for james clapper to make a personal statement after that rally, i can see why it provoked a statement from the president. connell: here is part of what clapper said. >> it puts in question his ability to -- fitness to be in this office. this behavior and this divisiveness and the complete intellectual, moral and ethical void that the president of the united states exhibits. how much longer does the country have to borrow a phrase and deal with this nightmare? connell: you couldn't get much strong than that. we had a discussion to start off this show about the rrms attacks on his own party. we talked about his attacks on the media. is this a good strategy for the president? is this the right way to go about it? but they weren't framed on whether he' he's fit to be president. >> more people are turned off more than ever and that includes myself related to charlottesville. but the tweets are something that's normal for this president. it's something we saw on the campaign. we can expect him to be vicious on twritter when it relates to his opponents or critics. but we don't expect it to b

. >> i want to get to this james clapper sound, the former national intelligence director, james clapper, and to do so, colonel steve warren, i would love to have your response to this, sir. you know, he made news coming on in the wee hours of the morning after the speech last night, calling the president in phoenix downright scary and disturbing and worried out loud if the president, you know, should, in fact, have his hands on the nuclear codes. here was james clapper. >> i toiled in one capacity or another for every president since and including john f. kennedy through president obama. and i don't know when i have listened and watched something like this from a president that i found more disturbing. i really question his ability to -- his fitness to be in this office. i worry about, frankly, you know, the access to the nuclear codes. >> colonel warren, what did you make of mr. clapper's response and just even, you know, calling into question the, you know, competency of the commander in chief. >> well, jim clapper, we have great respect. i have great respect for james clapper and all

james clapper was director of national intelligence.s safe to say he was alarmed by the president's speech overnight. this is what he told don lemon. >> just so objectionable on so many levels. you know, i toiled in one capacity or another for every president since and including john f. kennedy through president obama. and i don't know when i've listened and watched something like this from a president that i found more disturbing. having some understanding of the levers of power that are available to a president if he chooses to exercise them, i found this downright scary and disturbing. >> are you questioning his fitness? >> yes, i do. i really question his ability -- his fitness to be in this office. and i also am beginning to wonder about his motivation for maybe -- maybe he is looking for a way out. i do wonder as well about the people that attracted to this rally as others. you know, what are they thinking? and why am i so far out -- off base? because i don't understand the adulation. of course, that's why i think he gravitated to

i had to get you on the record from james clapper's comments that kept me awake last night. after watching the president's performance last night he was concerned about this man having access to the nuclear codes. your thoughts? >> theater, nicolle. general clapper who served 3 2 years in the air force was a leader of -- a director of the defense intelligence agency and the national geospatial agency. he knows more about national security than almost walking the face of the earth and he said that he does not believe the president is fit for office. that he cannot be trusted with the national command authority to launch nuclear weapons and we should just remind viewers, nicolle, in our system, only the president of the united states has the authority to launch nuclear weapons. and nobody -- not a single person can countermand that order. if the president gives the order around it can happen very rapidly, the president gives the order not the secretary of defense, not the combatant command of u.s. strategic command, nobody can say no. >> jeremy bash, this is not the first time

he called james clapper's comments the questioning of the president's competency disgusting. onder if you would care to comment on clapper's comments? and also on one of your colleague's, california democratic congresswoman jackie speer who has gone far enough to say the 25th amendment should be invoked in an attempt to get rid of president trump. what are your thoughts? >> i've been saying since the election, that donald trump cannot be trusted to govern, nor with the nuclear codes. he doesn't have the mind frame, maturity, mental capability to be president. i'm glad people are coming around to this. many of us have been saying this for quite a while. with all due respect, the problem with the 25th amendment, we're chasing down a hole that's never going to happen. if i remember from my civics class, the 25th amendment required a vice-president and the executive cabinet to send a message to congress that the president no longer has an ability to govern. that's never going to happen. the problem is right now, if everybody wants to keep the president in check, the way is you ele

