max, because what real pro kbgr was made? the president said all i want is no testing are well, national security experts want more than that. dni coats testified to kron congress we continue to observe activity inconsistent with denuclearization. that used to be stated goal. north korea retains its weapons of mass destruction capabilities, the intelligence community assesses that it s unlikely to give up its stockpile and production capabilities. certainly the lack of nuclear missile test is an achievement, but remember that achievement preceded the singapore summit. it was not a consequence of the singapore summit. i think what you re seeing now with the president trump administration is massive moving the goal post. before singapore they were saying we want complete, verifiable, irreversible denuclearization of north korea and now president trump is basically saying, well as long as they re not testing, that s all we really care about. but we know from what the
we signed an agreement. it said we will begin the immediate denuclearization. north korea will seek to retain its wmd capabilities and is unlikely to completely give up its nuclear weapons and production capabilities. lisa, if they get rid of dni coats, what does that tell you? if the reporting is true and they get rid of dni coats because he was given his unvar nishd intelligence assessments, based on the work of career professionals who serve without fear or favor across the political spectrum, that s another blow to the intelligence community which frankly has had to endure a daily pummeling from the president who seems to agree with vladimir putin s assessments instead said of his intelligence community. people need to remember dni coats and others who serve in political as well as in career positions take an oath to the constitution and to the country. they do not take an oath to any individual president. and dni coats job is national
president trump says the director of national intelligence dan coats job is safe. but sources tell cnn that there are preliminary discussions in the white house about replacing him. we re back with lisa monaco. lisa, this is troubling. because this is not just the president souring on someone on his staff as he sometimes does. this isn t just the president getting rid of somebody in a fit of peak. this is because does he not like hearing that isis and north korea are still threats. that is different than the president s narrative. and of course the director of national intelligence, that s his job, to give the national intelligence. so here are examples of how the president would like to spin it versus what dni coats has said. watch this. we have won against isis. we ve beaten them and we ve beaten them badly. isis is intent on resurging and still commands thousands of fighters in iraq and syria. we have a great chemistry and we re well on our way.
i guess a better way to look at it is this. it s a classic republican response to what s taken place, right? dni coats has said that the lights are still flashing red. the russians are still attacking our democratic process. all along, the republican response, besides tanking the investigation on the house side and shutting it down has been to help the president of the united states politically and legally and to attack the justice department and to attack the intelligence community. so it s no surprise at all that the senator springs into action by again attacking the justice department and questioning them rather than asking themselves, why would mr. mccabe ask the question, why is the president doing this? from day one. why was the president acting as if he had been compromised? let s go to the democratic side of the aisle and the chairman of your intel
and of course there s the biggest contradiction of all. on russia s election interference. this is the president, what he said in helsinki standing side by side with vladimir putin. my people came to me, dan coats, came to me and some others. they said they think it s russia. i have president putin, he just said it s not russia. i will say this. i don t see any reason why it would be. okay, so he mentioned dan coats. this is what dan coats said this week. we assess that foreign actors will view the 2020 u.s. elections as an opportunity to advance their interests. we expect russia will continue to wage its information war against democracies and to use social media to attempt to divide our societies. a source telling cnn tonight that dni coats and gena haspel