, who we nt george bush, where james baker, who went on to be the us secretary of state, who interviewedvidual. he brought order to the white house. what republicans 5eem to be seen more and more on capitol hill is that water must be brought to the white house. i was in washington a few weeks ago, and that i5 washington a few weeks ago, and that is all you hear, this phrase that there is a need for order. donald trump could deliver something with hi5 trump could deliver something with his presidency but it needs to be ordered. i suspect that the kremlin doesn't really want chaos either. if they favoured donald trump over hillary clinton, then they want a successful trump presidency. hillary clinton, then they want a 5ucce55ful trump presidency.” hillary clinton, then they want a successful trump presidency. i think what they also want is predictability. in a tense and difficult relationship, and the relationship between russia and many western countries is not easy, predictability i5 western countries is not easy, predictability is quite important. it has been quite interesting, the rela

every new chief, picks up the phone and calls james baker for advice. the first thing baker tells them is, congratulations you got the worst job in washington. it's 24-7. it's around the clock. the white house chief is fundamentally famously the president's gatekeeper. he controls access to the oval use or should in a functioning white house. that gives the president time and space to think. the white house chief is also the honest broker of information. he is ultimately responsible for making sure first a only the toughest decisions get into the oval office and second, that every decision is keyed up with information on every side of that issue. he's the person, he's the catcher, heat shield. he's all of those things. he's ultimately at the end of the day, the person who achieves, who executes the president's agenda. you can have all kinds of arguments on every side of an issue. a battle for the some of -- soul of the presidency. that's a healthy thing between different advisors. but at the end of the day everybody needs to fall in line. that part of th

one of the great untold stories in that chapter of my book is that james baker, the former chief and george bush 41, the president's father were so worried, so concerned, so alarmed by the way secretary of state colin powell was being cut out by the other guys. baker would privately to colin powell with bush 41's blessing and said you need to go into the president and tell him this is not what you signed up for. you need to fall on your sword. and as baker put it to me he never did that. he had never talked about that before. but andy card had made it extremely difficult for card to perform the role of the honest broker. i think that he was outmatched at every turn by cheney and rumsfeld and some of the others in that white house. >> and the president, president george w. bush i know this not of my own personal observation but having talked to a lot of people, president george w. bush had a very close professional relationship with condoleezza rice, the national security adviser so that was another sort of side of our conversation that was going on in the white house. wasn't flowing t

i mean, i think that james a. baker iii, who is almost everybody would agree the gold standard, is a guy who was comfortable in his own skin. he was a 50-year-old smooth as silk texas lawyer who didn't have anything to prove and wasn't afraid to walk into the oval office and close the door and tell reagan what he didn't want to hear. you don't have to be -- jack is proof -- you don't have to be the president's son of a bitch, his lord high executioner as haldeman was called. leon panetta, who i would put right up there with james baker, under bill clinton, was described to me as a guy with an iron fist inside a velvet glove. he was gregarious. everybody loves leon. but leon could really lower the boom when he had to. and that is a rare combination but it's something that jim baker had as chief and something that panetta hat and jack shares that. you have to be the grownup in the room. it helps obviously to know the hill and you have to berg ode and disciplined and all of those things. think temperment is a big part of i

. >> james baker secretary of state michael b. burr reinvented communicating with the american people so they reinvented so he would have done whatever was useful. >> it was important to connect with young people a for donald trump he was the oldest president but he got the highest margin from the election of 1984 because that is where the young people are he believed that the future was important. >>. >> my question is more importantly when should president to release his tax returns?. >> i asked him to do so on the air february 2015 and on the debate stage but i do not believe he will. >> i don't think a lot of people care. [booing] [laughter] [applause] >> is mrs. you it here today? i did my shakespearean monologue but this is a big question when i say that abraham lincoln was republican the democrats created the kkk after losing the slave trade from the civil war the comments from the democrats is water once democrats are now republicans and vice versa. the philosophies have changed and to win the civil war. especially that bl

i think that james a baker the third who was, i think, the gold standard and a guy comfortable in his own skin. he was a 50-year-old soothe as silk texas lawyer who didn't have anything to prove and wasn't afraid to walk into the oval office and tell ronald reagan what you want to hear. you don't have to be, i don't think, jack is proof you don't have to be the president's son of a bitch or lord high executioner. leon panetta was described as a guy with an iron first inside a velvet glove. he was gregarious and everybody loved leon but he could lower the boom when he had to. that is a rare combination. but it is something that jim baker had as chief, it is something panetta had, i think jack shares that. you have to be the grownup in the room. it helps obviously to know the hill and you have to be organized and you have to be disciplined and all those things but i think temperament is a big part. >> what about the relationship with the president? do you have to be the president's friend? >> no. denis mcdonough was president obama's last white house chief of staff, very smart, very wel

