former cia director john brennan tweeted in response.retaliate against nations that exercise sovereign right to u.n. to oppose u.s. position on jerusalem is beyond outrageous. shows that donald trump expects blind loyalty and subservience from everyone, qualities usually found in narcicisstic vengeful autocrats. that treat from john brennan. how realistic is this funding threat? >> i think it's pretty much an empty threat. let's be honest, the u.s. gives countries aid because it's in national security interest, not because they're doing it out of the goodness of their heart or they're expecting something in return. look at some of the countries largest recipients of aid, jordan, iraq, egypt, countries that were sure to vote against the resolution. so, i mean, it's also -- if the president threatens to withdraw aid from the u.n., he has said and i was traveling with nikki haley in africa, a few weeks ago, and she was saying pennies on the dollar that u.s. pays to u.n. because it stops united states from having to fight conflicts it doesn'

>> no, they were semi intimidated by the p federal government or barack obama, and john brennan is the most shamelessly appointee for a high intelligence post in modern times. what this underscores, david, this is government, this previous government was abject for appeasement, didn't mind iran dominating the middle east and didn't mind the terrorism the way they should have and finally the truth is coming out. david: bruce, you have to admit in order to get the iran deal the obama administration bent over backwards and excused them for a lot of stuff they shouldn't have been excused for? >> the iran deal seems to be working in the sense we don't know they're building nuclear weapons. i would put this back on trey gowdy, i think he needs to grab more hair gel and roll up his sleeves and get to work on spending smarter and better in the middle east. the president this week basically said listen, we spent $7 trillion over there, and he's ready to do some other things with that money. david: e-mack, the whole notion that you could change a terrorist state like iran by being nice to them,

. >> i think john brennan got on twitter for the second time because of this. 4:00 a.m. in the east. the government is running for another month. the senate approving a stop-gap bill last night to keep agencies open through january 19th. the house approved the measure early in the day pushing the measure through means lawmakers, yes, they can get away from the holidays. >> the president is also getting away for the holidays, heading to mar-a-lago after signing the tax bill, but many issues remain unresolved. bill mattingly sorts through it for us on capitol hill. >> in the end, the poll or the scent of jet fumes overwhelmed the idea of having a fight when it came to a potential government shutdown. the senate following suit of the house and there will not be a government shutdown, at least for now. what is in the bill they passed? it's more than just funding through january 19th. it's funding through march the bill to extend, and the key fisa program will continue, and community health hospitals as well, and no doubt setting up major fights for january. daca, a program t

john brennan is not credible. he is a ludicrous figure.d his twitter feed if you don't believe me. i want to get back to the motive here.or the author, again, for politico, liberal publication supported the obama administration all eight years pretty consistently interviewed obama employees who said not that they didn't like the iran deal. mane they didn't like it. t there are reasons not to like it. but very specifically the obama people tried to squelch operation cassandra, an investigation and operation designed to stop hezbollah drug dealing in the americas. why would they lie about that? >> i don't know that they did lie. because if you look at the story, everything is kind of m qualified, right? they talk about what might have happened.k what could have happened. they talk about the fact that, well, the czech republic could have been pressured to do more to release somebody. i mean, it's one qualifierre after another.od and i think that speaks to the fact that those people who spoke, again, not for attribution didn't really know and

they just got information from the cia, john brennan has testified, that there were contacts between trump campaign officials and russia. so what we don't know, though, is whether any of that was explicitly shared in this classified briefing with donald trump. we sort of doubt it because it would have compromised their investigation at that point. so the fbi was really engaged in this juggling act. they wanted to warn the republican nominee for president about standard counterintelligence threats. they wanted to put him on notice he could protect himself, share information with them going forward so they could help protect him. at the same time, they didn't want to compromise their counterintelligence investigation. and you're right. it raises a question of at least negligence going forward. we don't believe that donald trump jr. would have been in that classified counterintelligence briefing. so it's unclear whether his father ever warn him, hey, it may be a good idea to not be in contact with wikileaks who is an agent of russia. i was intrigued to hear a source close to the white h

