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People. okay? >> he says he's been the toughest president on russia and that nobody disagrees except very stupid people. fortunately they could not make the show tonight, stupid people. so joining us instead, former director of national intelligence, james clapper as well as fareed zakaria. director clapper, the president saying nobody has been tougher on russia. as director of national intelligence in the previous administration and a career national security official, having been part of the military and the intelligence community since the height of the cold war, is he right? >> no, he's no...

Campaigns, interfering in refr campaigns, interfering in refr campaigns, interfering in refr referenda interfering in the 2016 election and apparently continuing unabated in 2018. this, you know, is cyber war. you can call it what you will. it's special ops. the president has never really publicly denounced russia. as far as we know, he has never brought it up with putin. i'd be delighted if he were to meet putin to talk to him about this issue, to explain to vladimir putin that he cannot interfere with western democracy. he cannot interfere with western elections. he's never done that. the ad...

So i just don't know what it's about. now, it could be something as simple as i didn't use the same phrase a phraseology in responding to similar question. but i think, frankly, the real point here was to put out a smear, innuendo, which i can't respond to, because i don't know what they are talking about. >> all right. well, i appreciate your time. thank you very much, general clapper, as always, appreciate it. >> thanks, erin. >> next, stocks down today. another huge drop. talking about 11 points in two days. because the president' announcement tariffs on china. and students descending on ...

Strongly about just what we were talking about, the president's reluctance to call out -- dime out the russians and putin specifically that they saw fit to expose it to the media. so it's regrettable, and even the -- you know, his congratulating putin in and of itself, in isolation, is not a particularly bad thing. i certainly don't agree with it. it's kind of ironic after his complaints about rigged elections during the campaign. but it's the context in light of everything's that's happened since he's become president and, again, his disregard for the threat posed by russia, which in that con...

Particularly inappropriate. >> general clapper, i appreciate your time. thank you very much. >> thanks, anderson. >> coming up next breaking news and what robert mueller wants to zero in on with the president, possible new reporting on his prosecutorial play book. alan dershowitz joins us and jeffrey tubin. the serial bomber's cell phone confession, some of his last words before taking his life. late details on 360.