captioning sponsored by cbs >> brennan: i'm margaret brennan in washington, and this week on "face the nation," after 10 days of coronavirus quarantine, president trump prepares to get back on the campaign trail as the nation and the world see alarming increases in covid cases. >>> the white house is now one of the new red zones in america, a site responsible for at least 25 reported cases of covid-19. after a week characterized by one conservative columnist as bizarre, beserk and almost biblical, the president's struggle with thestfkdis now over as his doctor has declared him no longer a transmission risk. outside 1600 pennsylvania avenue, the d.c. health department set up a temporary testing facility, and the reminders of the danger inside are clear. >> we have a super spread der event in the white house. >> brennan: but inside the gate on saturday, it seemed to be business as usual: a campaign-style event on the south lawn. >> president trump: get out and vote, and i love you. >> brennan: the president's post-virus message consistent to what he has been saying for months. but his re

captioning sponsored by cbs >> brennan: i'm margaret brennan in washington, and this week on "face the nation," as we begin the last week before election day, there is a stark contrast between the candidates on the realities of coronavirus. and breaking overnight, five days to find vice president mike pence to test positive for the virus. campaign 2020has finally entered the home stretch. ♪ >> brennan: with president trump barn-storming the battleground state. >> president trump: we have 10 days, and nothing worries me. in florida we're doing very well, and -- >> brennan: but the covid situation is definitely not going well. friday saw a new record of nearly 84,000 new cases, and experts say that will soon get higher. >> president trump: you know why we have cases? because we test so much. in many ways it is good, and in many ways it is foolish. this country and their reporting systems are really not doing it right. you turn on the television, and you hear cold front, colcoldcovid, covidy the way, on november 4th, you won't hear about it. >> brennan: for former vice president joe biden

the situation -- >> brennan: i'm not. i'm reading what your company said, it was developed -- >> i wasn't suggesting you are. we as a society. it was not used to manufacture the product. it was a cell line that was derived over 50 years ago, and it is used as a research tool. where that research should be done, that is a good debate we should have, but probably not a debate we need to have right now. >> brennan: all right. who should be getting this drug in terms of how it should be used? is it a prophylactic? should it be given to diabetes, pregnant people? >> those are great questions, margaret. it can be used, we think, as a prophylactic. we're doing a trial if you live in a household with somebody who has got it, whether it would stop you from getting it. that would be very important evidence we hope to get in the not too distance future. and if somebody in a nursing home gets it, maybe we can treat the other people in the nursing home. people who don't have good immune systems. these are all really important question

thanks for having me here today. >> brennan: sure.e heard that the president reportedly did take a p.c.r. test, that kind of gold standard test to confirm his initial diagnosis. how reliable are the different testing platforms that we're talking about? >> sure. there are really three types of tests. the p.c.r. test, as you mentioned. that test searches for the genetic material of the virus. but it does take time to get the results for that test. when we receive a test, it takes us about 24hours, on average, to achieve the results. the second test is an antigen test. you can do that without machinery, and that test looks for a protein on the surface of the virus. it is less accurate than the p.c.r. test, but it is a good test in trying to understand where the disease is. and the third type of test is an antibody test, which is a blood test. the blood test searches for antibodies in your blood. that tells you if you've had the virus in the past. >> brennan: is the kind of tool that the white house was using, these rapid tests, is that s

>> brennan: welcome back to "face the nation." we want to go now to governor asa hutchinson of arkansas, a state that this week had it's largest spike in hospitalizations since the pandemic began. good morning to you, governor. >> governor: good morning. good to be with you, margaret. >> brennan: i'm sorry to hear about this spike in hospitalizations. that means people are getting quite ill. your affection rate is also up. i saw your state was one of 15 that have added more cases in the past week than any other seven-day stretch. this doesn't sound like rounding the curve. >> governor: no. it is very concerning. and that's a statistic i watch, both the deaths and hospitalizations. i do think that people who get ill want to go into the hospital quicker because they can start their treatment. they have a better chance of recovery. so i think that is a little bit of a factor. right now our hospitalization space is tight. we have adequate space, but we watch it very carefully. and the spike in cases that we've seen is a concern. i thi

