trip was managed and the threat of communist china is former director of martial intelligence john ratcliffe for become being here this morning. >> great to be with you, maria. maria: especially on very important subject that you will be all -- have been all over for several years, first in congress, then as director of national intelligence. your thoughts on trip of nancy pelosi's and how it was managed. will she go to eye wan? does she -- taiwan? does she need to? >> at this point she does need to go for the sake of our national security so that the american people see that the chinese communist party is not the one dictate thing american foreign policy, that it is the american government doing that. but the biden administration publicly talking about it ahead of time and then not backing up nancy pelosi with the media or on the call with president xi jinping. i mean, i think we've come to expect president biden, you know, his weakness comes through. we didn't have high expectations for that call. but very clearly, he did not back up the speaker's right to go to tie a wan, and as a result

trey: john ratcliffe thank you for joining us.ward to talking to you soon. >> good to see you. trey: fbi director chris wray is issuing a warning for americans. >> we see that it the chinese government that poses the biggest, long-term threat to our economic and national security, a lot of discussion about the potential that china may try to forcibly takeover taiwan, that would rip one of the most horrific business disruptions the world as seen. trey: this warning is months after president biden justice department ended the china initiative program, which was aimed at ending espionage by china. maybe director wray should talk to the president. -- my guest said that two years okay joining us now congressman waltz. china is greatest threat we face. what can or should we do. >> american industry and corporations need to listen to the fbi and his counterpart in british intelligent carefully, they need to wake up, if you do business with a chinese company, if you do business in china, you allow researchers into your labs, they are goin

john ratcliffe. joining the former generational and national security analyst james clapper. thank you director for joining. the committee wants to interview radcliffe. there is interview from catch the test of been saying that he won the white house they should not get involved in efforts to overturn the election, here it is. >> doc directly felt that it wasn't something that the white house should be pursuing... he felt it was dangerous for the presidents legacy. he had expressed a made that he was concerned that it could spiral out of control and potentially be dangerous, either for our democracy or for the way that things are going on the 6. >> director, why is it so important for the committee to hear directly from him, and what do you think they should ask? >> i think it is quite important that the committee hear from him. what led him to make an expressed a concern, as cassidy hutchison expressed. if he did so, then good on him for that. i have been in a miss fight about why he might be able to cast on the events of january 6, but whatever led him to come to that concl

trump himself, trump himself asked john ratcliffe to investigate this wacky theory about michigan beingcontrolled by foreign, i can't even begin to explain, but, and he said can you please ask the fbi to investigate this? .. that trunk blamed him for your guy and he's ranting and raving that he had recommended him. he thought he was a standout solid guy and obviously that's not what governor trump wanted in that job. tell us about another name that might not be familiar to readers but ought to be. john boehner and t, he's a college quarterback who was known throughout video. there are pretty impressive passes. john maccabee becomes one of the most powerful men in washington. how does that happen and what does he do? >> i examined the trunk show when i first visited trump tower and there was nobody there because they had hired anybody . they had made the announcement with five other people and one of the people they hired was out of college and he was very earnest and very polite and he gave me a tour of the place. i still have his business card. i think trump had actually made cards yet

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negotiations are underway with the former director of national intelligence, john ratcliffe, for a sitdown with him. and finally there's former acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney, who we spoke with earlier this week on the program. he was spotted on his way out, after speaking with the committee today. mulvaney, as you know, was serving as envoy to northern ireland when the attack happened. steven mnuchin was reported to be involved in discussions about invoking the 25th amount to remove the former president from office. t one of the people mnuchin talked to was then secretary of state mike pompeo. cnn's own report sg that the select committee is especially interested now in learning more about such cabinet level conversations. this is coming in the wake, of course, of testimony of cassidy hutchinson, the top former top aide to the former chief of staff mark meadows. >> from what i understood at the time and from what the reports were coming in, there is a large concern of the 25th amendment potentially being invoked. and there were concerns about what would happen in the sena

