lee carter come if he did vc partner mitch cia operatives mike baker. the only reason we both do is to show you the video. >> everybody's going crazy. it's the best publicity we've had in ages but it's a wonderful city. i know people say what is he talking about. they called boise idaho the fastest growing city in america. dagen: it's because you have like 80 children. we are going to cover the world for you this morning in the next three hours with mike, mitch emily. trade tensions escalating. chinese state media bashing president trump state tax x same policies of extortion and intimidation won't work. the commander-in-chief with view of the situation voicing support for his negotiating style same tariffs are working. tariffs are working big time. every country on earth wants to take while part of the united states always to a document. i say if they can't tax them. if they don't want to be taxed, let them make her belly product in the u.s. in either event it means jobs and great wealth because of tariffs we will be able to start paying down large amo

turning me now is mike baker, former cia officer and president diligent llc.ng. the replacement host. [laughter] >> oh, please. you're solidly in the egg category, tom. don't be so self updating. tom: deftly fishing for a company. great news to see these remains come back and i don't know if the answerable question but why weren't other presidents, other and ministrations, able to get this done? >> well, in part because the policies did not allow for it in the sense that no direct negotiations are discussed with the regime, either with kim, his dad or granddad. times have changed and we have - obviously, we are uniquely different in ministration led by president trump. we don't want to make too much of this. just like we do not want to make too much of the june meeting. it was great that they were able to get together and have that meeting but there was never any belief that that one meeting in june was somehow going to lead to swift denuclearization of the peninsula. it's a step or one-step and if we do get to the point where north korea is serious about this

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covert operations officer mike baker joins us now.o excited to talk to you this morning about it. what do you think the president's motive was here? >> b. optics certainly looking at it from an outside. john brennan has a right to say whatever wants to say. that is protected under the first amendment. his talk is essentially unprecedented when you look a other former directors have behaved. i can't get inside president trump. he got to a point where john brennan had probably stepped over a line in turns out his criticism became more of not just criticism, actively working against the current administration. >> is he a national security risk? >> no, no, i don't think so. we have to be measured in this. i think we would prefer that john brennan be more circumspect about what she says and seniority. also greatly preferred the president were more discrete in his public comments in tweets. that's not going to happen. that's not where we are. do i think john brennan is a security risk? no, i do not. i would prefer to have seen him be much m

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here to discuss, mike baker. great to see you. what do you make of this.as the wrong thing for trump to do, using this as retribution would be a problem and bad precedent. but brennan was vociferous in an unprecedented way. do you side with the majority of voters? >> i hope we don't devolve the clearance process into a public opinion poll. that might not be where we want to go with this. i haven't seen the sampling for that survey you are referring to. but part of this was their surprise that brennan or jim comey or any of these individuals when they leave their job would still have their clearances. i think most of people in the general public, that comes as a surprise to them. but to your point, to your question. john brennan has to right to say whatever he wants to say. but he doesn't have a right to a clearance. the way he has done this. this is an unseemly public spat. i think week all agree wherever we are on the political pick trump we appreciate not see this. but john brennan was unprecedented in the way he has been acting. i think the president, t

mike baker here with me now. ke, good to see you. >> thank you. >> i would think economic pressure works. am i right? >> yeah. it can. this is a very complex issue. it's the right thing to do. and look, i'm not against a deal with iran. but the previous deal from 2015 was not in our favor. and one of the primary reasons -- people always want to say look, they were complying with it why didn't you get out of it complying with it only complied with the part that they agreed to. and they did not agree to any inspections of military facilities in iran. so, we have inspection of the sites agreed to. but, you know, it's like telling a serial killer you can't go look in the basement. >> trish: i get it part of the problem too in that case they were economically in a much better position. and if you are economically better off, then maybe can you still work on all those things you are not supposed to be working on. >> primarily regional adventure us. the idea of being here in part is that if we can limit the money going i

