brethren nap clapper, comey. they are pan enriqueed because now we will get a chance to look under the hood bill o'reilly barthehoot. bill barr or -- joe biden in that white house, did he know anything we have to ask that question and find out. reporters in this town, other than this place should care about it and barely do. jedediah: if you care whether russia was interfering in the elections which you should. you should also care about what the origins of this investigation are. when you find there was no conspiring of the russians on the part of the trump campaign you have to wonder what led to all of this? this is a lot of taxpayer dollars gone into investigations. once again, you cannot care about how much money went into the benghazi investigation but not care how much money went into this investigation. be consistent across the board. griff: talking about caring about things there are thousands more apprehended on the border. this crisis continues. it is memorial day weekend. officials tell me it's going t

lou: president obama responsible for that, said james clapper. what to make of it.ning us tonight, victoria toensing, former deputy attorney general for the criminal division of the justice department, joe digenova, former u.s. attorney for the district of columbia, founding partners of the digenova and toensing law firm. let me ask you first to react to the statement by the former dni, james clapper, which seems to be straight forwardly evidence of the former president's involvement in this witch hunt. victoria. >> well, if president obama were so good, why didn't he stop it. now let me see, what are we talking about this involvement. a few hundred,000 dollars worth of ads and hacking into the computer account of the dnc allegedly because we really don't know because they never turned their computers over to the fbi. this is this big hurrah about the thing that didn't do anything to affect the election? i mean, it's really -- it's pathetic. the message messaging though bye democrats is so gad pap they have it out that 40% of the american people think the russians g

let me ask you first -- to react to the statement by the former dni, about james clapper which seemsaightforwardly evidence of the -- the former president's involvement in this witch hunt. victoria. >> if president obama were so good why didn't he stop it? now let me see what are we talking about this involvement? a few hundred thousand dollars worth of ads and hacking into the computer account of the dnc allegedly because we really don't knoww because they never turned their computers over to the fbi. this is this big -- about this little thing that didn't do anything to affect a the elections. i mean, it is really pathetic the messaging, though, by the democrats is always so good that they have it out that 40 some% of the american people they that russians got into a ballot machine and change them. >> well, it was -- two and a half years of nonsense, joe, and the attorney general is really making an interesting point now talking about specifically district court judges and what is, obviously, a concerted effort obama appointed clinton appoint judges to block his agenda and a frustr

james baker, peter strzok, lisa page, maybe john brennan and james clapper. certainly christopher steele and glenn simpson. >> running the exoneration of hillary. what about biden and obama and meetings that supposedly took place in the oval office about these very topics? >> well, that should have been covered in the first report that came out last may. and so it's unclear to me whether or not the ig will revisit it in his second report. >> sean: jason is in for us friday night and look forward to having him actually a week from friday i think. anyway, coming up, the left, liberals the media have been calling senator lindsey graham calling on him to resign, real have any explain why he is not going anywhere. denver has decriminalized psychodelics, wait until you see the video lawrence jones got from the mile high city. it is worse than you think and more straight ahead. ♪ ♪ after walking six miles at an amusement park... bill's back needed a vacation from his vacation. so he stepped on the dr. scholl's kiosk. it recommends our best custom fit orthotic to rel

compile this all together,r, and what you can see is that clapper, brennan, john brennan, clapper, and james comey are fighting back tooth and nail. and those in the bureaucracy that support them are doing the same. and they are trying to stop a.g. barr from getting the information. but now president trump has authorized the declassification, and he has given barr full authority to examine that information and make it public. and that's what the intelligence sources that i have spoken to says needs to happen, and the american people deserve the truth. >> sean: all the good people in the intel committee. it is not a matter of if, it is all coming. sara, thank you, the five buckets as we always talk about. while we actively search for truth every night on this program, then you have the media mob, theh 99%. by the way, every newsroom in america failed the american people.. isn't it interesting that the talk show hosts, the ones that yes, we do investigative reporting, straight reporting, we give opinion. we are honest about opinion. we even do sports and culture, isn't it funny that it t

