and like everyone who worked in the senate when dan coats was a member, i am absolutely confident that if senator coats had ever been insulted like this, he would have immediately taken to the floor of the united states senate and responded to that insult with righteous indignation. the only thing that i can think of that keeps dan coats in that job tonight after president trump has made that job much more difficult to do, and after president donald trump specifically and directly insulted dan coats today, the only reason i can think of that dan coats is staying in that job is to help defend this country against the threat of donald trump. which was actually something that dan coats in effect yesterday promised to discuss with senators in private. >> according to press reports, donald trump met privately with vladimir putin and no one in the u.s. government has the full story about what was discussed. director coats, would this put you in a disadvantaged position in terms of understanding russia's efforts to advance its agenda against the united states? >> senator, clearly this is a se

he knows what dan coats' feelings on that are, because dan coats is part of that intelligence briefingts regularly. the president was angered by the coverage here. the tv chyrons that said the intelligence chiefs contradicted him on this. >> so it's not the first time the president has been unhappy with coats, but is he in danger of being fired, do we know? >> reporter: an official said, no, his job is safe for now. they do not think dan coats is at risk of being fired but really their relationship had just started to recover from the wobbly position it had been in. you'll remember, last summer, when dan coats was on stage when he was informed about reporting that the white house was considering inviting the russian president here to washington. and the president was angry at him then, they say that that subsided, but it's unclear what this will do for their relationship going forward. the president did only have one thing on his schedule today, an intelligence briefing. it's unclear if dan coats was there or he sent his deputy. i should note that our hill colleagues are getting some r

trump made those comments in the oval office, he received his daily intelligence briefing from dan coates and gina haspel. a few minutes ago he told reporters, including our pamela brown, he had a chance to talk to coates and haspel about their congressional testimony. according to the president, they claim they were misquoted and reports about their testimony were fake news. that's interesting, considering their testimony was played as they said it on videotape, jake. >> sure would be. thanks so much. david urban, let me play some of what senator lindsey graham just said regarding the president's public rebuke of his own intelligence chiefs. >> i don't like that in the sense that if you have a problem with the intel community, go talk to them in your office and you don't want to air dirty laundry that would send the wrong signals out there to people we're trying to persuade. in my view that wasn't the right move to make. >> tough to disagree with. praise in public, punish in private. holds true here. what the president was trying to state about this intelligence briefing is that he has a

dan coats has facts and reality on his side.d trump lives in this alternative reality fake news bubble. i think what's valuable about what dan coats is doing here is he basically affirming what we do at cnn or "the washington post" or "the new york times," he's saying that the mainstream media organizations, the ones that donald trump calls fake news, we're getting it right and it's in line with the findings of the intelligence community. >> this is dangerous, isn't it? >> we've never had a president who is basically unbriefable and refuses to learn and prefers conspiracy theories to facts. this is the person with his finger on the nuclear button. that is incredibly dangerous. >> always good to have you on. >>> i want to check in with chris and see what he's work in on. >> this president conceals what matters and he confounds by creating things that don't matter. when it comes to this president and his meetings with putin, we are the last to know. why? why if they have nothing to hide, why do the people around this president --

dan coats has facts and reality on his side.alternative reality fake news bubble. but i think what's valuable about what dan coats is doing here is that he is basically affirming what we do at cnn or the "washington post" or "the new york times" and he's basically saying that the mainstream media organizations, the ones that president trump calls out as fake news and the enemies of the people were actually getting it right because the news we're reporting is accurate, is in line with the findings of the intelligence community. >> it's -- but this is dangerous. isn't it? >> it's incredibly dangerous. >> it's a dangerous thing. >> we've never had a president who is basically unbriefable and refuses to learn and prefers conspiracy theories to actual facts. i mean, this is the person with his finger on the nuclear button. that is incredibly dangerous. >> yeah. max boot, always good to have you on. thanks, max. >> thanks, anderson. >> want to check in with chris, see what he's working on for "cuomo prime time" at the top of the hour.

