mechanism, there's no independent oversight. it's not transparent. when you hear secretary mattis and others calling it to finish its investigation what they're essentially saying is we want it to finish investigating itself. and i'm not sure many people in yemen on the ground will accept that ever so readily. >> thank you very much for that important report. erin burnett out front starts right now. out front next, breaking news. more than 60 former members of the intelligence community hitting back at trump. this as the president threatens to revoke another security clearance, quote, very quickly. plus trump's very revealing statement about the special counsel today. the president's long time attorney is out front. and the opioid epidemic. the number of addicted pregnant women skyrocketing, an eye opening report from our dr. sanjay gupta. and good evening. i'm erin burnett.

the breaking news, taking on trump. 64 more former intelligence officers speaking out against the president tonight. that brings the total to 75 including seven former chiefs of the cia. they say in part, quote, former government officials have the right to express their unclassified views on what they see as critical national security issues without fear of being punished for doing so. this comes as the president threatens to strip a current justice department official of his security clearance. >> i think bruce aurousen is a disgrace. i suspect i'll be taking it away quickly. i think he's a disgrace with his wife nelly. i him to be in the justice department and for him to be doing what he did, that is disgrace. that is disqualifying for mueller. >> why target orr, well, trump aiming at him because he was in contact with christopher steele, the agent who offered the

dossier about trump's alleged ties to russia. right now if he's called he's got to get recleared, could take months. can't actually answer a question about a national security issue. this is about threatening to end a career, and orr has never actually publicly criticized this president. trump shifting his story why he revoked his security clearance of the cia director john brennen. he stripped john brennen's security clearance because he ties brennen to the russia investigation. >> look, i say it. i say it again. that whole situation is a rigged witch hunt. it's a totally rigged deal. >> totally rigged witch hunt. minus the word hoax you know what he's talk about. those are trump's favorite words for the russia investigation. maybe he is being honest about his motivations when it comes

down to russia. but his press secretary gave a different explanation this week why trump revoked brennen's clearance. >> any benefit that senior officials might glean from consultations with mr. brennen are now outweighed by the risks posed with his erratic conduct and behavior. >> erratic conduct and behavior. maybe president trump realized that excuse wasn't going to work, because if erratic behavior was the standard for security clearance he would lose his, too. remember this tweet, and remember these comments? >> rocket man is on a suicide mission for himself. north korea best not make anymore threats to the united states. they will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen. maybe it's the calm before the storm. >> what's the storm? >> could be the calm before the storm. >> well, that last comment, that

threat made from the white house of his entire cabinet including his military and intelligence team flanking him, but the president being erratic doesn't matter. because the truth is being erratic is not the reason he took away brennen's security clearance. the reason is he doesn't like his criticism. 63 more intelligence officials standing up against the president's move. a veritable tsunami today. is the president paying attention? >> it doesn't seem the president is understanding the kind of criticism he's getting. instead he feels he's getting tremendous praise for these moves. and coming together to rebuke the president truly does say something. these aren't just people who were there during democratic administrations but also republican, too. and robert gates, who was not only the head of the cia but also the secretary of defense

joining onto rebuke the president really does say that they really do feel strongly about something the president has done. because we don't often hear people like this rebuke a sitting president. but the president doesn't seem to be hearing this and instead it's fitting in the larger context of how he's using his presidential powers to lash out at the russia investigation. something he's fumed about for months and now has found an outlet for those frustrations. and as you pointed out going after not just people who have vocally criticized him but anyone who's within walking distance of this investigation. judging by what we heard from the president today, he does, erin, seem eager to do it again. >> a new study when you think of current people relying on their jobs, and he's now threatening to strip them of their clearance which would strip them of their job, it's a pretty stunning thing. april ryan and frank bruiny,

columnist for "the new york times." john, you're the one who famously revealed nixon's enemy list. is what we are seeing from this president, john brennen, and he has this list of other people, general clapper and others, now bruce orr, is this the same thing? >> nixon's revenge was very general. there were people he had accumulated over the years he disliked. there were partisans he didn't like. but he was more talk than he was action. but this is more nixonian than nixon for that reason because trump is right out front about it. he's just openly attacking people and also not only getting his enemies but obstructing justice in the process and not hiding it whatsoever. >> so frank, you know, 63 additional former intelligence officials came forward today. we had 12 last night. and that list includes every cia director since george tenant

