he was debriefed by cia. kelly johnson, the designer of the airplane, air force officials and state department officials. three weeks of debriefing at a safe house in maryland followed by a senate select committee hearing downtown washington, d.c. three of the senators that were on the committee that reviewed my father's case where prescott bush, president bush's grandfather, barry goldwater out of arizona and senator russell. the house office building is now named after him in downtown washington, d.c. there are eight hours of deliberation back and forth. at the end of the session my father is given a standing ovation, a pat on his back and good job for your country. he has been exonerated for any wrongdoing. but the miss information continue to circle -- circulate around. even today it continues to circulate around. which is one of the reasons i want the book to be published. which is titled letters from a soviet prison. the personal journal and correspondence of cia you to pilate -- u-2 pilot francis power

very few people had heard of the cia. created in 1947 as part of the national security act to safeguard americans at home by gathering intelligence information from abroad. a big embarrassment for eisenhower, world war ii hero, beloved statesman to have to agencyhat we had a spy and that we had been flying over these foreign hostile countries over the last four years. eisenhower takes full responsibility for his actions. he could have allowed allen dulles to be a scapegoat, tape -- take the fall. if he did that than public opinion would probably be or probably think that he is president was not in control of his own country. eisenhower steps up to the plate, holds a press conference, and he calls this a vital but tasteful necessity in order to avert another pearl harbor. furious.v is he is demanding an apology to the u-2 flight. at a stop to the u-2 flights over the soviet union. eisenhower refuses to apologize, but does stop the flight over the former soviet union. eisenhower authorized each and every u-2 flight. wasckno

that means the cia and only the cia had access to the documents. remember the creation of the directorate of national intelligence was supposed to stop that. it was supposed to contribute to broader document sharing so other parts of the intelligence community could perform their own analyses of materials. we thought it particularly important people at centcom, defense intelligence agency get their hands on this since they were supplying information to the people on the battlefield, to the people actually fighting in these places but the dia was for a long time blocked. they were not given access to the documents. the cia said simply you don't get it. didn't have to give much of an explanation. there was a long, protracted bureaucratic turf battle. won't bore you with details. the details in most cases are anything but boring. they're really interesting but we don't have enough time to go through all the details. so skipping forward we pushed extensively to get these documents released. they were ultimately a provision requiring them to be released

suing the cia over john brennan and links to top democrat harry reid. it is in the wake of the trump administration threatening to pool brennan and other security clearances. they have a case? catherine herridge is here tonight with new analysis from the heavily redacted pfizer documents. we talk about the fusion gps connection and what the documents really tell us about alleged spying on the trump campaign. and a front runner to take on donald trump in 2020, one of the favorite targets of criticism. progressives painting democrat into a far left corner that may backfire on them. donald trump is considering revoking security clearances of some of his biggest critics including the top intelligence, law enforcement and national security of the last decade.e. trace caliber packing the story from the la newsroom. >> this appears to have been touched off by a tweet from senator rand paul urging donald trump to revoke the security clearance of former b cia direcr john brennan, quote, is john brennan monetizing his security clearance, making millions of dollar

the cia protocol says if you want to keep your clearance, you've got to act like a modern-day cia employeen't be doing stuff like this. >> i think he's afraid of the president of russia. anyone can speculate as to why,, the russians may have something on him personally. they could always roll out and make his life more difficult. >> he continues to have ignorance of facts, just to follow through on these campaign promises that really were very flawed. >> so many other national security officials are speaking out because of the abnormal behavior of mr. trump. >> this is a very large and painful kidney stone. t the relief we feel afterward will be exhilarating. >> sean: here with reaction, fox news national security strategist dr. sebastian gorka,a retired cia intelligence officer daniel hoffman. you know john brennan. the cia, we put it up on the screen last night, if you want your clearance, you've got to act as the same way a current cia employee would react. >> for the rank-and-file retired intelligence officers who retain security clearance because they have a job to do as a contractor

