and mike pence talked dan coats out of resigning over examples like this, these butteies. esed goats to find evidence that former president barack obama wire tapped him. and criticized the intelligence community as biassed and accused coats of being behind leaks of classified information. andads pence has stepped in whenever trump is souring on coats, he privately called "mr. rogers." and joining me now is nbc national security reporter who got this story. this is so sad. the president is so determined to kiss up to putin that in front of his dni innumber one person that tells him what's going on in the world, he trashesputen to make him like him and each more that day. >> president trump when he was candidate trump had this relationship and weeks after what we write about in the story when dan coates always resigned in december and mike pence pulled him back from the ledge, only weeks later when coates talked about how iran is basically awithin the realm of the jcpoa and how north korea has no real interest in denucleizing. within hours he was trashing the intelligence com

the relationship between dan coats and the president took a serious blow after that summit in helsinki with putin. nbc says your boss, mike pence, intervened to prevent coats from quitting late last year. do both the president and the vice-president have faith in dan coats? >> yes. i think as you know, the vice-president was governor of indiana. he has worked with dan coats and has a friendship with him. if the president didn't have confidence in him, there would have been a change. they have confidence in dan coats. i have seen the reports. i have nothing to add to them. >> let's turn to the trump administration's new effort to completely repeal obamacare in the courts. millions of americans count on the affordable care act for their health insurance as you know. take a look at this. 52 million americans benefitted from the pre-existing condition protections under obamacare, with 12.7 million gained coverage under the medicaid expansion part of the affordable care act, 11.4 million americans bought coverage on at ed fthe affordable care act exchange for 2019. if the efforts succeeds t

strain on the relationship between donald trump and that man, director of national intelligence dan coats brand-new reporting from nbc news, the tipping point for coats was the president's declaration that he would pull troops out of syria in december. "the country's intelligence chief is on the verge of resigning at the end of last year but was talked out of it by his closest ally in the administration, vice president mike pence." that's according to current and former senior administration officials. carol, this is your reporting here. take us through more of it. it's an incredible piece of reporting. >> well, so just to step back what we were trying to do was look at, if you look at dan coats, he is next to mike pompeo the longest serving with trump national -- top national security official, and yet he's also had these moments, some of them like that one that we knew about publicly where he sparred with unlikely to denuclearize and praised nato. the under lying reason why is mike pence. >> trump after that flash point, he called it fake news. >> yes. and that's just what we have seen

what do we know about his relationship, dan coats, with trump?oes trump watch him and gauge his wording and make sure he sticks to the loyalty oath or does he have a certain amount of freedom to do his work? >> one of the things about dan coats is unlike some of the other members of the national security team, he doesn't speak publicly as much, and that moment in aspen was one of the few times when he spoke publicly, and that got under the president's skin, and he's testified before congress. he's got under the president's skin as andrea just laid out. you know, their relationship is -- they're very different people. you know, president trump refers to him as mr. rogers. you know, he just, he's this sort of mild mannered, very serious, former diplomat, former senator, and president trump frankly sees intelligence officials additional advisers giving him advice that he's free to ignore. there has been tension from early on when coats came in, it was right after president trump had tweeted that president obama was wiretapping him during the campaig

dan coats as a good relationship with people on the hill. >> and he he's someone a lot of senators inre really sensitive in areas where there isn't a lot of trust with the white house about intelligence. and we should acknowledge there's been so much turnover in the white house, and the hill is going on a serious amount of fatigue of having to put new people into the positions. >> thank you for coming onset and talking through that. >>> we also want to talk to you about something that is incredibly important. it's incredibly difficult to talk about but we have to talk about it. the spotlight today on survivor's guilt. after three people linked to two of the deadliest school shootings in history have died by suicide recently. jeremy richmond was found dead on monday days after two former parkland shooter survivors died in apparent decides. kate snow talk with survivors about surviving an attack while others had not. >> how are you guys doing? >> mostly just shock. slight anger just at how we could help better support people going through these types of situations and going through thes

