also with us former assistant director at counterintelligence at the fbi frank figliuzzi and former senator claire mccaskill is back. take me through the reporting. >> the thread of the story, in the president's daily brief, the most important intelligence briefing the community puts together for the chief executive each and every day, the coronavirus was being mentioned repeatedly, it came up at least a dozen times in january and february. in various forms. in some cases it was substantial articles describing the course of the virus, its spread into europe, the threat it posed politically and economically around the world and in other cases it was just a minor update or a mention because this was something that u.s. spy agencies were tracking very closely across this time. >> greg miller, there's some terms in the art in the reporting, anyone who followed the post reporting or the "the new york times" reporting after 9/11, this idea of an uptick, it was in the briefing at the same source, imminent terrorist threat. can you tell us how severe this was, the myriad of issues that the intel br

joining me now, yamiche alcindor and frank figliuzzi. yamiche, let me just start with you.said he was not a big trump fan. but, in fact, there was no allegation of wrongdoing against this inspector general for the intelligence community. >> that's right. what we saw was the president lash out at michael atkinson for effectively doing his job. he said he was a terrible person and he should not have elevated this whistle-blower complaint. but the president did say in particular what the i.g. did wrong in terms of his actual duties. what the president did say is that he didn't agree with the fact that he should have been impeached, and he again repeated the claim that he thought it was a perfect call between ukraine when of course we all know that the president was at least attempting to get ukraine to look into joe biden, a political opponent, and look into whether or not there were any allegations of wrongdoing there. >> frank, what's your take on this? >> yeah. so first let's call this what it is. during a press conference today, during a national crisis, the president of t