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>> abc has george stephanopoulos, who was at the white house during the clinton years, many examples of this. the difference with the trump white house is the record of misleading the public. all administration's spin, this administration lies consistently whether it's sanders or spicer or other white house aides and it's all led by the top by the president who lies about the weather and the time of day.n,os deserve outrage and backlash. >> laura: this from a guy, laura, who's network thought that michael avenatti would be a great presidential candidate. who defended one of their anchors, who ...

Their lives to the satellite, the technology and analysis yochlt u have to have a deep background in world affairs, profound, you can't just wikipedia for the problems. so again, this candidate the wonderfully named congressman ratcliff that's a screen writer's cream, he just shouldn't be anywhere near the office of the director of national intelligence. think about the people we had, jim clapper, people like that that knew what they were doing and gave their life to intelligence and you put a ho monkey in there. >> you've been critical of previous presidents and decisions based on intelligenc...

National intelligence. think about the people we had, jim clapper, people like that that knew what they were doing and gave their life to intelligence and you put a monkey in there. >> you've been critical of previous presidents and decisions based on intelligence they have received but you say this is approaching a very dangerous bottom. can you explain? some people say this is a guy who may be able to have the president's ear because clearly the president believes he's very loyal and performance during the mueller hearing, he doesn't ask mueller a question but gave a speech for several minut...

The record saying wonderful things about the selection, that would give me some pause about what his views might be. >> what's your view of reality cliffe's qualifications to hold this job. clearly he's somebody the president would trust. on the other hand he doesn't seem to have a ton of experience. >> he does have experience as a federal prosecutor. federal prosecutors are experienced. some time on house intelligence committee so he's had exposure to issues. if you compare him to others who held job of dni, director of national intelligence, it's not quite in the same league where you've had...

Potentially someone like john ratcliff, all of them considered to be highly political, highly partisan, advising the president on so many critical issues on national security here and abroad? >> i think it's very concerning. i used to be in the presidential daily briefing every morning and i can tell you every morning, jim clapper, who was dni for us, would tell president obama something he did not want to hear. something going wrong around the world, a problem with our policy. if you don't have intel people who can speak truth to power you're not going to make good decisions and you're also n...