two of the men he called out, james clapper and john brennan, are here to respond exclusively next. >>> plus, dueling plans. republicans in the house and senate try to come to an agreement on taxes. >> we're not doing this for political benefit. we're doing this to help improve people's lives. >> as new details are released, will some middle class americans take a hit? treasury secretary steve nmnuchn joins me. >>> roy moore. >> they involve a minor and completely false and untrue. >> what will the republican party do if moore wins? ohio governor john kasich weighs in. >>> hello, i'm jake tapper in washington with the state of our union totally confused after a week of discipline on his foreign trip in asia, president trump unloaded overnight in a series of tweets and comments hitting his critics as, quote, haters and fools and saying he tries so hard to be friends with north korea's leader kim jong-un while also essentially calling kim jong-un short and fat. president trump also appeared to kind of, maybe, sort of backtrack on earlier statements in which he seemed to take the word of

. >> it wasn't just the former spy chiefs under president obama, james clapper and john brennan, who criticized president trump's statements on vladimir putin. g.o.p. senator john mccain also expressed concerns that the president accepted putin's word over the consensus by u.s. intelligence community that russia meddled in the election. but what mr. trump set aboard a first one is this. "every time he sees me, he says i didn't do that, and i believe, i really believe that when he tells me that he means it." but the audio wasn't released and our chief correspondent john roberts, who were at the end of her says the president's voice inflection is very important because it's clear the president is not saying he believes putin, he saying he believes putin means it when he says he didn't do it. the president later clarified his remarks by issuing his clearest comment yet that he agrees with u.s. intelligence, watch. >> i believe that he feels that he and russia did not meddle in the election. as to whether i believe it or not, i'm with our agencies, especially as currently constituted wit

. >> now james clapper questioning the president's motives for setting up that meeting.in an interview he asked why did he turn to the direct ef instead of the dni? >> clapper said this. the this episode i think adds to the image perhaps unjustifiably that pompeo is a political activist as a go-to guy for trump. no the a place for the cia to be. clapper says he is heartened that pompeo later affirmed the finding that russia did interfere. >> fema will begin transporting 3,000 puerto rico survivors to the u.s. mainland at the request of the island's governor. they're working to set up agreements with both florida and new york to take in survivors currently residing in shelters. those two states selected by the governor. power is still out across much of the island. >>> amazing. >> it's a long go there, sadly. >> remember, it's part of the u.s. >> indeed. >>> all right a big about face for notre dame. the catholic school providing birth control after it said it would stop. >>> i know the names of the fallen will give on forever. let me assure you their names will also be e

to discuss this is cnn national security analyst and former director of national intelligence, james clapperor clapper, thank you very much. this missile has gone higher and further than any we have seen before. how do you think this changes the equation? >> i think the important thing here is context, and you know the north koreans have been on a path developing a intercontinental ballistic missile for sometime, and each one of the missile tests moves them along on that path, and they have accomplished yet another milestone and what they want to be able to portray is a credible operational military operational intercontinental ballistic missile capabilities, and they have been on this path for sometime. so yes, it's worrisome and disturbing, but at least they did not fly it over the land mass of japan, so if you are looking for good news of sorts, i guess that's it. >> i guess, except as you say they have been working on it for sometime, and is it time to change the united states response to this? >> as others have aobserved man times, there are no good options in response. there needs to b

a statement that also included references naming both brennan, clapper and james comey as political hacks. that prompted this emotional response from brennan. >> jim clapper, jim comey and john brennan did not write that assessment. it was written by the intelligence officers and law enforcement officers of this great country. secondly, i feel very honored to be associated with jim clapper and jim comey in the same category, and considering the source of the criticism, i consider that criticism a badge of honor. third, i found it particularly reprehensible that on veterans day, that donald trump would attack and impugn the sbintegri and character of jim clapper who served in uniform for 35 years, who responded to the call of his country to go to vietnam, flew in over 70 combat support missions over vietnam, and like senator mccain, really did put his life at risk because of this country's national security. to impugn the character of somebody like jim clapper on veterans day, who has dedicate sod much of his life to this country i find outrageous and something that president trump should