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the speech that has some including the former director of national intelligence james clapper, a career military man questioning his fitness to hold the office. more on that just ahead. >>> the protests turned ugly outside the convention center after president trump's speech. three people were arrested. police using tear gas and pepper spray to try to break up the protesters in triple digit heat. >> people threw rocks and bottles at officers. phoenix police were on high alert as they kept trump supporters and protesters behind barricades and on separate sides of the street. >> your takeaway from that, zach, a campaign style speech? i mean, the president seems to be so energized by these types of events. it couldn't be a more different tone than the night before when he announced more troops to afghanistan. >> that's right. not just a campaign style speech, a campaign speech. it was for his re-election campaign which most presidents haven't, you know, officially kicked that off yet but trump is literally campaigning for re-election, but so much different than his speech the night before

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just after 9:00 a.m., the president tweeted, quote, james clapper who famously got caught lying to congress is now an authority on donald trump. will he show you his beautiful letter to me? and he weighed in on the press coverage of the week. the fake news is complaining about my different types of speeches. a back-to-back speeches. well, there was afghanistan, somber. the big rally, enthusiastic, dynamic and fun. and the american legion v.a., respectful and strong. too bad the democrats have no

today trump went after clapper tweeting james clapper who got caught lying to congress is now an authority on donald trump. will he show you his beautiful letter to me? well, i reached out to general clapper today about that, quote, beautiful letter. and clapper composed notes to both candidates, trump and clinton, to be included along with the winner's first intelligence breaching. he congratulated the president-elect and vowed the intelligence community would serve with the sbes intelligence he would deliver. i hand wrote identical short notes to the candidates to accompany the first brief as president-elect. only one got deployed, the one to him. i went on to say i hoped he would abide by the long-standing principal of the intelligence community always telling truth to power. clapper noted to us only a few weeks later president-elect trump went on to compare the united states intelligence community to nazi germany. the white house and trump clearly very sensitive when it comes to questions about mr. trump's fitness for office. >> well, that's right, jim. look, this is a president who al

but sean, i understand you talked to james clapper this morning about this very tweet. what did he say to you? >> absolutely i did. unfortunately the president's tweet suggested that there was some personal correspondence between director clapper and the president. that's not exactly what happened. >> the big beautiful letter, you mean? >> yes, the big beautiful letter. this all stems from what happened the night before the election. you know, what happened was that there were two teams from the intelligence community that were deployed to give a brief to the new president-elect the following morning. no matter who that was. both of these teams were prepared and they were ready to give that brief. director clapper did something that he's kind of become known for in the intelligence community. he sat down and he wrote a handwritten note to both of the candidates, basically congratulating them on their victory, and he did a couple of things in that note on behalf of the intelligence community. he reassured or reiterated the fact that the intelligence community stood ready

gregg: the former -- ni james clapper questioned president trump's quote fitness to be in office whichi checked and you are a lawyer, too, is criminal perjury. what's the reaction from the president? kellyanne: let's remind the viewers, too, it was mr. clapper under his official capacity under oath denying that the federal government was surveilling citizens, and it turned out that was not true. here he is, i think the credibility and the veracity of some of these folks and the lack of qualifications, it's shocking. gregg: would you agree general clapper is the post he child for -- the poster child for moral decay and a hypocrite? kellyanne: he's definitely a hypocrite it's a missed opportunity for mr. clap tore verify with his intelligence team is telling the president, cyber-security and deep leaks happening in our intelligence community is dangerous to all of us regardless of party. gregg: the five-year statute of limitations on that hasn't run out yet. kellyanne: we have a lot of time store psychiatrists on the news these days. gregg: one of them is hillary clinton who called the p

james clapper who famously got kautiond lying to congress is now an authority on donald trump. will he show you the beautiful letter? clapper said he wrote identical notes to candidates based on who had won so it wasn't anything trump specific. >> but of course he -- >> it's all about him, right. >> i think with the attacks on clapper and corker and mcconnell, everyone else, the president is someone looking for an enemy. he did really well in the primaries when he had enemies. >> 16. >> he would go through them, boom boom boom boom. take them on one by one and of course in the general election with hillary clinton he had the ultimate enemy he could go after. the democratic party doesn't have a strong enemy so he's picking them out in his own party. in his own administration. in his own intelligence community. he is someone who thrives on -- you know, this antagonistic relationship. that's where his strengths are. you know, he's weakest when he punches down when he goes after the enemy, a small person. not a small person -- >> a subordinate. when he fought with sessions he got ki

