the senate intelligence committee released a report supporting the intelligence community's conclusion russian government was trying to help then candidate donald trump in the 2016 election. that committee going against other known evidence saying the intelligence community assessment of russian interest force reflects proper analytic trade craft. now the senate intelligence committee is an arbiter of whether our spy agencies know what they are talking about when indulging in trade craft. they found the steele dossier did not inform any of the judgments of the intelligence community. despite nearly all of the known evidence. recently released documents from the department of justice clearly showed that the clinton campaign bought and paid for the dossier full of russian disinformation that was peddled to the united states. the senate intel's conclusions were made by a committee. its former security director james wolfe leaked the first two carter phage warrants to the media. he season subpoenaed his son donald trump, jr. last year. mark warner tried to contact christopher steele in 201

inspector general that the officer, the director of national intelligence needed to tell the intelligence committees about this whistle-blower complaint. instead, the intelligence community inspector general, he decided that he did. and so that's one of the reasons why certainly the president, people around him were very, very unhappy with mr. atkinson and believe that essentially he had started a controversy that they believe should never have gotten there, don. so you can see why atkinson's days frankly were numbered from the time this inspector general decided that he needed to tell congress about this whistle-blower complaint. you can see that the president is saying in his letter to the intelligence committees tonight that he has lost confidence in this inspector general. and of course, don, the president, he has this power. he can tell the lawmakers that he has a right to get rid of these people because they serve at his discretion. so that is what he has done tonight. >> john, let me bring you in here. so this is what the president is doing late on a friday night in the middle of a deadly pan

the chairman of the house intelligence committee turned that committee into a political witchhunt operationch they tried to remove the president of the united states from august all the way through until february. how many hearings did adam schiff hold on china. how many hearings did he hold on the outbreak of the virus. no. he became the lead manager of the impeachment trial effort in the united states senate. nancy pelosi slowed that effort down by an entire month. chuck schumer was banging the pots and pan demanding more from more witnesses and now today they say that has nothing to do with anything. it has everything to do with everything. this is one pandemic. there can be other pandemics, for instance, i want to discuss this with senator, the electro magnetic pulse, emp. we talk about this every year. this is serious business. we are an enemy or even the son can shut down our entire electrical grid. if people think this is bad, imagine no electricity, no food, no sewer system. imagine the entire society shutting down. we just spent two-point to trillion dollars, and now they're talkin

evan perez, cnn, washington. >>> representative adam schiavo chair of the intelligence committee issuedment. here's part of it. "at a time when our nation is dealing with a national emergency and need people in the intelligence community to speak truth to power the president's dead of night desputs our country and national security at even greater risk." >>> the trump administration is planning to reimburse hospitals for treating uninsured coronavirus patients. health and human services secretary says the money is coming from $100 billion fund set up in the c.a.i.r.e.s. act. another 1 billion is already being sent out to public providers expenses for testing and die agnosing the uninsured that he said providers will be reimbursed at medicare rates and not be allowed to balance and bill the uninsured for the rest of the care. >> they are encouraging the administration to look at other options other than using the fund. it suggests including opening a special enrollment period for obamacare or expanding medicaid. >>> cdc is recommending the voluntary use of face coverings to prevent the s

. ♪ ♪ lou: the senate intelligence committee planning to hold a confirmation hearing next tuesday forinee congressman john ratcliffe. president trump nominated congressman ratcliffe back in february, he's a former prosecutor, one of the most vocal critics of the mueller investigation, the impeachment trial and defender of president trump and his administration. joining us tonight, congressman devin nuÑes, ranking member of the house intelligence committee, a member of the house ways and means committee. and, congressman yes, nuÑes wasi believe, the first to stand up this corrupt, rotten effort against the president and do what he could with, frankly, a corrupt leadership of much of the intelligence community itself. congressman, it's great to have you with us. finish i want to start with these documents, if i may, that are being released. to me, they present unequivocal ed of criminality -- evidence of criminality, of a rogue fbi working against the constitution as well as trying to overthrow a president. your, your thoughts. >> well, if you remember, lou, i i was on last week i talke