shannon: i hear you laughing. >> dan coats is the head of the intelligence bureaucracy, he says maybe north korea doesn't want to give up its weapons and maybe russia is bad, maybe iran is also bad. i would be happy to produce that assessment for only $25 billion. i will give him a 50% discount. the director of national intelligence is irrelevant. that is supposed to produce intelligence which is information we don't have and make the job of the president and combatant commanders easier and what he did was recycle a bunch of obvious truth, north korea would like to hold onto its nukes, they are going to drive a hard bargain, they beat the clinton administration, they beat the george w. bush administration, you don't need to pay intelligence bureaucrats $50 billion year to produce this. donald trump has done better than the other administrations. shannon: this issue as far from settled. we would love to have you back, we are not done yet. nancy pelosi issuing a stark warning for democrats in her party who dared to vote with republicans on anything. she tells democratic lawmakers this i

trump said this. >> my people came to me, dan coats came to me and some others. russia. i have president putin. he just said it's not russia. i have great confidence in my intelligence people, but i will tell you that president putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today. >> reporter: and what about reports that the president had revealed highly classified information to russian officials in the oval office? team trump refuted that. his national security advisor at the time quick to call the report false. >> at no time were intelligence sources or methods discussed. i was in the room, it didn't happen. >> reporter: cue the president the next morning, seeming to contradict his national security advisor. tweeting, as president, i wanted to share with russia at an openly scheduled white house meeting which i have the absolute right to do. facts pertaining to terrorism and airline flight safety. president trump undercut his former secretary of state, rex tillerson, too. while tillerson was on a diplomatic trip to beijing, hoping to make a deal on nort

>> my people came to me, dan coates came moo me and others and said i think it's russia.ent putin. he said it's not russia. i will say this. i don't see any reason why it would be. >> skraugs, you said there were a lot of questions which is one is we kwoent don't have any idea why the president acts this way when it comes to president putin. >> it doesn't prove people innocent. they gather information to determine whether there's a crime, whether there's something we can prove. we can all look with our own eyes and listen with our own ears to this behavior and how troubling it is from a national security perspective as you have the president continually siding with vladimir putin over his own intelligence community. he can't criticize him for the life of him. and you raise your eyebrows and wonder why this behavior is there, why the president continues to do that. it started as a counter intelligence case aimed at securing the united states and protecting us from a foreign threat, yet you never hear the president talk about that. it's always internalized and about him. i

>> my people came to me, dan coats came to me, and some others, 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. >> our intelligence community warns putin is still attacking our democracy. why has the president kept his own aides in the dark about his communications with putin, even taking away his interpreter's notes. when will we learn more about detail what the attorney general describes as multiple offers from russian affiliated individuals to assist the trump campaign. we might be able to get a lot closer to answering some questions if we could see the entire report. doj tells cnn the process of determining what else can be released and scrubbing it of grand jury material, that process has begun but there's no firm timeline for releasing more of the report. democrats say they will settle for nothing less than the full report. the house judiciary chairman jerry nadler said his committee will call mueller to testify. >> it is imperative the attorney general release the full report a

on july 13th, 2018, dan coats s said our country is under attack. suspected interference since august 1st. that same day coats and other u.s. officials declared they found no evidence that the 2018 midterm elections had been hacked. they found russia still tried to influence it. fast forward to january 29th of this year. dan coats told the intelligence committee russia would attempt to do it again in 2020. "we chekt them to refine their capabilities and add new tactics as they learn from each other's experiences and effects." joining me now, our dnc breach. robert, a lot of people are dissatisfied of what they heard and what the attorney general have said about it as it relates to donald trump. are we any closer to dealing with in type of interference that the mueller report may claim existed in 2016 and 2018 and coats said it is ongoing. >> thanks for having me on the show. the one thing we did get from the mueller report that we have not seen from previous reports like what was produced in the intelligence committee. the american public typically

