and it is amazing, sort of piecing all of this together, joseph mcguire is suddenly out, we see the rickrenell news. something about an intel briefing? now we hear what it was. and it was a briefing that russia is interfering again on behalf of president trump. pretty alarms headline. >> it is the worst nightmare of many of my source in the intelligence world. bad enough to learn that there is classified intelligence that russia is interfering again and trying to elect donald trump. we should be careful about that because it is not clear what it means. does it mean disinformation on social media, does it mean sxwer septembers that suggest people in the kremlin are discussing the campaign? that is bad enough, but then the notion that because a briefing of that information was delivered to a bipartisan group of lawmakers, that cost joe mcguire the job? that is a bombshell. i mean, we want our intelligence officials to speak truth to power. and donald trump wants to cover up -- we know he is not interested in the subject of foreign election interference. but the u.s. government has been doi

joseph mcguire, the acting director of national intelligence, the president blew up at him, essentially angry at the fact this had taken place. it was one of mcguire's deputies who had been the one to brief this. now we know as the reporting yesterday showed, the president is now putting a loyalist in the top job as director, acting director of national intelligence. that's rick grenell currently the u.s. ambassador to germany. the now, erin, we are being told by two administration officials it is coincidental this report came out about russia favoring the president to win the election. and the president installing a loyalist in this job. but, erin, we should note rick grenell will be doing this job with another job he still has, acting as the ambassador to germany. it's not like it was a convenient time. it's going to raise a lot more questions about whether the president is acting out because he's seeing intelligence that he doesn't like. >> all right. kaitlan, thank you very much. and i want to go now to democratic congressman from illinois mike quigley who sits on the house intellig

keeps business ready. ♪ >>> so, president trump got irate with the outgoing acting intel chief joseph mcguire learned house members were briefed about russia interfering in the 2020 election to help get trump re-elected. that from a white house official. now the president is replacing mcguire with richard grenell. grenell is a fierce loyalist. let's discuss with james clapper, former director of national intelligence. director, i appreciate you joining us this evening. last night we talked about the repercussions of putting a loyalist like rick grenell into such an important job. now we know the president was angry with mcguire over this briefing about russia interfering in the 2020 election. president trump didn't want to hear that. >> well, that's precisely the problem. when the president makes it known that he can't countenance facts that don't comport with his -- facts that don't comport with his world view, the result will be shooting the messenger, in essence in this case, losing their jobs. intelligence community and joe mcguire was doing what they are supposed to do. that's their -- t

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according to reports in the "new york times" and "the washington post" joseph mcguire's staff briefed the house intelligence committee on russia's latest efforts to interfere in the presidential campaign to help donald trump. "the washington post" was the first to report president trump's reaction to intelligence officials following the law and briefing the house intelligence committee on russia's latest attempts to help the trump campaign. "washington post" reports trump erupted at his acting director of national intelligence, joseph mcguire in the oval office perceiving him and his staff as disloyal for speaking to congress about russia's perceived preference. there was a dressing down of maguire said another individual. maguire came away despondent: "the washington post" and "new york times" report that the intelligence briefing of the committee by joseph maguire's staff led by shelby peerson became contentious with republicans on the committee arguing against the intelligence findings that were being presented to the committee. according to "the washington post" one member of the

. >> reporter: the president also weighed in on the departure of joseph mcguire who left his post after mr. trump learned of that russia briefing. >> was he forced out because he wasn't loyal to you? >> not at all. he was pushed out -- he wasn't pushed out. on march 11th he would have had to leave. >> reporter: the president did admit the white house is carrying out a purge of administration staffers who are viewed as disloyal. >> i don't think it's a big problem. i don't think it's very many people. we want to have people that are good for the country, are loyal to our country because that was a disgraceful situation. >> reporter: earlier in the day the president tried to assure business leaders his administration has a handle on the lethal coronavirus as a global health care is rattling financial markets. sources say behind the scenes the president has been ripping into administration officials over how they are handling the spread of the virus. >> it looks like they gretiettit under control more and more. i think that's a problem that's going to go away. >> reporter: that's not how d

that's joseph mcguire, and does not blame him for this briefing as has been widely reported. last week intelligence officials briefed lawmakers on both sides of the aisle including adam schiff on putin's plans to interfere on the 2020 election. he said he blames president trump. we want the intelligence community to tell congress. if reports are true and the in the is interfering with that he is again jeopardizing our efforts to stop foreign meddling. russia's plans to meddle aren't news to lawmakers or the white house. officials have known about them for months. but what was new out of this february 13 briefing according to sources. was the intelligence community's claim that russia is trying to interfere in the democrats' primary as well? speaker pelosi jumped into the fray last night also blaming president trump. she said american voters should decide american elections, not vladimir putin. all members of congress should condemn the president's efforts to dismiss threats to the integrity of our democracy and politicize our intel community. just a couple hours ago on hour a

