thank you, john brennan. great patriot. this is a fraudulent story perpetuated by john brennan and he should be indicted for incompetence on fraud. >> laura: there's never a price to be paid here. these types of leaks happen in these false narratives are pushed, we kind of go to the next story and nothing ever happens, whether it was the kavanaugh scandal. nothing ever changes. the poison darts continued to be thrown and it's done with impunity. >> you have to look more deeply into the story. if you look more deeply in the story, concerns about this particular person agent, if he exists and if he was in fact taken out, began years before trump came into office. there were concerns about him. they told him to leave the country before trump was elected and he refused to leave the country. ultimately according to the reports, he left the country a couple of months into the trump administration. to blame that on one particular president does seem to be scapegoating and doesn't seem to be leaking in the interests of partisan pol

surfacing on this again. >> no one i know gives a damn what john brennan thinks.n the dustpan of history, he hit the president, didn't want him to get elected, did everything he could to keep them from getting elected, so i'm a lot older than you, martha, but i'm to the point i'm just not going to worry about the people i don't respect think and john brennan falls in that category. >> martha: all right, kamala harris says that she says i will say it again, bar, meaning bill barr, must come before congress and testify under oath about whether or not he was asked to be involved in any of this corruption investigation, what you think about that before i let you go? >> very disappointed that a prosecutor does not understand -- jim comey also wanted that server. the fbi wanted the server, so why is it okay for jim comey to want the server, but the attorney general -- look, i know she doesn't want him to be the ag. i know she didn't offer him, but he is the ag and the president has the right to ask the attorney general to go get evidence of a potential crime. comey did

initially, mccabe's legal team okayed a list by politico including former cia director john brennan, security advisor susan rice, and former attorney general eric holder. but politico's report are now treating that mccabe spokesman said that brennan, rice, and hold her off that list as character witnesses because despite his legal calling, the full list -- despite his legal team: the list accurate, just a few hours ago. matt, i think eric holder, susan rice, and john brennan being taken off the list is probably a good thing for mccabe. >> matt: katie, if i ever have to go before congress and need character witnesses, i should probably pick people who have character. susan rice went on every one of those sunday morning television shows and lied to the american people when she knew the reason why our ambassador had been assassinated, and says it was because of the video. eric holder was held in contempt of congress because he refused to hand over information, which is a trend with these folks, that congress had subpoenaed. i don't even know what to say about john brennan other than he

carol has agreed to stay with us and right now joining us by telephone is the former cia director, john brennan. director brennan, when you heard rudy say as he said tonight, if what they are saying is true, it doesn't make any difference. he just becomes the latest person i've heard recently to say in effect some form of the president can say whatever he wants. is that your understanding? >> well, i think rudy's defense and donald trump's comments in the tweet are belied by the very, very rigorous effort that the administration will be taking to prevent this whistle-blower's complaint. if it was appropriate and something they had no concerns about, why are they making this effort prevented from going forward? it's clear that the whistle-blower and the inspector general of the office of the dni have followed to the letter the procedures in the whistle-blower act. and from my perspective, the acting dni, joe mcgwire who i know well and i had a lot of dealings with, he's a straight shooter in my mint, i mind, he consulted with his general counsel to make sure what he's doing is consistent with th

leonnig has agreed to stay with us, and right now joining us by telephone is the former cia director john brennan. also happens to be our senior national security and intelligence analyst. director brennan, when you hear rudy say, as he said tonight, if what they're saying is true, it doesn't make any difference. he just becomes the latest person i've heard recently to say, in effect, some form of the president can say whatever he wants. is that your understanding? >> well, i think rudy's defense and donald trump's comments in his tweet are belied by the very, very rigorous effort that the administration is undertaking to advance this whistle-blower's complaint from going to the intelligence committees. if it was appropriate, if it was something that they had no concerns about, why are they making this herculean effort to prevent it from going forward? it's clear the whistle-blower and the office of the inspector of the dni have followed the letter to the procedure of the whistle-blower act. my perspective, the acting dni joe maguire, who i know well and i have had a lot of deelgalings with him,

