joining me right now with reaction is former director of national intelligence john ratcliffe. see you. you have been so wonderful and in truth-telling to the public. merry christmas to you. thanks for being here. >> yeah, merry christmas, maria. maria: give us your take on this national intelligence council report. i've got the intelligence community assessment in front of me right now. is china a getting ready to interfere in our elections in 2024? >> very clearly they are, maria, but what the report also telling yous is what you outlined, the intelligence community has to grudgingly walk back the erroneous assessment that in 2020 china was sitting on the sidelines. look, i was very vocal that we had collected specific intelligence of a specific plan or campaign by china to interfere in 2020 for the specific purpose of helping joe biden become president and harming -- yeah, president biden to become president to harm president trump in his re-election efforts. and and what this report acknowledges is that that's exactly what happened. they had to walk it back because the indep

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. >> the former director of national intelligence, john ratcliffe. pleasure >> director, thanks for joining us. i had the pleasure of serving with you in the united statewits congress, but thrilled to be chatting with yobuu about this because as the director of national intelligence, you saweo you saw the top level intelligence of thisf this couna >> what's your read on what's going on in the middle east nois w ? because, boy, we take 100 attacks and do the bare minimu m, to say the least. >> yeah. jason, by the biden administration's own admission, they have failed to accomplish strategic determined deterrence that they promised. you remember when attacksd star that you just mentioned started in the aftermath of thtee octoba 7th attack in in gaza. the biden administration stood at the podium. john kirby, secretary of defense austin, they said we will respond in a mannerthespona and method of our choosing, but we promise you that we will deter these typesfuture of attacks from happening in the future. wiat that , they were at 20. now, as you said, ja

you could not with reaction, the former director of national intelligence, john ratcliffe.nk you for that joining us but i had the pleasure of joining with you in the united states congress but it -- i'm thrilled to be chatting with you about this. yeah, you saw the top level intelligence of this country. what is your read on what is going on in the middle east now because we take 100 attacks and do bare minimum to say the le least. >> yeah, jason, by the biden administration's own admission, they have failed to accomplish the strategic determine -- determines that a promise. you remember when these attacks that you just mentioned started in the aftermath of the october 7th attack in gaza, the biden administration stood at the podium, john kirby, secretary of defense austin, they said, we will respond in a manner and method of our choosing but we promise you that we will deter these types of attacks from happening in the future. will, at that time, they were at 20. now as you said, jason, we are well over 100 attacks. and jason, the attacks you mentioned yesterday were from

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john ratcliffe what y how is this possible. >> i'm surprised that you are surprised. are only latest lesser opponent to kick sand in the face of the biden administration. this week is houthis before that was hamas and iran and for that it has been china and you know russia. yeah, kash patel is right in terms of houthi's capability. this operation prosperity guardian, the response of biden administration is the epitome of this turn the other cheek then cut and run foreign policy that the biden administration has deployed everywhere. punched in the mouth by a lesser opponent, response is, we'll building an international coalition to protect us? this is just so ridiculous. you were there in the reagan administration where the example of what to do, when iran mined the persian gulf and hit a u.s. frigate. ron reagan response sense largest fleet to destroy two oil platforms, and 8 iranian ships, and kill more than 50 irgc soldiers and the problem ended. that is what should happen here. but it is not. just like strong deterrents and a response is not happening with the hout

here is john ratcliffe. >> our intelligence is clear all of our adversaries china, russia and iran willpreference at 2024 for the presidential outcome and that is for joe biden to continue to be the president. joe biden has been good for business for china, russia and iran all have gotten stronger around the world. i dissented from the intelligence community majority and said how china was trying to influence the outcome of the 2020 election and that's been cooperated in the fbi has walked back intelligence and said china did try to interfere and continues to try to interfere and elections and ask you to continue to be the case. as we talk about the platforms there is no more and full intel platform to affect american voters imperfections then tiktok which is controlled by the chinese communist party. >> ahead of the u.s. indo pacific command says that china has stopped dangerous military actions in the air and see saying no close intercepts between the u.s. and china since president biden's meeting with president xi jinping in san francisco last month. how are they specifically trying

