Page 32 - Tim Mak News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Conducting domestic investigations about these kinds of matters that the director of national intelligence by rights should not know about. >> absolutely. a counterintelligence investigation like this is so sensitive, you hold to it a very small number of people, only people who need to know. it's a law enforcement issue. it's not an intelligence policy issue. so there is no reason for director clapper need to know. trump saying that he is exonerating him somehow doesn't even pass the laugh test. >> tim mak, david corn, mieke eoyang, ned price, thank you all for joining us tonight on this impo...

Republican senators today is obviously what got michael flynn fired. sally yates testified under oath today that she was not the source of that leak. so the source of the leak to "the washington post" might on the one hand be guilty of a crime for leaking classified information. and on the other hand, is the anonymous hero who has taken a chance so that america can know the truth. >> without the free press telling us a lot of what went on, michael flynn might still be sitting in the white house as national security adviser. >> joining us now, tim mak, david corn, washington bureau chief for mo...

Of matters that the director of national intelligence by rights should not know about. >> absolutely. a counterintelligence investigation like this is so sensitive, you hold to it a very small number of people, only people who need to know. it's a law enforcement issue. it's not an intelligence policy issue. so there is no reason for director clapper need to know. trump saying that he is exonerating him somehow doesn't even pass the laugh test. >> tim mak, david corn, mieke eoyang, ned price, thank you all for joining us tonight on this important night. really appreciate i. >> sure thing. >> t...

I essentially don't know. so there you have the president of the united states misquoting the former head of the u.s. intelligence community and making it the number one item on his twitter account. i don't have the adjective for this. >> and tim, as you're in the hearing room when this happened, but the director specifically went out of his way to clarify that point. >> yeah, absolutely. i mean now, this has been something that a lot of trump supporters have been touting since very early this year when clapper said on television, hey, i haven't seen any evidence. but now we understand why he ...

Guy to make this proclamation. i essentially don't know. so there you have the president of the united states misquoting the former head of the u.s. intelligence community and making it the number one item on his twitter account. i don't have the adjective for this. >> and tim, as you're in the hearing room when this happened, but the director specifically went out of his way to clarify that point. >> yeah, absolutely. i mean now, this has been something that a lot of trump supporters have been touting since very early this year when clapper said on television, hey, i haven't seen any evidence...