john brennan will be joining us here in studio this hour. happy to have director brenham on the show tonight. he and 50 other former senior national security officials have just signed on to a statement that says in part quote we have lived and worked through national emergencies and we support the president's power to mobilize the executive branch to respond quickly in a genuine national emergency. but under no plausible asse assessment of the evidence is there a national emergency today that entitled president trump to tap into funds appropriated for other purposes to build a wall at the southern border. to our knowledge, the president'spresident e president's assertion is unprecedented. this statement from former senior national security officials who have served both republican and democratic administrations, this decoloration, from them comes as congress prepares to vote on a resolution that would block the president's decoloration, of an emergency, which he is using to try to build his wall between the united states and mexico. one of

more on that with john brennan in just a moment. the most interesting thing in that vote tomorrow and the following vote that will happen in the senate is those are likely to be bipartisan votes. in addition to those 50 plus former senior national security officials from both parties who wrote that letter condemning that emergency declaration today, there was also a really interesting separate letter from more than two dozen former republican members of congress and some former republican senators advising their own republican colleagues who are currently in congress that they too should vote with democrats to opposite the president on this if for nothing else because it doesn't comport with republican party values for a president to do something like this. so this is turning out to be something where there's interesting fault lines, interesting nonpartisan and sort of post-partisan stuff going on there around the president's attempt to use emergency authority to defy congress. and, of course, it's playing off as he goes off to have

john brennan, who is a liar, -- >>ia john brennan, who did perj perjure -- >> dog kidnapping. >> thathe indictment, i will address it at the appropriate time because is not true. i've written extensively on animal welfare rates for "the daily caller" and have worked hard to stop the government from conducting inhumane scientific experiments on dogs and cats. >> tucker: you are a y dog lover. >> john brennan perjured himself twice before the congress, once involving the role of the steele dossier in the fisa warrants and second regarding his breaking into the computers of a senate committee looking into illegal torture by the cia. >> tucker: not a big deal. >>bu but he's not being prosecuted, like mr. james comey, mr. mccabe, rod rosenstein, mr. christopher wray, general clapper, of course, who said that there is no data collection process. then hillary clinton herself. most people have perjured themselves but i am being prosecuted for perjury. >> tucker: they never gave him the figure to the man, though, and that be your main problem. let me ask you about the day of thee arrest, it we

and back with us on the broadcast tonight we're pleased to have former cia director john brennan. also happens to be our senior national security and intelligence analyst. director brennan, mr. mccabe is out there talking about our president as a possible russian asset. some people watching no doubt hear this and chalk it up to crazy talk and perhaps they have heard the attacks on mr. mccabe from the conservative media, from the president. i wanted to get your take on the possibility that our president is a russian asset. >> well, i worked closely with andy mccabe for several years, and he always impressed me as a very serious, hard-working, and competent senior official of the fbi. and i do think he handled the investigation very adeptly and carefully. and if he decided at that point, of the ongoing investigation, that he needed to include donald trump as a potential target for the counterintelligence investigation, i do believe there was a sufficient basis, again, based on my knowledge of andy mccabe he wouldn't do something like that without a sufficient predicate. i don't know

brennan who is a liar, john brennan dog kidnapping. >> i'll address that at the appropriate time. that is not true. i have written on animal welfare rights for the daily caller and i worked hard to stop the government conducting inhumane scientific experiments on dogs and cats. >> tucker: when you are a dog lover of the first -- >> john brennan purgerred himself twice before that. the steele dicier and the fisa warrant -- steele dozier and the fisa warrant. and breaking in the computers to look into torture by the c.i.a. >> tucker: mislying about killing people with drones. >> but he is not prosecuted. like mr. comey, mr. mccabe, rod rosenstein, mr. wray. general clapper, of course, who said no, there is no metadata collection process. then hillary clinton herself. all those people purgerred themselves but i -- purgerred themselves. >> tucker: ask about the day of the arrest, a week ago today. you said cnn was in the perimeter and that was a raid that must have been considered dangerous. there were automatic weapons. one had two side arm. a lot of guns. why were they allowed to st

