>> it was interesting to hear jim clapper's comments on that.went on to say something very important, which was essentially, look, the intelligence community, it doesn't help when they hear those things. but they're a resilient bunch. i would agree with that. i would tell you who it helps, though, is it helps vladimir putin and those in the kremlin prepping for the meeting tomorrow. for a president to say i don't like to transmit my plans to the adversary so i won't talk about what's happening in north korea or another war zone, he certainly has transmitted a lot of information about himself before he goes to meet putin. it will be extremely difficult for him to walk into that room tomorrow and be what i think he needs to be, which is tough with putin when he's already egive indicated on whether the russians were involved in the election meddling. it shows his own personal insecurities with regards to his presiden presidency. that's not going to go unnoticed by putin. lastly, this divisiveness that exists between the intelligence community, the

ask director clapper that. they have no reason to believe they won't hold back. that's the environment. if you can't admit to the problem in public, there's real concern, again, among democrats and republicans that the president and the administration are not treating this with the urgency that it deserves. >> chris, even before this new reporting, all eyes were on russia. i want to listen to what the president said today while giving a speech in poland, then we'll talk. >> we urge russia to cease its destabilizing activities in ukraine and elsewhere and its support for hostile regimes including syria and iran. and to instead join the community of responsible nations in our fight against common enemies and in defense of civilization, itself. >> there was also this when the president was asked about the meddling in the u.s. election during a press conference. watch. >> i think it was russia and i think it could have been other people in other countries. could have been a lot of people interfered. nobody really knows for sure. i remember when i was sitting back lis

i asked director clapper this. he takes it personally because he was involved. have a listen. >> the intelligence community has done a lot of things to make sure that never happens again. and so, yes, it's true that was a big mistake. but we have learned from it. and inserted -- the intelligence community has, i should say, injected a lot of safeguards to prevent that from ever happening again. because of that experience, and my having lived through it, that's why my confidence level is so high and the veracity and fidelity of the information of the intelligence community assessment. >> you know, john, one of the changes that's been put in place by the intelligence community since the failure of the iraq wmd assessment is including at times in classified intelligence reports dissenting views, in other words, saying you have a certain group of analysts who believe "x" but there's this dissenting view for a reason and i've spoken to u.s. intelligence officials repeatedly on russian hacking, including former director clapper, and they say there were no dissenting v

we will talk more about it with james clapper. >>> severe things. trism accuses north korea of behaving very dangerously and says he is thinking about severe consequences for the kim regime though he won't say what they are. president and the pentagon on the same page? >>> we want towelcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is off. i'm jim sciutto. you are in the situation room. >>> this is cnn breaking news. >> breaking news tonight. fresh protests at the g-20 summit in germany. new clashes have erupted between police in riot gear and demonstrators with police turning water canons on the crowd to disperse them. current and former u.s. intelligence officials tell cnn that russian spies have ramped up intelligence gathering efforts inside the united states in the wake of the presidential election. one official says that moscow has been emboldened by its successful interference in last year's campaign. president trump is again questioning whether russia was actually behind the political hacking. sources tell cnn

clapper: no, sir. sen. wyden: it does not? dir. clapper: not wittingly.haryl: a month later, national security agency whistleblower edward snowden exposed the shocking extent to which the u.s. government had been spying on law-abiding citizens, including so-called "incidental" surveillance, without a court warrant, of americans who simply communicated with a foreign target. on that basis, the government has secretly recorded members of congress, we've learned, including jane harmon speaking with pro-israel lobbyists and dennis kucinich speaking with a libyan official. someone illegally leaked the conversations to the press. some people today may not realize that privacy of our citizens and controlling the government from doing these sorts of things is sort of a basic tenet in our society. elizabeth goitein: it is. i mean, it's right there in the fourth amendment. sharyl: elizabeth goitein leads the liberty and national security program at the brennan center for justice policy group. elizabeth: essentially every administration, starting from fdr up through