since 1996. he never speaks, and it's a big deal his name is on this. and, you know, i think what's important is they are saying our signatures do not necessarily mean we agree with the opinions expressed by former director brennen or the way in which he expressed them. what they do represent is our firm belief is this country will be weakened if there's a political litmus test applied before experts are allowed to share their views. >> right, they're not saying they agree with brennen but they're saying they disagree with the president. as you said this is really extraordinary. we need to pause here and think about what's happening. it's easy in the trump administration for oddities to whiz by and we don't pause. this is not normal in the u.s. government, this is not normal in the presidency to have this sort of exchange. these people are saying the president of the united states is behaving in a dangerous fashion, in an erratic fashion

to use your adjecive. this is about patritism and an erratic fear the president is behaving erraticically in the white house. >> trump insisted today, hey, this is not about silencing my critics. i want to play the exchange. here it is. >> for those who say you're trying to silence your critics. >> if anything i'm giving them a bigger voice. now he has a bigger voice, and that's okay with me because i like taking on voices like that. i've never respected him. i've never had a lot of respect. >> he gave brennen a bigger voice, april? >> i don't know about that. brennen had a voice, had a large voice. i mean his national security footprint looms large, larger than it was, you know, with this. people just respect him and they listen to him. but here's the issue, erin.

this president wants to take the security clearances from those in the national security community whose talking against him. let's really look at what it's about. the people who have security clearances from fired administrations, those security clearances are used when they're read in by this white house, if they're ever read in, which they haven't been, to a situation. now, they haven't even gotten any information on national security. so really this is all-for-naught. it's just sable rattling and they may do it, but it's not going to produce or do anything. they haven't done anything with it. this is basically another silver bowl i believe to distract from something else that's out there. >> people should understand exactly what april is saying. john brennen can't just go in and look at whatever he wants to. he was read out when he left the cia. this is for them to call him up and say you worked for 25 years, can i get your opinion.

he could give them an opinion that day, get read in. now he's got to go through month of security clearance again. john, it's not just now a former head of the cia. it's now a current justice department employee that he says he's going to take security clearance away from, bruce orr, who did have contact with the man, christopher steele who wrote the infamous dossier. and trump's threat today was extremely direct. >> i think bruce orr is disgrace. i expect i'll be taking it away very quickly. i think he's a disgrace with his wife nelly. for him to be in the justice department and to be doing what he did, that is a disgrace. >> john, orr being a current employee, stripping him of his clearance, he'd essentially fire him. that is actually taking this to yet another level, isn't it? >> it certainly is. and i'm not sure he can do it, and i'm hoping somebody in this

group who is being threatened or have had their security stripped from them actually takes action against the president. there is a procedure in place, there is is an executive order that sets up a process. trump is totally ignoring it. does he have the authority? probably. can he ignore the procedure? no. there's something in our country and constitution also called due process. and when there is a regulation in place you've got to follow it. he could repeal that regulation and create more chaos, but he's got to follow the process when he's doing this. >> and as you point out, that has not happened. i mean, frank, here's the thing, the president's obsession with these sorts of things in this case a petty revenge which ends up being much more than petty because it's about free speech but it's petty about an individual, this week he's tweeted witch hunt, and even

bruce orr who probably nobody outside of washington has ever heard of got four tweets. >> one might ask about the president's priorities and whether he's focused about oimportant aspects of his job, but the other thing is he keeps drawing attention to things he supposedly doesn't want us to pay attention to. he's emboldened his critics like brennen. brennen has a louder voice than before. >> trump was right on that in one way, yes he is amplifying it. >> omarosa and her book have gotten ten times the publicity they would have if donald trump hadn't been tweeting about her endlessly and calling her things like dog. actually hurting his presidency hour by hour, tweet by tweet. >> april, i also want to make the point here today the paul manafort jury didn't make a decision. lot of people thought they would today, they haven't. and trump was asked today whether he'd pardon manafort. here's what he said. >> i think the whole manafort

trial is very sad when you look at what's going on there. i think it's a very sad day for our country. he worked for me for a very short period of time, but you know what, it happens to be a very good person. and i think it's very sad what they've done to paul manafort. >> okay, he was his campaign chairman for many months. april, the point is he dangling out again a pardon to paul manafort. hey, buddy, if you get sentenced to 100 years, 150 years, whatever it is, don't flip. i'm telling you. is he sending a message there or not? >> well, let me say this, the last words of the president, you know, it's very sad, he's a good man, those are very telling. now let's see what happens. and here's the piece right here. you know, once we -- if there is is conviction and if there is sentencing, you know, this is possibility that mueller could come back and try to -- well, once he's convicted before