from the intel community like john brennan who have gone on television night after night after nightg his president and giving legitimacy to the initial start of this investigation, now i want to play something for you. this is from john brennan, and we will talk about it on the other side. >> this is collusion in plain sight. they were engagements at the trump tower. there were the back and forth between various individuals who are affiliated campaign and russian individuals. that collusion i think it's quite obvious and apparent. >> now by the way, that is brennan from today. the man is unhinged and lied multiple times before congress. i heard a lot but that pretty much took the cake. >> brennan's comments have been really irresponsible because any reasonable listener might conclude that he was using secret information that he had as head of the cia that other people didn't have and that was somehow informing his comments and made them more reliable. but this new richard burr thing, the new report about democrats on the senate intelligence committee i think is really rattling a lot

john brennan offered his theory on this network earlier today. >> if he weren't the sitting president of the united states, would you think he's a russian asset or agent or unwitting russian agent? >> there are individuals that the russians have been able to manipulate and exploit because individuals are concerned of what the russians might expose that could embarrassed and discredit them and hurt them. and those are individuals who aren't assets or agents, witting or unwitting. they are ones who cooperate and collude because of the potential damage that the russians can do if the russians decide to come out against them. >> let's talk to malcolm nance from homeland security with 35 years working in the feel. he's also the author of "the plot to destroy democracy: how putin and his spies are undermining america and dismantling the west" which makes him something of an expert on this topic. do you view this as established fact, this question about mr. manafort? >> oh, i do think that that is established fact. i have a new book coming up and a chapter is called "the agent." he is a russ

former cia chief john brennan says don't worry, though, congressional investigations don't matter. investigation is the real information. watch this. speak it we should be willing to accept with whateverde robert mueller comes out with. he has access to a lot more than the senator hassan intelligence committee. >> tucker: in other words, our elected officials don't deserve all the facts. only an unelected prosecutor should get all the facts. wait. wasn't this all supposed to be about protecting democracy? for the left, democracy is really just the ruling class wants. don't buy the hype. none of it is real. that is of rose. we'll be back tomorrow. 8:00 p.m. they show that if this were an enemy of line come up with prosody, smugness, and groupthink.it hopefully with goodyear. sean hannity standing by in new york. hi, sean.. >> sean: standing by from the swamp. both places are swamps. they charge you a fortune to live here.ta you pay less in taxes. thank goodness for you. welcome to "hannity." while construction on the southern border, guess what, it's now underway. according to anoth

from people meaning john brennan who have gone on television night after night after night trashing thisgiving legitimacy to the initial start of this investigation, i want to the play something for you, this is from john brennan, let's watch. >>> there is collusion in plain sight. donald trump at the end of july openly called on russian intelligence to find hillary clinton's emails. there were engagements at the trump tower, back and forth between individuals who were affiliated with the trump campaign and russian individuals. that conclusions obvious and apparent. >> laura: by the way that's brennan from today. the man is unhinged and has lied multiple times before congress. byron i've heard a lot but that pretty much took the cake >>> well brennan's comments have always been really irresponsible. any reasonable listener might conclude that he was using secret information that he had as head of the ci a that other people didn't have and that was somehow informing his comments and made them more reliable. but this new richard burr thing, the new report about democrats on the senate inte

and then in the fall of 2016, obama cia chief john brennan and comey's general counsel james baker they were both accused of leaking the phony russian lies and the dossier. and just after the election, director of national intelligence james clapper he leaked the dossier to fake news cnn and then lied about that under oath. and then on may 9th, 2017, president trump rightly thankfully fires james comey right after that the disgraced former fbi director leaked private memos surrounding his conversations with the president in the hopes that it would lead to a special counsel investigation. wow, is this the united states of america? take a look at this. >> i asked -- the president tweeted on friday, after i got fired, that i better hope there is not tapes. i woke up in the middle of the night on monday night because it didn't dawn on me originally that there might be corroboration for our conversation. there might be a tape. and my judgment was i needed to get that out into the public square. and so i asked a friend of mine to share the content of the memo with the reporter. i didn't do it

sometimes the quote that you had from john brennan earlier was very good. sometimes people are not even witting as to what they're doing. but the real question that i think we have to ask is, did donald trump work and act in such a fashion that benefited russia as opposed to the united states? there's a lot of people who think, oh, he was just trying to get a trump tower going in moscow or something to benefit himself financially, but there's a lot of things that he did that don't make any sense. unless you were doing it for russia. disparaging nato. disparaging our western allies. why would he do that unless it was in russia's support? >> all right. that is obviously going to be the crucial question here. all of you staying with me. as the president braces for mueller's report, is there another major investigation that could be a much bigger threat? >>> plus, president trump spends the weekend venting about his director of national intelligence. now dan coats may be on his way out. >>> plus, bernie sanders raking in a massive amount of money in just the fi