dan coats speaking january 29th.at dan coats and the intelligence committee were on to something there. nbc news reporting tonight that within two days of the president leaving his failed denuclearization summit with kim jong-un, the north koreans started preparations for a new missile launch at a previously dormant testing site. joining us now is chris murphy, a member of the committee. thanks for joining us. nice to have you here. >> thanks for having me. >> have members of congress, senators been briefed on these developments, if so, is there anything you can share? >> we haven't. in fact, we had an off the record conversation today with the president's primary negotiator with the north koreans and this did not come up. i seen the same reports you have. it's very worrying they are back working on a test site that was closed. there was an assumption that when the president at the end of this summit announced not with standing the fact they didn't get an agreement he was going to permanently shut down these joint ex

ironically that'shat they were told by dan coats. and the president got very mad about that. but in fact, president trump heard it with his own ears, he doesn't want to give up his program. >> back to warmbier what, a tragic story. the president's comments part of pattern, carol? >> well, it -- it really struck at how frequently the president chooses the words, you know, i take him at his word of a strong man over his intelligence a tncies. and ms of a pattern, this reminds me o helsinki with putin. he told me he didn'tnterfere in our election. i've got to believe him. or sadly for "e washington post" family and for the family of jamal khashoggi. he said he took the word of m.b.s., the crown prince of saudi arabia when he said he wasn't aarcipant when othering the hit of this man in a saudi embassy and cons late in turkey. et, we have him from vietnam railing and saying that michael coe wen is not -- cohen a man not to be trusted. -- >> he said that his remarks were misinterpreted. he beliefs kim jong-un at his word. an while he tried t clean up the mess that he created from

my people came to me, dan coats came to me, and some others. they said, "they think it's russia."ave president putin. he just said it's not russia. i will say this: i don't see any reason why it would be. - really? you don't see any reason not to trust vladimir putin? the man was a top kgb spy. he'll steal the shirt off your back. hell, he stole the shirt off his own back. you can't trust this man. - the president chose russia in front of everyone. - you cannot cut deals with the devil, and you can never trust russia. - now, look, president trump is no stranger to criticism. right? but it's not often that even his closest allies slam his actions. even newt gingrich, former speaker of the house and swollen mike pence, tweeted that this was "the most serious mistake" of trump's presidency and that he must clarify what he meant. so, just like after trump praised the charlottesville nazis, today the president was forced to come out and pretend to believe something different than what he said. and i don't know if you guys believe in omens, but watch what happened. - let me begin by say

new reports tonight that vice president mike pence convinced dan coats to remain with the trump administrationizing his performance as director of national intelligence. it raises the question, what is the shelf life for coats as dni? pence is chairman of the armed services committee. great to have you with us and if i may, i'd like to start with what seems to be the absolute essential question to be answered now raised by lisa page in a text to peter strzok and that is potus wants to know all that we are doing, the talking points for comey, lisa page says yes becausecomey wants to know everything we are doing . your thoughts on whether we will get to the bottom of what potus did learn, what you know and when he knew it? >> your speaking of potus obama. what we know is there was no collusion, no obstruction of justice, no wrongdoing that would warrant an impeachment or removal of any kind but we have not applied that same level of scrutiny to the people who began this utterly ridiculous witchhunt to begin with and we know why this began. it began because we allowed political dirt, opposition r

liz: dan coats, the direct of national intelligence says what is happening south of the border is a nationalmergency. do you think this will hurt the republican senators that voted against the president here? >> i don't know if it will hurt the senators or not. obviously everyone has to vote their conscience. you said nancy pelosi will put this up for a vote. i know i'm going support the president of the united states. i know there is an emergency at the border. our number one job in the u.s. congress is to protect the people in the united states. this is exactly what the president is doing. liz: the supreme court ruled in 1993 the president does not have to return to congress to reprogram already appropriated money. the gao backs him up on that. presidents have declared national emergencies. an annualized one million people expected to cost. 76,000 tried to cross just last month. 10,000 children trafficked into the country. on and on. your take on that? >> you are right. this is a national emergency. other president the have declared national emergencies in the past. this probably will be b

