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As simple as scheduling a national security council meeting. intelligence is supposed to be an input, if the president doesn't convene a meeting his policy team, this intelligence even if it is crystal clear could die and go away. if the president wants to kick the can down the road and not actually make a decision on what to do, he could refuse to convene his team with his intelligence analysts so they can develop a response together. >> so what are the global consequences if there is inaction, delay, sort of kicking the can down the road over the state ordered killing of a "washington post" ...

A washington, d.c.-based think tank and no, they have satellites that seem to be military bases where north korea's still developing, working on actively pursuing some sort of missile technology. we don't know exactly what that means, of course. we don't know if that means they're continuing to build more icbms. the reality is they were already an icbm nation when they stopped testing in 2017. and the agreement that president trump and kim jong-un came to was specifically about nukes, their nuclear testing, not about their missiles. so while in fact they actually -- it seems all intelligence a...

Someone's clearance so as mr. ackerman said, this seems to be unprecedented, i'm not aware of a president revoking clearances personally in the past. but during my time in the intelligence community, i found the analysis was very fiercely apolitical, fiercely non-ideological. the intelligence analysts call t i like they see it, they're providing information to policymakers to enable them to make the best policy decisions possible on behalf of the united states. so once people leave the intelligence community they can intersize their first amendment rights and we can discuss and debate any stat...

And what john bolton then said was, well, according to president putin, president trump did bring up election interference. president putin is our source for what happened in that meeting? >> right, alisyn, it's mind-boggling that we're getting a readout of a two hour meeting between president trump and one of our main adversaries who his own intelligence community said directed an attack on our election and democracy. we're getting that readout from president putin. it's mind-boggling the director of national intelligence doesn't have a readout. in my experience when i was the homeland securi...

But the fact he indicated he doesn't know what happened, is highly concerning. i know him. he's a good man. the fact he wasn't briefed by the president on what took place in the meeting is going to do a disservice to the intelligence community. what should have happen second down the president should have been sitting down at cia head quarters with the head of cia and all the intelligence analysts working on russia and should have given them a full debriefing on what took place to inform their analysis and form what it is they're doing. that didn't take place. the top dni doesn't even know wha...