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former intelligence chief james clapper claims president trump is being handled as an asset by vladimir putin. on the first anniversary of the deadly christmas market attack in berlin germany's justice minister has admitted areas in their response to the atrocity ttyl to the people who lost loved ones. on the u.k. parliamentary committee talks fake news and alleged russian meddling in numerous country's elections but fails to even get its own facts straight. you're not used to say we would like to offer it to the point of view of the. he's holed up in the furnace for them. good evening and thanks for joining us my name is neil harvey this is our international. america's former intelligence chief james clapper claims that vladimir putin is handling donald trump as a resource for the grid case saucer. putin knows he knows how to handle it and that's what he's doing with the president. joining me live on the line now more big news in new york caleb just sum it up for is there why such a strong reaction. well the words from james clapper the former director of intelligence they were in reac

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that was former intelligence chief james clapper claims that president trump is being handled as an asset by vladimir putin. the first anniversary of the deadly christmas market attack in berlin germany's justice minister is admitting errors in their response to the atrocity he talks to people who lost loved ones. on the u.k. parliamentary committee talks break news and alleged russian meddling in numerous country's elections but fails to even get its facts straight. we would like to offer to the whole interview. he's holed up in the us one of them. very good evening my name's neil harvey this is r.t. international america's former intelligence chief james clapper claims that putin is handling donald trump as a resource. or putin knows he knows how to handle it and that's what he's doing with the president. now the details behind his claim . the words from james clapper the former director of intelligence they were in reaction to words from donald trump now we recently in a speech u.s. president donald trump emphasized the importance of cooperation between the u.s. and russia and pointed

us former intelligence chief james clapper claims president trump is being handled as an asset by vladimir putin. first anniversary of the deadly christmas market attack in berlin germany chancellor merkel admits errors in the government's response to the atrocity r.t. talks the people who lost loved ones. the u.k. parliamentary committee talks fake news and alleged russian meddling in numerous country's elections but fails to even get its own facts straight. used to say we would like to offer it to the point of view of the schools he's holed up in the zone as well that ends. well welcome to midnight here in moscow my name is neil harvey you're watching r.t. international first this hour america's former intelligence chief putin is handling donald trump as an asset after the russian president thanked the u.s. leader for sharing intelligence that helped to foil terrorist attacks in st petersburg. what a group q. source or one of them or putin knows he knows of the handle. of cooperation between the u.s. and russia and pointed out that u.s. forces and russian forces had recently collaborated

clapper in my last tour. i speak for not only myself, but in the of professionals intelligence, in protecting the integrity of humanity, which he led his -- the intelligence community from his role. he personifies the term leader. it is a special honor to be able to introduce you tonight. the other thing that shows the humility of that is i did a little bit of surveying some of his former teammates, and they said a favorite saying of his is that their job was to be in the engine room shoveling intel coal. i'm sure we will have more than from the conversation that he offers us today, so it is my distinct honor to invite mr. james clapper to the podium. thank you very much. [applause] mr. clapper: thanks very much. it's great to be here and i think i should first pay tribute and as wellholgate, as the gentleman sitting to her right, chris kojm. chris and i worked together when he served with great distinction as the chairman of the national intelligence council. if any of you are looking for a role model for pu

james clapper shared his thoughts on cnn today about putin's motive here. >> i think this past weekend is illustrative of what a great case officer vladimir putin is. you have to remember putin's background. he's a kgb officer. that's what they do. they recruit assets. and i think some of that experience and instincts of putin has come into play here, and his managing a pretty important account for him, if i could use that term, with our president. >> that was chilling. here to talk about all of it, the as for mentioned ken delaney and nbc news and also with us moderator and political analyst here on msnbc. ken, throw caution to the wind and your usual modesty out the window, tell us the chief takeaway from your own reporting today. >> and this is with my colleagues. we spent a while trying to break this out. this was a standard, high-level classified briefing given to both candidates shortly after they were officially nominated at their conventions and it was tied to their first intelligence briefings and it was designed to tell them they are now targets of foreign adversaries. of cou