new reports tonight that vice president mike pence convinced director of intelligence dan coats lastear to remain with the trump administration, as the president was criticizing his performance as director of national intelligence. it raises the question, what is the shelf life for coats as dni? joining us tonight congressman matt gaetz, a member of the house judiciary, armed services committees. congressman, great to have you with us. if i may, i would like to start again with what seems to me to be the absolute essential question to be answered now, raised by lisa page in a text to peter strzok, and that is, potus wants to know all that we are doing. the talking points for comey, lisa page says yes, because potus wants to know everything we are doing. your thoughts on the implications and whether we will get to the bottom of what potus did learn, what he knew and when he knew it? >> of course you are speaking of potus obama. lou, what we do know is there was no collusion, no obstruction of justice, no wrongdoing by the president that would warrant an imimpeachment or a removal of a

. >> reminding our viewers exactly what the director of national intelligence dan coats told congresson january 29th. >> we currently assess that north korea will seek to retain its capabilities and unlikely to give up its nuclear weapons and production capabilities because its leader views nuclear weapons as critical to regime survival. >> kourtney, given the reporting that you have today, what is the pentagon doing or what have they been doing? >> there is no change in the pentagon. the only thing we heard out of the last week or so is these annual exercises they hold every spring have been cancelled. they're not going to hold them anymore going forward. again, it is not a surprise coming out of the singapore summit, that was something that president trump spoke about. he never admitted the secret that he was against the idea of these large exercises and they're spiexpensive and provacative. he talks about how he did not want them to go forward. in the months and between, the pentagon and the military have been figuring out how can they no longer carry out these enormous exercises b

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i wrote two full bipartisan tax reform bills and one with the chair, judd greg and then with dan coates who is donald trump's man on intelligence and then early in 2017, democrats made it clear we wanted a bipartisan bill that had to focus the middle class and making sure that the 1% in the multinational corporations paid their fair share. we didn't get that. we didn't get bipartisanship and we didn't get the substance that would have given us the chance to have something that would be bipartisan with the 1% and the multinationals paying their fair share. the budget proposal before us is in lockstep with the trump tax law. the law that is unbelievably unfair and in effect has the broken tax code and hundreds of millions to billionaires and corporations for the middle class. the tax cuts are temporary if they get anything at all and millions and particularly oregonians got hit with an outright tax increase and there is a promise made to the middle class that's been broken. they were promised $4,000 raises and they were promised an end to offshoring jobs. they were promised tax cuts for t

. >>> my people came to me, dan coats came to me and some others. 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. but i have great confidence in my intelligence people, but i will tell you that president putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial. >> that was president trump last summer in helsinki with russian president vladimir putin and the man we're about to talk to regards that as the low point in terms of american presidents conducting diplomacy. nbc news has gotten a glimpse at a report prepared by the estonian foreign intelligence service, which concludes russia is likely to target european parliamentary elections in may. it goes on the say that through cyber espionage campaigns similar to what we saw in 2016, they hope to secure as many pro-russian or euro skeptical seats as possible within the eu, which is of course already under challenge. with us tonight is ambassador william burns, former u.s. ambassador to russia from '05 to '08. he served as a diplomat for over

dan coats told congress in late january isis maintained a presence in syria despite the president's claimeen defeated. >>> let's get a check on cnn business. the president slammed general motors demanding gm reopen or sell the recently closed plant in lordstown, ohio. general motors has responded. to be clear under the terms of the national agreement, the ultimate future of the unallocated plants will be resolved between gm and the uaw. the president tweeted that he spoke to mary barra about lordstown and he said he asked her to sell it or do something quickly. but that barra blamed the uaw. the tweet was the third time president trump took to twitter to voice his frustrations about gm's plans to cut thousands of jobs and close factories. saturday suggested a new owner could manage the plant but time is of the essence. production at the ohio plant ended earlier this month. and he also criticized the local union president david green telling him to get his act together and produce. green did not respond to a request for comment. gm said sunday its main focus is offering jobs in other plant