let's start with the tweet from john brennan. have you ever seen anything like this?territory in terms of describing the president of the united states. i will say this, i understand the frustration of the trump administration. there is a lot of problems with the united nations wanting the united states to help them but they don't vote with the united states. there's hypocrisy there. this was ill advised with president trump and ambassador hailey to draw assistance from countries that didn't vote the right way, our way, on this particular resolution, which does not have any kind of mandatory impact on the united nations. to think afghanistan, iraq, egypt, recipients of american aid are going to have their aid cut off by washington, i don't think that is going to happen. it demeans the presidency, for the president to act this way. you can't imagine any of the president's predecessors making these empty threats and demanding that other heads of state vote this way. it doesn't work that way in diplomacy. the president didn't win today and america didn't win. the white h

amy: former cia director john brennan responded to the vote posting a message on his new twitter account saying -- "trump admin threat to retaliate against nations that exercise sovereign right in u.n. to oppose u.s. position on jerusalem is beyond outrageous. shows @realdonaldtrump expects blind loyalty and subservience from everyone -- qualities usually found in narcissistic, vengeful autocrats." we'll have more on the u.n. vote after headlines when we speak with columbia professor rashid khalidi. in a major setback for spain, catalan separatist parties have won a slim majority in the catalan parliament. voters went to the polls thursday in a snap election called for by spanish prime minister mariano rajoy who had sacked the previous separatist government. the deposed catalan president carles puigdemont spoke on thursday from belgium where he has been living in exile. >> the spanish state has been defeated. rajoy in his people have received a slap in the face. catalonia is not helped them to make it possible. rajoy has something catalonia. a legitimate government must palace,ight away

there were 14 former national security officials including john brennan, the head of the cia, including james clapper, the head of national security during the obama administration. who filed an amicus brief. this is unheard of. you very rarely see an amicus brief first of all in a federal district court. it's usually an appeals court. secondly, the idea that 14 former national security officials would be filing this is really astounding. then on top of that last week, we also have a letter from former u.s. attorneys, both democrats and republicans, who said that this investigation should go forward. so i think there is plenty of people out there that are doing the right thing and they just have to keep pounding away. >> there are people playing trump at his own game. we saw john brennan join twitter last week and jim comey tweeting throughout the weekend so they're letting their voice be heard that way as well. >> thank you very much. these days with all the headlines about russia's meddling in our election, turns out vladimir putin is dealing with some election drama of his own. a boy

i want to get your reaction to former cia director john brennan's tweet calling president trump's threato those who don't vote with the u.s., he called it outrageous saying the president has qualities of a vengeful autocrat. >> well look, i think the people i represent who are paying those dues to the u.n. and again about one-third of the peace keeping is paid for by our tax payers. i think, you know, they deserve to have a representation in the u.n. which is nikki haley that stands up for us. i think it's totally appropriate. i think it should be an aggregation of all positions, in other words, not just this one position, you've got to look at our alliances around the world to determine who's helping us and who's not. and that should be one of the factors that's considered. by the way, jake, swore blessed right now. we've probably got the greatest alliance any country has had in the history of the world, despite the concerns people talk about and the expressions of concern about countries, you know, splitting with us on individual issues like this one, we've got a great alliance right n

i mentioned john brennan -- these are his troops that formed this initial line here. who wasned james negley originally tasked with holding this line. the results of the breakthrough badly confused -- the army commanders not on the battle. he sends a courier to general rosecrans to try and get through and find out what he should do. sends the carrier back with the words that he can offer no more hell. -- no more help. sends the carriernegley cannots person, george thomas. he therefore ultimately decides that he is going to join the retreat. george thomas isn't very far from general negley on this battlefield. but by the time george thomas rich is the beginning of the defensive horseshoe ridge, and this snaking blue line that --ms on the hills, 1, 2, 3 negley is nowhere to be found. approximately 12:30 in the afternoon, he retreated from the battlefield and taken with him roughly 2500 troops and somewhere in the neighborhood of 50 artillery. i just caught up a lot of the rescues of the retreating army, try to organize a command retreat to this place, or he can form a n

director john brennan defended the two f.b.i. officials in a tweet, saying mccabe and baker "epitomize integrity, competence and respect for rule of law. not surprised donald trump fears them, along with the rest of f.b.i." in another legal setback for president trump's travel ban, a federal judge in seattle has partially lifted the administration's restrictions on certain refugees entering the united states. u.s. district judge james robart ruled yesterday that refugees from eleven countries singled out as security risks may enter the country as long as they have a "bona fide relationship to a person or entity within the united states." in october a state department memo effectively paused refugee admissions from those eleven countries, nine of which have majority muslim populations, until new security measures could be put in place. yesterday's ruling would allow refugees to continue entering the country, even as those measures are being implemented. in another court ruling yesterday, a federal judge said that an american citiz