just not a word that this house or donald trump really knows the meaning of. >> in an interview, james clapperal intelligence said the president's speech makes him worry about his access to the nuclear codes. that's pretty amazing. you think of general clapper. he served under 10 american presidents, all sorts of the most essential intelligence positions out there, and he's raising this question about the current president of the united states. when you heard that, what was your reaction? >> well, it was stunning because i overlapped briefly with jim clapper in government. i know him to be a sober, serious, committed public servant, someone who is not partisan in any way and someone who isn't given to throwing around incendiary words. and for him to characterize the president in that way and to raise these concerns seemed to me really significant and probably reflected thinking of others in the intelligence and national security community. and what's most disturbing, and he summed it up in his comments last night, is the worse things go for the president, the worse he seems to get. we're seein

the former director of national intelligence james clapper says he's worried about the president's access to nuclear codes, calling it, quote, pretty darn scary. there were many stunning moments during the president's 77-minute tirade. among other things, he defended his response to the white supremacists violence in charlottesville, virginia by acting as though he never said some of his most offensive lines including his claim that, quote, many sides were to blame. >>> also breaking, new statements tonight from both the senate majority leader and the white house insisting mitch mcconnell and the president are working together under shared goals. but sources tell cnn the two men haven't spoken in nearly two weeks since they screamed at each other during a phone conversation. we are told the president was furious about the russia investigation as well as russia sanctions forced on him by congress. then hillary clinton is expressing new regret about her election defeat in her upcoming book. she wonders what would have happened if she would have told then candidate donald trump to, quote, ba

this is typical soviet russian trade craft approach. >> general james clapper joins me now. pper, does this white house, are they credible in their public statements? >> well, there's certainly a lot of doubt about that. what's happened most recently, i think just has the effect of casting more doubt on the credibility of what they say. i'm kind of on the same page with mike hayden here, because to me the greater issue is the assault on truth in this country, which in an extremist situation, could be pretty important to us. >> right. >> i worry about that, and what's the definition of truth? this has sort of a chilling orwellian aspect, with the minister of information putting out a set of facts which don't comport with ground truth. >> it seems when they are then confronted with actually what is true, they simply deny what is true and say, well, just sort of act as if everybody else is wrong. i mean, saying that in this particular instance, which is pretty small instance, just saying the original statement that donald trump, jr. put out, that it is true. that's just not accu

. >> james clammer, former director of national intelligence. mr. clapper, thank you so much for joining us. what did you think of tonight's performance by president trump. >> well, don, it's hard to know where to start. it is so objectionable on so many levels. i toiled in one capacity or another for every president since and including john f. kennedy through president obama and i don't know when i've listened and watched something like this from a president that i found more disturbing. having somed youing of the levers of power that are available to a president if he chooses to exercise them, i found this down right scary and disturbing. i think bakari is right on the money though that this is not a surprise. interesting to contrast last night's teleprompter trump performance versus tonight which is, of course, the real trump. just as it was in the unglued impromptu press conference at trump tower. i just find this extremely disturbing. >> are you questioning his fitness? >> yes, i do. i really question his ability to be, his fitness to be in this office

just one moment in a speech that has some including the former director of national intelligence james clapper questioning the president's fitness to hold the office. more on that, that stunning exchange next. >>> but first protests turning ugly outside the convention center after president trump's speech. three people were arrested. police using tear gas and pepper spray to try to break up the crowd of protesters in the triple digit heat. >> people threw rocks and bottles at officers. they dispersed gas in the area. they kept trump supporters behind barricades and on separate sides of the street. we'll bring in cnn politics digital director. 77 minutes of donald trump really i think recharging his battery in a room with an adoring crowd who loved the insults he threw, who loved the blame that he played on the -- placed on the media and also this is fascinating to me. the president slammed republican senators. we have a list, a laundry list of who he named and even didn't name, but very clearly slammed. you had senator jeff mcconal, senator rand paul of kentucky. what did president trump last