this is not a natural role for jim clapper. anyone who has met him for five minutes, this is not a role that i think he wanted. but because he spent his lifetime protecting and defending the united states, he felt compelled to basically state the obvious, which is the russians continue to sort of press the battlefield for 2018 and 2020 and even though there is an investigation going on about potential collusion between the trump campaign and russia and that will be decided by lawyers, i think it's safe to say now that president trump is an enabler of russia's interference. so his failure to do anything about it, you don't have to call it collusion, but he is clearly enabling russia's transgressions into our democratic process at this stage. >> here's the numbers. the question was did president trump do something illegal or unethical in his dealings with russia or vladimir putin? 25% say he did something illegal. 29% believe it was unethical but not illegal. that adds up to 54%. 36% say nothing wrong. 10% unsure. that 54% of une

former national intelligence director, retired general james clapper. former u.s. nato ambassador ken burns and vice presidential chief of staff. former cia acting director john mclaughlin on the spy craft behind today's meeting. >>> and good day, everyone, a big day, we're in washington, breaking news as president trump holds his first meeting with vladmir putin outside the g 20 summit in germany. >> thank you very much. we appreciate it. president putin and i have been discussing various things and i think it's going very well. we've had some very, very good talks. we're going to have a talk now and obviously that will continue. but we look forward to a lot of very positive things happening for russia, for the united states, and for everybody concerned. and it's an honor to be with you. thank you. thank you. >> thank you, sir. >> putin said he was delighted to meet with president trump in person. trump did not respond to a shouted question about whether he'll bring up election meddling in this meeting. we begin with hallie jackson live in hamburg, germany. all in

james clapper is not a politician.e was a 50-year intelligence official who served republicans and democrats. he seemed deeply disturbed and concerned that the president of the united states has untoward relationships and ties to russia and russians and former fbi director brennan shared that concern. it was an remarkable hour where they laid out their concerns and worries about the rhetoric donald trump had been throwing at the intelligence commune. there are many in that crowd, intelligence democrats, who applauded some of those barbs thrown at trump and laughed at that comment. it's something to be taken very seriously. >> maybe a lot of nervous laughter going on to the remark of director clapper. >> we got an updade of jargrade kushner's finances. and president trump saying if they go into his financials, it would be a red line. how does jared kushner have security clearance with so much being left out to begin with and also the reaction of president trump to bob mueller. >> reporter: well, security officials are s

we heard the former dni james clapper about his thoughts of motives. she has responded.t did she have to say? >> reporter: george, she has taken to facebook and said that she has represented all kinds of people from russian entrepreneurs to state agents and american citizens. she said stop wasting time. find something useful to do. her response to people who are looking into her past and trying to dig up things about her. it should be noted she and the kremlin have denied any relationship. the kremlin saying they did not know about her and did not know the meeting was taking place. these court records show she represented a military unit tied to the fsb. the russian security service. successor to the kgb. represented them in a property dispute. that went from 2005 to 2013. it doesn't show any formal relationship with her and the russian security services. she has said she is willing to testify in the senate if called to do so. there may be more to her side of the story still to come out. >> getting close to noon in the russian capital. clare sebastian reporting. >>> we a

clapper's comment, there was a little chuckling, but what was the undercurrent there?e a funny throwaway line but it's a serious concern that pervades this conference of national security professionals. i've been coming to this conference for eight years. generally terrorism and al qaeda and isis have dominated the concerns of people here. but this year it's trump and russia and what that has meant for american foreign policy and america's role in the world. that was a pretty extraordinary panel with the former head of the cia, former director of national intelligence, james clapper, really taking on trump in very direct almost personal terms for his disparagement of the intelligence community and his embrace of putin. so a lot of concern here among both republicans and democrats. >> i'm very curious, ken, if you take politics out of the picture, and i know that's difficult to do, but what are intelligence and security experts there in aspen, what are they most concerned about? >> well, there are the traditional threats, right? there's terrorism, there's north korea, t

clapper said he thought trump might be trying to make russia great again. the good news is all of trump's national security officials have come to the forum and said wholeheartedly they accept the intelligence conclusion that russia meddled in the election. there they seem to disagree with their boss who has not completely accepted it yet. that's the big question. at least the people who work for him including dan coats to our lester hold last night said there's no dissent, russia meddled. we understand it's a big problem. >> now we have the new information about kushner updating his list of foreign contacts and financial disclosures. his security clearance remains in place. ken, as we talk about the intelligence community and their concern about trump drawing this red line for mueller investigating into the trump organization and its finances and we get these fresh details about jared kushner's financial entanglements along with ivanka trump, how big of a concern is this that mueller may go, the president is going to try to target mueller and his team to t

