we'll be speaking with clint watts this hour, he is a national security analyst about anything that erin was outlining there. >>> and more breaking news, the president once again threatening to withhold funding from schools if they don't open in the fall and as more officials impose face mask mandates, president trump is vowing to do the opposite >> i want people to have a certain freedom. and i don't believe in that, no. and i don't agree with the statement that if everybody wore a mask everything disappears everybody said don't wear a mask and now all of a sudden everybody has to wear a mask and masks cause problems too with that said, i'm a believer in masks i think masks are good but i leave it up to the governors. i do say this, schools have to open young people have to go to school and there is problems when you don't go to school and there is going to be a funding problem, when they don't open the schools, we're not going to open them and give them money if they are not going to school. >> josh, we listened to p this wide-ranging interview and the president was addressing issues t

also with me is clint watts, fellow at the foreign policy research institute. is fbi career in port laland portland, oregon. joyce vance, the attorney general of oregon filed suit against the federal government and that suit was dismissed yesterday. the argument was that the state did not prove that it had standing in this matter. for people like me, people watching this who have copies of the constitution, the first amendment seems to protect peoples right to protest. i wouldn't have guessed that the state of oregon would need to have standing in this, but this is what those of us who are not lawyers don't understand. >> standing is a technical legal issue in every lawsuit. you have to be properly classified under the law in order to bring a lawsuit preparing claims like the state of of gon dregon did here. i would not be unduly distressed by this dismissal. i suspect we'll see others step up with plaintiffs who have proper standing and these claim also proceed in federal court. this is just a little bump in the road. >> clint, there's a separate issue here, i

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also with us, former fbi special agent clint watts. a national security contributor for us.me to you both. kim, the snarky way to put this is, no matter where you live if you thought all your city was missing was a secret police force on the streets, you may be in luck rather soon it will be interesting to see what happens in chicago where mayor lori lightfoot has said in no uncertain terms they're not welcome. >> yes, and look, president trump gave the game away yesterday when he essentially said that this is way for him to set himself apart from joe biden. this is a campaign move, this is not about law and order and it's a very comfortable campaign spot to engage in this sort of culture war, divisive racial messaging. remember, brian, his appeal to black voters back in 2016, they were living in hell holes and what do they have to lose? he's promised a federalized police response to crack down on them. that was a dog whistle to his white supporters who were motivated by racial grievance and fear and so he's entrenched right into that as he's leading into his attempt to be r

joining me now, former fbi special agent clint watts, author of the book "messing with the enemy." much, clint, for being with us. this is obviously very troubling. what do you think russia is up to? and now we hear the attorney general says china is also hacking vaccine sources. >> yeah, there's an international race to get this vaccine, the covid-19 vaccine. and russia is a country that really is signaling that they can't do it internally, they just don't have much capacity in terms of health research or production. so there is an opportunity. one thing they do have is hackers and hackers that are prolific and successful. so you're seeing what looks like some sort of intelligence coordination on the part of the u.s., canada, and the uk, who says, hey, we know who this group is, we saw them before in the election of 2016, and we see what they're trying to do, to gain this intellectual property. whichever country can produce this vaccine at scale can protect their population and get back on their feet. it probably is the single most valuable thing in the history of our country in re

. >> former fbi agent clint watts was called to testify before the committee. >> follow the trail ofns. there's been more dead russians in the past three months that are tied to this investigation who have assets in banks all over the world. they are dropping dead even in western countries. >> reporter: so much of this intrigue and violence may seem very far away but when nbc news consulted paul joyal was shot just a few miles from the capitol. he and his wife immediately thought it was a hit. a big reason, the timing. >> it's four days after i've accused the president of being responsible for the horrible murder of litvinenko on your network. >> reporter: in early 2007 joyal appeared in a "dateline" report on the litvinenko case. >> did putin order it? did he know it? we can't say that. i would find it hard to believe that this information, whatever it may be, has not filtered its way up to the top. >> reporter: just four days later he was almost murdered himself. do you think they were related? >> i don't think there's any doubt. >> people out in the general public say oh, that's i

let's bring in former fbi agent clint watts. i go to the election, clint, and i worry.o us about what you can you tell us what this means. >> i'm sure, you, mika, me, everybody that saw that former vice president biden's twitter account, president obama, imagine if it's election day. there's information about polling players or it smears or maligns a candidate, this is a natural thing to worry about. i'm sure this is on the mind of everyone trying to defend the election. even worse if you're a main stream media outlet doing reporting on vote counts. think of the implications here, if someone put out false number s, it would send the world into chaos. it happened so far in front of the election, silver lining, that twitter has the ability to investigate this and prepare for the election day and let's hope they can stop something like this from happening again. >> it's willie, let's step back. what happened? i know it's early, less than 24 hours ago, but how could someone seize such control of such prominent twitter accounts? could they do it for facebook? obviously faceb

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>> i think it was clint watts who said the most dangerous period in american history might be from november 4th until january 21st, 2021 who knows what a cornered autocrat will do i know it's been relatively easy to predict his behaviors because he will do whatever is the worst and as we have seen in portland, oregon and has been announced by the acting secretary of homeland security, they have been deploying a secret police force. no one thought they'd do this. no one ever thought they'd take federal police officers and federal protective service officers and border patrol cops and bring them together in a homogeneous force and then have them secretly snatch american citizens off the street. this has never happened in our history and for donald trump i think this is his moment where he is going to change american history by fundamentally changing the united states into the dictatorship that he has always wanted. >> you know, joe biden has publicly announced he's receiving intel briefings that russia and china and other countries are trying to attack our election again so you have that piec