." >>> joining us now, john dickerson, anchor of face the nation from the white house, margaret brennan. john, your takeaways from last night. >> we don't want to go too far in overreading the result in alabama. one republican put it, today, we don't expect to have anybody accused off sa ed of assaulting people in the races. major take away for the republicans what kind of candidates will they nominate in nevada and arizona. hard line candidates that thrill the primary audiences or ones that can win in the general election. for democrats the take? away is in the virginia the president thrilled the democratic base. got them to turn out. if that's true, in 2018, that's great news for democrats. >> margaret, the president did endorse roy moore, but initially backed a different candidate. how is the white house reacting to all of this today. >> well the president is disappointed but he said a win is a win. and he called doug jones invited him here to the white house. roy moore was preferred candidate. white house officials are frying to distance the president from him, emphasizing they see

we know john brennan. the fbi and the head of the cia lied to congress and to the american people. is the fella who today had to plead guilty to one count. chris, we always learn something talking with you and we appreciate you being here. last word. >> i think people need to remember that comey the leaker betrayed his oath, sphoal government documents, leaked them through a third party to the "new york times," and the dimwits on the house intelligence committee thanked him for his service. lou: it' the dimwit republicans on that committee who have turned it over to the democrats. senator richard burr should be given a special place of dishonor for what he is doing and has done to the american national interests. thanks for being with us. be sure to vote in our poll tonight. do you believe there are protected groups and identities within our society who have protected rights that are far superior to those of mere american citizens. cast your vote on lou dobbs. follow me on instagram on "lou dobbs tonight." the dow finishing the day down 41 points. it plunged 350 points as word spre

lou: i wonder how james clapper and john brennan are doing.hey had at the forefront of their minds and concerns has been the united states, not a partisan view of donald trump, president of the united states. charlie: they still have a lot of allies in the federal bureaucracy. and those people are still we know that to this day those people are working seriously behind the scenes to thwart the president in terms of his agenda and also in terms of trying to opinion something, anything on this guy. i think they will stop at nothing. it's like the night of the living dead with all the zombies. zombie bureaucrats talking around, you cannot kill them. lou: it will be interesting to see what does bring them to a close, to an end, if you will. mike borel, the act acting director. he is the first to say i'm sorry, we overreacted. we took on donald trump when we shouldn't have and treated him harshly and badly. which means the intelligence community is acknowledging in part in the person of mike morell unfortunate actions. charlie: it's terrifying. lou

a congressional investigation in this place former cia director john brennan needs to go before congresswas -- heather: the result being possibly what? what can happen now? this has already occurred. >> the trump administration can put a new focus on hezbollah, a new focus to counter iran, new strategy for the middle east, they are probably starting to do this, put an interagency task force together to target hezbollah, go after their financing and money laundering, trafficking cocaine. heather: appreciate you joining us. defying the trump administration it is willing two illegal immigrants must be allowed to get abortions, the white house is responding to that and the collusion tables turned remember when jill stein dined with russian president vladimir putin? congress does and they want some answers to this. american drunk on dunkin, coffee this holiday season, you want to hear this. ♪ ♪ the more i drink ♪ the more i drink ♪ heather: the trump administration taking its battle over illegal immigration and teen abortion to the supreme court after a federal judge ruled two pregnant immigr

. >> lou: and james clapper and john brennan in particular how they are doing.y obviously had in the forefront of their minds is the united states and not a partisan view of president trump, president of the united states? >> they have a lot of allies in the federal bureaucracy and those people are still we know from, to this day, those people are working furiously behind the scenes to thwart the president in terms of his agenda, but also in terms of you know, trying to pin anything on this guy. and i think they will stop at nothing. i think it is it like the night of the living dead with all of the zombie bureaucrats walking around and you can't kill them. >> lou: it will be interesting to see what does bring them to a close and end if you will, because mike morel acting cia director first of the intelligence community, you call them zombies, and i will not go that far, he is first to say basically i am sorry and we overreacted and took on donald trump when we shouldn't and treated him harshly and badly and means that the intelligence community is acknowledging

john brennan said al qaeda would see its to mice before 2020 but today we have a rejuvenated al qaeda that has improved its ability to control more terrace. alno isis has taken a hit, qaeda is still strong. do you think president obama underestimated al qaeda because of ideological thinking at the time? >> well, terrorism is a challenge to deal with because it metastasizes. we are dealing with an enemy that is able to be resilient, make a judgment, go from al qaeda to al-nusra to isis and other forms. the boko haram, al-shabab. there are a lot of elements. you have to target one jew can go after and do an effective job in doing that and we did. target who you can go after and do an effective job in doing that, and we did. we decapitated the leadership, particularly with the bin laden raid. is al qaedaity then, you know, developed in yemen. isis developed. etc. you have to continue the effort in these other areas. you have to be able to target the different forms of terrorism that are developing. i think the obama administration in the last few years begin to recognize that we could no