with us by phone tonight is the former cia director john brennan.happens to be our senior national security and intelligence analyst. director brennan, after a life in intel, looking at this through your eyes was there a tipping point today? what stood out to you? >> well there, were several things, brian. first of all, i was sorely disappointed that there wasn't any member of the republican party trying to find the truth of what happened and what mr. trump was involved in. unfortunately partisanship still reigns on the hill. if we're going to get through this very sad and painful chapter of our history, we need to have both parties, the democrats and republicans, really trying to do the right thing together. secondly, as you point out, michael cohen's final statement there i think pointed out just how important it is that we have somebody in the oval office who's going to honor the values of this country, honor those heroes in the fbi, intelligence community, cia and others, and to send a very strong signal to them that he or she in the oval office

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many hugely extraordinary lines that it's hard to isolate you've isolated a bunch and i'm glad john brennan brought up the one that says, if hillary clinton was elected president, and he didn't use the name, but he said if i had not been elected president, there would have been many americans killed. there is not a president who has ever said if you had not elected me, the other one would have us in a war right now with millions killed. that would be the most outrageous statement of the night if he had not asserted that it is impossible to have investigations of the president while we are waging war anywhere. you're going to have to explain that to richard nixon, because the helicopter he got on to fly him away from the white house forever was exactly the same kind of helicopters being used in the vietnam war that very same day. the vietnam war was going on every day of the watergate investigation and was not over until the year after it. so that's another extraordinary line that has -- is an ahistorical reference by him. these things go on and on. to michael's point about the shutdown, the

former cia director john brennan, president obama was never on the verge of starting any war with north korea, large or small. jeremy bash served as a top adviser in the obama administration. >> is that accurate, jeremy? as someone who actually used to be a part of the administration? >> that is a ginormouspresiden. president obama had successfully deterred north korea. >> reporter: the president's north korea policy will face a new test when he holds a second summit with kim jong-un in less than two weeks. lester? >> kristen, thank you. >>> tonight major new developments in the alleged attack on "empire" actor jussie smollett. police arrested two suspects caught on video near the time of the attack, as smollett's story faces more public scrutiny. our miguel almaguer has been following this case. >> reporter: police say the two men in this surveillance photo have been arrested as suspects in connection with the alleged attack on jussie smollett. investigators searched the home of obabinjo and abinbola osundairo who authorities have not named, seizing items including a black ski mask, bo

leaders senator tom kane and assembling in john brennan. assemblyman john granik. members of the legislature with a shout out to the august bipartisan delegation that escorted me in this morning. teach everyone of you, god bless you and thank you for being here. but in think he is here, adsense yet, a shout out for a democrat democrat, the quintessential union guy, the guy who speaks truth to power, even me, happy birthday tom giblin. chief justice rep. bera: associate justices of the supreme court, honored to have you with us. former governors, god bless you, gentlemen. lucy burn, we miss brandon age and every day and it's good to and my wifeh us. are first lady tammy murphy is in the house. please keep her in your prayers, she unexpectedly lost her sisters this morning. god bless you. distinguished faith leaders, honored guest and fellow new jerseyans. i had planned to give a very different speech today. , butfter reading the audit after reading the audit of the jersy corporate tax incentives released last week, this is not time for business as usual. one year ag

untruthful thing that i could say at the time most untruthful yes so you lied to congress james john brennan the head of the cia lied to congress when he said number one that there was no torture program it was a lie he lied to congress when he said that they were not spying on senators investigating the torture program he lied in both those cases never faced a charge so i think we have to keep it in context that there is absolutely without question an overreach in terms of the reaction to roger stone lying to congress i think if you lied to congress and were thrown in jail i'm all for that but let's throw them all in jail the one guy who's related to the russia investigation and then let these guys who are running the n.s.a. and the cia just walk free with nothing. but me that that's part of our problem is a kind of suck the precedent of what we look forward rather than back we go after the people who are unpopular but anybody who's you know and. the one thing we have to understand is there's a level of class that goes and the best in class distinctions the poet up with last gets to do what

