perhaps for the first time how they mishandled the initial response to what was going on and everyone else seems to be rushing to apologize ...

Accusing kelly of rewriting history by claiming that he acted quickly. >> tuesday night. that the accusations were true. 40 minutes later he was under. >> also under scrutiny is white house counsel don mcgahn who first learned about the allegations against porter more than a year ago. and communications director hope hicks who is reportedly dating porter and was involved in crafting the original statements defending him. >> i dont care who you are. even if youre a rhodes scholar. you cant beat t...

Demoralizing the people who were carrying out these investigations by saying their work is a hoax or that they themselves are political and partisan. i dont believe that anything that comes out of this once its been cleared by the department of justice and the fbi will damage our processes. what it may do is reveal more about the information that mueller investigation would like to keep quiet. >> and adam, let me ask you finally in your recent piece in the atlantic, you argue that the president ...