joining us now, mike baker, former cia guy who's with us now.d when i saw brennan wants to keep security clearance to make money? what do you make of that? >> look, john brennan is a very experienced individual, and you know, he doesn't need his clearance to make money. unless he's planning on working for a commercial business that has a particular project where he need that clearance, otherwise he's not relevant. he's looking commentating. i'm sure he's going to be doing well with the speeches. i'm sure a book in the works. what he means by that is in a broader sense is the world of security clearance in washington, d.c. and the surrounding area is all about currency, right? if you have security clearance, that means the company doesn't have to go to the time, expense and difficulties of getting you cleared. getting your tickets. and sponsoring that seat for you within the clearance community. so that's what he's talking about. stuart: look, i would say you don't need that security clearance, you don't have it. that would go for most former sen

i want to go to a former cia op mike baker. mike, walk me through the history russia has had with disinformation. they're now ability to use it in more clever ways given the internet. isn't this something that they have always done? >> yeah, they've done this in a very organized fashion, devoting resources to it for over 75 years now. anybody that has been following this over a period of time isn't surprised. you know, it's not as if they decided they would jump in to the 2016 election and begin meddling. obviously technology has provided more efficiencies. they've been very good at adapting or adopting those technologies. overall, the concept has always been the same. chip away at our belief in the u.s. and around the west in democracy, create chaos, create instability. you know, get infighting and look, frankly they were successful as a result of what they did in the 2016 election. look at us. we're throwing hand grenades and nobody is in the middle. >> trish: exactly. the mainstream media is helping them. so given your backgr

i'll tart with mike baker. it's been a while. this was sort of remarkable in the sense a lot of heat coming at the administration since that helsinki press conference. do you think everyone is on the same page and acknowledged russia's meddling? >> i think off the radar screen there is a lot of consensus and agreement and concern, and a lot of work being done. the problem typically is the messaging that comes out of the white house. the president will say something and it seems to run counter to what is happening behind the scenes. there has been a great deal of evident between law enforcement. the important part is the conversation existing between law enforcement and the commercial sector, technology companies and others to try to minimize, disrupt and prevent future meddling going into the 2018 elections. charles: how far does this go toward being an act of war. this aggression toward our elections and meddling in our republic. does it edge toward that? >> i really like the fact that you pointed out this is aggression. when yo

terry and mike baker and if you miss it i will come after you and yell.e and by a book. >> the villages. that will be excited. >> google has a new app. you just ask google tell me something good. all of the bad news, tell me something good. i tried it this morning. i am with the florida gators. google said urban meyer has a chance now to spend more time with his families. i changed location services to ohio and it said ohio state investigates ohio state and decides not to ruin their football season. >> sunday might life, liberty and levin at 10 p.m. eastern. thanks to mark for having us on. this next story. unbearable. look at this. a black bear in colorado is looking for a better night sleep and wanderd ed into the lobby of a historic hotel. it was the inspiration for the "shining" which king wrote after staying there. 300 of the hotel guests were sleeping and no damage. >> catch us on minute. "special report" up next. black bear to bret baier. >> good transition. thanks. this is a fox news alert. i am bret baier in washington. reports of the detect of t

let's get reaction from mike baker and harry litman, former us attorney and deputy assistant attorney, thank you for joining me tonight. what do you make of this, in particular the fact that my experience in washington, democratic or republican administrations, you can have the former agriculture secretary of state might be more political but the cia director comes out and doesn't blast the new administration the way we have seen. >> you can have both things true at the same time meaning from one optic you can say it was like an enemies list from the white house. at the same time you can say john brennan is completely politicized that position and is speaking out in an unprecedented fashion compared to all the past former directors. from my perspective getting into the machinations and bazaar back and forth between john brennan and donald trump, doesn't blow my skirt up. i would rather focus on a bigger issue, we can take this and make it good and that would be the clearance issue we have nationwide. there are over 4 million people right now between government and contractors, private

