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Thank you very much. we will have more on the breaking news in a moment. there's other important news we want to get out as well. the president and his newest attack against the united states intelligence community. let's go to kaitlin kindicat ka. >> reporter: it's interesting because the president spent the morning attacking officials for what they said when they were testifying on capitol hill yesterday. the only thing on his public schedule today was an intelligence briefing in the oval office with those same officials he spent the morning lashing out at, saying that not only were they c...

Russia did the same in 2018. it is part of a continuing attack on the u.s. election system and something they are taking seriously. >> when they all testified before the senate. thanks very much. >> president trump slammed at the heads of the u.s. intelligence agencies for daring to publicly dispute this global threat. let's go live to the white house correspondent. what's the latest? >> wolf, there was one thing on president trump's schedule today that was an intelligence briefing that he spent the morning attacking after they publicly testified on capitol hill contradicting him and disagrees...

And all -- these are all transparent attempts by the president to deny the reality that's closing in on him. and so when he talks about the great legal minds say that we shouldn't have had a special counsel or it's illegal, that's not connected with consulting any legal minds. that is a primal impulse on his part of self-protection. now that he sees that the special counsel has put him in danger. he's not hard to read. when he talks about, oh, jeff sessions, what kind of a man is he? he shouldn't have recused himself. he is frightened because he didn't have an attorney general who would turn o...

And so when he talks about the great legal minds say that we shouldn't have had a special counsel or it's illegal, that's not connected with consulting any legal minds. that is a primal impulse on his part of self-protection. now that he sees that the special counsel has put him in danger. he's not hard to read. when he talks about, oh, jeff sessions, what kind of a man is he? he shouldn't have recused himself. he is frightened because he didn't have an attorney general who would turn off the switch on this investigation. and that's what he is complaining against. >> there is a lot of speculat...