sentencing, could come back and talk to paul manafort. because just before that sentencing that's the time when paul manafort could give up some information. so it all depends on how paul manafort handles this. the president is dangling a carrot telling him he's a good man right now but who knows what could happen down the road if there's a conviction. squnchts next president tru and next president trump pulling the plug on the d.c. parade. and telling mueller to just go ahead and write the report. does that mean the president has made the decision? there is no interview, bob mueller. the president's long time attorney jay goldberg is out front. and president trump allegedly using donor money to pay off trump employees. alright, i brought in new max protein

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on november 11th. maybe we will do something next year in d.c. when the cost comes way down. now we can buy some more jet fighters. okay, so d.c. officials were having none of it. they said the cost of the parade from their end was $21.6 million. that of course only a fraction of the cost. the new estimate putting the price tag at $92 million, which is $80 million more than the original estimate. and as you can see that had nothing to do with the d.c. part of it. amy, the d.c. mayor merial bowser is not bowing down before the president on this one. here's her tweet back to his tweet. yep, i'm muriel bowser, $21.6 million of parade events of parades, events,

demonstrations in trump america, sad. she's making it clear his numbers don't add up. >> i don't think millions of people across the country know who the mayor of d.c. is, and i don't think they care. i'm glad she got a bit of publicity today. but the bottom line is the president canceled the military parade this year. i'm glad we have a chief executive cognizant of the money that was going to be spent and he canceled it. i would think that the left would be jumping for joy because they never wanted the parade anyway. i would expect some praise for this. >> neither did veterans and a lot of the military and other people. what do you make of this rather childish twitter war? >> i think it's childish on behalf of the president but again that's par for the course for this president. i'm proud of my mayor standing up because he talks about d.c. being run poorly, d.c. has $2

billion in surplus, a triple a credit rating. and we are about to go to a $1 trillion deficit thanks to mismanagement of this president. and i would hope that people like amy cremor who was at the forefront leading the tea part on being stewards of fiscal responsibility, and when the president wants to spend $90 million on a parade they don't say anything? it's a little hypocritical. >> deficits have surged, they say tax cuts will eventually fix that, but they have surged. there's no question ability that. but you're saying, amy, you just applaud him for, you know, hey it's too expensive. you don't care he's blaming somebody wrongly for it but you're just glad about the money is the point? >> well, the bottom line is he canceled the parade. i mean the country was divided over it. a lot of people liked the idea, a lot of people didn't. i personally think we need to take care of our vets, our veterans. we have seen people losing their

lives. i have friends their husbands have lost their lives waiting for care. there's a problem with the va system. i think we need to definitely take care of our veterans. i wouldn't be surprised if this is part of president trump's negotiation tactics. we've all learned no matter what he's for the dems are against. there's nothing that he's stood for that they have said -- we could see military parades next year but -- >> there's been a lot of reporting on defense department not being for this, the american legion disagrees with this. amy, their comment from the national commander, quote, until such time we can celebrate a victory on the war of terrorism and bring our military home, we think the parade money would be better spent fully funding the department of veteran affairs and giving our troops and their families the best care possible.

>> i'm entitled to my opinion, you're entitled to yours and maria is entitled to hers. does this make this wrong? i don't think there's a problem with that. but he canceled the parade and he's going to go to paris and celebrate the end of world war i with some of our allies and i think that's great. and i think let's take care of our military and veterans. i think that should be our number one priority and i would hope all of us could come together and agree on that. >> yes, we do agree this parade was a huge waste of time, but the issue you get into it you have the president who does want to spend this money on a parade and would have had he had been given the leeway to do so, and he's criticizing supposedly radical liberals who are heading up a city that has a $2 billion surplus versus the feds and people who want to spend money on dictator like military

parades and putting kids in cages. >> how about our former president who spent millions of dollars in cash on pallets to iran, one of our enemies who wants to wipe america off the earth? where were ow then -- >> i don't know what you're talking about, amy. >> cash to iran. >> when you go to that talking point it tells me that you have absolutely swre absolutely zero argument to back up what this president wanted to do. >> you have no problem with our president wanted to support the military if that's what he chooses to do. >> you're one of the few. very few people supported this ridiculous parade. many republicans -- >> that's not true. >> most republicans did not support this ridiculous parade. they knew it was a waste of money. >> that's not true. >> absolutely it's true. before you were a trump supporter you were for fiscal