is negotiating terms for a potential interview with former director of national intelligence, john ratcliffe. i don't know if you can confirm that, that bigger if you could, but is the committee in the process of speaking with more former trump administration officials, as well? >> as you know, the rules don't allow me to identify the people that we are negotiating with, but i will say broadly, yes, we are reaching out to trump officials and, broadly speaking, and we have every expectation that many of them will, if not all of them, will respond. >> i am wondering what your reaction was to attorney general merrick garland's comments this week about the dj investigation. do you think it is likely that the former president may be charged criminally? >> i have no idea. the department of justice is not telling the committee, nor should they. i am relying on the same public statements that you are. but it does look like they have brought in their investigation to look at not just the individual riders in the capital that day, but they do need to do the, but also what was the plot behind it. who w

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joining me now as john ratcliffe, former trump director of national intel and victor davis hanson, hoover institution senior fellow. let's take these humiliations and that's what they are -- one by one. how could the white house not have foreseen that the chinese would completely dominate them with this readout? >> your lead in was spot on. the readout speaks volumes. according to the readout, joe biden told president xi that he opposed any unilateral efforts to change the status quo. president xi was more direct. he promised the fiery death, he promised that those who play with fire, set themselves on fire and would perish. very clearly from that it sounds like a president xi is playing hardball, president biden is playing wiffle ball and we've seen that far too often. to your point about if this is accurate, we know it is at least in part, both parties agree in the readout that the gentleman agreed to a face-to-face meeting. president xi never would've agreed to a face-to-face meeting if after he set the redline on taiwan that joe biden set up to him and said nancy pelosi or any america

joining me is john ratcliffe. when i first read this, i honestly thought my staff was pulling my leg. this could not possibly be the case. how do we explain this one? >> well, you really can't. it's hard to fathom. you correctly said that joe biden created high gas prices and declared war on the u.s. oil and gas industry on day one shutting down pipelines and promising to shutdown the industry when that created the prices at the pump. his solution to try to fix that was to tap into our strategic petroleum reserves and in doing so he has created a huge national security dent in our posture and national security posture. let me put it in perspective, laura. the strategic petroleum reserve has a capacity of 714 million gallons of gas. on our last day in the trump administration we left it with 638 million gallons or 90%. joe biden will have it down by october 1st to between 380 and 390 million gallons. a little over 50%. if we have a national emergency, we will have a essentially a half a tank of gas to deal with tha

we know that the house committee is negotiating for a potential interview with john ratcliffe, the director of national intelligence, another cabinet level position. there may be classification issues around what they can say to him. they are in talks with getting him to sit down and say what he knew. we also are expecting the former secretary of state, mike pompeo, to come in this week and have a closed door interview with the house select committee. we know from reporting from reporter john carl previously that pompeo was in touch with steven mnuchin and and the special envoy to ireland did resign in protest that day and probably would be in touch with people at that level. there's a lot going on here. the house is really looking into this idea of what was going on in the cabinet and they've already spoken to gene scalia, the labor secretary, who wrote donald trump a memo having him to call a cabinet meeting after january 6th when they were all panicking. we'll have to see what emerges with this new testimony. >> thank you so much for laying that all out for us. joining me is mark short,

john ratcliffe, former director national intelligence under president trump. welcome back.ichael waltz told us yesterday she has to go. if she don't it shows weakness right now. in brazil defense secretary lloyd austin, however, countered with this. listen carefully. here it is. >> i'm concerned and you heard me say this before, about the aggressiveness of the prc and the kinds of things that we've been seeing in the region lately. and so i think we have to be vigilant. >> bill: i get it. is that a statement of weakness or is he being rightfully careful, sir? >> well, i don't think you can dismiss china's threats as idle threats at this point. there is at lot at stake for president xi. he is on the verge of an unprecedented third term later this fall. some would say a president for life term and so, you know, the visit here is something that i think that he and the chinese would view as humiliating or degrading or embarrassing to the projection of one china and china strength or support if an american speaker of the house landed supportive of taiwan's independence. so they