you don't know clapper, brennon, comey. the three come in to give you information about the government's cherished secrets two. of the three leave, leaving comey behind. comey to share something so sacred with the president, turns out to be the steele dossier, which the president himself would know was true or wasn't true. so what is he to conclude? he knows it's not true. concludes that james comey is trying to lord something over him, cold something over him, as the fbi director to the incoming president. >> sean: interesting thing, ari, three months earlier he signed a fisa want verifying it's true as an official law enforcement, the head of the most prestigious law enforcement in the world, the fbi. >> yeah. the justice department is looking into this. >> and that blackmail operation, remember comey talked about going to see then-president-elect trump in the oval office with president obama, then vice president biden, susan rice, they all talked about that outreach to then-candidate -- then-president-elect trump. i thin

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james clapper served as director of national intelligence. latest book, "facts and fears: hard truths from a life in intelligence" is coming out d herrow in paperback joins us now. welcome back to the "newshour". congratulations on the paperback. >> thanks, j>y. > woodruff: general clapper, the trump administration has been talking a lot in the lass few webout the threat from iran. they've increased u.s. military esence in the persian gulf. a lot of confusion around this situation. my question to you is shoulde th a standard of proof for any evidence an administration provides as a justification, as a proof of this threat talking about? >> well, i think there should be, particularly if we're going to send sons and daughters in to harm's way in a situation like this. a lot of the rhetoric we're seeing today , is i think, reminiscent of the same sort of approach, pa apparently, with north korea, kim jong un, where we go from fire and fury love affair, and it seems that this inconsistent rhetoric is a mayb hallmark. i don't think that's a good t

we'll set clapper straight again attorney dylan join us. >> it's really a tough situation because my son, i guess over 20 hours testifying about something that mueller said was 100% okay and now they want him to testify again. i don't know why i have no idea why. but it seem very unfair to me. >> and joining us now to take up that question and much more hair immediate dylan managing partner at the dylan law group and republican national committee woman for the state of california. it is great to have you with us let's get to the president's question. why? and we have received word they've with the committee -- worked out a deal where he will indeed appear for one to two hours, and on a narrow basis respond to questions. >> well, i can't think of a proper legislative purpose or an oversight role for the senate or the house to be asking for the questions. this -- inquiry is over the democrats need to accept and come to terms with fact that they lost and there was nothing there. and the only thing that could be gaining but hauling somebody in

if you see james comey in argentina or james clapper somewhere where they can't be extradited then you know we are getting close. when these people start leaving, i am half joking. it hasn't started yet but man, are they nervous. shannon: half joking but who do you think should be nervous at this point? >> both of them should be nervous, the fbi director, the cia director, the reason why is the appointment by william barr of mister durham, the us attorney in connecticut to take a look at all this. the reason why is if william barr who is no and it state guy, he started in the cia, appointed a us attorney, means you think there's some grounds for criminal investigation. there is already an investigation in the justice department going on with the inspector general used the way he did the fisa warrants but to bring someone in to conduct a criminal investigation that should have people worried. shannon: the latest one we found out about, weeks that he has been on this job, maybe longer. in the meantime we have brennan and comey pointing the finger, is in him? i didn't want to rely on it,

that's what jim clapper was telling us. you've heard members of congress say that.s that a plausible concern? >> well, setting aside the schizophrenic argument that it is that it is cover up at the time as you are shedding light on an issue.d [laughter] >> tucker: it's millers, yes. >> it's hard to take seriously. if you set that aside think about the executive order at issue here. the president didn't just say, release it. and by the way, he has absolute authority to control what is classified and what is not classified. here he has asked the attorney general to work with the heads of the intelligence community, including the director of national security to look at these documents, redact what needs to be redacted and release what can be released. i see that as a thoughtful approach to the classification issue. >> tucker: so if you are the head of one of these agencies. if you are chris wray for example fbi he is fighting against any declassification effort, that's kind of the classification posture of a washington bureaucrat of an agency that he wants to protect

are scared to death that the highest echelon within some of these agencies specifically brennan and clapper and perhaps rice and some of these other people on the way were doing some things that they shouldn't have been doing. and that exposure scares them to death and they are projecting out by saying hey, we shouldn't release this information. donald trump should actually be winning awards from the sunlight foundation and others for his openness and transparency not this schizophrenic approach by adam schiff who says it's unamerican to actually look under the hood and hold people accountable. pete: have you dealt with a deluge of d.c. talking points before. when you see the entire other side start using the phrase cover-up, cover-up, cover-up. is this just messaging? do they really think they can lie to the american people and pretend like it's trump that's covering up? >> covering up what? he was exonerated. there was no collusion. what he is doing is he is exposing. and you would think that the media would be jumping up and down and saying my goodness the president is doing what barack