responsibility. >> maria, i just said i'm all for paying our debt and we have a economy right now that's booming and i think that's where we need to go. but i was not in support of our former president sending millions of dollars to iran. >> that's not what we're talking about either. >> look, we'll see. we've got to give the tax plan some time, but the numbers on the deficit side look bad. thank you both, and next is trump now suggesting he's no longer willing to sit down for the interview, the big interview? >> let him write his report. we did nothing. trump's former long time attorney jay goldberg is my guest next. plus a story you'll see only on out front, more pregnant women addicted to opioids and the new numbers are staggering. >> how worried were you about

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tone in his voice, does that mean he's made up his voice, there's no interview coming, we're done here? >> i think he'd be foolish to submit himself to an interview. his chief deputy is a person who's schooled in obstruction of justice. he's the prosecutor in the operand s in the case, angel weissman. we're not going to see an interview by him. >> was there a serious effort by team trump to negotiate one? rudy's has been out here saying june 4th or september 1st, was that all rudy yapping? >> it wasn't just rudy. it was the predecessors of rudy. i feel very strongly about this. i don't think there's any question that a competent lawyer would advise him not to submit

to the pitching perjury trap that mueller has in store. >> but they weren't really negotiating, right? >> i don't think they were negotiating i want to say in bad faith, but i don't think it's in good faith. >> why did they do that? >> well, they just pulled it along hoping the public would get tired of the investigation, that the investigation would show no need for trump to be interviewed, that there be no clear indication of his collusion. keep in mind, erin, there's no such doctrine of collusion. it's not in the state law. it's not in the federal law. >> conspiracy would be the legal term. >> it'd be conspiracy, but you'd have to know of the wrongdoing. it would be misconduct if you knew that the information he was receiving was the result of stolen documents. but there's nothing to indicate that. >> you know, rudy giuliani said

not only as you're saying not bad faith, but not good faith, but they're willing to fight a subpoena on this all the way to supreme court, but rudy giuliani was a totally different guy i don't know maybe even a year ago but certainly back in 1998. he thought a presidential subpoena in the clinton investigation was totally fine. let me play rudy. >> all the watergate litigation resolved the fact that the president is not above the law is not able to avoid subpoenas, and the president has a right like anyone else to go before a judge and say this is being done for improper purpose, being done for purposes of harassment. and if a judge agrees with that, fine. but if a judge doesn't then you have to testify. >> can rudy with a straight face say the opposite? >> it's unfortunate testimony about the attitude of lawyers, how they shift positions depending upon their client at the time. but i think it would be a mistake to have the president submit to a deposition.

it would create a terrible precedent. the president instead of concerning himself with national affairs could be tied up in lengthy depositions. and i don't think that rudy has completely changed his position, recall on the snippet that you played he said that the president could claim that the purpose was to create an effective perjury trap. and he said that in the snippet that you played. and i think here we have a perfect example of a perjury trap. i don't see that they've come up with any -- >> you could say it's being done for improper purposes, but he doesn't use the word perjury trap. >> i can't think of any improper purpose. >> i want to ask you about omarosa man gigault-newman.

president trump and omarosa have been engaged in a war of words. the president called her a loser, olowlife and a dog. look, it's not presidential to do that. i don't care who she is or what she did or how she expresses herself. that's not presidential. does the donald trump you know care at all? >> the donald trump i know which i detail in the book that will be out at the end of the year is far different than the donald trump you see as president. he's a person who doesn't engage in anti-black remarks, doesn't degrade women. he's a person who's been changed by the office that he holds. but i have no excuse for the fact he would use words like dog, lowlife. i would say that she's a person who most people thought of as a character, not as a person of substances. that's my opinion. >> so you say the office changed

him. >> yes. >> but why? why into someone who is willing to throw these around and say things that are so horrible about people of color or women as he now does publicly? >> i think about women on the bus was an attempt to show he's one of the boys, i don't believe that he had that kind attitude where he was picked up women randomly. i don't think so. and the time i was with him -- don't forget i was with him for 20 years. i never saw him exhibit the kind of -- comparable to the form of president. he wasn't the kind of character you would expect of a person who had no regard for women. that was not his approach. >> so you're saying he has changed.