i'm joined by james clapper, director of national intelligence under president obama. he said his whole goal with russia is to develop a deal of some kind to fight isis and it looks like everything he's been doing so far, forgiving them on crimea, even to forgive them on interfere with the election. bringing a blind eye to it. now to forgive them for supporting isis. coming across to me like a polaroid film. this is what trump is up to. you're the expert. what do you see trump doing here? >> well it seems clear to me that he is very, very interested in a productive working relationship with the russians. >> i guess what concessions are being made. if there are concessions being made, or agreements being made, what is the quid pro quo for us? what is the united states getting out of this? i've read the media reporting about stopping our support for the modern opposition groups, a very pro found move. and i should caveat by saying that certainly his prerogative as the president to do that. through there are serious implications. it appears to me that he is throwing in wi

the former director of national intelligence, jim clapper, saying that they're laying the battlefield 2018 and 2020. here's what he said about russia and its efforts to rebuild spying in the u.s. on cnn. >> gives him i think reassurance. also it actually encourages him to deep doing what he's doing. if these reports which i have no -- you know, i have no doubt about, about their stepped up pace of efforts in this country, bear that out. as long as we don't push back with the russians and take the necessary measures to foreclose, they're going to continue. >> this clearly comes from a guy who is not privy to current intelligence but was just a few months ago. there will be great pressure for president trump to bring this up with the russians. i take it's not likely he's going to. >> it's clear the president doesn't share clapper's view or the view of most of the intelligence agencies. most of congress. most of the neural community. this is not just an issue of punishing russia or raising this with putin. you know, this is an issue of real core national security risk and concern. we can

we will talk more about it with james clapper. >>> severe things.rea of behaving very dangerously and says he is thinking about severe consequences for the kim

james clapper, former cia director john brennan, part of this forum there.reflect on that and also, what is the tone there at the conference, when you get so many big brains in security together? >> that was a rather remarkable panel last night, john brennan and john clapper making very explicit criticisms of donald trump, really reflecting a general concern i've heard here in aspen about concerns that trump is too close to russia, concerns about the investigation, and concerns about donald trump's disparagement of the intelligence community. and you may think these are men that worked for barack obama, it would be normal for them to criticize the republican president. but its normal. it's not normal for former intelligence chiefs, especially jim clapper who worked 50 years as a career intelligence profession, to level these very explicit criticisms. i mean, he said "sometimes i think donald trump wants to make russia great again." that was a very explicit -- it was a laugh line but reflected serious concerns i'm hearing here in aspen. >> you don't get those

>> you were there, of course, witnessing that conversation with clapper and brennan was really a trulythe former head of the cia agency, years in the intelligence service under multiple administrations, a years of service in the military and intelligence. they were beyond exasperated. they were sad. they were sad about this assault on these institutions here. it was really remarkable conversation. >> you could see the pain that they couldn't believe the president of the united states would speak about the intelligence community, the men and women, the professional as along those lines. we'll continue to have much more, but right now we're out of time, jim, margaret, thanks to all of you. the news continues right after a quick break. if you have medicare parts a and b and want more coverage, guess what? you could apply for a medicare supplement insurance plan whenever you want. no enrollment window. no waiting to apply. that means now may be a great time to shop for an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company. medicare doesn't cover everythi

james clapper had a very different thought on the reality.ere's his take. >> there's absolutely no doubt about it. and the high confidence levels, the multiple sources of information we had and its high fidelity still leave me very convinced of the voracity of that report. and as far as others doing this, boy, that's news to me. we saw no evidence whatsoever there was anyone involved in this other than the russians. >> let's discuss with veteran georgia republican, senator saxby chapmbliss. he served on both the house and intel committees during his 20-year career on capitol hill. good to have you with us, sir. >> thanks, chris, good to be with you. >> so from what you've understand, what you've read, what you've been told, was it the russians that meddled during this election or was it them and somebody else? >> well, clearly, it was the russians. i'm not sure exactly what the president was talking about, but i agree with general clapper that we know the russians attempted to, at least attempted to interfere with the election. now, the inter