. >> today, former cia director john brennan wrote in what was his second ever tweet, quote, trump administration threat to retaliate against nations that exercise sovereign right to oppose u.s. position on jerusalem is beyond outrageous. shows donald trump expects blind loyalty and subservience from everyone, qualities usually found in narcicisstic, vengable auto cats. here to explain what we are witnessing, rick stingle. the former managing editor of "time" magazine. rick, i got it figured it out this way. donald trump is a new york landlord. he probably believes the u.n. are, in a way, tenants. >> maybe he covets that real estate. a beautiful view of the east river. >> nice land on the east river. what's the danger here? >> well, it's -- i'm trying to think of a polite way to say it. it's really stupid, in the sense that it's not tactical, right? next week, she's going to come to u.n. members and ask for help on north korea. he's going to come to u.n. members for help on iran. it's a favor bank. you can't tell people you're going to take names, which also sounds like, you're also going to get

that is john brennan. it is a very marxist interpretation of a threat. you brought it all down to us. physical things. it cannot be spiritual. it must be physical. that tells you a lot about how the lesson ministration saw the world. it was a flawed diagnosis and as such, if you misdiagnose a patient, what are you going to give them in terms of treatment? the wrong treatment. thursday'st got sickle-cell anemia or cancer. you have food, go home and hydrate and take some aspirin, what will happen to your patients? they will die, that is the problem, misdiagnosis. that all changed when a certain real estate developer from queens decided to run for the highest office in the land. i first met donald trump in the summer of 2015, i was invited to come and talk to him at a republican presidential debate. i helped him prepare for the debates and it was the high point of my left to come work with him as deputy assistant but i realize that i could have worked with this man within the first 30 seconds of meeting him because he is kryptonite to political correctness.

the house intelligence committee scheduled testimony today with former cia director john brennan. we see them making demands for documents, and all their document demands, they want them in 72 hours or a week from today. we are seeing these committees get into gear. some of them might even find the clutch one day and start to engage in forward motion, but nobody guarantees it. at the fbi, we know from public statements by the fbi that there was an ongoing counterintelligence investigation into the possibility that the trump campaign cooperated with russia in its attack on the u.s. election last year. we know that that investigation, that counterintelligence investigation, will continue. but if you broaden the scope a little bit, we believe it is probably multiple investigations at the fbi and the department of justice. nbc news reports tonight that paul manafort, the former trump campaign chairman, and michael flynn, the former national security adviser, are now both being described as subjects of a criminal investigation. and that generally technically means theriy are officially

that's been pretty clearly not the case for a long time and we saw john brennan testify that he was seeing intelligence russians were trying to subborn members of the trump campaign. that was something he was concerned about. one of the triggering events was having a little too much to drink and letting slip one detail too many. >> he is cooperating witness in the bob mueller investigation. a contributor to forbes, the daily beast and "the new york times." welcome. one of the three reporters there who broke this story. what does it do for the gop argument about the steele dossier? does it kill it there or can it be resuscitated at all? >> the argument has always been fundamentally a political argument. it can be more damaging, what other evidence is uncovered. and so they're trying to make an argument that the investigation is fundamentally politically motivated and was driven by democratic opposition research. given the investigation has produced multiple indictments, i think that it is ludicrous to say the investigation is based on nothing. they will bring people to trial for crimes. i d

. >> haley's remarks triggering a harsh response from former cia director, john brennan, he tweets the trump administration threat is beyond outrageous, and shows donald trump expects blind loyalty. >> part of the invitation reading think of this the first symbolic step taking note of who supports us and who doesn't. >>> and dick eve dick enberg ha. >> he was found dead in his home on thursday, and they suspect the cause of death was a heart attack, the long-time voice of nba basketball, and he covered 28 wimbledons and eight ncaa basketball championships, and he would be on the mt. rushmore of the greatest sports casters of all-time. >> we'll be right back. david. what's going on? oh hey! ♪ that's it? yeah. ♪ everybody two seconds! ♪ "dear sebastian, after careful consideration of your application, it is with great pleasure that we offer our congratulations on your acceptance..." through the tuition assistance program, every day mcdonald's helps more people go to college. it's part of our commitment to being america's best first job. ♪ a wealth of information. a wealth of perspective.

