would have activated all sorts of activity including sending it back to the congress and intelligence committee which we knew from -- by february of 2017 we asked all 17 agencies give us every single thing that you have and at that time they wanted to give us everything and guess what they gave us, evidence of russian influence in the trump campaign. i have three minute here. one of the tragedies of this, one of the excellent books, the plot against the president, he talks specifically about you, you had been warning about the russia threat for years, they downplayed your russia threat until russia became politically useful to them and this is one of the problems michael flynn, a great patriot who i think effectively asked being politically targeted, michael flynn had warned others about the threat of politicized intelligence and became a target himself. don't you find it odd the fbi open up cases on august 10th on manafort, page and papadopoulos but don't open a case for mike flynn. you know it magically appears when the fbi doesn't open a case? somebody was clearly upset. a dossier on august

intimately, mike rogers, was a congressman from michigan for 14 years, the former chair of the intelligence committee, and now the chair of 5g action now. i want to start with getting your broadview on the unprecedented human experiment we now find ourselves in the midst of across the united states. a huge digital divide between have-nots.nd how are we to pull this off before we are prepared for it? >> it will certainly overwhelm networks. nearly one in five teens can't finish their work before this started because of lack of access to either good networks, computer, or internet connections at home. some 25 million americans across the country do not have broadband at home. if you are thinking about telecommuting and the extra need

that man was a former security director for the senate intelligence committee, james wolf. wolf was indicted in 2018 for leaking information to poor journalists including one with whom he was having an affair. he also lied to the fbi. as we reported here, both's indictment showed he picked up a highly classified document on march 17th, 2017, to take to the intelligence committee. later fbi sentencing recommendation confirmed that that document included the first two fisa warrants for carter page. james wolf was never charged with leaking those classified documents, most of the charges were dropped against him in what could be called nothing other than a sweetheart deal orchestrated by former us attorney jesse lou. wolf was allowed to plead guilty to one count, one count of lying to investigators for which he served two months, two months in prison. it is at moment in which we see the department of justice covering up a background scheme to remove the president. had this gone on, senate intel committee vice-chairman mike warner and adam mauled one might have been highly scru

. >> so, the whole group would include richard burr, the head of the intelligence committee. it also would include a senator tele loeffler. the question is whether they should be investigated for that. >> president trump: it also includes senator dianne feinstein, democrat. why didn't you mention her name? and i think she's a very interesting person it's interesting that you mention two names, but not when that happens to be a democrat. >> any senators? >> president trump: i don't know. but i find them to be honorable people. >> you compared yourself -- you

senator and head of the senate intelligence committee reassured everyone that the us government had the coronavirus situation completely under control here is what he said back in march luckily we have a framework in place that says put is in a better position than any other country to respond to a public health threats like the coronavirus his words sounded quite calming especially from someone who receives daily briefings about the spread of the coronavirus although a few days earlier he was telling a group of wealthy donors and constituents of a very different story here's a secret recording of richard burr speaking at the capitol hill club and. she is. probably. even offered some advice to his wealthy friends every company should be cognizant of the fact that you may have to travel you may have to look at your employees and judge whether the trip they're making to europe is essential or whether it can be done on a video conference why risk is needless to say accusations are now flying that richard burr used his capitol hill inside info to help out his pals financially you remember w

president, so the whole group would include richard burr, the head of the intelligence committee, and it also would include senator kelly loeffler. so the question is whether or not they should be investigated for that behavior. >> it also includes dianne feinstein, the democrat. you didn't mention her name. why didn't you mention her name? i think she's an honorable person, by the way. you mention two people but don't mention one. >> any senators, should they be -- >> i don't know. i would have to look at it possibly.

right now it goes through intelligence committees. host: if chuck schumer has a question on cybersecurity, who does he go to? guest: he could go anywhere from homeland security to the intelligence committee and multiple subcommittees. you are frowning and that is appropriate because what i said yesterday when we announce this is one of my principles of life is structure is policy and if you have a messy, incoherent structure, you will have messy, incoherent policy and that is what we have. solarium cyberspace commission report is available for the public to read? guest: absolutely. it is solarium.gov. guest 2: leader liberally wrote an unclassified report because we want not just government experts to read it. everyone is affected by cybersecurity and i would urge listeners because i know they are dedicated, to demand their representatives in congress read this report and we want congress to take action on this because we spent a lot of time thinking through this and we got some of the best minds in government to help us and we want t

this is a very very potentially damning aspect to the behavior off the head of the senate intelligence committee time when there was discussion about the pandemic but the trumpet administration was continuing to insist that all was well now the most high profile figure to have declared this in its financial disclosures is the chairman of the senate intelligence committee richard burton now he disclosed that he traded between the middle of february and the end of their breeze some $1700000000.00 worth of stocks now what is significant kemal is is that these stocks were rooted in the hospitality industry in hotel chains and such so forth so certainly this is a very very potentially damning aspect to the behavior off the head of the senate intelligence committee he was also recorded by national public radio speaking to north carolina constituents at the end of february saying that this virus is like nothing that is ever been seen before this is what he was saying to his constituents he was not saying that outside a private meeting to the public he took. the administration line all is well we are un

emily: meantime, give us a view on what the intelligence committee, what might be happening behind thecenes as the president contemplates when to reopen the country. obviously, this is painful right now economically, painful for children, for students at home, but obviously it is being done in the interest of our health and keeping people alive. as the president debates this choice, what is going on behind the scenes? >> let me tell you what i hope is happening. issues about contractors, do they have the ability to continue to work in the intelligence mission set, in defense of the united states mission set. i hope they are doing continuity of service across the intelligence community. remember, those countries have some bad actors who are deployed around the world to do bad things. we have u.s. personnel deployed around the world to stop bad actors from doing bad things. we need to make sure we can continue to get the right kind of intelligence information to our policymakers to make sure they are not only keeping track of what is going on domestically, unfortunately, that list is ali

