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The rules that they have to follow to keep their security clearances. the fact that they would get fired if they did any of this kind of activity. think about the people who had to review these security clearances for mr. kushner. for them to deny a clearance to him, the president's son-in-law, think of how they had to make that decision. they had to be pretty sure of themselves to deny a clearance for someone that high in the white house, that close to the president. they had to be pretty confident this was a really bad idea. so the people in the white house who were around this and see these...

Cancelled their meeting that was after russia's attack on ukrainian vessels but when the two leaders did end up speaking at the summit, white house officials characterized it this way. as is typical at multilateral events, president trump and the first lady had a number of informal conversations with world leaders at the dinner last night, including president putin. from new reporting, we now know that was a lie. "the accounts of people familiar with the conversation said it appeared longer and more substantive than the white house has acknowledged. according to a russian government official's...

Sometimes it takes drafting statements to put them out. not a profile in congress. >> 300 characters on twitter. >> up to 280. >> god help us. >> we may still see some push back, but we know the truth here. it happens very rarely. did it happen a year ago in charlottesville? yes, from some. did it happen in helsinki? yes, from some. many other occasions, norm defying, democracy challenging moments from this president, we haven't heard anything from republicans because they are still in awe of this president's approval rating in their own party. they don't want to challenge him. maybe, maybe so...

At risk right now, but what i worry about the most is it's already difficult, nicolle, in the intelligence community to get people to raise their hand, who are talented and want to be leaders and want to move up. it's all stress for little return. and i can tell you now the stress point has gotten so strong that i worry that talented people are simply going to say, i'm not going. i'm not going to washington. leave me alone and that's going to hurt us. >> frank figliuzzi and john sipher, thank you so much for joining us on an extraordinary day, another extraordinary day. after the break, dona...

Deal, and in the comedy central, the only jokes off limits were about his money. >> we know he doesn't have a billion dollars, but he won't let anybody say that or insinuate that's the case. we know he cares. >> john sipher, theory number three, less legally suspicious, an explanation for trump's approach to russia that maybe he just really likes putin. >> i respect putin. he's a strong leader, i can tell you that. >> i would say because putin is a nicer person than i am. >> putin is a killer. >> a lot of killers, we've got a lot of killers. you think our country is so innocent? it would be gr...