president trump's controversial remarks on cnn's state of the union with jake tapper, brennan and james clapper responding to the president's earlier comment that he believes vladimir putin's election meddling denials and weighed in on trump calling brennan, clapper and former fbi direct director james comey political acts. >> i side with our intelligence agencies but it was vague. why do you think he does that? >> i don't know why the ambiguity about this because the threat posed by russia is manifest and obvious and has been for a long time. putin is committed to undermining our system, our democracy and our whole process. and to try to paint it in any other way is i think astounding and poses a peril of the country. >> what peril does it pose to the country? >> for one, as we have seen in the evidence that's come out since the publication of our intelligence community assessment further reinforces the depth and magnitude and scope and the aggressiveness of the russian interference to include very astute use of social media. apart from that is the fact that the russians are embarked on a very

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argue with putin and thinks the real issue is democratic medaling going on to call people like james clapper and james comey political hacks. >> hillary clinton had the reset button she wanted to get back together with ush russia and spelled reset wrong that's how it started and it got worse. >> meanwhile north korea nuclear threat overshadowing his trip and communist regime saying trump begged for war in the first visit as president toe asia. >> all responsible nations must apingt now to ensure north korea's rogue regime stops threatening the world. >> he called on nations to stop with north korea. joe chiro fox news. >> i'm, 7:08 actor george takay takes to twitter in response to the sexual allegations against him and what he said. >> as we look at some of the pictures you have been tweeting us this veteran's day weekend to submit photos choose #fox5vet. they're looking at the mcpick 2... ...two for five deals all across the board! here it comes... (crowd cheers) a big mac and 10 piece mcnuggets! they got em! get your fan favorites on the mcpick 2 menu. choose any two for just five bucks.

joining me now is james clapper, the former director of national intelligence. it's always great to have you. >> thank, don. >> the president is attacking the free press like we have never seen before. is this undermining the constitution, you think? >> well, i think it is. and i spoke about this in an interview with jake tapper last february in which i expressed concern about the assaults on our institutions. and this is last february. externally from the russians which is continuing and internally from the president. i spent a lot of my life, about 50 years either in the military or in civilian capacities helping to defend these freedoms of ours. and to have the president of the united states attack the free press, which is fundamental pillar of this country, it's one of the 'inthings that distinguis us from so many other countries, many i've been to. and when you look at how the media is suppressed in places like russia and china and then to see him apparently resonate with that and do the same thing here is very -- it's dangerous and disturbing. >> cosign on

james clapper. thank for being with us. first of all on this wikileaks story i have to ask were you aware of any of this when you were the director of national intelligence? >> no i was not. we knew about the connection between the russians and wikileaks although western sure -- or at least i wasn't whether that was an un-whitingly relationship. or weather that was an overt relationship, i didn't know that at the time. the thing about all this, anderson, for me, you run out of add jessica tifrs to describe the daily revelations coming out. you know, you have to sort of step back and think about the big picture here. why on earth the trump camp was engaging with the russians at all. and now wikileaks, which others have recited, director mike pompeo's characterization of wikileaks is an intelligent service, which i agree with. why on earth would there be any contact? on earthly reason what there be that was positive for any of these contacts, whether russians, wickly kekileaks or a else. >> doesn't it seem irresponsible for d

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james clapper, the foreign policier director of national intelligence said the president's statementse dangerous. >> perhaps inciting and encouraging anti-muslim violence and as well causes i think our friends and allies around the world to wonder about the judgement of the president of the united states. >> reporter: all this as the nuclear threat from north korea intensified. a day after the regime fired a ballistic missile that flew higher and longer than ever before. after belittling kim jong-un earlier this year -- >> we can't have mad men out there shooting rockets all over the place. >> reporter: the president responded today with restraint, saying on twitter, additional major sanctions will be imposed on north korea today. the situation will be handled. but it was unclear just how it would be handled. on stage in missouri, he revived his attack on the north korean dictator. >> little rocket man. rocket fuel for the american economy. he is a sick puppy. >> reporter: but today it was the tale of two presidents with mr. trump standing before christmas trees in the suburbs of st.

