john brennan, former obama administration c.i.a. director, james clapper, former obama c.i.a. director and director of national intelligence, senator saxby chambliss, former senate intelligence committee vice chair, representative porter goss, house intelligence committee chairman, general michael hayden, former bush administration c.i.a. administrator, senator bob kerrey, democrat senator of nebraska who was on the senate intelligence committee and was the vice chairman, henry kissinger, former secretary of state, mike mcconnell, former obama administration director of national intelligence, admiral william mcriven, former commander socom, michael morrell, acting and deputy c.i.a. director, michael mukas mukasey, former bush administration attorney general, leon panetta, former obama administration c.i.a. director and secretary of defense, mike rogers, republican congressman, former house intel committee chairman, george shultz, incredible statesman, former secretary of state under president reagan, and george tenet, former clinton and bush c.i.a. director. now, mr. president,

other obama administration veterans including former c.i.a. director john brennan warned that president trump's decision will harm u.s. national security beyond iran, including the diplomatic efforts under way with north korea. ahead of that summit. the president's upcoming summit with kim jong un. hoda and savannah. >> to the new bombshell from stormy daniels' attorney over the hush money she received from the president and now its possible ties to a russian billionaire. we've got two reports this morning, we'll start with nbc's kristen welker at the white house, good morning. >> hi, savannah. good morning to you. make no mistake about it, this latest development is a complicated one. but to try to put it simply, stormy daniels' lawyer is saying a company with ties to russia may have reimbursed the hush money payment made to the porn star on behalf of donald trump. this morning, potentially explosive revelations from porn star stormy daniels' lawyer. michael avenatti saying that president trump's personal attorney, michael cohen, received hal

obama, number four at the c.i.a. in the leadership in the bush administration. he got a confirmation hearing. he was able to get past and he became the c.i.a. director. he supports gina haspel nomination. what do you make of the democrats deciding to hold her up and run over the well-trod ground over and over? >> it's amazing how quickly we forget in the case of john brennan. she is a fantastic pick. i think she had to address these issues about enhanced interrogation. i still believe enhanced interrogation should be a tool in the arsenal in extreme circumstances. but she made it clear she doesn't believe the c.i.a. should be in that business. that is in the d.o.d. there is really no guiltless parties in this whole issue. after 9/11 we had planes hit the world trade center. we didn't know what was next. so at that point it's like what do we do to protect americans? i remember rumors of dirty bombs and everything. in those circumstances we have to do everything we can to protect the country. >> dana: i want your take on this because you did fight in iraq and afghanistan. khalid sheikh mohammed

c.i.a. surveillance. kellyanne conway said this morning on fox that it appears that the obama administration or perhaps the.b.i. was surveilling the trump campaign. and you have questions about that. >> yeah. we've gotten some initial response from gina haspel who says they did not do this. they did not oversee it. she said that they didn't willingly cooperate with british intelligence. we sent her a follow-up question. it is this. does receiving intelligence, does that mean you were cooperating? did you not receive any intelligence? there is a story from "the new yorker" who said the head of british intelligence flew to washington and met with john brennan and gave him information. we would like to know the truth of that matter. if john brennan did that i think he acted illegally and should be punished. >> jon: i know the senate is undertaking preliminary votes on your proposal to balance the budget in five years. does it have a chance of passing, senator? >> republicans say they are for balancing the budget. today is a litmus test. if your senator has been saying for a balanced budget, they ought to vote

c.i.a. would not violate that law. >> dana: you stand by that original piece. obama administration changed things. i think even under president bush. the standard was changed or whatever. so it's not like gina haspel would be overseeing a department that is going to reach back into a previous tool box if things have already changed. that would be irresponsible. >> we shouldn't forget that we only use these on three people. >> dana: right. terrorists. >> john: khalid sheikh mohammed, the master mind of the 9/11 attacks. only three people and we stopped. congress passed a new law in 2008 to clarify what it meant. the legal regime is different now. gina haspel is coming in as the c.i.a. director, i hope, with a different set of laws and rules. we aren't going to struggle like she and i and others did after the 9/11 attacks to figure out what to do. >> dana: let me switch gears. rudy giuliani made news over the weekend. he likes to be out there and be on the offense. i have a specific question for you. i know your expertise is about the government and the way it is set up and the executive branch and

informants paid for by the obama administration were in and around the trump campaign before and even after the 2016 election. and there are a host of questions here, bill. what did former c.i.a. director john brennan know about the source of the steele dossier. did he mislead congress when he testified about its use. did the obama administration cherry pick partisan intelligence to get fisa warrants to surveil the trump campaign. were they also involved in the unlawful unmasking of american citizens to disseminate trump communications within the intelligence community and were informants or spies planted inside the campaign? now among them there was one informant allegedly paid $250,000 by the d.o.d. right before the election? why. white house officials contend if true it would constitute a disturbing amount of power. >> president trump: it would be unprecedented in the history of our country. >> tomorrow nunes and gowdy will look over that information about a confidential f.b.i. source who apparently aided in the investigation into the trump campaign. christopher wray will be there as well. don't forget the president is in the empire state today talking about ms-13 in a rou

obama administration officials are taking the hot seat in a closed door hearing right now. peter doocy live on capitol hill. peter? >> harris, i tracked down two of today's witnesses. the former c.i.a. director john brennan and the former director of national intelligence james clapper. they were not very chatty in the hallway on the way out of the classified session where apparently the focus was not so much on collusion as it was on russian attempts to influence voters in the united states using facebook and twitter. >> we have always known russians were involved. they have always been involved. they have been active from the '60s to '70s on up. when did they double down and go after what we found out they have done? we never had social heedia to this extent in any other election before. >> the top democrat on the intel committee says today's hearing what was billed as a review of the information gathered in the final days of the obama administration that was then put in a document laying out the ways russians tried to help trump in an intelligence committee assessment or i.c.a. hasn't changed anything for him. >> i have heard nothing to contradict anything from the i.c.a. partic

obama c.i.a., et cetera, et cetera. and you talked about the lack of turnover between the bush administration and the obama administration and the trump administration. that this isn't some secretive deep state, that these are just career professionals, that have grown up and said hey, you know what, i'm going to devote my life to defending and protecting the constitution of the united states. i don't care who the president is. >> well that's right. the only one who really swapped out was mike pompeo coming in and mike got to choose his deputy, gina, who i hope will be the next director. gina was career nsa, that's not bringing in people from the outside. bringing in people from the campaign. you need somebody who knows how the plumbing works, just like i did. i picked someone from the inside too. >> with the u.s. system, every president comes in and he gets a chance to appoint about 4,000 people. across the executive branch. but there's hundreds of thousands of people who he inherits or one day she will inherit and that is the uniqueness of the american system. it's this combination of political outsiders hopefully with