what graham is asking for is a top secret document an estimate of what every intelligence agency knows about a particular threat. to be told that here we are about to go to war and no national intelligence estimate has been done it was astounding and we ask that it be done what happened was they kept their heads way down you know it want to do an estimate on weapons of mass destruction in iraq because that honest i understand so was there any. in london player comes to the aid of his friend bush's publishes a dossier on the iraqi weapons. the intelligence picture they want to keep it they can be deployed within 45 minutes and iraq is seeking uranium from africa to develop an atomic bomb. but in congress graham is not convinced he presses on he wants proof the agency particularly the cia the central intelligence agency was very reluctant and said we don't have time to do this i said we don't have time to know everything we need to know before we commit u.s. troops to combat tenet goes back to the white house and he says. it looks like the jig is up i will have to do it estimate and the

has called for the attorney general william barr to actually to prosecute and go after the intelligence agency i think we could see in an area an issue where he could be at odds with the very agencies that he is now in tasked with actually overseeing and what does that mean that i mean if he is confirmed what does that mean how does that bode for the country's intelligence agencies and they work. that's a very good question i think we could see a director of national intelligence operating very much in the same manner that we see the attorney general for the united states for the department of justice we could see a director of national intelligence who sees his role as more so to prioritize the will and aims of the president of the united states and less so the intelligence and national security interest of that of the press of the united states and do you think that john ratcliffe will become the new d.n.i. the director of national intelligence how do you expect republicans the others even to push back on this. you know we see it we see a republican party that is loyally behind the president

what graham is asking for is a top secret document an estimate of what every intelligence agency knows about a particular threat. to be told that here we are about to go to war and no national intelligence estimate has been done was astounding and we ask that it be done what happened was they kept their heads way down you know they didn't want to do an estimate on weapons of mass destruction in iraq because they're honest understand so was there any. good in london player comes to the aid of his friend bush's publishes a dossier on the iraqi weapons. the intelligence picture they want to keep they can be deployed within 45 minutes and iraq is seeking uranium from africa to develop an atomic bomb but in congress graham is not convinced he presses on he wants proof the agency particularly the cia the central intelligence agency was very reluctant and said we don't have time to do this i said we don't have time to know everything we need to know before we commit u.s. troops to combat tenet goes back to the white house and he says. looks like the jig is up we're going to have to do it esti

and by law inform in forstmann agencies and the head of germany's domestic intelligence agency has also said recently that he wants to give more resources and more people power especially to the department which is responsible for the research and surveillance of specifically far right extremist groups and of course also in recent years germany has become well known even infamous to some of the efforts it's making to clamp down on online hate speech of course that has joined but with problems of its own sometimes completely legitimate political commentary has been scooped up into those filters but that's one measure and also even just this week the german government was trying once again to have public funding cut from the n.p.t. that's the neo nazi policy here in germany and for years now the government has been trying to get that party banned has failed to do so so far and of course that party is still a legitimate political party and is therefore entitled to receive public funding so that's something that the government is trying to work on at the moment to have those financ

because i think we all learned, the intelligence agencies have run amok. >> those are remarks from trump today suggested the president views ratcliffe as a loyal soldier in his ongoing war against intelligence agencies. the question now is whether republicans in the u.s. senate will stand for it or whether they'll finally break with the president on this issue. that's coming up next. you're watching "hardball." up n. you're watching "hardball. ark. if you look close... ark. jamie, are there any interesting photos from your trip? ouch, okay. huh, boring, boring, you don't need to see that. oh, here we go. can you believe my client steig had never heard of a home and auto bundle or that renters could bundle? wait, you're a lawyer? only licensed in stockholm. what is happening? jamie: anyway, game show, kumite, cinderella story. you know karate? no, alan, i practice muay thai, completely different skillset. our mission is to provide complete, balanced nutrition for strength and energy! whoo-hoo! great-tasting ensure. with nine grams of protein and twenty-six

and all the different intelligence agencies there is a concern about what this will do to morale there's concern about what this will do to the president's inner circle there were a lot of establishment republicans when president 1st came into office and said look the end they perhaps not so nicely called them the grown ups in the room but they were they were confident because of who the president surrounded himself with secretary jim met a secretary tellers and dan coats they all had some experience either in the international affairs or within government or within the military so there is growing concern among people who follow national security that this just continues a trend the other issue here is the president as missing a lot of cabinet members and he has said he likes when they're acting because they're more pliable and that is going to be a concern here because the question is as the president seems to go their cabinet member so quickly is this representative going to have what it takes to stand up to the president say no t

