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You -- for the sequencing of questions, do you coordinate how you will follow up? is there a process, a plan? >> weve been doing this almost three years now. and i think that there has been good according nation. i can only speak for the intelligence nation. i can only speak for the intelligence committee. respect and i think weve done a good job. when all the transcripts come out from the russia investigation, i think everyone will be proud of the job members did. but i do think that there has ...

Second opinion was to the white house? >> i did not go for a second opinion. the question was, is the information contained here subject to executive privilege, not whether it not -- whether it met urgent concern. >> so first place you went for advice as to whether you should provide the complaint as the statute requires to congress was the white house? >> i am not authorized as the director of national intelligence to provide executive privileged information. i think it is prudent as a member o...

Statement, the first place you went for a second opinion was to the white house. >> i did not go for a second opinion. the question was is the information contained here suggest to executive privilege? not whether or not it met urgent concern sdplp so the first place that you went for advice as to whether or not you should provide the complaint as at statute requires to congress was the white house? >> im not authorized as the director of national intelligence to provide executive privilege info...

Face-to-face this afternoon at the intercontinental here in new york city. you say there is no direct mention of the money that we have found in this transcript. i know weve all had a chance to dig through it. was there any pressure applied to ukraine at all considering, bret, democrats will be quick to point out it was days before this phone call happened that the aid that was approved by congress, $400 million was frozen by the president. >> the democrats will say its implied because of the ph...

Offense, but if you have sequencing, like a couple of days before the president withdrew the bipartisan support for ukraine. bipartisan enthusiastic support for ukraine a few days earlier, he withdraws it, then makes this statement, presidents words way tons. weigh tons. and just bringing up the election is bad enough. that there would be a quid pro quo isnt necessarily in the conversation, but in the sequencing. so this is not a good thing for a democracy, for the leader of the free world to be...

A few days earlier, he withdraws it then makes a statement. presidents words weigh tons. weigh tons. and just bringing up the election is bad enough. that there would be a quid pro quo isnt necessarily in the conversation. but in the sequencing. this is not a good thing for a democracy. for the leader of the free world to be talking like that. and i dont know if there are any schools 1r068d. thats why they think lawlessness is a virtue and now they want to export it to another country. >> if i m...

Undermined the legitimacy of the current government of afghanistan? >> i think the sequencing and choreography of this is important how it plays out and making sure that we are supporting the afghan government that we are not leaving them on the sidelines that their legitimacy, their power, things like womens rights are not abandoned in the course of this negotiation. and certainly that we dont aggrandize the taliban. i think one of the problems with inviting the taliban leadership to the united...

Then does anyone think that the taliban will make it work, push out the terrorists. i hope so. but im wildly skeptical. the sequencing to get the u.s. troops out early in the process it would leave the afghan government on outs own to face the taliban. theres nothing in history to suggest theyd be successful. >> do you have less skepticism or no? >> no, i agree with richard. theres no indication that the taliban have any other desire other than to take back control of the country which theyre do...

Language, lets borrow that?" >> i will tell you, incendiary language is a life and advised. it doesnt work, and i would hope that my colleagues on both sides of the aisle that they would focus on priorities the americans want to focus on. i would say that as a democrat, the former chairman of the congressional campaign committee. like it or not, 52% of the american people are saying that under no circumstances will they vote for donald trump in 2020. my advice to democrats is to focus on that an...

>> well, yeah, we are going to be working analyzing data. there is a ton of information thats coming in. you know, its going to take a lot of work to go through it. and thats both coming in digitally and obviously people out in the field are going to be gathering information as well. >> early warning, where are we with early warning based on what weve seen with this sequencing? >> the early warning system worked well. the problem was the distribution to public, and that was a policy decision but...