we have all the respect for dan coats.won't flower anything up or make something up or say something he doesn't believe. the president needs to trust the people around him because they truly have the american interest and they truly have the american people in their hearts and i know the president does, too. but he cannot continue to let his feelings overtake basically the facts. i've said this, we're all entitled to our opinion, we're just not entitled to create our own facts to support our opinion. none of us including the president, me and everybody else in society. >> joe manchin with wachovia thanks for waking up. thanks for being part of "new day." the sweater, i have to say, america needs your sweater as this cold spell hits millions of american. >> yes, sir, it ee's dress down right now but it's as cold as can be. >> thank you so much, appreciate. >> it you heard it from angus king and joe manchin. he wishes the president would listen to the intelligence chiefs. >> i think that it's fair to say that at the end of t

i don't know that dan coats knows it privately as well. >> dan coats may know more now perhaps because russian intelligence has briefed putin and we have inroads to russian intelligence. you have to -- >> we don't have to rely entirely on back-briefs from our colleagues in the u.s. government. there are other ways to find these things out. and i don't know whether that's the case in this instance, but it's not impossible. >> ken, there were also questions about your own reporting and our colleague laura stickley's reporting on the intelligence and security cleen clearances, and how the intelligence community's advice and recommendations were ignored. how did that come out today? >> that's right, andrea, this is another one of those questions that poor dan coats clearly did not want to have to answer. this is our reporting, that jared kushner essentially got special treatment, security specialists at the white house decided he didn't merit top secret security clearance but they were overruled by their boss. a senator asked coats don't you think the white house should be relying on the w

that has been directly refuted by dan coates. >> coates also said iran was not engaged in any key nuclear weapons development activity. president trump has claimed that if the iran deal remained in place, the country would be on the cusp of acquiring the world's most dangerous weapons. one wonders how long coates get to keep his job when he counters the president. joining us, barry mccaffrccaffr. also, bill neely, our chief global correspondent for nbc news. good to see you in real life, bill. >> in person. >> in person. >> i'd love to start with this, help us understand and i hate to say unprecedented, but how unusual is it? we can sit here with our mouths gaping open, saying how could you possibly have dan coates refuting what the president says? is this normal? >> general mccaffrey? >> oh, yes, obviously, we're almost in a fantasy land situation. the reaction i have is to be enormously proud of the integrity and the self-discipline and the independe independent, independence of all of these senior leaders to include the senior director of the cia. they swore an oath to the constitution

that was dan coates talking in front of the senate intelligence committee.he does this all the time. he lies about stuff that's so easily proven false. >> right. >> he cannot like what the intelligence community, whether it was dan coates or wray or gina haspel said, but that doesn't mean it was wrongly reported or misquoted. my guess is they didn't say i was misquoted. they probably said the threat assessment report offers a more nuanced perspective because they may want to keep their jobs but the idea that the media had -- it was literally a camera on people talking. >> they're not the type that would call this fake news. go ahead, bianna. >> don't forget, they were all appointed by the president of the united states. >> correct. >> this is not an intelligence community which he inherited. we know how he felt about them and what he called them. these are all appointed by the president. they are used to and very familiar with these intelligence hearings. to call them naive, out of all things, in ways to describe them is just absurd for the president to have

intelligence, dan coats, testified as much to congress this week. senator marco rubio of florida was at that hearing and says he plans to combat chinese buying of the united states. senator rubio joins us tonight. summarize for our viewers, if you are, quickly, what senator coats said at this hearing. >> they all agreed that china is the most comprehensive intelligence threat to the united states has ever faced, and because it's a commercial threat, they steal our products and reverse engineer them, and sell them at lower prices, subsidized by their government so they can bring our businesses out, they steal our research from universities, they do that by either hacking them and stealing -- sometimes they just hire the researcher and have her bring the research with them. sometimes they embed students and our system, and they take that information and steal it back with them. they steal our military secrets, and they also run the supply chain. they are embedded in commercial parts of our communication system. for example, they make a router, surveil

we're told he's seething at dan coats, which is not all that surprising to you. >> no. it's important to remember context about what people have said about the president previously when he gets upset. remember there was that aspen institute event, i think it was 2017, they all feel like one big long year right now, we're in 2019 for anyone who's keeping track. but he was asked a question about the president inviting vladimir putin to the white house which coats had not been aware of until he was asked it on stage. and i think he did a say that again some and then he said that will be interesting. and he looked into the crowd for his laugh and he was given his laugh and there are very few things that make this president as angry as the perception that people are laughing at him. and i think he thought that coats was playing to the anti-trump crowd in that room. so it's not a surprise to me anyway that he is who the president would single out. but i do think that you are seeing repeatedly the intelligence chiefs in this country separating from the president on where the p

