i will will mention that mark warner is not here but there are republicans. i just thought i would throw that in there. bipartisan of course so i think that's so important and that is something that the caucus certainly recognizes and we are going to build on it. >> let's talk about cybersecurity. one of the initiatives the secretary pompeo announced this morning was the cybersecurity initiative. in terms of the digital economy and trade between the u.s. and ampy and the pacific region can you talk about the importance of cybersecurity in a relationship? >> it's an important area for cooperation. i will tell you i think the u.s. needs to get its own house in order. it's talking about cooperation on cybersecurity and laying out what our strategy is. it hasn't really been a strong suit of the previous administration or the trump administration. we still need to have a much more integrated approach that brings an coming up secretary ross here, the department of defense. we still really need to figure out exactly how we are going to implement our own cybersecurit

joining me now is mark warner, vice chair of the senate intel committee.t last question there. i'll admit, i'm still confused about michael cohen. do you believe michael cohen testified honestly to you in that committee? >> you know, chuck, i don't know. he testified one set of facts. we asked after we heard some of those stories whether he stood by his testimony. his lawyer said yes. but it seems like mr. cohen is now willing to perhaps tell all to mueller. i understand to our committee, so my hope is we will have a chance to have him back and ask him about that, the trump tower meeting, ask him about the attempt to try to build a trump tower ain moscow that he was involved in. and one of the more critical questions which his lawyer alluded to, that he has knowledge that mr. trump knew of the russian e-mail hacking and potentially was coordinating some of that release. i don't know what to believe. again, when you're talking about cohen and mr. trump in terms of both of their willingness to tell the truth, you get into a fairly shady area. >> hey, would y

. >>> also with us, the top democrat of the senate intelligence committee, mark warner. >>> and the breaking news today, good day, i'm andrea mitchell in washington, a lot to cover. we're following breaking news in the manafort bank and tax fraud trial. the jury in alexandria submitting a note with a question to the judge. let's go to nbc intelligence and national security correspondent ken dilanian outside the courthouse in virginia tracking all of this. ken? >> that's right, andrea. the jury asked the judge what they should do essentially if they're deadlocked on a single count. now, that suggests to many people they're not deadlocked on the other 17 counts in the case. we should be careful about that because we don't know obviously if they've reached a verdict on those counts, whether it's guilty or not guilty. but most legal observers think the evidence is strong enough that an acquittal on 17 counts would be a shock, would be a stunner. they're looking at this as positive for the prosecution and bad for the defense. the jury is back in deliberations after having received instructions fr

that shows you the kind of juvenile mind that sits in the head of mark warner.rmance as a united states senator is not only awkward and unseemly, it's an embarrassment to the united states senate. he has brought ill repute on the senate by his drunken statement at the party. >> he also has a bad memory. did he forget about the clinton enemy list? why didn't he mention that? >> lou: he is not if not a swamp creature of convenience, we can say. >> indeed. >> it's easy for him, perhaps, to put out of his mind but the rest of us can't his efforts with waldman of endeavor, lobbying firm to try to back channel a contact with steele, christopher steele, the mi-6 -- the former mi-6 spy who authored the fake dossier that became the trigger, the tripling point if you will -- tripling point if you will -- tripping point if you will ad nauseam. >> have you paid the conversation with the russian yet? >> lou: it's humorous and delightful to hear him seeking from the fraudulent call, pretending to be a russian agent if you will. pictures of the president in compromising positi

of the dangerous abuses of free unrestrained speech on social media platforms politicians like mark warner the democrat out of virginia are putting political pressure on social media and tech giants to root out and clean up speech that capitol hill deems it appropriate dangerous this pressure has caused companies like facebook to seek help from rather curious political groups like the atlantic council on whose board matt taibbi in a recent rolling stone article observed you'll find confidence inspiring names like henry kissinger former cia chief michael hayden former acting cia had mike morrell and former bush era homeland security chief michael chertoff are on tire of interest they sat down with you to discuss the slippery slope of facebook friends censorship. is this kind of push for the corporate policing of free speech. and political content it kind of his manifesto itself you know recently with kind of facebook executives teaming up with a group of the atlantic council to decide you know what is you know fake news and bad political speech and what is good news and good political speec

mark warner is a ranking democrat, glad to see the white house do something about election security even if it is only a press conference. if only it was backed up by anything the president has said or done on russia. they have offered briefings to senate democrats on what is happening in the election and it is negative so far. >> i was once an intern for senator warner many years ago. the problem senator warner and others have is there is no one seemingly in charge. what we heard today in the briefing with the fbi director, great descriptions of what they are doing as an agency. we can't flatfoot in 2016 but who is running it? we had someone brought in to compile all the data, be the person in charge, you handle this part. he was running at this time? shannon: you heard from secretary neilsen today. and former ambassador john bolton, national security adviser, he outlined everything. if you want to see the letter, talked about all the things they are doing, cyber security experts conduct vulnerability investments, provide expertise and incident response and facilitated training and exer

