joining us now is james clapper.nt. how significant is it? >> well, it's -- pam, it's quite significant and unfortunately i have some familiarity with doing damage assessments from the manning and snowden cases and this is a logical thing for the intelligence community to do led by the director of national intelligence. and she will, i'm sure, engage all the relevant components who may have had a stake in these documents, particularly if there can be identified an originating agency or component who will lead the assessment. and i think the assumption is that what could a sophisticated adversary intelligence service do with these documents if they had them in terms of exploiting and gaining -- and gleaning insights from them. so that will be the task for the intelligence community led by the dni to do. >> and we know the documents retrieved earlier this year could compromise clandestine human sources. do you figure that these documents could put lives at risk? >> well, there is a risk there, but i have to point out a

. >> talk about that in a moment with james clapper. i want to quickly pivot to the georgia and grand jury investigation into trump's efforts there to overturn the state's election results in that state. a federal judge today ruled the state's republican governor brian kemp must testify in that investigation but can wait until after the november election. how significant is his tem,stimy do you think? >> interesting. the judge that's over seeing this decided it's -- in fact, the governor did not have some protections he thought he did and didn't have to testify in a criminal case. he'll have information maybe from people around the trump orbit about calls that were made or threats that may have been made. pressure that may have been put in place. that's plorobably what the d.a.s interested in. the such said i won't let this be politicized. i'm not letting them come out and argue, well, he's testified to this or doing that. under the guise of the subpoena. again, you can choose which side of the political aisle you want to be on, but the

deeper now with cnn national security analyst and the former director of national intelligence, james clapperper, thank you so much for being with us this evening. you ran the intelligence community for decades. how troubled are you that what we know now about the journey and the potential exposure of these hundreds of pages of classified documents had from the white house down to mar-a-lago? >> well, on its face, this is, you know, very serious from the standpoint of the intelligence community. i say that, and i have to caveat that by saying we don't know the actual substantive content of any of these documents. but the classification ascriptions that have been assigned to them is very concerning. and the thing that the intelligence community will want to focus laser like on is if a sophisticated adversary obtained access to these documents, what could an adversary glean from them, particularly about sources, methods, and tradecraft? and this could be potentially very serious, particularly if it puts human intelligence assets, lives at risk. and that is a potential here, but again, we don't

james clapper, thank you so much for being here. >> well, thanks for having me, sara. >> in hearing thisthink there are a lot of jaws that dropped certainly in my sphere. what is your biggest concern after hearing this reporting from "the post"? this may have been about trying to take back documents that had to do with nuclear weapons that were inside the former president's residence. >> well, sara, when this story first broke about the search in mar-a-lago and i was asked what would be the range of classified information that's conceivably stored there, and i speculated that, you know, nuclear weapons-related information, you know, would kind of top the range, the holiest of holy. but i doubted it because i thought -- i thought even donald trump would protect those kind of secrets. well, apparently that's not the case. now, having said that, we don't know, as juliet said in your last segment, exactly what we're talking about here, whether this is foreign information on foreign nuclear weapons or the worst case, as juliet said, our own systems. and potentially, this is quite dangerous. i

so, i want to bring in national security expert, former director of national intelligence, james clapper. clapper, thank you for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> in hearing this latest news, i think there are a lot of jaws that drop, certainly, in my sphere. what is your biggest concern after hearing this reporting from the post? this may have been about trying to take back documents that have to do with nuclear weapons that were inside the former presidents residence. >> sarah, when this story first broke about the search at mar-a-lago, and i was asked what would be the range of classified formation that is conceivably stored there? i speculated that, nuclear weapons related to information would top the range of holy. i doubted it because i thought donald trump would protect those kind of secrets. well, apparently that is not the case. having said that, we don't know, as juliette said in the last segment, exactly what we are talking about here, whether this is foreign -- information on foreign nuclear weapons or the worst-case, as she said, our own systems. potentially, this is d

