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About how devastating it's likely to be to the u.s. economy, this is what the president said. >> i've seen it. i've read some of it. and it's fine. >> they say the economic impact will be devastating. >> yeah. i don't believe it. >> you don't believe it? >> no, no, i don't believe it. >> you can also say the president's gut instinct overrule career intelligence officials. the cia reported with high confidence that saudi arabia's crowned prince ordered the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi. here's how the president responded to that. >> the cia has looked at it. they have studied it a lot. t...

True that he backed hillary clinton. this is exactly how president -- >> he also worked with george bush. >> yeah, worked for george w. bush and obama. >> yeah. >> when we wonder why we are locked in mart spartisan mortal combat, the president sees almost everything exclusively in those terms. >> what this reminded me of, as soon as russia investigation began you heard the president say, he said it to me and in public and many occasions that john brennan and james clapper and all of the other intelligence professionals who are all career intelligence officials were all political hacks and that...

And so they demonstrated that they were personally attuned to what's going on and this was the highest priority for law enforcement. but i think they also really showed america what apolitical law enforcement looks like. and so here you had a republican attorney general, a republican nominated and confirmed fbi director and they were leading the case of a violent acts that were taken against members of the democratic party in addition to john brennan, who was a career intelligence professional. i think that's such an important message that they send and attorney general's statement that they w...

And a moderate democrat, and he said, look, if these allegations are credible, then it is disqualifying for a nominee for the supreme court, and jeff flake saying the same thing, and leaving the door open to believing this woman, and you know, it does not take, and it only takes two republican senators to have that kind of the change of oheart, or view of the situation to put this confirmation really on ice. andrea? >> kasie hunt with all of the breaking news there at the capital with senator flake. thank you, jen palmeiri, and kristen welker of course, and joyce vance. meanwhile, career int...

Isn't that a person who spent decades in intelligence and his last job was head of the cia and he was head of the cia and knew everything in 2016. so he is not just ranting like some operative. here was john bolton said that many people have been thinking but this is the first time i have heard this said by a trump official. >> whether he actually used classified information, i think people will be able to determine. i think that's a serious problem. i view at the time that he and others in the obama administration were politicizing intelligence. i think that's very dangerous thing to do. and ...