primary races, initially paul ryan said the president is trolling here. the security clearance, brian s office had nothing further to add. i think if the president does continue to revoke clearances, it is under consideration, it could be more problematic, it is really uncharted territory. it is murky whether or not he has the authority to do that. it is seen as a political weapon, we ll have to wait and see what the reaction is when they return from recess. you re saying the republicans are afraid to draw this president s the president s officials, the dni coats, and at a time
shawn henry. he knows all the participants and the procedures. he knows how the government works. this is a key distinction. it is not good for our national security and not good for america. andrea mitchell, nicole wallace was in the white house during the bush administration talked about the fight like cats and dogs over the iraq war but no one ended up having their security clearance pulled as punishment or consequence and it is probably not a good marker, you are reporting the dni coats was not aware of this. not only coats. no one in the intelligence community knew, i am told that no one in the press knew. i don t know if john bolton knew himself and that s what is so shocking.
russia at the entire moment the entire world was asking what the message really was, and two contradictory messages in the very same presidential statement, one written by the president s staff that he retardant, and barely a beat later the president s own ad lib thoughts on the matter that it could be other people there is a lot of people throughout. as we said, this happens again and again. dni coats in february. take a look. we need to inform the american public that this is real, that is going to be happening and the resilience needed for us to stand up and say we re not going allow some russian to tell us how to vote, how we ought to run our country. and a i think there needs to be a national cry for that. well, those remarks came just a few days after the president tweeted out something he saw on fox news discrediting the russia probe, blaming the justice department, the fbi for victimizing him during the 2016 campaign. again, time and time again. one white house, two message
presidential statement, one written by the president s staff that he read, and barely a beat later the president s own ad lib thoughts on the matter that it could be other people there is a lot of people throughout. as we said, this happens again and again. dni coats in february. take a look. we need to inform the american public that this is real, that is going to be happening and the resilience needed for us to stand up and say we re not going allow some russian to tell us how to vote, how we ought to run our country. and a i think there needs to be a national cry for that. well, those remarks came just a few days after the president tweeted out something he saw on fox news discrediting the russia probe, blaming the justice department, the fbi for victimizing him during the 2016 campaign. again, time and time again. one white house, two messages. and time after time, the president prefers the one that lets russia off the hook. it raises a host of yes, some of which we ll put to o
in helsinki, i had a great meeting with putin. we discussed everything. i had a great meeting. there s an astonishing moment during that press briefing with high ranking members of the intelligence community when the director of national intelligence said this when a reporter asked him about that singapore summit. i m not in a position to either understand fully or talk about what happened in helsinki. two weeks after that summit took place, the senior intelligence adviser to the president unable to talk about what happened. joining me now is the director of national counterterrorism center, now an msnbc intelligence and national security contributor. thank you for being with me. i want to focus on what dni coats said here. he seem like the most capable of what sounds for radical honesty in this administration. the first clip that we played of him. we are here. we are treating this as a threat. how do you square these dueling administrations i ve seen it characterized as?