i would like to know what john brennan knew. i would like to know what he knew about that dossier and if he leaked that dossier to the gang of eight. in particular. and how far that went. because once we know those answers, we won't know who to indict and who to charge. i'm sure that's exactly what john durham is doing. >> sean: thank you both i would like to send an invitation, and i will give you the full hour on this show to explain unverified, salacious and verified on top of a fisa warrant both before and after the president. coming up, one of the will and grace doors to backtrack on support of the blacklisting of all trump supporter's. i will tell you who, we will get reaction commit tammy bruce on this busy breaking news night. staylo with us. now, i know how happy i am. there was all the feeling good about myself that i missed. he all about yes. like yes to flexible hours and payment options. yes to free exams and x-rays for new patients without insurance. and yes, whenever you're ready to get started, we are too. call n

coming up, a former cia officer, the former head of the cia, john brennan, and chris murphy of connecticut who met with ukraine's leader recently, now is calling for impeachment inquiry himself. >>> good day, everyone, i'm andrea mitchell in new york where the president's highly partisan speech to the u.n. was upstaged by impeachment moves by democrats from capitol hill, mostly nancy pelosi's top lieutenants in the democratic caucus, saying there needs to be an impeachment inquiry now to get to the bottom of the ukraine whistleblower controversy. house speaker nancy pelosi may be preparing for the inevitable. the entire democratic caucus meeting today. key holdouts on impeachment say they've changed their minds because of the administration's refusal to turn over that whistleblower report. >> i'm just going to be very frank tonight. we are a divided country, and that scarce es me. but we cannot be divided on the removal law. we have no choice but to open an investigation that will give us the facts. that is our moral responsibility. so i guess i'm joining with many of my other colleagues.

i would like to know what john brennan knew. would like to know what he knew about that dossier and ifif he leaked that dossier to the people in the gang of eight. in particular. and how far that web spread. because once we know those answers, we won't know who to indict and who to charge. i'm sure that's exactly what john durham is doing. >> sean: thank you both i would like to send an invitation, and i will give you the full hour onis s this show o explain unverified, salacious and verified on top of a fisa warrant both before and after you lied to the o president. coming up, one of the will and grace stars is trying to backtrack on support of the blacklisting of all trump supporter's. i will tell you who, we will get reaction, tammy bruce on this busy breaking news night. stay with us. >> sean: all right, hollywood hate towards president trump's more deranged if you can believe it. the latest example comes from actors eric mccormack and debra messing who called on the media to publicly out anyone in hollywood to donate for th

. >> a lot of people point to the cia being the mastermind, john brennan, will we see john brennan answere questions? >> anyone with any association should be held accountable. i had a conversation with lindsey graham. and we will not stop and attorney general william barr, doing what is right. he will take it wherever the evidence in fact lie. >> you said this is the closest thing to a coup, both sides of the aisle should be outraged by that. >> during the campaign when they were concerned donald trump could win, don't worry, we have an insurance policy. now we are finding that insurance policy out, those people should be held accountable, no one ever runs for president, should have to go through that again. jillian: a special election -- >> two special elections in north carolina, this takes 19 seats for republicans, 31 democrats it on the seats donald trump won. this seat donald trump won. we won by 900 votes. we won by 4000, just 2% growth, 13 more seats and 6 more to go. >> should we look at this as telling in 2020? we talk about a lot of retirement in the republican party. >> i am n

then we have meetings at the white house with john brennan, deputy at the white house. we have e-mail between andy mccabe, the deputy director and lisa page talking about how they're going to coordinate their stories on this case. again, what you think they were talking about. none of this is cryptic, they're not special e-mails that i was given privy to. this is out there. we put it together in the new book. you will see all the evidence. >> i think the final point is one that he made as well. the whole point is to inform them on intel map. they're not criminal investigations, are you seriously telling me that it's inform the president and was kept from the president because it was donald trump the republican nominee. >> can i make one more point, the susan rice e-mail to herself where they say have to do everything by the book. it's a terrible movie g.i. jane but there's a quote the movie where they say people don't want to make statements and they don't make statements about not making statements. you don't make a statement barack obama said they do every thing by th