senator mark warner, the ranking democrat on the senate intelligence she and threat noing take action against the president if -- threatening to take action against the if the if he revokes more clearance, writing, i will introduce a memo to block the president from revoking security clearances. stay tuned. this after the "washington post" reports that president trump has drawn up the papers to remove the security clearances, and aides are weighing when to do so, potentially waiting to execute on the decisions when an opportune time coming along. >> all right. air sarah westwood, thank you. >>> errol lewis with us as well as opinion columnist for "the hill" and former democratic aide. good morning to both of you. >> good morning. >> errol, i to twant to start w you. is this essentially the list we're seeing an enemies list of people who have done the president wrong in his mind? i don't know the validity of e tthe -- what the validity would be. >> an attempt to intimidate and influence and obstruct the ongoing probe into possible links between the russians and the trump campaign in 20

chairman richard burr and vice chairman mark warner issued this statement saying --" "today we learnedn campaigns to sow discord and disinformation through social media began well before the 2016 elections. and continue to this day." "new york times" publisher arthur a.g. salsberger complaining to president trump about the potential for violence against journalists. i appears his pape -- it appears his paper and the rest of the national left wing media are not interested in actual violence like you are seeing here against supporters of president trump. the hypothetical and the real. not under suggestion by salsberger. last week a u.s. marine was assaulted in hollywood by left wing attackers because he was wearing his trump jersey and a usa hat. the national left wing media correspondent cnn's jim acosta whining after being heckled by trump supporters at the rally in tampa last night. the massive crowd booing and chanting. there, there he is. as he tried to, well, to broadcast his very important report on live television. and apparently he was triggered somewhat. triggered. later on, ac

senator mark warner on the intelligence committee is threatening to take action. he tweeted i will be introducing an amendment next week to block the president from punishing and intimidating his critics by arbitrarily revoking security clearances, stay tuned. this comes as the washington post is reporting president trump has already drawn up the papers to remove the clearances from those nine officials and aides are waiting for the ideal time to execute. victor, kristi. >> all right, sarah westwood, we appreciate it, thank you. white house correspondent for usa today is here and kimberly dozeer, cnn analyst. greg, we want to start with you, i want to start where sarah left off there with mark warner. his proposal was he'll be introducing this amendment next week. any indication he has enough support to make that anne and how effective would it be, if so? >> obviously, this is a republican controlled congress on both sides of the hill. first you have that hurdle. also you have a legal hurdle in that traditionally the president has been the ultimate desired of what

there was an effort on the hill at this hour led by senator mark warner of virginia. the vice chairman of the committee to pre strength president from doing just that. >> and i want to read this tweet from the president over the weekend. study late joseph mccarthy. we are now in a period with mueller and his gang that makes joseph mccarthy look like a baby. rigged witch hunt. >> what would it look like if republicans on the hill reared up and said, enough. what would it look like if the president pulled a few more critical security clearances, for example? >> at this point, brian, based on my reporting, the republican party, they're fully with president trump ahead of the mid-term elections to drag them across the finish line as they face possible blue wave. at this point some people are privately grumbling if the president moves on mueller or rosenstein, they will speak up. so far the notable people speaking up are those who have chosen to retire or those who have decided to leave office. >> and joyce, what should we glean from mr. cohen's silence of late? what are t

the top republican and the top democrat on the intelligence committee, senators richard burr and mark warner, they had been asked to alert local officials in florida to this fact, although he said he couldn't elaborate any more publicly on what the threat was. the response was swift. the department of homeland security that they had seen no new compromise by russians actors. the florida secretary of state said he too had zero information to support those claims. governor rick scott of florida is running against bill nelson for senate. he came out and suggested that bill nelson was making stuff out. the two republican that's he claimed had knowledge of this, burr and rubio, neither one is denying what bill nelson has. said. and then late started to appear to be taking these allegations a little more seriously. they responded by basically scoffing at the senator. then late on friday, the secretary of state wrote a letter to the homeland security department and the fbi asking to reaffirm their commitment to working with florida officials to share any knowledge of florida's threat to systems. th

mark warner, ranking senate on the intelligence committee, is threatening to take action to prevent president trump from making these moves on security clearances. he said in a tweet, "i will be introducing an amendment next week to block the president from punishing and intimidating his critics by arbitrarily revoking security clearances. stay tuned. the white house is weighing the opportune time to remove the security clearances. potential we'll have to wait -- potentially we'll have to wait until the next busy news day to see those come to fruition. >> we appreciate it. thank you. >>> that's where i want to start with walter schwab, cnn contributor and former director of the office of government ethics and julienne zelz -- julian zelizer, professor at princeton university. welcome back. julian, i want to start with you where sarah left off. in the reporting of the "washington post," the president prepared to sign most if not all to revoke the clearances of others. and the "post" said they're discussing the opt men and women time to release them as a distraction during unfavorable news cycl