after removing joseph mcguire from the country's top intelligence job, president trump chose a politicalard grenell to replace him. now we are learning there could be more politically motivated shake-ups to come. axios is reporting, for example, the white house has assembled detailed lists, wonderful, lists of disloyal government officials to oust and trusted pro-trump people to replace them with. aides say the president crossed a psychological line he calls the deep state. he feels justice to state to defense to homeland security is filled with snakes. that's the word. i'm joined now by democratic congressman of illinois, member of the house intelligence community. charlie sykes, editor at large. i don't know, it is very nixonian. you don't get rid of your intel. you could get in real trouble. you don't know when the revelations are coming, who is hated, who is about to be toppled. you really don't know what you're doing. >> that's right. he says that they're snakes in his administration. i agree the white house is a snake pit. but you don't go around getting rid of truth tellers. you d

the president fired his acting director of national intelligence joseph mcguire after he allowed lawmakers to be briefed last week on russia's plans to interfere. both sanders and trump are now weighing in on russia's efforts, but with different views on the subject. >> it was not clear what role they're going to play, we were told russia, maybe other countries would get involved in this campaign. look, here is the message, to russia, stay out of american elections. and what they are doing, by the way, the ugly thing that they are doing and i've seen some of their, you know, their tweets and stuff is they try to divide us up. >> i was told a week ago they said, you know, they're trying to start a rumor, it's disinformation. that's the only thing they're good at. they are not goog at anything else. they get nothing done. do nothing democrats. that putin wants to make sure i get elected. lin to this. so doesn't he want to see who the democrat is going to be? wouldn't he rather have, let's say, bernie? wouldn't he rather have bernie? >> we have a team of reporters on the campaign trail and be

he will replace joseph mcguire the current acting dni. >>> a gunman suspected of killing nine people and. injuring several others in germany was found dead. the suspect targeted two hookah loungs and authorities found him dead inside his home and found the body of his 72 mother there. officials say he may have been motivated by far-right belief. >>> the japanese government says two passengers both in their 80s from a quarantined cruise ship in japan have died from the coronavirus. this as the remaining passengers or as the remaining passengers continue to disembark. more than 620 cases of the virus have been linked to the ship. the rates of infection appear to be dropping in china, though. the source of the outbreak. china recorded 394 new cases, the lowest daily number in weeks. there are now more than 75,000 cases of the coronavirus worldwide, more than 2100 people have died. >>> and two women are dead after a car went off a ferry near miami beach. the ferry takes people and cars back and forth from the exclusive fisher island. there was a massive rescue effort after the ferry's cr

officials heard that russia was interfering in the 2020 campaigno try get him re-elected, he bated joseph mcguire ou intelligence officer for allowing the meeting to take democrats would use it ainst him. the president's anger is the driving force between a flurry of moves that up ended thi administraapon includingng a loyalist richard grenell to replace mr. mcguire. this all comes amid oth expressions of executive power from the president urging the attorney general tolean house to his issuing of a number of pardons. and joining us tonight, is elisabeth bumiller, assistant bureau chief for the "new york times." shannon pete, senior white house reporter for nbc news digital, jonathan swan national political reporter for axios. and joining us from new york i michael schmidt, washington correspondent for the "new york times." michael, we'll begin wh you. this purge inside the intelligence apparatus and t administration based on your reporting, what is going on? and what's next? michael: well, the president is obviously very upset about anything that ties the upcoming election and russia's help to i

we saw joseph mcguire fired or pushed out after issues or concerns about some briefings. you have concerns about the very idea of loyalty inside an administration. why? >> i think there are two important points. number one, when anybody goes to work for the united states government, whether it's the department of agriculture or department of state or the white house, they take an oath and the oath is to the constitution of the united states. it's not to the president. it's not to the senate or the house of representatives, it's to the constitution. that's where their loyalty is supposed to lie. now, having said that, the president has a number of political appointments, cabinet members, director of national intelligence, there are a lot of political appointments throughout the government and the president has the right to appoint the people that he wants and to push out the people that he doesn't like for whatever reason. so i think that's -- that's important. there is a deeper issue here, though, john, and that is the turnover and the number of vacancies and acting offic

