gina haskell has a very close relationship with intelligence a two-time station chief in london and i have a great story in the book when she was rising through the ranks haskell formed a friendship with the unlikely event or imaginable which was josÉ rodriguez with the enhanced interrogation techniques and became her feminist mentor when she was thinking about becoming station chief in geneva and say to her listen that's not good enough for you. that's where it is happening. so a little digression but they have a pretty good relationship. and with the effect of the trump president but we all remember the time that donald trump met in the oval office and then to put out the details of the israeli operation the middle east and there is is real concern among allies and other countries that this president can't be trusted with intelligence. there is a big problems that is unbreakable. he doesn't read the president's daily brief he thinks he knows everything worth knowing. and he thinks he can share stuff with vladimir putin of the worl world. that is a problem. i will tell you the bob wo

it's something that gina haskell has to be very very careful about.eally needs to have the backs of her employees. and her record is really mixed on that. i have to say when donald trump holds this intelligence prefer under the bus came back the first he's heard of the virus was on january 23 and his briefer said it was no big deal, we all know now her name. she evidently by the way is on her way out and it's all here to replace her.gina haskell's silence was deafening when trump threw her under the bus. i think the cia director's responsibility, this was a case where there were so many things wrong with that statement. everything in the cdc is a big deal and if it's briefed on the president verbally is an even bigger deal. so again, i think this is a perilous time right now for the intelligencecommunity . and an awful lot is writing on gina haskell as the honest broker. >> when we look ahead to the future, the future of november and afterwards, the top three recommendations to make it cia better tools or less tools or more incentives or more clarity

until then he still wants to settle scores and may fire more top officials, including gina haskels, chris krebs, and christopher wray. mr. trump is also lashing out at fax news tweeting very sad to watch this happen but they forget who made to watch them successful. the president doesn't appear to be spending time dealing with the coronavirus as more associates are contracting covid-19 including corey lewandowski, one of several aides and allies to catch the virus since last week's election party. so much of the promise the media coverage of the virus would vanish. >> on november 4th you won't hear much about this. right now it's covid, covid. >> reporter: as for the prospect of the president firing the cia director, gina haskel, a source familiar with the situation tells cnn that the director is on thin ice and the president has had a problem with her for some time. meanwhile our sources are also telling us don't expect the president to concede or accept the election results until he's exhausted these legal challenges at this point. the president appears to be, according to our sources,

we're learning the cia director gina haskell -- i believe the phrase was iced out -- as others are fearing that he may fire her next. what do you know about that? >> reporter: there is a lot of speculation she is going to be fired. it's not clear where the president landed on that, but there have been many discussions at the white house this week about it. she has not been invited to the president briefing this afternoon. it's not something that's mandatory for the cia director to come to, but typically you would see the cia director invited to something like that. certainly when mike pompeo led the cia, he would have been someone invited to a briefing to something like this. whether or not it spells doom for her future is still another question, but people are not confident that the president is going to keep gina haskell around, because he has been complaining about her for months, so the question is does he actually bite the bullet and terminate her just as he did the secretary a few days ago. >> kaitlan, thank you. let's go to jason carroll. he's live in rehobeth beach where the presid

let me say about gina haskell she's one of the most fascinating people in washington.. i tell the story about how she rose from covert operative to head of the cia. she appears to be one of the few people standing between donald trump and this campaign of his to declassify documents about the russians in this pursuit of a fairytale that they were not involved in the 2016 elections. i think that's what appears to have angered trump. he has liked many of the other things she's done, including the lethal action in january. if she's fired between now and january 20th, we should all be concerned about the implications. >> let me ask you about another subject you've written about, picht the role of chief of staff. joe biden announcing his chief of staff to be ron klain. you argue how the white house chiefs of staff define every presidency. from what you've learned is biden making a good move with this pick? how would you qualify it? >> i think ron klain is a superb choice. he's almost perfect on paper for the job. everybody seemed to think he was the obvious choice. lawrence