on worldwide threats in congress on tuesday with respect to iran felicity dan coats the director of national intelligence said and directly contradicted donald trump when he said that iran is in compliance with the twenty fifteen agreement that the united states of course with of course withdrew from to limit iran's nuclear program he had fact testified that is not taking steps to build a nuclear weapon that didn't seem to sit well with president donald trump as you point out he called that assessment passive and naive in fact he said they are wrong talking about his intelligence agency he said that iran is testing rockets and coming very close to the edge but again that is not the assertion of the top intelligence official in the united states and we should point out this isn't the first time he's clashed with dan coats in fact he did so again last july when coats once again reaffirmed what the intelligence agencies have been saying about the two thousand and sixteen u.s. election and that is that russia interfered is clearly a fractious relationship between trump on his intelligen

dan coats said the terror group isis remains a potent threat. >> remain it will continue we agree. we assess to stoke violence. isis is intent on resurging and still commands thousand of fighters in iraq and syria. zblfrm he also seemed to difr on north korea after they agreed there is no longer a nuclear threat coats said that's not quite the case. that reality coming weeks before the president is set to meet with kim jong un. inspiring other countries to follow the kremlin's lead. >> not only of the russians have they continued do it in 2018 but we have seen indication they are continuing to adapt their model and other countries are taking a very interested eye in that approach. >> don't tell the president who sided with that last july. >> i have great confidence in my intelligence people. i will tell you he was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today. >> the president meeting resistance from mcconnell who has plans to pull out troops could backfire. >> we are not the world's policemen but we are the leader of the free world. >> part of the problem is his sagging poll n

assessment is an important disconnect worth highlighting. >> i want to talk about something else that dan coatsaid about trump and putin having meetings together. we know they did so in ham berg and in helsinki without normal protocols that can account for what's going on. senator ron wyden asked coats about this. let's listen to the exchange. >> according to press reports donald trump met privately with vladimir putin and no one in the u.s. government has the full story about what was discussed. director haspel and director coats, would this put you in a disadvantaged position in terms of understanding russia's efforts to advance its agenda against the united states? question for you two, then i am out of time. thank you for letting me have them respond, mr. chairman. >> well senator, clearly this is a sensitive issue and it is an issue we ought to talk about this afternoon. i look forward to discussing that in a closed session. >> what did he say? you have to be kidding me, only one right answer, no, clearly nothing the president did put us at a disadvantage in terms of understanding russia's

sources telling cnn the president was seething and called out dni dan coats by name as he watched tv highlights of yesterday's testimony. so just imagine how the president's intelligence briefing went this morning. coats usually does that briefing by the way, and it's unclear whether he did today. a white house official says the president doesn't plan to fire coats, but seething really isn't good. senate minority leader chuck schumer sending a letter to dni coats tonight calling the president's criticism extraordinarily inappropriate and saying it will undermine public confidence. what about that tweet? the president calling his intel chiefs naive. you know what's really naive? this. >> we have won against isis. we've beaten them, and we've beaten them badly. >> well, just one month later, four americans were killed in a suicide bombing in syria, a bombing believed to have been carried out by isis. it's not the first time he's claimed to know more than the experts. and if history is any guide, it won't be the last. >> i know more about isis than the generals do, believe me. >> while

dan coats said they remain a threat. secondly, recall that donald trump said the nuclear threat from north korea had gone away. these intelligence chiefs affirm they're seeing signs that north korea does not intend to give up their nuclear weapons. there's been a lot of talk in potential russian interference in the 2020 election. lastly -- sorry that's it, back to you. >> that -- really a remarkable contradiction from the intelligence chiefs on that north korea question. something this president has obviously done in a high profile way. his intelligence chiefs just to underscore ken's point saying the president is wrong about north korea and that they are continuing to pursue that program. ken delaney, thank you very much, sir. really appreciate it. >>> the ebbs president pick pic attorney general is on the hill. the nomination had been scheduled for today but it's been delayed until next week. there's so much happening on capitol hill. i want to turn to somebody who of course knows it well. former california senator bar

i wonder, intelligence director dan coats telling congress that u.s. allies and partners are actually seeking ways to go around the united states when it comes to seeking security and trade, mainly because of the president's changing policies. what did you think about that assessment? >> i think at the end of the day, every nation is going to do what's in their best interests, as well as the united states. in some cases -- i just met with the european parliament, and in some cases they view the world differently and their interests are different than ours, and in that case they will go around our policies to achieve what they think is important. >> is that what's best for the u.s.? because if they weren't going around on the u.s. on some of these policies before and now they are, if the u.s. wants to do what's in its best interest, isn't it to have these countries not going around the u.s.? >> brianna, of course they did that before. they always had their interest at hoeeart. this didn't develop with president trump. our allies are going to do what's i