and the need to protect the source's identity so important that the cia director at the time, john brennan, kept information from the operative out of president obama's daily brief in '16. instead, mr. brennan sent separate intel reports, many based on the source's information, in special sealed envelopes to the oval office." i can't even extrapolate how someone like this would share information with this president who basically makes a joke out of russian interference and has his political ally, william barr, still investigating the origins of the russia investigation. >> yeah, it's not unusual for extremely sensitive high-level sources to be treated in this kind of eyes-only manner of personal courier handed only to the president, stamped "president's eyes only." you're right, when the president's eyes belong to donald trump, it's hard to imagine that this would be handled properly. of course, the media has been reporting that that may have been one of the reasons why this particular asset had to be exfilt exfiltrated. you and i a couple months ago when the story was developing and russi

the informant's information was so delicate that john brennan kept information from the operative outpresident obama's daily brief in 2016. instead, mr. brennan sent separate intelligence reports, many based on the source's information in special sealed envelopes to the oval office. leading off our discussion now with more reporting about this story is intelligence and national security correspondent for nbc news ken dilanian, who today tracked down a person who reports to be, quote, a former senior russian official living in the washington area under u.s. government protection. ken, what more can you tell us about your reporting? >> sure, lawrence. well, i can't report to our satisfaction that this is in fact the asset referred to by "the new york times," cnn and now "the washington post." what i can say is this is a russian government official with access to vladimir putin, a high level official who is now living in the united states under u.s. government protection, living in the washington, d.c. area, in fact. and i went to his house today, and i knocked on his door. he didn't app

beyond that, the durham work on how the conspiracy against the president got started in the role of john brennan and klapper in comay in the conspiracy is going to be really big. but the problem is the delay. every day that goes by, the president loses an opportunity to make a bigger case than the one the 30 been made. that is not his fault, that's the system. the problem is, as you start as poorly as the president was forced to start with jeff sessions and rod words inside and you don't get bill barr until two and half years into presidency, it makes life pretty rough. i'm hoping that horowitz and durham will fix that for the president. >> this president wants transparency and he is declare that. does he not have an option is to say let every damn document out, i do not want to see anymore nonsense and let it rip. >> he does have the option but he gave it to bill barr, that will be up to bill barr to do any declassification -- he gave it to bill barr and bill barr is probably waiting for durham to finish whatever he's doing. this should all happen, this never should have happened in the first p

former cia director john brennan noted on twitter, it was donald trump's haphazard foreign policy that got us to this point, writing this, "there is no doubt that donald trump precipitated this crisis by reneging on the nuclear deal and declaring economic war on iran we now face a major international and national security challenge because of trump's reckless incompetence. a bipartisan strategic response is essential." now lucky for us, joining our conversation, former cia director, now an nbc national security analyst, john brennan what is the president's culpability in how we got here, and what is his opportunity for, if any, putting the toothpaste back in the tube >> well, it was clear that donald trump didn't understand the iran nuclear agreement he just wanted to abregate it, tear it up, because it's something his predecessor, president obama, had negotiated. i think quite successfully what this administration should have done was try to build upon it they could have even adjusted some of the terms of it, but to basically just tear it up then to declare this economic war, imposing

. >> this story was leaked by john brennan who gave the name and address of the agent to nbc news, theia people who leaked this story in former cia are the same ones who leaked the story to the new york times originally. brennan is the father of these, he should be investigated fully and thoroughly. >> reporter: doug collins calling for an investigation. the white house saying the reporting was dangerous. cia advocates with their own identity, information they expect the government to protect, are safe from being reported this morning. heather: thank you. media reporter for the hills says there are bigger ramifications to the leak beyond the potential retraction. they publish name and address could have put the informant in very real danger. >> possible deadly ramifications could be at stake. for the cia to make a public statement debunking this report calling it misguided because the story is that egregious. i've never seen that before. look at the big picture. cnn has hired ten x fbi, cia or intelligence officials during the trump administration alone. the last hire was andrew mccabe

