mr. john ratcliff, the director of national intelligence. and you had this conversation in december of 2020 mr. ratcliffe was nominated by president trump, to oversee us intelligence or us intelligence community. and before his appointment, mister ratcliffe was a republican member of congress. as you will see on this clip, director ratcliffe's comments in december of 2020 were prescient. my understanding was mister rod director, i didn't want much to do but to pro selection period for felt that it was something that the white house should be pursuing but felt it was dangerous for the president legacy. he a firewall to control and potentially be dangerous either for our democracy or with with try to fight it. there's also the election fighting, missing ballast, pressuring a certain date for there didn't seem to be significant evidence and reaching out to state legislatures about that. so pretty much the way that the white house is handling the election period. he felt that that could be dangerous for passions in terms of president, for electio

mr. john ratcliffe, the director of national intelligence. and you had this conversation in december of 2020. mr. ratcliffe was nominated by president trump to oversee u.s. intelligence -- our u.s. intelligence community. and before his appointnt, mr. ratcliffe was a republican member of congress. as you will see on this clip, director ratcliffe's comments in december of 2020 were prescient. >> my understanding was mr. -- director ratcliffe didn't want much to do with the post-election period. director ratcliffe felt that it wasn't something that the white house should be pursuing. it felt it was dangerous for the president's legacy. he had expressed to me that he was concerned that it could spiral out of control and potentially be dangerous, either for our democracy or the way that things were going for the 6th. >> when you say it wasn't something the white house should be pursuing, what's the it? >> trying to fight the results of the election, finding missing ballots, pressuring -- filing lawsuits in certain states where there didn't seem to

mr. john ratcliff, the director of national intelligence and you had the conversation in december of 2020. mr. ratcliff was nominated by president trump to oversee u.s. intelligence community and before his appointment mr. ratcliff was a republican member of congress. as you will see on this clip director ratcliff's comments in december of 2020 were pressient. >> my understanding was director ratcliff did not want much to do with the post election period. director ratcliff felt that it wasn't something that the white house should be pursuing. it felt like it was dangerous for the president's legacy. he had expressed to me that he was concerned it could spiral out of control and potentially be dangerous, either for our democracy or the way that things were going to the 6th. >> when you say it was not something -- [inaudible] >> trying to fight the results of the election. find missing ballots, pressuring -- filing lawsuits in certain states where there didn't seem to be significant evidence and reaching out to the state legislatures about, so pretty much the way the white house was handlin

mr. john ratcliff. you had this conversation in december of 2020.was nominated by president trump to oversee u.s. intelligence, u.s. intelligence community, and before his appointment, he was a republican member of congress. as you will see on this clip, director ratcliff's comments in december of 2020 were preshient. >> my understanding st that director ratcliff didn't want much to do with the post election period. he felt that it wasn't something that the white house should be pursuing. he felt it was dangerous for the president's legacy. he had expressed concern that it could spiral out of control and potential i will be dangerous. either in our democracy or for the way that things were going on the 6th. >> when you say it, was he in? >> trying to fight the results of the election. finding missing ballots, pressuring -- filing lawsuits in certain state where's there did not seem to be significant evidence and reaching out to legislatures about -- that's pretty much the way the white house is handling the post election period. they felt there coul

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