gina haspel and dan coats said, that's not true. isis is on its way to defeat in the caliphate of syria, but it still commands thousands of fighters and still planning attacks. on south korea, donald trump once said there's no longer a nuclear threat from north korea. the intelligence chiefs made clear that it's unlikely that north korea will give up its nuclear programs. on iran and nuclear weapons, and overlaying all of this, infound striking, there was no mention of a security crisis on the southern border that merits building a wall. no discussion of that whatsoever. this was a hearing about the top national security threats to the united states. donald trump has been talking about nothing but the border wall. the intelligence chiefs had nothing to say about the border wall. >> ken, just to fill everyone in, this is a meeting that happens every year, all intel chiefs come and give their broad assessment of what's going on in the world and what is putting this country at risk, potentially. >> that's right, and they -- so this is

barbara starr, at the start dan coats said they would speak truth here t.truck me that that was a message perhaps to the president. these assessments contradict the president, do they not? >> let's just take the question of isis for the moment. isis is an ideology. bombs and troops don't kill off ideologies. we have known that since the days of 9/11 tlmpt may be some type of reduction in the physical caliphate. this is a movement that is still very much alive. when he talks about a guerilla movement, you only have to remember it was a couple of weeks ago that four americans were killed in northern syria in a suspected isis suicide attack outside that restaurant. so we already see isis in this guerilla mode. what is so interesting about what the director of national intelligence is not saying but hinting at, what is the actual strength of isis. they have thousands of fighters. what do they have in terms of money, communication, organizations, ability to inspire people via cyber or in a literal sense? what kind of networks do they have? that is the real quest

dan coats said he would not talk about that in an open session, he wants to talk about that in closedmony that's going to happen this afternoon, the classified session. he also wanted to discuss why the intelligence community has not green-lighted the release of transcripts that witnesses who have come before the house intelligence committee testified to during the russia investigation last congress. you'll recall that house intelligence committee agreed to publicly release those transcripts, but coats would not explain why they would not allow that to be released. we'll tell you whether the members shed any light after the closed hearing, but there are things the protesters were saying, but also what they wouldn't say in public revealing, john. >> he may think he's anchored the boss enough. manu raju, appreciate that live from capitol hill. >>> it is striking sometimes. iran, isis, north korea, china, russia. these are not laughing matters in terms the american people deserve to understand from their leaders what's out there? what's the risk? what's our government doing about it, and

i think that dan coats is excellent. i think that gina is excellent.e have excellent people in the agencies. and when they tell me something it means a lot. >> plus our democratic senate minority leader chuck schumer sent a letter to dan coats writing in part i applaud you for being clear eyed about the threats we face but can you not allow the president's ill-advised and unwarranted comments to stand. continuing i believe it's incumbent on you director wray and haskell to insist on an immediate meeting with the president to educate him about the facts. and press upon him how critically spoirt for h-- impor it is for him to join you. he's putting you and your colleagues in an untenable situation and hurting the national interest in the process. you must find a way to make that clear to him. >> and john thune criticized the president. i don't know how many times you can say this, but i prefer the president would stay off twitter. particularly with regard to these important national security issues where you've got people who are experts and have the bac

i do wonder what you hearing about the letter from chuck schumer sent to dan coats. you cannot allow the president's ill-advised and unwarranted comments to stand. i believe it is incumbent on you to insist on an immediate meeting with the president to educate him about the facts and raw intelligence underlying the intelligence community assessments. >> i mean, the fact that schumer released the letter in public tells you everything. they meet with the president at the intelligence briefing every day. they don't need to call for a separate meeting with the president. the president knows what this intelligence says. and probably in private he is perfectly happy to have the intelligence say what it says. the problem for him comes when it conflicts with his job as first salesman. so i have written stories, cnn has run stories that have said the north koreans are continuing to build up their nuclear fuel stockpiles even though they are not conducting nuclear tests. the president will denounce those frequently as fake news. it does not come and help him a whole lot when h

dan coats putting the 2020 election front and center. >> i first would like to mention election security. this has been and will continue to be a top priority for the intelligence community. we assess that foreign actors will view the 2020 u.s. elections as an opportunity to advance their interests. we expect them to refine their capabilities and add new tactics. >> dana: katherine herridge right outside the hearing room. this hearing is something i look forward to even though it is sometimes concerning information. what did you learn? >> reporter: the leadership of the u.s. intelligence community is behind closed doors with senators on the intelligence committee after the public session this morning. you're right. these hearings are important because they publicly lay out the threats against the united states and help set budget priorities for congress. if there was a dominant theme, it came down to china. new alliances china is building are russia to try and get the advantage over the united states, as well as american secrets and technology. here's the fbi director christopher wray. >