the cia and only the cia had access. the creation of the directorate of national intelligence was supposed to stop that and contribute to broader document sharing some other parts of the intelligence community could perform analyses. without important that people in the defense intelligence agency get their hands on it because they were applying the information to people on the battlefield. dia was for a long time a blocked. there were not given access in the cia said, you do not get it. they did not have to give much of an explanation. there was a long, protracted bureaucratic turf battle and i will not for you with the details. the details in most cases are not boring, they are interesting. skipping forward, we pushed extensively to get these documents released. ahey were ultimately -- provision requiring them to be released was required in an intelligent authorization act, which required the director of national intelligence to start releasing these products. jamesi at the time, clapper, was reluctant to do this. they

there have been other cia director since.e there was a list of names we got from sarah sanders. this is something else senator paul tweeted. public officials should not use their security clearances to leverage speaking fees or network talking head fees. a spokesman for brennan has said he's not monetizing it. he does work as a contributor for msnbc. >> what's interesting about the cozy relationship with people in power who leaked, had their favorite reporters to leak information, i understand what you're saying about general hayden. i respect general hayden but what we have is some of the most serious wrongdoing we have ever seen when it comes to people who had access to classified information. the idea that they used that information to try to stop him, meaning donald trump, means there has to be -- the american people at least 50% of us are crying out for some justice over what happened in the 2016 election. you have people who misused the use of confidential information. they shouldn't have a security clearance. they shou

only the cia had access. the creation of the director of national intelligence was supposed to contribute to broader sharing so other parts of the intelligence community could perform analyses of the materials. thehought it important intelligence agency get their hands on this since they were the ones supplying the information to the people on the battlefield. the dia was blocked. they were not given access and the cia said you do not get it. they did not give an explanation. there was a long bureaucratic turf battle and i will not bore you. the details are anything but boring but we do not have enough time. pushedg forward, we extensively to get these documents released. -- a provision requiring them to be released was included in an authorization act and that required the director of national intelligence released documents to the public. ni was reluctant to do this. tom is going to give you an idea why. they put up 40 documents here and 50 documents here and some of them included interesting material. some

cia documents that just recently have been declassified chos strong ties between u.s. intelligence and ukrainian nationalists since one thousand nine hundred forty six from the cia agency report it is clear that they were not mistaken about the nature of ukrainian nationalists organizations or their leaders step on monday or on himself according to an o.s.'s report of september one thousand nine hundred forty five bundy era had earned a fierce reputation for conducting a reign of terror during world war two after the second world war one darragh and other ukrainian nazi leaders fled to europe where the cia helped them hide. the cia later inform the immigration and naturalization service that it had concealed steffen bond darragh and other ukrainians from the soviets the operations involving ukrainians continued for many years the nuremberg trials of one thousand nine hundred forty five in one nine hundred forty six brought the political economic and military leaders of fascist germany to justice and revealed to the world the monstrous face of naziism and the crimes the

cia.e were there to work with them on stories. first thing i did was went to the finals. they would do a big series and there would be something by the head of the cia before we published it. this was in the 60s before he was there. i solved that. the times is a funny paper. i don't know how i can say this in simple words it feels like an american paper and i always thought that it should be a world paper. a big do we do this to america and that is the instinct i was getting a. people talk about the problem i have a changing changing a culi don't exaggerate and i say that was the issue. they had to decide they've are going to go after the president and without going and checking my story with the head of the cia i had to go with what i have and so what happened here is a day later, saturday i think for 30, 5:00 for the early edition shipped abroad may be 6:00. i went home and slept for a couple of hours, i come back and it wasn't. this is december 21, this is "the new york times" taking on

the cia protected him. he is their asset.y sent him and his whole family to washington, where he lived happily for 10 years in secret, not far from the cia. when i found out, so that i would go file a torture victims protection act case on him, the cia notified him and immediately sent him back to guatemala so ththat he could avoid any consequences. and the dea is not allowed to take him down, because he's a cia asset and partner for many, many years, and that's forbididden. so there are many high-level cartel people who engaged in genocide and daily acts of torture who now are the heads of cartels. the terrifying zeta gang, for example, was out of guatemala and formed by military leaders. it is also composed of many collaborators in the military still and by different police people. so these cartels are fantastically armed and trained to carry out village-by-village massacres, let alone bending people to their will. they are terrifying. i mean, some women from the rio negro massacre b back in 1980 we not long ago found in th