clapper went along with this -- thisthey didn't like is really ridiculous.t is stunning come of the things that people say about trump. i really think it is sad that people don't consider that there is no court case here. host: it turns out that there is. "the new york times" reporting this morning that the trump campaign is sued over league emails -- leaked emails. so now, there is a court case if a judge permits the case to reach that stage. you can read more in "the new york times." john in pennsylvania. you say yes. you're on the air. caller: good morning. let me say this first. cornell and the university of maryland did a study on people who listen to fox news or watch -- news no less than people know less than people who don't read any -- host: we've lost you there. sorry, you were breaking up. we didn't hear you. we heard the part about fox news. caller: fox news and info wars and michael savage, it's all junk. it's been junk for the last 20 years. the majority of the colors on callers on the, ask where they get their information from. trump is a life

i just saw general clapper last week. he was with a lot of the other intelligence chiefs and this was the big theme. orear away, two years away, three years away, doesn't make a big difference. the fact of the matter is it take so long to improve defenses, figuring out your next cyber attack on north korea's missiles. yup to start now as if they had it now. ,harlie: there is also this somebody said to me that in terms of america's strategy that we already base of this question -- we will have to do one of two things. the chinese are not going to do what we hope they are going to do. so, it is either living with north korea having the weapons potential or else we have to attack them. and the president will have to make that ethical decision knowing that if -- that if a cold decision knowing it will kill at least 200,000 people. is that wrong? david: it is probably right. there are some off ramps that. have to have a little bit of sympathy for donald trump, because every american president over the last four or five has kic

i'm kira clapper. as always, we'll be seeing fog in san francisco, but some areas you say will see triple digits. >> yeah, and san francisco will be one of the cooler spots today. they'll be climbing into the 70s. look at the south bay, already at 62 degrees. and along the peninsula, 54. and the tri valley, 62. for san francisco, also at about 54. yesterday it was very breezy, very cool in san francisco. but today we've got this ridge of high pressure that's building in on top of the bay area. that's going to warm up us very quickly and it's going to make us go into the triple digits in some spots. by about 12:00, already at 81 in east san jose, by 2:00, upper 80s. yesterday for the most part we were in the upper 80s. 90s in some spots. we'll be seeing triple digits in areas like concord, which is why there's a heat advisory that is expected today remain in effect until 9:00 p.m. tomorrow. that's because the temperatures in the highlighted areas could range anywhere between 94 to possibly 103 in some i

and clapper went out and qualified this number. saying all 17 didn't look at it. he obviously oversees all of them. they benefit from the collective intelligence. but they came to a reason of certainty they have no reason that self-serving to have founded. that's something that, chris, that gets lost in this mix. the intelligence community, they're in the business of being circumspect. few things are absolutes in their world. they have a hard time proving things in general. for them to come down so hard and to be undermined by their president abroad, right before he meets with the man whom they believe is responsible, that's really twisting things up in a knot in an unopportune time, is it not? >> yes. i stopped saying -- or tried to stop saying remarkable because there's so much that is, historical when it comes to what the president says and does and what this president says and does. absolutely. i really do believe that donald trump may be the lone republican elected official in the country at this point who is unwilling to say, yes, russia hacked the election.

denis mcdonough, expected today and former director of national intel, james clapper appeared yesterdayefore both the house and senate intelligence committee. all of this, as a source close to the house intel's review says the numbers of people involved in unmasking of names could grow to more than a half dozen former obama administration officials. here is joe manchin, a democrat. >> it doesn't matter who the person is and is on a witch hunt. the facts are what they are. our intel committee is working diligently to see if they get all of that presented to us. >> harris: while he did not confirm that more obama officials were being looked at, he said he would need to keep anyone in the loop of that intelligence. what's going on, what you think and? >> herman: i didn't know tap dancing had become an art form in the united states congress. that's what i expect from these hearings. susan rice, bless her heart, as my grandmother would say, she has two choices. take the fifth, or tap dance. that's what klapper has been doing all along. backtracking and tap dancing. that's what i expect. i ho