you can find your equivalent of james baker the third. that can execute your agenda and tell you what you want to get. >> and do you think that ivanka trump or her husband jared, if they are the one that have his ear and say listen mr. president, you need to get this together. you have the political experience to suggest who that person should be? >> i'm not about to sit here and tell you i know that person might be. it may well be mission impossible. but you know, another thing about to go back to this foreign trip, foreign trips are easy. governing is really hard. foreign trips can be kind of like a narcotic or embattled presidents. and one is no danger here is that trump comes back and is caught up. thinking that he is doing everything right. he really needs to realize he has a broken white house and that governing is tougher than traveling to foreign capitals. >> maybe says the president will be riding high, unless speech, thus far he is doing well. can he come back and want to maintain that level of excitement. can he remain discipli

. >> an orderly process enforced be a tough and experienced man in james baker.re inexperienced than anyone else because he has no experience in government civilian or military. second he has a unique temperament that means he more than anyone in the history of the office needed someone in the knowledge of the city, with it's own culture, that people have to understand and someone strong enough to turn to the president and say stop it, act like a grown up, i don't think that anyone there can do this for him. so a man uniquely in need of strength is without it. >> we'll have to leave it there, we don't have more time, but come back and we will continue to talk about the evolving trump presidency. and the massive attack in kabul, a state department official now confirming that 11 u.s. citizen contractor personnel were among those injured in the blast but none of the injuries considered life threatening. more coming up, stay with us. >>> tweet your small business questions to at msnbc business. this is the new new york. we are building new airports all across the st

discount what that could do the markets. 1987 stock art was at an all-time high just a few words from james bakerut the value of the dollar. once again, we're at a very precarious time. some weeks in the stock market you mentioned retailers. there is some weakness out there, but the political winds are so once the nsa and unlike the clinton scandals strictly based on poor behavior, this is potentially a lot bigger and more impact on the market as well. lauren: will see. jonathan ford, thank you for joining us. >> thank you. nicole: the toronto -- in hockey, but national predators taught the anaheim ducks in the western conference hockey final. we will have the highlights. you are watching "fbn:am," your first look at morning markets and breaking news. ♪ i've spent my life planting a size-six, non-slip shoe into that door. on this side, i want my customers to relax and enjoy themselves. but these days it's phones before forks. they want wifi out here. but behind that door, i need a private connection for my business. wifi pro from comcast business. public wifi for your customers. private wifi for

i think about ronald reagan and james baker and how he had people around him who were really rocks thatd on and who would protect him and guide him through these difficult issues. i think with president trump we still have a person feeling his way toward an adult response to those responsibilities and i think, you know, a lot of time has passed requested it's time for the learning curve to end and for us to see some steadness there. >> what we seen this week isn't what you witnessed of him in the business world as well? >> well, this is what he's done in the business world for a long long time. and the problem is, even in the business world he struggled with credibility and with things like financing once he witness through the four big bankruptcies. now he could go outside of the normal channels and find sources of revenue and income that sustained him and allowed him to recover from the bankruptcies but this is a whole new activity he imbarked on. i find this amazing that people are talking about how busy the president is and how much action he's engaged in, this is the definition of

next morning, this is her scared and desperate 911 call.like many digital daters the model met james bakeric dm popped up in her inbox."he didn't really look like a creep from his pictures. he looked like he had it going on or something," and with so much access to personal pics and videos and likes, a one time social media stranger can quickly feel like a friend.last july the 32- year-old made plans to meet onlnie.the duo drank a lot. baker posted this video on instagram from their date.you can tell india is tipsy, while baker has much more sobering look on his face.she say sshe doesn't remember leaving the restaurant with baker or their ride back to the area around lax, which baker also posted videos of on instagram.she says she can't fathom going up to his hotel room that nght. "it was horrible. i woke up. i lifted my head up. i was lying in a puddle of throw up. so i look around and i see blood everywhere and my clothes everywhere and my clothes everywhere.she says she had been beaten and couldnt believe her reflection."oh my god. i can't believe that happened. what if they come back a

