808 to 14000 welcome to the lead. Im Jake Tapper this hour, a new interview with a republican who says hes worried that hell be on the public end and these lists, if Donald Trump gets reelected and even musing about whether or not he might need to flee the country, blossom. Stunning failures by the us Secret Service detailed in a new report from the lawmakers investigating the first now to assassinate Donald Trump, an allegations that so many of those failures were not only called preventable, but The Agency has not done anything to address them in leading this hour, a brand new update just in to cnn as Hurricane Helene Gains Strength in barrels toward the united states with landfall expected tomorrow. Its a massive update lets get straight to Meteorologist Chad myers and Cnns Hurricane Headquarters and chad, you tell you tell us this is pretty serious it is. Now were up to cat four. We are category four Hurricane Making Landfall in that big Bend Area of florida. And i know theres not
there was a lot that happened. it was an election security briefing. u.s. officials walked through the ways in which the election system was secure and telling trump about mail-in ballots, security audits for voting, and a range of ways in which the election would be protected. and trump according to our sources even suggested that he was so impressed by the work done to secure the election, that he even suggested doing a press conference where he could take credit for that work. so, this is, as you say, a contrast to what he was saying just weeks later where he ramped up conspiracy theories and was full boor in the fact that the election would not turn into his favor. that is fascinating. he wanted to hold a press conference to tout this. but sean, i do want to play a bit of what trump was saying in public just a few weeks after that meeting in april of 2020. take a listen.
these people are vicious. adam schiff is a vicious, horrible person. reporter: according to another report in the washington post, the president called in then-acting director of national intelligence joseph maguire to the oval office for a, quote, dressing down last friday. abc news has confirmed the report. sources tell us the president believed democrats would use the information from the briefing against him. in the past, the president has praised the acting director of national intelligence. admiral maguire is a very talented man. reporter: but now, one week after the election security briefing, maguire is out. his replacement? ambassador to germany richard grennell, a staunch trump loyalist with no intelligence experience. jon karl with us tonight from the white house. and jon, we know the new acting director of national intelligence has been openly skeptical about russian meddling in the 2016 election and now we have these new headlines tonight. reporter: david, ba
the follow-up? that s quite possible. i don t know what chairman nadler will do. my only point is two hours of testimony with the judiciary, one hour of intel, one side for republicans and for democrats, is not a lot. i would not expect any blockbuster revelations in that brief period of time. i suspect you re probably right. does the justice department, senator, have standing to block the testimony of two of mueller s top deputies? i don t think so. quite honestly, we know that the position of the administration is to obstruct every chance they have. in terms of people coming forward and testifying as to what they ve seen or heard and participated in. that s just the standard approach to everything. it is a bare knuckles fight to bring the administration witnesses before the congress. but i think the american people expect it. they expect that our branch of government will hold the executive branch accountable and donald trump is no exception. at an election security
what we ve seen is that mr. rosenstein himself signed a renewal of a fisa warrant and fundamentally misrepresented the facts. never made any disclosure that christopher steele was the auth thundershower of that dossier when was the first and principal piece of evidence that led to a warrant to spy on carter page. i think some of that is in question. i want to get quickly before i let you go because we re running out of time. you adebris that the fundamental attack on our democracy on 2016 is critical. did you attend the election security briefing yesterday? i understand only bay tenth of your colleagues did. yeah, i was not able to attend that briefing but i have had other why not. well, because i ve had other one on one briefings with elections officials where i was able to go into more detail. with kirsten neilson. not with her but with other people who interact with homeland security at the state election level where weir trying to get better access to. i find the brie