that's john brennan. you brought it down to what? physical things. it cannot be spirit call it must be physical and that tells you how the last administration saw the world but it was a flawed diagnosis and as such as you miss diagnose a patient you give them the wrong treatment if they have third stage cancer and you say well you have the flu go home and hydrate what's going to happen to your patient? they'll die and that's the problem. miss diagnosis but that all changed when a certain real estate developer from queens decided to run for the highest office in the land. i first met donald trump in summer of 2015. i was invited to talk to him prior to a republican president debate and help him prepare and it with us highest honor of my life to work with him as deputy assistant eventually but i realized i could work for this man within the first 30 seconds of meeting him because he is of course what? he is kryptonite to political correctness. he looked at the threat we face clearly as aware. not as some problem to be managed but war. not only that he

joining us now, john dickerson, anchor of face the nation, and from the white house margaret brennan. john, first of all, your takeaways from last night? >> well, we don't want to go too far in overreading the result in alabama, as one republican put it. we don't expect to have anybody accused of assaulting underage people in any of these other races. but the major takeaway for republicans is what kind of candidates are they going to nominate in other states where there are going to be close election, in nevada and arizona? are they going to have hard-line candidates that thrill the primary audiences or ones that can win in the general election. for democrats, the takeaway is in the virginia governor's race and in this race, the president thrilled the democratic base, got them to turn out. if that's true in 2018, that's great news for democrats. >> glor: marking -- margaret, the president did endorse roy moore, but then he initially backed another candidate. how is the president reacting to this? >> the president is disappointed. he said a win is wane. hi called doug jones and invited

i want to start with this tweet from a former cia director john brennan.says, that "the trump administration threat to retaliate against nations that exercise sovereign right in the u.n. to oppose u.s. position on jerusalem is beyond outrageous. it shows donald trump x black blind loyalty and subservience from everyone. usually found in autocad." >> i don't have a problem with haley's comments. there are 65 that did not participate. a whole bunch of them never showed up. i think that is a little surprising because i thought it would be more overwhelming than that. i think, when it comes to foreign aid, foreign aid is u.s. national interest. we have certain goals we are trying to achieve with that these countries. i don't think, based on a vote that is symbolic in nature, has no authority, that doesn't find anybody to anything, yes, we were snubbed. but i think we can have a thicker skin than that. we are the world's global power. we are number one in the world. we got to stay focused on what foreign aid is trying to do. i would hold money back from the u.n

it is is interesting john brennan, former cia director joined twitter yesterday.mewhat critical of the trump administration for the past year. it wasn't until yesterday that he got on the president's favorite platform. his first tweet was remember the lockerbie bombing. his second tweet, the trump administration threat to retaliate against nations that exercise sovereign right in u.n. to oppose u.s. position on jerusalem is beyond outrageous. >> he makes a strong point about the sovereign rights. the united nations is not a trump country club. they don't owe loyalty to the united states on any given issue. it is a deliberative body to come together to try to solve difficult problems. when nikki haley talks about our sovereign choice of declaring jerusalem the capital of israel, she's not wrong. that was the choice by the president in general but the other countries have sovereign rates to state the opposite. one of the things that came out yesterday that people need to remember, these other nations that voted against us, weren't just voting against us. they weren'

it includes heavy hitters like john brennan, james clammer, using these actors of the why could thisatter? >> this could matter a lot. if something happened where mueller was fired, this civil lawsuit actually would go forward against the trump campaign and roger stone, who are both named as defendants in this case. the plaintiffs are two individuals that worked at the democratic national committee whose e-mails were released by wikileaks and hacked by the russians. so what you have right now, which is very unusual, is an amicus brief. a friend of the court brief. usually you see it in the supreme court but it is rare to see it in the district court and even rarer to see a lineup of 14 national, former national security officials getting get a, in this case. they're not saying the allegations are true but in a sense they are saying they're true. they can't come out and say it because they're under the restrictions of confidentiality and national security. but the fact they're allowing this case, putting their name to this case in order that it go forward, all of this will be in only