this is the former director of intelligence james clapper what he had to say about it.e's what he told me. >> having some understanding of the levers of power that are available to a president, if he choses to exercise them, i found this down right scary and disturbing. this behavior and this divisiveness and the complete intellectual war on effort void the president of the united states exhibits. and how much longer does this country have to borrow a phrase, endure this nightmare? >> what's your assessment? what concerns you the most about what you heard from him and from the president over the last seven months? >> well, i think jim clapper has taken this concern rather substantially beyond what has occurred, and could give concerns to people of course. but, if you look at the john kennedy administration, and kennedy's weakness in the 1961 summit, and his basically got the united states pushed around in cuban missile crisis and so forth. kennedy was thought to be so weak and he didn't prove to be weak later, he handled the cuban missile crises very well. >> no one eve

james clapper is not -- i've interviewed him a number of times. spoken to him a number of times.not someone who tends towards bombastic comments. he has genuine concern about the direction of events in north korea, on the korean peninsula. he has personal experience on the korean peninsula as an intelligence officer. that is concerning for the country. it's not a political issue. it's not a partisan issue. the degree of tension today is for republicans or democrats, whatever end of the spectrum you come from, they should be genuinely worrisome. the and that is something that, you know, our national security community has to listen to and make judgments in a sort of reasonable way going forward, and it's concerning that this comes to be plit sized, that the warnings of someone like a james clapper can be dismissed so easily as a partisan point of view when clearly it's not. >> chris, what's interesting is that it's been a long time since this president took questions or at least gave a formal press conference. he took a lot of questions today, but in those questions he responded b

the head snapping change of tones comes as james clapper offers a troubling assessment of the commander in chief. peter alexander has more. >> reporter: more white house whiplash in reno, a declaration of unity. >> it is time to heal the wounds that divide us. >> reporter: a presidential 180 from arizona. >> repeal and replace! >> reporter: repeatedly taking aim at the media. >> the very dishonest media. and they're bad people. they don't like our country. i really believe that. >> reporter: president trump abandoning the discipline displayed just 24 hours earlier, his scripted afghanistan speech. instead, accusing the press of misrepresenting his response to charlottesville. >> they don't want to report that i spoke out forcefully against hatred, bigotry, and violence. and strongly condemned the neo-nazis, the white supremacists, and the kkk. >> reporter: but mr. trump omitted his own most controversial words. >> phatred, bigotry on many sides. you also had people that were very fine people on both sides. >> reporter: former director of national intelligence james clapper, who briefed

james clapper, who famously got caught lying to congress, is now an authority on donald trump. will he show you his beautiful letter to me? the line is a reference to the testimony of james clapper where he said the intelligence were not wittingly electing intelligence on americans. he reached out to the white house to find out. so far, no response. >> heather: the president will follow up on that, i'm sure there's a reason he mentioned it. thank you, john. >> jon: it's a beautiful letter. the deadline to get crucial spending bills passed in congress is september 30th while a rift grows between the president and some key members of congress. there is also division within mr. trump's own party. here is house speaker paul ryan reacting to the president's threat of a government shutdown. >> i don't think anyone's interested in having a shutdown. >> jon: a joining is now, bob q sackett editor in chief at the hill. there have been a bunch of government shutdowns at the hill, most of them pretty short. the general public is not happy about it when it happens. the question in this par

we talked about samantha powers, susan rice, we talked about james clapper, now we are talking about n rhodes. this is slowly been coming out, we have unmasking, real crimes being committed, 125 leaks -- intelligence leaks and 126 days. that is abuse of the power we give the intelligence committee. it puts everyone's freedoms, fourth amendment constitutional rights and jeopardy. how much further is this going to go?e' are we going to discover a systematic effort to violate the constitutional rights of americans so they can spy on political opponents in a political season? is that where i think this is headed? >> i certainly hope that the committee makes this public as much as they can. what they're looking for, the correlation between what was unmasked and what was leaks. i think when that is discovered, and that is revealed, if that proves to be true, it is going to answer a lot of questions.ea is going to answer a lot of questions as to whether our intelligence community and our intelligence apparatus was being used for political espionage, and that is the question that people want