as i think you've all learned, the intelligence agencies have run amok.mok. >> i just think -- am i wrong to read the president being like i need this guy to rein them in. the run amok is not the best way to get this guy confirmed? >> my rough calculation is they'll probably get you ten republican votes because they hate the intelligence agency so much. but for an awful lot of these folks, they're going to be really upset if forced to vote on this guy, because he is obviously highly unqualified, a, for the position. and b, they like to pretend or they like to say, excuse me, that they are defenders of the intelligence agencies. and they know damn well what's going on here, that trump's trying to get protection by getting this guy confirmed. >> the richard burr quote on this i thought was amazing. this is burr who is the chair senate intelligence doing his best mariah carey imitation. if i get nominated i'll process it through committee. which to me is a tell. that's what republican senators always say when someone gets floated if it's herman cain or ken c

intelligence agencies are more transparent than some of the large online platforms, in terms of what their practices are. that is not what should be happening. they need to be communicating. they need to better involve users in these decisions. guest,eff kosseff is our an assistant professor of cybersecurity law at the u.s. naval academy. the author of the book "the 26 words that created the internet." online content and liability is the topic. the phone lines are open to join the conversation. democrats, (202) 748-8000. republicans, (202) 748-8001. independents, (202) 748-8002. jeff kosseff will be with us until the bottom of the hour this morning. i to the debate playing out on capitol hill and at the white house, can you set up the players in this debate and how they are lining up on either side of this? guest: you have -- there were two members of congress who sponsors section 230. one is chris cox, who is now in private law practice, and the other was then representative senator ron white. host: is at the chris cox who is at the nra? guest: no. he was the sec chairman under pres

president trump has nominated a top supporter to replace dan coats and oversee the nation's 17 intelligence agencies, traditionally a nonpolitical job. let's get more from nbc's andrea mitchell >> reporter: texas congressman john radcliff, a staunch trump loyalist, only last week he seemed to be auditioning for the intelligence job by attacking robert mueller >> donald trump is not above the law, he's not. but he shouldn't be below the law. >> reporter: he claims he put ter errorists in prison. there's no record of the former attorney prosecuting a terrorist case a former small town mayor, he nevered managed anything as large as the 17 intelligence agencies, and he's embraced the president's theories about the russia probe >> it appears there were crimes committed during the obama administration >> dan coats came to me and others and said they think it's russia i have president putin, he just said it's not russia >> reporter: three days later t just invited vladimir putin to the white house. >> say that again. >> vladimir putin -- >> did i hear you? >> yeah, yeah. >> okay. that's going to be special

i am at the naval academy and i interact with intelligence agencies as well and sometimes the intelligence agencies are more transparent than some of the online platforms in terms of -- and that's not what should be happening. they really need to be communicating and this is what we do and they need to better involve users in these decisions. >> jeff kosip is our guest and professor of cybersecurity law at the u.s. naval academy and the author of the book "the twenty-six words that created the internet." phone lines are open for the conversation. democrats 202-748-8000, republicans 202-748-8001, and independents 202-748-8002. the bill at the white house, as well, set up the players in this debate right now and how they're lining up on either side of this? >> so you have -- so there were two members of congress who sponsored section 230. one is chris cox now in private law practice and the other senator rod wyden. >> is that the chris cox that was at the nra. >> no, he was the sec chairman under president bush. >> gotcha. >> so they wrote section 230 and they've both been advocating and sen

the dni will oversee the heads of all the other intelligence agencies. the head of the nsa, dod. nded cyber command and the second army. you compare those res mays to congressman ratcliffe, he's been on the intelligence committee for six months. is that the experience necessary for this role? >> i think it is. you have to remember he has a very different role in the dni. he's not a technician. it's like the ceo of home depot isn't a plumber or an electrician. he's a business leader. and the dni is essentially someone who works with congress, works with the president. it's important that he has the president's trust. and he coordinates with all of these agencies. so it is a very difficult. and i think dan coats, who did a remarkable job, and i would like to take a moment to thank him for his service. i met with him for an hour last friday and the conversation we had reinforced what a great job he did. and he had a similar back ground to mr. ratcliffe. >> to be fair, he was a sitting senator for a number of years. ratcliffe only a couple of years. let's ask about the politics here.