. >> key witnesses include former treasury secretary steeben mnuchin and the former dni, john ratcliffe. at issue are claims of executive privilege that the president is going to try to invoke to try to shield information from the federal grand jury as the investigation deepens. cnn's ryan nobles walks us through those details. >> reporter: the department of justice is inching closer and closer to former president donald trump. new cnn reporting shows prosecutors are girding for a fight against executive privileges, to force witnesses to testify about the role trump play may have played leading up to january 6th. >> when the court considers the issues, they haven't looked favorably toward the white house and the presidency. the biggest and most obvious one is the united states versus nixon. >> reporter: trump himself is not considered to be a target yet. a list of trump officials who have already cooperated with the committee and are cooperating with the doj is growing. it comes as transcripts of interviews are handed over to investigators. >> they have indicated they want access to a c

maria: yes, that was former director of national intelligence john ratcliffe on this program back inina's covert operation to influence members of congress into supporting pro-beijing policies, something he made a special trip to capitol hill to brief lawmakers on. we're back with senator marsha blackburn. u.s. counterintel officials issued a similar warning this week about china's efforts. fbi director keyser if wray was already -- christopher wray was already aware of this threat, but has he done anything to stop it? >> >> we do not know of anything directly that they are doing to stop it, maria. and as i said, what heir trying to do is influence -- they're trying to do is influence not only members of congress, but state and local officials and carrying out what these call -- they call these a malign influence campaigns where they're trying to influence organizations and churches and schools and push them so that they will come in line with chinese communist party ideals, principles and goals. and, of course, we know that global dominance is one of china's goals. now, soft propaga

interviewed the former secretary of the treasury, steve mnuchin and are negotiating for interviews with john ratcliffeof the trump administration. we learned yesterday that mike pom p pom pompeo was in talks to do an interview. mick mulvaney, the former acting white house chief of staff, he had spoken. what does it mean when you put all of these names together? it really is all about the 25th ae amendment. whether that conversation was taking place on whether the cabinet should step in and try to remove donald trump from power or somehow take the reins of the administration of the democracy away from him, that is a big question for the house select committee. we already know that they did speak to gene scalia, another cabinet member, what we learned is he was asking trump to call a cabinet meeting and trying to get the president to say the election was not stolen and that it was the end. back to you. >> it was interesting because from the testimony that we heard from the likes of kaitlin hutchinson where she said it was the threat of the 25th amendment being invoked that really triggered the president

state yes a sore director of national intelligence john ratcliff on this program back in december 2020on to influence members of congress. into supporting pro- beijing policy something he made a special trip to capitol hill to brief lawmakers on her bare back with center marsha blackburn and senator u.s. counterintelligence arofficials a similar one in ths week china's efforts to influence policymaking. fbi director christopher wray was already aware of the threat. but has he done anything to stop it? >> we do not know anything directly they are doing to stop it, a maria. and as i said, what they are trying to do is influence not only members of congress, but state and local officials. and carrying out what they call these malign influence campaigns where they are trying to influence organization and churches and schools and push them so they will come and lined with chinese communist party ideals, principles and goals. and of course we know that global dominance is one of china's schools. now, propaganda as part of this. so using this malign influence, going after people like me onlin

the head of our intelligence community at the time, john ratcliffe, said it was not russian disinformationave the media a reason to ignore the story and the media of lots. i'm think anyone is surprised adam schiff would play politics? senator grassley wants to know if the fbi was playing politics too? and he joins us now, senator what prompted you to write this letter? >> , whistleblowers coming to me and i listen to a lot of whistleblowers because they know where the bodies are buried. and with evidence a special agent in charge was making decisions of what investigation should go ahead and which ones should be stopped. and we know by his social media comments that he is very, very liberal. very, very partisan. and we have evidence from these whistleblowers that he would have fuzzy information from newspaper reports about trump. and would allow investigation go ahead. you do not let innovation go ahead on fuzzy newspaper reports. then we had concrete information about of lot of things of hunter biden has done a stock that and labeled it as disinformation. now that is political interferenc