he berates joseph mcguire, kicks him out of his job. hans nichols, if in fact richard grenell is temporary, a placeholder, there's talk already about who might take that position, another trump defender. >> doug collins also thinking about running for the senate. the president mentioned last night he's thinking about doug collins for that position. it's not final. he said there are other names he's considering. but the clock is ticking here. i don't mean to bore anyone but there's something called the vacancy act. that only allows richard grenell to be acting through mid-march. if he does not make someone else then, he can make richard grene grenell stay there longer as the senate fights this out. one person we haven't heard from all of this, senator richard burr from north carolina. remember last time when the president nominated john ratcliff before the mcguire got the position. burr made it overly known that he's not excited. we still need the senate. we'll see to what extent doug collins passes muster there. >> thank you. david igna

and the president blew up on his acting director of national intelligence, joseph mcguire. someone who likely had been seen as someone expected to be nominated to the top job. but now we saw yesterday is the day since then the president instead has picked a loyalist, currently the u.s. ambassador to germany n steed take that position. we're told this report on russian interference and the president picking him to take this job is purely coincidental. and there are goated questions going forward. if the president went to this great of a length to put a loyalist in the job because he was upset about hot the intelligence was showing. kaitlan collins, cnn, the white house. >>> well, let's go to straight at the bureau chief. joining me now live from moscow. and this, a bombshell revelation. once again implicating russia. what has been the reaction from moscow? >> russian president vladimir putin has kunlsistently said that russia has not, will not and did not interfere in the domestic politics of other states but has contended patriotic hackers targeted us in 2016. and president

position does often and that is brief members of congress about recent threads and on this occasion joseph mcguire spoke to members of the house intelligence committee among others well that infuriated president donald trump who reportedly were rated mcguire that is according to a report in the washington post and he was particularly upset because among the people that were being briefed was the head of the house intelligence committee which happened to be adam schiff he's a democrat who also led the impeachment effort against trump and trump was worried that schiff would weaponize that information he has always been sensitive about the accusation that russia helped him win in the 2016 election and he was equally skeptical on this occasion and he spoke about it in a rally in nevada today this is a little of what he had to say. i see these phoneys these that did nothing democrats they said today that cotton wants to be sure that trump gets elected here we go. here we go again did you see it still aren't people who are i was told i was after tonight i was told a week ago they said you know they're t

president about this briefing and that he was brought in the acting director of national intelligence joseph mcguire to ask him about it but in the last couple of days we've realized that no grier is leaving his post as d.n.i. he's been replaced by the german ambassador richard or now now the question is did this play into the choir leaving we don't know if i'm a choir it's a career intelligence professional he was in the acting position the acting position means you can only be there for 6 months so he was due to either be appointed the at the actual d.n.i. or he was going to have to leave at the beginning of march so that could have been a factor we have been able to necessarily connect this briefing with his leaving but there are big questions about colonel because he doesn't have any little. 0 intelligence experience and what he's known for is being a very vocal supporter of president trump now president trump responded that it's going to be temporary because it is a very controversial position i mean this is the person who heads up all 17 intelligence agencies to try to make sure another 911 do

primaries to help reelect donald trump, trump has let go acting national intelligence director joseph mcguire the do-nothing democrats that putin wants to make sure i get elected, listen to this. doesn't he want to see who the democrats want to be, wouldn't he rather have let's say bernie, wouldn't he rather have bernie who honeymooned in moscow. howie: joining us mollie hemingway, sarah fischer, media reporter for axios and mo elleithee, former dnc official who runs georgetown's university institute of politics, here we go again with russia, president trump was worry who had adam schiff who was for in the briefing would weponized and this morning the president that adam schiff linked the information, how did this classified briefing make it into two papers? >> the russia story has given us one of two options, either donald trump is a trader who colluded with russia to steal 2016 election so on and sort or we have an intelligence community that leaks information, some of the people in the intelligence community are in bureaucracy, some on the schiff committee, well known for leaking and, in f

this backlash to this briefing appears led to the pushing out of her old boss, acting director, joseph mcguiree you surprised pierson gets to keep her job? >> i'm not. she was brought in by dan coats as the center of all election security. remember, the acting security, despite the presidential announcements, nsa did a phenomenally good job in 2018 pushing back at russian interference. they're trying to get groups of americans to hate other groups of americans, muslims to hate christianss and white activists to hate other groups. it was the most successful operation ever performed. americans are still pretty mad at each other. some of that is here -- we have our own soviet issues but some driven by russian operations issues. she was there to bring it all together. i know her. she's a professional. she should be left in that job, doing a great job and has a really depth of understanding all the ways we're pushing back against the russians and other countries as well. >> china, iran and north korea the other three. >> pierson gets to keep her job and you look at ambassador br brenell, people are

