impede or endeavor to do so the due and proper exercise of the power of inquiry under which any inquiry or investigation is being had by either house or any committee of either house. and we begin our discussion of all of this with someone who would be in that meeting with the inspector general tomorrow if she still had her old job at the house intelligence committee. she s now vice president of the national security program at third way. also joining us is former deputy assistance of secretary of defense of the obama administration. she s an msnbc national security analyst. and claire mccaskill of missouri. she was the ranking member of the homeland security committee. senator mccaskill is now an msnbc political analyst. senator, let me start with you. the request by the inspector
elections since 1966. a leading republican democrats want to do this because they expect high school kids to vote for them. they think more of those individuals will vote democrat and they think it helps them like allowing non-citizens would help them and like they think having taxpayers pay for elections will benefit them as well. it is all designed to benefit democrats and help them on election day. the voting age was lowered from 21 for18 in 1971. if you re old enough to go to war in vietnam he should be able to vote. the vote in the house on dropping it to 16 failed but a majority of democrats favored it. jon. sandra: let s bring in our a-team brad blakeman former deputy assistance to george w. bush. leslie marshal and kristen
is a it s very strange but it s been normalize today some degree because the president says it a lot and republicans started chanting it. if you go back and look at where we are in the america, the idea that people are chanting to lock somebody up who are in a position to lock people up or make laws or come up with charges, that s i think that s just much more disturbing than it may look on its face. i served in the justice department for about six years under four different attorneys general and there s no place for an attorney general joining in a political chant like this years after having taken office. it s inappropriate. it s politicizing the work of the justice department and it s ruining the brand of law enforcement, ruining the brand of federal law enforcement and the doj which has done great things to make america safe and great. truly is remarkable that we re hearing from these chants. elliott, thanks very much. the former deputy assistance attorney general of the un
soon he s going to be leaving here by helicopter. in fact, i think while we ve been talking, those helicopters could be warming up to take him to dinner. yep, we re seeing the picture from this morning of the helicopter. thank you so much, both of you, halle jackson. i want to bring in joe reuben, former deputy assistance, stephen clemens is washington editor at large and joel, i want to go over again summarizing what halle had to say, president trump publicly insulted our allies, we know that. he demanded more money and claimed he got it when he didn t. intimated he d pull out of nato and then pledged his support. he made statements that raised a lot of eyebrows on crimea. i just wonder what your takeaway is. chris, it s quite a pivotal week for the western alliance and sad to say, the united states is weaker as a result of
joining our conversation now, some of the best of the best, former senior cia officer and deputy of the agency s worldwide russia operations effort, and msnbc analyst evelyn farkas, former deputy assistance secretary of defense. our panel is also here, of course. so, john, let me just read you a paragraph from the story. the intelligence chiefs warn the senate intelligence committee during an annual hearing on worldwide threats that russia believes its interference in the 2016 presidential election achieved its chief aim, weakening faith in american democracy. moscow now sees the coming congressional elections as a chance to build on its gains, they said. i mean, you can t argue with that, can you? moscow s winning. no, moscow s winning, and moscow, there s no reason not to continue. unless we deter further activity, unless we defend our systems, there s no reason for them to stop. the one thing to remember, nicolle, these weapons that they use, this is part of their war