yesterday two of the former leaders of the intelligence community, james clapper and the former head of the cia, john brennan, were asked this by wolf blitzer, and here but their reaction to this meeting that took place last june. >> a lot of this to me had kind of the standard textbook trade craft long employed by the russians or the soviets and now into the russians. so i don't find it surprising that these connections are coming out. it would have been a really good idea maybe to have vetted whoever they were meeting with. >> just profoundly baffling why three of the senior-most members of a presidential campaign would jump at the opportunity to meet with individuals that were going to, according to what's been in the reports, provide information, dirt and information, on hillary clinton that was coming from the russian government. as jim said, that's not something that's, you know, you can engage in personally. if they want to find out what was involved you send a minion, you send someone else, but to go there with that, it raises a lot of questions. i think that's what the admin

this is a disastrous meeting with that result. >> director, last night we just saw james clapper.a is preparing the battlefield. that is what they were doing. they were testing a lot of things out and 2018 is going to be the real battlefield. should president trump accepted what is by gones is buy gones. >> rthey said not a word. let the cia fix it and let the russians continue to steal it. about two or three years later, as it started blowing up and taking out the entire soviet pipe lynn, reagan and casey smiled. >> you're saying don't mention anything? >> much more effective. now, if you have to mention something, i think you should be a bit grumpier than they were here. but mentioning something with the russians doesn't do much good unless you are in a circumstance like the one i was lucky enough to be in in '79, '80, '81 when their empire was collapsing because the berlin wall was collapsing. the russians were really nice when their empire collapsed. that's what you want. and the best way to get that to happen now is probably to drive down the price of oil, the thing they care

he just spoke moments ago to former director of national intelligence james clapper.'s listen to this exchange. >> the russian lawyer who was at that meeting, by the name of natalia investigation ve natalia veselnitskaya, she met with donald trump, jr. and paul manafort. we are now learning thanks to reuters she represented a military unit founded by the fsb, the successor russian agency to the kgb for a number of years. here's the question from an intelligence perspective, general. how risky was it for these three trump associates to meet with this woman during the campaign? >> well, understanding -- i guess i'm old school cold war warrior and all that. so, i have this truth in advertising, great suspicions about the russians and what they do. and a lot of this to me had kind of the standard textbook trade craft long employed by the russians or the soechl yviets a into the russians. so, i don't find it surprising that these connections are trying to -- are coming out. it would have been a really good idea maybe to have vetted whoever they were meeting with. i think t

for a 50 year career intelligence employee like james clapper that served republicans and democrats. there is deep disquiet about where the investigation is going and about trump's behavior toward vladimir putin. and brennon lamentented that it was an honor to meet putin. and he said this is a man who hacked and meddled in our oelection so why is it an honor to meet him. so a lot of angst here. >> and on friday, "the washington post" coming out from current and former officials saying that attorney general sessions did, indeed, speak with russian official about the campaign and potential policy movements or views from donald trump's inner circle. what do we know about that? >> that is right. this is a story that is brewing for a while, richard. nbc news reporting a while back that there were some questions about whether jeff sessions had an additional meeting that he hadn't disclosed at the may flower hotel with kislyak but there are now intercepts that suggests that kislyak told his bosses in moscow that he had subsequent meetings with jeff sessions around the republican national co

. >> i just also wanted to remind people of what the former head of intelligence, general clapper, had to say to me just the week before last about that compound in particular. vladimir putin today says return our compounds in maryland and long island. what would you say to president trump? >> why? as a reward for what? the compounds, particularly the one in maryland, that was a major intelligence operation, collecting intelligence against us. and so i don't see what the russians have done that would merit the return. >> certainly general clapper is making it clear what the intelligence community thought about what was going on in that compound. >> it would just be rewarding putin for both the spying at the compound and undermining or attempting to undermine our elections here. that would be outrageous. it would also tell all our allies overseas that we're not serious about protecting our own democracy and so they'll question our commitment to protecting theirs. >> and the president tweeted today about don jr.'s meeting with the russians that most politicians would have gone to a meeti

james clapper says he has seen no evidence of this whatsoever.e president seen evidence of this or is he making it up? >> no, i don't think he is making it up. i think he believes it. >> because he has seen something or he has a sense? hey, some sense the chinese were hacking, even though i see no evidence of it? >> when you look at his statement on the intelligence community, i don't think he meant it as a knock on him. good lord, the media in the bush era was all over the fact that the intelligence community said that there was -- there were weapons of mass destruction in iraq and then there weren't. so this is like saying the obvious here. i don't think it's meant to be a slur. he's just simply being cautious when it comes to this. and i will say, i think matt may be right here, that he did do a great speech today in poland. i mean, it's really, if i may say, reagan-esque. like reagan's speech in westminster. >> this is the least shocking thing haesz that's happened today, jeffrey lord, that you thought something the president said was reagane

