and i think we all got a good laugh out of his reaction. what really concerns me is that it speaks to a broader issue with the administration and the relationship they have with the intelligence community. you know, i think it s a relationship that s broken. dan coats is someone who understands intelligence. he understands the people that he leads. he understands what the intelligence community is supposed to do. and i think he has been emboldened to speak out and to make it known that he is not going to continue to be quiet. as the dni, he is the face of the intelligence community. he s the defender of the intelligence community. so i think this relationship is probably going to get a little more tense and i ll just don, one of the things i think is really important, he said today as long as i can speak freely and continue to seek the truth, i m in. and i think that was a very interesting wording because typically people say i serve at the pleasure of the president. i think he s sen
audience of the intellectual elite in a manner that was sure to infuriate trump. a couple things there, what s wrong with being smart in the intellectual elite? don t we want smart people in this country? quite a swipe. yeah, so i don t know what that means. that s dumb. will coats suffer from telling the truth today? and after helsinki as well? you know, i think we re going to have to watch the relationship between dan coats and the administration very closely for the coming days and weeks because dan coats has done what intelligence directors are supposed to do. he has had the courage to speak truth to power, and to make it very clear that he believes in the intelligence community that he leads. you know, look, he was clearly stunned today when that announcement was made by twitter
when you have a president of the united states meeting privately for two hours with vladimir putin, and none of his senior national security advisers have any idea, much less his allies, of what was agreed to, and you have putin telling his his diplomats that there were major agreements reached, that we don t know about. now, unlike the president, i m willing to say vladimir putin is a liar, and he may be lying about this. but it seems to me this is what we should be focused on, not his diversions and evasions after four days of blunder busting around. yeah, he is the president now. there s a reason why we say former president obama. it s because he is no longer the president. listen, the director of national intelligence coats caught by surprise by that news by the news that trump invited putin for a second meeting after saying he didn t know what happened in the first one. what does that tell you about
advantage over the united states. dni coats said there s really bad worst case scenarios and they include taking down the power grid or paralyzing the financial markets. i m concerned about a cyber 9-11. let s say you shut down wall street for a week what does that do to world markets? what about an attack on the electric grid in new england? there s people playing this game of chess with us. they want to take us down and we have to be better than them. the big idea to take away from this conference, something called a multi-domain warfare. that means that you can take a conventional attack and amplify the impact by using cyber in that equation, rick. rick: catherine herridge in a beautiful aspen, colorado. thanks very much. the british man that was exposed to a poison agent is out of the
as they have done in the past. he does believe it is going on. well, since there s currently not an election today, not specifically, but we certainly believe that we are taking steps to make sure they can t do it again, unlike previous administrations. this president is actually taking bold action and reform to make sure it doesn t happen again. but he does believe that they would target certainly u.s. elections again. dni coats said the red lights are blinking on this topic. as i just said, that s why we re taking steps to ensure these things won t happen again. we wouldn t spend as much time and effort as we are if we didn t believe they were still looking at it. in may of 2017, president trump signed an executive order to strengthen and review the cyber