john brennan at that time briefed ex-cia agents who were retired, but still had top-secret clearance. he briefed them and said don't worry, the u.s. has someone inside, we have inside control. one of these ex-cia agents went on television and said we have a double agent and nobody needs to worry. it looks like the double agent was still there. so john brennan has already been involved when he was on the inside leaking information to people who still had top-secret clearance who are now talking heads. john brennan leaked information that almost cost the life of a double agent. this is four years ago now. he should have been fired for that but he wasn't fired by president obama because i think he was a partisan, but now he's a talking head on the outside saying that basically president trump should be executed. that's what we do for treason and so i'm very concerned about him having privileges because of his past history, but i would make it more universal. i don't think that ex-cia agents of any stripe who are now talking heads should continue to get classified information. i think it'

. >> michael hayden, former cia director michael hayden on cnn just this morning pointed out to allison that there is evidence that he said, you know, russia is looking to montenegro and meddling with politics there as well. so your point is well taken. when it comes to nato allies believing this president and what he says, like what he said to tucker carlson, here's how a former cia agent agent and congressman, republican representative will hurd of texas sees it. >> i don't think he should be doing one on one meetings with heads of state because too much is at stake. >> hi doesn't think the republican president should be doing one on one meets with heads of state. that's a significant statement, especial will i from a republican member of congress. do you agree? >> i would caveat by saying

you know i mean her for many years the left understood the cia was this pretty diabolical and touche and that was engaged in regime change abroad and murdering world leaders the cia lied us into the war with iraq in two thousand and three. with the lie that weapons of mass destruction which of course you know led to over a million iraqis dead five thousand americans dead and trillions of dollars wasted and yet those lives are forgotten and the irony of course is that it tends to be the liberals now that are rallying around the cia and the f.b.i. the f.b.i. which is for years in gauged infiltrating progressive organizations and peace organizations to disrupt them. to kill fred hampton a leader of the black panthers in cold blood and now somehow the f.b.i. supposed to be our it's really incredible you know brian one of the things i think it's. very interesting very tragic here is that somehow russia meddled in america's democracy i don't even really know what that means but you hear it all of the time but what really is happening i think my personal opinion is that because there isn't

however, that's requires former cia directors to behave like current cia employees.ow what you just saw, does that seem like the behavior of a current cia employee? saying what he just said calling the president of the united states a traitor? and this no way undermines the cia's mission, really? what about him politicizing intelligence as an employee ofof nbc? that is pretty acceptable for a current cia employee? i do not think so. that brings us to the well-known leaker and liar himself, jamesye clapper. the former director of national intelligence, widely believed to have leaked details of the infamous dossier to cnn. where he is now employed. fake news. and yet cnn cannot imagine why such an honorable person like him would lose his security clearance. let's take a look. >> cnn national security analysts jim clapper, and given the attack on him, i want to walk you through his ample nonpartisan resume, director of national intelligence during the obama administration, and director of the intelligence agency under president bush and bill clinton. joining the air for

only their families and their fellow cia operatives know who they are.f sacrifice was so betrayed today, it was really, the president of the youth failing to fulfill his oath of office, he sided with putin, against america. he betrayed his oath of office and i am so deeply disappointed and sad as an american that on foreign soil, of all places, the president of the united states has in effect made himself a puppet of a totalitarian daear n the worst way possible. and i think we need to force the intelligence agencies to implement measures and implement measures that are already in the cyber command. >> the director of national intelligence, dan coats, he was appointed by president trump, he made a comparison to the september 11th, whole 9/11 issue, the warning signs are there that russian actors are targeting american digital infrastructure right now. what happens if president trump dismisses those warning signs, not coming from previous intelligence directors, but his own people. >> most of my life, wolf, has been spent in law enforcement. and regardles

he was defense secretary and cia director at different times under president obama. he was also previously a white house chief of staff, omb director, budget committee chairman, member of congress, served in a republican white house, democratic white house. any way, i'd run out of time if i keep doing the resume. nice to see you, sir. let me start with a basic question to educate us all. why do you have a security clearance still and what's the purpose of it? >> the former directors of the cia retain a security clearance in the event that the director of the cia wants to call you, either back to washington or call you to brief you on what's going on and try to seek your advice. that's usually the purpose of having that kind of clearance. you know, when i was director, i called upon my former directors, actually brought them to meetings at langley and briefed them, had staff there brief them on sensitive issues and then kind of open it up to get their advice. >> how does that process work when you leave government? so you retain a clearance. do you check in? do you ha