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so he enlists his intelligence chief, james clapper, and his homeland security chief, jeh johnson, tout a statement in their names, hoping that that will be perceived as less partisan than if the president had done so himself. >> narrator: but just agreeing on what would be said would be difficult. >> the statement that jim clapper and jeh johnson put out went through an arduous review process, including in the white house situation room, just trying to get the tone right, make sure the message was right. >> narrator: the vetted statement was just three paragraphs long. >> ...the russian government directed the recent compromises of emails from u.s. persons and institutions..." >> there were a few interesting things about that intelligence report. first, it gave us no details. second, it was incredibly late. and it took the intelligence community more than two months to be able to come up with a few sentences that essentially confirmed that story. >> narrator: also missing: any mention of president putin's personal involvement. >> they could have said putin, but they didn't. his name

here's former cia director john brennan and former director of national intelligence, james clapper. this in an interview this morning. >> he was referring to us as political hacks because he was trying to delegitimize the assessment that was done. >> i feel very honored to be associated with jim clapper and jim comey in the same category. and considering the source of the criticism, i consider that criticism a badge of honor. >> i do believe in my heart that the men and women of the intelligence community will continue to convey truth to power even if the power ignores the truth. >> let's go straight to chris jansing in manila for the latest. you have the president defending himself, a good relationship with russia. what all is he saying? >> reporter: yeah, not only that, but he's also saying that he's the one to do it, that president obama couldn't do it. he criticized him earlier. a few days ago. he criticized former secretary of state hillary clinton. he said when she was dealing with russia, she was in over her head, but he's the one who can do it. and he's back on twitter with

but i think what he did in just bashing james clapper and john brennan and james comey was that's theof thing that really seriously compromises our intelligence community and our national security. i think it's really, really dangerous what he's doing. clearly, the mountain of evidence is that russians did meddle in the election so there's not much doubt about that. so just to repeat some simple denial from putin is meaningless in my opinion. >> got mike pompeo at the cia saying we are refuting what the president has said. how does it damage or i guess eclipse national security? what are the things about russian meddling are a direct correlation to national security? >> well, it jeopardizes and undermines our entire democracy. if we're going to allow foreign interests to compromise our free elections which is basically the fundamental foundation of our democracy, then that's a huge blow to our national security. i mean, that's the entire reason this country exists is because of our ability to choose our leaders, our policies. >> a point well taken. thank you. >>> it appears to be an e

inspector charles mccullough worked directly under james clapper and he is now breaking his silence.ecame a shill of the right. i was told by members of congress be careful, you are losing your credibility. there are people out to get you. >> martha: tony schaefer is a cia trained intel operative and senior fellow with the london center for policy research. could debbie with us tonight. what exactly did this inspector general know? >> he was the guy, he was the lead investigator led to go through and examine every single email that was found on her server, especially those which have classified, or -- i re-watched his testimony just to remind me of what he said. some emails that were beyond top secret, even congress couldn't see and for his work, for his 26 years working with the department of justice and the fbi, all this work, he was trying to be the fair arbiter of telling the truth and what happened was simply this. he told the truth during a time of political upheaval for the opposition, that being jim klapper, john brennan and all them, were coordinating with members of congres

trump daucalling john brennan, james clapper and jim comey political hacks yesterday when asked aboutnce existing to support russia meddling in u.s. elections. what's your reaction to that? >> well, it's an unfortunate statement because it seems to ignore all the career professionals who do this for a living and develop intelligence and advise the white house for a living. that's what he needs to focus on. and he's trying to have it both ways. first he's trying to say that he believes that putin truly believes his government didn't meddle in his election and then he's consequently trying to say that he still believes in our intelligence services. but here's the problem, those two statements are mutually exclusive. you can't say that you believe vladimir putin and you still believe the conclusions of the u.s. intel services. they have said conclusively the russian government meddled with our election, tried to at least. and if you say that putin doesn't believe that himself, then you're thumbing your nose at your own intelligence services. >> daniel, if you hear the president say this

