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Of journalist, and we learned that he tried to order doj to go after his political adversaries. is there no depth to which he will not sink? we can't let him drag america down with him. you concur? what have we learned just today? >> sally yates, of course, is a career prosecutor. she actually began her prosecutorial career under a republican administration. this is a bipartisan view that we hear time and time again from professionals, career law enforcement, intelligence and military professionals, that the president is abusing his authority as commander in chief. abusing his authority under ...

Assessment to come in. it is my hope and i think it is the hope of everyone in the intelligence security and in the national security space what when the president receives this assessment that he will take direct action to hold saudi arabia accountable. there are a number of things he can do along those lines. but what we cannot do is simply get this assessment and say he's still unsure about whether or not this happened. >> shawn, as you know better than me, intelligence assessments, they are rief with judgment calls, right? and in this case, you do have intelligence provided by an overseas ...

The cia assessment that the crown prince is involved, obviously, is not what president trump wants to hear. trump said last month, let me quote, i will say this. i spoke with the king. i spoke with the crown prince yesterday, and he strongly said he had nothing to do with this. this was at a lower level. let's go to kaitlan collins at the white house now. kaitlan, look, this coming out and now everybody knows the cia's assessment, now it conflicts with what the president wants to hear. is this going to force the white house to act or not? >> reporter: and you're right, erin, that was a great q...

Intelligence assessments. >> yeah, first of all, great interview, andrea. >> thank you. >> i think from dan's perspective, and knowing dan, director coats, relatively well, i don't think he viewed it as defiance. i really do think he viewed it as, when i took the oath to be the director of national intelligence, the most classic description of the job is to speak truth to power. and in this case, speaking truth to power was the u.s. intelligence community, patriots from the cia, fbi, across the community, had concluded over and over that russia had been involved in attempting to tamper with th...

Both of those are bad. both of those should concern every american and the rest of the intelligence community should come together, call her out, and ensure she has all the facts she needs to protect the midterm elections. >> our friend frank has been around the block on this area a time or two. let's take for the purpose of this conversation his two choices. is there a chance the secretary does not believe the findings of the intelligence community? >> well, she said at the end of that statement that she has no reason to doubt particular intelligence assessments. she's viewed as one of the mo...