national intelligence director james clapper say he's the american media is being tricked by russia into publishing fake news about self through the n.b.c. network said they'd received information on a story they suspected had been forged here is the explanation. at first glance it was just unbelievably red hot. if by any chance this document is real it is so sensitive so classified that i cannot show it to you that it's actually with just stickley difficult to validate something like this first things first kudos to rachel maddow for spotting red flags in that apparently fake documents and questioning the source the spite the potentially explosive headline let's just say it took quite a while for many in the mainstream media to do this with two former officials knowledgeable about the situation tells c.n.n. sources familiar with the matter tell the p.c. dues which of sources are telling us on the condition of anonymity sources oh because they're hiding behind this and they can now do you see us doing things does that mean that you're just going to attack sources to be exact over six mon

last year, former direct tore of national intelligence james clapper called the editing a potential weapon of mass destruction and congress banned turning gene-edited embryos into babies. in the lab, the embryos weren't allowed to develop more than a few days but the debate over what they may have started moves on. kristen dahlgren, nbc news, new rights. over billions and billions of dollars. for a little while today, amazon founder and washington post owner jeff bazos was the richest person on the planet but won't go to bed with that planet. he bought a fortress in washington and his net worth cla climbed to $90 billion. that's about what bill gates is worth. fluctuations in the market kept gates on top. with amazon's continued growth, he seems poised to take over as world's richest. >> you wonder if those two call each other up taunting each other. [ laughter ] >> this afternoon. i'm up now -- >> my goodness. >> i have something up my sleeve for later in the week. >> look out. [ laughter ] >> that's right. >>> i wish you had something up your sleeve to change the forecast. lot of outdoor

former director of national intelligence, james clapper, among those pushing back hard on the president's assertions. defense secretary james mattis says north korea's launch of the icbm capable of striking parts of the u.s. does not bring the united states closer to war. the white house insisting diplomacy is the still the first response. >>> let's begin with our sara murray who is live at the g-20 in hamburg. what are you hearing as a key, key meeting is about to take place? >> well, good morning, poppy. presidents trump and putin have actually already met this morning. they shook hands, but the substantiative meeting comes later, and you can bet that everything from their body language to their public comments, if they make any, will be scrutinized was a the world awaits this highly anticipated meeting. >> if putin likes donald trump, guess what, folks, that's called an asset. >> i hope we have a fantastic relationship. >> i don't love, i don't hate. we'll see how it works. >> reporter: after months of anticipation, president donald trump set to come face to face with russian president

last year former director of national intelligence james clapper called genome editing a potential weapon of mass destruction and congress has banned turning gene-edited embryos into babies. in that lab in oregon the embryos weren't allowed to develop more than a few days, but the debate over what they may have started lives on. kristen dahlgren, nbc news, new york. >>> there's lots more to come here tonight. up next, some controversial new thinking about taking antibiotics. >>> for years it's been doctor's orders, when you take antibiotics make sure you finish them even if you feel better. but british researchers are now saying that may not always be necessary. they found, for example, that in people who came down with pneumonia in the hospital a shorter course of antibiotics was just as effective as a longer course. and it was also associated with lower rates of recurrence and antibiotic resistance. but, as they always say -- and this is important -- check with your doctor first. >>> in florida there's new police body cam video out tonight showing how officers responded to that fatal ac

officials have used this type of rhetoric when describing other nations the cia's former director james clapper has been fairly outspoken in the past about russians. historical practices of the russians. typically almost genetically driven to watch. penetrate. to gain favor whatever is there any reason to believe that russia is not continuing to attempt to or to infiltrate us political organizations individuals all i'm quite sure they are. doing i think it's in their d.n.a. . one of those critical of american policies that target it with such rhetoric but on the broader but also inside the us as well the american philosopher i know i'm chomsky explain how the anti-americanism label is used by politicians and the latest episode of contact with chris hedges the full interview of valuable on our website and america's u. two page is a quick preview. suddenly critics of american empire american capitalism got tarred with this and he american is you know that american is a very interesting concept it's a concept that only exists to filter in states in the soviet union old soviet union you could be co