. >> speaking exclusively to fox he said he went to director of national intelligence james clapper aboutthe presidential election. the intelligence agencies had just found their classified information in the clinton emails. >> he read through the affidavits very thoroughly and he said this is extremely reckless and mentioned something about the campaign would have -- will have heartburn about that or something. >> shortly after he says his team was marginalized and told by senior government officials to keep clapper out of it. >> sandra: what about pressure on the hill. >> after he told email passed through the secretary of state's personal server. push >> the thing that disappointed me the most was the president saying there is classified and then there is classified. a lot of people in the intel community spend a lot of time keeping secrets secret and to inject that sense of confusion into people i don't think was all together responsible. >> as election day approached he said the threats went further. singling him out and another senior government email investigator. >> you were given

he is always the victim of some type of larger political ploy by his enemies and he sees james clapper as part of that. so he goes out and says these guys are hacks, it's less i think in donald trump's mind at least an attack on the intelligence community than it is on the former obama-aligned intelligence officials whom he believed have always been out to get him in the first place. persecution is always at the front of donald trump's mind. >> all right, well, we might not have heard them, but we heard from james clapper. i got a feeling mattis, mcmaster, kelly, they probably didn't like the president said that either. though over the weekend, chief of staff onkelly said he doesn't follow president trump's tweets. i'm going to make two statements about that. i certainly hope he's not telling the truth because as the chief of staff to the president of the united states, seeing that the president has said he loves twitter, it is his main form of communication with the millions of people who follow him. i certainly hope that general kelly will follow trump's tweets whether he likes them

john brennan claimed trump was intimidated by the russian president former intelligence chief james clapper dubbed the friend in this naive and even a threat to the united states think it's very naive and again for a pearl was to this country to make an assumption that russia is going to be with. the best interest of the world or the united states of mind following his meeting with putin trump took to twitter to address his critics he underscored that russia's help is necessary in resolving many of the world's conflicts. when will all the haters and fools out there realize that having a good relationship with russia is a good thing not a bad thing they're always playing politics bad for our country i want to solve north korea syria ukraine terrorism and russia can greatly help. flannigan president that flanagan consulting i'll see former congressman believes that the u.s. president's opponent saw desperate to find fault with his overseas tour i think the agenda is that brennan particularly is a d.n.c. guy easy is not a professional intelligence guy he's a d.n.c. guy was put in the job and t

boss john brennan claimed was intimidated by the russian president or former intelligence chief james clapper a friend in the naive and even a threat to america i think it's very naive and again for perilous to this country to make an assumption the rush is going to be with. the of the world or the united states and. i'm pleased to say i can speak now to neil mccabe from the online news site big league politics mail you would have thought perhaps that was a positive thing donald trump speaking in fairly encouraging terms about the russian president about perhaps closer relations but there's been an establishment backlash against any kind of approach my why. but i think what you have is certainly in the case of clapper and brennan you have two political hacks who are basically just you know taking pot shots at the president the matter no longer working in the intelligence agencies in the now we know that in the at least in the last year of their tenure under president obama they had used you know they became very political in the use of their intelligence they are opponents of the president th