jack kemp had a conference, james baker, paul volker all acknowledging it's not going to be easy butis issue. mario dragi at the ecb gave a speech saying he was open to coordinating among the major economies and so really the question today is where is our own treasury department? are they going to take him up on that? moving towards -- even if we're not talking about it -- >> listen, sean, sean, let's stop at mario dragi. i don't mean to interrupt you. a man who has helped to orchestrate negative yields, minus 65. how could anybody say i want to work to stabilize and normalize foreign exchange volatility when their short end is so negative? >> right. well, they are moving into, you know, more normal, 2% range for inflation and that's positive. i would note that the dollar is up 20% against the euro. and they have to know on their side if that continues, if we stay high and go even higher from here with our own rate hikes by our fed, that potentially creates conditions that down the road -- >> sean, i'm coming up against a hard break here. i want to have you back. i think volatility

's hard to do that when reince preb re -- >> this is not the james baker reset, but it will be interestingif they have someone with that kind of figure come in and do those. you're on the hill all the time and there's really a desire for that to have -- isolate this russia stuff and have some sort of traction on a legislative agenda that where you can talk to people in the white house and get a very clear answer and it's consistent and they don't have that right now. >> the consistent part is the right thing. everybody sit tight. next turmoil? what turmoil? if you listen to the president's friends and long time confidants, he makes fepeople fl inspired, like a million bucks. ♪ there's nothing more important than your health. so if you're on medicare or will be soon, you may want more than parts a and b here's why. medicare only covers about 80% of your part b medical expenses. the rest is up to you. you might want to consider an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company. like any medicare supplement insurance plan, these help pick up some of wha

bush, who organized one of the greatest coalitions in history with with james baker against samuel lebronhat because they had credibility. people understood them to be steady and stable and telling them the truth. our current president is spending down what little capital he had very, very quickly. so we're heading into a possibility of a situation in which he has no credibility on the international stage when he's going to need it. >> dickerson: back tondo midwestic for a moment, as ben says, there are a lot of things that aren't getting discussed. this sense of unpredictability, if i'm a republican, how do i handle the fact that you've got a president who is going to be doing some exciting things that you might have to answer for? >> exciting things? that's a nice way to put it. what david said. a big decision will be made now about the f.b.i. it's a serious, soab, low-drama person is put forward, everybody will be reheaved and go forward: if some sleaze ball is put forward, forgive melange waj, or some towedy -- toady, republicans will stand up and say this won't do. i think that will

kennedy or james baker with regan. open up to, debate, talk on an equal footing. that's a big thing that's happening here. only donald trump knows what he's doing and he's doing a lot of ridiculous things, particularly with his tweets. >> all right, douglass brinkley. thanks for being with us. >> thank you. >> coming up, we have breaking news. a dire threat from north korea directed directly at the u.s. the regime saying this weekend's test was to see if a missile could carry a large nuclear war head. the north has a warning for the united states about how and what it claims it is now capable of. that's ahead. we're live in the "cnn newsroom." ♪ but there's plenty of time for scotts outdoor cleaner plus oxiclean to work it's magic. all while being safe to use around plants and grass. guaranteed. this is a scotts yard. at holiday inn express, we don't just get you ready, we get you the readiest. to prove it, we took dennis, who's here for a convention and put him in a nationally televised dance competition. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (che

. >> came into retirement with james baker, secretary of state aker, michael bieber reinvented communicating with the american people via one shot a day in president reagan wouldn't answer. so they reinvented it. so he would've done whatever is useful. he was a great communicator. >> in one right thing. it is also important to him to connect with young people appeared before donald trump, the highest margin of people in 1984. he would've absolutely gone to social media because that is where young people are. he always believed he was filling his role at the future must import the future was important and always invested in future leaders. >> view on the raid. we will get to you next. sorry, go ahead. >> my question is will and more importantly should president trump released his tax returns? >> i asked him to do so on the air in february 2015. i asked him again to do so on the debate stage and i believe he showed and i don't believe he will. >> corey. >> e. well. >> i don't a lot of people care as well as many in the media care. >> user in the back. >> first of all, i met the fetching mrs. h

