if we are talking about john mclaughlin. what john mclaughlin was doing was being a little bit facetious in his comments. he was saying sat cia we collect intelligence and we make an political judgments to the best of our ability based on that. trish: let me go back to this ukraine transcript. we all read it and granted it's a memo of a transcript. it's not absolutely perfect. vindman was upset because they left out two words. but i don't know if two words will change the entire tenor of the conversation. but vindman's suggested view of the tone and whether or not he was fearful about any of this, how is that relevant? if we can ride the transcript, what do we care about how some intelligence professional felt that day like whatever i was picking up vibes in the room? how is that relevant compared to the actual words themselves? >> he was not in the oval office with the president. he did not participate in a brefght president before that phone call. he was in the white house situation room listening in on a deadline. he had

if we are talking about john mclaughlin.ng was being a little bit facetious in his comments. he was saying sat cia we collect intelligence and we make an political judgments to the best of our ability based on that. trish: let me go back to this ukraine transcript. we all read it and granted it's a memo of a transcript. it's not absolutely perfect. vindman was upset because they left out two words. but i don't know if two words will change the entire tenor of the conversation. but vindman's suggested view of the tone and whether or not he was fearful about any of this, how is that relevant? if we can ride the transcript, what do we care about how some intelligence professional felt that day like whatever i was picking up vibes in the room? how is that relevant compared to the actual words themselves? >> he was not in the oval office with the president. he did not participate in a brefght president before that phone call. he was in the white house situation room listening in on a deadline. he had no idea what the president wa

robert costa, a national political reporter, and john mclaughlin, former acting cia director, sondland and kirk volker, we're going to get these depositions today, we know they were on the text exchange talking about quid pro quo. what are you hoping to find out? >> i'm looking for consistency. we had a lot of folks come in so far and the story has been almost perfectly consistent. if volker and sondland are inclined to tell the truth, you will see more of the same. and i think the house is doing a pretty good job, stephanie, they're doing what good investigators and prosecutors do and they're bringing in lots of people asking the same questions and seeing how the stories line up and it is lining up pretty well. >> right there that was the president yesterday saying i don't know yovanovitch. but on the phone call, he tells the leader of another country, zelensky that she was bad news, and she said that she felt threatened. she had the ukrainians telling her to watch your back. that sounds like gangster diplomacy from me. she got a 1:00 a.m. call saying get on a plane and come home for

. >> john mclaughlin, former acting cia director and he now says, his rifle for the deep state. take those let's look at that sound bite. >> thank we've got for the deep state. [laughter] [applause] everyone here, has seen progression of diplomats and intelligence officers and white house people, tripping up to capitol hill right now. they are doing their duty responding to a higher call. it doesn't surprise me, well, think about it for a minute. with all the people who know what's going on here, it's a good intelligence offered to step up forward and see something about it. >> meeting with the president and what happened with president. ukraine phone call, honey reaction to that. >> certainly the deep state, undermining the procedures we have in the united states, to ensure our security. let's have some perspective here. there are hundreds of thousands of governmental employees were talking about a couple decided instead of being the proper channel of the whistleblower, they going to go out do it they want to do no regard to what the facts may be the processes in place. let's k

former john mclaughlin has recently acknowledged that one does exist. >> calling thank god for deep state that comment resonates today considering what schiff threatened in 2017. >> they have six ways from sunday at getting back to you. >> doug: by an alleged senior white house official who suggest that staffers, including the president suggested invoking the amendment. >> i never heard any discussion in my entire ten years as vice president about the 25th amendment. >> no wonder that republicans find the process of impeachment gas lighting, psychological manipulation designed to make the target question his own sanity. >> this is not about schiff finding the truth. this is about schiff trying to destroy at the president. >> it is also stretching the divide. symbolized here in two recent public appearances by the president. one in washington, the other in alabama. [cheers and applause] >> in a weekend "washington post" interview, he died dominic sidestepped evaluating her steps year by year. >> on this veterans day, several military members. the dow gained ten for another record close. th

former acting cia director john mclaughlin recently acknowledged one does exist. >> thank god for the deep state. >> that comment resumes today given senate minority leader chuck schumer threatened in january 2017. >> you take on the intelligence community, six ways from sunday to get back at you. >> similar claims repeated in the soon-to-be released be released book "anonymous, and see the white house officials" the staffers including the vice president vice president discussed invoking 25th amendment which provides for the removal of a president unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. >> i never heard any discussion in my entire tenure as vice president about the 25th amendment. >> no wonder the republicans defy the process of impeachment with political gas lighting, psychological manipulation, the target question his own sanity. >> this is not about schiff, this is about schiff trying to destroy the trumps presidency. it is stretching the divide and what is becoming two americas symbolized in two recent appearances by the president, one in washington, the other in