since the cia was created after world war ii have we had a former cia director make seditious statementsn calling the president a traitor publicly. this is absolutely outrageous. these people should -- >> sean: i think he is feeling the heat. oh, i think he's up to his eyeballs in this deep state garbage. i think the media has been played by him and his radical views, voting communist, never left him. >> 1976, you vote for the communist party in 1976. that's just 14 years after the cuban missile crisis. that's the height of the cold war. >> sean: last word, sara. >> this is why it's so important that the oversight committees be allowed to continue conducting their investigation, that the department of justice turn over the documentation that was requested so that the american people actually know what happened here. this is extraordinarily dangerous to the republic and our country and the foundation our country was built on.er we've got to know the truth. >> the most important question, why did cross fire hurricane start? that's the most important question. who started it? >> sean: good

i have friends on the wall of honor at the cia.ave friends on the wall of honor at the national security agency, all of whom were my peers as well. we do work for one. we are servants to one master, and that is the constitution of the united states. and the constitution is what keeps them in. and i'm with john. people should stay at work because, you know, the president is not the only consumer of intelligence. you have congress, you have the defense department -- >> malcolm, hold that thought. it's a very good one. hold that thought. i go to my colleague, andrea mitchell at the os 10 security forum with dni dan coats. >> let's talk with russia. you did something really extraordinary on monday. moments after the president appeared to be siding with vladimir putin over you, you personally by name, you stood up and spoke out. i'm wondering, why did you do that? >> i'm not surprised we're starting with russia. i was just doing my job. as i expressed to the president on my third visit to the oval office as his new principal advisor, i

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but when someone who has been cia director says it, you have to think about it. thought about it and i looked up the definition of the word treason after i heard him say that. and it is giving aid and comfort to the enemy. and i think that's what the president has done. he has given aid and comfort to russia, which is our enemy, even though he won't admit that russia is our enemy. >>> you know, the remarkable thing is he won't admit russia is our enemy, but the day before that meeting he called the european union a foe. he's willing to call the e.u. a foe, but he won't admit that russia is our enemy. >> in fact, extraordinarily in the press conference, the president again called vladimir putin and russia a competitor. but then he added, i mean that as a compliment. sorry, go ahead. >> no, exactly. that's the point. he views them as a potential business partner, and he ignores the fact that they have invaded countries, that they have shot down airlines and that they have attacked our democratic institutions. >> richard clark, while there is a lot of gnashing of te

speaker ryan, obama's cia director said that president --mp's -- >> -- excuse me? obama's cia director said that president trump's conference was close to treasonous. >> i do not. >> you are talking about your year-long investigation. in the report, it was the assessment that he wanted trump to win. yesterday he would said he wanted trump to win. did the republicans make a mistake? >> what the intelligence committee was concerned was the trade. when we review it we believe that there were some mistakes made by the ic. let us be clear, russia did metal with our elections. not only in our elections, but around the world. russia is trying to undermine democracy itself to delegitimize it. for some reason i could look but good like comparison. -- for some reason they could look good by comparison. that theye reason interfere in our elections and we have passed sanctions to hold them accountable. we intend to make sure that they do not mean to get away with it again and to help our allies and --p the mockers sees democracies. we will be facing this aggression again and w

and he became leader of a national liberation army trained by the cia. the plantations of the united fruit company became rear guard bases. in june one nine hundred fifty four the capital quite a modest city was gone. over power of how kobol our parents resigned on the twenty seventh of june in a radio broadcast. for the use communism as an excuse. but the truth is different. in reality it's about financial interests. those of the united fruit company and other north american monopolies. they've invested in latin america they fear the example of guatemala could spread to other nations. after becoming president with support from the united states custody or out of mass cancelled the measures taken by the outer bands government. land reform was abandoned land was returned to united fruit. but neither stability nor security for life. after the coup quote from allah was thrown into a civil war that continued until nineteen ninety six. it left more than one hundred thousand dead a million displaced and tens of thousands missing. the mire indians were among th