he listens to james bake, he baker, who was in ifr if a of george herbert walker bush. reagan understand it. carter understood. it clinton took lessons. clinton's white house was also collapsing a year in. does donald trump have the ability to take advice from people? he's a man who has nothing but contempt for washington. these other people, these other presidents actually believe washington could work. i'm not sure he does. and i'm not sure he's going to be able to take any advice. >> it sounds like he has contempt for those people around him. >> one x told me sometimes that presidents have to hit rock bottom to make a change like this. it happened with bill clinton. with jimmy carter two and a half years in. you have to wonder whether donald trump would recognize rock bottom if he saw it. but that's what it may take. >> yeah, yeah. i keep hearing we have to give him time. it's been almost six months. how much time? how much? people want to give -- give him the reasonway. >> at least four years. >> he is going to run out of runway. >>> when we come back, three men ste

conservatives and liberals for reform and carbon tax, especially as we are evolving attacks, so james baker being one of the many people who are speaking out in favor of a carbon tax. we did just do paris accords, so it is in the realm of possibility to do multilateral agreements based on intangible externalities, like the environment. how likely it is in the current political environment, there was an off mic conversation capture between donald trump in wilbur ross a couple weeks ago, which was reported on in politico trade, where wilbur ross said, look at the japanese on food, they do not accept anything. and you know what, if they are looking at japan as a model for not just food the calculation of trade, because japan is trying to use value added trade accounting, then they will do well to look at hat again. i find it encouraging. but in terms of ind of the broader landscape for trade deals, not so ptimistic at the moment. nobody seems to have the appetite to stand up and say what is good about these hings. and there was a question right here. >> thank you. i would like to explore what

all the, james a baker and foreign-policy establishment wes were basically saying are done, we are finished, let's get out. to be colloquial about it, it pissed off- it president bush's advisors to say they lost and he said i'm going to double down and surge and he was going against the wisemen foreignthe council on relations view and it worked for a couple of years until they screwed it up later. that'se against myself, moment of pride where it is useful. say pride than not, i gets you into trouble. though one person who i thought balance this perfectly or came as close as possible is dwight eisenhower. to conquer europe without being proud. andearned how to control it his cultural norms were do not boast, do not show off. he let other people take the credit. and churchh stalin hill, some pretty prideful people and he had a clever way of laying low and letting himself he underestimated and did this again and again as president of the united states. he opposed as this genial, do president.laying we learned from the historical record he was behind the scenes pull the record but he was lettin

i think back to the meeting secretary of state james baker had with an iraqi foreign minister before the first persian gulf war in 1992. they met in geneva. baker put a letter to saddam hussein to pick up. the last chance to pick up. he left the letter lying in the middle of the table. it was proof to everybody no more talking to saddam via any channel. so in a sense i think this ups the ante. >> bill: you wrote this on china as we come back to that topic. the headline is this, china's choice on north korea, reuniting korea by the south peacefully absorbing the north is in both of our best interests. make your case. >> china has been -- on one hand they don't want north korea to have weapons but not doing anything to not make it happen. if china is serious there is only one way to end the north korean nuclear problem is getting rid of this ugly piece of baggage. a 25 million person prison camp. >> bill: they have used north korea as a geographical buffer zone to keep them away from south korea and in turn away from the united states. >> 25 million of the most impoverished people in t

if you want to be ronald reagan, you have to find your equivalent of james a. baker iii. >> you think reince priebus can do it. do you believe that? >> reince priebus gets high marks for a lot of things he has done. the overseas trip went very, very well. it's the chief of staff that gives discipline to the process. there is a lot of moving parts. that was not an easy trip to go on. it worked out quite well. there was discipline while they were out of the country. where the discipline is lacking is inside the white house when they got back to washington, d.c. i do think the leaks are a big problem. leaking to the press is happening because of a lack of discipline and respect inside the building. you don't want leaks out of the white house. it's the chief of staff's job to make sure it doesn't happen. >> that are voice that the president needs to close the door and say let me help set you straight. many people said that's why jared and ivanka were there. they were the moderators and had his ear. to the best of my knowledge, those two are the ones who knew he was firin

india ali went on a date with james baker last july.he two out drinking at a restaurant. she says she does not remember leaving the restaurant. her next memory is waking up at a hotel room with blood on the floor and her cell phone and car keys were gone. she later called police, and was hospitalized with severe head injuries. ali says she hopes her story will remind others to be cautious with people they meet online. <"i wouldn't want anybody to go and meet up with anybody that they don't know. please don't ever do that," ali said. "you have to value your life."> ( darya ) police used the "find my i-phone app" to locate baker and her car. he was later arrested and found guilty of felony assault, auto theft and using forged credit cards. investigators later found out he had prior out-of-state convictions and was on bail for using fake credit cards. ( mark ) happening today... a-c transit is considering eliminating bus service for students at three schools within the oakland unified school district. the change would affect students at mo

