Attorney will lead and inspire greatness for the country he loves, dan coats will be leaving office on august 15th, i would like to thank dan for his Great Service to our country. The acting director will be named shortly. Dni director coats and the president have had a a tumultuous relationship over the past year with coats contradicting the president multiple times. He was on the defense when the president went on the attack criticizing different intelligence agencies. In an interview last year, coats found out during the interview that Vladimir Putin from russia may come to white house. He expressed concern publicly. He also contradicted the president on north korea and syrian policy. Congressman John Ratcliffe, the incoming head of the dni if hes confirmed, is the opposite of coats in that hes a staunch defender of the president s policies. He has an intelligence background from the george w. Bush administration. He made headlines op wednesday with his aggressive questioning of Robert Mueller. Listen. Can you give me an example other than donald trump where the Justice Department determined that a person was exonerated, that their innocence was not conclusively determined . I cannot, but this is a unique situation. Reporter the president tripling down on his attacks with baltimore congressman Elijiah Cummings. Yesterday the president called the city ratinfested, meaning baltimore, and december gusting in disgusting in a tweet. Cummings is a fierce critic of the president s border policy. All of this comes as the president gears up for a busy week. Tomorrow he will sign the 9 11 Victims Compensation bill into law here at the white house, and later this week treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin will head to china to continue those tariff talks from a few months ago. Back to you. Jon david spunt at the white house, thank you. For more on dan coats stepping down as director of National Intelligence effective august 15th, lets bring in melissa quinn, Supreme Court and White House Reporter for the washington examiner. Dan coats and the president had an especially rocky relationship about a year ago after the helsinki summit when the president said some things that seemed to give him, seemed to have him siding with Vladimir Putin rather than his own intelligence agencies. Thats when coats came to the defense of the people who work for him. But since that time they seem to have papered over their differences. Are you surprised that now is the time that dan coats is going out . Well, this had been rumored, i believe, since february. So several months ago, that dan coats may be, in fact, heading out the door. But just like you said, we have been no stranger to the daylight between President Trump and the broader Intelligence Community. And if you remember, right after that helsinki summit last july dan coats came out and reaffirmed time and time again in the broader Intelligence Community those findings that russia did, indeed, meddle in the 2016 president ial election. And, of course, that just, i think, further demonstrated just how difficult of a job dan coats had anding of course, the frustrations as well with the president s own comments. Jon well, and Robert Mueller reinforced that the other day in his testimony, that russia is still actively trying to influence the election. Yes, absolutely. And i think thats going to be really interesting to see how John Ratcliffe inevitably handles some of those questions when he does go through his confirmation hearings before the senate. He was, as mentioned in the clip earlier, a very, very fierce critic of Robert Mueller, and we also have to remember that the Justice Department is undertaking an investigation into how the russia probe originally began. And, of course, thats going to involve looking at the Intelligence Community very, very closely. Jon what about John Ratcliffe . Hes a former u. S. Attorney. He has an intelligence background. Is he going to have any trouble getting confirmed . Well, of course, the numbers are in President Trumps favor. Republicans, of course, have control over the senate. But there are some key republican senators, Susan Collins of maine, for example, who came out and defended dan coats and have been staunch defedders of the intelligence defenders of the Intelligence Community as a whole when we have seen criticisms leveled by trump. She is definitely going to be one to watch. Of course, any confirmation hearings or any, i think, member of the president s cabinet is going to face very, very tough questions from both sides, him included. Jon senator angus king, who is an independent but caucuses with the democrats, said this i via twitter the director of National Intelligence must provide the president with an honest assessment of the facts that the Intelligence Community finds even if its not politically convenient. Dan coats has lived up to that responsibility. His departure is a great loss for the country. I imagine we can expect to see more tweets of that kind from others in the u. S. Senate. Absolutely. And i think John Ratcliffes questioning of Robert Mueller just this week is going to raise concerns among some senators as to whether or not he really can provide that honest assessment to the president. Of course, he is known as being a very staunch defender and a close ally, and there may be some questions as to whether or not the president is installing somebody in this key role who is going to be just loyal to him and for that purpose. Jon and thats where dan coats seemed to find his footing, when the president attacked some of the agencies that fall under the director of National Intelligence and he leads, obviously, all 16 of the u. S. Intelligence agencies, dan coats fired back. Yeah, absolutely. If you remember just last year when he was testifying before the senate saying that he does, indeed, believe that kim jong un is not ever going to give up his nuclear weapons, which the president has a much more cheery outlook for that direction, the president called the Intelligence Community passive and naive on some of these other threats facing the country. But dan coats has, for his twoyear tenure as the director of National Intelligence, really been a vehement defender of the Intelligence Community, and i think thats going to be a big question as to whether John Ratcliffe will follow in those footsteps. Jon in the meantime, the president has this ongoing feud with congressman Elijiah Cummings of maryland. Where is that headed . [laughter] well, the president is continuing to punch back just like we saw over the last two weeks with his criticisms of those four democratic congresswomen called the squad. I dont think that the president is going to back down from his criticisms and accusations about how Elijiah Cummings is handling his position as the member of congress and, of course, Elijiah Cummings is no stranger to fighting with the president as the head of the Oversight Committee and, as we saw last week, congress, the democratled house definitely intends to charge right ahead with their investigations into trump. Jon does the president believe that by attacking Elijiah Cummings and oversight that he can perhaps bring the house back into republican control over the next election . That certainly seems to be, perhaps, one of his goals in mind particularly as we head to 20. As you know 