and this is former cia director john brennan on "morning joe" this morning. >> given the attitude of president of the united states towards the intelligence community and the behavior in the intellect of the president of the united states, would there be intelligence gathering briefs to hold now some vital intelligence to the president? >> there might be. there might be as concern. and there are things that as director of the cia that i would not share details with the president of the united states or individuals outside of the cia, because you are trying to protect the capabilities and you don't want to give anybody information that they don't need. >> that is extraordinary for the former cia director saying that he needs to protect the agency, and in order to protect the agency, you would not normally give all of that information no the president. >> yeah, katy, i agree, it is extroo extraordinary, but it is what we have been hearing consistently is that the briefs cannot provide a brief iing to the president on rush sharks because he has told them that he is not interested in hea

reaction, the former head of the cia calls it treasonous. and we'll talk to chris wallace who just spoke with vladimir putin. we'll have him live top of the hour. we'll also speak with him regarding the content of the discussion and much more. that's top of the hour or "shepard smith reporting." see you then. >> dana: president trump says vladimir putin made an incredible offer to allow russian and u.s. investigators to work together on allegations of russian cyber attacks. here's how putin described it. >> we favors the continuing collaboration in maintaining cyber security. i'd like to point out specifically that hour special services are cooperating quite successfully. >> dana: joining me now, daniel hoffman, former cia station chief and a fox news contributor. so glad to have you here. i wanted to have you listen to what president trump said in regards to this idea. >> during today's meeting i addressed directly with president putin the interference in our elections. i felt this was a message best delivered in person, spent a great deal

i am a trained cia guy. i spent 25 years there i am reading this as a junior genius saying if the president tells me i have a get out of jail free card i'm going to take it. so putin said all right i didn't do it. and the president could easily have said look we had a conversation we will have continuing conversation i am going to hold him accountable. we have issues in syria, eastern europe. the president saw a pile of dog crap and stepped into it. it is not putin. it was the president's choice. he chose to do it. >> susan glasser you have been talking on the phone and getting e-mails and texts from u.s. officials, european officials. what are you hearing? >> look, i mean there is no secret of the fact even before this meeting that president trump was in some ways a party of one when it comes to russia, right? that even many republicans of course have been very concerned about russia's essentially revision of the existing world order other the last decade and a half. so president trump has really not had a

the cia briefed members of the gang of eight that, essentially, the cia believed the russians were interferingld trump. the briefing revealed a critical split between the cia and counter parts at the fbi where a number of officials continued to believe through last fall that russia's cyber attacks were aped at the political system, not specifically at getting donald trump elected. the fisa warrant about carter page didn't come until after the election. do you believe the fbi's reluctance to tie the interference until late in the game hampered america's ability to respond? >> i don't think so. i think, you know, in my dealings with the fbi, for which i have great respect, i find that they have a different way of thinking about evidence than the intelligence community does. i used to discuss this, actually, with director mueller, often. when the intelligence community says evidence, it tends to refer to agent reports and intercepted messages and so forth. when the fbi thinks about evidence, they think about it from a prosecutal point of view, what is unable to be challenged. often, the intellige

some urged his recognition ress cia director about lying about spine. he has been caught lying multiple times during his government career. senator dianne feinstein in march 2014 called out the cia under brennan's leadership for its effort to harass and thwart an ongoing senate investigation into the bush era enhanced interrogation program. >> based on what director brennan has informed us, i have grave concerns that the cia search may well have violated the separation of powers, principles, embodied in the united states constitution. it may have undermined the constitutional framework essential to effective congressional oversight of intelligence activity or any other government function. >> laura: brennan was incredulous that anyone would question his credibility and his integrity. >> as far as the allegations of the cia hacking into senate computers, nothing could be further from the truth. we wouldn't do that. that's just beyond the scope of reason. >> laura: well, naturally, they did spy and they would spy. what you just heard was a lie. ten cia st