>> i can't answer that. >> general clapper, is that accurate? >> yes, it is, and it's also quite sensitive. >> okay. let me ask you this. >> the specifics are quite sensitive. >> the specifics are quite sensitive. question was, over the spring of 2016, multiple european allies passed on additional information to the u.s. about contacts between the trump campaign and russians. is that accurate? yes. the specifics are quite sensitive. so confirmation yesterday from the former director of national intelligence when he was in a position to know because he was director of national intelligence then through 2016. he confirmed yesterday that multiple european allies passed information to the u.s. last year about contacts between the trump campaign and russians. confirmed. gulp. james clapper also had this to say when he was asked about the president's business interests in russia. >> general cpper, during your investigation of all things russia, did you ever find a situation where a trump business interest in russia gave you concern? >> not in the cour

but i think clapper was trying to be coy. i don't think mueller's going to be coy at all.ing to come up with a case whether he was actually a puppet or a puppeteer. >> well said. thank you, carol, great reporting for "the washington post," joyce vance, and malcolm nance. >>> up next, president trump reportedly talked about pulling neil gorsuch's nomination not supreme court over his concerns that he wouldn't be loyal. trump's pushing back on the news but it does fit into a pattern we've seen from this president, he wanted loyalty from everybody. fbi director comey and his supreme court nominees. this is "hardball," where the action is. some air fresheners are so overwhelming, they can... send you and your family running. introducing febreze one for fabric and air. no aerosols. no dyes. no heavy perfumes. it cleans away odors for a pure light freshness... so you can spray and stay. febreze one, breathe happy. >>> here's what's happening. crews have begun removing mangled train cars off the tracks after monday's amtrak derailment in washington state. three people were killed

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they recruit assets. >> those are tough words from clapper. a leading critic of the administration on this issue. this is probably the strongest thing we have heard for him. but it represents a kind of frustration that exists within the intelligence community about the kind of relationship that trump has had with putin and with the russians and why he won't be more forceful in separating himself on some of these issues. so i think clapper has some extreme words there, but he does reflect a level of frustration in the intelligence agencies of what's going ob. >> those were some eye opening remarks from clapper. thank you for being here. >>> no answers for congress means no judge shship for a tru nominee. it ends an embarrassing episode that had had one senator saying this. >> just because you have seen "my kcousin vinnie", you're not qualified to be a federal judge. lilly. she pretty much lives in her favorite princess dress. but once a week i let her play sheriff so i can wash it. i use tide to get out those week old stains and downy to get it

but to come back to general clapper -- i'm not holding my breath. to come back to general clapper. the president of treason essentially. he's saying that he is a witting russian agent. if he's got evidence for that i would like to hear it. this paranoia really is causing enormous negative consequences for our democratic institutions and to go back to your earlier discussion about the independent counsel, unless there is evidence of collusion, of which we have seenin none so far, i really think there's got to be a way to drawh this investigation on that score to an end. and really to narrow the dimension of mueller's probe. it is a real danger comedies independent counsel's. they are out of control, they are not supervised. it's dangerous.he >> jeanine: unethical at the same time. ambassador bolton, thank you so much for being with us. >> glad to be with you. >> jeanine: coming up, more reaction to president trump's major america first national security speech. dan bongino and jessica tarlov are next. stay with us. ♪ you won't see these folks at the post office. they have businesses

>> he may have been speaking figuratively, but clapper is very careful.st sort of willy-nilly use words like that, and i think from any perspective, it's clear that putin is playing trump, he's playing up to trump's desire to be liked and trump's desire to be viewed as different than president obama. but what i liked most about jim clapper's statement is to remind us that this is actually not about donald trump. we, today, a national security strategy was announced. we have a homeland to protect. we have elections this year, and we have done absolutely nothing to defend our self. so, while trump may view this about himself, it really is about our democracy, and it's sort of worth all of us remembering that each time we think about the indictments or, you know, whether mueller should have had those e-mails. i mean, it's all irrelevant to the fact that the story is that russia took advantage of our democracy and will do so again in the year to come. >> juliette, john, thank you very much. i appreciate your time. >>> when we come back, why the trump administ