so this is potentially quite concerning. >> james clapper there. of course we'll bring you the latest on that story as it develops. >>> just in, a shocking ruling from a u.s. federal judge in texas aimed at further res restricting abortion rights in the u.s. before the request of the state of texas of a trump appointed judge has blocked guidance from the health and human services department that says medical providers are required to provide emergency abortion related services even if those actions violate state law, meaning texas wants to make it even more difficult for women to end unwanted pregnancies even when their own lives are at risk. the ruling comes just two nts nos after the u.s. streak decision to overturn roe v. wade, the case that guaranteed federal abortion rights. >>> u.s. military says it has carried out precision airstrikes on groups in syria. president biden ordered the strikes on the bingers used by groups tied to iran's islamic revolutionary guard corps. a u.s. central command says no one was killed. let's bring in salma abdela

i want to get perspective right now on all this from cnn's national security analyst, james clapper, of course the former director of national intelligence. can there be a better person to help us understand the enormity of what we're talking about, director clapper? i have to say, i mean, what was your reaction to just learning that, i mean, as a former director of national intelligence, that these classifications and these document types were even at a non-secure location, let alone that of a residence of a former president? how serious is this to you? >> well, for me, laura, it's extremely serious. you know, having spent 50 years or so in u.s. intelligence. and when i think about how how it is to collect sensitive information that our policy makers need and how important it is to protect sources and methods, and when you see this rather cavalier approach to harboring this information, is really appalling. so, this is another case that is stunning but not surprising. and i think you spoke to this, about -- earlier about when you step back and think about the magnitude of what's pote

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i want to get perspective right now on all this from cnn's national security analyst, james clapper, ormer director of national intelligence. can there be a better person to help us understand the enormity of what we're talking about, director clapper? i have to say, i mean, what was your reaction to just learning that, i mean, as a former director of national intelligence, that these classifications and these document types were even at a non-secure location, let alone that of a residence of a former president? how serious is this to you? >> well, for me, laura, it's extremely serious. you know, having spent 50 years or so in u.s. intelligence. and when i think about how how hard it is to collect sensitive information that our policymakers need and how important it is to protect sources, methods, and tradecraft, and when you see this rather cavalier approach to harb harboring this information, it is really appalling. so this is another case that is stunning but not surprising. and i think you spoke to this, about -- earlier about when you step back and think about the magnitude of wh

here with us now, normer director of national intelligence, james clapper. so good to see you, jim. so this 32-page affidavit, it is heavily redacted. to specially protect human intelligence sources and information on how spy agencies intercept electronic communications of foreign targets. so what are your worries or concerns about who may have had access to these now seized documents before the fbi searches? >> well, fred, thanks for having me. first point i would want to make, and always do in these discussions is the fact that we do not know the substantive content of any of these documents. we can infer and i can as a long time practitioner in the intelligence business, some profound concerns about who had access to these documents, where were they, and were they exposed to anyone who didn't understand the import of them and didn't protect them. so there is an audit trail that needs to be run and i'm sure is being run about the whereabouts of these documents from the time they left the white house and who potentially had access to them. one other point i want to make, fredricka,

james clapper.f all these >> well, it's going to be a challenge. there's no question about it. one of the things that concerns me is the chain of custody from the time the documents were in the white house and who had access to them, who packed them, how were they protected when they were transported, who had access to them at mar-a-lago, which that in itself i think is going to be a difficult challenge to sort out. the intelligence community, i think, will have to approach this with a worst case assumption, meaning that the documents, assume the documents were exposed to a sophisticated adversary, a foreign intelligence service. what is it they could glean from an examination and study, scrutiny of these documents? and doing it, of course, in such a way, particularly when the results of the assessment are promulgated that it not jeopardize the conduct of the investigation. so this is a tricky proposition, no question about it. >> we don't know, we should point out, if any foreign adversaries got th

the former director of national intelligence james clapper, thanks as always for your time, we appreciate it. >> thanks, jim. >>> let's bring in cnn analyst former adviser to four presidents, david gergen. we were just talking to director clapper about the fbi being inundated with threats. i have to ask you, someone who has worked with presidents both republican and democrat, this is a question that's come up a couple of times on this program, what would a former president of the united states, why would he need, and what would he be doing with boxes and boxes of classified and top secret material at his post presidential compound, if you will? do you buy that at all? >> yes, i do. former presidents have frequently sought out their past records in order to write their memoirs, and some people in administrations i've known in the lower levels have tried to walk out of the door of the national archives with documents. but even when presidents request, and they have to get clearance often from the cia or some other institution before they go with something in a memoir, but even when they req