the dossier was given by john brennan to harry reid. i am glad are talking about the media. we as republicans need to stop talking to media people. most of the media out there are assets of the democratic party. i think republicans need to just, if there are fair reporters out there, fine. but the "new york times" and the others that continue to spread these fallacies like the other bombshell talking about these sources, it's also fake news. this needs to stop and republicans need to stop giving quotes to mainstream media outlets. >> sean: i agree. greg jarrett, what did you think of catherine herridge's report and what you did think of tom fenton and this huge development? we will just act like we were kidding. oh, trump killed millions more than hitler and stallon but i could not hear. >> the judicial watch documents demonstrate the extent to which rod rosenstein lied and covered up his scheme to secretly record the president and depose him from office under the 25th amendment. he tries to shutdown all comment and then crafts a non-denial denial as a deflection and then fr

. >> this is the continuation of the john brennan, james comey efforts -- lou: james clapper -- >> theroup who are under investigation by barr and durham. i find the timing of this somewhat suspicious. it's clear this agent or officer and his democratic connected lawyers worked with the house intelligence ask committee. lou: if you are a cia officer you go to the democratic lawyers and the democratic staff of the intel committee. >> we have seen this working together with the democratic party, the previous administration to prevent him from becoming president, and now we see it as a move against the president. i don't know how else to read this. >> the mission of the cia is to investigate activities outside this country, not inside the country. the role of the investigation. here is the fbi. the whole idea of putting dni together was to make sure to coordinate. there is a natural reverse division of the cia hat follows up. a spy network, they coordinate with the fbi. thin they have -- then they have to have permission by the attorney general or the dni head. this guy or girl -- lou: it

former characteristics a director john brennan. former national security advisor susan rice.an former attorney general eric holder we now are informed will not be testifying. joining us, victoria toensing, the former deputy attorney general for the just first department. joe digenova. the founding partners of the digenova and toensing law firm. andrew mccabe most of of us are told he's awaiting indictment. but the deep state and the radical dimms lining up to support them. >> it's not surprising that his co-conspirators might want to testify to help him out. when they get on the witness stand to give character testimony, here is going to be the first question from the prosecutors. i have in my hand a transcript of the meeting that mr. mccabe and here is what he said about a criminal investigation under our laws. first we f flynn, then we f trump. do you agree that's the way a criminal investigation should be conducted miss mccord or miss anybody. thissers a fool's end. they all deserve each other. >> mccabe ought to appreciate how much better he's being treated by the trump a

according to this report comey former director national intelligence james clapper former cia director john brennannsa director mike rodgers met with president-elect trump weeks before his inauguration after that meeting comey met privately with president-elect to discuss salacious allegations in the so-called steel dossier the fraudulent document that concocted by christopher steele top fbi and intel brass believed allegations or pretended to even though christopher sfooel had given every reason to have absolutely no confidence whatsoever about its contents, after that private meeting between comey and the president comey took notes. it seems to be his practice before reporting back to top agency officials working on "crossfire hurricane" investigation joining me byron york chief political correspondent for the washington examiner fox business issue contributor author of much what have we know about that meeting great to have you with us. >> hi, lou thanks for having me. >> this document is to me as i said at the outset of this broadcast turgid, dense obtuse, and it seems a document designed to ob

i'm sure it was john brennan. lou: the politics of this.et's look at the ad we just showed you from the president. can we see that, please? apparently we can't. >> promised ukraine a billion dollars if they fire the prosecutor investigating his son's company. >> if the prosecutor is not fired you are not getting the money. son of a [bleep] he was fired. >> the democrats want to impeach the president and their media lap dogs fall in line. they lots election. now they want to steal this one. don't let them. lou: they stole the 2018 mid-terms, too. they knew the conclusion of the special counsel report and didn't release it. what do you think of that ad and the politics of it. >> it's a decent ad. i think it hits the issue. but the reality is what they have now is what rules washington, d.c. is 218 votes in the house. they have the 218 votes. they could vote tomorrow to impeach the president. are they going through two weeks of this charade. schiff has always been her pet rock. lou: she wants him as her successor. >> she says to the other five