sunday, a conversation with the former director of national intelligence, james clapper.here are times when you do have to be tough with people. by and large, what i have found in my 50 plus years in the intel business is that people want to do the right thing. they want to do the mission. they want to do well and excel. you just have to create an environment where that can happen. leadership and intelligence is only about motivating others to use their intellects. that is one of the great things from a diversity standpoint about the intelligence community . it is all about your brain. it doesn't matter your ethnic group, sexual preference, none of that matters. your mind is what counts. the interesting work that you have the opportunity to engage in. i consider that a leadership laboratory. it will be in the book. i thought i would mention it in the context of leadership. i think the one factor that has changed the that hasnce community changed the intelligence community more than anything else looking back historically is technology. when we had traumas like 9/11, that

director clapper, great to have you with me. twice in four days, how unusual is that? for any head of state engagement, particularly when it's with the head of state of russia, this very solicitous tie log that's gone on here, i think in stark contrast against the backdrop of the profound existential threat that russia holds with this count. i would expect that would have gott gotten more prominent billing than it has. the manner in which the president's conducting business with russia. >> i want to ask you about what he said, versus what's in the plan. the president also spoke specifically about a terror plot that the cia called st. petersburg and warned them. >> i got a call from president putin thanking our caa for information on a major attack in st. petersburg, could have been killed. >> they were able to apprehend these terrorists before the event. >>s what your reaction, director, the fact that the president said this publicly? he goes out and said the caa shared intelligence with russia. >> it's normally not done. >> this is something we the u.s. intelligence c

clapper, thank you very much for joining us.tweeted about the republican tax bill and he endorsed roy moore. a top white house person here next. ♪ ♪ give a little bit ♪ ♪ give a little bit... -hello. ♪ give a little bit... ♪ ... of your love to me oh, haha. ♪ there's so much that we need to share ♪ ♪ so send a smile and show that you care ♪ ♪ i'll give a little bit of my love to you ♪ >>> this president has been obsessed with this investigation, always saying there's nothing there. each week another shoe drops. >> there is no evidence of collusion. but if there was, flynn would know whether he effectively asked him to drop this case. >> the firing of the director comey is directly because he did not agree to lift the cloud of the russia investigation. that's obstruction of justice. >> we followed the regular order. we didn't do anything that you could foul afoul. >> if that is regular order, i would hate to see anything else. >> largest tax decrease in the history of our country. >> the very people they say they are going to hel

earlier, i spoke to james clapper. this was his response. >> that is absurd. concern at the time, not with just this particular contact, but with the violation of the principle that's normally been followed of one president, one administration at a time. and that was what gave rise, because of all these contacts, that mike was having and others in the transition with the russians and other foreign enemies, as what was this all about? so to say that we blessed it or acquiesced in it is a stretch. what is is your reaction to today's news that flynn has pleaded guilty, specifically to lying to the fbi about conversations he was having with the russian ambassador? >> well, it's dramatic, but not surprising. it was kind of my take. it is, in a sense with respect kind of a tragedy, given the service, long and distinguished service that he rendered in the army, over 30 years. lots of deployed time in iraq and afghanistan. you have to acknowledge that. i think the overall arching implication for me, the first thing that came to mind is that, at least right now the rul

to be clear, in this interview, because i followed up a number of times with director clapper.igu figurati figuratively. he was not alleging that the president is a russian asset, but he made clear he believes putin is working him as such. that's a remarkable charge to make. is he alone in that concern? >> i don't think it's any surprise. everybody knows that vladimir putin is a former officer in the kgb, that he's a very savvy and skilled politician. and that russia has an agenda, not only for its region in the world but in geopolitics generally. it is no surprise he would do everything possible to work over a rookie president who has never served in government before, that is now dealing with the vast apparatus that is the united states government, and all of our relationships in the world. so that's not a surprise at all. >> congressman castro, many thanks, and happy holidays. merry christmas to you. >> merry christmas. >> "outfront" next, the white house gets defensive when asked why three of trump's judicial picks in the past week alone could not pass muster. >>> and new q