2020, as you know, were talking about his tweet, his criticisms of aoc and the squads, what were not talking about are issues Like Health Care and the economy, issues that i think some of those democrats running for president , representing more moderate districts may like to see the conversation focused on. Thats taking away from that. Jon melissa quinn, who covers the white house and Supreme Court for the washington examiner, thank you. Thank you. Jon the woman who is supposed to replace disgraced Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rossello doesnt want the job. Justice secretary Wanda Vazquez hopes the governor will appoint a new secretary of state before he steps down this friday. Former secretary of state luis rivera morin would have been next in line, but he and more than a dozen other government officials resigned in recent weeks. This all comes after massive protests over leak ared, obscenitylaced online correspondence in which puerto rican victims of Hurricane Maria were subtled. Insulted. House democrats are not done digging into the russia investigation. Theyre now working to secure grand jury information relating to the probe to decide whether to begin impeachment proceedings against the president. House judiciary chairman jerry nadler saying this he has to defend the constitution against these kinds of unconstitutional and illegal deeds, and he has to make sure that a Prime Minister who does that pays the president who does that so that kind of conduct is not normalized and legalized for the next president. Jon Garrett Tenney has more on all of this from washington. Reporter House Democrats are trying to get as much of Robert Muellers evidence as they can for their own investigation. On friday the House Judiciary Committee asked a federal judge to give them access to the evidence muellers Team Presented to a grand jury. Congress has not had access to that information which is generally protected by federal law. But in court filings, chairman jerry nadler told the judge that evidence is essential to their investigation and to determining whether to move ahead with impeachmentpeachment proceeding. Here he is earlier today. What mueller showed, possible violations, of course, all the things that might cause us to recommend articles of impeachment. They have been recommended to the committee, and we are investigating and determining whether we should report those articles to the house. Jr. As for republicans reporter as for republicans, gop lawmakers had even more questions about the origins of the russia investigation. The Justice Departments Inspector General and a u. S. Attorney are now investigating various aspects of the probes beginnings, and republicans are now even more anxiously awaiting those reports. I think were going to see the next chapter begin to open very shortly with the Inspector Generals report looking at the origins of this monstrous lie that somehow the president was a tool of the russian government. We now know that to be a lie, but mueller had no interest in determining how did that lie get into the body politic. Reporter this next week House Democrats plan to fight for additional evidence by filing a lawsuit challenging the administrations claim that former white house employees have absolute immunity from testifying before congress. And and to that point, the Judiciary Committee also plans to enforce subpoenas for former White House Counsel Don Mcgahn to testify. Jon . Jon Garrett Tenney in washington, thank you. Diplomats from iran and several world powers met in vienna today to try to salvage the iran nuclear deal. Representatives from germany, france, britain, china, russia and the e. U. Discussed the 2015 agreement. The United States pulled out of the pack last year and has begun imposing new sanctions on tehran which recently surpassed the uranium enrichment levels agreed upon in the accord. Irans Deputy Foreign minister says the nuclear deal, known as the joint comprehensive plan of action, can be saved. Both sides, as i said, have complained, complaints about each other. I think the atmosphere today was constructive and the discussions were good. I cannot say that we loved everything, but i saw i i can say there are lots of commitments to the jcpoa and its survival. Jon the emergency meeting comes amid escalating tensions between iran and britain, each of which has seized an oil tanker from the other nation. Missile defense Officials Say the United States and israel carried out a highaltitude hit to kill engagement with an antiballistic Missile Interceptor system in alaska that they codeveloped. This comes after u. S. Officials say iran successfully test fired a mediumrange Ballistic Missile last month. Ellison barber is in jerusalem with the latest on that. Reporter jon, this is the first time the arrow 3 system has successfully intercepted a missile simulating a ballistic one. The Israeli Ministry of defense says the Weapon System successfully demonstrated hit to kill interceptions with ballistic targets outside of the atmosphere. The system is a joint israeliu. S. Development, and the test took place in alaska. Israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu says it intercepted targets at heights and speeds not known until now. Translator today israel has the ability to act against Ballistic Missiles fired against us from iran and from any other location. This is a great achievement for israels security. All of our enemies should know that we will overcome them both defensively and offensively. Reporter iran test fired a mediumrange Ballistic Missile on wednesday. A u. S. Official told fox news it flew over 600 miles from southern iran to an area in northern iran outside of the capital, tehran. Arrow 3 is the top tier of israels multilayered shield which includes the iron dome and the arab two system, all of it meant to help defend from rockets fired by gaza and remember lebanon. President trump began imposing harsh economic sanctions on the regime. Iran has taken steps to reduce commitments it agreed to in the 2015 deal. They say the u. S. Is engaging in economic terrorism. Iran and the remaining signatories met in vienna on sunday. Britain, france, germany, russia and china are trying to salvage the nuclear deal. An iranian official called the talks constructive but said they did not resolve everything. Iran wants to sell its oil as it did before the u. S. Reum posed reimposed sanctions. The official says iran is going to keep reducing its commitment to the deal until an agreement is reached that secures irans interests. Jon . Jon ellison barber reporting. Thank you. Italian police now launching an investigation into the leak of a photo of one of the two americans arrested for the killing of an Italian Police officer. The image, which was leaked to a respected italian newspaper, shows one of the teen suspects blindfolded at a Police Station in rome. That teen is one of two San Francisco natives arrested while on vacation accused of stabbing officer mario regga on friday during an apparent drug deal gone bad. Police claim both teens confessed to taking part in the assault. Authorities are now searching for a 2yearold boy who cant be located after his parents were found dead from an apparent murdersuicide. Details from that investigation next. Sir, youre a broker. 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