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tonight a trump donor speaks out slamming lara trump's offer of a $180,000 campaign job to omarosa manigault-newman to allegedly keep her quiet and only say good things. the salary that would be paid using money from trump campaign donors. not a dollar of it coming from the billionaire himself. no, all of it from donors. >> so the only thing we have to

consider when we're talking salary as far as the campaign is concerned is that as you know everything is public. and that all the money that we raise and that pays salaries is directly from donors, small dollar donors for the most part. so i know you were making 179 at the white house. and i think we can work something out which would keep you right along those lines. specifically, let me see, i haven't even added up the numbers but we were talking about like 15k a month. let's see what that adds up to 12, yeah. >> $180,000. joining me now, dan, i appreciate your time tonight. you gave your individual max earlier this year to donald trump, $2,700. what bothers you when your hear

lara trump talking about using donor money to pay omarosa? >> i bothers me because i like for my donation to be focused on winning the mid-terms or being stored up for trump's 2020 election. >> so i want to play for you, dan, because it's not just it was going to be donor money used for her salary, her job description was then laid out by lara trump. let me play the job description for you. >> in terms of your position specifically i really feel like your commission would require, you know, you to be able to be flexible in terms of where you are. sometimes, you know, come to new york for occasional meetings, but i would love if you could, you know, occasionally go to speaking engagements and that sort of thing for us. i think you'd be awesome doing that. so it doesn't really matter where you are. if you're comfortable staying in d.c., then, you know, we're more than happy to have you. >> so occasional meetings,

occasional speaking engagements, liver wherever you want. does that job, dan, sound to you it's worth $180,000 a year? >> not at all. not at all, and i think what omarosa did is obnoxious and odious and offensive. >> in recording it? >> in recording it in the situation room and improperly using vehicles and just her general actions since leaving the white house. >> no, i understand that. my question is what lara trump is saying is what i want you to do for us for the donor money is occasional speaking engagements and meetings, does that job working for team trump sound like it's worth $180,000? >> no, i don't think that sounds like a complete job at all. we don't have to complete audiotape or job offer, but what you just played doesn't sound like a full time job at all.

>> are you concerned your money could have been used for other sorts of whatever word we're using for this, jobs like this or pay offs, are you worried about that? >> i hope this is an isolated case. i think it's not a normal path to lead this kind of ma machiavellian hush money here. i think it's worrisome. >> i was going to ask you, dan, bottom line, are you going to keep donating. >> i'm definitely going to keep donating because i think what matters is winning the mid-term elections and focusing on the economy and trying to get policy outcomes. but i think this kind of machiavellian practice as is portrayed on these tapes is definitely worrying and disconcerting to myself as a donor. >> and just to be clear when i

say donate i'm talking about donate to trump. you're talking directly to trump, you're still going to give him another chance? >> yeah, no, i'm still a trump supporter and i think overall, look, i think the economy is doing well and i think he's fighting for the american people. i think this specific practice is worrisome practice, and i wish the campaign would, you know, take a harder look at doing stuff like this, and hopefully this is an isolated case, not a practice. >> all right, thank you very much, dan. i appreciate your time. appreciate it. and next the story you'll see only out front, pregnant women increasingly addicted to opioids. wait until you see sanjay's report. ges. and it's also a story about people and while we make more e-commerce deliveries to homes than anyone else in the country, we never forget... that your business is our business the united states postal service. priority: you

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my grandmother gave me my first percocet. i had a headache, and she told me that would help. >> if there was a last refuge of people insulated from the opioid epidemic, it was pregnant women. but even they are no longer immune. for them, the risk of opioid addiction has quadrupled over the last 15 years. what do you think when you hear that? >> i believe it because i did it. >> reporter: rachel solman grew up here in eastern tennessee, a part of the country hard hit by the opioid epidemic. two years ago she had a miscarriage, her doctor says due to her opioid addiction. so when rachel found out she was pregnant again, she was terrified. how worried were you? >> i was very worried. i thought my body was not going to be able to carry it. >> reporter: it's hard to overstate the risks of being pregnant while addicted to oipt opioids. a possibility a baby could be