he sent a letter to the intelligence committees late last night saying after the 30 day waiting period he is required to observe he is intending to remove atkinson from that position. he was told last night he would be placed on administrative leave. this naturally sparked outrage among democrats who learned of the president's possible retaliatory move. nancy pelosi saying in a statement last night the president must immediately cease his attacks on those who sacrificed to keep america safe. the timing coming in the middle of his administration's response to coronavirus has been heavily criticized by democrats including the top democrat on the house intelligence committee, one of the first to learn of the president's move last night, congressman adam schiff said in a statement at a time our country is dealing with a national emergency and kneads people in the intelligence committee to speak truth to power the president's dead of night decision puts our country and national security at greater risk. earlier today the senate minority leader chuck schumer speaking to cnn said this is part

was firing intelligence committee inspector general michael atkinson.t year, atkinson received a complaint from a whistle-blower community who accused the president of abusing his power by coercing ukraine's government to announce politically damaging investigations against former vice president joe biden and his son hunter. the icig deemed the complaint to be credible and said that it raised a, quote, urgent concern. so he took it to congress as he was required to do by law. atkinson issued a statement last night in which he said the complaint was the reason he was fired by donald trump, writing this, quote. it is hard not to think that the president's loss of confidence in me derives from my having faithfully discharged my legal obligations as an independent and impartial inspector general, and for my commitment to continue to do so. the president defending his decision during his white house briefing on saturday. >> i thought he did a terrible job, absolutely terrible. he took a whistle-blower report, which turned out to be a fake report. it was fake

it is that the president has fired the intelligence community inspector general. intel committeeschiff, democrat of the house of representatives, joins me now on the phone. congressman schiff, you've just heard this news. it's a friday night in the middle of a pandemic, and the president has just snuck this one in. he says he's lost faith in the inspector general. is there any reason you believe that he is firing him? >> of course. he's settling scores. we're in the middle of a pandemic, and what is this president doing as thousands of people are dying? he is retaliating against people that are on his enemies list and doing it in the dead of night. this is just another showing of the character or lack of character of this president. but it is a real threat to the independence of the intelligence community, which lost the head of the community, the dni, the acting dni and his deputy. the acting head of the national counterterrorism center was also fired along with his deputy also left the office. so he's decapitating the leadership of the intelligence community in the middle of a

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we're reviewing for example part of the oversight function what the intelligence committee knew and whatwas reporting early on and i think we're going to have to examine does the intelligence community need to give greater attention to health threats when it's traditionally focused more on hard targets, on terrorism and i think that's just one small piece of it. but the commission ought to look at the overall whole of government response, lack of preparedness and how we can assure this doesn't happen in the country again. >> mitch mcconnell said that he believes that the impeachment trial in the senate slowed down the federal government's response to the pandemic. what's your response to that? >> yeah, the president said something similar, which, you know, was an interesting acknowledgment that the administration has screwed up this response and the facts are clear the president's week's long, maybe month's long delay taking this seriously had catastrophic consequences that are only now beginning to see the scope of but they should stop making excuses. the president found plenty of time

atkinson's removal comes as part of a larger shake up of the intelligence committee including the president removing former director of national intelligence joe maguire and replacing him in the short term with u.s. ambassador to germany rick grenell, a staunch ally of the president. he made another strong ally, congress and john ratcliffe as the permanent replacement. last night the head of all of the inspectors general, michael horwitz waiting on atkinson's firing by raising whistleblowers complaint. >>> a member the kennedy family and her son are presumed dead this evening. it comes after their canoe was found miles from where the two were last seen on thursday. there were struggling the choppy waters the chesapeake bay. ms. kennedy is the granddaughter of robert f kennedy and the grandniece of former president john f. kennedy. her able son gideon was on the canoe with her when they went missing. the u.s. coast guard suspended the search late last night. >>> minds of students across the united states no longer allowed to be at school. we all know this. coming up, how parents are coping w

the intelligence committee represents again from the left to the right.hat we confirm what the the exerts there the intelligence committee, the csa, the director of flnational intelligence, rusa massively intervened tlerks do it help trump and hurt clinton and they will be back this 2020. now we have the challenges with our focus on other issues. appropriate when i the coronavirus. the integrity of our system, we still need to be on guard. and russia and other entities will try to intervene because it is clean and effective. >> i misspoke. i thought this was your fifth one. i guess, it's like the michael jordan documentary. >> one more to come. >> good. i need something new to read. we're all running out of stuff to read and consume here so i appreciate it. senator mark warner, i home you're staying safe and healthy. thank you for coming on and sharing your views. >> thank you. take care. >>> up ahead, the growing mystery surrounding the health of kim jong-un. what's the condition of the north korean dictator? the latest from the pentagon on that plus the