won thestenberg just james beard award for best baker in the country. the secret? simple food. >> over here are the pastries. tim: and less sugar. >> we are doing a mint cheesecake. tim: but today he deals with the toughest critics around, the kids. do you think he is the best baker in the country? >> in the world, yeah. tim: mark furstenberg is not interested in bringing in more dough with a bakery chain. he is content being the neighborhood baker. >> this makes me happy. tim: tim barber. jonathan: alison: what an honor, looks good. jonathan: the capitals are hoping for good luck tomorrow night at the verizon center in game five. alison: tomorrow, the reebokized capitals running shoes will go on sale, being featured at a store in georgetown. they cost $130. jonathan: as many as 2 million americans want to get rid of their timeshare. alison: couples are reaching out to 7 on your side to help them get out without having to pay thousands. jonathan: if you have a doggie door, watch carefully. this is an unusual approach to a crime in albuquerque, the tight squeeze cap

they don't have -- certainly don't have anybody resembling james baker.have that if you want to get through these very rough waters. >> he does have high quality on his foreign policy team. but what we're hearing be signed the scenes is they want to stay in their lanes and do their jobs. i'm not sure they're going to be able to. >> it's not their job to tell him how to actually get a lawyer that will actually serve him well and how to pass legislation on the hill. he's got to have the self-confidence for the first time in his life to bring in somebody strong around him. >> who can tell him maybe what he doesn't want to hear. that would be a first. >>> coming up, the president wants to reshape the rules of the senate again. plus, don't look now, but the white house is actually getting some of its agenda done. while people are focused on the struggles with bigger fish like health care and tax reform, we'll talk about how they're scoring some smaller victories that will be of big concern to progressives. "morning joe" will be back after this. ♪ this is a sto

our first speaker will be the honorable james or jany baker. she retired from the armed forces kpoul after having serves for 15 years. the last four of those were chief judge. previously he served in various capacities in the white house before becoming a judge. and most recently he has law reform from yale. and i hope you'll take a look at united states wilcox at which a soldier was prosecuted for posting other things on his aol profile where a speech talking about social intolerance. professor van landingham is a professor at the law school. 20 years of that time was spent as a judge advocate. she followed her services with the department head of law and assistant professor of law at the u.s. air force academy. she also served as a visiting professor at stetson universe and has written quite extensively on this subject. and i highly recommend you take a look at her publications she's been highly criticized of the police force handling on the marine corp scandal, and has commented the commander step down. they can do that either by relieving t

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bring in our panel, james galliano is a cnn law enforcement analyst and retired fbi supervisory special agent. richard painter is a former white house ethics lawyer. and mike baker is here, former cia operative and co-founder of "diligent tell-all: a global intelligence security forum." nice to have you all here. mike, let me begin with you. you seem to be on the side of lindsey graham and those who say absolutely no one with any political background whatsoever. why? >> well, i think, first of all, i think it's what's needed at this time. i think it's what's needed by the fbi. i think that would be the best step for them. to bring in an independent, low-profile director. look, we don't need a high-profile individual in this position. it's the director of the agency. what do you need? you need a solid manager who understands the culture of the fbi, who understands operations investigations. bringing somebody up through the bureau -- i'm not sure that's going to happen -- but what i'm saying is that would be, i believe, the correct pick. bringing anybody in with any baggage at all -- and that would include the current acting director, mccabe -- i think would be op

. >> peter baker of the "the new york times" wrote that story or broke that news. peter, tell me about the bob muller/james comey relationship. >> they are, in fact, obviously close. they did serve together in the bush administration as you guys were just saying. they have this formative experience in standing up to a president, standing up to a vice-president. they both threatened to resign and it was when bob muller made clear that he would resign with james comey who was then the deputy attorney general over this surveillance program that president bush realized how serious it was. president bush realized he had another saturday night massacre on his hands and he wanted to avoid exactly that. he backed off in order to, you know, address their concerns. so, it was bob muller who ordered the fbi agents at the hospital when jim comey was rushing to get there, but to see ash croft, the attorney general before the president's emissaries got there, it was bob muller who ordered the fbi agents, don't let jim comey be thrown out of that room no matter what happens. they were allies and friends in this situation