. >> here to talk about what happened in helsinke, here is dan coates. here's what he said to my colleague andrea mitchell last summer. >> i don't know what happened in that meeting. i think as time goes by and the president has already mentioned some things that happened in that meeting, i think we will learn more. >> 181 days later what presidents trump and putin discussed for four hours remains a mystery. of course, there is that bombshell report in the "new york times." i'll remind you once again of the headline because it's so astonishing. the fbi had questions whether trump was secretly working on behalf of russia. that raised new questions about president trump's interactions with president putin as well, like when he stood shoulder to shoulder with putin and broke intelligence over russia's interference in the 2016 election. >> dan coates came to me and others and they said they think it's russia. i have president putin. he just said it's not russia. i will say this. i don't see any reason why it would be. >> then there's the long history he has

strikes a disarmament deal with them dan coats told the u.s. senate the north korean regime sees the weapons as crucial to its survival and that comes ahead of a planned second summit between president donald trump and north korean leader kim jong il in. all right when we come back. live believe the constitution is supreme law the military zimbabwe's lawyers rally behind hundreds of arrested in anti-government protests this. divisions on the migrant crisis are laid bare at a regional summit in the mediterranean. as we head towards the chinese new year we've got some wet weather into central parts of china still some rather thick cloud down into the south it does stay five and dry will stay settled as well so temperatures in hong kong getting up to around twenty three degrees that has had disturbed weather further north for wednesday and will make its way over towards shanghai as we go on into thursday some heavy burst of right northern flank of that could see somewhat but snow for a time something to watch out for here with all those people tra

in particular, the director of national intelligence dan coats. for instance, what the president recently said about isis. >> we have won against isis. >> isis is intent on resurging and still commands thousands of fighters in iraq and syria. >> we just learned this venneve the president singled out dan coats by name during a morning rant. the problem with this disagreement is that only one side knows what the hell it's talking about. with all due respect, the president has evidenced zero expertise in this area, or in any area other than to say he's an expert in something or he knows more about it than anyone. decades of experience, legions of agents, analysts versus the president's gut. to say the president chooses ignorance over the experts is bad. worse is the fact that this president has taken the word of the russian leader about election interference and the north korean leader about his intentions over the reckoning of his own intelligence agencies. the reality is the world is a dangerous place, and we have a ton of money and personnel tied

dan coats, chris wray, gina haspel, these are all individuals appointed personally by donald trump to carry out the very important and solemn duties of the intelligence and law enforcement communities. and to publicly rebuke them like that and to disparage them, i think it certainly has made a number of people within the intelligence community give even more support to their leadership for speaking truth to power. i think mr. trump's support within those communities probably has taken a hit, because it's very dispiriting if the work that you're doing is not being appreciated. he can disagree with things, but to say that they have to go back to school? i mean, that was just being so insulting of these great professionals. >> and there are thousands of people in the field, around the world, without diplomatic immunity, working undercover, in danger, without wearing a uniform. no protections at all. and they are -- this all filters out as well as the message that is sent to allies and adversaries alike. >> yeah. and these are individuals who put themselves at risk. and also their familie

as we've been reporting all along, dan coats says the intelligence says that's not true. north korea is unlikely in his crew, to give up their nuclear weapons because they consider them crucial to regime survival and he mention they detected behavior inconsistent with denuclearization. >> let me play what we've heard so far from dan coats. it speaks to your point, and frank, i want to bring you in. here's coats talking about some of the threats. >> we assess that foreign actors will view the 2020 u.s. elections as an opportunity to advance their interests. we expect them to refine their capabilities and add new tactics as they learn from each other's experiences and efforts in previous elections. >> so frank, in other words, the threat of election interference from bad actors is not over. >> not only is it not over, but when you hear the dni say something like this and also put it in writing in his report, you know they've got intel. this isn't conjecture. this isn't a guessing game. and they cite additional countries including iran that may be focussed on messing with ou

my people came to me, dan coates came to me and they said they think it's russia. i have president pu tutin and h just said it's not russia. i'll say this, i don't see any reason why it would be. >> when you consider all of this and the report, is this something that the house intel committee will look into or has looked into? >> well, the committee would not subpoena phone records, travel records, bank records that would allow us to figure out, for example, whether russia has leverage over donald trump. a lot of that would have to do with money laundering or the infusion of cash into the trump operation. we couldn't figure any of that out. but i'm pretty sure bob mueller has a lot of that information. so now that we have the majority, we're going to go back and answer some critical questions, call in probably some witnesses that we have already visited with, and try to find out the information that we couldn't get to before. >> the government has been shutdown for almost a record amount of time. tonight is really a pile on to the russia investigation developments.