idea of a purge in your administration, there was recently the departure of your acting d.n.i., joseph mcguire, you replaced him with your ambassador to germany. some of your critics have pointed out that ambassador has no intelligence experience. how can you justify to the american people having an acting d.n.i. with no intelligence -- president trump: first of all, i want no help from any country. i haven't been given help from any country. if you see what cnn, your wonderful network said, i guess they apologized in a way for -- didn't they apologize for the fact they said certain things that weren't true? what was their apology yesterday? what did they say? reporter: president trump, i think our record on delivering the truth is a lot better than yours. president trump: your record is so bad you ought to be ashamed of yourself. reporter: i'm not ashamed of anything. president trump: you probably have the worst record in the history of broadcasting. has mcguire is concerned. he's a terrific guy. on march 11 his time ended anyway. his time came up. so we would have had to by statute we would

the day after the february 13th briefing to lawmakers, the president reprimanded joseph mcguire claimingt democrats would use the information against him. this week, the president announced he's replacing mcguire with richard begunell the embassador to germany. >>> this settles a lawsuit that accused the state of not teaching low income students of color how to read and write at a basic level. the money will go to 75 elementary schools around california that have the lowest scoring reading levels. . >> 6:50 is the time. back over to sal castaneda. reminding people the traffic jams today are sting. all things sting. >> and you're going to see sting today, right? >> yes, we're going to be talking to him on the 9 and just in case you can't meet him yourself i'll do that for you. . >>> let's talk about what i'm seeing now on the freeway 80 westbound, carquinez bridge to the mac maze. as you can see here traffic is going to be backed up on the bay bridge. it's getting a little better but we had a rough start early this morning. they have cleared it. but what's happening is they have another c

. >> the man he's taking over for, joseph mcguire, we have reporting that the president was irate with this briefing that we were just talking about with jeremy where shelby pierson, the top election official in the intelligence community, said that the russians had a preference for trump. now as you just heard from jeremy, we're being told by a number of officials that she may have gotten ahead of her skis. is it possible, knowing what you do about how these briefings take place, is it possible that she overstated things? >> it's possible. but it would be highly unlikely. these briefings don't just appear out of thin air. a sensitive briefing like this would go through multiple layers of clearance within the intelligence community. and every talking point would be reviewed to ensure it was accurate. because the original assessment on 2016 noted that russia preferred trump as a candidate, any updated assessment would likely review that analysis and see whether it still stuck. it seems improbable that the briefing itself would have been divorced from what the actual community leadership

the bigger picture, yesterday the pushed aside his acting director of national intelligence, joseph mcguirebecause he was angry over an intelligence briefing. according to sources speaking with ken dilanian, andrea mitchell and i, it was a warning about speaking about undermining the election. we've confirmed the president was furious that the security czar told lawmakers that russians had exhibited a preference for donald trump and was trying to help him in 2020. but one current official tell us that peerson overstated the intelligence and when pressed by bipartisan lawmakers to show the evidence, she could not. regardless, the result was that the president got so angry he fired his acting dni and replaced him with a loyalist, somebody who intelligence officials worry will not be a good faith interpreter or messenger of the intelligence the american government gathers. joining me now to break down this big story, nbc news intelligence and national security correspondent ken dilanian, and ned price. ken, first to you. the underlying or the bottom line here is two things. one, donald trump r

he wants somebody that he can trust 100% and i don't think it's any secret that joseph mcguire, who isy saying the whistleblower in the ukraine scandal acted with integrity and backing that up and ultimately geting the whistleblower report to congress as he was required by law to do that it's easy to see how that person could have run afoul of president trump. >> i know joe mcguire. i think he can pass the big test, which was can we look in the mirror when we're shaving the next morning and be proud of what we see. i think there's one thing that's important to note. the national intelligence enterprise is a huge over $60 billion for the people. hundreds of thousands of people. what they do with the president is only a tiny fraction of what they actually accomplish, which is providing intelligence to the troops in the field and diplomats, to policemen, to the director of homeland security. so what we read about in this interaction with the president, the daily briefing is really just a tiny fraction. 99% of the intelligence professionals are working with people who value intelligence an

