james clapper makes me laugh. idea that the dni, the director of national intelligence is on cnn talking and she says -- can i quote thi this? they are looking for evidence of russian trump collusion. he says i wouldn't go so far to say that but with respect to the issue of collusion, as i have said before, i have testified and i saw no evidence. i saw no direct evidence of political collusion between the campaign in the trunk campaign and the russians. como's follow-up question? now clarify that point. this point has been clarified for seven doggone months. >> sean: this just happened last week, we showed our audience. these were all hillary's excuses in the last week alone. there's one thing missing on that list. how about blaming herself? >> she did miss the opportunity to throw in tim kane's name which i think really should get some prominence in that list. >> sean: he was not good enough debate. >> and then the nonsensical answer on his on the collusion. then he sucks the truth out of that moment as well. i d

obama official susan rice, james clapper and samantha power have all been slapped with subpoenas on the unmasking and we learn that two of the highest level leakers are james i'm and reality winner. then the comey testimony boom aranged on loretta lynch and the hillary clinton campaign. here is what the former f.b.i. director said. >> the attorney general directed me not to call it an investigation, but to call it a matter which confused me and concerned me. jesse: testimony shows there was no undue influence by the trump people on the f.b.i. investigation but there was undue influence by the obama people on the obama administration. everything we have been told about this entire story has turned out to be false or the opposite of how it was sold. in the president's first reaction to the hearing he offered to testify himself. >> yesterday showed no collusion, no obstruction. it was just an excuse. but we were very, very happy and frankly, james comey confirmed a lot of what i said. jesse: this is why the left-wing media has been reduced to beheadings and swearing at the president. it's

lou: there is no explanation for james clapper, none left. the left itself have lost their minds as we await tomorrow's highly anticipated testimony from fired fbi director james comey. but there is a surprise in testimony today released by combel that -- comey that will have many of leftist and dems supporting statements that president trump was not and is not under investigation by the fbi. president's attorney, released this statement saying, the president is pleased that mr. comey has finally publicly confirmed his private report that president trump was not under investigation in any russian probe. president feels total ven tote vindicated, he is eager to continue moving forward with his agenda. presidents' day could not have gone much better, the dems much worse. well, the house freedom caulks, eager to get on work on president's agenda, group of some 40 conservative congressmen calling on the body to work through the august recess because they are running out of time to pass healthcare attacks reform. the president's agenda. the house

senatestimony before the intel committee ended up being clarified by james clapper later, where he said it was not accurate. this is how the american people chose to discover some of the details behind the nsa's former practice of bulk telephone metadata collection under protection to 15 of the patriot of the patriot act. this led to the usa freedom act. i was a sponsor of that bill, along with my cosponsor senator hatley from vermont. he is a liberal democrat, i have never been described that way, but we agreed that we have no business collecting that kind of data, who you call, who called you, how long you talk, any information that the government can glean a lot of private information about you. it is none of the government's business and obtained without a warrant. to my recollection, he did clarify that a short time later, so your question on him and as to lois lerner as to what ramifications there might be for either one of them currently? i do not know. i have no reason to believe that either one of them were investigated or considered for prosecution the time, and i do not know

national intelligence james clapper but he goes on to say proves that moscow is still making attempts to influence american politics he was appearing in a new documentary that just aired over the last few hours the c.n.n. that. courtroom. i think it's in your d.n.a. . or in the soviet era or no. you've watched this more fully because i said in the last few months at a time through some of it great movie and say you know nice sound effects dramatic music sound bites probably keeps you watching but was the smoking gun walk having nothing much anticipation eva. this latest special report from c.n.n. because it was billed as the first comprehensive telling on russia's attack on the twenty sixteen race with jarring lessons for the american leader and the public about more attacks still to come so it really seemed like c.n.n. was going to lift the lid on a little these unsubstantiated reports and unverified claims it's made in the past over russia related stories but there's going to be a lot of disappointed viewers some afraid because the same old tune we packaged in a new way a lot of our