let's get some fresh reaction for former cia cohort operations officer mike baker, and terry lichtman, a former u.s. attorney and deputy assistant as well. thank you for joining me tonight. mike, what you make of this? let's start with you, particular, the fact that my experience a long time in washington, democratic, republican administrations, you could have former officials, former agriculture secretary, secretary of state, might be more political but for cia director comes out and doesn't blast the new administration the way we have seen. >> yeah, you can have both things true at the same time, meaning that, from one object, you can say this looks like an enemies list, from the white house, and at the same time, you can say that john brennan has completely politicized that position and are speaking out in an unprecedented fashion, compared to all the past former directors. i guess for my perspective, getting into the machinations and the bazaar back and forth for between john brennan and president trump, it doesn't really blow my skirt up. i would rather focus on something bigger

stuart: mike baker is with us this morning mike, you're a former i'm going to call you a military guye cia but i'll call that a military guy and right inside this is a very strict protocol arrangement for taking the casket out and moving it up the steps and for the lying in state it's a very strict protocol regimen is it not? >> no, it is. look the military, law enforcement, capitol police unfortunately, it's obviously a sad occasion but they do this sort of thing extremely well. i've had family buried at arlington national cemetery and despite how sad or grief- stricken the occasion may be you still spend some time amazed at the precision of the individuals that are assisting and doing this sort of thing, so yeah, it's obviously thoughts and prayers going out to the mccain family and it's a sad day senators and congressmen come and go with some reg you lauer it. you rarely get somebody with this background, this history, so it deserves to be noted. stuart: well yes, indeed. the man was a national hero. he was in prison in north vietnam for five and a half years, tortured on a regular

at the end of the day of your paycheck is baker and mike is going better, people will go with the lifeg their families to have a better life in tax cuts have been powerful. president obama told us we would never get over 3% gdp. we have heard he risen about four. i expect the motivation this president has injected into the economy will be the driving factor that we may squeak out a win but we will win. transfer to want to talk as we wrap this up about something the editorial board in "the wall street journal" said. they are calling it a national left turn, stay in the president's persona is trumpeting positive policy results among voters. what you make of that, howard in the knowledge to respond also, jesse. >> i don't know how much that will reflect itself in the voter turnout, but certainly the overriding factor of our politics. people who are republicans who are even happy with some of the results of president trump and what is happening from the white house, but not happy with the way he comports himself. i don't think that is to the benefit of democrats in 2016, but maybe two year

so they said, mike, you're not going. >> and peter baker, we know that, first of all, mike pompeo does announce a trip on camera unless he plans to be taking off and taking that trip. we also know that the president has canceled a summit before with kim jong-un and then put it back on. so we should all kind of hold our breath. but this is the first acknowledgment by the president, not by his intelligence community, but by the president that what was promised in singapore has not come to fruition and that the last two meetings that pompeo had with his north korean counterpart did not go well. >> well, that's exactly right. of course, these things are all mixed together. we're talking about trade, nuclear diplomacy. in the case of north korea, they're mixed because he's at war with china over trade, over these tariffs he's imposed on them. he wants them to help pressure north korea to live up to the conceptual idea they came up with in sung poingapore. that's why these are so complicated and we don't see easy solutions. >> peter baker, ann guerin, thank you so much. trying to parse what'

we're the baker's and we're usaa members for life. usaa. get your insurance quote today. mikex news alert as we were the presidents departure from the great state of new jersey for ohio. for a campaign style rally ahead of the state special election on tuesday. the senate democratic leaders ending their boycott in agreeing to meet with the president supreme court nominee, judge brett kavanaugh. meetings will happen after the return from recess on august 15. they are planning to urge the national archives to release files from his time serving a staff secretary under former president george w. bush. i would have spokesmen say the documents are irrelevant to evaluating his judicial thinking. dreaming of the former chief of staff, and foreman of carolina congressman brad miller, thanks for being here. >> thank you. >> will talk about the democrat strategy at this point. >> i think it's a pretty safe bet on a saturday afternoon. i think he is most likely to hit the fact that the democrats have been kind of back and forth, sort of a laundry room thing of oscillating back and forth