on friday the former acting head of intelligence, joseph mcguire, resigned and according to "the newmes," his deputy, andrew hall nan, resigned as well after grenell told him his service was no longer needed. fox news has learned that one of grenell's first hires is can kash patel, a former aide to deafen newspaper yes, sir, and played a key role in investigating alleged surveillance abuses by the fbi and doj. they've been given a mandate to clean house according to catherine herridge and to carry out a top to bottom review of the intelligence agencies which the president has routinely criticized since taking office. grenell is expected to lead on a temporary basis and is involved in the discussions about who will be nominated to the position. this morning president trump said he is narrowed his -- he has narrowed his list of candidates to four or five very respected people. >> ambassador grenell has done a fantastic job. this is just a temporary job. we have five people that we're look at very seriously, expert people, and at a certain point in the not too distant future we'll be an

on friday the former acting head of intelligence, joseph mcguire, resigned and according to "the newed as well after ric grenell told him his service was no longer needed. one of the first hires as a staffer, kash patel, played a key role in republican efforts to investigate alleged surveillance abuses by the fbi and doj. grenell and patel have been given a mandate to clean house according to cbs news and to carry out a top-to-bottom review of the intelligence agencies which the president has routinely criticized since taking office. grenell is expected to lead the odni on a temporary basis, and he is involved in discussions about who will be nominated to fill that position. this morning president trump said he has narrowed his list of candidates down to four or five very respected people. >> ambassador grenell has done a fantastic job. this is just a temporary job. we have five people that we're looking at very seriously, expert people, and at a certain point in the not too distant future, we'll be nouning who they are. >> reporter: -- announcing who they are. >> reporter: democrats

trump berated joseph mcguire, the outgoing acting director of national intelligence, for allowing it to take place. more on the outgoing part in a moment. the report continues: trump excited the briefing, adam schiff who led the impeachment proceedings against him, as a particular irritant. the washington post first reported the oval office confrontation between trump and mcguire. in the wake of all that, trump yesterday, indeed, fired the acting dni mcguire, removing any hope of getting the job on a permanent basis, and installed richard grenell as the new acting dni. grenell is the current u.s. ambassador to germany. it's a job he plans on keeping while serving as acting dni. he's been a vocal supporter of the president. happens to have no intelligence experience. earlier on this network, former oba obama cia director john brennan expressed his concerns about the man. >> somebody who is a loyalist to trump who is going to oversee the 17 intelligence committee agencies. is he going to filter information, is he going to shape it? there are officials in the intelligence community look

this comes as trump was criticized for pushing out joseph mcguire because he was angry that lawmakers on capitol hill were briefed that moscow is interfering to aid his reelection. trump touched on the issue at a las vegas rally on friday. >> i see these phonies, the do nothing democrats, they said today that putin wants to be sure that trump gets elected. here we go again. i was told that was happening. i was told a week ago, they said, you know, they're trying to start a rumor. it's dids informati it's disinformation. do nothing democrats. that putin wants to make sure i get elected. listen to this. so doesn't he want to see who the democrat is going to be? wouldn't he rather have, let's say, bernie? wouldn't he rather have bernie? >> trump on twitter yesterday accused adam schiff of leaking information that russia was helping sanders. schiff was denied the accusations. >>> national security adviser robert o'brien says he's seen no evidence that russia is seeking to aid the president's reelection but said reports that russia is trying to boost bernie sanders' presidential campaign w

the bigger picture, yesterday the pushed aside his acting director of national intelligence, joseph mcguiree he was angry over an intelligence briefing. according to sources speaking with ken dilanian, andrea mitchell and i, it was a warning about speaking about undermining the election. we've c

long, he can act for 210 days, he's quickly making his presence known, on friday predecessor joseph mcguirendrew hoffman resigned, grenell told homa, in that his service was no longer needed. grenell is putting his own team together and first is kash patel, former aide to gop congressman devin nunes who played a key role in investigating alleged abuses by the fbi and doj against trump campaign, grenell and patel have been given mandate to clean house, and to carry out a top to bottom review of the agency, top democrats are outraged over the president's decision given that grenell has never worked for agency and saying it's dangerous for the country. >> what i am worried about is the politicization of intelligence by this administration, the new acting head of intelligence has no background in intel, he's a trump loyalist and i think we all worry about this administration controlling massive amounts of intelligence, massive amounts of classified information leaking it out to the press when it advantages them. >> both the president and grenell said that he would only be seeing the 17 spy agen