over the men and women of the cia. you can go look at yourself from the level of a snake and that's where i consider whatever hooty i hold both countries or the white house is now struggling to explain why trump has aligned himself so closely with the russian leader we'll have analysis for you in just a couple of minutes. also coming up on this program a hero's welcome in paris for the world cup champions hundreds of thousands of fans turning out to see the blue in their victory parade down in shoals easy each member of the team is to receive france's highest civilian. honor. hello and welcome my name is christopher spring date thanks for joining us president trump has triggered a wave of condemnation in the united states after appearing to favor the russian president over his own intelligence agency. yes after their first ever summit in helsinki yesterday vladimir putin denied that russia had meddled in the twenty sixteen u.s. election trump accepted that assurance contradicting the findings of his own intelligence ag

ten cia staffers were found to have breached senate intel committee computers. senator mark udall called on brennan to resign but obama protected brennan. let's not forget brennan was caught lying last year on the steele dossier. >> director brennan, do you know who commissioned the steele dossier? >> i don't. >> did the cia rely on it? >> no. >> why not? >> because we didn't. it was not in anyway used as a basis for the intel community assessment that was done. >> laura: [laughs] every time i hear that. in fact, two former intel chiefs, jim clapper and mike rogers, they disputed brennan's claims that the dossier was not part of their assessment. rogers in a letter to congress and clapper last october on cnn. >> some of the content of the dossier, we were able to collaborate in the intelligence community assessment. >> laura: given brennan's history of lying and obfuscation, any sane person would question his objectivity and credibility. trump is right to be skeptical on brennan and call him out on his misinformation campaign. as "the wall street journal"'s kimb

rob: joining me with reaction is cia operative mike baker.o rand paul he makes a pretty good point that sounds logical but when you look at this list of the six people the president wants to maybe take away that clearance from, you see a lot of his worst enemies. that makes people think this is political. >> it certainly appears that way. he is in uncharted territory here. on both sides. we have never seen this public animosity and criticism from former heads of the intel community, john brennan, tremendous experience. the fact that he is out there and so vocal is unusual, extremely unusual. now that you have got director comey and mccabe who don't have security clearances anymore so this appears to have been fired off without a lot of thought so it does appear vindictive on his part. rob: he has 4 million people with security clearances into million with top-secret clearances. and the cottage industry, and retain clearances and use that as a hiring element at an attractive point for commercial companies, they don't have to front the cost and

president trump is contemplating revoking the security clearance of former officials including former cia director john brennan, director of national intelligence, james comey, susan rice, andrew mccabe and former nsa and cia chief michael hayden. by the way, mr. president, comey and mccabe don't have the security clearances and can't be revoked. these officials have been critical of president trump, specifically on the subjects of president trump's relationship with vladimir putin and the subject of why president trump continues to deny what the intelligence community says, that there was election interference by the russian government in 2016 and a denial reiterated this weekend calling it all a big hoax. again, according to the experts it's not. experts say that until this afternoon, there's always had to be serious grounds for revoking security clearances and criticism was not the grounds. after all, remember, former director of the defense intelligence agency, retired general flynn leading the charge to lock uphill hill during the 2016 republican convention. >> lock her up. that's ri

it began with republican senator rand paul lobbying the president to do it of former cia director john brennan, who has become a vocal critic of the president. so rand paul may have started the idea, but by the time today's white house press beefing was over, the list also included james clapper, former fbi director james comey, former national security adviser susan rice, former dev if i fbi director andrew mccabe and former cia national security agent michael hayden. comey and mccabe no longer have clearances, but that small, important detail didn't stop the white house from attacking them. in any case, here is what the white house said about it at all. >> when you have the highest level of security clearance, when you're the person that holds the nation's deepest, most sacred secrets at your hands, and you go out and you make false accusations against the president of the united states, he thinks that is a -- something to be very concerned with. >> keeping them honest, for an administration that makes false and misleading statements about people all the time, and for a president who

i don't think there is a trump and putin and then the cia. i think trump, president trump, was wrong yesterday in a major way and i think it was a very embarrassing press conference. that said, i stand with our intelligence agencies. i put that out on my twitter feed yesterday that i think it's a disservice to call out the credibility and especially a disservice in front of the chief enemy of the united states that again in syria bombs innocent children and hospitals. that's something we need to continue to remember. >> this is no small thing. i honor your service in u.s. wars over the last 20 years. you served overseas, our men and women in the intelligence communities are serving our country as well. put yourself in their shoes. the president stood there side by side with vladimir putin. i'm hearing all these things from our intelligence community, our men and women put their lives on the line to get this information, i don't believe it anymore than i believe this guy standing beside me who has people murdered? >> look, going into yesterday