. >> this story was leaked by john brennan who gave the name and address of the agent to nbc news, themer cia, the same ones who leaked the story to the new york times, brennan is the father of all of these, he should be investigated fully and thoroughly. >> doug collins is calling for an investigation saying the reporting is dangerous and put lives at risk. cia assets wondering if their own identities are safe. rob: 18 years, 9/11 -- 9/11 mastermind. >> they face a judge at guantÁnamo bay in january 2021. the families of the thousands lost that day will get their day in court. rob: they lost their father that day, charles wolf lost his wife. we want to start with you. you were both 11 years old that day. what do you remember from that day? do you feel justice will be served? >> it started out normal. it was our second week of middle school. what started as a normal day turned into one of the most tragic days in our lives, finding out our dad was killed in the world trade center and throughout this whole time just to see the efforts put in to try to get justice and it is starting to co

john brennan is with us.hat moment with us as well as you talk about the fight that we're still fighting if is a thorny request of what happens here. what happens next? what should the president do? how would you tell him to proceed here? >> i would tell him the united states needs to stay engaged in afghanistan because of those 18 years of investment, blood, and treasure and effort to try to bring some semblance of peace or stability or at least less violence to afghanistan. i think they need to try to facility some negotiations among the various factions. there are elements that are irreconcilable. but i think there are some elements that might be willing to do this. i think for too long there, the united states was working with the dal ban and cut the government out of it. they were not able to have a con soluble factor. but i don't think we want to abandon that country at all. we need to have a discussion that will, in fact, govern our presence there. >> i would be remiss if i did not ask about your name

that, the durham work on how the conspiracy against the president got started and the role of john brennannd clapper and comey in that conspiracy is going to be really big. but the problem is the delay. and every day that goes by, the president loses an opportunity to make a bigger case than the one he's already beened made. and that's not his fault. it is the system, and the problem is when you start as poorly as the president was forced to start, with a jeff sessions and rod rosenstein and don't get your bill barr until two and a half years into your presidency, it makes life pretty rough. but i'm hoping that horowitz and durr what republican going to fix that for the president. >> this president wants transparency he's declared that. does he not have an auction just to say -- lets every damn document out i don't to see anymore of this nonsense and let it rip. >> he does have that option but he gave it to bill barr that's up to bill barr to do any declassification and probably waiting -- until durham has proved -- >> yeah. [laughter] but you know he gave it, he gave it to bill barr, and

john brennan voiced his concerns on that move. >> if it was moved into that and it was not classified, it clearly is being done for another purpose which was to try to prevent it being discovered or seeing by other individuals so i think that's a very worrisome development. that's something we have to be concerned about of a misused abuse of a system designed to protect this country's most precious secrets. >> and within the past hour, the new york times reported current and former officials say the white house used highly classified computer system assessable to only select few officials to store transcripts of calls from vladimir putin and the saudi royal family. house democrats are moving with all deliberate speed in their impeachment investigation wheeling subpoenas and scheduling hearings as they try to capitalize on the release of the whistleblower's complaint yesterday. house democrats issued their first subpoena to mike pompeo. the chairman of the house intelligence oversight and foreign affairs committee sent a letter to pompeo demanding he produce documents related to trump'

we also know just from the in the "new york times" today the cia director at the time john brennan thought information was so sensitive he sent it to then president obama in a separate special sealed envelope. kept it out of obama's daily intel briefing but flash forward to president trump. doubting these sources, saying essentially my relationship with foreign leaders is far more important. congressman what do you think trump's motivation is for not trusting human sources? >> we can only imagine what's in this man's mind, but what we cannot imagine is him continuing to be president. this is downright a serious national security issue. we've known from the very get-go trump had no use for the intelligence systems of the united states. he said so right there standing next to putin in helsinki. the fact of the matter is, trump always believed in his gut, which happens to be getting big around bigger but less and less useful. the fact of the ma ttter is tru as a president is a national security risk. i mentioned a few moments ago that he's pulling three quarters of a billion dollars out of th