to the times, the day after the february 13th briefing to lawmakers, the president reprimanded joseph mcguireplaining that democrats would use the information against him. this week, the president announced he was replacing mcguire with richard benou the embassador to germany. >>> the democrats running for president are fighting the votes in nevada. caroline shively is joining us with the latest in washington. >> democrats are on the attack today. they're trying to knock each other out of the race before super tuesday. meanwhile, president trump is insulting the entire field. >> how about klobuchar, did you see her? bloomberg made a fool out of himself last night. he choked. he's another one. >> but the democrats are giving it right back. >> and, i consider it a badge of honor that the president is finally noticing that i'm running against him and is worried enough about him that he's bringing it up. >> we've got a huge opportunity to build the majority that would not only end the trump presidency but doing it with a big enough win. >> the democrats are also going after each other. former vic

ambassador to germany is a staunch trump supporter and will take the reins after joseph mcguire stepsing sharp criticism within the intelligence community when stacked up to his predecessor it's more staggering, navy admirals, defense directors some of the positions former dni chiefs have held before taking this job. what does this mean for america's security moving forward? >> cnn's national security correspondent is with me now in washington, and vivian, going through the list, past directors have clocked decades in the intelligence community. why him? >> reporter: that's right. well, like you said, he's a trump loyalist and this is a time, especially now, where president trump is deferring a lot of top jobs to people that he trusts, that he knows are loyal to them, that he doesn't feel are going to, say, leak or do anything that would undermine his administration, and so obviously it's a time where the president is quite sensitive about this, and grenell has been particularly an outspoken advocate for president trump's policies overseas, and he was a very controversial figure when

gri nel, an openly gay fox news commentator, would replace joseph mcguire. as director of national intelligence, he would be the principle adviser on intelligence issues that oversee the fbi, cia, the national security agency. he has been a controversial figure in part because of his outspoken views on twitter, he has faced scrutiny for tweets targeting hillary clinton, michelle obama, rachel maddow. >>> a lawyer for wikileaks founder julian assange claims that an ally of president trump offered a pardon in exchange for denying russia hacked the democratic committee in 2016. the former republican congressman made the offer to assange on behalf of trump in 2015, at the ecuadorian embassy. nbc news was not present at the hearing and it's unclear if evidence was provided to back up the statement, the former congressman defeated in 2018 denied the claim in a statement reading in part quote at no time did i talk to president trump about julian assange. when speaking with assange, i told him if he could provide me information and evidence about who actually gave h

that the white house was not happy with the outgoing acting director of national intelligence joseph mcguire for that briefing. on twitter, president trump calling it a misinformation campaign by democrats in congress. a kremlin spokes person says the meddling warnings are false. >> these are more paranoid announcements to our regret closer to the u.s. election. they certainly have nothing to do with the truth. >> the president believed chairman adam schiff would use the briefing information against him. schiff tweeting if reports are true, and the president is interfering with that, he is again jeopardyizing our efforts to stop foreign meddling. all members of congress to condemn the president's report of efforts and to politisize. as he searches for a permanent dni. one name floated by the president, congressman doug collins who says he doesn't want the job. >> i know the problems in our community, but this is not a job that interests me. >> speaker pelosi also announced on twitter on march march 10th, there would be an election security briefing for members. in washington, lauren blanchar

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presidential election and the fallout from that led the president to remove acting intelligence director joseph mcguire and install that loyalist that you mentioned, richard grenell, the apologize to germany. since all this have has come to light the president has attacked this assessment from intelligence officials as a disinformation hoax, as you mentioned, he also went after it not just on twitter, but at his rally in las vegas yesterday. take a listen. >> i was told a week ago they said, you know, they're trying to start a rumor, it's disinformation, that's the only thing they're good at, they are not good at anything else, they get nothing done. do nothing democrats. that putin wants to make sure i get elected. listen to this. so doesn't he want to see who the democrat is going to be? wouldn't he rather have, let's say, bernie? wouldn't he rather have bernie who honeymooned in moscow? these people are crazy. >> reporter: grenell started off on the job this week with some aggressive moves including according to the "new york times" getting rid of a long-time veteran of the intelligence community, h