germany's domestic intelligence agency which is known as the federal office for the protection of the constitution the v. for short it has a long list of groups that it watches groups that it considers to be extremists and threats to democracy the b.f. these power reaches all the way in to parliament the anti immigration party the alternative for germany the a.f.d. is now the largest opposition party in parliament the party itself is not under surveillance but several of its groups such as the youth wing they are being monitored in the summer of 2015 more than 1000000 migrants mostly from war torn syria came here to germany now their arrival gave rise to violent demonstrations led by. that's a group against the islamification of europe to get it is on that list of organizations being watched and here in germany even the monitors can be monitored last year the head of the office to protect the constitution hans georg mohsen he was forced to resign after publicly questioning claims about the seriousness of right wing violence in the country and there are renewed worries that the far rig

can he possibly be an unbiased leader of such an important intelligence agency? >> i do know him, ayman. we served together as u.s. attorneys. if you asked me a couple of days before the mueller hearing what i thought of john, i would have told you although i don't share his politics i thought he was a decent man. that hearing unnerved me. i thought it was incredibly disingenuous what he did to bob mueller and, by the way, i thought he was flat out wrong. to david's point and ben's point, the intelligence community not only has to be perceived as apolitic al, it ha to be apolitical. intelligence is not political. it's not left, right, democratic or republican. intelligence is just our ability to collect the best information and present it to the decision maker. and so i hope john rises above the politics he displayed at the mueller hearing. i hope he's better than that, and i hope he grows into the job. i will give him the benefit of the doubt. i hope i'm not wrong. >> we talk a little bit about this -- in the first response to this in terms of his confirmation p

intelligence agency which they accuse of breaking into d.n.c. e-mail service they say appear to have stolen this information there's a lack of confidence there then there's a lot of confusion about how we can leaks got this information a lot of confusion about timeframes. this is very recent sure they'll be much more discussion about this but again another challenge to the mueller of court right thanks very much for taking us through all the arts our senior correspondent. and other big story of the week the u.k. the bus routes of us sir kem doric has announced he is stepping down after a series of highly critical comments he made about the trump administration were leaked to the press in confidential cable sent back to officials in london the diplomats describe the white house as dysfunctional inept and chaotic. since the leak of official documents from this embassy there's been a great deal of speculation surrounding my position and that your ration of my remaining term as ambassador i want to put an end to that speculation the current situatio

intelligence agencies, dan coats fired back. >> yeah, absolutely.u remember just last year when he was testifying before the senate saying that he does, indeed, believe that kim jong un is not ever going to give up his nuclear weapons, which the president has a much more cheery outlook for that direction, the president called the intelligence community passive and naive on some of these other threats facing the country. but dan coats has, for his two-year tenure as the director of national intelligence, really been a vehement defender of the intelligence community, and i think that's going to be a big question as to whether john ratcliffe will follow in those footsteps. jon: in the meantime, the president has this ongoing feud with congressman elijiah cummings of maryland. where is that headed? [laughter] >> well, the president is continuing to punch back just like we saw over the last two weeks with his criticisms of those four democratic congresswomen called the squad. i don't think that the president is going to back down from his criticisms and

donald trump has also been trying very hard ever since taking office to bend the intelligence agencieso his will in the same way. and if trump's repeated efforts to take over the justice department manifested themselves in the constant browbeating of jeff sessions, then his efforts to take over the intelligence community manifested in the awkward pauses of national director of intelligence, dan coats. >> have you talked about this issue with admiral rogers? >> that is something that i would like to withhold that question at this particular point in time. >> truly one of the greatest sound bites of the trump era courtesy of dni dan coats. that was coats in 2017 being asked in the senate about trump putting pressure on him and pressure on the head of the national security agency, mike rogers, about the russia investigation. senator richard blumenthal asked coats in an open hearing, so when both of you got pressure about the president on the russia matter, did you guys ever talk to each other about that? have you talked about this issue with admiral rogers? at which point, dan coats pause

