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When we're trying to lift intelligence out of the political soup. something that, you know, dan coats tried to do on a regular basis and he should be applauded for that. >> so his confirmation would seem not to be assured, there are a handful of senators who will carry his face in their hands. >> this will be a lot of hand to hand combat and i don't think the president's comments in the last couple of weeks which are certainly making a lot of republicans uncomfortable are going to help ratcliffe's confirmation. his meetings and hearings will be important but he can't escape that twitter feed o...

Many that we're all wrestling with every week for the past couple of years and for weeks ahead and i think this weekend shows that in particularly important relief. on the one hand, the noise, the attacks of representative cummings were generally offensive, genuinely racist and offensive and i think in the stark way that had been somewhat concealed in some of donald trump's previous distractions so they deserved actual attention while the announcement made that same day about having representative ratcliffe as the head of the dni director, that also is important in a different way. it's worth ...

This is from a man who has said that atlanta is falling apart. described philadelphia as struggling. and chicago totally out of control. called san francisco disgusting. and now baltimore a filthy place. we talk about the significance of it all beyond the outrage that the president always hopes to elicit but the damage he's committing here. but we begin with president donald trump announcing the departure of the director of national intelligence via tweet yesterday afternoon. he wrote, i am pleased to announce that highly respected congressman john ratcliffe of texas will be nominated by me to...

Country on fire, so many of us who have listened to that argument from our republican friends who tell us don't take away our ability to try to talk to him and influence him quietly. we're going to call that out as the bs that it is and try to get them to finally do the things that many did in the 1950s to finally marginalize joe mccarthy. it was the republicans who did that, but not democrats ultimately. thing is a week in which there are probably harder conversations in the senate between democrats and republican senators than there have been in the past. >> speaking of your republican frien...

The cooperation of key intelligence partners around the world who can get to places that our intelligence officers can't. those services i know are increasingly worried about sharing their most precious secrets with the united states because of this wobble from president trump, from the white house, from his nominees in terms of oversight of intelligence. it worries them if they began to reduce the flow of information to the united states, we are less safe period. >> james fellows, i want you to talk about what's happened over the weekend at dni, but i want to is you a large -- ask you a large...