. >> yet the president dismissed his intelligence chief involved in that briefing, joseph mcguire.ie sanders also confirmed intel officials told his campaign a month ago that russia is trying to help him, too. >> here's the message. to russia. stay out of american elections. >> joining me now, representing the white house, is vice president pence's chief of staff, marc short. welcome back to "meet the press." >> thanks for having me back. >> just a basic question, does the predbelieve russia is trying to interfere in the 2020 election? >> i think russia and other nations have consistently tried to interfere in the elections. the question was an assertion that russia was intentionally trying to help donald trump. that's different than foreign nations looking to undermine america's democracy. they always try to do that. >> he called it a disinformation campaign, the president himself. he believes his intel officials are passing on disinformation to him? >> no, chuck. what he believes is that the people leading the house intelligence committee, particularly chairman schiff, intentiona

and this goes to the fact the head of national intelligence, joseph mcguire was sacked the other day,portedly because he was telling congress about this russian meddling. so we have a situation where you have a president who potentially is rejecting intelligence that he doesn't like. >> i mean, to that point, alex, you have o'brien this morning commenting on reports about russia trying to help the sanders campaign. take a listen. >> how is russia interfering in the 2020 election? >> well, there are these reports that they want bernie sanders to get elected president. that's no surprise. he honey mooned in moscow. >> to dan's point about how dangerous it is, what is o'brien doing there? >> i mean, i think, again, he is trying to respond to suggestions they are trying to help president trump and they are trying to muddy the waters and say, no, russia actually wants bernie sanders. i believe in another interview he suggested that it was because bernie sanders visited the soviet union in the '80s n. another interview he suggests it was because bernie sanders wants to withdraw from the mil

reported that president trump was angry when he was told about this briefing and he confronted joseph mcguirelaced him with current ambassador jeremy richard. that's all true, isn't it? >> that's not true. i was in that meeting. the president was not angry with joe mcguire. he thinks very highly of admirable mcguire, and would elect him to stay in government in a different role, but as you know, his time as the acting dni was up in a week or two. we were looking for someone who was senate confirmed under the vacancy act. we needed a senate-confirmed official to replace him, and we went with a highly qualified senate ambassador grenell. he was there for a temporary period of time. we expect to nominate a terrific candidate for a full-time director of the dni, submit them for senate confirmation, and the president and i will urge for the senate to move quickly to confirm a full-time confirmed director of the national intelligence, or the director of the national intelligence to get someone there through the election and take this out of politics. >> as you know, your critics -- the president's

the president make moves when he came to his director of national intelligence he got rid of joseph mcguire who had had a long time intelligence basically work experience he was there in an acting role so he and the president announced that he was leaving and richard gere now the ambassador to germany with no intelligence experience was going to be temporarily taking on the job now we can't directly say it was because the president was upset that this briefing happened because as an acting capacity he was going to mcguire was going to have to leave at the beginning of march anyway because they can only serve for so long in that job that said the president is announcing on twitter preaches this is caused a lot of controversy i mean this is a position where you're in charge of the 17 intelligence agencies making sure they coordinate made sure the president has the right intel to make sure they can avoid another 911. having no experience was controversial so the president's tweeted out that he is for good candidates for the job and he'll be announcing those in just the next few weeks. thank yo

idea of a purge in your administration, there was recently the departure of your acting dni, joseph mcguire. you replaced him with your ambassador to germany. medics have pointed out that renell has noeg intelligence experience. how can you justify to the american people having and acting director of national intelligence with no experience? pres. trump: first of all, i want no help and have been given no help from any country. cnn, wonderful network. i guess they apologized in a way that didn't they apologize for the fact that they said certain things that were not true? tell me, what was the apology yesterday, what did they say? i think: mr. president, our record on delivering the truth is a lot better than ours. pres. trump: your record is so bad, he ought to be ashamed of yourself. the worst in the history of broadcasting. as far as maguire is concerned, he is a terrific guy. on march 11, his time and it anyway. we would have had -- his time anyway, so by statute, we would've had to change it. reporter: will your new odni have experience. pres. trump: we are talking to five people right

brunel is replacing joseph mcguire who has been acting director since august.ch as he lifts his fist and throws jabs. the suspect realizing he was outmatched, runs off. police in wales are still looking for him. look at him go. >> i bet you he has boxing background. our shot of the morning. thanks. straight ahead bloomberg firing back at bernie sanders on the debate stage. >> the best known socialist in the country happens to be a millionaire with three houses. what did i miss here? >> heading into the nevada caucus weekend. >> whoopi goldberg takes on aoc for her comments about older democrats. >> it sounds like you were missing, bothered by hell out of me. >> joe crowley used to have her congressional seat, joining us live. we can't calculate our total taxes? do you realize how many otal different taxes we pay? sales tax, different p-o-s systems in all seven countries. and online sales? that's a whole other system... and different regulations. therere'realal eate e crits,s, . and we have no way to integrate all that? no... but bdo does. peopopleho k kno knono