oppose it i was listening to briefings detailed top secret briefings from the cia the defense intelligence agency and other intelligence organizations and they all believed. believed very strongly that saddam had multiple programs to develop weapons of mass destruction in reality there is no consensus on the existence of w n d's for years american intelligence has been monitoring iraq and has found nothing we spend billions literally billions of dollars a year with what we call national technical means which everyone knows are satellites and they not only take images but they have all kinds of other sensor data on that thing ok and guess what. not one w m d shite was found in iraq since 1991 the specialists of alex running espionage the n.s.a. the national security agency cannot find anything. william binney former technical director of the n.s.a. was among those scrutinizing iraq there was no information collected by n.s.a. that that indicated that he continued his weapons of mass destruction program or even that he had weapons of mass destruction. this was no surprise saddam hussein's awesome h

about this. concerns within the intelligence agencies about thislj concerns within the intelligence zzled as to the cause. the sun has a quote from somebody saying boris was a loud mouth and theresa may was a control freak and you have the worst of both personalities? one source said control freak riyadh number ten was the primary cause, they thought, but others said it was a mix and there was concern about mr johnson's record of being able to keep secrets and be disciplined, going back a while. and there was the personal hostility between theresa may and borisjohnson, which i think explains a lot of it, the lack of trust between those two individuals and then security and intelligence being drawn into that tension. number ten says it will not comment on intelligence matters and a source close to borisjohnson denies any row and says he saw everything he needed to from day one. the vice so everyone is saying nothing to see here and it is an historical problem, it is nothing signalling from any quarter that this prime minister, potential primary stick—on is a security risk? people have

or intelligence agency and you plan to have this be your career, if what you're focused on is russian interference and the president doesn't even want to receive briefings about it or doesn't want to hear it discussed, that doesn't send a great message to people that that's something in the lower levels of the intelligence agencies that they should actually focus on and commit themselves to. >> it not only undermines their morale, but our attempt to recruit the best and the brightest to serve in our intelligence community. they risk their lives. they put their careers and their futures on the line every day. some of them in places of great danger. and for their advice to be disregarded about not only the russians, but yesterday robert mueller warned about, quote, many other countries. and today the washington post is reporting a disinformation campaign by iran. that intelligence report from the senate intelligence committee, which is bipartisan, warns about potentially other countries as well. so we have the fight of our lives on our hands as a democracy. whether the president likes i

christopher wray, the head of the nation at intelligence agencies all are unanimous that we need to harden our democracy by reinforcing our safeguards against hacking into our election machinery, and also what i have introduced, the measure that would require reporting, the duty to report act, require donald trump, any member of his campaign, anybody in his family to report offers of assistance or soliciting of assistance. it's illegal right now, but donald trump is saying there's no duty to report it. it would be unpatriotic, it would be immoral to fail to do so. >> it is kind of incredible when you think about it, that the president really has not made a prime time address, really a public address focused on what the russians did and, you know, what interference there was and what he is doing in order to stop it from happening again. i mean, the white house says they have a whole of government approach. general hayden and others have said if the president himself is not using the bully pulpit, which he uses effectively for a number of things, to push this, it's not -- it doesn't have the

awesome they find nothing the politicians blame it on the intelligence community you know intelligence agencies frequently make mistakes intelligence organizations by their very nature are working with imperfect information with conflicting accounts with things that it's impossible to to interpret with a high degree of certainty the cia which had been so suspicious of the collaboration between the exiles and the pentagon will be forced to take the blame notably for the most blatant lies that little sentence 16 words in all spoken by bush about the african yellowcake and the documents that inspired it no one knew at the time in articles maybe someone knew down in the bow for the agency but no one in our circles knew. that there were doubts and suspicions that this might be a forgery this insistence on defending the official lie finally gets the better of joe wilson's discretion. it was at that time that i fully understood that the government was not going to do it yet that it lied to the american people and therefore i had to write the story myself. in the new york times he publishes the truth a

you're wrong mr president this is an incredibly important position it basically all the 16 intelligence agencies funnel up to the d.n.i. and he funnels that information to the president of the united states so ratliff is going to be a congressman or a clip is going to be asked the question will you do what is in best interest to the country and not just try to keep favor with the president should be a pretty contentious confirmation hearing thank you very much patty calling with the latest on that from washington and patty was just mentioning that the u.s. president's recent comments on alijah cummings and his baltimore district but trump's racist rhetoric is seen as positive his election strategy for 2020. he reaches out to his base and alienates all the parts of the population democratic leader nancy pelosi has accused him of planning to make america white again so let's then look more closely at the demographics involved here well as of 2018 white americans make up 76.5 percent of the population the white estates being maine vermont and west virginia black or african-americans make up 13.4 pe