they're in discussions with john ratcliffe, that's according to two of the people and they're seeking several senior intelligence officials who had contact with the white house around that time. ratcliffe delivered a classified briefing in late december 2020 at the request of jeffrey clark, a justice department official who promoted trump's false claims of election fraud. this jeffrey clark-eastman piece seems to be the piece that could make every single one of those names i just mentioned of interest, never as targets, but as subjects or witnesses to the justice department as well. talk about the significance of basically the entire national security cabinet being in the sights now of the select committee. >> it's pretty wild to see this playing out, the extent to which the select committee is just rounding up all these people who were so close to trump not just on january 6th, but in the years proceeding the attack. i spoke to a person yesterday who's close to ratcliffe who said while there are conversations ongoing, nothing has been decided yet. this person suggested that ratcliffe

we know that former director of national intelligence john ratcliffe is in talks, as is former acting homeland security secretary chad wolf and former secretary of state and potential 2024 candidate mike pompeo, who had this to say on fox. >> as i always did when i was in service to america, i'm happy to cooperate with things that are fair and transparent and deliver good outcomes to the american people. >> of course seconds later, he added this part. >> it's been a monkey court. it's been a circus. it's been totally unfair. >> so, cooperate? no? talk? no? not entirely clear as of yet. hopefully the committee has an answer. we know that one of the topics the committee wanted to learn more about is just how serious the cabinet members were about trying to remove trump from power by way of the 25th amendment, which we know from sworn testimony pompeo was worried enough to give mark meadows a heads up about the prospect. >> mr. pompeo had the conversation with mr. meadows in case he hadn't heard discussions m amongst cabinet secretaries. >> as we know in the word of sean hannity's own te

they've also attempted to set up something with the former director of national intelligence, john ratcliffe. this goes in addition to the other cabinet secretaries they've talked to. the former acting defense secretary, chris miller, jeff rosen and others. and i'm told that part of this is trying to delve into the conversations related to the 25th amendment after january 6th. and the efforts that were made by some cabinet officials to at least consider that based on trump's actions on january 6th. now, mike pence's former chief of staff marc short shut that down saying there wasn't enough time to truly consider the 25th amendment. it was something the then vice president wasn't interested in. just those conversations could be a great interest to the committee as they look into donald trump's conduct at that time. the conversation you're having as it relates to this, they found unique and creative ways to work around privilege claims and to the point some of your panelists have made about court fights, when this has been test in the general, they have won the test save for mark meadows who w

the then-president in the panel's cross hairs, former treasury secretary steve mnuchin and dni john ratcliff. >>> new cooperation from inside the former president's doj. someone who worked with jeffrey clarke, the man trump tried to install as acting attorney general in the days leading up to january 6th, is now cooperating with the criminal probe. >>> let's begin with senior justice correspondent evan perez. a lot of movement within the doj, particularly as they attempt to get around this executive privilege argument. break down exactly how the department plans to do this and how quickly. >> reporter: well, jim, they are planning to try to get this as quickly as possible. they are looking -- the goal here is to try to get to people, testimony from people who were in direct conversations with the former president as he was trying to figure out a way to cling to power. and they confronted this issue of executive privilege just recently in the testimony of greg jacob and mark short who are close aides of the former vice president pence who testified before the grand jury but declined to answer

that the committee is in talks to interview former secretary of state mike pompeo as well as john ratcliffe. i'm told mulvaney is talking to the committee today, former acting chief of staff who served as the special envoy to northern ireland, a position he later resigned in the immediate wake of gymnajanuary 6th. what the committee is trying to understand is how serious those conversations about the 25th amendment were and what was the reasoning for some of these high ranking officials to even bring it up. this would have been an unprecedented step. it would have required agreement from vice president mike pence as well as a majority of the cabinet members. but mark short, pence's former chief of staff says those conversations weren't that serious inside the white house. take a listen. >> that wasn't happening in ten days in the administration. so regardless of your feelings about january 6th, the reality is this was a political ploy by nancy pelosi and democrats in congress to try to put pressure to exert this, and it was never going anywhere in our white house. >> reporter: now, the comm