who saved the auto industry when republicans -- >> brennan: all right.erez, thank you very much. we're going to turn now to cbs news political analyst reince priebus, he was the first white house chief-of-staff for president trump. and he joins us from kenosha, wisconsin, his home town, this morning. good morning. >> good morning, margaret. >> brennan: i opened up the "washington post" day and i see you have re-entered the trump campaign mix. you're advising him on strategy, including coaching him in that recent nbc townhall. and it says you are concerned about the president's chances. is that right, your concerned that the president is headed for a loss? >> no, not at all. in fact, i'm not concerned about that at all. i'm concerned about early vote. i'm concerned about absentee ballot voting. but i'm always worried about early voting and absentee ballot voting. i haven't reemmerged. i've always been helpful to the r.n.c. where we're at in the pandemic, and having five times more people vote in florida than ever before. these are unprecedented times. the

captioning sponsored by cbs >> brennan: i'm margaret brennan in washington and this week on "face the nation," the unprecedented challenges of 2020 are pplaying out on the campaign trail as the country faces yet another covid-19 crisis point. across the u.s., nearly 27 million people have already voted, despite the challenges of casting a ballot in a pandemic. in a bitterly divided country, it may be the only thing americans can agree on: the importance of voting in campaign 2020. with just 16 days left before election day, president trump hits rallies as usual, even in red-zone states with dangerously high number of covid cases. >> president trump: if we win wisconsin, we win the whole ballgame. [applause and cheering] >> prime minister jean chretienk i'm doing here in a freezing night with 45° winds. >> brennan: and it's an all-out push for every voting group, particularly those where vice president biden is picking up support. >> president trump: suburban women, would you please like me. >> the only senior that donald trump cares about -- the only senior is senior donald trump. >>

director john brennan. and of course, it comes in the middle of this maelstrom of a news cycle. but any time somebody like john brennan writes a book, it's going to have news in it, just in terms of what he has been through. john brennan was deputy executive director of the cia during 9/11, was chief of staff to george tenet during the george w. bush administration. he was president obama's top adviser on counterterrorism and homeland security and became cia director after the david petraeus cia directorship blew up because of the fbi investigating petraeus disclosing classified information to his mistress. remember that scandal? used to be that scandals in washington actually had consequences. there's lots of news, large and small, from the new brennan book. you can hear about the obama transition team leaving john brennan accidentally stranded at the chicago airport. you can read what john brennan's wife-to-be thought of him getting his ear pierced when he was in his 20s, also his whole motorcycle phase.

and then brennan says this.was also my clear impression, batded on thousands of such briefings i have ukt canned over more than three decades, that trump was seeking most to learn what we knew and how we knew it. this deeply troubled me as i worried about what he might do with the information he was being given. foreign intelligence services take much the same approach when they're briefed by the u.s. intelligence community on wrongdoing by their governments. they look for perceived weaknesses in the intelligence and analysis that could be exploited as well as for clues that could help them uncover and then seek to eliminate the human or technical sources providing sensitive and damning information. during the briefing, trump posited his own theories about election interference and his skepticism that the culprit was russia, articulating what would become a well honed attack strategy seeking to discredit any suggestion that his election was fraudulent or in any way influenced by russian interference. it could ha

captioning sponsored by cbs >> brennan: i'm margaret brennan in washington. this week on "face the nation." , yet another bombshell for america to deal with as the government and campaign 2020 are thrown into turmoil, after the president contracts covid-19. for a president who thrives on creating chaos, his diagnosis has inadvertently shifted the course of the last month of campaign 2020 and created a crisis in government. what's making matters worse? the administration's dramatically conflicting reports on the president's condition. 24 hours after being admitto d hospital, mr. trump took to social media to contradict his own chief-of-staff. >> president trump: i came here, wasn't feeling so well. i feel much better now. >> brennan: but the mystery of where, when, and from whom he contracted the virus is growing, as is a number of those in mr. trump's inner circle who have tested positive. the race to contact trace is now potentially a matter of life or death as attendees attended this rose garden public event. it's a sobering development for a white house th

