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Former cia daily intelligence briefer, and this was during the tenure of robert mueller as being head of the fbi. tell me what you thought of the filings on friday. >> it didn't surprise me that these filings were so meticulous. now, a lot of them was left out. the redactions were still severe, at least in the manafort case. but what we saw was a clear logic by robert mueller and those working with him in the special counsel's office were laying out what they know, how they knew it and how it fit together. it showed yet again that the mueller investigation is one step ahead of the rest of us. ...

This isn't good for the country. >> joining me now, david priess, author of "how to get rid of a president." he's also a daily intelligence briefer under robert mueller. david, welcome to you. you just heard the senator talking about nixon. is it too soon to make that comparison as similar, or are there tangible things weighing in on that? >> it's the closest parallel in modern history to what we're seeing now. we've had attempts at impeachment. some of them were resolutions that went nowhere. two presidents ultimately did get impeached in the house, though not convicted by the senate. preside...

Khashoggi, phil? >> i mean we at the "washington post," are certainly trying to get answers to all of those question, and do not have them yet. it is difficult to piece this time line together. and i'm not confident that the u.s. government, as of right now, has a complete time line in terms of what happened at the consulate, what was sort of picked up when, and what they knew about this plot as it went along. it is unclear, for example, as ann gaeren was saying at the top of shot whether there was intelligence intercepts that the u.s. had, reached the highest levels of the government, whether...

Correspondent kristen welker, white house reporter ashlynn parker and washington correspondent greg miller. foreign special agent cliff watts and jeremy peters, as well as former cia officer and daily intelligence briefer, david preece. first, kristen welker, out there on the south lawn, it must have been very cold but the words were hot. tell me your biggest takeaways today. >> reporter: i think the biggest takeaway was the clip you just played, andrea. the fact that you heard president trump not rule out a pardon for michael flynn. i have been speaking with sources familiar with his discussi...

Consensus intelligence product. when you have an intelligence briefing for a president where they are shading the truth, leaving out intelligence, changing the order so as not to offend him, that's not an intelligence briefing. that is story time. that is fiction. that is basically telling the president something he wants to hear, and i can't think of anything more dangerous during a time when we have crises in asia and the middle east, all around the world. the president needs the truth and emblazoned on the wall of the original cia's head quarters building is "know the truth and the truth sh...