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with that, ladies and gentlemen, it is an honor for us to have james clapper with us here. let's welcome the honorable klapper. thank you. mr. clapper: gracious introduction. i appreciate it. i should preface this, why am i talking about the korean peninsula at all? i first served there in the mid-1980's. i was the j-two in -- director of intelligence and the deputy fair c-two deputy intelligence chief for the combined forces command. an arrangement that still exists today. i started there from 1985 until 1987. and developed a deep interest in the peninsula and read a lot of books about the war and really enjoyed the tour over there. i thought the air force had banished me to the korean peninsula. in those days, that position was an air force position of the -- the joint staff changed its -- came to its senses and came -- and changed it to army, not the air force masquerading as an army intelligence officer. i did it for two years. in my next assignment i was director of intelligence for what was then the pacific command. i sustained my interest in the peninsula, of course.

i heard james clapper last night go ahead and entertain that this is somehow a russia/potent related document that trump took. i am not paraphrasing there. he jumped to russia, and we learn that that does not end well. there is speculation, which is the problem. there is fact and then there is speculation, but there are people reporting as though the speculation is fact, and that is part of the problem with knowing what happened. people fill up that vacuum with their own ideas. we won't get the affidavit. we aren't going to get anything about the source that very likely could have been a secret service agent, federal officers who work with colleagues. >> there's a lot of things it could be. it's interesting that within 100 days of election -- happening for 18 months. there are some things that are on the record. present trump has a better record, as we discussed, when it comes to speaking the truth. he was called an idiot and bombastic for saying he was being wiretapped at trump tower, but lord knows that he was. when he says something else, or pushes back versus something new, that

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outlets that employed intelligence agents who are disgraced, and andrew mccabe, john brennan, james clappere already declared you're not allowed to be outraged at the rate of mar-a-lago which wasn't even arrayed to. >> it wasn't a raid on his house, no doors were kicked down. >> it's all legal, it's all lawful. >> i know donald trump is saying this is a rate but that is a gross exaggeration. >> we have to be careful not to adopt the term raid. >> of the only reason you would have a search like this and let's be polite and call it a search and not a raid to. >> talks about a raid on his home. >> there was no raid on your home. >> this was not a raid, we should not think of this as the fbi in the middle of the night bank down the door with someone answering in their boxer shorts. explained to us what this would have looked like because it's definitely being characterized by a lot of folks out there. >> brian: in the words of joe biden, it was a raid, jack. stephen colbert who recently orchestrated an insurrection of his own celebrated the news as if it was a religious holiday. >> it may be ho

let's bring other former director of national children's, james clapper, he's now cnn national securityhank you so much, we appreciate you joining us director. so the white house is reiterating tonight that they have nothing to do with this assessment. it is up to the director of national intelligence. and some who used to have been teller job. will you tell us about this process. how long can take you to find out the damage? >> well a couple points i think i need to make. first we don't actually have the causative any of these documents. we have things based on the classification and how potentially dock damaging these documents can be. one a current dni is leading this damage assessment. the first thing i think we will have to be concerned with is kind of the chain of custody of these documents from the time he left the white house, how they're transported to mar-a-lago. and what's the conditions of retention at mar-a-lago. who had access? the reason i say that is because the one determination when determination would be, who actually had access. who saw these documents. who might hav