have used this type of rhetoric when describing other nations of the cia's former director james clapper as well rather outspoken about russians in the past and there are supposed genetics. the historical practices of the russians. typically almost genetically driven to co-opt. penetrate. to gain favor whatever is there any reason to believe that russia is not continuing to attempt to or to infiltrate us political organizations individuals all i'm quite sure they are. doing i think it's in their d.n.a. . but those critical of us policies that targeted with such rhetoric not only are broad but inside america as well in fact one of the country's most prominent intellectuals i know i'm chomsky explain how the quote americanism label is used by politicians at this all in the latest episode of on contact with chris hedges on all of the america the full interview available that are on our website. because you tube is a quick preview suddenly critics of american am american capitalism got tarred with this and he american is you know any american is a very interesting concept it's a concept that

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to do this. >> that's right. >> rose: that is the assumption we operate on. >> i just saw general clapper last week. he was out at the security forum with a lot of other of the intelligence chiefs. and this was a big theme. look, a year away or two years away or three years away, doesn't make that big a difference for american planning. because the fact of the matter is it takes so long to deploy improved defenses, fixing your missile defenses, figuring out your next cyberattack on north korea's missiles that you have got to start now as if they had it now. >> rose: there is also this. some have said to me who know something about what intelligence, what america's strategy is, that they are already faced with this he request. we either have to do one of two things. sanctions are not going to work. the chinese obviously are not going to do what we hope they are going to do. so it is either we have to live with the north koreans having the weapons potential or else we have to attack them. and the president is going to have to make their hard decision. known that if they attack them, they wi

and, you know, just yesterday two former leaders of the intelligence community, that's james clapper and the former cia director john brennan, addressed the other revelation that was revealed last week where a meeting that donald trump jr. had and manafort and some other folks with a russian lawyer and sort of their reaction to it was quite fiery. take a listen. >> a lot of this to me had kind of the standard textbook trade craft along employed by the russians -- or the soviets, and now into the russians. >> it raises a lot of questions, i think that's what the administration now is having to deal with. questions about what were the motives, what were people thinking at the time, they should have known a lot better, if they didn't, they shouldn't have been in those positions. >> so those meetings are now also part of the special counsel investigation. you know, yesterday cnn reported that they have asked -- the special counsel has asked the folks who were in that meeting to preserve e-mails and texts. so this is ongoing. this is now a new perhaps part of the investigation. and we rea

. >> james clapper there, former director of national intelligence at the aspen security forum yesterdayd kushner's security clearance. joining me now, congressman ted lieu, california democrat. congressman with a welcome to you from my hometown of l.a. there, you were among the very first to ask for kushner's clearance to be suspended. earlier this week i know that you signed a letter asking for ivanka's clearance to be reviewed. why? >> thank you, alex, for that question. let's just be clear. jared kushner lied on his first two security clearance forms. they're not memory failures. these were very important meetings with the russians, one involving a secret back channel and another one involving getting dirt on hillary clinton. you don't forget about those meetings. so when he omitted those on his security clearance forms, those are lies. he needs to be investigated and have those forms looked at again and his security clearance needs to be revoked immediately. ivanka trump also has security clearance. i think it would be prudent to review her filings as well. >> how about the new fina

national intelligence director james clapper says mosco could have been undermining reports on alleged russian medlock during the twenty sixteen presidential election on his own we've got more on the. heads up to everybody covering the alleged ties between trump and russia keep an eye out for extremely convincing force intelligence reports coming your way at first glance it was just unbelievably red hot. if by any chance this document is real it is so sensitive so classified that i cannot show it to you that it's actually with just a cli difficult to validate something like this first things first kudos to rachel maddow for spotting red flags in that apparently fake documents and questioning the source the spike the potentially explosive headline let's just say it took quite a while for many in the mainstream media to do this but two former officials knowledgeable about the situation tell c.n.n. the sources for those who we could better tell you p.c. news sources are telling us on the condition of anonymity sources oh because they're hiding behind this and they can now do you see us do