deputy cia head john mclaughlin encouraged bureaucrats in washington to continue to subvert elected officialsthe ones that worked for. >> thank god for the deep state. [applause] [laughter] everyone here has seen this progression of diplomats and intelligence officers and white house people tripping up to capitol hill right now and saying these are people who are doing their duty, responding to a higher call. >> tucker: is there anything that could shake the public's faith in the government more than former cia -- of all agencies -- cia officials saying that? subverting the will of voters is a higher call, higher than democracy itself? there are many other developments today in the ongoing impeachment saga and for those we are grateful to be joined tonight by catherine herridge, she is fox's chief intelligence correspondent and she is with us on the set. >> this witness seemed to have a sixth sense about the july 25th phone call between president trump and the ukrainian president telling investigators that he thought it would leak in washington's highly polarized environment and according to

john mclaughlin director central intelligence during the final months of his career. a legend in the analytic tradecraft. serving twice as our active earlier inlso led his career and served under george w. bush. the only person in america with the president on 9/11 as well as with the president the day we brought osama bin laden to justice. andrew mccabe, deputy director of the fbi from 20162018. serving as the acting director in 2017 after james comey was fired. he has had a storied career and in counterterrorism. lead the fbi security branch and washington field office. played a critical role investigating the boston marathon bombing the attack in benghazi and the russian attack on our election in 2016. please welcome our panel members and moderator to the stage and thank you. [applause] thank you all for coming out tonight. what an incredible lineup of panelists that we have here from the national security community. we will be taking questions but i'm lucky that i get to sleep lead them off tonight. and i want to dive right in because there's there is so much a ri

the imprimatur of people like john mclaughlin. my point is that this is not a whistleblower. d'etat a deep state coup . it has been that since the very beginning of the trump administration. they don't like his policy with regards to syria. they don't like his policy with regards to ukraine and russia. they have been trying to get him out ever since he became president. basically because of these deep policy differences. this is the thing i really want to bring out. his opposition is not just democrats. it's the neocon republicans. they want to put mike pence in. from the very beginning, mike pence has been in opposition to trump on these policy issues. issues, butpolicy for the first six months of his administration, he had a chief petcock, whohua seaman,ied to katherine who worked directly with pierce stroke in the fbi. pence is part of the coup plot against trump as much as the democrats with adam schiff. robert is watching there, an independent caller. you are next. caller: i am a vietnam veteran. i used to live in maryland several years ago. i reported veterans that were

john mclaughlin of senate intelligence, george tenet led the ic from 2000 through 2004 with incredible trying times, serving as acting director of central intelligence in final months of his career and this is a legend in the analytics trade craft. michael morell, deputy director of the cia serving twice as acting director, also led the analytic cadre early in his career and served as a brief for george w. bush was the only person in america that was with george bush, was with the president on 9/11 as well as with the president on the day we brought osama bin laden to justice. the deputy director of the fbi, serving as acting director after james comey was fired, has a storied career and counterterrorism, the fbi national security branch in washington field office, played a critical role in investigating the boston marathon bombing, the attack in then the russian attack on our election in 2016 so please welcome panel members and moderator to the stage. [applause] >> thank you for coming out tonight. what an incredible lineup of panelists from the community. we will be taking questions

not only is there a deep state according to john mclaughlin who headed up the cia.ks the deep state is the mvp of this process. listen to this and hold on to something tight. >> you have to agree that now. >> oh, totally. >> the impeachment inquiry is underway. sparked by a complaint from someone within the intelligence community. feeds the president concern and often used term about a deep state being there to take him out. >> thank god for the deep state. [laughter] steve: thank god for the deep state. brian: do you understand what he is saying? he is saying thank god for the institutions to one end the elected officials which are the people speaking up saying who should be in power. thank goodness for the people unelected rising up and telling you where the country should go. that is obscene. steve: he went on to say praising the intel community. he said it's one of the few institutions in washington that is not in a chain of command that makes or implements policy. it's whole job is to speak the truth it's engraved in the marble in the lobby. let's hope they do.

. >>> john mclaughlin going on the record and praising the so-called keep state for prompting the impeachmentu have to agree that now -- >> totally. >> -- the impeachment inquiry is underway, sparked by a complaint from someone within the intelligence community, it feeds the president's concern and often used term about a deep state being there to take him out. >> thank god for the deep state. >> thank god for the deep state. here to discuss is the author of the upcoming book, the plot against the president, journalist lee smith. thank you for being here. when you hear a former acting cia director saying god bless the deep state, they know about this from the beginning. >> right. i think that most americans would probably be -- you had a scene before, people being interviewed in tupelo, i think most americans around the country don't want to be governed by the deep state and don't want to be spied on by the deep state and they don't want them making decision about who is going to be president of the united states. >> the characterization of brennan or mclaughlin would have, no, these are patr