. >>> former director of national intelligence james clapper told cnn about police concerns with classified documents being kept at a resort like mar-a-lago. >> i would imagine it is kind of a physical security nightmare in terms of preventing unauthorized access since they really can't control who is in and out of the place. and complicating this further is i think not knowing exactly what the chain of custody has been for these documents since they left the white house. how were they transported, how were they protected, who has had access to them at mar-a-lago, has someone perhaps reproduced these documents or taken pictures of them. >> donald trump has changed his story many times on why the documents were kept at his mar-a-lago estate and his story or narrative does not always match the claims from his legal team. former press white house secretary talked about the changing messages coming from her old boss. >> i think that he has got to be concerned. i don't know how he is not. the man is under investigation six, seven, eight ways, different investigations. and now people have gone in

joining me is former director of national intelligence james clapper and mark hurtling. seventh army as well gentlemen, thanks for joining me this morning. general clapper, you were the director of intelligence during the operation that killed osama bin laden. as you look at the intelligence that went into this, the months that went into this and even the detail in both cases the u.s. intel community built a scale model the bin laden compound in 2011 and in this case the house in kabul where czazawahri was staying. does this remind you of the operation back in 2011? >> well, yes, jim, it does. although, the nature of the operation obviously different but it does remind me a good bit of that. one comment i would make is vice president biden was a skeptic about the intelligence we had, which was -- turned out to be a good bit skimpier apparently than what was sprepresented to president this time, so then vice president biden now president biden having been through this i am sure wire brushed, the intelligence community to ensure that it was zawahri and that he was present

. >> joining us mark hurtling, also retired air force general james clapper, cnn chief international correspondent clarissa ward. clarissa, can you describe the regional global significance of the u.s. taking out not just the current head of al-qaeda but someone who was so deeply involved with the september 11th attacks even if some of it is just -- not operationally all that significant. >> there's no question that this is a hugely symbolic, significant moment. this is a man as president biden said in his 8-minute address who had literally spent decades targeting, killing americans, calling on other people to kill americans, praising those who attacked americans. he was osama bin laden's trusted deputy, his right-hand. he'd been able to continue even while living in the sort of pakistani hinterlands to release audiotapes or the occasional videotape to keep coalescing support for al-qaeda, keep auling for those attack. when you think of this now what are we almost 21 years after the 9/11 attacks it shows how far the reach is of u.s. justice. it is cleary an extraordinary feat of u.s.

effects on intelligence here, central to the investigation, former director of national intelligence james clapper. thanks for joining us this morning. >> thanks, jim. >> so first, with the caveat none of us know the true extent of the documents, we know outlines and categories of intelligence included up to the level as its known top secret special compartmentalized information, you served in intelligence for decades. based on what we know so far, what is the potential danger to national security? is that something folks at home should be concerned about? >> well, potentially it is, jim but as you eluded, we actually don't know the content of these documents. you know, we have a general -- generic listing of them and in the case of intelligence, what is really critical here is often the source or method of the acquisition of the means by which the information was collected and in the absence of knowing that and the content of these documents and i'm speaking specifically exclusively here of intel intelligence, there are other kinds of data, information that are subject to the same levels of class

personal copy of the crossfire hurricane records because they are so damning for obama biden hillary, james clappersan rice, intel community that's what this raid was about. this was so unprecedented and unnecessary and unlawful unless you understand that was the real reason for this. >> judge jeanine: okay. finally, it appears that one of the attorneys is in a little bit of trouble swearing in an affidavit that everything was handed over. do we know anything about that? will that be raised tomorrow? >> that's nonsense. this was an ongoing process. they sent 30 fbi agents to raid president trump's home, melania's underwear drawer, his office, of course they are going to find records. they said in the affidavit this was ongoing search. these lawyers searched for records. it's ongoing search. the archives didn't realize these records were missing for 18 months. i don't think that we can say that this lawyer intended to make a false statement to the biden justice department. it was just a mistake. >> all right. that's something that we will hear about tomorrow. mike davis, thanks so much for being wit