born in absence withdrawal, nas. this is tough to watch. the uncontrollable crying, unstoppable tremors. and this distinctive scream. >> they're essentially coming off of opioids i guess like an adult would, except these are babies that have just been born? >> that's correct. we're going to see how big the baby is. >> reporter: for dr. craig towers, she was not acceptable. so he decided to challenge the status quo. >> conventional wisdom has been if someone has a use disorder during pregnancy, don't try and detox. wait until after they've delivered the baby. the thought was that would be safest. is that correct? >> that's right. but 162 reviews have shown that's not the case. >> reporter: dr. towers says he has now detoxed more than 600 women from opioids while they were pregnant. not a single baby has died. what was it that made you convinced that maybe you could get through this time? >> he asked me just to trust

him, and nobody has done that with me. you know? they've never cared like that. >> reporter: it's the same compassion micayla howard felt when she detoxed during pregnancy. it wasn't easy, but look at how it turned out. how is jc doing? >> she is good. she is a happy baby. >> yeah? >> reporter: this is her beautiful baby girl, who is now 3 months old. >> she was born with no withdrawal symptoms, and she didn't go to the nicu. >> reporter: you're pretty proud i imagine that she is doing so well. >> i'm very happy about that. >> we're almost there. >> yeah, we're doing good. >> reporter: now just weeks away from her due date, rachel is hoping for the same miracle as micayla. you got names picked out? >> brantley. >> reporter: what's it like to look at brantley? >> it's amazing. it's amazing. >> sanjay, gosh, it's so hard to see some of those images.

but how exactly does this detox work that you could detox someone during pregnancy, and as in one of the women there, see a baby born without withdrawal symptoms? >> well, you know, what we're looking at, erin, first of all is happening in realtime. this is a direct reflection of this opioid epidemic. this is new. this really hasn't been done before. the way it works is you gradually wean these women, these pregnant women off opioids slower and smaller doses over time. and you also give them medication ultimately, a medication known as naltrexone that basically blocks all the opioid receptors. if they then take an opioid at that point, they won't feel well. it will make them sick. it's a deterrent so to speak. the problem, and that is a crucial point, erin, while you're detoxing, if you have a relapse and you go back to the higher dose all of the sudden, that could potentially be fatal. when we hear about these overdose deaths is that's often the scenario. their body got used to a lower

dose and suddenly they spiked the dose high again. >> dr. sanjay gupta, thank you very much. >> thanks, erin. next, jeanne moos on the word that has trump getting choked, chocked up. ♪ bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens ♪ ♪ brown paper packages tied up with strings ♪ ♪ these are a few of my favorite things ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ these are a few of my favorite things ♪ (burke) so we know how to cover almost anything.en almost everything even "vengeful vermin."

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chorks whatever. it was a mistake. the tweet was deleted. it's the second time trump has deleted a cuomo treat this week, presumably because of typos, and those typos join a long list. here is jeanne. >> reporter: president trump knows we're watching his tweets with eagle eyes. >> i do a typo, it's like death. they just go -- they go wild. >> reporter: but it was the president who went wild misspelling. trump sets new record for most typos in one tweet. there was whether, missing an h, there was the the and three mistakes with the same word. twitter helpfully pointed out the difference between special counsel, a lawyer, and in a special council as in a meeting of say, white dogs. all those mistakes got grade and mocked. "he is an idiot." we welcome you to the donald j.

trump typos and misspelling hall of fame. that all spelled correctly? the president got off to a fast start the day after his inauguration tweeting, "i am honored to serve you" saving this for postority one joked. but the president later did it again. he misspelled everything from hereby to tap my phones, even tapping out this unforgettable nonword, perhaps while falling asleep. >> covfefe. huh? he once call something china did an unpresidented act. smart enough to misspell on purpose. >> ly-y-e-n lion. >> when aretha first told us what respe-e-s-p-e-c-t -- >> but you've got to respect that we can learn from president trump's mistakes. >> whether, another typo. >> reporter: whether is no mere

typo. >> wether. >> reporter: ther meaned a castrated sheep. the president may be castrating the english language, but he sure doesn't seem sheepish about it. jeanne moos, cnn. >> trust me, i'm like a smart person. >> reporter: new york. >> thanks for joining us. anderson starts now. they served with distinction, some risking their lives on the front lines of the cold war and every world war since. now the president of the united states is battling them and belittling them, and they are hitting back hard, and their number is growing. jim sciutto here sitting in tonight for anderson. right now upwards of 75 former intelligence officials are at odds with president trump. first, there are new names on the list of former senior intelligence officials condemning the president's decision to