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that's just not something that director clapper has said. other folks have echoed that. think this white house is clearly a little bit sensitive for obvious reasons about president trump. any assertions that president trump is kind of under the thumb of president putin, but it's not out of the ordinary to suggest that. >> kevin, yesterday the president released his national security plan. but despite evidence of russia interfering with the u.s. election and almost it seems the unanimous opinion of all of the national security leaders in the country, including in the trump administration that he did, the president did not call out putin by name for election interference in his speech. why not? >> well, i think it's a mistake not to. i think, you know, the -- if you look at the document itself, the national security blueprint, as a codified policy, it's a pretty strong one. in many ways, i think it's conventional gop or conventional republican national security policy. then there are the actions. what has the president done to actually show that he's taking action against

you the russians are genetically prone to doping that's what the media are just quoting the james clapper the for you former us the net is director of national intelligence who said russians are genetically predisposed towards to see things can you imagine that a statement being waged against any other ethnic group like in the u.s. and what would happen to an official you are so exactly well it's different for russians because most of phobias the anti-semitic but let's be christian most countries right there is evidence of that but this politicized move to be banned right.

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that's what he is doing with the president. >> here's what clapper went on to say that he meant that in a figure ative way. but i'm curious your reaction to his comment. >> i agree with jim particularly since he qualified it saying he is speaking in a figuratively way. putin is a case officer. case officers attempt to influence other people we got this little tool we use, how do you influence others, money, ideology, compromise, ego. putin will pull the level that's most of use to him in all of his relationships, so it's not surprising he would try to do it with our president and frankly in this case the technique that seems most prominent the one he appears to be most using is appeal to ego. >> this is former attorney general of the united states -- kentucky . . are you concerned that our country could be move ago way from the dem rdemsc democracy t country was founded on. >> missia yates is pointing out something quite real on the institutions under cutting of legitimatecy -- she went on to talk about the critical role of truth in sustaining the american democracy and see that as w

james clapper: there are times when you have to be tough with people but by and large i have found in my 50 plus years in the intel business is people want to do the right thing. want to do the mission well and they want to excel in it. you have to create an environment where it can happen. leadership and intelligence i guess is about motivating others to use their intellects. that is a great thing from a thersity standpoint about community. it is all about your brain. it does not matter what your ethnic group is, gender, sexual preference. none of that matters. it is your mind, that is what counts in the intelligence community. the interesting work you have the opportunity to engage in. i consider it a leadership laboratory in the book. i thought i would mention it because in the context of leadership. looking back, one factor that has changed the intelligence community, the thing address changed it more than anything else historically is technology. when we had traumas like 9/11, yes, that had an impact. reorganizations, which i think are highly overrated,

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gloria, this is the same kind of thing that general michael hayden has said reportedly and clapper ands. ominous remarks coming from the president of the united states. >> it's a pretty apocalyptic. and i think it's the way obama feels. that we're going through something that we all need to pay attention to now. the interesting thing to me, though is that president obama is not in alabama. campaigning for jones. and i think the reason he is not doing that is that perhaps democrats feel that that would not necessarily help. you know, you haven't seen a lot of high-profile democrats down there. you have some african-americans, cory booker, john lewis, who will go to alabama for moore and joe biden went in october, but i think there's a sense that if someone like obama went in, like he went into northern virginia, but i think there was a sense that he ought to not go into alabama, particularly with, you know, he feels so strongly about this. how he feels about this race. and you know how he feels about what's going on in the country. if you listen to that. so it's interesting to me that h

joining us now former director of national intelligence and national security analyst george clapper. fears that president's retweets could spark violent protests in middle east, do you share the concerns? >> i do. i have lived through this in previous incidences of inflammatory videos which can really incite people in certain parts of the mideast. i recall our closing temporarily two dozen or so diplomatic facilities because of the concern about safety and security of diplomatic missions. these things have a way of inciting -- may think they're innocuous. in certain parts of the world, they are not. tweeting is a great way to communicate, i just wish the president would exert more discretion and have people fact check things before he tweets them out. because some of these -- to me, this is -- smacks of recklessness. if not abject carelessness. it's very concerning to me to see this unnecessary risk to our people overseas. >> you know, radical islamists are one thing, britain first, they're accosting muslims on the streets of england, obviously many people in the united states who tr