house intelligence committee chair adam schiff says he's consulting with other lawmakers on plans to form an independent commission to probe why the u.s. was so unprepared for the coronavirus pandemic. schiff told the washington post the inquiry would be modeled after the 9/11 commission and should convene once the nation is back on its feet. los angeles mayor eric garcetti wednesday urged all residents to use non-medical grade masks or facial coverings while in public. the advice came as the centers for disease control and prevention is reconsidering its advisory that people should not wear masks -- advice that was aimed at preventing a run on personal protective equipment, which is already in short supply. the white house has rejected calls to reopen health insurance exchanges under the affordable care act ahead of the next open enrollment period in november. about half of americans get their health insurance from their employer, and this week, federal reserve economists said a staggering 47 million u.s. workers could be laid off due to the pandemic. on guam, the u.s. navy will all

. >>> the senate intelligence committee has looked back on the 2016 election and ruled there was russianerference. >> scott mcgrew, this is something the intelligence community has been saying for years. >>> that's exactly right. good morning to you both. in fact the intelligence community issued a report called an ica to then-president obama back in late 2016 saying that the russians had definitely interfered with our presidential elections and were doing so to favor doled trnald trump. it is found that u.s. intelligence report was correct in its finding. the russians did what they're accused of. it was a bipartisan report, a unanimous finding of the well respected senate intelligence committee. chair richard burr giving the summary the committee found no reason to dispute the intelligence community's conclusions and their work had sound analytical reasoning. as laura pointed out this was pretty much conventional but it does disprove president trump's talking points that russia was a hoax or that it might have been china or it might have been, in his words, a 400-pound person sitting on

i want to turn to if i may devin nunes, the ranking member of the intelligence committee saying there criminal referrals. i want to get your response to that. >> criminal referrals from who to where? that's my concern. the justice department received two criminal referrals from the i.g. for comey and mccabe who essentially confessed to lying and leak and they wouldn't prosecute them there. there is a lower level. though a senior fbi official was also prosecuted. further confirmation the fbi should have known the dossier is a fraud. but we have known that for three years. i appreciate the attorney general thinks something bad went on and if the evidence warrants he will prosecute. but that's a big if. i have not seeing the justice department has escalated this investigation. the fbi and doj response with more evidence of fisa fraud, 0 more applications. their response is don't worry, we are reforming the system. lou: i was afraid that would be your answer. tom fitton, great to have you with us. thanks so much. ford announcing it will begin manufacturing 100,000 ventilators. a specially

the intelligence committee tells us the russians are 24/7 trying to disrupt our election again. we want to protect the integrity of our critical infrastructure of elections. we also want to be able to have people vote by mail. especially at a time of concern about health issues, it is better for them to vote by mail to get their balance -- their ballots sent to them at home and have same-day registration for those who want to go to the polls and have the demand on poll watchers and the rest be much less. we will be seeking additional funds, $400 million in the first cares act, we need much more than that so that we can guarantee the integrity of our elections. we are talking about the lives of the american people, the livelihood of our economy, and the integrity of our elections, the life of our democracy. this is very important. now more than ever, more important to be able to vote by mail. thank youame speaker, so very much for your time. that is nancy pelosi. rep. pelosi: my pleasure, thank you so much. david: coming up, we will talk about the present and the future for real

intelligence committee pulling out all the stops. not only in north korea. but other places where north korea is present. >> all right. director clapper, thank you so much. appreciate your time. more protests erupting over stay at home order. for every person you see at this protest there are tens of thousands at home. or at their jobs as essential workers. so, since that's the case, who is really behind the protests? next. at t-mobile, we know that connection is more important than ever. so we're making big moves to help those who need it most. introducing t-mobile connect. a prepaid plan to help keep america connected. starting at just $15 a month, it gives flexibility for uncertain times. visit t-mobile.com/connect to learn more. you can also manage your account, and make payments online. stay connected with t-mobile connect. i've always loved and i'm still going for my best, even though i live with a higher risk of stroke due to afib not caused by a heart valve problem. so if there's a better treatment than warfarin, i'll go for that. eliquis. eliquis is