remember, brennan knew all about this.ent to mccain and gave him the phony steele dossier. and then mccain went and spread it all around and about three other people. so knowingly brennan was basically circulating false information on the president-elect and, therefore, stirring the pot for impeachment. and how often did he say on russian collusion that trump should be impeached, impeached, impeached, impeached? and he knew that they were bought and paid for by hillary clinton. and why wasn't this -- if there had been a trial and god forbid he had been convicted, the case would be overturned in a second right now. that's what we call brady material, exculpatory evidence, and the people who did it would be in jail where they belong. lou: let's be clear, speaker paul ryan, republican leader of the house, refused to approve subpoenas. we could is have known at least two years sooner, one would think. but instead the democrats stole the midterm election from the republicans. and the president is trying to make sure this never

watch john brennan here.atch. >> these are my notes from the 2016 period when i briefed president obama and the rest of the national security council team about what the russians were up to. i was giving examples of the type of access that u.s. intelligence community had to russia, russian information and what the russians were talking about and alleging. now if in fact what the russians were alleging that hillary was trying to highlight the reported connections between trump and russians, if in fact that was accurate and that is a big if, there is nothing at all illegal about that and so john ratcliffe and others are trying to portray this as potentially unlawful activity that deserves follow-up investigation by the fbi. no. it was a campaign activity but again i was giving examples to the president and others of the types of access we had. i was blind to whether it referred to one candidate or the other. i was blind to whether it referred to one party or the other. elizabeth: okay. here's the problem. it wa

because john brennan told him.s is very important, the democrats are going to counterfact and say this was russian disinformation, that's all this is. the cia has assessed that this information was not russian disinformation. that's very important to understand. this was real. that's why they told the president. that's why they referred it to the fbi. and it is a travesty for the american people that their fbi, their cia carried out this political dirty trick with hillary clinton for nearly three years, hampering the beginning of the trump presidency and trying to stop him from winning the election. lou: and we know, those who want to advance the idea, that it was russian disinformation. these notes are contemporaneous -- >> that's right. lou: -- with the acts that were taken by these agencies, the cia, the dni and the fbi, to overthrow the president of the united states after trying to block his election. so why would there be a delay on durham's part to bring this element to the public's attention in the form of

written according to a source familiar after brennan briefed president obama. at one point john brennan writes, quote, approved by hillary clinton a proposal from one of her foreign-policy advisors to vilify donald trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by the russian security service, the notes say on 28 of july, in the margin notice but that section is redacted, then it says any evidence of collaboration between trump campaign and russia. a spokesman for hillary clinton call the recent releases naming her baseless bs his former cia director, director of national intelligence john ratcliff accusing him of playing campaign politics. >> his selective the classification of information clearly is designed to advance the political interests of donald trump. >> reporter: brennan admits the authenticity of the document. >> these were my notes from when i briefed president obama and the rest of the national security council team about what the russians were up to and i was giving examples of the kind of access the us intelligence community had to russian

there is absolutely no mention of the release of brennan's notes on abc, nbc or pbs yesterday. it is the bait day in salt lake city. mike pence and senator kamala harris will face off for the first and only time before next month's election. >> he did topics like healthcare and covid-19, griff jenkins in salt lake city with what we can expect to. >> reporter: outside the university of utah, and we don't have an official list released by susan peyser the debate commission, along with the administration's handling of it and the president's diagnosis front and center for the trump 2020 communications director, vigorously defend the administration's response to draw out senator harris on her record. >> kamala harris is still at this moment to cosponsor of bernie sanders's medicare for all language outlaws private health insurance for 180 million americans and he will try to expose the radical agenda they were carrying, talk about the fact that joe biden raising taxes on all-americans, in the grips of a radical left and the president will make it clear. >> reporter: harris who has b