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intelligence from his own administration, including ousted acting director of national intelligence, joseph mcguirecurrent meddling. >> i was told a week ago. they said, you know, they're trying to start a rumor. it's disinformation. >> but democratic front-runner bernie sanders confirming that officials have told his campaign that russia is actively trying to help him win. and responded with warning for the russian president. >> let me tell mr. putin. the american people, whether you're republicans, democrats, independents, are sick and tired of seeing russia and other countries interfere in our election. >> before "the washington post" exclusive report came out that russia was actively working to help senator sanders and other reports that trump wants to see trump re-elected, trump suggested if putin interfered in the election, he would do so in favor of sanders. >> wouldn't he rather have bernie? who honeymooned in moscow. >> trump's comments coming as ambassador richard grenell takes over as acting director of national intelligence amid criticism about his qualifications. >> this is dangerous t

joseph maguire of the briefing. a claim that the white house has refuted. mcguire will be replaced by the ambassador to germany. president is considering 4 candidates for the permanent position a will decide in the next few weeks. in washington, lauren blanchard, fox news. >>> coming up on the four, deadly crash on highway 101. a good samaritan was killed for trying to help another driver. >>> after four days of deliberating, the jury in the harvey weinstein trial is deadlocked. we will break down the case with michael cardoza, next. growing up in la, bad air forced us indoors. and now we have to deal with this. climate change is an emergency. that's why i wrote the nation's most progressive climate law. and that's why i'm endorsing tom steyer. because when big oil tried to stop our clean air laws, he led us to victory. same with the keystone pipeline. when tom says we can save the world and do it together believe him. i'm tom steyer and i approve this message. i work hard and i want my money to work hard too. so i use my freedom unlimited card. even when i'm spending, i'm earning 1.5% cash back on everything i

dennis mcguire, many thought that the controversial drug midazolam would no longer be used in executions. but less than six months later, arizona announced they would use midazolam on inmate josephy of murdering his ex-girlfriend and her father in 1989. >> we were very aware about what happened with the execution of dennis mcguire, so we asked the department of correction for information about the source of the drugs and the qualifications of the executioners and wardens, and the state of arizona told us to go pound sand. it would not disclose the source of the drugs, and it said, trust us, the people that are going to be doing this are qualified. >> why all the secrecy? because i think the departments of corrections would like to take care of this ugly little business in as efficient a way as possible. they have a job to do. they have executions to carry out. if people start raising questions about where the drugs come from, who the doctor is, then it slows down the process. >> joseph wood was taken to the execution chamber at the state penitentiary in florence on july 23rd, 2014. at 1:52 p.m., the state of arizona injected wood with 50 milligrams of midazolam. five times the a

way that the president admonish or berate joseph maguire, and that in fact, he was already sad to leave the administration in about three weeks. replacing mcguireith ambassador to germany rick mikell and here he was prepping to overhaul the intel office and partisan sounding the alarm. >> of the intelligence community, who is going in there? of someone who has no experience, no credentials as far as the intelligence committee is concerned. they can only see this is one more example that they are not being allowed to do their job. >> worth noting that his tenure is acting dni extends to be a short one. the president's expected name and permanent intel director in the near future. kristin. >> kristin: trace, thank you, and when president trump called the intelligence report that russia is trying to help him get reelected and information campaign. >> they said today, that putin wants to be sure that trump gets elected, here we go again. would you rather have bernie come up with you rather have bernie? who honeymooned in moscow? >> kristin: for analysis, former deputy assistant attorney general, john u. of john, let's start with the bernie sanders

intelligence joseph maguire and it is happening again said the president again, meaning that the democrats like chairman adam schiff and thothe in the briefing would use it against him, and now, mcguireso is the number two, and taking over as the acting dni is the u.s. ambassador to germany rick grenell, a staunch trump loyalist with no experience in intelligence matters. and democrats blasting the choice as evidence that the president values loyalty over objective intelligence and risking national security. >> what we are seeing is more and more that the national community is becoming a propaganda arm of the white house. >> reporter: as november approaches, the intelligence officials are sounding the alarm about russia's continuing and evolving tactics and a source familiar with pearson's briefing said that russia will hack, weaponize social media and attack the election infrastructure of the united states which will fuel chaos and questions about the integrity of the election process. one new tactic that the russians will use according to "the new york times" is working from within servers in the united states rather than abroad to hinder the u.s. intelligence agencies who are proh