there is a lot of nicely edited sound bites from big names big named former officials including james clapper the former director of national intelligence on john podesta hillary clinton's former campaign chair a lot of ground is covered in this hour long special including the security failure which opened the d.n.c. to hacks in the first place which you just spoke about that i mean john podesta responding to this e-mail from hackers asking him to change his e-mail passwords and him happily hunting over after an i.t. specialist told him that the e-mail was legitimate instead of illegitimate it was a type of call is quite embarrassing also so-called evidence presented suggesting it was russia that was behind the hacks such as the hacks took place during excuse me during moscow working hours and we can only live in hope viewers will understand that moscow shows the same time zone with a lot of different cities around the world and also besides this do hackers work nine to five jobs you know another topic they came up with the two thousand and seven protests in a stonier for which there was no q

xfinity mobile. >>> james clapper has served in the intelligence community for the republican and democratic presidents alike. he's a 50-year veteran of public service in the united states air force. with all of what that entails, including staying away from politically charged conversations. however that may change. this was said about the trump/russia story. >> i think you compare the two that watergate pales, really in my view, and compared to what we're confronting now. >> well, that watergate comparison made headlines tonight, reacting to james comey's sen lt testimony. and only here on cnn he took criticism of the president a little further. i spoke to him earlier this evening. >> general, clapper, as i mentioned earlier this week, you said that watergate pales to what we're confronting now. i wonder from what you saw today and heard today did it disabuse you of that notion now? >> no, on the contrary it reinforced it. just to understand the context of my comment, but the big difference in my mind between watergate, which i lived through and this is the back drop of the russian interfe

available at walmart. >>> james clapper has served in the intelligence community for the republican andemocratic presidential candidates alike. and serving for the first presidents bush, he is a 50-year veteran of public service in the united states air force. with all of what that entails, including staying away from politically charged conversations. however that may change. this was said about the trump/russia story. >> i think you compare the two that watergate pales, really in my view, and compared to what we're confronting now. >> well, that watergate comparison made headlines tonight, reacting to james comey's testimony. and only here on cnn he took criticism of the president a little further. i spoke to him earlier this evening. >> earlier this week you said that watergate pales to what

when it came to that part of it, the intelligence director at the time, james clapper, said james comey personally should do tha part of the briefing one-on-one with donald trump instead of in front of everyone else to spare mr. trump any embarrassment those allegations might cause. we've never heard that today and learned that today from james comey statement. another thing we learned today, comey says although he and trump had already multiple times comey staying on as fbi director, comey says at a one-on-one dinner that happened a few days after the inauguration, one-on-one dinner in the green room at the white house, trump raised the issue of comey holding the fbi director job again, as if they had never discussed it before. the way that comey describes it, he says basically trump raised the question of him holding the fbi director job in a way that seemed like he maybe wanted to use it as leverage against director comey. here's how he describes it quote the president began by asking me whether i wanted to stay on as fbi director which i found strange because he had already told me

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james clapper. i'm reading what he was just quoted as having said. he says that watergate pales compared to the russia scandal. what do you think that means for him? >> golly. that is a direct statement, chris. it doesn't take analysis. clapper has been critical of trump. clapper went and said very soon after donald trump made the claim that trump tower was wiretapped and ordered by obama. that had not happened. he was the leading first voice out there to do that. that seems like more than what he said before. he has been a trump critic. at some point, though, coats, comey, sessions, clapper, there are others. donald trump clearly is a bull in a china shop. that's why people voted for him at some level because they wanted him to be that guy. the question to me is does he know he is a bull in a china shop or does he not? is there intent here? does he know when he talks to james comey and meet with him privately and asks if he is under investigation. does he know he is breaking protocol? when he talks to dan coats and say he is not under investigation

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with us now, jill dougherty, steve hall, michael sheer, shawn turner, james clapper, and phil mudd. steve, as a former cia officer, what do you make of the cia's ability to identify that vladamir putin had a hand in this? because that seems like part of the obama administration is that they were -- wanted to make sure the cia was right and get buy-in from other intelligence agencies. >> well, according to "the washington post" reporting, this is somewhat of an intelligence coup to get this concrete information, which sort of put the nail into the coffin of what we had all pretty much sumized that vladamir putin was definitely involved in this. according to "the washington post," this piece of intelligence confirmed that. but then the fascinating thing about the whole piece in the post is that was sort of the easy part. the hard part is now we have that information, what is our policy going to be? you can go really hard and go cyber warfare or go conservatively with sanctions and that's eventually what the administration decided to do. >> michael, just hearing from the president in t