director of national intelligence dan coats assessment casts doubt on president donald trump's plans to reach a denuclearization deal with north korea coats made the comments in congress during a senate intelligence committee hearing more from alan fischer in washington d.c. . well if he was watching this would have been uncomfortable listening for donald trump essentially a briefing to the senate intelligence committee undermines a lot of what he's been seeing in foreign policy over the last two years the briefing was given by dan coats who's the director of national intelligence the head of the cia agent a hospital and also the head of the f.b.i. now when it comes to north korea danko said that there is no evidence that north korea is preparing to get rid of its nuclear stockpiles and you remember the donald trump said that the threat from north korea has gone the intention is that he'll meet with kim jong un at some point in the next month on the agenda is going to be the complete denuclearization of north korea which donald trump says is achievable here is dan coats is director o

trump receives his intelligence briefing today, it will be interesting to see whether the director, dan coat, delivers it. cnn learned that the president was seething yesterday as he watched his intel chief testify on capitol hill and repeatedly contradicts him. two sources confirming mr. trump singled out dni coats by name. here is why. >> we have won against isis. we've beaten them and we've beaten them badly. >> isis is intent on resurging and still coming on thousands of fighters in iraq and syria. >> chairman kim, we're well on our way. we signed a agreement that said we will begin the immediate denuclearization. >> north korea will seek to retain its wmd capabilities and is unlikely to completely give up its nuclear weapons and production capabilities. >> the president taking to twitter to rip his intel chiefs as passive and naive concluding they should perhaps go back to school. democratic senator chuck schumer firing of a letter to coats calling the president's criticism extraordinarily inappropriate. schumer writes trump's attack will undermine public confidence and efforts to prote

the top national security official including cia director and director of national intelligence dan coateseleased a stark warning on the national security threats of the united states. >> the composition of the current threats we face is a toxic mix of strategic competitors and nonstate actors using a variety of tools in overt and subtle ways to achieve their goals. >> at time their assessments directsly contradicted the more rosy interpretation of rosy affairs. >> and we have won against isis. we've beaten them and beaten them badly. >> isis is intent on inresurging and commands thousands of fighters in iraq and syria. >> we've made a lot of progress as far as denuclearization is concerned. >> north korea will seek to retain its capabilities and unlikely to completely given up its nuclear weapons. >> i have president putin. he just said it's not russia. i will say this i don't see any reason why it would be. >> not only do the russians continue to do it in 2018 but we've seen an indication they're continuing to adapt their model and utter countries are taking a very interested eye in that

many of president trump's advisers, and i would put dan coats in this category, of weighing the loyaltycountry as the daily aggravations of dealing with this public questioning and berating. but i think you're right. what we have seen because of this report and because of what mitch mcconnell, the senate majority leader began to do yesterday in terms of pushing back on syria, we are beginning to see or of a push back in some of this dissonance between the president and both of the top when it and allies comes from everything from the threats of iran versus north korea to syria, to china. advisors,is not just specifically the intelligence team. this is gone back before he was president. he has been critical of the national intelligence apparatus, whether it's russia or north korea or whatever. what is the relationship right now between our intelligence officers and the president of the united states? bill: you're right. it has been a strained relationship since the week or two before president trump took office when he was first advised about the so-called dossier that has been wrapped u

i think that dan coats is excellent. i think that gina is excellent.cies. and when they tell me something it means a lot. >> do you think any intelligence agencies, u.s. intelligence agencies are out to get you? >> well, certainly in the past it's been terrible. you look at brennan, you look at clapper, you look at hay den, you look at comey, you look at mccabe, you look at strzok and his lover page, you look at people that have been fired and are no longer there. certainly i can't have any confidence in the past but i can have a lot of confidence many present and the future because it's being to be now where we're putting our people in. >> just a regular reminder to our regular viewers that is not a parody from comedy central. that was an interview with the president of the united states. he's calling her passive and naive. again, following up with what the admiral said, the big knock against her from her critics was that she was not passive or naive, that she was too aggress ive. she had too clear a you of the world and would do what it took to keep

