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>> that's right, and it's very frustrating. you think that the intelligence communities have been presenting intelligence briefings to the presidents even before they were sworn in as candidates. at a certain point, both candidates received daily intelligence briefings in case one of them wins so they understand what's going on in the world. what you see in trump is he's not been interested in understanding the way the world works. he does not ask follow-up questions about the consequences of the course of action he's going to take, and so you see the world not reacting in the way that he want...

Now, i don't think anybody expects john bolton to be an honest broker. we know he's a real idealogue. then it lands on the white house chief of staff. but at the end of the day, as i'm sure anyone would tell you, that t at the cia, it's really only the intelligence community that can give him that raw data and that analysis that he needs to understand the world. >> and, john walcott, your reporting follows a week in which the president publicly attacked the leaders and presumably everyone working within the intelligence community, saying that they are wrong -- those are his words after they te...

Services faced when they testified last week on the hill, is do i tell it straight or do i try to maintain my access to this guy? jim mattis at defense had that problem, john kelly and h.r. mcmaster had that problem, and where are they now? >> but, john, on the intelligence briefers, would they just be replaced? if an intelligence briefer tells president trump something he doesn't want to hear, and then maybe does it repeatedly a couple times, would that briefer be replaced by another briefer, or would the briefings just stop? >> for the most part, lawrence, the briefings have stopped. the pre...

He has to change the minds of people who have already made up their minds that he does not deserve reelection and that they definitely are not going to vote for him. donald trump did nothing today to change any of those minds. and these leaks from inside the trump administration this weekend will do nothing to change those minds. one of those leaks reinforces the image of donald trump as a reckless man in a job where recklessness presents a danger not just to americans but to the world. john walcott of "time" magazine who will join us in just a moment obtained accounts of president trump's app...

Present and very much a danger still. >> we're going to keep that top of mind as we continue on. thank you, sir. with me, john walcott, a correspondent for time and just wrote this extraordinary piece where he spoke with a number of high level intel officials. so john, thank you so much for joining me. welcome. >> a pleasure, brooke. >> so you say that senior intelligence briefers are breaking two years of silence to warn that president is endangering american security, what they say is willful ignorance. can you exmaplain what they mea by that? >> i think you saw a good example of that earlie...