. >> christian: dan coats the $50 billion per bureaucracy said no, maybe north korea doesn't want to give up its weapons and may be a rush is bad, may be iran is also bad. i mean i would be happy to produce a relevant assessment for $25 million, the director of national intelligence spoke to the person in the institution and that's relevant. that is to produce intelligence with this information we don't have them make the job of the president and our bad command easier. what he said was recycled a bunch of obvious truths. yes, north korea would like to hold onto their nukes and would drive a hard bargain. they beat the clinton administration and the george w. bush administration, this is obvious you don't need to pay bureaucrats $50 billion a year to produce this but listen, donald trump has done better than the two other administrations. >> shannon: unfortunately we are out of time but this issue far from settled so if you come back we will have you back on because korea not done yet, thank you all. >> david: thank you. house speaker nancy pelosi a warning for democrats and the part

. >> my people came to me, dan coats came to me and some others. 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. >> now house democrats attempting to investigate the president's contacts with putin charge the white house is stone walling them. the white house today rejecting congress's request for do you means insisting presidential communications with foreign leaders are protected and confidential. and house oversight chairman elijah cummings said today his committee has new information, new information alleging that jared kushner has been using whatsapp to communicate with foreign leaders and alleging that ivanka trump may be in violation of the presidential records act with her use of personal e-mails. hmm, personal e-mails. seems to me i recall someone else complaining about that. >> russia, if you're listening, i hope you're able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing. >> lots to discuss now. laura coats and garrett graph, garrett is the author of the threat matrix, inbound ro

. >> dan coats.an think of a few.th thg that got me about cohen is how many times did you become a thug to all businessmen to stiff them for dealing with the trump administration? 500 times. i don't know if it's illegal bu whatit'sh unbecoming in extreme. so i don't treat michael cohen as repentant. i think he didn't have the air of someone who's repented or faced the spiritual music, he just decideinone side is ag his interest, donald trump, and the other side are for his interests and he'll say something nice. i don't think he lietd, bu he is basically catering to the left in some sort of go fund me campaign that will pay his legal bills. >> woodruff: does this advance? >> i don't have that kind of moral x-ray. i don't know if he was a sinner saint.ame i will say that the story of 500 people did you threaten entities, did you threaten on donald trump's behal is a good question from the consmgr from california. and he said 500. but the thing about it is when he stiffed the small businesses, ine plum

. >> my people came to me, dan coats came to me and some others. 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. >> now house democrats attempting to investigate the president's contacts with putin charge the white house is stone walling them. the white house today rejecting congress's request for do you means insisting presidential communications with foreign leaders are protected and confidential. and house oversight chairman elijah cummings said today his committee has new information, new information alleging that jared kushner has been using whatsapp to communicate with foreign leaders and alleging that ivanka trump may be in violation of the presidential records act with her use of personal e-mails. hmm, personal e-mails. seems to me i recall someone else complaining about that. >> russia, if you're listening, i hope you're able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing. >> lots to discuss now. shimoan prokupecz is here, laura coates and garret graff. garrett is the author of th

group of four democratic senators have just sent a letter to the director of national intelligence dan coats, as well as the intelligence community's inspector general requesting that intelligence officials open their own investigation into whether or not the white house is complying with security clearance policies. now, this comes just after the daily beast reported that kushner shut u.s. embassy officials out of his meeting with assad crown prince mohammed bin salman last week. mohammed bin salman or mbs as he's sometimes referred to is believed by u.s. intelligence to have ordered the killing of "washington post" journalist jamal khashoggi. but mbs enjoys a close relationship with kushner. that relationship, according to the daily beast, has frustrated members of congress from both parties, who are actively trying to learn more about the conversations taking place between the two of them. in the hearing to confirm trump's new ambassador to saudi arabia, republican senator marco rubio had this to say about the assad crosaudi crown prince. >> he is reckless. he's ruthless. confrontation in

