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Hold on, let me go through the democrats, christopher wray, no he's a republican. donald trump appointed. the attorney general is, no, way, jeff sessions he appointed, rod rosenstein, no, he's a republican, too. rod rosenstein is a republican, too. they're all republicans. >> jim comey? >> republican. >> jon meachum, how you doing this morning? >> i tell you what, jon? >> anything going on up there? >> you have an ig report that comes out. and it is completely twisted by the president of the united states. they try to pick two people, two underlings, who were idiots, texting each other. and sa...

You immunity from arrest and prosecution. bringing children with you doesn't guarantee you won't get prosecuted. i would cite you to the apostle paul in his clear and wise command in romans 13, to obey the laws of the government, because god has ordained the government for his purposes. >> i can say that it is very biblical to enforce the law, that's repeated a number of times throughout the bible. however -- hold on, jim if you'll let me finish. i'm not going to comment on the attorney's specific comments that i haven't seen. that's not what i said, i know it's hard for to you understand, eve...

And then the two letters in the days before the election. they're making the case without saying explicitly that he put his thumb on the scale for donald trump. >> he absolutely did and not just what he did with hillary clinton. there's an e-mail in this report he sent to jim clapper and john brennan, that comey sent on october 5 that is really -- it's kind of hard to read because he talks about why he won't sign his name on to a report or statement from the intelligence community saying the russians are interfering with the election. not a statement saying donald trump's campaign is under inv...

Just like c.i.a. and fbi agents said horrible things about george w. bush in the lead-up to the iraq war. there was a civil war inside the c.i.a. about george w. bush. there were constant leaks against george w. bush. starting in the fall of 2002. these things happen, jon. and you've got rudy giuliani with his bulging eyeballs, acting like a snowflake, like this is the first time that this has happened in any bureaucracy. it's happened in the state department since thomas jefferson walked in there. >> yeah. actually you know he started, jefferson started a newspaper to fight hamilton while he ...

Talked about over and over again. that is going to take years perhaps or at least months to set up the kind of protocols for that and years to actually execute. >> sure, the what of denuclearization is the easy part of the ask. it gets into when it happens and how. we have a ton of great guests. as we wait for this meeting. anderson and i will take you through it as it happens. we have cnn former director of national intelligence, jim clapper. thank you for being with us. some of the things that we are discussing, this is a first for trump to have made this moment happen, how big a deal is thi...