include cia rumored director gina haskell and fbi director christopher wray.ow if the president is going to make moves against one or either of them, but those are people in washington who other people are looking at as possible targets of trump in the final stretch of his administration. emily: meantime, more people in the administration testing positive for covid-19. david bossi, the outside advisor of the president, who is leaving this postelection fight, along with hud secretary ben carson and mark meadows. has any evidence been found to support the president's claims of voter fraud? jordan: so far, they have not presented hard evidence that there is widespread voter fraud in this election. chair and white house press secretary kayleigh mcenany just had a press conference where they announced a new lawsuit trying to challenge votes in pennsylvania where joe biden is ahead by roughly 45,000 votes. and the lawsuit does not include any allegation of voter fraud. they are just alleging the process, they believe, was unfair. another lawyer who appeared at the p

we now expect he'll turn on gina haskel and christopher wray who stood up against the president's attempts to use their agencies to serve their ends. he has purged a series of lesser known officials already. the woman in charge of the nuclear stock pile, a climate official who pushed the seriousness of climate change, a utility regulator who talked about the need for use of renub agency. he shoved those people aside. we're waiting to see if he does the same with the fbi and cia officials i mentioned. all the while, the republican officials not just his own administration like bill barr standing behind what he's doing. lindsey graham fessed up one reason why they're doing what they're doing, they have two special elections that occur in january, if democrats win both they gain control of the senate. lindsey graham said if we don't scrutinize these election results we could hurt our chances of riling up our base and turning out in january. so you have a mix of incentives, both the president's personal humiliation over losing, his desire to seek vengeance and the republicans search for politi

. >> concern is growing that the director of the cia gina haskell may be on the list of national security officials who he wants to get rid of. president trump's view has been eroding most recently because of her reluctance to help declassify and release documents relating to the fbi's russia investigation. she leads an agency fiercely apolitical under a president that demands loyalty. on tuesday haskell got a strong show of confidence after meeting with majority leader mitch mcconnell who continues to back the president's decision not to concede the election. >> thank you, alex, and all of my colleagues for those reports. as each day passes, trump administration refuses to concede to transition of power the more vulnerable the country is according to the 9/11 commission, independent bipartisan commission that extensively investigated september 11th attacks and the factors that contributed to them. the commission warn things fall through the cracks when the transition is delayed. founded in 2000 because of the infamous recount the delayed transition hampered administration in identifying,

are also reports the president was considering firing fbi director chris wray and cia director gina haskell deal of concern and the head of the armed services committee has said that this is very childish and destabilizing at a very dangerous time. back to you. >> dana: thank you for the report. the senate is returning for the first time since the election with its future of control still up in the air. rational correspondent chad pergram is live on capitol hill as everybody gets back to work. >> they get back in about 20 minutes here and mitch mcconnell number one on his list is to try to do a coronavirus bill during the lame duck congress. house speaker nancy pelosi wanted to do one before the election, that opportunity appears to have evaporated for the house speaker. mitch mcconnell wants to do a narrow bill, listen. >> rather than throwing another $3 trillion at this issue, it's more appropriate to be highly targeted towards things directly related to the coronavirus. >> congress must also vote to avoid a government shutdown by december 11 and they must either raise or suspend the debt

esper is out, will the president now move to fire gina haskel, the director at the central intelligence agency and, of course, chris wray, director at the fbi. if those three officials do go, the concern is you are decapitating the actual career professionals in national security. does this embolden america's adversaries? does it show potential risk for u.s. national security? that's what i'm hearing around the pentagon, that there is worry about this. they are trying to say that every -- there is not chaos, top military officials say they're sending a message around the world that everything is steady as she goes, but as these officials continue to leave the administration, whether that narrative, steady as she goes, can really continue, and that is really heard by america's adversaries perhaps remains to be seen. as for the new acting defense secretary, less than 24 hours into the job, this morning chris miller is holding a secure, highly classified phone conference with top u.s. military officials around the world. his top commanders. introducing himself. that's what's clear. and try