i want to share a bit of what james clapper said comparing this situation to watergate. take a look. >> i think compare the two, that watergate pales really in my view compared to what we're confronting now. >> okay. if this guy, who would know, is saying this is significantly bigger than watergate, what position does that put the gop in? to michael's point, what kind of questions are they going to ask? if this issue is that big and pervasive, this is a complicated moment for republicans as much as it is president trump. >> the watergate burglary didn't affect the outcome of the election, number one. two, when we consider watergate, we know everything that happened in watergate with the perspective of history. we don't know what happened here yet. but certainly is foreign interference by an adversary of the united states in our election process, and in fact were they able to influence the election, what happened? we just don't know yet. but is russian interference of the election a bigger deal than the bungled burglary and the president lying about it to cover it up? i s

i talked to the nsa director recently, and former director of national intelligence james clapper. talked about concern that the institutions that are the bedrock of u.s. democracy are under threat. >> yes. >> do you share that concern? >> it is a disaster. we have spent decades building trust and relationships, and the benefit of that is lots of people around the world, americans, we have not had a world war in 70 years. the time between the first and second world war was 20 years. it's been 70 years since and we haven't. that's because of trade relations. that's because of the eu, i think, has helped in that. we have a lot of our jobs in this country depending on global trade. that comes from relationships as well as treaty. terrorism is something we have to fight together. only if your intelligence services and your governments work together can you do that. the benefits of international cooperation to america are as great as they are for any country in the world. >> when you look at the white house, the way its structured, every former chief of staff, whether republican or demo

going back to the issue of syria, james clapper and james comey both testified to county many impossibleto vet refugees from syria thoroughly and properly. going back to it being about the commander-in-chief and his constitutional authority and powers. that's what jeff sessions will be arguing. gerri: thanks so much for coming on with us. breaking news from the treasury department. adam shapiro has the details. reporter: it's the first of four reports the president wanted from the treasury department about simplifying the financial regulatory system. it will make small and community bank operators pleased if they go into place. the way to do that, taylor the regulatory approach and require great regulatory reform and cooperation and align regulations to support liquidity investment and lending. the dodd-frank stress test. if you have $10 billion in total assets you are subject to that stress test. the treasury is willing to raise it to $50 billion. i'm going to read from the report. the cca our qualitative assessment is too transparent and should be eliminated as the sole objection. bott

national intelligence james clapper. proves moscow is still making attempts to influence american politics he was appearing in a new documentary heard by the c.n.n. news channel during prime time in america is there any reason to believe that russia is not right now today continuing to attempt to or to infiltrate u.s. political organizations individuals on board through or. think it's in their d.n.a. . or during the soviet era or know. well arty's nicky are enjoying kevin owen in the studio earlier to examine whether there was actual smoking gun this time round. there's so much anticipation over this latest special report from c.n.n. it was billed as the first comprehensive telling of on television of russia's attack on the two thousand and sixteen presidential race and also with jarring lessons for the american leaders and the public about more attacks still to come now who wouldn't want to watch this it seems like it was going to lift the lid on all of these unverified source is and then substantiated claims it's used

obviously subvert this administration under the pretext of an investigation into collusion, which james clapper, the dni, the head-- head of every agency that has spoken to the issue said, no collusion, no evidence. at the same time, has there been a single, single hearing in which james comey has testified that you have found his testimony to be satisfactory, let alone, well, even remotely illuminating? >> well, he has not gotten into the details of any investigations, lou. that is for sure. and look, at the same time, i mean, in his defense, if there is an ongoing investigation, i don't think it would be appropriate for him to share details, but at the same time, i take your point in that we have the officials declining to comment on the state of the investigation at the same time, you have all sorts of anonymous sources and leakers all saying that there's a lot of smoke here, thers probably a lot of fire here, whereas on the record. lou: this is the language, language which you quote is the language of gossipy teenagers. it's not the language of public servants who have taken seriously their