dan coats before congress earlier this year said russia may go beyond the tactics it used last time,ocial media, beyond the hack and release of e-mails, to include manipulation of voter data, voter rolls, potentially something even more catastrophic. i think the challenge here is that in denying collusion, president trump has also denied the fact that russia is a threat. because of that, we are less prepared. he has sent a signal to our bureaucracy we need not prioritize this to the extent it must be, if we're to prevent this in 2020. >> the white house made the point, and it is the case that the president has pointed to russia as the sort of election interferer, but then he has also, in a way, weakened that argument by saying, well, could be other countries, as well. there are those who want to see a more full-throated response from the president on this. talk me through where you are when it comes to the continued investigation into russia's interference that we know is probably coming in 2020 and beyond. >> well, the 2016 example was a real wake up call for the intelligence commun

. >>> my people came to me, dan coates and some others said, they think it's russia.ident putin, he said, it's not russia, i will say this, i don't see any reason why it would be. >> it's a tough moment for a lot of people to watch, russian meddling was at the crux of mueller's initial mandate which called for a full and thorough investigation of the russian government's efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, now, one year, 10 months, six days later, the investigation has netted. indictments and dozens of russians intel officers and russian nationals. seven people pleaded guilty. we learned at least 16 trump associates have had contact with russians along the way. back with us, jeremy bash, joyce vance and frank figluzzi. it's an odd question to ask. this is the biggest security investigation of the modern era. are we better off for the fact that mueller's folks were digging into it. and we have these documents and now the troll and bot farms half a world away now we're at least on to them? >> yeah, i think so. i think the indictments of the intellige

director of national intelligence dan coats speaking january 29th.later, we now know that can coats and the intelligence community were apparently on to something there. nbc news reporting tonight within two days of the president leaving his failed denuclearization summit with kim jong-un last week, the north koreans appear to have started preparations for a new missile launch add a previously dormant testing site. joining us is senator chris murphy. thanks very much for joining us tonight. nice having you here. >> sure. thanks for having me. >> so have members of congress, have senators been briefed abon these developments? if so, is there anything you can share? >> no, we haven't. in fact, today we had an off the record conversation with the president's primary negotiator with the north koreans. it's certainly very worrying they're back working on a test site that was supposedly closed. you know, there was an assumption that when the president at the end of this summit announced not withstanding the fact they didn't get any agreement he was going t

. >>> my people came to me, dan coates came to me and others, they said, they think it's russia.utin. he just said it's not russia. i will say this. i don't see any reason why it would be. >> it's a tough moment for a lot of people to watch. russian meddling was at the crux of mueller's initial mandate, let's not forget, which called for, quote, a full and thorough investigation of the russian government's efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. now one year, ten months, six days later, the investigation has netted 37 indictments, including three russian companies and dozens of russian intel officers, and russian nationals. seven people have pleaded guilty. we've learned at least 16 trump associates have had contact with russians along the way. >>> back with us, jeremy bash, joyce vance and frank figliuzzi. jeremy, it's an odd question to ask, but you have repeatedly said this is the most important national security investigation of the modern era. are we better off -- even if no reforms come of it, are we better off for the fact that mueller's folks, the feds wer

. >> i understand the idea of disruption but he is siding with vladimir putin over dan coats and others in the u.s. intelligence service about whether russia was involved in the election. he stands next to putin and said he -- >> well, listen, by the way -- but anderson -- but, anderson, here is the other thing. when you see this evidence, i think reasonable people can say -- can question about this whole thing of interference. i think it is another thing that kind of question -- >> you don't believe the russians interfered in the election? >> look, no, i think -- i think it was complete marginalia. this is another overhyped part of what i call the hoax. >> so you don't believe they hacked the e-mails -- >> i think like i said on the margin, you might have had some e-mails or these guys down in florida that even clapper said was, what, $115,000 of ads. it is all marginalia, right. >> you don't think -- so you don't think stealing the e-mails was a russian -- >> the stealing of the podesta e-mails? >> yeah. the podesta e-mails. >> should you have done it? no. it's wrong to do it. but it