i want to get reaction from former director of national intelligence james clapper who joins us now.er, talk congressional republicans are trying to frame this suearch warrant as nothing more than the weapon zaz of the justice department for political purposes. how do you see it? >> well, as a longtime public servant in the government, i guess i'm looking at it more from a compliance standpoint than perhaps politician might. on its face, you know, any documents generated during the presidency are actually the property of the government or more specifically the people. and if they happen to be classified, then that actually compounds the importance of securing these documents because they could range from intelligence to nuclear command and control. who knows. having said all that, i agree with the speakers in a previous segment that there has to be something more than just the presence of classified documents at mar-a-lago. i think it has to be tied to something else. this is a case where, you know, what's out there publicly is not the full story yet. >> you talk about how some of th

exchange you referenced in the book, a senate hearing with rob wyden, a democrat of oregon and james clapperbout nsa spying. let's listen. [video clip] >> last summer, the nsa director was at a conference and asked a question about the nsa surveillance of americans. he replied, "the story that we have millions or hundreds of millions of dossiers on people is completely false." if you could give me a yes or no answer to the question -- does the nsa collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of americans? >> no, sir. >> it does not? >> not wittingly. there are cases where they could inadvertently collect, but not wittingly. susan: that exchange blew up. can you tell me why? amy: it blew up because technically the answer director clapper gave was wrong. the nsa did have records of millions of americans, but the records were phone records. not the content of your calls, but the number you called and the time you called and the duration of the call. that was incredibly important, that moment, because senator wyden believed director clapper lied to him. clapper believed --

peter struck and john brennan and james clapper regular fixtures on msnbc. sonn with former fbi counterintelligence official frank fogel. lizzie, watch this revealing moment from last night figure izzy informs msnbc producers that the term raid is a little strong. so msnbc changed the kyron in real time to obey his command agents, by the way, don't like the word raid. they don't like it. itit sounds like it's some kind of, you know, extra judicial nonlegal thing. it's the execution of a search warrant. it's a court authorized search warrant. the take away herel: is not that the media is biased. you know that or that the fbi should prosecute hunter biden for as the famous words of stephen a. smith smoking crackno that as well. w we're not calling on the fbi to raid eric swalwell even thoughen he's been sleeping with fang thing, the chinese spy. what we're saying is that ifn the biden administration doesn't immediately take stepsps to dismantle this unit party to stop the fbi's corruption, to take down permanent washington to terminate christopher ryan , merri

. >> reporter: former director of national intelligence james clapper says even the members of the fivece agencies of english speaking allies, the u.s., britain, canada, australia and new zealand who form a close spying network could in the wake of the mar-a-lago case come to view their american partners as unreliable. >> it makes their confidence in our ability to keep secrets a little shaky. >> reporter: a potential kiss of death in the world of spy craft, how would it work on a practical level if a key u.s. ally didn't trust america's secret keeping. >> let's say britain's international intelligence service recruits a russian or chinese and they're providing important sensitive information, london is going to think twice about sharing this with the white house that leaks. i mean, i would too. you just simply don't tell anybody in washington. >> reporter: and there's concern about that kind of reluck -- reluctance if trump becomes president again. he was ciriticized for telling russian foreign minister about intelligence about isis plots. trump defended his comments but gave away more

earlier tonight i spoke with james clapper, former director of national intelligence, and he says there are plenty of concerns about classified documents in a public place like mar-a-lago. >> i would imagine it's kind of a physical security nightmare in terms of preventing unauthorized access, since they really can't control who's in and out of the place. and complicating this further is, i think, is not knowing exactly what the chain of custody has been for these documents, since they left the white house. how were they transported, protected? who's had access to them? at mar-a-lago, has someone, perhaps, reproduced these documents or taken pictures of them? >> let's continue this conversation. joining me now is steve hall, cnn national security analyst and former cia chief of russian operations. also loni coombs, a reporter for los angeles county. first to you. . what are your thoughts on the intelligence committee conducting the damage assessment? >> yeah. i think it's entirely appropriate. i mean, we need to get to the bottom of nome what documents are there, what tclassification an