national intelligence james clapper he goes on to say that therefore proves that moscow is still making attempts to influence american politics he was appearing in a new documentary that in fact we just aired over the last few hours by the c.n.n. network or courtroom. i think it's in their d.n.a. . or in the soviet era or no. gripping but was it actually correct was a good movie to sit maybe in your popcorn too and it certainly be a good headline grabber i watched a bit of it before i went on shift you watch more of it what were your thoughts was of the big smoking gun there or not while i was so much anticipation over this latest special report from c n n it was billed as the first comprehensive telling of on television of russia's attack on the two thousand and sixty. presidential race and also with jarring lessons for the american leaders and the public about more attacks still to come now who wouldn't want to watch this it seems like it was going to lift the lid on all of these unverified source is and then substantiated claims it's used in the past to brush up bash with stories alm

at the time, director of e,tional intelligence, james clapper, was surprised the russians didn't respondction from them? >> it was very curious. >> reporter: the f.b.i.'s counter-intelligence investigation is trying to determine whether the russians were given assurances by people associated with president trump. >> well, the allegation is that there were perhaps an agreement, a wink. >> reporter: for his part, putin today called president trump a "straightforward and frank person." he said the hacking allegations are a plot to "create an atmosphere" that makes it "impossible to solve common problems." those problems include the two anmpounds in new york and maryland, which, of course, the russians want back. anthony, the trump administration and the russian government are now discussing the possibility of their return. >> mason: jeff pegues, thanks, jeff. former f.b.i. director james comey will testify in the senate investigation of russian meddling in the u.s. election, and cbs news will bring that to you live next thursday morning. one of the president's campaign uedges went unfulfill

we know that for example, james clapper who was the director of national intelligence, you look at all the agencies, he's the highest guy on the pole he said on meet the press after he left the job when donald trump was becoming president he said we found no evidence or collusion. why would you have a further investigation if there's no evidence? just because somebody makes a suggestion, i think that merkel got involved in the electronic. she really liked hillary. i'm shocked the intelligence agencies are not investigating. we need a special counsel to determine if merkel got involved in this election. you look at me like you're looking at me now. is this guy crazy. i think that's how the president -- i don't want to speak on his behalf. any normal person, i think people in the white house look at this and saying, why are we going through this? host: christina line for independents. oakland, michigan. good morning. caller: good morning. this is mr. ruddy who is a media person and is protrump. i'm not sure that call into thing. i love to the horse's mouth. i watch all kinds of hearings

stupid ok that's the explanation let me go to you line i want to correct the record here we had james clapper say in front of a congressional committee it wasn't seventeen agencies it was three and those three agencies that came out of their assessment meeting their guesstimate cherry pick the people that wrote that report here so let's clear the air ok i suggested everyone go to robert perry. consorting news dot com and he has a very good explanation of it here finally lionel you've been very patient jump in . the project very ty's video is the zapruder film for c.n.n. . and is dad dad zucker dad predict you will see the ultimate freezing out this is the denouement the epilogue the coda and stopped repaving this month stop saying that. there is no evidence of russian tampering no evidence of any russian infiltration there hasn't been yet and fact you had such a beautiful job that bloodied near pool could go on t.v. right out and actually. had no legs and nobody would believe it ok because you have but your way does this not ok. guys no evidence hang on hang on here let me go to steve here yo

. >> and remember who appointed james clapper. it was james comey.appoints fitzpatrick anyway, and he goes after dick cheney's chief of staff, because what he wants to do is coerce libby in turning on the president. libby is an honorable man and refuses to do so. that is what i worry about. the team that mueller is assembling. i don't think they're going to get trump, but i think they are going to get other people, because when you are involved in this kind of criminal investigation, people who have the power of the government can set you up for all sorts of secondary charges and can ruin your life and can bankrupt you, and i think this is a bad deal. >> sean: this is a bad deal, i think there is great danger here, there is also investigative creep here. he ends up with somebody falling into a perjury trap because they don't remember, they made a mistake. nobody gets to revise or extend their remarks. the question is, what the republicans do now, knowing there is no obstruction, knowing there's no collusion. should they shut this down? >> i think the

this is what our reporters are telling us it's all garbage and everybody in this town knows that james clapper is the guy that is feeding see him in all of this garbage and they have nothing these investigations started back in july there's nothing on the table tonight they've interviewed everybody under the moon either that or the f.b.i. is horrible at what they do what's happening here how do you read this but what i'm saying is why this right now let's point to be made rushing story is officially dead what i'm hearing what other people are saying is within the hallowed halls of the d.n.c. that number was also being said enough we have not only trumpeted but a rush of fatigue this is the official death certificate of that issue it's gone nobody bring it up anymore and this is also. a message to other news outlets we're taking the heat from you the signal is the dog whistle no more russia no more drama it's dead finish i submit that mark my words couple of days from now have might be another story which makes this pale by comparison all right let's talk about the supreme court decision today