baker played in watergate. there are no barry goldwaters willing to tell the president hard truths." with me is charlie sykes, and mike murphy, again, long time republican strategist. susan page as well. charlie sykes, tell us what you mean by "the moral rot." you're in wisconsin. where is paul ryan? where is the voice speaking up at this stage? >> well, you know, the bottom line is the republicans have bet their future on the proposition that character does not matter, at least not the character of donald trump. so what they've done is they have tolerated this culture of corruption. but more than tolerated it. by believing that nothing matters, that they are going to be immunized from any consequences, they really have encouraged this kind of swampy behavior that we're seeing with congressmen collins and duncan hunter. at this point it is an extraordinary moment. this would have been the week, right, this would have been the week where republicans would say we need to draw the line and make it clear what we're willing to tolerate and what we're not willing to tolerate. and all we're getting is crickets. >> let's talk

officials including jim baker, sally moyer, jonathan moffa and george toskas, the sources said. joyce and frank are back along with ashley and mike i botched. you believe him to be an important piece of this. why? >> once again, nicolle, we are seeing not oversight, but rather complete attempts to obstruct by calling as witnesses under subpoena to the hill people who -- some of whom are career public servants. jonathan moffa, for example, is a long-time career intelligence analyst in the counter intelligence division of the fbi. he's very smart. heeds been with this case since day one. so what they're doing is they have identified him by name. they are going to call him to the hill under subpoena. they are going to threaten contempt if he doesn't spill everything he knows as sensitive as it is about this case, and it's shameful that they're going to attack a public servant for political reasons. that's what we're going to watch happen here and i hope it doesn't happen. >> mike schmidt, how do they destroy the credibility of the fbi attacks land at the fbi? some of these people were, are highly regarded figures who had the bureau'

mike puts loyalty pelosi seemingly above all. >> i would bet everything i have that she will be >> . >> at 78 years old, pelosi would be tied as the oldest baker the third ranking democrat, jim clyburn, says if she doesn't have the votes, he would run for speaker. he's 78. has minority web steny hoyer a 79. that gives the top three house democrats a combined age nearly as old as the republic itself, a fact not lost on the nine current democratic house members who say they wouldn't support pelosi for speaker or the 46 house democratic candidates who feel the same way. republican congressional candidates continue to find success if they can to find any democrat as a pelosi lackey. they just up the former speaker continues to dig in her heels despite younger democrats wanti. no question, though, in terms of how powerful pelosi is as a fund-raiser for the dnc and a lot of these candidates in heavily blue districts. >> shannon: when she is challenged, she is very confident, she is a master legislator, she knows how to raise the funds, and she seems confident that if they retake the house, she's not going anywhere. >> just ask her. >> shannon: lee l

, the way the senate has under great leaders on the democratic side like mike mansfield, on the republican side like howard baker. and we've gotten things done. so i'm proud of the appropriations committee. i am concerned about the judiciary committee. i've had the privilege of serving on it for over 40 years. the privilege of being chairman and ranking member. but i have to say, it is not doing its job if it's not requiring all the material to be here. senator shelby and i on the appropriations committee have worked to make sure everybody is heard. everybody had the material. we should be doing the same thing on the judiciary committee. i see the chairman of the committee on the floor, and i've spoken on the matter i wanted to speak on. i will yield the floor. the presiding officer: the senator from connecticut. mr. murphy: i see senator boosman is here. i will yield the floor and speak after he's done. mr. boozman: it's okay. i'll yield to you. mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from arkansas. mr. boozman: i'll yield to you. mr. mur uz -- mr. murphy: mr. president. the presiding officer: the sen