. >> cnn has learned that gina haskell and fbi director chris wray could be in jeopardy. accusing haspel of delaying the release of documents they say would expose deep state plots against the president's first campaign. they have no support for that. fbi director chris wray has provoked the president's ire with his frank testimony about the threat of white supremacy, and the threat of russian addition information. firing wray, however, would provide an opening to the biden administration of course as wray is only three years into a ten-year term. >> transition trouble overshadowing, biden's biggest priority containing coronavirus. there could finally be mope on the horizon. even more. chop salsas, spoon thick smoothie bowls, even power through dough, and never stall. the ninja foodi power pitcher. rethink what a blender can do. let's be honest. quitting smoking is hard. like, quitting every monday hard. quitting feels so big. so try making it smaller, and you'll be surprised at how easily starting small can lead to something big. start stopping with nicorette. hi jen! hi

if president trump takes action now, if he ices out gina haskell and makes it so that the turkish cane in and grab more territory, then the next president will have to deal with trying to get the territory back, or having to deal with a world where we have a very, very negative situation happening in the middle east or in africa or anywhere else in the world. this president -- i don't know whose agenda he's acting on, but the only saving grace in this whole thing is the professionalism and the dedication to the oath of office by our military men and women who will do the best job they possibly can, but they don't have a commander in chief that honors their service. we lost five american troops yesterday, and this president who tweets nonstop dozens of times a day hasn't tweeted once acknowledging the loss of those heroes. >> no, he hasn't responded to that. we noted that earlier. it's sort of a stunning omission from him. i wanted to ask you, while i have you here, your name was on the short list for vice presidential running mate for joe biden. you would be a logical choice to have a

and then bill casey and you've got a cast, an amazing cast of characterings all the way up to gina haskellthe first woman to run the ceo. you're right, the book focuses a lot on the relationship between the president and the cia director. it's an almost impossible balancing act for a cia director because he or she, on the one hand, has to tell the president hard truths, while also keeping the president's ear. that's a really tough challenge, even in the best of times, and in the current times it's practically mission impossible. >> yeah, and i don'ten if you saw the comey film over the weekend. >> yes, yes. >> but it's one of the things that becomes clear how hard that particular relationship is just generally and how much harder it was under trump. so, just going down that line a little bit, so, who had the worst relationship? and i kind of-- i mean, i read the book so i kind of know i think what you're going to say, and then who had the best relationship? and this is-- >> jim would have been for worst relationship with a president. woolsey, a fascinating character to me, brilliant guy. h

right i think the names they get taught are tossed around our doctor found she gina haskell the cia director and and she said the f.b.i. director are the names that are commonly tossed around as people who have pushed back against the president and that he might want to engage in a round of score settling with. again that said it he may see what happens in the wake of this appointment and realize that he's really not analyzing these people very much again perversely i think asperse reputation will be blue weighed by the fact that he pushed back enough against the president that he felt inclined to fire him and to be fair a lot of these people would possibly be out of a job in january anyway when president elect joe biden takes office i mean sometimes there are secretaries who carry over in their job to a new administration but it doesn't happen that often it doesn't happen often so i know there will be a difference between purely political appointees secretary asked which sure to which is john as you know on the 20th or anywhere and longer term a point like doctor for algae serve several adm

may be destroying one, that he may be considering firing his fbi director, chris wray, firing gina haskell. is there reporting where bill barr would come down? is his job safe? >> i talked to two people close to the president in the past two days. what they said to me was that, you know, the president will -- he may no come out publicly and say the right things, but he will go. and the thing i pushed back on them, and i said, look, i said how is he going to act here? what is he going to do? and the president will be around until january 20th, and there's a lot that he could do there. there's a lot of scores that he could settle. he still is in control of the federal government, and that is not a small thing. and the president has repeatedly shown throughout his time in office, obviously a willingness to destroy norms, an indifference to the law, indifference here to the results of an election. it just remains to be seen what he will do as he stews around here in the coming weeks. there are people that he's very, very upset with, his fbi directors chris ray, his cia director, tony fauci, pe

gina haskell cia, and other fbi, it's not surprising to see senior administration official start to headsual. as you mention, this could be donald trump settling scores for top this could be trump trying to maintain the perception that there could still be a second trump term since he's challenging the election. and is making personnel changes in order to prepare for that. whatever the reason, it is highly unusual. i think despite the fact that there has been falling out it came for a shock for mark esper to happen by tweet. good point you make about releva nce. tweet. good point you make about relevance. suddenly we are all starting to focus on joe relevance. suddenly we are all starting to focus onjoe biden, the president elect, he's got an announcement today, newt covid task force, there is a press conference and then right out of the blue comes the firing of mark esper. is that something to do with it, you think? it certainly could be. we don't know how donald trump is going to handle these remaining two months of his presidency. obviously, he doesn't have much power over legislation