so there's real, people are uncomfortable about brennan.the irony here is that john brennan, as partisan as he is, by all accounts when you cia director with obama, he was scrupulously nonpartisan and the honest broker of intelligence. by all accounts. but i talked to had been in the situation room within which a it brennan would come in and just let obama have it. whatever it was. he wasn't afraid to tell obama stuff he didn't want to hear. so i would respectfully suggest to a lot of the former cia directors that while this tradition of being above the fray and nonpartisan as a former director, something in ordinary circumstances and normal times absolutely is malleable and -- valuable and traditional, but these are exceptional circumstances. we have not had a president before who stood on a stage in helsinki with vladimir putin and basically took his word over our own intelligence community. and they think they should tell people something when, not only john brennan, but general mike hayden and james clapper, and a lot of other people ha

protests as well as government supported voter intimidation tactics at the polls are killed by the brennan center for justice this runs one hour 15 minutes jerk. >> we worked to reform, revitalize and defend our systems of democracy and justice, holding them up to the twin ideals of democracy and equal protection under the law. we are a nonpartisan 501(c)(3). we do not participate in elections or endorse or oppose candidates in any way, and we are very grateful to be producing today's event with the nyu brennan center which advocates for civil debate on politics and public policy, and nyu vote which works to give every nyu eligible student the information they need to vote. i am especially grateful to be introducing an event with some of the country's most important speakers on what is i think the most urgent issue we face and there's a lot of competition. we've been witnessing a relentless and unprecedented seriesta of attacks on the twin foundations of our democratic system, free and fair elections and the rule of law. they are not unrelated to the president has made repeated threat to s

you to then: thank brennan center and the panelists for their dedication. this is a panel that has taken things seriously. we have discussed these issues on and on. it is a task force on the rule of law and democracy. the rule of law is not just limited to those departments that have the obvious responsibilities of enforcing the law. when we're talking about the rule of law and democracy, we are also talking about institutionalizing those norms that have been the guardrails that have protected society and kept our government in bounds for so long. a brief mention of the pandemic. obviously this is one of the most egregious or obvious examples of where we have gone off the guardrails, because it used to be that there was a very clear respect for pure science. that while policy always determined at the end of the day how you use that science, it wasn't politics and there's a difference between partisan politics and policy. and pure science has to be the basis of things. what we are seeing today, every day has been a dismissing of science and scientists. a loo

they include handwritten notes by former cia director john brennan revealing that john brennan briefednt obama on alleged plans by hillary clinton to type president trump to russia in an effort to distract from her email scam. john brennan is firing back accusing them of playing politics. >> whatever he tells us is professional. it is a pulling the information is a sign to advance the political interest of donald trump and republicans who are aligned with him. >> harris: meanwhile, the white house with the release and calling for the revelation not the least bit surprising. >> one of the things he puts and there is to vilify donald trump. i mean, when you look at a coordinated effort and now you see it in his own handwriting, why is this just now coming out to the american people? why after $45 million did mueller not put any of this in his report to say "there could have been a different narrative." >> harris: so ari, let me start with you. very plain and simple, this is supposedly a note handwritten by john brennan saying that he briefed president obama on a plan that was allegedly a

john brennan's words, his writings, long hand, so, john brennan does not deny this is him.ell me if this makes it better. >> , if in fact, what the russians were alleging that hillary was trying to highlight the reported connections between trump and russians, if, in fact, that was accurate, and that's a big if, there is nothing at all illegal about that. and so john ratcliffe and others are trying to portray this as potentially unlawful activity that deserves follow-up investigation by the fbi. no, it was a campaign activity. brian: so i'm going to let you, you are a lawyer, you just heard him say nothing wrong about that. as a distraction from her email scandal, nothing wrong about that. senator? >> sounded like word fog of cya to me, brian. remember it's not john ratcliffe that made this fbi referral. he certainly classified an fbi referral that was contemporaneously, apparently to john brennan's briefing of the president in his handwritten notes there was enough concern at the time to do so. again, we don't need to have these notes alone to verify. this just go back and