. >> your successor, dan coats, told congress a few months later that the russian cyber operations will continue to target the united states and its allies. it's still going on as we speak right now. that was the whole investigation. the mueller investigation was designed to determine what the russians were up to and then also go into whether or not americans were helping the russians and apparently the bottom line is there was no evidence that criminally americans were helping the russians. >> that appears to be the case. i know when i left the government in '17, we certainly didn't have any direct evidence of collusion then. i think we all had faith. i certainly do, did in bob mueller. if there was evidence there, he would report it. and there wasn't. that's a good thing. it's a good message for the country. >> james clapper, thanks so much for joining us. always important to get your perspective. appreciate it. >> thanks, wolf. >> let's continue, amanda. what do you think? this is going to be a political issue. there's no doubt about that. the republicans and democrats -- on conclusi

read dan coats report to the congress this past january he lays out in a public document pretty clearly what we are facing and we don't know how to get this genie back in the bottle. in a country that has to have , the more thatng it's difficult to build that regardless of party. that has certainly been an impediment. things that you've mentioned. race, attitudes, religion. anything that is a way with an external threat can penetrate our body politic and drive people away it's going to be increasingly difficult to govern this country. that to me is one of our biggest threats. thinkt say that i don't that the department of defense as part of the overall cyber effort has got its act together yet. and i believe that it is still ofstovepipes and the role cyber command as part of the protection against the cyber threat i don't think has been fleshed out as it has to be and we better be doing doubletime to get ready. hearingni said at the the russians are continuing to do it. the chinese are doing it now. the iranians are doing it now. the north koreans are doing it now and others are doing i

if you just read dni dan coats report to the congress this past january, he lays out in a public document pretty clearly what we're facing. and we don't know how to get this genie back in the bottle. and in a country that, of its governmental nature, that has to have consensus building, the more that it's difficult to build that consensus, regardless of party -- that's certainly been an impediment to consensus building. but on the other things you've mentioned, race, attitudes, religion, anything that is a wedge, when an external threat can penetrate our body politic and drive people away, it's going to be increasingly difficult to govern this country. and that, to me, is one of our biggest threats. and by the way, i might say that i don't think the department of defense, as part of the overall cyber effort, has got its act together yet. and i believe that it's still too stove piped. and the role of cyber command as part of the protection against the cyber threats, i don't think, has been fleshed out as it has to be. and we better be doing double time to get ready. >> you know, the dni sa

the years on bipartisanship and taxes, i wrote to full bills, once with the chair and then with dan coats who's now donald trump's ban on intelligence and then early in 2017 democrats made it clear they want a bipartisan bill that it has to focus on the middle class and making sure the 1% and the multinational corporations pay their fair share. we didn't get bipartisanship and we didn't get the substance that would have given us the chance to have something that would be bipartisan with the 1% and the multinational paying their fair share. the budget proposal before us is in lockstep with the wall that is unbelievably unfair and ineffective but it makes it worse. handouts to millionaires and corporations, middle-class tax cuts are temporary, millions got hit with an outcry tax increase and there was a promise made to the middle class that's been broken they were promised 4,000-dollar raises and to end offshore jobs. none of this has turned out to be true. what happened instead, there was a massive wave of stock buybac buybacks. then we have another one for books at the tofolks at the topt