discussions are being had with john ratcliffe as well as chad wolf who resigned days after the siegee capitol and has continued to join forces with the justice department investigation, the spokesperson for the committee told "politico" that the panel intends to share 20 witness transcripts. joining me now is john wood, an independent candidate for u.s. senate in missouri and, you know, mr. wood. coincidences, as my friend malcolm vance love to say, take a lot of planning it. sure does seem weird that text messages from the secret service who were with trump and always shadowing trump wherever he went and now these text messages are suddenly gone, and the secret service alerted secretary cuffari's office that is the agency deleted thousands of agents and employee text messages in an agency-wide reset of government phones. cuffari did not notify congress for months. do you think it's coincidence? >> it might be. it's hard to know. i don't want to jump to the conclusion that someone intentionally deleted information and evidence that could be valuable both to the house select committee

committee still reaching out to others, including the former director of national intelligence, john ratcliffe, who could be a key player in all this. radcliffe is someone that there was pressure being put on radcliffe from members of the house of representatives, scott perry, in particular to look into the activations of foreign interference in the election, that was not based in any evidence. and that they've also engaged with the former acting department of homeland security chad wolf. what this tells us more than anything, we've done a lot of reporting on the expansion on the department of justice investigation, which is a criminal probe. but victor and alison, we should not forget about the january 6th select committee. they still have a lot of work ahead of them and there's still the possibility of public hearings in september. >> ryan nobles, thank you for giving us the latest. let's talk about this. let's bring in scott jennings, our cnn political commentator and former special assistant to president george w. bush. and nick akman is former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern dist

. >> according to the associated press, former officials, including john ratcliffe and d.a. secretary chad wolf are also in talks with committee. it comes as "the washington post" broke the news that january 6th text messages from wolf and his deputy at the time of missing, echos of secret service. they say the attorney general knew five months ago those texts were lost but never told congresses. wolf and cuccinelli tweeted about it this morning, both saying they went missing after they returned their phones. ali vitali joins us. ali, more and more information coming in all the time. more and more people coming in, including former cabinet officials. what's your take on the pace and the scope of the january 6 committee's investigation just in recent days? >> reporter: chris, this feels like the opposite of a pause. i know we're not standing outside the hearing room and watching they present information, but it's clear that they are still be very active behind the scenes. and what's also beginning to take shape is the fact that these hearings in the initial eight that we saw

another high-ranking trump official, including the former director of national intelligence, john ratcliffe. even secretary mike pompeo. not only that, former treasury secretary and enthusiast of holding uncut bells, stephen mnuchin, has now also testified. as has former she's of staff, mulvaney, who tells nbc news he was asked about text messages he sent to current rnc chair, ronna mcdaniel, days after the election. >> instant tweets and tax on january six. we will talk about that. there is also heavy involvement in the trump campaign. they wanted to know the discussions i had leading up to the election day. and discussions right after election day. interestingly, there were questions towards the end about general questions about how a white house might run. we wanted to know the process for example, upheld visitors would see the president. how a chief of staff would typically include or exclude people from meetings with the president. >> and bc news has also confirmed that several officials and vice president mike pence's circle have appeared before a grand jury in the justice department'

the ap also reports lawmakers were negotiations with john ratcliffe, former director of national intelligenceas former secretary of state mike pompeo. it's quite a list. joining me is former federal prosecutor and nbc legal analysts. what does it say to you that these high-profile trump officials have indeed started cooperating with the committee? some of these people running in there on january six. if so, what will they be able to offer the committee? >> whatever they know needs to be put on the record. it doesn't matter whether this. it is little things, what is the process for people getting to see the president? that would be good to know because a lot of crazies into the white house. how exactly did that work? even though it's not a 16 question, it's an important question that they need to know about. generally, the general louis roland investigations is, the more people you can nail down, especially people in politics or with some kind of motive, the more you can nail them down the better. it's good investigative work. >> okay. we had mick mulvaney testify on thursday. he left of the w

