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Public. mcconnell went further voicing skepticism that the underlying intelligence truly supported the white house's claims. he was denying all this. >> i think it was the first obama official to brief mitch mcconnell in the summer of 2016 about russian interference, and he basically looked at me and said you, the obama administration just simply do not want donald trump to get elected. and i said i take great offense at his insinuation or his direct claim that the cia and others were trying to manipulate the intelligence process for some type of political end. so mitch mcconnell from day one ...

And the president has neither the respect for the intelligence process, i think, or the attention span for the intelligence process, to actually be the leader of this. so he gets led around, and he'll wake up, you know, one morning and say, how did we get here? i'm angry at john bolton. well, he's the president. >> you know, peter baker, your friend maggie haberman over at "the times" is reporting what are the president is really angry about is the reporting that's out there suggesting that john bolton is somehow manipulating the president or pushing things without the president's knowledge. t...

There was nobody in the political process that had anything to do with it. there was nobody who pressured it. it was just done the normal, regular way. >> there are a lot of people that question whether you were given special treatment by the president overriding -- >> absolutely not. >> can you speak to that? >> there were anonymous leaks about there being issues. the president had no involvement pertaining to my clearance or my husband's clearance. >> what were the problems early on? >> there weren't any. >> no special treatment? >> . >> i hope mr. lowell comes back and talks to you. he was ...

Intelligence estimate on weapons of mass destruction in iraq, which turned out to be wrong. after that i was one in congress who co-led the effort to reform the intelligence process, creating the director of national intelligence and new way of doing national intelligence estimates. that relies on outside input, people critique what our intelligence officials are putting in these estimates, they sort of red team it, they do like book critiques and a lot of those people are on this list to lose their clearances. that makes absolutely no sense. the other point is we rely on liaison relationships...

Those that led the intelligence process, that's what got all those people to sign the issue. it is done with care and with utmost seriousness and sometimes turns into a court case because there is not an appeals process when the process is followed normally. ken is quite right. the president has the power to do this. the striking thing is that it is the first time i can think of where he used a unique presidential power to leap over process and punish someone who disagrees with him politically. i have seen that movie before. usually it happens and does not happen in democracy. john, you signed...