people came to me and dan coats came to me and some others. president putin, he just said it's not russia. zblfr still continue about the red flags that that would raise. >> well, again, i think that -- that performance and that statement would just real red flag. again, no pun intended. it seemed to reinforce what the intelligence community is long concerned about and certainly i was. the vilification of the intelligence community and the fbi and anybody that was involved with our assessment or the follow on investigations. and when i think the helsinki was kind of the epitome or the low water marker or high water mark, whatever meta for you want to use, concern on the part of the intelligence and law enforcement communities. >> yeah. listen, i'm not sure if you have any, if you're in touch with any of the folks still at the white house, but i'm sure you have insight on what is going on now. this is a white house in crisis. and i just wonder, you know, within the national intelligence community right now, what is going snon what are they thin

what dan coates said throws cold water on the white house rosy assessment they will get the regime to denuclearize. a second summit could happen by the end of february. dan coates added his assessment is bolstered by what is inconsistent with what you would do if you were denuclearizing. we've known there's a gap between the president and his intelligence community. what we saw today is how deep that divide is between what the president tells reporters, the public and what information is being presented to him from the intelligence community. >> all right. thank you very much. starting with russian hacking of the election and seems on almost everything else. it couldn't be more clear. we observe activity inconsistent with full denuclearization. there's no ambiguity in this statement. it's the opposite of what the president is saying. i want to go to the chair of the house arms services committee. you see the report. you hear this testimony. do you think the president was listening to his intelligence chiefs today? >> i hope so. this has been a pattern since the president got into offi

i have confidence in director dan coats and i would think that is what the intelligence is showing. he is an honorable individual. i served with him in the senate. i would take what he says seriously. i would take this as an opening with north korea, i think there is an opening for dialogue, but it will not be a hail mary pass, it will be three yards and a cloud of dust. we need to find ways to basically stop the nuclear program, stop the production of weapons material. they have not done that yet. the north koreans have stopped missile tests and nuclear tests, so progress has been made. the next am a between president trump and kim holds a real promise, but there must be a roadmap and a lot of hard work. i do not see anything short of, we do certain things, they do certain things. it will be back and forth. one thing we learned under the lugar program was we could pay for a performance, not pay in advance, but when achievements are accomplished we could reimburse for those. but we also have to stop any kind of temptation of nuclear scientists in north korea ending up in other count

you heard from dan coats talk about russia earlier.ade other statements including when it came to the topic of china from that hearing yesterday. here is what he had to say. [video clip] >> in its efforts to diminish u.s. influence and extend its own economic, political, and military rate, beijing will seek to tout a chinese fusion of strongmen autocracy in a form of western-style capitalism as a developing model and implicit alternative to democratic values and institutions. these efforts will include the use of intelligence and influence apparatus to shape international views and gain advantages over competitors including especially the united states. china's pursuit of intellectual property, sensitive research and development plans and a u.s. person data remains a significant threat to the united states government and the private sector. host: usa today takes another look at relations between china and the united date. this is thomas saying beijing fired back tuesday over criminal charges against a chinese huawision giant huaewai --

he knows what dan coats thinks about iran, north korea, isis. >> does he listen? >> the idea there's a headline in "the new york times," "the washington post" that says they contradicted him -- >> i hate to disagree with gloria. she said there's no way to describe this except alternative facts. i think there is another way to describe it. it's just lying. >> right. >> it's lying about what went on yesterday. it's lying about what he was told that day by his subordinates. the idea that these intelligent, respectable people would say that was fake news -- that's gotta be a lie. >> it's nonsensical i called it. >> the president has tried to spin and dissemble so much over time on so many issues that now when he is there with pamela in the oval trying to spin this, it's hard for anyone to take that seriously. there are the specific disagreements about syria and t iran and north korea. the bigger problem is also that this completely undercuts the president's narrative going all the wait back to 2016 that he was going to fix everything quickly and all his predecessors w