. >> bret: mark warner another saying. reaction from capitol hill.rennan is not working for the government anymore. he doesn't need a clearance. he's a partisan actor working to undermine the current commander-in-chief." >> i think everybody is right. i agree with matt that it's unprecedented and i agree that brennan behaved in ways that previous cia directors haven't, and it was an abuse of privilege that he had. i think he was not a particularly good intelligence official throughout the obama years and did a lot of things i criticized at the time. at the same time, this is clearly for political cover. it was in the works. they had some kind of case that said break glass in case of omarosa. >> bret: july 26 is when this statement. >> to me, it's similar to the tariffs against canada which are justified on national security grounds. there is no national security threat from trade with canada. this is the authority that the president is invoking to basically do something wrinkly political and personal. the fact that brennan had it coming is a good def

. >> that was mark warner, democratic of virginia. because of the omarosa's book and the effect on the trump white house. that's what's behind his belief, the shiny object, an opportunity to change subject. all the accusations and secret recordings from manigault-newman. despite reports that advisers and allies urged trump to hold his fire on this one. came this early this morning on "fox and friends," the co-host suggested that the president was playing right into omarosa's hand. this is interesting when the president sedom misses a syllable on "fox and friends." >> she seems to out smart the president who taken the bait and gone out and tweeted right after it. >> joining us now our white house reporter, she's in our studio in capitol hill, jill, from the very beginning ... it was always our singular focus, a distinct determination. to do whatever it takes, use every possible resource. to fight cancer. and never lose sight of the patients we're fighting for. our cancer treatment specialists share the same vision. experts from all ove

mark warner of virginia is the senate intelligence committee's vi chairman. senator warner, welcome back to the program. >> thank you. >> woodruff: so president trump is repeating today that neither one of these velopments yesterday had anything to do with the mueller russia investigation. what is your read on the guilty plea and verdict yesterday? >> well, let's look -- take lo step back an at what we've seen in the last 24 hours. the president's campaign manager guilty of ight serious fennelies felonies, po ytentialy rs in jail, the president's long-time fixer guilty. comes on the national security advisor pleading guilty, 30 other indictmen from the mueller investigation, five other guilty pleas, the president's attorney general having to recuse himself. this president tries to, in a sense, live in an alternative world where the facts matter but the real facts are closing in. in the case of mr. cohen, mr. cohen's guilty plea where he seems to have indicted the president in terms of a campaign violation, i'll let other lawyers make the judgment on that, but

mark warner is smart enough to know that it's not the case. we will see over the next couple years a couple of credit times to ran facebook and that though probably not go anywhere for some time. >> kind of speaking to that directly having read the book, it seems like there is this techno- determinism in the book once you implement the technology in this techno- optimism and everything keeps getting better. can you talk more about the idea . >> one of my mentors years ago and another call to not believe. his mentor and the idea was than human beings are completely different animals. that's actually pretty powerful technology. technological determinism doesn't actually map to human experience beyond a simple technology that has profound effects like a lightbulb. if you take something most simplistic, much more complicated in creative ways, by introducing a turntable and you don't change at one particular way in one particular direction. it's supposed to rotate at 33.5 minutes -- per minute. some people move it this way. in create rhythm monitor

thanks very much >>> outfront tonight, senator mark warner, the top democrat of course on the senate intelligence committee. thank you for taking the time tonight. >> thank you, jim. >> as you know, your republican colleague, senator graham, says that the president's relationship, in his words, with the attorney general is, quote, beyond repair. in your view is sessions' position as attorney general in particular danger now from the president? >> it is so hard to predict this president on virtually anything. what i think is important is we've got to preserve the mueller investigation, and if the president were to try to fire or remove sessions, that the mueller investigation's integrity needs to be driven and guided by rod rosenstein and not some person that would -- the president might try to put in to try to stop the investigation. let's step back a moment and look. i think there's no surprise in my mind as the walls start closing in on this beleaguered white house, when you've got the president's campaign manager convict, when you have the president's personal lawyer pleading guil