we have john brennan up on capitol hill thing i gave the briefing about the case to begi begin, former cia director, i gave the briefing i'm doing this in conjunction with the white house. you can google, you can look on the internet, it's not some special skill and yet nobody in the media, on the left side, seems even remotely curious about the biggest political scandal. it's really unfathomable what's going on. it's so outlandish. >> you have spies inserted into the trunk campaign by the fbi. you had lies fed to the federal district court, you had the unmasking of american citizens, including people at the white house as well as from the un and others on a scale we've never seen in modern times. you had the leaking of information, so-called investigative information trying to push the ball against candidate trump and now president trump. you denied it and he also wrote self-serving memos that belong to the government. and had leaked some of those. number two at the fbi had lied about it and is now potentially facing criminal charges. the general counsel of the fbi top to resign. the

. >> announcer: this is "new day" with alisyn camerota and john brennan. >>> welcome in, united statesnd the world. this is "new day." it's 6:00 in >> let's take a breath. this may be the only one in the next few hours because of the velocity of what we're seeing. >> we're waking up to a dizzying of events. this morning for just the fourth time in the history of the republic, the president is facing an official impeachment inquiry. under the accusations they pressured a foreign government to investigate a political opponent joe biden. to an extent both president trump and rudy giuliani admit this happened. we could learn a lot over the next few hours. he will release the transcript of his july 25th call, but how much of the transcript, and through what filter remains to be seen. also the administration plans to turn over the

mohammad bin salman to discuss responses to iran earlier on this network, former cia director john brennan laid out the administration's dilemma. >> i know donald trump does not want to get into war with iran unless he wants to repair damage, reinstitute the iran nuclear agreement, he does not have a lot of good options he can not leave this unaddressed. >> you'll recall the departure of john bolton that means trump is walking into this crisis without a permanent national security adviser, today sensing that, he named five candidates for the post although the white house says there are other names under consideration aside from the five he mentioned, as trump tries to navigate a a way to dial back the trade war with china. this gets interesting. told he said quote, i think there will be a deal maybe soon, before the election or after the election, and if it's after the election, it will be a deal like you've never seen. it will be the greatest deal ever he added that he believes beijing is going to win reelection, but chinese officials would prefer to be dealing with somebody else his comm

they were in on the hoax, don't forget, the dossier, in 2016, was given by john brennan to harry reid. so we don't know how many of the democrats knew about this hoax, and i'm glad you are talking about the media continually, because we, as republicans, we need to stop talking to these media people. because most of the media that's out there, they are just ask assets of the democratic party. i think republicans need to adjust, you know, if there are fair reporters out there, fine. but "the new york times" and the others that continue to spread these fallacies, just like the other bombshell the other day, talking about these sources that were supposedly blown, which is also fake news. this needs to stop, and republicans need to stop giving quotes to these mainstream media outlets. >> sean: all right, i agree with all of that. gregg jarrett, with all of this developing news, what did you think, first of all, katherine's report, and what did you think of tom fenton and this huge development? looks like they were coming up with a story, and the story was it will look like it is kidding, i

mohammed bin salman to discuss responses to iran earlier on this network, former cia director john brennan laid out the administration's dilemma. >> well, i know that donald trump does not want to get into a war with iran. but unless he wants to repair the damage with iran, meaning he wants to, you know, reinstitute the iran nuclear agreement, he doesn't have a lot of good options. but he cannot leave this unaddressed. >> of course you'll recall the departure of john bolton that means trump is walking into this crisis without a permanent national security adviser. today perhaps sensing that, he named five candidates for the post although the white house says there are other names under consideration aside from the five he mentioned. as trump tries to navigate a possible confronltdation in the middle east, he is also looking for a way to dial back the trade war with china this gets interesting. today he said, quote, i think there will be a deal maybe soon, maybe before the election or one day after the election and if it's after the election, it will be a deal like you've never seen it will