colleagues oppose him? do you think the white house would consider it? i suspect the white house might. i think it has some advantages to it because as you point out, this is someone who has a lot of bona fides as a prosecutor. he has been one who has got allies as a potential director nominee in both political parties. shannon: he sits on a very important circuit court, the d.c. circuit there opening up his seat to a republican nominee is an interesting twist as well. do you think it would give him pause even if on the chance that he would be tapped for a f.b.i. director? i don t know him and haven t discussed it with him. it would be up to him. i would imagine this might be a post that might interest him and it might be a post that he could serve in very effectively. shannon: okay. the other question, the growing number of democratic senators who say we aren t voting for anyone and block the confirmation and vote no unless
i want to expand beyond collection capabilities and see what else we need to do to take into account the changing nature of the global environment, the changes of the communications that exists worldwide. thank you for that. back to my first point, should you be confirmed, trying to make sure you ve got that objective oversight, the ability to make sure you have the best knowledge and bessmetrics possible so when future challenges arrive, we have the best information possible. thank you very much. mr. brennan, so you can be advised. you ve been listening to john brennan, c.i.a. correct director nominee under president bush. we heard dramatic, heated, tense testimony.
that tillerson was being asked to step aside by the president and we ve learned there was a second call a day later that said his outster, according to this white house official was, in fact, imminent. here s how the white house is describing pompeo, the new cia director-nominee and secretary of state rex tillerson. i ve worked with mike pompeo now for quite some time. the relationship has been very good and that s what i need as secretary of state. i m really at a point where we re getting very close to having the cabinet and other things that i want. i actually got along well with rex but really it was a different mind-set, it was a different thinking. whatever it is, why do people get along. i ve always right from the beginning from day one, i ve gotten along well with mike pompeo. i think rex will be much happier now. obviously one of the real challenges that existed in this
and he presented it as a benign situation, a run of the mill standard practice. if that was the situation, i do not believe the republican chairman of the judiciary committee, senator chuck grassley, as well as other republican leaders on capitol hill, would be wanting to hear from donald trump jr. next week before the judiciary committee. the reality here is that republicans, democrats, and indeed the president s own director nominee to lead the fbi said that is simply not standard practice, and in fact, the trump campaign should have alerted federal authorities when they received that letter that e-mail saying that someone from the russian government, a russian lawyer,mented wanted ta meeting last june to help the trump campaign and spread dirt on hillary clinton s campaign. so the president presented it as standard practice but that is not the situation. and he said the press is making too much out of this. that s really beside the point. it is the fact that investigators on capit