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intelligence agencies in the fact that russia interfered. he was caught off guard by a trump/putin meeting. >> i do want to say we have some breaking news. the white house has announced on twitter that vladimir putin is coming to the white house in the fall. >> say that again. >> you -- vladimir putin -- >> i heard it. >> yeah. yeah. >> okay. >> yeah. that's going to be special. >> special, indeed. meanwhile, president trump escalating his twitter campaign against the leading african-american congressman over the weekend. on saturday trump attacked maryland democrat elijah cummings calling his ma hearing a rat infested mess. he called cummings a racist and accusing him of doing a terrible job for people of his district. more now from cnn's boris sanchez at the white house. >> reporter: dave and christine, president trump on sunday doubling down on his attacks on congressman elijah cummings and his district following up on tweets that he had previously sent on sunday bashing the congressman suggesting he should pay more attention to condition

intelligence agencies programs and policy for 2020. that bill authorizing classified documents and programs for 16 intelligence agencies. it also requires a report on russian attempts to influence elections in other countries. live coverage of the house is here on c-span. again, members expected to gavel in in just a couple of minutes to begin debate this afternoon. again, live here on c-span. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the chair will postpone further proceedings today on motions to suspend the rules on which a recorded vote or the yeas and nays are ordered. or votes objected to under clause ricks of rule 20. the house will resume proceedings on postponed questions at a later

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we reformed our intelligence agencies after 9/11 and we created this position of the director of nationalgence. it is important. i don't know congressman ratcliffe, the president's nominee. he doesn't seem to have the background that prepares them for this critically important job. in the world we are in today, which is so unsettled, threatened by so many big power challengers and terrorism, -- intelligence is more important than it has ever been before. the director of national intelligence is the key person in our intelligence apparatus. david: one thing we know about he hassman ratcliffe, been very politically aligned with president trump. there is nothing necessarily wrong with that, but at the same time, are there some positions where you say, there is something more important than political loyalty? me: loyalty matters a lot to , having spent many years in office. i don't fault anybody for loyalty or a president appointing somebody based on loyalty, but this is a highly specialized position. by generaleded clapper, an extraordinary public servant, in the military, public service for

is subject to the same types of scrutiny as other intelligence agencies. importantly, this bill also man taits that the f.b.i. notify the intelligence committees when the f.b.i. has an counterintelligence investigation open realed to a c.i.a. risk or campaign for office. given former f.b.i. director comey's testimony in 2015, i'm deeply concerned that the f.b.i. failed to provide information to congress until well after the election. this bill ensures that congress is kept fully and currently informed with these types of counterintelligence active thes. this is good accountable governance. i appreciate the chair and raking member's support in adding my legislation into this bill and urge my colleagues to vote yes on final passage. with that, i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman rereserves, the gentleman, mr. schiff is recognized. mr. schiff: i yield three minutes to the gentleman from washington, mr. heck. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. heck: i rise to strongly support the damon paul nelson and matthew young pollard int

and in september 2014 the threat was raised to probable and those intelligence agencies now have six attempted major terrorist attacks in this country. and we have had as a country to go to syria and iraq and the threat is beyond our shores. about 230 people or 100 of those to be killed in the theater of war and 100 people within those 230 cohorts and about 40 are already here. and we will do everything that we can to keep australia safe. we have introduced multiple pieces of legislation including encryption laws last year there were christian by those opposite on the front page that directly resulted and that is the reality mister speaker. we will make sure we do whatever we can to keep australian safe because we know citizens have a constitutional right we have to do that and that is why we have introduced a bill into parliament today to temporarily exploit for those that have been working that now potentially are coming back to walk into a food court or other place of mass gathering with an ied to have mass carnage in our country. and with that temporary exclusion based on the uni

intelligence community. our various intel agencies. so, how are those agencies reacting to yesterday's hearing? x chief intelligence correspondent, catherine herridge has that story for us and she joins a stop to it hey. >> thanks. after the testimony, they reported that they were beyond disappointed to hear directly from robert mueller that is team did not investigate the steele dossier and the weather was part of the russian playbook in 2016. they said the key question is whether russian intelligence operations targeted the dossiers author, former british spy, christopher steele. private and former intelligence officers informing him of the russian campaign was likely designed to damage both candidates. hillary clinton, and all john, because moscow's ultimate objective was to tarnish the event's eventual winner and office of the presidency. according to this memo, mueller's job was to investigate russian interference and he testified that the dossier predated his appointment here that's technically true but the national security courts extended the surveillance warrant from carter page based o