associated press," lawmakers are also in discussions with former director of national intelligence john ratcliff. they've reached out to former homeland security secretary chad wolfe who resigned days after january 6th. bun chad wolfe is in the news this morning. take a look at this headline from "the washington post." you're not reading that wrong. this isn't talking about missing secret service texts, it's about missing texts from the department of homeland security, specifically texts from acting secretary wolf and the man who was his acting deputy, ken cuccinelli. missing. those texts from the days leading up to january 6th could have been critical to understanding what the dhs knew about the threat to the capitol. but just like in the secret service texts, they were deleted when their phones were updated. once again, the officials involved knew about it for months before telling congress. this morning both men are tweeting about this story, insisting they followed protocol, and blaming the ds for wiping their phones. nevertheless, as more and hear of this is uncover -- more and more of this

and former director of national intelligence, john ratcliffe. you know, again, we are naive okay same. again tomorrow in the last hour said, it is very late in the game. what insight could they provide, generally? >> tim is right. that is a concern we hear increasingly in private conversations that we have reported on that lawmakers are worried they are running out of time. they do not have enough staff to cover all of these bases in these loose throats that we will pull them in so far, but haven't really gotten to the bottom of, despite having investigated this for over a year now. but they are certainly going to, try and that is why they see them bringing in trump's former cabinet members. they are likely to invite some other names that you have not mentioned. but the investigation looking at now committed towards the question of the 25th amendment, and conversations that took place, questioning trump's fitness to see at the rest of his term, that is just one of the throws that they are focused on. the committee is also interested in continuin

cnn reports steve mnuchin has met with the panel and john ratcliffe is negotiating terms for a potential interview. as the justice department's criminal investigation zeros in on donald trump, nbc news confirms that the january 6 committee has formalized a path to share information with the doj. politico was the first to report the committee intends to share 20 transcripts of witness testimony but no word on which interviews will be provided. federal prosecutors have been trying to access the committee transcripts since april. but lawmakers have until now resisted. and new reporting from the new york times that attorney general merrick garland wants to make sure that trump supporters do not have any basis to claim the investigation into january 6 was driven by animosity toward the former president. people close to garland telling thetimes, he never focused on trump from the start, unlike how investigators focused on him during the investigation into the trump campaign connections to russia and hillary clinton during her email probe. joining us now one of the reporters behind that story,

maria: john ratcliffe calls the strategy rob, replicate replace the ultimate strategy dealing with hechumer take out the provision apparently would have allowed -- would have stopped chinese intellectual property plaefrnt? >> apparently someone house universities research got to them doesn't want restrictions they want money for the research but don't want to have to go through an intelligent jeaning any security screening the other is some, left wing activist groups saying they are racist those restrictions were anti-asian it is unfortunately, the reason they took it out to pass the bill so desperate to put bins on berd don't care what by many does or if weak they want points onboard to get things done we pay the price later unfortunate how policy are being made china continues to gain on us. maria: does this have potential to become another big spending package towards green initiatives i know we agree we need manufacturing critical items like semiconductors in the united states walk us through why this doesn't just do that. >> i mean part of the challenge is the way you described t

if not just stealing your property, john ratcliffe is right, you know, they want to replicate and replaceight now but before you know it, they have taken your property and then they just replace you and go away and now your exit plan. maria: where is the policies trying to stop this? i mean, right now the biden administration is talking about lifting tariffs on chinese goods. they've canceled the china initiative. so where is the policy setting the tone here for business? congressman: there isn't any. that's the unfortunate problem. i don't -- i haven't seen one thing out of this administration that's trying to counter the aggressive actions of china and that is our number 1 threat. we know this. both sides of the i'll know this especially if you're on intelligence committee engaged in that community or armed services committee, both sides of the aisle are aware of what china is doing on every front and i don't see anything from the administration. maria: all right, we will leave it there. congressman, we will keep a spotlight on it. thank you very much for being here this morning. congre