told us this a long time ago here is john ratcliffe with me a few months ago.ence is clear all of our adversaries, china, russia and iran will have a preference in 2024 for the presidential outcome and that's for joe biden to continue to be the president. joe biden has been good for business for china, russia and iran all have gotten stronger around the world. i dissented from the intelligence community's majority and said how china was trying to influence the outcome of the 2020 election and that has been cooperated in the fbi has walked back and said china tried to interfere and tries to interfere in elections and that will continue to be the case because as we talk about the platforms there's no more info intro platform to affect american voters and perceptions then tiktok and tiktok is controlled with the chinese communist party. maria: this is part of the propaganda war that we see playing out where tiktok in chinese vehicles be well propaganda. how would you expect the united states should be dealing with that. >> we have to get rid of tiktok it's amazing

john ratcliffe, the former dni was on the program when this was happening about a year ago and he told, yes, this was a surveillance balloon and it was likely having a payload of massive surveillance tools to surveil america and its nuclear installations, he's going to join me this morning to talk about that. he also broke news with me recently that china is likely going to interfere in the election so we're talking about election interference both by the ccp and by the way by joe biden's henchmen, all of the efforts to take the vote away from the american people and let colorado's supreme court decide and the doj decide in terms the of who we want to see on that ballot. we're talking about that this morning, i'm leading the show with ron johnson, senator from wisconsin then we'll talk with vivek ramaswamy and his wife about the current state of affairs with just a couple of weeks before the iowa caucus, we'll get into all of the above with john ratcliffe. we end the show with cardinal timothy dolan with a special message on this christmas eve about christmas and about hope overriding

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former director of national intelligence john lee ratcliffe. welcome. biden was a public hearing and the house was a private deposition. tell us the difference between everything. >> well, trey, there's a big difference. you and i both now from experience which goes a long way in tieing hunter biden's activities to joe biden in a sniff nerve nucleus near yous or spect cal and done live on national television and members use time to grand stand and witnesses know they only need to stall the clock or bob and weave and not make admissions for a five minute period of time and clock stops and new witness starts all over. you or myself or other members might have as long as an hour to cross examine a witness, confront them with their conflicting statements or corroborating evidence to the things they've done and that's in the case of hunter biden what's really necessary and one transaction alleged here is hunter biden is official with associations with the chinese communist party received $5 million into a corporation and hunter took 4,000 and transfers to hi

there is also an issue around what is happening with the elections we talk with john ratcliffe he saidchina is going to interfere in u.s. interconnection probably going to interfere in taiwan election happening january 13, everything we've got got efforts to keep from off ballot, robert f. kennedy, jr., going after california's lieutenant governor on x, for calls to remove there's name from primary ballot writes in knocks we should choose candidates by voting not legal maneuvers to get them off ballot even "washington post" port writes should courts throw trump off the ballot? not so fast writes editorial borrowed reports attorney general was frustrated with merrick garland not going after trump tate said trump was threat to democracy should be prosecuted exactly what ag has done you've got a lot here china, against united states, working to keep their guy joe biden in the office. you've got a potentially, compromised president potentially cover-up at the doj. >> we are getting to the bottom of the cover-up in ddoj three economies working on weaponization, they will get to the bottom o

laura spoke with former trump director of national intelligence john ratcliffe about all of this and john, in reading this report, they went out of their way to say that, well, there is no sign in 2022 that any infrastructure was tampered with. does that mean that couldn't happen in the future? >> laura, the first thing that jumped out of me when i looked at the report, the grudging admission that the 2020 report were the majority view that was expressed that while china preferred that joe biden become president, stood on the sidelines and did nothing about it, that that was wrong. i said that was wrong at the time. i wrote a dissent letter. china had a significant influence campaign to try and help joe biden and harm donald trump. and that's what is expressed in that current report is that those efforts are going to, as you said, not just continue but intensify. and i do think that, you know, china will focus on things like artificial intelligence and other means to try and continue to, you know, influence the american people, very clearly, you know, china has and continues to want