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former cia chief john brennan appears to not want to put the collusion narrative to rest. >> the specialhas much more information, we should accept what robert mueller comes out with, access to a lot more than the senate or house intelligence committee. >> reporter: one of the key witnesses democrats hope to hear from is donald trump's former lawyer michael cohen but he postponed his testimony once again. he says there is no goodwill left for him now. the intrigue continues. jillian: republicans on the house intelligence committee spent several months digging into the events leading to the launch of the mueller probe. rob: california congressman devon nunez has been leading the charge of hope the senate findings will lead urgency to the investigation. >> don't forget what we've been saying publicly for many months. it is not just they use the dossier or that the dossier made up most of the f i asked a bit of a thing as they did. how they lied and obstructed our investigation. if you remember people forget about this. people went out and said the dossier didn't have anything to do with it

former officials steining the -- signing the letter, leon panetta and james clapper, cia director john brennan. they -- they served during the obama administration and previous administrations. tomorrow the house is scheduled to vote to kill that national emergency. democrats trying bring that up as well about two dozen former congressional republicans are urging current congressional republicans to vote against that national emergency or vote for that measure that will kill that national measure. the president said if if does pass the house and senate, we would veto it. >> trace: first veto. live for us in the north lawn. we're learning about a possible motive behind a deadly fire at a mansion in new jersey. man accused of killing his brother, sister-in-law and two kids. r kelly in courts today. he is charged sexually abusing four women including one who said she was just 14 at the time. we're live at the courthouse next. i had a few good tricks to help hide my bladder leak pad. like the old "tunic tug". but always discreet is less bulky. and it really protects. 'cause it turns liquid to gel.

john brennan does not put the conclusion narrative to rest. >> the special counsel's team has much more information we should be willing to accept. i'm confident he has access to more than the senate or house intelligence committee. >> reporter: one of the key witnesses is donald trump's former lawyer michael cohen but he postponed his testimony once again. better slamming:saying there is no goodwill left. heather: that was an ominous statement. donald trump's pick to lead the justice department could be confirmed as early as tomorrow, the senate passing a key procedural vote tuesday to advance william barr's nomination for attorney general. a final vote this we, he previously served as attorney general under george hw bush. nypd detective is killed by for the fire during a robbery investigation overnight. detective brian simonson shot in the chest as he tried stopping a gunman inside a t-mobile store, a sergeant was shot in the leg and is in stable condition. christopher ran some holding a fake gun. he is in stable condition. he marked his 19th anniversary on the force. a fallen office

james clapper, john brennan, james comey, the three stooges.on chaffetz, always good to talk with you. thank you. >> thanks, lou. lou: up next more on the ongoing trade talks with china. what the united states must do. stay with us. we will be right back. as someone in witness protection, i can't tell you anything about myself. but believe me... i'm not your average consumer. that's why i switched to liberty mutual. they customized my car insurance, so i only pay for what i need. and as a man... uh... or a woman... with very specific needs that i can't tell you about- say cheese. mr. landry? oh no. hi mr. landry! liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ lou: the trade talks go on in washington. the u.s.-china trade talks. next friday's deadline approaching. the chinese delegation taking effective control of the narrative and the messaging saying both sides reached principle agreements on major issues. we hear nothing from the white house, the trade representative. bu

former cia director john brennan said i have no doubt that given "the washington post's" relentless condemnationthey would target him. jason johnson, have at it. >> this is some house of cards stuff you have going on here. people have too much time. i'm fromgenerally skeptical, bu anyone knew the technology behind how his phone could be hacked, it would be him, he has access to people with these resources, i don't think that is a flimsy claim, but it also speaked s to this, and he hired investigators, and we have talked about it with this administration as a hole. whether or not it is president trump, saudi arabia, the president, his relationships with these dictators, they're dangerous. going after jeff besos because he owns a newspaper doing real investigation is the scary part about this. not whether or not pictures ended up on tmz or the enquirer. >> one of the problems they face is it is all just so plausible. it is so plausible to anyone with a television or, you know, that is even a casual observer of the news that the president's closest media ally tried to blackmail and extort the presi