then with dan coats who is now donald trump's man on intelligence. and th and then early in 2017, democrats made it clear we wanted a bipartisan bill, but it had to focus on the middle class and making sure that the 1% and the multinational corporations paid their fair share. we didn't get that. we didn't get bipartisanship and we didn't get the substance that would have given us a chance to have something that would be bipartisan, with the 1% and the multinationals paying their fair share. the budget proposal before us is in lock step with the trump tax law, the law that is unbelievably unfair and ineffective, it extend as broken tax code and makes it worse. hundreds of billions of dollars in handouts to billionaires and corporations for the middle class, the tax cuts are temporary, they get anything at all. -- if they get anything at all. millions, particularly oregonians, got hit with an outright tax increase, and there was a promise made to the middle class that's been broken. they were promised $4,000 raises. they were promised an end to offshor

if you recall dan coats testified in open session before the senate intelligence committee that north korea would not give up their wmd programs. that's what led the president to say the intelligence chiefs were naive and stupid and behavioral he disagreed with their analysis. of course their analysis was dead on. the president walked into the summit in hanoi and the north koreans said we're not closing down facilities, we're not giving up our enrichment, our launch facilities, we're not going to do all the things we said we might do and president trump had nowhere to go so he had to leave. of course we're praising him for walking away from a horrible deal. but, in fact, the entire thing was foretold and foresaw by our intelligence chiefs if only our president had listened. >> one of the things i would be interested in asking about is what would happen if they were to restart testing? one of the upsides of the whole process of negotiation we had for the past year is that there hasn't been testing. something the japanese were thrilled about. they felt these rockets coming across. there

dan coats with the national intelligence, as well as other intelligence officers from the federal government, came and did briefings from them. i know china came up. i'm pleased to see that there's an increased awareness, not to go for state and local officials, no the to go -- not in naively, they are aware of pitfalls and possible benefits. >> has there been a change of mood? i heard that they are seeing china and the relationship with china in a more pessimistic light. >> i have seen that to some degree. a great indicator of that is i feel five years ago -- exaggeratining to make a point. five years ago, every economic adviser, would say to a new governor, go to china. visit china. i don't hear that anymore. i think what i'm hearing is, figure out the countries where you should interenet. they felt poland was a better trading partner on those issues. i think you are seeing a more broad look at for every state, which is -- which are the countries that are most important for you to interester a interester act with based on your industry sectors? >> yes, sir. >> good morning. i was wondering

dan and i will be holding your coats for you at the end with your churros. >> yeah. >> a vomit bag. >k and you go on one of those plume rides and you're headed to -- like you got to have the poncho because you're going to get wet? some people think that was the inspiration for louis vuitton's latest fashion design here. this is the poncho. said poncho with the lv signature. but the price tag, 7800 bucks. >> what? >> made of metallic calfskin. >> wow! >> some are saying it looks like a hypothermia blanket. >> yeah. >> discuss among yourselves. >> is it waterproof? >> i don't think so. i think it's just fashion. >> to carry around signature flags. >> it's just fashion. >>> okay, let's talk about hollywood news. okay? jennifer garner is showing a moment that moms can relate to. the actress planned a b-day party for her 7-year-old son with a "how to train your dragon" theme. when it was time for the cake she didn't get the reception she anticipated sharing this on instagram. 7 is the age my kid stops thinking it's cool that i dress up for the party and the hashle # firsteyeroll. you can j

there is dan standing in front of it, and in the recesses of lincoln's coat is the original model hetarted with. he did no drawings. it was a remarkable process. he sat there with a block of clay and began. he sketched in three dimensions, which for me is unimaginable talent and gift. he had to sell really only one person on his design, robert lincoln, the surviving son of abraham lincoln. his 70's, he lived until 1926. he was around. they had a give-and-take very much like his give and take with bacon. take it to me, washington, come to greenwich village. not see preeminence to the other was the determinant voice. but he went down to washington the behemoth. he had planned a 12-foot high on a base, and he looked he said this and is going to be a terrible failure and it had to be bigger, and he had a great eye needless to say. he immediately thought 19 to 20 do it but how do you get congress to reappropriate or 50 or iate an additional $60,000 either in bronze or marble. he had not r not, decided. here's how he did it. lincoln's headof that was proportion national to 19-foot high sta