but already some significant statements from dan coats.ant what he had to say, especially about isis in syria. >> yeah. north korea, china, russia, some of the more traditional threats, jim and poppy. but certainly sounding the alarm. what we're expecting to hear from the director of national intelligence, dan coats, in just a short time to the senate intelligence committee is really laying out where the eyes see these various threats. he is expected to say right off the top that the threats to u.s. national security will continue to expand and diversefy in the coming year. you're right. there are two things that jump out immediately when you look at these opening remarks and they are some 40 pages long. the first we should note is the threat from isis, which of course has been in the news as of late because of the president's announcement that he plans to withdraw troops from syria. and the section on isis is somewhat of a rebuke to the president because what it says is that isis continues to have thousands of fighters, not just in iraq a

north korea which has kaitlyn collins reported last night is what really angered the president, dan coatsments saying that north korea is not necessarily going to be giving up their weapons. so i don't think that this is a fight that is really going to die down soon and that the tension is certainly not going away. >> probably needs to be a clearer line drawn though by the likes of richard burr and marco rubio regarding attacks on our intelligence community. skr jeremy, thanks. >>> turning to the border security talks, a bipartisan group of 17 lawmakers expressing optimism about avoiding another government shutdown. no clear progress was made. democrats offering money for personnel, ports of entry and technology, but not a border wall. government funding expires on february 15th. let's chat with cnn politics digital director zach wolf joining us from washington. good to see you, sir. and reminder to everyone why the president doesn't have his border wall? well, because republicans didn't give him money for that border wall and he talked about it as much with the daily caller oig saying i

haskell, national intelligence director dan dothse coates, and f.b.i. corrector christopher wray will testify. we'll have live coverage of that beginning alt 9:30 eastern. on c-span3. >> this week on the communicators, consumer technology association president, gary shapiro, on the major issues facing the $398 billion technology industry in the u.s. >> because i see where the future is going with technology. we know robotics will be here. drones, self-driving cars, individual oriented medical treatments. certainly biotech anti-way we never experienced before. all these are coming. how do you succeed as somebody who is flexible knowing part of the future is not clear, but part of it is totally clear? i you think you benefit from that whether you are a government, business, or individual. >> join us tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span2. >> let me introduce the two report host cover the military and oversight of it. tom vanden burke, and john donnelly, roll call, covering the military. thanks for coming back to newsmakers. before we get started on our many q

and here is what his director of national intelligence dan coats and director of the cia gena haspel said about that today. >> we currently assess north korea will seek to retain it's wmd capabilities and is unlikely to completely give up its nuclear weapons and production capabilities because its leaders ultimately view nuclear weapons as critical to regime survival. >> what would you say it current state of the threat from north korea? >> the regime is committed to developing a long-range nuclear missile that would pose a direct threat to the united states. >> and of course president trump famously claims that he has destroyed isis. >> we have won against isis. we've beaten them, and we've beaten them badly. >> today the director of national intelligence said that isis still has thousands of fighters and is resurging. >> while isis is nearing territorial defeat in iraq and syria, it's continuing to plot attacks and directed support worldwide. and still commands thousands of fighters in iraq and syria. >> and when discussing the deal with iran that prevents iran from developing nucl

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dan coats was asked about that in the hearing and he wouldn't answer. he said i need to take this to our closed session in the afternoon. that may have been because there are ways that the intelligence community could find out what was said through eavesdropping. it would be ironic if they had to use that to find out what their own president was saying to the russian leader. it's just an incredible situation. we've never been here before. the notion that the dni, dan coats can't explain to senators what the president of the united states said to the russian leader. >> matt, the two leaders, russia says they met for about 15 minutes, talked about foreign policy issues. is it your sense that this meeting is something maybe the special counsel would be interested in or not really? >> you know, i'm certain he's interested in all the president's interactions with the russian government, whether he takes the step of trying to find out is another matter that could be difficult for him to try to delve into that without any kind of reason to think there was some

gina haspel, head of the cia and dan coats with the fbi, the same intelligence that the officials areking off of to provide the national security assessment that they gave to congress that is at odds with what the president has espoused publicly when it comes to iran and when it comes to north korea and when it comes to isis. the president is pushing back in a series of tweets today. as you pointed out, it's worth repeating saying that they are naive, that they are passive and even suggesting they go back to school. one of the starkest contrasts is, of course, what dan coats said about iran and gina haspel saying it doesn't appear iran is currently making a bomb even after president trump announced withdrawing from the iran deal. clearly, the president didn't like that because in his tweets earlier today he said that iran is still very much a source of potential conflict and danger and of course, there is north korea. you heard the intel officials say that they had taken steps at odds with denuclearization. you've heard this administration, the president specifically expressed more co