this after former national intelligence director james clapper has repeatedly said there is no collusion i saw no direct evidence of political collusion between the trump campaign and the russians. i had not seen any smoking gun. we did not include any evidence in our report, i say our, that is nsa, fbi and cia with my office, director of national intelligence that had anything that -- any reflection of collusion between members of the trump campaign and the russians. cheryl: and let's not forget, james comey said, there was no obstruction. >> director comey, did the president at any time, ask you to stop the fbi investigation in to russian involve am in 2016 u.s. elects. >> not to my understanding no. >> did any individual working for this administration, including justice department, ask you to stop the russian investigation? >> no. cheryl: okay then as recently as yesterday, obama department of homeland security chief jay johnson said -- jeh johnson said there was no russian influence. >> in 2016, the russian government, at direction of vladimir putin, oh orchestrated cyccyberattacks,

. >> james clapper was then the director of national intelligence, the nation's senior most intelligence official. >> at that first warning, was it clear to you how serious it would become? >> no i don't think it was, because obviously the russians have us as maybe the primary intelligence target anyway. >> the first quiet warning came september 2015, when a mid-level fbi agent notified the democratic national committee that russian hackers had compromised at least one dnc commuter. >> they left a phone message at the help desk of the dnc, they didn't create it with the kind of seriousness i think it deserved. >> that was the fbi's first direct contact with the dnc, a message left for a low-level computer technician who did not return the call. >> it's a busy place they got a lot of stuff to do. i suspect if they had to do it over they'd do it differently. >> the employee did scan the system networks but found nothing. and the it department aparnl did not share the fbi concerns with more senior dnc staff. the brief would prove to be enormous, hackers gaining access to countless e-mails,

former director of national intelligence, james clapper, has also been weighing in on any parallels between where we're at today and what we saw 45 years ago. t reads in part as follows -- host: one of our viewers saying, we may need to take a road trip. the new exhibit on watergate, yorba linda, california. let's go to deborah, joining us from florida. good morning, republican line. caller: hello. host: good morning. caller: yes, a previous caller had said that nobody listens to newt gingrich. that's not true. i listened to him for years, and he really explains things very well. he's got a good grasp on things. and as far as the watergate investigation goes, i think he needs to get rid of mueller, because that definitely is a collect of interest there. i don't know why people can't see that. he's very tight with comey, and as far as comey goes, his testimony about what trump said to him, that's a he said-she said. and comey has been caught in lies before. i mean, he lied for loretta lynch, so it was a matter inside of an investigation. that's a line. i mean, i don't know, that's all i had

. >> and remember who appointed james clapper. it was james comey. he appoints fitzpatrick anyway, and he goes after dick cheney's chief of staff, because what he wants to do is coerce libby in turning on the president. libby is an honorable man and refuses to do so. that is what i worry about. the team that mueller is assembling. i don't think they're going to get trump, but i think they are going to get other people, because when you are involved in this kind of criminal investigation, people who have the power of the government can set you up for all sorts of secondary charges and can ruin your life and can bankrupt you, and i think this is a bad deal. >> sean: this is a bad deal, i think there is great danger here, there is also investigative creep here. he ends up with somebody falling into a perjury trap because they don't remember, they made a mistake. nobody gets to revise or extend their remarks. the question is, what the republicans do now, knowing there is no obstruction, knowing there's no collusion. should they shut this down? >> i think

at the time director of national intelligence james clapper was surprised the russians didn't respond. no sort of reaction from them? >> it was very curious. >> reporter: the fbi's counterintelligence investigation is trying to determine whether the russians were given assurances by people associated with president trump. >> well, the allegation is that there was perhaps an agreement, a wink. >> reporter: for his part, putin today called president trump a "straightforward and frank person." he said the hacking allegations are a plot to "create an atmosphere that makes it impossible to solve common problems." those problems include the two compounds in new york and maryland which, of course, the russians want back. anthony, the trump administration and the russian government are now discussing the possibility of their return. >> jeff pegues. thanks, jeff. >>> former fbi director james comey will testify in the senate investigation of russian meddling in the u.s. election, and cbs news will bring that to you live next thursday morning. >>> one of the president's campaign pledges went un