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john brennan, the former cia director, has also said it.r clapper has also indicated in same direction. the real question, and we can see certainly that the president's actions as a candidate and as president indicate that he has enabled himself one way or another to be manipulated by the russians and by putin. whether that is witting, half-witting, or unwitting, we don't know. but his actions would indicate that his conduct, it's one of the reasons that mattis decided that the president of the united states is a danger to the national security of the united states. that mcmaster decided the president of the united states is a danger to the national security of the united states. all of this is a matrix that tells us how extraordinary this is, both in regard to the competence of the president of the united states and to whether he's capable of serving in such a way as to represent the real interests of the united states of america. >> maggie, i want to turn to your reporting now. i've been reading it and it's really unbelievable. the presid

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here's what chairman richard burr had to say yesterday which got pushed back by former cia director john brennan. >> reporter: how long do you think you will see the final report? >> that's sha ready to say, i don't think how long it will takeho to write two years of a report. and a go through a declassification process. which is what i want to do. i t want the american people to see the facts. i want to say it before, we have no factual evidence between collusion of the president and russia. >> they are able pull financial records that special counsel has. >> after nbcel published the report yesterday, president trump weighed in on twitter thanking igmsnbc. >>> the senate took the last step before confirming william barr as attorney general, approving a motion during his confirmation hearing last month. barr declined to commit at least to releasing special counsel robert mueller's report. but a new washington post poll find an overwhelming majority want the report out. 81% of adults believe mueller's report should, in fact, be released, including 79% of republicans, 15% think it should not be p

i don't know what john brennan said that we don't already know. that's what he has walking in but at least there is an effort to try to open that door towards denuclearization. >> realistically, this has been a talking point in the foreign policy establishment for several decades. no denuclearization, no peace, we must insist on verifiable, denuclearization on korean peninsula -- that's not realistic. that's not to say i wish president trump ill in achieving it but even president trump has said that's probably not going to happen this time around. there are neoconservatives who will be prodding this president to put a stranglehold on kim then threatened military intervention but we put out a report that found the american people are very reluctant to want to use military intervention generally come a much more reluctant than the foreign policy elite. they don't see this nuclear threat as existential as some in the foreign policy community might want us to. >> martha: you are in favor of a more gradual approach, whatever you can get in terms of eli

john brennan, and on and on. samantha power, susan rice. i don't know if it's loaded for bill bear. sense is that we're creating a crisis and maybe making more of one. what do you think of that? >> again, it's the same argument that you see the democratic party making and nancy pelosi and chuck schumer. and the same one why i broke my silence and i've been resisting. that's just not accurate. they're just not looking at the statistics. it wasn't that long ago when the president had 67 sheriffs from across this country in the white house. what were they saying? they're the domestic law enforcement body representing this country and they're saying it's a crisis and it's impacting every city in this country. that's who we should be listening to. the border patrol agents on the line working this. they say it's a crisis and we know it's a crisis. >> neil: you know, mark, the only thing that gives even some republicans pause is the fact -- be careful what you wish for. even those who say the president is right, saying we got a crisis at the border. he got a little bit of funding, not all

john brennan appears to not want to put the collusion narrative to rest. >> the special counsel's teamnformation we should be willing to accept whatever robert mueller comes out with. i am confident he had access to a lot more than the senate or house intelligence committees. >> reporter: one of the key witnesses democrats are hoping to hear from is president trump's former lawyer, michael cohen. but he's postponed his testimony once again. byrd slamming cohen saying there is no good will left for him now. cheryl, gerri. cheryl: todd, thanks for the report. appreciate it. great stuff. >> reporter: my pleasure. gerri: let's take a look at u.s. futures. your money all in the green here, the dow up 41, s&p 500 up 3, the nasdaq up 22. still ahead, washington on edge this morning over whether president trump will sign the compromise border bill. >> am i happy at first glance. >> reporter: ?i just got to see. the answer is no, i'm not. gerri: what are the chances he'll give a stamp of approval and if not, what are his options. in case you didn't know, today is galentines day. >> valentine's