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. >> let's listen to something that james clapper said on cnn today in reaction to the series of phone calls that donald trump has had with vladimir putin in the last few days. >> i think this past weekend is illustrative of what a great case officer vladimir putin is. you have to remember putin's background. he's a kgb officer. that's what they do. they recruit assets. and i think some of that experience and instincts of putin has come into play here in his managing of pretty important account for him if i could use that term with our president. >> natasha, the president of the united states, an asset of russian intelligence. >> well, what's fascinating about this is that he is very, very quick to trash the intelligence community when it, you know, says that he has campaigned perhaped cultivated by russia and russia helped them. and then thwart an attack in russia. we saw a press release by the white house saying thank you to the cia that vladimir putin actually called trump to thank him directly for, you know, giving him this intelligence to prevent a major terror attack and seemed l

intelligence chief james clapper claims president trump is being handled as an asset. in the first anniversary of the deadly christmas market attack in brooklyn germany's chancellor merkel it's what terrorists in the government's handling of the tea party his from people who lost loved ones that day . u.k. parliamentary committee talks fake news and rush says allegedly meddling country's election but struggles to even get some of its basic facts straight. used to say we would like to offer to alter the points of view of the same people that she feels he's holed up in the venezuelan m's.

intelligence chief james clapper claims president trump is being counseled if an outfit by vladimir putin. on the first anniversary of the deadly christmas market attack in burnet germany's chancellor merkel myth that there were errors in the government's handling of the atrocity. under u.k. parliamentary committee talks fake news and russia's allegedly meddling in numerous countries the election and struggles to even get some of its basic facts straight. we can read all about those stories on our website r.t. dot com we'll be back in an hour's time with your world news update right now though the kaiser report discusses china's ban on foreign.

eventually, this percolated to james clapper, the director of national intelligence and mike vickers,hey realized they had a problem on their hands. >> two years into his three-year term, clapper and vickers pull the plug on flynn. >> they went to flynn and said, you are going to serve your two years and then you are going to retire. he was deeply wounded by that. really bitter and upset. >> someone in the army that gets that high, they are very ambitious. they are a workaholic. the job is their entire life. now all of that is taken out from under him. so, yeah, he was livid. >> for the first time in $33 ye years he was a civilian. >> i know he wanted to be like a lot of the people in washington that leave the military and go out and make a lot of money. >> he forms a security consulting firm, the flynn intel group. the following year begins cultivating clients and joins the ranks of former military officials on the paid speaker circuit. controversy rears its head. his appearance at the 2015 anniversary of russia today raises eyebrows. >> president obama thinks he is containing isis.

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i think that the jim clapper is is making a very important point here though.n most how to spot people's motivation, people's vulnerabilities, the basis of the human intelligence endeavor as we know it. and he has done a very successful job of identifying those elements of trump, which he can leverage and manipulate. trump wears it his sleeve. he tweets every day what his thoughts are so it's not that difficult for somebody who understands people and has been traineded to manipulate people to attempt to do this with donald trump. >> and you do wonder, we had a guest on earlier who was saying that every time trump tweeting for example about his fbi deputy director, say iing negative things, russia is sitting back enjoying all of this. thank you so much for that. >> sure. >>> coming up, the trump resort at the center of the news. how mar-a-lago has had a front row seat to history during year one of the trump presidency. we'll be back. ... it could be b. it's time to shake things up. with the capital one venture card, you get double miles on everything you buy, no