you know, the cia created aids, the cia had secret biological warfare labs that they used around the world. all of that. here we had today the president of the united states doing the successor of the kgb's business by undermining the work of the u.s. intelligence and law enforcement -- >> julia, for a lot of people that changed something today. the idea that the last stand was the president possibly surprising us and saying something in public to vladimir putin that maybe they agreed beforehand in the two hours they were together i'm going to say this, just ignore it. he didn't even do that. what's left? what do most americans who sit here tonight in fear thinking wow, have we really rolled over for the russians, what do they have to think about now? >> well, i don't know that most americans are thinking that. i'm sure there are a lot of americans, especially on the right, who don't see a problem with this. you know, i think john mclaughlin made an interesting point, that we were attacked and donald trump is siding with the attackers. on 9/11 they happened to be brown muslim men fro

over the men and women of the cia and now the white house is struggling to explain why trump except that the russian president's denial of meddling in the twenty sixteen u.s. election when his intelligence community says it's an established fact also on the show remembering a political icon former u.s. president barack obama leads a tribute to the late south african president nelson mandela on the eve of what would have been mandela's one hundredth birthday it's obama's highest profile speech since leaving the white house. and rejecting protectionism the european union and japan signed a landmark free trade deal in gracing a third of the global economy and more than six hundred million people. living on. the law. thank you so much for your company everyone well we start off with the fallout from that historic u.s. row. just some of which sparked a furious backlash and is still reverberating today present all trump triggered a wave of condemnation in the united states after appearing to favor the russian president over his own intelligence agencies after their first ever summit in helsink

. >> tonight, the former director of the cia calls the president's performance nothing short of treasonous and putin telling the world he wanted trump to win. >> translator: yes, i did. yes, i did. >> tonight, for the first time, how the russian leader answered this. >> do you -- does the russian government have any compromising material on president trump or his family? >> we have a flood of reaction and richard engel in moscow. what must the russians be thinking? >>> also, a lot of news back home. big trouble for amazon on prime day. >>> missing for a week after her jeep plunged off a cliff, tonight how she made it out alive. >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >>> good evening. it was a stunning moment here in helsinki today. the president of the united states standing with the leader of russia publicly dismissing his own intelligence experts and their conclusions that russia tried to interfere with the conference at the end of a nearly day-long summit between presidents trump and putin. they apparently spoke of many things, mostly in private.but it was putin's co

when i worked at the cia for three cia directors, they would call their predecessors all the time, the only ones who have been in that job and they would turn to them for guidance. say when i worked for the secretary of state. so i don't like the idea of stripping these clearances away for political reasons because you're being criticized publicly. and quite frankly, if they stripped them away, i don't think it'll change a single thing in any of these people are saying publicly because were not based on that the president is arriving. in kansas city at the international airport right now. he is getting ready to make a big speech to the veterans of foreign wars at their united states national, this is pertinent because you have to think some of these habits are going to come up when he gets out there in front of the crowd. >> david: let's look at the issue of security clearances. first of all, once you've left your post, whatever it is, you can be read out of the program. i was taken out of that, that's how it should work. i know former cia directors comes to mind, and while at that lev

that is the balance the cia has. they want to go out and help the nation and protect the nation to gather the intelligence they have to but certain pieces make it difficult and that is why i love writing about a private intelligence agency where you've got guys out there, we hope there are scott -- scot harvaths out there, people who can do what needs to be done. marcus futrell's story was told, first time i ever saw him speak that was how marcus ended his talk when the book was out there. one of the greatest things you could do for us in the special operations community is look away, doesn't mean there is no accountability but let us do what we trained to do, to do the right thing. there's an incredible story where they decided three inmates were killed because they made the decision to let go of herders in afghanistan go and brought it out of an army on top of them and marcus was the only survivor. >> host: before we get into specific books can you pick up any one of your 18 booklet you have to read them in order?