. >> james clapper called the phoenix rally downright scary and disturbing.tioned the president's motivation and trump's fitness to hold the office. in northwest, janai norman. facing three people charges after a heated protest in north carolina. 800 people gathered demanding the removal of the silent sam confederate statue, protected by barriers and monitored by cameras, prompting many to say that it is better protected than the students. official say that those arrested were not affiliated with the university. larry: deadly storms threatening millions in the northeast, prompting tornado watches in the midwest and slamming the kansas city area. one man was killed after being caught in those floods. there are 160 other water rescues and take a look at this, seven members of one family trapped on the roof for hours. >> we woke up at 4:30 and it was already too late. we kept calling the police. larry: the family was finally rescued with the help of good samaritans. firefighters, rushing back to the scene after a fire breaks out. we have a libra from hagerstown,

what do you make about what james clapper said? >> general clapper has a lot of experience in the region. i actually know him personally. the big issue he brought out here is a very critical one. general clapper has been to pyongyang. he helped to get the release of one of the americans that the north koreans had held prisoner for a while. he has been very instrumental in formulating not only intelligence policy but overall policy toward north korea. it has been a challenge that has really plagued us since the early 1950s. the issue that general clapper raised is one that really gets to the heart of the matter. we have to be very careful with how we discuss these kind of things. the fact of the matter is, we are talking about something that is a report of a capability. it is not the use of the capability and it is not something that results from that use of the capability. so we are at risk of engaging in overheated rhetoric at a time when they haven't specifically done the kinds of things or met the kind of thresholds that we would

james clapper, may be leading up to the point where he issued this memo. a change to a standard of convenience. if it helps you to understand a report, you can unmask a member of congress. a privacy issue and a separation of powers issue i think. >> sean: i am hearing, and my sources are telling me, that huge names in the obama administration, we have susan rice, now we are looking into james clapper, but names that everyone will know, are going to also be revealed in the scandal. that this was widespread at the top. are you hearing that? >> yes, in fact, if you look at the rules, one of the things that he did, he widened the circle of people that could unmask a name without any written permission. it used to be the secretary of state, the vice present, the national security advisor, only five people had special access to unmask information. when he put out the rules in 2013, it expanded to all of the deputies and all of their advisors. i think that is going to be an interesting area for us to look at in the weeks ahead. >> sean: monica, let me ask you thi

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it's unclear. >> david rode, i spoke with james clapper on the show. he surprised a lot of people when he questioned the president's fitness for office. take a look and we'll talk about it. >> i really question his ability to -- his fitness to be in this office. >> is he a threat to national security, the president? >> he certainly could be. again, having some understanding of the levers that a president can exercise, i worry about, frankly, you know, the access to nuclear codes. >> what did you think of the former director of national intelligence coming out and saying that, david? >> startling and frightening and everything else. i don't like the whole he's crazy argument. he knows what he is doing and being divisive for political reasons but something that clapper said -- >> before you go there, he did clarify and said he didn't mean crazy mentally but fit for offices in his actions and whether he was fit to do the job. >> there was a great phrase he used. he talked about the complete intellectual and moral and ethical void and that leads to this er

but i want to talk about what james clapper said. this is the former director of national intelligence. i'm sure you've seen it before, but i want to play it again because it's important. take a look. >> i don't know when i've listened and watched something like this from a president that i found more disturbing. >> are you questioning his fitness? >> yes, i do. >> questioning the president's fitness and president trump taking to twitter again. i want to point out, remember a few weeks ago when the white house had put out, well, maybe we're going to be having lawyers vet the president's tweets? not only are lawyers not vetting them, they're not even getting spell-checked if you look at them this morning. he put out a tweet, james clap whoeshgs famously got caught lying to congress, is now an authority on donald trump. will he show you his beautiful letter to me? first of all, if president trump is actually going to throw stones in terms of being a liar, that's extraordinary because we're in the hundreds at this point of fibs that we