senator mark warner, the ranking member of the senate intelligence committee was going to speak about the president's move to clamp down on those that have been critical of him, including the former director, brennan. let's listen in. >> thanks for coming out. what we've seen today is one more traditional norm being struck down by this president and the white house. the norm of our intelligence officials has been cast aside. it appears that this is a white house that feels under siege because of his former campaign manager's trial and obviously some of the issues with his former staffer, omarosa. this is an attempt to distract the american public from those items that this white house faces on a daily basis. i guess to me this had an eerie memory of an enemy's list. these people were being singled out to have either their clearances revoked or in the process of being revoked to me smacks of nixonian practices, trying to fire anyone that is willing to criticize this president. that puts us in unchartered territory. i wonder if this president, again -- i thought there was a bit of an ir

then we have a suite for mark warner, raking democrat on the senate intel committee. "glad to see the white house finally do something about election security even if it's only a press conference. now if only it was backed up by anything the president has said or done on russia." we find out they have offered briefing to senate democrats on what's happening with the election and it sounds like they haven't taken it so far, bradley. >> full disclosure, i was once an burr senator warner, many years ago. the problem they have is that there is no one in charge. what we heard today in the briefing with these officials, dni, fbi director, individuals like that, great descriptions of what they are doing as an agency. that is great, we got caught flat-footed in 2016, they are doing better. that's great. who is running at? we had an ebola scare a few years ago, we brought someone into compile, compile the data, be the person in charge. you do this, you handle this part. he was running at? >> shannon: it seems like a lot of it is coming from department of homeland security. we

then, over the weekend, senator mark warner, top democrat on the intelligence committee, he put out aly backing senator bill nelson up directly, saying senator nelson was right to warn election officials in his state about this, quote, very serious and ongoing threat to our democracy. quote, i urge officials at all levels to government to heed the warning and work with dhs and the fbi to address the threat. so we don't know yet how this gets worked out or if partisans in florida will stop treating this as something that is just going to be something they fight about in terms of bill nelson's in terms of bill nelson's re-election and they start treating it as something that needs to be protected in terms of people turning out to vote. apparently the florida's secretary of state's website can be hacked by an 11-year-old in less than ten minutes and senator nelson is standing by this very provocative claim now underscored by other senators of both parties that, right now, ahead of the midterms, russian hackers are already inside florida's voting ridegistration systems with freedom to mov

virginia senator mark warner is the ranking democrat on the senate intelligence committee.utes before air. the response from your republican colleagues has been pretty deafening. mitch mcconnell hasn't said one word about what's been going on. what do you make of that? i mean, is there anything that could make them possibly speak out? >> well, let's see how this proceeds, but what can they say if they're trying to defend the president when the president's campaign manager, guilty of eight counts and has got another trial in less than a month that will explore his ties to ukraine, pro-russian leaders and oligarchs, that could even be more damaging to the president, and the president's lawyer and fixer not only pleading guilty and accusing the president of breaking the law around campaign finances, but voluntarily saying he's got information for mueller and my understanding is his lawyer at least said he would come before our committee and give information, as well. we've got questions about what he knew about trump's knowledge of the hacked e-mails and how they were used to

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senator mark warner, thank you for joining us on "prime time." >> thank you, chris. >> so your committeen it put out the senate select committee on intelligence statement on paul manafort, saying in part, the verdict makes it absolutely clear that the mueller probe is not a witch hunt. what is the significance first, on this monumental day, of manafort to you? >> well, you've got the president's campaign manager convicted of eight counts of serious federal crimes, and that's just his first trial. there's another trial that's scheduled in september, and this is one of those days that we may look back on, not only the president's campaign manager guilty, the president's personal lawyer guilty, microsoft, one of the technology companying acknowledging further russian intervention realtime this year with efforts to split our country and potentially impede with the 2018 elections. and then earlier today in our banking committee hearing, the administration officials in an administration where there's nobody in the white house in charge of election security, stumbling over answers of how they c

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elizabeth warren, mark warner.emocrats are circling around this notion of readdressing this about how important they see it to protect mueller. you heard in lindsey graham's statement, a nod to this as well. this is where the political conversation on capitol hill is going to move from the democrats to put pressure on the republicans to speak up about the need to protect mueller. >> you agree? >> yes, the president and his legal team were hoping the verdict in the manafort case would go their way so that they could make the case that mueller should shut down his investigation and amplify the political pressure on robert mueller. they did not get that, obviously, with manafort being found guilty on eight counts. it's important to note as they're trying to frame this as no evidence of collusion, part of why mueller retained the case with respect to manafort was in order to gain leverage on charges unrelated to the election. that's part of how he was able to compel rick gates to cooperate and one of the open questions