john: director of national intelligence john ratcliffe on special counsel jack smith's dilemma in tryingrump in court before the election. legal hurdles lie ahead for the former president and the current president, biden, who faces in impeachment inquiry and the ongoing investigation into his son hunter's business dealings. claudia tenney is a member of the impeachment inquiry. we will get to that in a moment. what about jack smith's attempt to put a fast-track trial on the former president, the supreme court snacked him down, what does that do to his investigation? >> it is the case evident tempted election indifference. even the democrat justices saw through this. he was trying to put donald trump on trial, potentially in jail on charges that he is trying to bring against the president. looks like that date of march 4th which is in the midst of primary season won't happen. it will be moved much later and donald trump will have an opportunity to have a normal process. this is an experiment did that accelerated process, jackson was trying to get trump anyway can. as lakisha james with he

had on the committee but also senior adviser eric herschmann, director of national intelligence john ratcliffermer house colleague of perry. perry does seem in the top three of congressional plotters here, if i understand this right. >> i think that's right. i think with the evidence shows today is that he really wasn't orchestrator. he was not someone who is cheering from the sidelines. he was someone who put himself directly in the middle, and was fully active, from november forward, and was really kora, specially with this plan of perverting the doj and installing someone so they could do trump's bidding. >> that's what's so wild about this. members of congress all along the spectrum and george gordon of the white house staff like mike jackson, we're like we're gonna sign on this, but this specific plot, one of the most dangerous, which really would've been the kind, of light, constitutional crisis moment, it seems like it was maybe perry's brain child. i don't even understand how the dots got commented between jeffrey clark and perry at the white house. but he seems to be the one who is ba

i would ask about our elections in 2024, national intelligence john ratcliffe told me that china hasmeddling in our elections and they'll do it again t next year. >> are intelligence on this is clear that all of our adversaries, china, russia and iran will have a preference at 2024 for the presidential outcome and that is for joe biden to continue to be the president. joe biden has been good for business for china, russia and iran and they've all gotten stronger around the world. i dissented from the intelligence community majority and said how china was trained influence outcome of the 2020 election and that has been cooperated. the fbi has walked back intelligence into china did try to interfering continues to try to interfere in elections and that will continue to be the case. when we talk about the platforms, there is no influential platform to affect american voters and perceptions they and tiktok which is controlled by the chinese communist party. maria: congressman is that what you're expecting i know you said u.s. intelligence confirmed cuba trying to interfere in florida's e

this is the type of the thing that john ratcliffe did, the director of national intelligence, in theg days of the trump administration, he released documents that were heavily redacted and provided a very misleading impression about what those documents actually contained. >> yeah, it's clear there is a vested political interest in those documents, or that there was a constantly expressed desire. i think this is not a hidden secret. to find some smoking gun that shows that it was some democratic plot. and that the election interference, it didn't happen. it just seems in line with that effort to have it as some sort of -- i'm not saying we know what happened to it, but you can understand the motive of having those documents, even after being in the white house. which is in line with what we can understand from the motive of taking all the stuff he took. >> yes, because donald trump and his acolytes and supporters continue to say that this whole thing about russian interference in the 2016 presidential election was a hoax. it was not a hoax. there is incontrovertible intelligence that

john ratcliffe was the head of the defense intelligence agency. people like stephen miller was in the white house. jeffrey clark was in the justice department. john mcafee worked in the white house. so, it's not like these people are pulled out of left field. they were in the first administration. they were simply lower down the food chain in some instances, so that adults, by and large, could keep a hold on them. but frankly, there will be no adults in the next administration. they will either be under investigation, audit, or in jail. these people will now rise to the top and we know from their rhetoric, from their, really, contempt for certain aspects of american society and certain americans, that they will not respect the rule of law, that they will not be held. they don't care what people like you and i and joe walsh say about them. they are in their own world, entirely loyal to trump. and so, this is absolutely frightening and this is what happens, by the way, with dictators that slowly, their circle titans, so that only the most loyal, the

as former director of national intelligence john ratcliffe told me last month. >> dissented from theelligence community's majority and said how china was trying to influence the outof the 2020 election, and that has been corroborated. the fbi has walked back intention and said, no, china did try and interfere, continues to try and interfere in elections. and that's going to continue to be the case. maria: coming up, joe biden's response to china's aggression. is the commander in chief compromised as house republicans charge at a critical time for america? if house oversight committee chairman james comer with what he calls damning new ed of bank records -- evidence of bank records and e-mails suggesting bribery. plus, china is also at the wide open border as dangerous drug cartels are running america's southern border. new efforts to stop texas from protecting citizens and the worst night of illegals yet flooding into arizona. texas governor greg abbott is here responding to the a federal appeals court demanding he remove those buoys in the rio grande with exclusive new numbers of il