administration announced it was sanctioning four top officials in venezuela military counter intelligence agency. the planes didn't collide. but officials say venezuela's jet endangered the safety of the crew and jeopardized the mission. >> new audio emerged of the moments before iran seized a british oil tanker last week in thet. strai british forces warned iran military that boarding the ship would violate international law. the confrontation at sea has escalated in already volatile situation. >> tonight fresh audio from stand off on the high sea. it records britishs sailor trying to stop the revolutionary guard from seizing a uk flagged tanker in the strait. iranian sailors took the ship anyway. footage ased this yesterday showing masked commanders repelling from helicopters. today, iran releasing video of the ship held in port. now topped with an iranian flag. the publicity is part of the plan. in >>teheran. he video of the storming the tanker and the radio mmunication leased today are dramatic, provocative and that's the messa they want to send. if they are threatened they can cause major d

add much to it specifically, having had the chance to lead that great organization of central intelligence agency. i would urge everyone whose reading that story waking up to understand that the iranian regime has a long history of lying. they lied about where they shut down the american uav, they now lied in the last few days about where they took down this tanker. it's part of the nature to lie to the world. i would take with a significant grain of salt any iranian assertion about actions they've taken. >> so you don't leave they've arrested these individuals. if these are americans we want to bring them home. we don't want them put to death obviously. >> well, ainsley there are many americans that have been held and detained inside the islamic republican so there's a long list of americans we are working to get home from the islamic republic, this is a nation that has behaved in way normal nations don't. you don't take other country's citizens and hold them hostage for political gain. this is further evidence of the out law nature. there's about 1,000 isis fighter s back in iraq reeking havoc

when it seems the president not taking russian interference seriously with every intelligence agency is clear with the mueller report saying it is clear that russian interfered in our elections? >> it is worth pointing out, this is the first time they have met since the report came out. it reups the criticism many people have had on the republican and democratic side of president trump and the findings of that report and the intelligence agencies about russia's interference. to your question, where does it leave us? it leaves people with the impression that president trump has not taken it seriously. the white house rejects that and says the president has taken it seriously and has raised the issue. he seems to be taking it lightly and addressing it. people think, all right, this is a president who certainly benefitted from russian interference in 2016 and is not saying directly to the president this is unacceptable. >> great reporting and insights. >>> still ahead, another former trump official may shed some light on time in the white house. >> and more digs on current and former he

an inquiry published a year ago published by the the intelligence and security committee that british agenciesto supply intelligence to allies despite knowing or suspecting abuse in more than 200 cases. ken clarke accused the government of "years and years" of delay. but theresa may's deputy had news. i can confirm to the house today that the government will make a definitive statement setting out its decision about a judge lead inquiry later this week. we need to know how there was such a terrible breakdown in responsibility and communications to produce the misdeeds that took place in the time after 9/11 so that we can avoid the culture of the intelligence services and their relationships with ministers ever slipping back into the same thing again. so, i hope we are not going to be told, "it's too late now. everything is all right now. there's no need to do anything," because of it is all right now as i trust it is, i think we have to reduce the that in future we will ever as a country get involved in torture and rendition again. and he had this warning for the government. if the decision co

say white house job where you're coordinating and working closely with our intelligence agencies and diplomatically, the president has had -- president trump has had an uneven relationship, obviously a contentious relationship with our intelligence community. so there's a real level of scrutiny that this nominee should receive. and he's is going to have to demonstrate that to both democrats and republicans in order to be confirmed, in my view. and that's how the process should work. >> ken ratcliffe has been a fierce critic of the russia probe. he attacked robert mueller which a lot of people think is what convinced the president to nominate him. he cast doubt on the cia's finding that moscow favored president trump. how is the intel community reacting to this nomination? >> with some alarm and trepidation. my sources telling me this is an extremely nonpartisan job. the intel community relies on the dni to speak truth to power, to tell it like it is, to take the intelligence unvarnished and represent it to the president. they're concerned that ratcliffe based on his history of really