and andrew mccabe james clapper and john brennan and lois lerner, they all had one thing in common. they had enormous powers. they all lied under oath or said they could not remember and there were no punishments at all. even somebody with a sterling reputation that we all honor robert mueller. how could robert mueller run a 22 month long investigation? based on the steel dossier and its dissemination by fusion gps and testify under oath. to the house intelligence committee. when asked that he had no idea what the dossier was. he had no idea. what gps was in other words he had no idea why his committee existed his commissioned existed in the first place. and that that was 22 months post-facto. so it's very dangerous to invest and give up your constitutional rights to people who are not elected and they're growing greater and larger as the individual citizen fields. that they are losing their independence and they need someone to instruct them someone to house them someone to give them education someone to give them legal advice for someone to protect them the more that they want pro

cordero, former counsel at doj to the assistant attorney general for national security and also james clapper. elie honig, former federal prosecutor. if i could begin with you, director clapper, as you know in this redacted affidavit we learned these classified materials recovered included material beyond really the level of top secret, very highly classified categories within that level of classification, including clandestine human sources, overseas intelligence gathering. given your decades in intelligence as well as serving as dni, tell us what potential damage could be caused by keeping these in an unsecure environment. >> well, first caveat statement i want to make when we're discussing this is we still do not know the content of any of these documents. what we do know, though, are the ascriptions that characterize them from a classification standpoint. you gave a very good explanation at the top, jim, about what these caveats mean. a point i would add is they are not mutually exclusive. so i would suspect that some of these documents at least, which is typical, particularly with hcs, h

also, this is what former director of national intelligence james clapper had to say about the chinese it lead to war? well, sure. it's a higher probability now than it was a week ago. >> did you consider that as part of your calculation when you went over? >> well, i actually believe that american engagement with taiwan and with china is going to reduce the likelihood that we have any military conflict. that has to be our goal ul ultimately, and that's why we have to strengthen our economic ties to taiwan, ensure that they get the defensive capabilities which they need to broaden out any diplomatic or economic ties which taiwan wants with other countries in the world. we just have to demonstrate that we are going to stand fast with this now 43-year-old party of strategic ambiguity over the one china policy. and if there's any resolution of this issue, it has to be diplomatic. it has to be peaceful, that we are not going to allow china to resolve this issue militarily. >> senator ed markey, thank you for coming in. >> glad to be with you. thank you. >>> outfront for us next, a group of

. >> james clapper. >> martha: they're all intelligence officials, i guess.telligence and determined nothing to see here, folks. >> martha: absolutely. >> the fbi telling a private and large communications platform what they can share and what they can't share. now, facebook didn't outright sensor this or lock out accounts like twitter. but they still suppressed the story. i would help if the republicans take back the house in november, there will be hearings on this. one of the first people they should call is chris wray thats appointed by president trump and also mark zuckerberg to further explain this. why is the fbi talking to fbi about stories that they can't confirm true or not. >> martha: you know, if you were to draw conclusions like those individuals did there and you were to jump to conclusions, the one you might jump to is they were trying to tip them off and make sure it went away. >> and it was selective, too. think about it, why this one story that facebook needs a heads up on? what about the one that donald trump ignored bounties? heads up on t

anti-trump books showing us he was probably not a political when on the job there and that goes for james clappertelling us how horrible donald trump is and hard to tell the difference in terms of their analysis from your average democrat partisan analyst on there. that's why people have so much distrust in our constitutions these days. the guys that ran these places are showing to be partisan and perhaps now if this thing turns out to be just about getting documents for the national archives, i'm sorry, this will blow up in their faces and we'll have a boom arrang effect that donald trump and the republicans will seize on rightly. liz: the white house is declining discussion of this and won't talk about it, but the republican governor of maryland, he's also, larry hogan, calling on the biden white house to release documents behind the raid saying in part, if you don't doo it, you're going to undermine faith and commodity seizure disorders and the rule of -- democracy and undermine americans. how is it reporting information and how is it dividing americans because we want bipartisanship in the co