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you know, i have a problem when you have comey and clapper and brennan.hey're all out here having the town halls. they had the ma mantle of doing intelligent type of work and then they go to talk to the american people as they know something the rest of us don't know. what is your take on the comments from mr. comey? >> st. james comey, the same as any other interview. he is always right. he gets to write the moral script. if you deviate from that, if you're rod rosenstein you lack character. if you're somebody else, your soul has been eaten. what i think back to, jason, when i asked comey how did the russia investigation get started? who started it? he didn't know it was peter strozk. he never read the initiation document. look. you and i served together for a long time. i defend law enforcement as vigorously as any member of congress ever has but that does not mean there are not opportunities for oversight. comey refuses to believe any of the decisions could be looked at. so he is always right. everybody else is wrong. he and clapper and brennan are val

good morning, director clapper. it's very good and important to have you on all this news that happened overnight. let's talk about the significance really standing shoulder to shoulder with kim jong-un while he's in japan and siding with him over not only prime minister shinzo abe, but his own national security adviser john bolton, all while he's in japan. how big is that? >> it's big, but it's not surprising or inconsistent with the president's previous behavior, not the first time he's contradicted the national security adviser or others on his cabinet, his team. it's clear the north koreans are not happy with the state of affairs right now since the failure of the hanoi summit and typical north korea, when they want attention, they do something like this. despite all the wordsmithing, this was a ballistic missile test and it does contravene u.n. security counsel resolutions. the fact he's in japan on a state visit and these missiles do pose a threat to japan even though they may not pose a threat to the united s

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james clapper. director, thank you for joining us this evening. i got to get your reaction to the president giving the attorney general authority to declassify and release information about 2016 election interference. >> well, that could be concerning, because there's already been so much information declassified already that particularly in the form of the mueller report, and the previous indictments going back to our original intelligence community assessment that we did in january of '17. i wonder what else is going to . i don't know. >> according to a memo released by the white house, it says the heads of each department or agency that includes an element of the intelligence community should provide such assistance and information as the attorney general may request in connection with that review. what does this do to the people in those agencies? >> well, the currently serving ones it doesn't do much of anything. i think looking to the future, and i'm particularly concerned about the fbi and the already i think damage has been done there. in

so what was your reaction, general clapper? >> well, first, i thought it was, as has been noted, classic bob mueller, understate d but i think he clearly thought about every word. and i'll just reinforce a point that jake made earlier. i think the most important thing he said was at the end, and that is about the russian interference in our election and the attempt to damage one of the candidates. and what an important message that is for the american people. i really resonate strongly about that, i've felt strongly about this ever since we did our intelligence community assessment about this and delivered to president obama on the fifth of january of 2017 and president-elect trump the next day. and i thought it was a very compelling but understated but compelling rebuttal of a lot of the attacks on him and his team and i thought in a gentle way, it was kind of a pushback on attorney general, as well. >> well, he made it clear that his conclusion, the conclusion of his investigators is exactly the same as the u.s. intelligence

when you see them they are often critical of the administration clapper is called president trump having the nuclear codes pretty damn scary his words. is this symptomatic of an institutional political bias within the intelligence community let's ask former cia counterterrorism specialist and military intelligence officer philip giraldi and former pentagon official michael maloof welcome thank you thank you very gently who spent twelve years as a cia analyst is now a prophet georgetown and columbia university's recently wrote he reckons that a considerable body of evidence much of it fragmentary indicates that many cia people have left leaning political preferences but less evidence shows that political bias influences cia analyses fill our president has introduced the term deep state into our lexicon based on your experience is it a stretch to fret that the intelligence community has become so politicized as to potentially impact the direction of u.s. policy or even the outcome of an election well i think i would have to agree that it has become that politicized but there are important