democrats like madeleine albright, john brennan, james clapper. and then a handful of republicans as well. thomas pickering who served at the u.n. under george h.w. bush. senator hagel. so it is very much bipartisan. and in this 11-page statement, these 58 officials could not be clearer. let me read part of this statement. under no plausible assessment of the evidence is there a national emergency today that entitles the president to tap into funds appropriated for other purposes to build a wall at the southern border. now this letter is designed to support other efforts to block the president's declaration of national emergency. 16 states that have filed lawsuits. the aclu is suing. but poppy and jim, the biggest one is the house taking up this resolution in a vote tomorrow that would be designed to block the president's declaration of a national emergency. of course, the democrats do control the house. the big question, and this is coming from white house officials themselves is not whether that resolution passes. it's by what margin. the presid

john brennan and former director of national intelligence, james clapper. it challenges trump's claims about the border and reads the situationa the border does not require the use of the armed forces and a wall is unnecessary to support the use of the armed forces. in a nonexistent threat, redirecting funds for the construction of a wall along the southern border will undermine national security by pulling resources from the departments of defense programs that are responsible for keeping our troops and our country safe. joining me now is one of the official who is signed the letter, thomas pickering served as ambassador to the united nations under george w. bush and later as ambassador to russia under president clinton. good to see you and thank you for being with us. >> nice to be back with you. >> tell me the hopes that you have in signing this letter. do you think it will have any influence on the president? >> very simply, i think probably not on the president, but i hope with the congress. i hope with those who are taking a hard look at this when the

. >> the former cia director john brennan said the president will need to play 3 d kmechess to co awayng concrete. what kind of preparations will kim jong-un have had coming into this, and how does it compare to the preparations we need the president has done? >> i think the problem here is that we're a much more open society, and that's a really great thing. but kim has the benefit of tens and thousands of tweets by the president dozens of biographies about the president, and the president's statements from coming out of the white house. but for kim, he hasn't said very much other than that he will not commit to full denuclearization without corresponding measures and without security guarantees. and so we're more open if a book of information for kim than he is for us. >> bill, overnight in south korea, there were some peaceful protests directed essentially at the u.s. for some of the negotiations for not bringing up the human rights abuses from north korea. my conversations with white house officials, human rights is not a topic that comes up when you talk about the summit. it was t

james clapper, john brennan, james comey, the three stooges. with you. thank you. >> thanks, lou. lou: up next more on the ongoing trade talks with china. what the united states must do. stay with us. we will be right back. -their béarnaise sauce here is the best in town. [ soft piano music playing ] mm, uh, what do you do for fun? -not this. ♪ -oh, what am i into? mostly progressive's name your price tool. helps people find coverage options based on their budget. flo has it, i want it, it's a whole thing, and she's right there. -yeah, she's my ride. this date's lame. he has pics of you on his phone. -they're very tasteful. make us better people.isteninge. has the power to change us, with audible, you get more. two audible originals- exclusive titles you can't find anywhere else. plus a credit good for any audiobook and exclusive fitness and wellness programs. all with our commitment free guarantee and always ad free. the most inspiring minds. the most compelling stories. the best place to listen. download audible and start your free trial toda

you'll remember, brooke, donald trump took away former cia head john brennan's security clearance because he was overly critical of donald trump. democrats want to look into, can you do that? can a president do that just because someone is critical of you? is that fair grounds? family separations obviously still an issue. donald trump's destination insist they didn't change policy. the facts disagree. regardless we had a number of children -- young children separated from families for sometimes months on end. all of this is going to come under the purview of the house. they're going to be strategic. that's one thing that's important. nancy pelosi is urging strategy especially as it relates to trump's tax returns. do not put the cart before the horse. make sure you've got everything in a row so it is unassailable when the investigation begins so it doesn't look partisan, number one, and it has the best chance of succeeding, number two. >> it's so different the reactions from these freshman members of congress and to juxtapose that with speaker pelosi where she's saying let's slow our roll.

