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>> and it wasn't in his hands. >> but it had not gone to coats. at least according to coats. >> i think this showed actually the inexperience of a joe mcguire on the job. he had a decorated military career. led an intelligence component. you're hit with this in the first week on the jock. i felt kind of bad for him. no one can be trained for this squeeze play between executive privilege and wrongdoing and the whistleblower statute. so i think he was trying to navigate this. but i think at the end he kind of made the wrong call. teeing this up for the justice department to review when bill barr...

Comes out and say they have high confidence, as i said before, you can take that to the bank. there were multiple sources used to put this story together, each of which the agency had high confidence. it's a pretty compelling case and i am sure she laid it out. >> does it tell you why they did not have gina haspel go last week? there was a question about why isn't the white house offering her up? >> i did not get the strategy there, because typically in any event like this you would always have an intelligence component and a principle, in this case gina or dan coates, the dni, as part of the ...

And counting, with extensive knowledge of corruption and money laundering, and criminal fraud cases. occasionally details have spilled out into the open. in june we learned that the special counsel had essentially swallowed up ongoing federal investigations into the activities of trump campaign chair paul manafort and of michael flynn. nbc news and other outlets reported that subpoenas were issued to business associates of both manafort and flynn by a federal grand jury in the eastern district of virginia. which made sense. the eastern district of virginia sits right outside washington, d.c. i...

Handle national intelligence cases in particular they will handle national intelligence cases that -- excuse me, national security cases that have an intelligence component to them. you've heard about fisa warrants and the fisa court. there's also specific national security rules and law about that. that stuff fisa stuff tends to be handled through the eastern district of virginia. so national security focus. national security and intelligence focus in particular. on paper, because of that, it makes sense that if these cases around the trump russia investigation, if they get consolidated they ...

>> i think that donald trump should not be left alone with any other individual not with the last name of trump. because clearly he winds up saying or doing something that disturbs them. i think the most interesting thing about the coats' story is the degree to which trump clearly does not understand that the odni can't tell the fbi director to back off and that there's a different relationship between the strict intelligence agencies, like the director of national intelligence in the cia, as opposed to the fbi, which has been intelligence component, but also has an investigative component. an...