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Actually military action with north korea was when this president started the saber rattling and making those kinds of threats. be clear about that. let's bring in jim clapper, former director of national intelligence. he happens to be in seoul, south korea tonight. good to have you, sir. i don't even need an expert like you to make such an obvious point about what the president just said. but his sanguine take on where things stand, do you share it? >> well, i think there's certainly room for some optimism here, and a couple comments i'd make first having been here in seoul the last couple da...

Dossier. i think even if -- and i hope they're not. i hope the department of justice and the dni will be very careful about any further redactions because, again, this has bad implications for the future. i don't think it's going to cast much light from an objective factual standpoint. but of course the president's doing this for political reasons, and he's weaponizing another tool available to him that he has authority over much like, you know, taking away clearances from people that disagree with him. >> jim clapper, thank you for taking time all the way over there in south korea to give us ...

>> but if sessions were in charge of the russia probe, which certainly involves the president, and then he removed him, when it seemed that it was getting inconvenient, when it seemed that it was pressuring him, when he didn't like it, now i think you have a different question and that's where obstruction of justice comes in. >> except for one thing, one factual flaw. where are we right now? over a year into the investigation. is bob mueller still the special counsel? >> yes. >> has he been fired? >> no. >> right. >> but why is that the end of it? we're talking about jim comey and why he got r...

Originally funded, and that was indicated in the originally heavily redacted version of the dossier. i think even if -- and i hope they're not. i hope the department of justice and the dni will be very careful about any further redactions because, again, this has bad implications for the future. i don't think it's going to cast much light from an objective factual standpoint. but of course the president's doing this for political reasons, and he's weaponizing another tool available to him that he has authority over much like, you know, taking away clearances from people that disagree with him....

Philosophically, you know, are there to do that job. and i think at a time when our institutions are being challenged, this really would be a huge blow to have this potentially tainted nomination. >> and to those republicans who believe that less is more, look at anita hill. you know, when they did the fbi investigation and that got leaked and became public and then they had the hearings, you know what? for all that came out in that testimony and all that back-and-forth, clarence thomas was higher in polls afterwards than he was before. asha, ross, appreciate you doing this. we'll be talking a...