joining us, former democratic congresswoman donna edwards, and aaron blake is still here. donna, i have not been invited to things that i was not told not to attend. it s not the same thing to say she was not told not to come. she was not invited. and she should have been there. correct. and this is where is the dni? dan coats? not to be seen. and i think this really speaks to the administration and the president in particular knowing that had gina haspel showed up, dni coats showed up, they would have had to say perhaps under oath that they know exactly what happened to jamal khashoggi. and the administration doesn t want that. but come january, the administration is going to have to produce. and they got secretary mattis on the talking point. there s no smoking gun. of course, secretary mattis and i have to think mike pompeo also understand that s not how intelligence works.
election interference. now, we re being hindered by the russian hoax. it s a hoax, okay? and he tweeted about it too, calling russia s interference a big hoax. a hoax, huh? i want you to listen to the president s own director of national intelligence. here s dan coats. we acknowledge the threat. it is real. it is continuing, and we re doing everything we can to have a legitimate election that the american people can have trust in. doesn t sound like a hoax to me. and it certainly doesn t sound like dni coats thinks it s a hoax. another think donald trump thinks is a hoax, global warming. he has been claiming that for years. but just today experts at the u.n. warned of extreme drought, wildfires, and food shortages caused by global warming. and they say all of that could happen within our lifetimes. so despite what the president claims, that s not a hoax either. it s not a hoax. the president also seems to
president really loves to hate. the thing he has called both a witch-hunt and a hoax, russia s election interference. now, we re being hindered by the russian hoax. it s a hoax, okay? and he tweeted about it too, calling russia s interference a big hoax. a hoax, huh? i want you to listen to the president s own director of national intelligence. here s dan coats. we acknowledge the threat. it is real. it is continuing, and we re doing everything we can to have a legitimate election that the american people can have trust in. doesn t sound like a hoax to me. and it certainly doesn t sound like dni coats thinks it s a hoax. another think donald trump thinks is a hoax, global warming. he has been claiming that for years. but just today experts at the u.n. warned of extreme drought, wildfires, floods and food shortages caused by global warming. and they say all of that could
i think they could make public the deep concern over the way the president is pursuing this in the same way dni coats stepped forward after the putin/trump summit and said, look, we believe the word of u.s. intelligence over the word of the kgb successor organizations as the president said in helsinki. and so there may be moments, nicolle, when i think the men and women of the intelligence community and justice department actually take a very firm stand against the president. matt miller, i talked to an outside adviser of the president s today. i said, what does he want in this fisa application? i m told if the whole thing were out, it certainly withstands scrutiny, that this is one of the most incorruptible parts of the entire federal government. the fisa court and the fisa application would simply show that there was every reason to have carter page under surveillance. what do you think about the fact that the process may be sort of exploited and revealed? sources and methods may
directors and top officials, some of them deputy directors, you had that letter. and then last night another letter with 60 signatures of very well known, top cia officials saying that this is an attempt by the president to stifle free speech. now, that being said, the president has the right to revoke security clearances, it just hasn t been done before, and many are asking why it wasn t the cia to revoke john brennan s clearance if he had done something they felt was egregious. the cia has been very quiet about this, dni coats said he was not aware of this decision before it happened. leland: you ve got sort of these two camps here, the national security apparatus that is taking the president to task on this. on the other side of this, you ve got the president s defenders whether they be in the house of representatives, whether they be in the senate or part of his political groups. is there any crossover from the national security apparatus to