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he said he did it because he watched james clapper lie directly to the american people.so troubling. americans have to realize that this is the establishment bureaucracy now, and one side that is willing to say anything to disturb the duly-elected president, effectively trying to nullify the election. they will fail. stuart: i found mr. clapper's comments disturbing. >> outrageous. stuart: i did not find the president's comments disturbing. >> he found the president's comments disturbing. stuart: we've come to this? lord. tammy, thank you very much indeed. >>> let's deal with money, specifically the retail sector, kohl's announcing they will cut floor space in half some of its stores, use the space for warehouse space basically. that is what they're going to do. that would allow them to ship very quickly items ordered online. it is an online warehouse situation. that is what they're becoming. we have with us the guy who invented, not invented the ets, my buy, i buy, is that right, christian? let's explain to our audience who doesn't know you. you have an etf, that is gas

i'm wondering what do you think about james clapper representing the views of those who are so upsetstill by the administration. i dig it's pretty clear that the intelligence community generally in donald trump have not had a very good relations. maybe have seen this expressed both through the public frustration in his disagreement with some other assessments and things like that. but also the intelligence community hitting back by leaking things that should not be made a public such as conversations that donald trump has been having with foreign leaders. there is clearly bad blood between those. it doesn't surprise me that you see something like that coming out and not really been on trumps, side. i have a problem believing anything that has come out of james clapper's mouth since the host snowed in revelation. i bring this up from time to time where he sat before the senate intelligence committee and lied his face off and really should have been charged with perjury because he did in fact perjure himself. he knew that the nsa was spying on them i question his motivation here in his

and then james clapper is my friend. i think he is probably one of the most intelligent people i've ever met. he's a great historian and he has great experiences so i wanted to get some understanding of who he is even as deeper as a person. what his childhood was like. why he became the man he is and that's why these three books. >> most of these books are centered around history. is that where most of your interest and you find your inspiration from or do you have other genres that you are into? >> i am big on poetry. i'm big on pros. so let's say for instance i prepared to do a speech, the first thing i would do is start to read a poem. or something that strikes me. sometimes music. but mostly i love poetry. that's inspirational to me. this is inspirational in a different way. they inspire me to be the kind of peoplein these books , two measure myself against the successes of them. to know if i'm going in the right direction. sometimes you look at other people and say i'd like to have that trait. i'd like to be like th

james clapper's -- james clapper has worked with every president since john f. kennedy and this is what he said right after the speech. >> i don't know when i listen to something like this from a president that i found more disturbing. having an understanding of the levers of power available and he's talking about nuclear weapons i found this downright scary and disturbing. >> yeah he actually mentions the close and hillary clinton warned this frenetic personality that donald trump has and the -- the idea in which he spoke and explained the process is streamlined that in less than 10 -- in less than 5 minutes that's where you hope general kelly and others -- around him are strong and reliable. >> do you think that's crossing the line? >> the american psychological association unleashed and came to an agreement that this is now fair game to revisit this question going back to watergate to avoid going into personalities and psychological profiles. this is new territory for the professional classes that look at these areas. >> the president spent a lot of time crit

which is pretty damn scary. >> pretty sobering to hear that from somebody like james clapper. also how much more is the country going to, quote, endure this nightmare. >> and secretary of state rex tillerson is works to flesh out president trump's plans in the 16-year in afghanistan. speaking yesterday, tillerson said after an effective military effort, a political settlement would be the next step in the process. but the second also undercut the president's assurance, that the u.s. will win this war, adding that talks with the taliban may be key to that process. >> this entire effort is intended to put pressure on the taliban to have the taliban understand you will not win a battlefield victory. we may not win one, but neither will you. so, at some point, we have to come to the negotiating table and find a way to bring this to hand. pakistan and the u.s. historically had very good relationships but over the last few years there's been a real erosion of confidence between our two governments. there's been an erosion in trust. because we have witnessed terrorist organizations g