. >> thompson: former director of national intelligence james clapper said he believes both russia and china think they can play mr. trump. in response, trump treasury secretary steve mnuchin said the president, "is not getting played by anybody." hanging over the asia trip, which ends tomorrow, is the spectre of north korea, and last night, mister trump responded to north korea's taunt that his speeches in asia have been" reckless remarks by an old lunatic." mr. trump responded on twitter, saying: "why would kim jong-un call me old?" adding, "i would never call him short and fat?" he went on to say, "oh well, i try so hard to be his friend." in a clear signal to north korea, the u.s. and south korea, along with japan, are now holding large-scale naval exercises in south korean waters. for the first time in ten years, three u.s. aircraft carrier battle groups are taking part in the show of force. while the president has focused on foreign policy in asia, there have been developments in domestic politics-- from the democratic sweep in virginia's elections last week to accusations of sex

. >> reporter: former director of national intelligence, james clapper, agrees. >> he seems very susceptible to rolling out the red carpet. >> reporter: here in the philippines, the president struck up an incredibly warm relationship with the controversial filipino president. the white house says that the president did raise human rights concerns in their conversations, but the office says the issue of human rights did not come out. >> all right, jon, thank you. >>> back here at home tonight, the panic at the airport terminal in orlando. a lithium battery exploding inside a bag, before the passenger even boarded the plane. here's abc's david kerley tonight. >> reporter: it was panic. passengers fleeing an airport security line. a knapsack smoking. some saying bomb. in rushes a tsa officer, who thinks it might be an ied. >> if there was an ied, i was already gone, so, i might as well just try to save as many as i can. i'm not a hero. >> reporter: turns out, it was a lithium ion battery in a laptop. lithium batteries are numerous. the faa showing how cargo containers can explode. in the three

when in the words of general james clapper, former head of the director of national intelligence he said the threat, the array of threats is more profound than he seen in 50 years in the intelligence service of the united states. so we can't, we can't spend the amount of money we need to keep america safe to fight our nation's wars and to defend our shores here at home unless we meet that need. and we can't do it when our economy doesn't grow. not only will economic opportunities increase for americans of all stripes will also have additional revenue to address our national debt. if what you get our economy going again we can actually pay down that debt. but this debt is not a product of tax cuts and defense spending as some would lead you to believe. it's a symptom of our inability to pass entitlement reform. in other words, we have a spending problem. we don't have an inadequate taxing problem. indeed, , during the eight years of the obama administration when the national debt doubled, i didn't hear one peep out of our colleagues across the aisle on the national debt. it's refreshing t

john brennan claimed trump was intimidated by the russian president or former intelligence chief james clapper the friend in this naive and even a threat to america think it's very naive and again for pearl was to this country to make an assumption that russia is going to be with. the best interests of the world or the united states in mind following his meeting with putin trump took to twitter to address his critics underscoring that russia's help is necessary in resolving many of the world's conflicts when will all the haters and fools out there realize that having a good relationship with russia is a good thing not a bad thing they're always playing politics bad for our country i want to solve north korea syria ukraine terrorism and russia can greatly help you mccabe of the online news site big league politics police the u.s. president's opponents are desperate to find fault with his overseas tour. trump branded a slogan of america first i don't think anybody would be surprised if putin put russia first i think that what have you what people also have to realize is what you might call the n

brennan claimed trump was intimidated by the russian president while former intelligence chief james clapper dubbed the friendless naive and even a threat to the united states. i think it's very naive and again perilous to this country to make an assumption that russia is going to behave with. the best interests of the world or the united states in mind or following this meeting with putin trump took to twitter to address his critics see underscore that russia's help is necessary and result in many of the world's conflicts when will all the haters and fools out there realize that having a good relationship with russia is a good thing not a bad thing they're always playing politics bad for our country i want to solve north korea syria ukraine terrorism and russia can greatly help. so let's discuss this more with michael patrick flanigan president at flannigan consulting and i'll see and former congressman as well thanks for joining us here and good to have you on the program as the trump said getting on with countries restart mission relations can only be a good thing so why is there such a b