john rat ratcliffe spoke about it last night. >> biden administration is running out of terror cells to get push around by. all though the groups they are controlled by funded by iran and what is frustrating when you tack about you know intelligence that i have seen, you know at the end of our administration we handed biden administration peace. in the most middle east, we handed them abraham accords and an iran that was bankrupt that was incapable of funding these type ofs terror activities. david: is that a fair assessment? >> it is fair and it is deadly o accurate, inch iran funds hamas 80 billion a year for last 3 years, who president biden took wa office things changed, they all of a sudden have billions of dollars of extra capital they can invest in interest that are contrary to ours, every terror cell that we're fighting they are funded by iran. iran is a direct supporters. they are not doing it intraadditional way of state on state, but in theu rules of war, we are at war with them. but we're not fighting them as they appear. we have to. otherwise we can expect more of our al

interview with fox news recent former director of national intelligence john ratcliffe confirmed the u.s. government is aware a lot more sightings of uaps, and that have not made that information public i quote, there are a lot more sightings that have not been made public the for me this ring is about transparency here we fortunately at a time which many people distrust government and our institutions and over classification of information away from the american public or even congress contributes to today's politics the american people have regular questions but what are uaps? how come the need is a report or other parts are the four adversaries? either use technology or something else? to ask themselves not come with a russian jet shoots flares out one of our show the american people and the world, but when it comes to uaps, nothing. of course we must always protect our national security to maintain our superiority, like when stealth helicopters were only reverted to exist but were used in the osama bin laden rate in 2011. we can't allow that to be used as a shield to keep the ame

john kerry. i called a former c i officer and a former senior investigator with the senate foreign relations committee. mr. king ratcliffe. it's amazing to talk to thank you very much for your time. thank you. thanks very much for having me now. uh, you had a pretty successful and illustrious career with the c. i a and i think it's one point you became the chief of counterterrorism operations in practice then which didn't take that much time. and as i was reading about your professional story, i kept thinking i was wondering what were the qualities this kills perhaps personal traits that allowed you to and designs across the rank so fast? oh, that's a great question. actually. i think that i was an unusual officer in the i was always the good cop in the good cop bad cop scenario. i found success in, in getting her gets whether they knew they were targets or not to like me. and i invariably they ended up doing things for me because they liked me. i never understood why or how many of my colleagues uh preferred to use force or threat such as never seemed to me to be the smart way of going about things i found. and this is

john kerry. i called a former c. i also sir, and the former senior investigator with the senate foreign relations committee. it's a que ratcliffe's, amazing to talk to thank you very much for your time. thank you. thanks very much for having me now. uh you had a pretty successful and illustrious career with the c. i a and i think it's one point you became the chief of counterterrorism operations in pakistan, which didn't take him that much time. and as i was reading about your professional story, i kept thinking i was wondering what were the qualities this kills perhaps personal traits that allowed you to and designs across the rank so fast? oh, that's a great question actually. but i think that i was an unusual officer in the i was always the good cock in the good cop bad cop scenario. i found success in, in getting targets whether they knew they were targets or not to like me. and invariably they ended up doing things for me because they liked me. i never understood why or how many of my colleagues uh preferred to use force or threats that just never seemed to me to be the smart way of going about things i found. and this is so

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discuss that i'm now in joined by john kerry, i called a former c i officer and the former senior investigator with the senate foreign relations committee. mr. king ratcliffe. it's amazing to talk to thank you very much for your time. thank you. thanks very much. for having me now. uh you had a pretty successful and illustrious career with the c. i a and i think it's one point you became the chief of counterterrorism operations in pakistan, which didn't take him that much time. and as i was reading about your professional story, i kept thinking i was wondering what's more, the quality is this kills perhaps personal traits that allowed you to advance across the rank so fast. oh, that's a great question. actually. i think that i was an unusual officer in the i was always the good cock and the good cop bad cop scenarios. i found success in, in getting her gets whether they knew they were targets or not to like me. and invariably they ended up doing things for me because they liked me. i never understood why or how many of my colleagues uh preferred to use force or threat such as never seemed to me to be the smart way of going about things i found. and this is