. >> james clapper was then the director of national intelligence. the nation's senior-most intelligence official. at that first warning, was it clear to you how serious it would become? >> no, i don't think it was because obviously the russians have us as a primary, maybe the primary, intelligence target, anyway. >> the first quiet warning came september 2015 when a mid-level fbi agent notified the democratic national committee that russian hackers had compromised at least one dnc computer. >> they left a phone message at the help desk of the dnc. they didn't treat it with the kind of seriousness i think that it deserved. >> that was the fbi's first direct contact with the dnc. a message left for a low-level computer technician who did not return the fbi's call. >> the bureau, it's a busy place, they got lots of stuff to do, but i suspect if they had it to do over again, they probably would try to do it differently in retrospect. >> the dnc technician, an outsourced employee, did scan the system networks but found nothing. and the i.t. department ap

so i think if you look at james clapper in australia yesterday, he said this was the worst scandal since watergate. what scandal? >> eric: i think we have the sound bite. can you do that? here it comes. >> i think, you compare the two, that watergate pales really in my view compared to what we are confronting now. >> kat: i think that comparison to how it's the same or different than watergate always has been and always will be useless. no matter what's happening, who cares? i care what's happening now. >> eric: insane to compare the two. in watergate, you had people admitting guilt to crimes. we had actual crimes. this, so far, as hillary would call it, a nothing burger. >> eboni: james comey does it again, a bunch of build up, just like with the hillary investigation. everyone from both sides with her popcorn in bated breath. how anti-climatic. this is such a moment where people from the left and right have anticipation as to what is going to come out of james comey's mouth. if this is andy indication, i suspect not very much. >> kat: there are things about it the bother me. i'm not sa

. >> bret: i want to play sound bite from former director of national intelligence, james clapper. >>i have to say i think you compare the two, that watergate pales really in my view compared to what we are confronting now. >> this moves us into the same realm as nixon's obstruction, may be worse. this is the equivalent of the nixon tapes. and we are headed into very, very choppy waters. >> bret: i spent, i don't know, two hours watching cable coverage. it was all over the board and more towards that that it was anything else. >> whenever anyone makes a comparison to watergate, it's usually a desperate plea for attention. the only similarity you have are highly placed intelligence officials leaking to the press. we don't have a crime yet. it is far past time for the intelligence officials who've been playing this game and putting out innuendos to give us substance. put up or shut up. >> bret: when you read this half way through, we don't get a sense of collusion. we have not had any leaks of specific collusion. as of yet. but we are starting to get that the focus is on possible obstru

. >> we had james clapper on the show the other day.e said it was unprecedented and evidence overwhelming this leads back to russia. >> that's because they picked up intercepts of russian officials talking about the material. >> right. when you brag about it, very often that gets you in trouble. a.b., this legal case going to the supreme court. how big a deal is it? how big of a win is it for the president if the ban is upheld by the supreme court? >> i think it would be enormous victory for the president. he fought hard through appeals and this is a signature issue. one of the first policy pronouncements out of the gate that wasn't just executive order that would go nowhere and not legally binding. he ran on this and he struggled since with this legal team to say this is not something that just favors muslims and not a muslim ban. he says it is a major component of national security to stop the bad dudes from coming into the country and threatening us here. i think if he was able to get a win in the supreme court, it is next to the con

james clapper appeared at the press club and accused russia of interfering in last year's election. >> the russians are not our friends. they and putin specifically, despite his disingenuous denials, are opposed to our democracy and values. >> clapper went on to say russia trying to interfere in our elections date iing baa k to th '60s, but nothing rivals last year's actions. our coverage in washington continues tomorrow. i'll be headed down to join lauren mayk and the coverage. look for live reports the rest of this evening and then more from the thags's capital tomorrow at 4:00. >>> the delaware memorial bridge reopened just been the past 90 minutes after a fire snarled traffic for several hours. they want inspected the area under the bridge. construction material caught fire as crews were welding. traffic was shut down between new jersey and delaware. cars were detoured all the way back to exit 4 of the turnpike. no one was injured in the fire, but it created major traffic headaches for drivers. >>> we have new details on a story we have been following since monday night. police no