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matter and the republican party is perhaps a different picture there are some republicans like mark warner saying this is proof this is not a witch hunt we should leave robert miller alone to get on with this investigation but i think the vast majority of republicans will support their president but i think what we have to do here is look beyond what's going on today and look to november and those midterm elections they are already being framed as the most important midterm elections in a generation if the democrats when i drove the houses here that could essentially change everything because if they get control the house of representatives for instance they could then push to go ahead and go after president trump so there's a lot of play here we still haven't had any direct comment from the white house on what happened with michael cohen sara could be sanders when she was asked yesterday referred reporters to donald trump's outside counsel but this is something that the president cannot really push off any longer he has to address what happened with michael cohen he has to address the imp

platforms nay said specifically we cannot link these to russia that's what they set and then of course mark warner you know who's this big russia gator democrat from virginia senator he comes out and says see this is proof that the kremlin is continuing to meddle with our democracy yet facebook themselves dead they couldn't tie it to russia so that's what happens is something you know facebook gives them a little bit of a breadcrumb and then they start making up stories linking it to russia it's absolute madness but here's where also gets interesting in that piece that you referred to in his moto you know these activists were trying to figure out well what makes you think these things are suspicious and apparently it has to do with people running these pages using v p n's or two or and then the question was asked the facebook well is that what you're saying if someone uses a v.p.n. or tor that they're automatically you know have to be russian and facebook wouldn't respond they wouldn't give any other reasons that they thought it was suspicious so it's a really it's a really sketchy time we live in

this coming from a republican senator and senator mark warner, a democrat.following closely the michael cohen case. they say what we can say is we recently reengaged with mr. cohen and his team following press reports that suggested he had advanced the knowledge of the june 2016 meeting with campaign officials in russian attorneys at empower. they go on -- at trump tower. big want to say he stands by his testimony, michael cohen's original testimony and they hope the developments in the plea agreement will not preclude his appearance before our committee as needed for our ongoing investigation. , andlicans are now democrats from the senate intelligence committee, putting this out saying he could still testify before congress. caroline: we have more breaking details, manafort is found guilty on all five tax four counts it would seem -- tax fraud counts it would seem. we are starting to get the details leaking out and kevin, you are still hearing from other lawmakers as we speak? >> yes. has emergedng that as the top committee and the senate is investigating a

mark warner is smart enough to know that isn't the case and we are going to see a couple of good attempts but they are probably not going to go anywhere for quite some time a and. >> having read the book it seems there's this determinism around once you implement a everything just keeps getting better. can you talk about not? >> determinism, which one of my mentors wrote this important book and then another follow-up look is very much a technological determinist. the idea was if you introduce the technology, you change everything. you introduced the light bulb and human beings are suddenly different animals. they run their day differently. if you're going to make an argument the liberals ar that le pretty good that the case study. the problem is it doesn't map out to the human experience beyond a simple technology that has had a profound effect like the lightbulb. if you take something less simplistic and more complicated like the turntable, you will see that you don't necessarily change it in on one particular y or production because of coursee it is supposed to rotate this day that some

prayed to are like what all this kind of really smells like to me is summed up in our good buddy mark warner of the vice chairman of the u.s. intelligence committee in the senate announced from his pulpit on tuesday i've been saying for months that there's no way the problem of social media manipulate. ation is limited to a single troll farm and so you petersburg and the fact is now beyond a doubt what this is to me and what it smells like is we're going to use creepy oh and people are going to convince the world that all commit suicide via social media and burn the united states down to the ground we're going to convince a room we can do that and it's going to become like nine eleven for terrorism it's like any group we don't like any country we don't like we're going to say they're out there manipulating our social media and they're evil and let's go after him as pretty much i think what we're seeing from this point forward. diplomacy is our very first line of defense against hostility whether it be militarily or economically but these days sanctions are the name of the game a game the u.s

. >> yeah, mark warner made that very point yesterday within minutes of this announcement coming out. brennan has been very outspoken about the president, and he is not holding any punches. a handful of national security experts and some of his former colleagues wondered whether or not how much this is really helping. but his comments have been political, not this is buputtin at risk national security treatments. and the statement referred to social media outbursts. and a reason for pulling national security clearance which the last one was just 24 hours earlier, referring to trump's response to omarosa. >> and again the president was asked why there are no supporters of yours on this list right now. michael flynn still has his security clearance, and he of course has plead guilty to lying to investigators and he made many political supporters outload. how did the president justify that? >> you know, we didn't ask specifically about michael flin, but one of the reasons he want today keep omarosa on, behind the recommendation from his chief of staff, is that she said great things about