at one point, john brennan writes "approved by hillary clinton. proposal from one of her foreign policy advisors to vilify donald trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by the russian security service. the notes say on 28 of july in the margin brennan writes potus but that section is redacted. benitez any evidence of collaboration between trump campaign and russia, a spokesman for hillary clinton called the releases naming her baseless b.s. a former cia director blasted director of national intelligence john ratcliffe accusing him of playing campaign politics. >> it's appalling, the selective declassification of information that's clearly designed to advance the political interests of donald trump. >> brennan admits the authenticity of the documents. >> these were my notes from the 2016. back when i briefed president obama and the rest of the national security council team about what the russians were up to. i was giving examples of the type of access that u.s. intelligence community had to rush in information and what the russians w

. >> the brennan center for justice hosting a discussion on how the government should respond to protests. whetherthe response should be different for peaceful protesters and anarchists and what the response could be . >> democracy and equal protection under the law. we are a nonpartisan 501(c)(3). we do not participate in elections or endorse or oppose candidates in any way and we are very grateful to be producing today's event with the nyu john brenneman center which advocates for civil debate on politics and public policy and nyu votes which works to give every nyu student the information they need to vote. i am especially grateful to be introducing an event with some of the countries most important thinkers on what i think is one of themost urgent issues we face and there's a lot of competition . we've been witnessing a relentless andunprecedented series of attacks on the twin foundations of our democratic system . elections and the rule of law. they are not unrelated. the president has made repeated threats to subvert the election , assault on the attorney general and military propos

john brennan and obama certainly. a spoiler alert. for those who know that i wrote another book called the gatekeepers about the white house chiefs of staff, some of the attributes that make a great white house chief of staff also serves cia directors well. it's no coincidence, in my view, that leon panetta was the gold standard at both. there were certainly other great white house chiefs and other great cia directors, but panetta was right up there with the best, and both jobs, and that's partly because has a lot to do with the fact that panetta when he became cia director for obama he was 70. you been around the block. he served in congress. he was comfortable. you knew the white house and he could walk into the oval office, close the door and tell barack obama what he didn't want to hear. and that is essential in both jobs. >> one of the great stories i felt in the chapter is about the time the director of national intelligence made the mistake, blur, lucinda director of national intelligence made the mistake of trying to take on l

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but what you had to say to brennan, if we could roll that for the audience, if you would, please?f the president was corrupt. the fbi and the department of justice were politicized and weaponized. and in my opinion, there are only two possibilities; that you were deliberately corrupt or woefully incompetent. and i don't believe you were incompetent. lou: that is one of the most -- [laughter] powerful statements comey's ever heard, i believe. senator, comey, brennan, clapper, with we know the whole bunch are a bunch of lie -- liars, and the radical dems, they sold those lies to the american people e when they stole the 2018 midterm election, i believe. your thoughts. >> well, look, i think you're right. i think they politicized the fbi, they politicized the department of justice, they politicized the cia and intelligence, and it's one of the really most shameful legacies of the obama/bind administration. i think they all thought they'd get away with it -- obama/biden. look, we have very, very powerful tools that we use to defend this nation from to have terrorists, that the fbi use

brennan: correct. so, covid-19 trials... >> pelley: dr.d us she had patients in a ten-day treatment of remdesivir, but some went home in less than ten days. encouraging, but not a magic bullet. how long will it be before a person contracts covid, they go to their doctor, they get a prescription, and they go home? >> dr. tracey: i think that could happen within the next year or two. i think that day is inevitable. i think it's also inevitable that we will have a vaccine. i don't know the time course of either. it's like a horse race. there will be a winner of the race, but to pick on one now is very, very difficult. >> pelley: and whatever drugs are lomay not work long. the virus mutates constantly. dr. david ho told us, already, the virus has many strains. >> dr. ho: i think that's just like what we learned from h.i.v. the virus will adapt and we will have to keep up with the virus. >> pelley: dr. ho told us he has never seen the world's labs dedicat themselves to a single disease as they have for covid-19. but every doctor we asked, answe