one complicating factor is the chairman of the senate intelligence committee is under fire right now,er investigation actually for having dmp evumped that stock. he's a wounded animal and otherwise, he would normally be seen as somebody who would fight this and stand up to president trump potentially because he believes in the integrity of the intelligence community and of these independent positions. at the end of the day, donald trump does have the legal right to do this, ali. >> what -- other than the fact that michael atkins season broug -- atkinson brought this to the attention of congress, which he was supposed to do, is there any basis donald trump could have for say thing is wrongdoing? he doesn't have to but what did he do wrong except raise this? >> he's not saying. he's simply saying he lost confidence in michael atkinson. he's not making an allegation of wrongdoing and i don't -- i'm not aware of any evidence of any wrongdoing by michael atkinson. one can say the president was not happy atkinson alerted adam schiff, the chairman of the committee about this classified compl

in washington are doing is devin nunes, congressman nunes is a ranking member in the house intelligence committee, the house ways and means committee and congressman, great to have you with us. this nonsense from senator schumer, adam schiff not wantinn done, he thinks it would be very wise to have a commission on the response to the wuhan virus pandemic in this country and the government's response. your speaker think that would be a wonderful idea to have a select committee with subpoena power already to go after the president once again on the response to this crisis. your reaction? >> first off, i almost started laughing out loud, i was not aware what the president sent to schumer. i do love that because there is a problem between the extreme left, aoc and the old establishment democrats like chuck schumer. but the president always knows how to exactly put that to drive a wedge in between the two. i almost started laughing. it is no laughing matter over whawhat hello nancy pelosi inchm schiff trained to do. we had no hearings at the house committee until february 10 on the will hand virus. so

. >>> joining me now california congressman adam schiff, chairman of the house intelligence committee. always good to see you, congressman. you're reaction to some of the numbers, sir, that monica alba just shared and the notable one of the 28 hours the president spent speaking during these coronavirus briefings, the task force briefings, 4 and a half minutes with an air of empathy perhaps for americans who have lost their lives or suffering hardships. what are your thoughts on that? >> well, you know it is not surprising even if it is distressing because this is a president where everything is about him. and so he enjoys talking about himself, his accomplishments. i think those -- why the press conference has been a toxic mix of misinformation from the president and self-promotion attacks on rivals and only 4 and a half minutes talked about the loss of over 50,000 american lives. i've been urging for sometime frankly that stations stop covering those press conferences live because of their penchant for misinformation and now we see with graphic results the president touting clorox as

they had the intelligence committee, all of those committees looking at all that. and yet, select committees. reasoningso-called does not seem to apply by their own experience. i, myself, have a select committee on climate. it does not mean that the other committees of jurisdiction, every committee i task, do what you can do about climate, whether it is the defense committee, natural resources committee, whatever. ways and means, whatever your committee is, how can you help us address the climate crisis. and now too., it's not to say we don't want the wisdom and intellectual resources that can be gathered there. it's just that select committee does just that. that is the focus, that is where the public will pay attention to what is going on, and have the assurance that there taxpayer dollars are spent wisely and well. arguing against themselves when they made that case. but you are asking the question, so maybe convinced somebody. but i know i did not convince you. end wherent, again, i i began. we can only pray for those families who have lost their loved ones. we

real quickly, house intelligence committee. what do you think will happen there?, we'll see. again, i'm not sure we have conclusive -- i'm sorry, i'm not sure we will ever have conclusive answers, because of chinese lies. it's possible that dissident factions within the chinese communist party may leak information as they did about the reeducation that xi jinping has run in northwest china for years. even if we don't have conclusive, direct evidence, a little bit of common sense and understanding the inherent logic of events with all the circumstantial evidence points directly at their culpability, of xi jinping and senior chinese leaders for unleashing a pandemic on the world. >> harris: all right. we will follow the story as it leads us to the truth. you mentioned my colleague, bret baier. he is all over it, as well. senator tom cotton, thank you for your time today. >> thank you, harris. >> harris: big concerns over the accuracy of covid-19 antibody tests, as president trump looks to reopen the economy. the medical panel will join me next. anna, let's take a lo