baker. >> thank you, mr. president. in the light of a busy news week, people would like to get to the bottom of a couple things. did you at any time urge director james comey in any way, shape or form to back down on the investigation into michael flynn? >> no, no. next question. >> next question. as you look back over the past six months or year, have you had any recollection where you wondered if anything you have done has been something that might be worthy of criminal charges in these investigations or impeachment on the left has been imply something. >> it's totally ridiculous. we have to get back to working our country properly to take care of the problems. we have plenty of problems. we have done a fantastic job. we have a tremendous group of people, millions and millions of people out there looking at what you have just said and said, what are they doing? director comey was very unpopular with most people. i actually thought when i made that decision and i also got a very, very strong recommendation, as you know, from the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein. when i made that decision, i thought it would be a bipartisan decision. look at t

james comey. what you've been watching, acting director andrew mccabe testifying in front of the senate intelligence committee. joining me now is the white house reporter for politico. peter baker for the "new york times." i'm imagining you've had a chance to listen in at least to part of this. some of the major things we've heard, for example, was the acting director saying absolutely, he does not think there was a bad relationship between comey and the people who worked at the fbi. in fact, he said, i hold them in the highest regard. it has been the greatest privilege and honor of my professional life to work with him. he said the investigation is ongoing. he said there's no indication on his part more money is needed. from what you've heard, peter, what do you make of the hearing so far? >> obviously, you see through this hearing why the dismissal of the fbi director is, in fact, a big deal. because, in fact, there's a lot of questions to be asked. some of these answers aren't really satisfying to senators. you can tell. he was asked, for instance, about president trump's assertion in his letter firing, you know, mr. comey, that mr. comey had, in fact, reassured him three ti

james comey was fired by the president. plenty of questions still surrounding his ouster including the feeling inside the fbi right now. for more, i want to get to former fbi special agent, thomas baker agency for more than three decades. tom, thank you for being here. i want to get your sense just your gut reaction, your first thoughts when you learned that director comey had so abruptly been fired. >> well, like everybody else, it was surprise. >> so, i trust that your gust was surprised, but what were the conversations you had with your fellow colleagues, those that you served with, at the fbi about what was such an extraordinary moment, only the second time in 109-year history of the fbi that a director had been removed from office? the last time when there was, in effect, an ethics probe. >> yes, the reaction, actually, is very mixed. a lot of people from almost six months ago now selected -- the director had stepped over the line a little bit in taking on the role of a prosecutor, yet at the same time, he was very popular, very well liked and admired by almost everybody. >> give us a better understanding, if you can, right now, for those americans who are concerned that by gett

baker. >> thank you mr. president. a lot if you would like to get to the bottom of a couple of things can get a chance for you to go on record. did you earn james in any way, shape or form to back down the investigation into michael flynn? president trump: no. . , have youlook back had any recollection where you have wondered if anything you have done has been something that might be worthy of criminal charges? >> i think it is totally ridiculous. workingto get back to our country properly so that we can take care of the problems. we have plenty of problems. we have done a fantastic job. we have a tremendous group of people looking at what you just said and said what are they doing? director comey was very unpopular with most people. i thought when i made that decision, and i got a strong recommendation as you know from the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein. when i made that decision i thought that it would be a bipartisan decision. you look at all of the people on the democratic side, not only the republican side saying terrible things about director comey. he had performance. believe,n fact that i that is why the deputy attorney general

james comey to end the bureau's investigation into former national security adviser michael flynn, this during meeting in february. joining us former cia op rattive and president of diligence, a global intelligence security mike bakerr take on the latest accusations with the reporting on what trump alleged ly said to jim comey. >> that's an easy one have comey hand over memo, anonymous source claims to have heard about or have him come up and answer very clearly did he ask you to do this. this is one of the easy ones. i know washington tends to be the place where investigations go to die, but this of all the issues is pretty simple. dagen: mike, people are tweeting, viewers are tweeting this morning how dare you cover this fake news and i will push back on that because the reporting isn't fake, somebody associated with jim comey is clearly calling the reporters. this is a story that was confirmed by the wall street journal just to name one publication and certainly the leaks coming out of trump's own white house are not fake and that is -- again, to get to the nut of it all, it's also part of that exemplifies the term -- turmoil that's part of this administration. >> there's a lot in there that you have to separate