and do you think that brennan -- and i have to ask this -- do you think brennan and clapper were somehowldened by the fact the attorney general hasn't moved expeditiously to close this investigation and to charge the guilty parties? >> yes. think -- i think they're being very, very careful. my guess is the biden campaign specifically went to them and said, okay, boys, you know we're i are lying on you to shut -- relying on you to shut this investigation down. they don't have to read my 14 criminal referrals that the house republicans made over the course of the last couple of years to know all of these guys are in trouble because they knew about this. they had read the intelligence. they had covered up the fact that the russians, you know, knew that clinton was running this dirty op against trump. and, in fact, probably because they were all on the ground floor of this. the whole investigative team, the dirty cops at the fbi. they all knew this back in 2016. so i think they got the phone call, and like they moral -- normally did, they charge out there. just like the people in the mainstr

but the one thing i'll say about it is i harass poor john brennan and i wouldn't take no for an answer and kept asking him what he could tell me about imad mughniyeh and brennan finally paused and said he died quickly period, end of sentence. that's very dark web. speaking of which just after the election john was not in my a.c.t. class. a few classes later. i have known him since the late 1970s. he has become one of the most vocal directors particularly since -- he would say donald trump whether he's awaiting agent orange unwitting agent is the question. i'm very sympathetic to his argument with donald trump's behavior around russians. much more than we know now but for a former director to make statements like that and -- as taken some criticism. iran has taken some criticism and heat including recent memoirs by david ignatius. it all gets back to the question we have been kind of had coming up for the last 45 minutes. what is the director's response ability vis-À-vis the public vis-À-vis explaining what's going on. and the irresponsibility after they leave the job detail. in those c

brennan's notes are the most recent declassification, they are also the smoking gun, in my opinion.y have created a political furor in washington as well they could. former dni ric grenell tweeted this, quote: proof @barack obama, @joe biden directed their administration to use the powers of government to attack @real donald trump campaign and then transitioned. the susan rice e-mail to herself after the oval office meeting was part of a cover-up. former cia director michael haden replied, quote: you're an a-hole. really. to which grenell responded: i see you don't to be exposed, so you resort to name-calling. the swamp is boiling over as the political drama is unfolding, allies of president trump on capitol hill are ratcheting up their criticism of fbi director christopher wray and cia director gina haspel, accusing them of blocking the release of other classified documents like the brennan notes. as i said, clearly a smoking gun. we'll be taking this up this hour with former ci a a analyst -- cia analyst -- fred fleitz. >>> joe biden and his campaign seemed to be searching for a w

brennan.ant to get your reaction to michael hayden, who's a republican, making this decision and announcing it tonight to support joe biden. >> well, michael hayden is one of this country's true patriots. he has dedicated his life to the security of this country, and i think it's quite poignant that although his voice has been affected by stroke and aphasia, he has a most powerful voice now in terms of how he speaks so eloquently on the future of this country resting on this coming election. so i am quite proud to say i've known and worked with mike hayden for many years and he is, in fact, living up to his reputation, which is speaking truth to power and right now he is speaking truth to the american people. >> director brennan, what went through your mind today when you learned for the if first time in history the joint chiefs of staff are in quarantine? >> well, it just shows how quickly and widely this coronavirus pandemic has spread. because of i think the callousness as well as the lack

we now know that john brennan, the cia director at the time, briefed obama that clinton was trying torussia, all in an effort to distract you, the american people, from her email server scandal andst breaking news, you won't believe what president trump is declassifying. this is huge breaking news, and we will tell you next. and by the way, later, mark mccloskey and his wife were indicted today for protecting their home from protesters this summer with illegal weapons on their property. straight ahead. ♪ summer with illegal weapons on their property. straight ahead. ♪ i am totally blind. and non-24 can throw my days and nights out of sync, keeping me from the things i love to do. talk to your doctor, and call 844-214-2424. ♪ >> sean: big breaking news and developments tonight in the biggest abuse of power corruption scandal in american history. now the director of national intelligence john ratcliffe today declassifying handwritten notes from former cia director john brennan, taken after he briefed then-president barack obama in july, 2016, f about hillary clinton's alleged plan to dr