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comey and brennan and clapper, they didn't defend the dossier because it was written by a known liar as you pointed out in the monologue. so instead, they pivoted and said they had all these legitimate concerns about george papadopoulos. here's what we are going to verify, the source that papadopoulos might've been talking to russians. there was western intelligence set to spy on papadopoulos and there's a recording and transcriptul of the conversatio. papadopoulos denies any illegal conspiracy between the trump campaign and russia. they had evidence presumablysu that was against papadopoulos and for him. what they will ever be able to defend is that they never presented that evidence to the fisa court. >> sean: they were warned by bruce ohr, august 2016. they were warned by this woman at the state department ten days prior to the signing of the first fisa application. now we know on this whole new level you're describing, though they are withholding exculpatory information from the fisa court despite on an opposition party campaign? >> absolutely. this is what attorney general barr

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there is accusations and there is evidence to suggest that clapper leaked information.ossibly brennan leaked information. they don't want to legitimately have the government, the department of justice investigate, investigate what happened in the 2016 election. why? because maybe they were involved? no. it stops here. the president did the right thing. he did it right way. william bar has an investigation and the american people deserve answers. >> jason: congressman winstrop you serve on the intel committee and the ways and means. we should note to the viewers this memorial day, great service for the united states military. i believe you are the rank of the colonel. maybe i should call you "colonel." break this down for us. you have seen leaks from the intel committee under schiff's leadership and what the democrats have seen. what do you think the president's directive will do and what will it mean for the committee? >> what it means for the committee and the country is a chance to get to the truth and justice. i like the beginning of "superman" as a kid. truth, justi

the former director of national intelligence, james clapper, is here in "the situation room" with us.cnn national security analyst. thanks very much for coming in. >> thanks, wolf. >> all right. here's the clip from what the president said today. listen to this. >> mr. president, did you address the election meddling issues that came up in the mueller report with mr. putin today? >> we discussed it. he actually sort of smiled when he said something to the effect that it started off as a mountain, and it ended up being a mouse. but he knew that because he knew there was no collusion whatsoever. >> did you ask him not to med e meddle? >> we did not discuss that. really we didn't discuss it. >> is the president emboldening russia by having a one-hour phone conversation with putin and then telling all of us he didn't even discuss russian meddling in the 2016 election and the threat that is going to do the same in the 2020 election? >> well, i think, yes, he is. i think both leaders, president putin and president trump, are in a state of denial for different reasons. in putin's case, obvio

we have james clapper who is the director of national intelligence in the obama administration with uswas republican senator john cornyn who asked why didn't obama administration do more about russian interference starting back in 2014 when they were warned by the intel community that this was going to be an issue, that russia was going to try to influence the election? what do you say to that question? >> well, first of all, there's a long, long history of soviet and then russian interference in our election process going back to at least 1960s, so, unfortunately, you know, there's a certain ambient level of russian activity that we kind of anticipated. for me, just speaking for me through '15 and '16 we began to see and by the way all truth isn't revealed in one day, that as this unfolded we gained more and more insight into what the russians were doing and the magnitude of it, and certainly by the summer of '16 it was very, very disturbing, certainly to me personally. i've seen a lot of bad stuff in 50 years in intelligence but nothing this bothered me as much as this, so, yeah, spe

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comey and brennon and clapper, folks in the media none of them were telling the truth.alk about exactly that, former federal prosecutor and best selling author, sidney powell. great to have you with us. ed a john radcliffe said, this is an attorney general who obviously means business. how soon can we expect to see something material, in your opinion, about the origins and real consequences, real accountability for those who perpetrated this conspiracy to overthrow the president? >> i think it's going to start with the inspector general's first report on the leaks with respect to probably mr. comey and others in the fbi within the next few weeks. and then the massive report on the fisa abuses, i think the attorney general said to expect by the end of june at the latest. those are going to be blockbuster reports and they would expect that they're not going to be as tamped down as the prior report of the inspector general was by people inside the department of justice. i think these are going to be doozies. lou: doozies, i like that. and john hoover, just to bring up a na