. >> that was james clapper. our team in washington is following all of these developments. let's begin with our senior justice correspondent evan perez. evan, good to have you. you were on all around the breaking news of this garland press conference yesterday, explaining how momentous it was and then we learn all of these developments that i just ticked through last night. so what can you tell us now that we didn't know 24 hours ago on this? >> well, poppy, i think the context is important here. and i think it really does -- "the washington post" report really does explain perhaps why the federal government, why the fbi, the national archives, and all the intelligence agencies have been so exercised to try to get these documents back from the former president's beach house in palm beach. "the washington post" says that these were documents that were related to nuclear weapons programs. and as we reported yesterday, we know that at least some of the documents that were being disputed over were documents that were classified at the highest levels. these are special access pr

by the way, andy mccabe, john brennan, james clapper have already declared you'ree not allowed to be outraged that the raid of marro largo a, which by the way, wasn't even a raid. it wasn't a raid on his house.u, no doors were kicked down. it's all legal. i it'st' all lawful. it's not a raid. and i know donald trump is saying that this is a raid, but that's a grosson exaggeration. we havee to be careful not to adopt the term raid. the only reason you'd have a search like this unlessot be polite and call it a search, not a raid. trumpal talks about a raid on hs home. no, man, it was no raid on your home. me.s was a raid. we should not think of this as the fbi in the middle of the night banging down the dooro with someone answering in their boxer shorts. explain to us what today would have looked like because it's definitely being mischaracterized by a lot of folks out there. hey, ineing the words of joe bi, it was a raid back on late night tv, former comedian turned lunatic stephen colbert, who recently orchestrated the insurrection of his own, w celebrated the news as if it was a rel

and a number of these officials, james clapper, john brennan led whole agencies during the obama/bidento believe that some of these people who signed this letter calling it russian disinformation, you know, wouldn't have been aware of what hunter was up to while his father was vice president. >> bill: let me just remind our viewers about part of what that letter said from 51 former intel agents. again two weeks before the election. the arrival on the u.s. political scene of emails from hunter have all the classic earmarks have a russian information operation. if we are are right this is russia trying to influence the vote and we believe americans need to be aware of this. end quote. that held up like sand on a beach, john. >> right. people who run the department of defense, people who run the nsa, these are people that can find a terrorist in the middle of a country and do a precision guided strike. it is very hard to believe they would have been completely in the dark about what the vice president's son was up to when they were leading these intelligence agencies. so if they were awar

violations from hunter biden to hillary clinton, to eric holder, to kevin clinesmith to andy mccabe to james clapperst goes on and on. trump's lawyers are calling the a.g.'s claims dubious. >> they are not on solid ground. so they had to come up with something that would potentially terrify the american public into freely giving up their constitutional freedoms. you know, if we are on the verge of nuclear war, giving up the nuclear codes. maybe it's acceptable that they violated the president's constitutional rights. >> now, sources tell fox news that the probable cause for the warrant likely came from a secret service agent who had been serving on trump's detail over there in florida. an inside job if you will, guys. >> brian: all right. thanks so much, kevin. you are all over it. six minutes after the top of the hour. jonathan turley all over this too. fox news contributor constitutional law attorney. jonathan, if you look at what we know now, we did not know last night the president was not going to block the warrant being released. even could have done it without him perhaps. okay. let it all ou

they left their respective positions and went into the private sector, talking about james comey or john brennan or clappernbc, showed how bias they are and you can't tell the difference between rachel maddow and chris hayes or stelser or comey when talking about the trump presidency, that should be disturbing, intelligence chiefs who are supposed to be unbiassed and apolitical showed to be anything but. when they had to make money, really poured it on and if that is people running our intelligence agency we have problems if they are looking at their position as something they can weaponize against a certain candidate. ashley, you love heat and humidity? wow. >> ashley: i'm weird, i'll admit. the los angeles times is urging joe biden to use executive power to declare a national climate emergency, here is the quote from the piece. it is time biden adopted all hands on deck approach, little chance we'll look back and say the president did too much. this comes after they passed billions of dollars in inflation reduction act, what do you think of this? >> i'll be quick, until russia or india or china particula