we have people like former cia director john brennan, who is unprecedented in american history for --s cia director, to be this political. he is saying the things that he is alleging should be taken very, very seriously. i just concur with you that i think people are only going to believe the merely report if it fits the political narrative. if not, they will keep searching for a crime. >> kennedy: you are absolutely right. he took down mike tucker at the former heads of the fbi and cia, and other coming out with saliva throated political endorsements for anyone running against the president. there something around that. they are already jockeying. if the narrative of the report doesn't fit theirs, they are discrediting it. "bob knew he didn't look enough at the kids and the finances!" >> carley: how it will play out is that they will believe certain aspects. or they are going to highlight in bold certain things that fit their narrative. what that means is that this may be a huge waste of time and money. >> chris: a national rorschach test. >> carley: [laughs] exactly. >> kennedy: whi

former cia chief john brennan lies constantly but this time this rare time he told the truth about whateply revealing about where we are and where we are going. we will show it to you after the break. ♪ ♪ it recommends our best custom fit orthotic to relieve foot, knee, or lower back pain. so you can move more. dr. scholl's. born to move. >> tucker: you would be shocked to lrn that after two years in the senate intel committee found no evidence that donald trump colluded with russia. some kind of pact in the basement of skull and bones to steal the election. former cia chief john brennon says congressional investigations don't matter, only robert mueller's investigation has the real information. watch this. >> we should be willing to accept whatever robert mueller comes out with. >> i'm confident he has access to a lot more than the senate or the house intelligence committee has. >> tucker: in other words, our elected officials don't deserve all. faction, only an unelected prosecutor should get the facts. wait, wasn't this also protecting democracy? right. for the left, democracy is rea

james kcomey himself, john brennan and jeff sessions, his hand picked deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. the counter intelligence head counter intelligence agent at the fbi peter strzok, the top russian organized crime expert bruce orr have come under sustained attack from the president and honestly from conservative media congressional republicans. and that list of course includes andy mccabe himself who is now doing interviews over these last few days because his book is out tomorrow read it and weep. what received the most attention thus far is his contention that senior justice department and fbi officials were so disturbed and so concerned about what appeared to be the president's inappropriate relationship with russia they considered the full range of options that might be available to them to try to handle that kind of extreme threat to the country. this previously unimaginable possibility that somebody who was an agent of a foreign adversary had become president of the united states. >> what was it specifically that caused you to launch the counter intelligence investigation? >>

co-signers of that statement include former secretaries of state john kerry and madeleine albright, john brennan, former defense secretary and former director of the cia, leon panetta, samantha power, undersecretary of state, wendy sherman. 26 former republican members of congress signed a letter calling on the current republican members of congress to, quote, honor your oath and protect the constitution. the letter says, it has always been a republican fundamental principle that no matter how strong our policy preferences, no matter how deep our loyalties to presidents or party leaders in order to remain a constitutional republic, we must act within the borders of the constitution. the republican co-signers of this letter include former republican senators john danforth, gordon humphrey and olympia snow. leading off our discussion now, former democratic senator heidi heitkamp who is a fellow now at the institute of politics at harvard, and she was the first woman elected to the united states senate from north dakota. also joining us, adam gentleson, the former deputy chief of staff. to harry re

james clapper, john brennan, james comey, the three stooges. to talk with you. thank you. >> thanks, lou. lou: up next more on the ongoing trade talks with china. what the united states must do. stay with us. we will be right back. audible members know listening has the power to change us, make us better people. with audible, you get more. two audible originals- exclusive titles you can't find anywhere else. plus a credit good for any audiobook and exclusive fitness and wellness programs. all with our commitment free guarantee and always ad free. the most inspiring minds. the most compelling stories. the best place to listen. .. - want to take your next vacation to new heights? tripadvisor now lets you book over 100,000 tours, attractions, and experiences in destinations around the world like new york, from bus tours to breathtaking adventures. tripadvisor makes it easy to find and book amazing things to do. and you can cancel most bookings up to 24 hours in advance for a full refund. so you can make your next trip monumental. read reviews, che

greater focus now on what those connections are and, in fact, earlier today, former cia director john brennan gave us a statement which said effectively, i have no doubt that saudi arabia would want to embarrass jeff bezos and hurt him financially. i think that is where the focus of this conversation is going to turn and to me those are the significant political threats. >> scott, last night you tweeted that ami went out of business last night. they just don't know it. that's a wow, but why is now? why this? why is this going to put them out of business? they have been in hot water since they went into publication. >> the second worse business decision of the last 12 months was the wealthiest man in the world deciding to send out a very intimate photos. the worse business decision of the last 12 months in business, was a media company deciding to attempt to extort the wealthiest man in the world via email. this has echos of teal versus goker and it's going to have a similar outcome. the courts and the public are fed up with organizations wrapping themselves in the first amendment to engage in