defense secretary lloyd austin says he's concerned how aggressive china is acting, some including john ratcliffe follow through with the visit. >> the chinese government, not the american government gets to decide the national security posture and concerns in the south china seas and that would be disastrous. >> reporter: the call comes as president biden is considering relaxing donald trump's tariffs on imports in order to reduce inflation but rolling back on the tariffs would have a minimal attack, 12:45%, and tariffs were imposed with decades of chinese intellectual property, and it was not taken seriously and that would be a time when chinese electoral property still cost the american economy $225 billion, and $600 billion a year. with the gdp report showing a shaking economy, there would be growing pressure here, to take action on tariffs something that would make beijing happy. neil: thank you for that. i'm talking about north carolina republican, you heard about this long phone call the president had with xi jinping. there are a lot of people wondering whether they should come off right n

john ratcliffe, the director of national intelligence. you had this conversation in december of 2020. mr. ratcliffe was nominated by president trump to oversee u.s. intelligence community. before his appointment, mr. ratcliffe was a republican member of congress. as you will see on this clip, director ratcliffe's comments in december 2020 were prescient. >> my understanding was that director ratcliffe did not want much to do with the postelection period. ratcliffe elk that it was not something that the white house should be pursuing. if felt to the presidents legacy. he had expressed to me that he was concerned it could spiral out of control and potentially be dangerous, either for our democracy or the way things are going for the six. >> when you say it was not something the white house -- with do you mean? >> the fine and fight the results of the election, find missing ballots, filing lawsuits in certain states, and reaching out to state legislators about what -- that was pretty much the way that they handled the postelection period. th

meadows described her conversations with president trump's director of national intelligence, john ratcliffe, a former republican congressman. >> he had expressed to me that he was concerned it would spiral out of control and potentially be dangerous, either for our democracy or the way that things were going for the 6th. >> of course, underlying all of this is the fundamental principle that the president of the united states cannot simply disregard the rulings of state and federal courts, which are empowered to address specific election-related claims. the president cannot simply pretend that the courts had not ruled. >> by that time the president or his associates had brought -- had lost 60 out of 61 cases that they had brought to challenge different aspects of the election in a number of states. they lost 60 out of 61 of those cases. by the time we get to january 3rd, that's been clear, i assume, pat, that you would agree the president is obligated to abide by the rulings of the courts? >> of course. >> and i assume -- >> everybody is obligated to abide by the rules of the courts. >> and

we have new information on the hunter biden scandal this morning and john ratcliffe, former national administration and then we've got harriet haggerman coming on, she is looking to take down liz cheney in her seat coming up in november for the elections. the midterm elections. liz cheney has been the face of the january 6th hearings r and yet harriet haggerman is winning over voters in the state. we do have breaking news on the situation around china. i'll see you. rachel: thank you, maria. must see tv. sunday morning futures. coming up, path to recovery, our next guest lost his legs while serving overseas and now he's helping other critically wounded troops heal. he's going to show us how, next. ♪ ♪ ♪ dry eye symptoms keep driving you crazy? inflammation in your eye might be to blame. time for ache and burn! over-the-counter eye drops typically work by lubricating your eyes and may provide temporary relief. those'll probably pass by me. xiidra works differently, targeting inflammation that can cause dry eye disease. xiidra? no! it can provide lasting relief. xiidra is approved to t

cassidy hutchinson, an aide to mark meadows, described her conversations with president trump's john ratcliffe underlying all of this is the fundamental principle that the president of the united states cannot simply disregard the rulings of state and federal courts, which are empowered to address specific election related claims. the president cannot simply pretend that the courts had not ruled. >> by that time, the president or his associates had brought or lost 60 out of 61 cases, that they have brought to challenge different aspects of the election and the number of states. they lost 60 out of 60 one of those cases. so by the time we get to january third, that has been clear. i assume that you would agree the president is obligated to abide by the rulings. >> of course. >> and i assume you also -- >> everybody is obligated to abide by the rules. >> and i assume you also would agree that the president has a particular obligation to take care that the laws be faithfully executed. >> that is one of the presidents obligations. correct. >> yet, president trump disregarded these court rulings an