. >> today the chairman of the house intelligence committee adam schiff announce that he has begun workthe after action review that speaker pa elosi wa calling for. chairman schiff said after pearl harbor and nech we lo9/11 we lo we did wrong to better prepare for the next pandemic. i' i'm working on a bill to do that. joining me is chairman adam schiff. thank you for joining us tonight. when do you expect a 9/11-style commission would be able to begun going to work in this situation? >> you know, that's really the most difficult question we've been wrestling with. we're using the 9/11 legislation as our model. we adopt the same appointment mechanism. the commission won't involve any current elected officials, anybody currently working in the government or at the time of commission formation. but the most difficult challenges when should they begin their work. we want to make sure their work doesn't interfere in the response. we want to make sure that it doesn't have a political cast to it and so one of the things that we're considering is having the commission formed after the election

he chairs the oversight committee and sits on the intelligence committee.'s talk a little bit about some of this oversight here. you sent letters to both the fda and four companies, have you heard back from them regarding any of the questions you've raised? >> no, not yet. in fact with regard to the fda, we've sent multiple letters now and we asked them by may 6th to rescind their policy of allowing hundreds of unauthorized and fraudulent tests to flood the market, potentially leading to dangerous results for consumers. >> has the fda been cooperating with you and your investigation? i know you're saying they haven't responded to the specific letters. have you noticed them taking any measures based on what you've been asking that may put you at ease? >> they've taken some steps. they've tried to get a few more companies authorized in terms of their testing. they have eight companies that they've authorized to do testing in the antibody arena. but there are over 150 that are basically selling potentially fraudulent tests and the reason why this is important

the chinese have handled it only heals of the trade deal, to now after learning from the intelligence committeeow the thing escaped and the world was not warned about it, it looks like it as a whole new ball game with the chinese. he also wandered in with sweden and brazil, they tried to do herd. and that does not work very well. and he gave himself a pat on the back for locking on the country, and predicting it would be an ugly second quarter and bounced back strongly in the third or potentially the fourth. >> dana: greg, one of the questions i thought was very good. and you might expect that more and a long form interview than a press conference like this, it was the question, you said that we are in a war against a virus, so what does victory look like to you, and i thought his answer was measured and empathetic and long reaching. >> greg: it was pretty good. and i think that the media, we are almost four years into this residency, still failing to understand what trump is. the literalness that they take his optimism. he has a machine built on optimism. and i will steal this joke from someon

those hearings to talk about russia so democrats it's very rich that their leakers in the intelligence committee community who have been talking about ukraine and russia for months are suddenly now trying to rewrite the script and pretend they were actually warning about a coming pandemic it is laughable how your example it will serve as it was in the it was in the 20000000 team threat assessment one of one threat assessment what was done about it was sponsored by the worldwide threat assessment you know it was done from the president struck signed an executive order for president transom an executive order last summer that incentivized government to buy american american to bring our core manufacturing so we're not dependent on china for the supply chain so not dependent for their medicines that is what the president has been working on since day one and of course that will put us in a better position and if anything that happens when we get to the other side of this awful pandemic what will happen is we're going to continue to bring back that core manufacturing we're going to continue to put a

a report that the senate intelligence committee, bipartisan, four years later agreed that the russiansons. the fact that there can be bipartisan agreement on that seems to be good sign but it ties into another report that china is now trying to upset american politics in the same way as the russians, using the internet, using conspiracy theories, trying to sow division with strange claims. it is apparently working quite well. i worry that virus, which also needs testing and contact tracing, is allowed to work out of control as well. mina, what about you? a story that we are neglecting? the year started with americans... the killing of sulaimani the killing of the potential clash between iran and the us. that is playing out at the moment. we are waiting for government formation. there has not been a government, really, since november. the third prime minister is trying to form a new government. tehran and washington trying desperately to work that out. iraqi protesters who went home because of the covid—19 outbreak are trying to raise their voices and change the trajectory of how it goe

chosen leaders really are like us congressman richard burr who in his position of senate intelligence committee chairman heard the news of the impending pandemic before the rest of us and chose to save his own ass set's while selling our physical and financial safety up the river or what about the united states department of justice who instead of seeking to help protect all of us is instead taking a page out of the bush administration's post $911.00 playbook and is looking to decimate our legal and constitutional rights under cover of national catastrophe politico is now reporting that according to recently uncovered documents submitted by the d.o.j. to congress that the justice department has proposed that congress grant the attorney general power to ask the chief judge of any district court to pause court proceedings whenever the district court is fully or partially closed by virtue. of any natural disaster civil disobedience or other emergency situation as norman l. reimer executive director of the national association of criminal defense lawyers correctly notes that means you could be arre