based on things like handwritten notes, written in real time by obama's former cia director john brennan showing hillary clinton allegedly did try to link trump to the hacking of democrat emails. plus we are hearing even more government documents could be declassified. and we are digging into the timeline of how, of the events how it all went down. it shows it is more than coincidental when it comes to what hillary, the cia, and the fbi were doing and what obama and his team were aware of from the get-go. also the justice department playing hardball. now letting prosecutors launch voter fraud probes close to election day. the debate on that. and this, a new i.c.e. arrest of criminal illegal aliens wanted for things and charged for things like homicide and murder after a certain sanctuary state set them free. thanks for joining us. i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪ elizabeth: let's get to the fight over the debates. "washington times" opinion editor charles hurt, let's take the story on first, charles. who won the vice-presidential debate? who got the undecid

what do you hear about the brennan notes, what can you tell us again?ing that he wanted comey and strzok to investigate any potential role hillary had. that has never come out before. that has been the frustrating thing. so many documents were classified and they were redacted but now we've found apparently with ratcliff, he is trying to be very transparent which is what the american public wants and deserves is transparency here because, remember this is what the democrats tried to overthrow a president of the united states through impeachment and we've learned since it was a complete sham and now we're learning that potentially clinton could have been involved in some role with russia. so there is a lot of, there are a lot of questions to be answered and looks like we have some new evidence here. elizabeth: so it is two threads with hillary clinton, her campaign. in other words the democrat emails get hacked, you know, she has got her own private email server scandal going on. they go on go fronts. that is, try to link trump with the hack of the democ

>> well, john brennan is so certain, why doesn't he come down on the side of transparency?f people, susan rice, james comey, brennan a whole bunch of people scrambling and doing what they can to not have transparency. transparency is not political, martha. transparency is to be our friend. i will give you it is very unique to have transparency in washington though. washington wants to hold information. that is what they have done. what john brennan needs to understand from the information from career intelligence officials from the very beginning was pushed aside and classified away because it didn't fit the narrative that the obama administration, the obama/biden administration, susan rice, james comey, all they wanted to spoon-feed to the american people. this is just the facts. anyone who wants to disagree but that should come down on the side of transparency and say, let's look at all the documents. see how this started. see what kind of individuals were briefed, what kind of career intelligence official statements we were dealing with that were pushed aside. let's have

jillian: john brennan spoke yesterday on tv and said this is a political move.lling, selective declassification of information designed to advance the political interests of donald trump and republicans who are aligned with him. jillian: do you agree? ratcliff is a friend of yours and this should have been done all along, what do you say to him? >> they are afraid of the declassification effort by john ratcliff. john is a good friend and an honorable man. i know having worked with him, having observed is decision-making over the years, someone who is not going to mess around, doesn't care politically. what he cares about is the american people getting to the bottom of what happened. the argument that this is elective political releasing of documents, this is the releasing of documents that show what was behind a massive effort to take down a sitting president, that the opposition didn't like. that should concern all of us. it is tremendous, i hope he continues to do so. jillian: a bunch of documents will be declassified on hillary clinton's email scandal. what e

they declassified information relates to brennan, comey, clapper.re criminal. they should be held accountable. don't worry, the media will let it go just lying everything they have done on the left. elizabeth: the supreme court did reinstate a south carolina voter requirement that absentee ballots must have a witness signature. you see them playing out state by state locality. the president has a path to victory in 23 red states. south carolina is one of them. want to talk about this, accountability, holding people feet to the fire for what they say. joe biden taking on basically people saying that you know is not going to stand up to dictators. said i have taken on quote the castros of the world. corey, biden said told a miami station would bring back obama policy of re-engagement with the castro regime. how can you square those two things? >> joe biden doesn't remember yesterday what he might say tomorrow. he is so past his prime he doesn't have the mental acuity to be the commander-in-chief of the world's greatest military. we know that is on dis

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