is that the same james clapper who lied about surveillance to congress? who originally said he saw zero evidence of so-called "trump-russia collusion"? he should change his tune. i guess that's what you have to do if you want to get a job over at the fake news network, the clinton news network. a liar on cnn. it sounds like a perfect match in heaven to me. here's the bigger point. to the leftist media, everything is president trump's fault. you know what? he can't say or do anything in there i said is right. here's what i came to the conclusion after last night. if president trump could actually cure cancer, make people in wheelchairs walk, if every american got a million dollars from him, if you could prevent heart attacks or stop car accidents, guess what? the media still wouldn't be happy. they still would not be satisfied. if the dog bites and bee stings and you are feeling sad, it's donald trump's fault, in their eyes. the media thinks president trump was not supposed to respond to them calling a racist and a bigot every hour of every day. here's a l

>> that is some pretty stark language, james clapper, a retired general who served as director of national intelligence for president obama. not giving up to partisan politics and fairly sober. and it also comes after senator bob corker, questioning trump's competency and ability to do this job. >> it's true, and i do think that president trump the more he allows himself all these rifts to go out and vent himself. he said you heard what i said, they're targeting me. it wasn't about racism or any of that. he barely mentioned the woman who died in charlottesville. i think the more people see this, and this includes republicans and democrats and people in the national security realm, i think on all sides, the more people are worried that this president is not going to be able to salvage any part of a functional presidency. and we know mitch mcconnell has talked about that, and i think that the more people are willing to say that publicly, the more we're going to hear it. >> i think we have reached a tipping point where americans are starting to give voice to this. >> they not only stuck by th

james clapper. >> how much longer does the country have two borrow a phrase, endure this nightmare. >> president trump returned fire tweeting: "james clapper, who famously got caught lying to congress, is now an authority on donald trump. will he show you his beautiful letter to me?" the president will soon be making a decision on the status of some 27 national monuments that were up for review. secretary of the interior ryan zinke delivered his recommendations to the white house today. sources say ryan zinke is not recommending any monuments be rescinded but he's proposing revisions to a handful of them. bret. >> bret: john roberts, thank you. the president has made up his mind on the new ban for transgenders in the military. details will be delivered to the pentagon in the coming days. national security correspondent jennifer griffin is at the pentagon. >> defense secretary jim mattis will be given authority to decide whether transgender troops can continue serving. he will be given six months to implement the ban. the military will be ordered to stop admitting transgender individua

tweeting, james clapper who famously got lying the congress is now an authority on donald trump.how you his beautiful letter to me? he wrote, the fake news is now complaining with my different times of back to back speeches. well, there was afghanistan, sober, and the big rally, enthusiastic, dynamic and fun, and the american legion, v.a., respectful and strong tooflt bad the dems have no one who can change tones. this comes with the president's expansion. california democrats are stoking a debate over donald trump's mental health and fitness for office, opening a new front in the resistance to the president. not just the opposition party. let's watch republican tennessee senator bob corker last week. >> the president has not yet, has not yet been able to demonstrate the stability, nor some of the competence that he needs to demonstrate in order to be successful. he also recently has not demonstrated that he understands the character of this nation. >> here's our white house press secretary sarah sanders said today. >> i think that's a ridiculous and outrageous claim and doesn't

by the way, big surprise, james clapper, now a contributor for the fake news network. news today, james comey, he is writing a book that will be released in the spring. i told you this was going to happen months ago. let's go as one or wolf would say, to the videotape. speak out what did i say the day after he got fired. comey will get a multimillion dollar deal, a movie, a miniseries, primetime special, diane sawyer, and probably an msnbc contributor ship. now you have klapper over at the fake news network. he is apparently trying to take down the present, and to do that, this has become a lucrative profession. if you make it easier to unmask americans, i guess you get hired by fake news cnn. you gather information that you leak to "the new york times," government information, classified information, potentially break the law, you get a huge book deal. we have been calling for real crimes, real collusion to be investigated, the house republicans, you need to do your job. finally, the house judiciary committee they are now calling for the second special counsel to be a

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