republican chairman of the senate intelligence committee is one of them.ped $1.7 million worth of stocks in mid february. these were shares in the travel and leisure industry. one of the hardest hit economic sectors. one political observer put it this way. is a significant amount of money in a short time, selling stocks that were affected by the coronavirus. >> questions have been asked about trades made by several other senators including a georgia senator who sold stock on january 24, the same day of a closed senate health committee briefing. dianne feinstein also traded stocks though she contends it was a decision taken by her financial advisor. >> he would look at whether the senators made unusual transactions during that time or whether this was part of their normal buying and selling. if it does not amount to a significant amount of money or if it is par for the course for the senators, that would not suggest that they were deliberately trading on the inside information of the coming pandemic. >> president trump says he knows nothing about these trai

we see wrongdoing he raised concerns in march 2003 he communicated with the senate intelligence committee about a poorly executed and dangerous operation merlin a cia led covert operation that was supposed to slow down iran's nuclear program he blew the whistle. sterling had been in contact with journalist james risen and was thought to be a key source for his book the state of war detailing america's botched covert operation to disarm iran's nuclear capacity through a series of traced phone calls and intercepted communications sterling was pegged as the inside source for bribes and book in december of 22 in the u.s. government biled an indictment against sterling with charges ranging from obstruction of justice to an otherwise disclosure of national defense of permission without supporting evidence sterling was charged under the espionage act citing key evidence that persuaded a jury to convict sterling on $911.00 counts as intercepted records and e-mails but this communication only showed sterling and drive and had talked with each other the record did not disclose anything about the co

basically told to shut up then i did eventually go to actually both the senate and house intelligence committees while. mr sterling your book that i wanted spy has everything that tale of a career civil servant and minority rising through the ranks at a time where it was almost unbelievable that someone who looked like you could be in the position that you were in establishing yourself and really taking control. to also shedding light on something that you felt was your duty in a highly controversial and dangerous american foreign policy project can you tell us more about what inspired you to write this book you dealt with a lot in your book there are details of chapters of your life like being a child without a village and a man without a country how have these things impacted you. well timea writing a book it was just about the journey that i've taken and for me there's always been that racial aspect of the despite my trying to avoid that all or trying to combat it there's been racial aspects and racial hinderances throughout my life just because of the color of my skin so i was facing that gr

you know, that certainly may be true, but as chair of the senate intelligence committee, he is privy to very sensitive briefings. we know that around this time, around the time he made these trades, his committee was receiving daily briefings about coronavirus. >> robert, thank you for your reporting on this. i would guide my viewers to read your reporting. it's fairly detailed and brings up a lot of questions about what should happen, versus what is allowed to happen. >>> coming up, how the coronavirus is sounding the alarm on deeply rooted age old flaws of american capitalism, like income poverty, wealth disparity and what we're not doing about it. g about it after my dvt blood clot, i wondered. could another come around the corner. or could it play out differently? i wanted to help protect myself. my doctor recommended eliquis. eliquis is proven to treat and help prevent another dvt or pe blood clot. almost 98% of patients on eliquis didn't experience another. and eliquis has significantly less major bleeding than the standard treatment. eliquis is fda-approved and has both. don't

propublica reports that burr, the chairman of the senate intelligence committee, unloaded his holdingsfebruary 13 in 33 separate transactions. at the time, he had access to classified information about the coronavirus and was receiving daily intelligence briefings. the stock market began plummeting a week later. the news came after npr published a secretly-recorded audiotape of senator burr addressing business leaders and members of the elite tar heel circle at a luncheon in the washington on february 27, when there were just 15 confirmed coronavirus cases. aggressivech more than anything we have seen in recent history. probably more akin to the 1999 pandemic. aggressivemuch more than anything we have seen in recent history. it is probably more akin to the 1918 pandemic. condemnationart across the political spectrum from democratic commerce member alexandria ocasio-cortez of new york to fox news host tucker carlsen. for more, we're joined by one of the reporters who broke this story, derek willis of propublica. welcome to democracy now! again, joining us on democracy homevideo stream f

merge that some lawmakers are profiting from the crisis republican chairman of the senate intelligence committee richard burr is one of them researchers to produce true reports he allegedly dumped $1700000.00 worth of stocks in mid february these were shares in the travel and leisure industry one of the hardest hit economic sectors one political observer put it this way trading is you know a significant amount of money in a very short period of time all selling stocks that were right. questions have also been asked about trades made by several other senators including the georgia senator kelly lefler who sold stock on general of the 24th the same day of a close senate health committee briefing democrat. senator dianne feinstein also traded stocks in this period though she contends that was a decision taken by her financial adviser you would look at whether those senators made unusual transactions during that period or whether this was part of their normal buying and selling and if it's not doesn't amount to a significant amount of money or if it is as you said par for the course for these senato

here in washington, d.c., senator richard burr, the chairman of the senate intelligence committee, theom north carolina, is now calling for an ethics review of himself, after concerns were raised about his sale of up to $1.7 million in stocks last month. senator burr sold those stocks just days before the stock market began a downturn over the coronavirus outbreak. burr claims he only used public news reports to make those sales and not any of the privileged information he routinely gets as the chairman of the intelligence committee. but at the end of the day, burr and at least one other senator who had millions in stocks sold those stocks before the market took a major hit while simultaneously reassuring their constituents and the public that everything was fine. as cnn's tom foreman reports, this all raises legitimate questions about their actions. [ bell ringing ] >> reporter: up to $1.7 million in stock. that's how much republican senator richard burr and his wife pulled out of the market on february 13th, just before it started crashing, losing 31% in ten days. at the time of burr