it has tools, it has nowhere else in the world, the former head of intelligence james clapper has saidhe risk of getting caught would be too enormous. the other thing that is really the point of the criticism is that the deal is not what it was never intended to be. namely, a way to address has polite and missiles. —— hezbollah. work with our regional allies and friends to push back on those other destabilising behaviours. right. you see, notjust donald trump that called the deal the worst deal in american history, horrible, he said, but america's greatest ally in the region, israel and benjamin netanyahu and and other key ally, saudi arabia, both leaders have said the deal is potentially disastrous because it allows iran to refine and develop it uranium enrichment techniques because it doesn't stop it altogether. number two, it allows the iranians to develop their ballistic missile technology which they are very actively doing. and number three, as the prince of saudi arabia puts it, on the day of the sun sets, "my view is, iran will race to developing a nuclear weapon without anybody

. >> host: above air force one, he also disparaged the leaders, james james clapper, james comey. [inaudible] >> i think vladimir putin is clever in terms of playing to mr. trump's interest in being flattered. also i think mr. trump is, for whatever reason, either intimidated or afraid of what he could do or what might come out as a result of these investigations so it's very worrisome, and i think it sends a disturbing signal to our allies and partners who are concerned about russian interference in their democratic process as well. >> rick, the president actually called me yesterday morning to talk about his meeting and he told me they met on the sidelines of the aipac conference only very briefly and he didn't want to spend that entire time arguing about whether or not russia meddled in the election because there are other important issues like what to do about syria and north korea that he needed to talk about. he basically said he listened to what he said and moved on to other issues. >> is just going to ask you, if the white house, and i guess president trump himself is disa

mccullough went to senior officials including james clapper. >> he said this is extremely reckless and mentioned the campaign will have heartburn. reporter: did you tell the cia director james brennan there was classified information? >> he already knew. reporter: after two emails sent by clinton aides. government records show a senior state department official who worked for secretary clinton allegedly pressured the fbi to downgrade the investigation as a quid pro quo. by february 16, emails relefted by wikileaks suggest clinton's lawyer and a senior staffer shared information to target mccullough. >> there was a coordinated strategy. i not only think it, i think it have much so. reporter: a former clinton campaign spokesman did not return the call. fox asked about this march 26 letter from 17 democrats. it said they had serious concerns about the clinton email review. feinstein's office wanted mccullough to respond. >> i told the staff director i was not going to respond to it. reporter: senator feinstein's office did not respond to our questions. senator feinstein told the daily cal

in one of his our births in the past twenty four hours john brennan former director of the cia james clapper the former national security chief making very clear that they believe that president trump was being manipulated by leaders like that emir putin saying this was a real danger to u.s. national interests making clear is well their belief that his use of social media to pass infant tiles as they put it insults to other foreign leaders goes on to it sure to show the deep personal nature of president trump's behavior and nature that they contend is potentially very dangerous for u.s. interests all right mike hanna in washington d.c. where there's never a dull moment thank you mike. i want to tell you about the program thousands of civilians flee aleppo as rebel fighters phase heavy bombardment from syrian government forces. and spain's prime minister calls on katmandu out of office and next month's elections. how are you see this feels like some and have may not be obvious again from satellite pictures a massive cloud he was never really says summer to anybody showers are falling out of i

president trump also called out the former head of the cia, former director of national intelligence, james clapper. former fbi director james comey, saying he would rather trust p vladimir putin. >> i know how they see it. first of all, let's remind everyone that brennan clapper and comey have either worked for democrat the and republicans or republican the only. so, the idea that -- until he was appointed by obama. the idea these are political hacks, these are men and leaders in their field whose political identity in this world of extreme partisanship, their political identity was not how anyone would have ever defined them. so clearly, one of the reasons why pompeo, the cia director came out quickly today is they are afraid of losing their troops. that every president needs support from the law enforcement military to support american interests. i think pompeo coming out that strongly, pompeo being a trump 130er9 supporter early on, the president is losing our safety and security. essentially losing the base in terms of national security. that's very, very scary for all of us, because no one ev