regrettable for a lot of reasons. dan coats is an honorable man who believes in truth and telling of the truth and that s what he s been doing, and i think if he is fired, this conveys a terrible, terrible message to the intelligence community. in other words, don t tell truth to power. you got to hue to the party line and to the president s bubble, reality bubble, and not actual fact. and that is a very dangerous thing as senator king aptly said. yeah, when he was saying, you know, cook the books, shade the data. you know, the thing about this is, director, is that trump had a lot of people working around him that had a lot of bipartisan respect. right? people may not agree with all of them, but they were respected. right? they were supposed to steady the ship. h.r. mcmaster. john kelly. jim mattis. right? they re all gone. coats also respected on both sides of the aisle. if he goes, how big of a loss is it? when you look at that roster, gone, gone, gone, gone? i think on the heel
has a constitutional duty to take care the laws be faithfully executed. he could still and still could fire jeff sessions if that s what he wanted to do. he obviously received some political advice, whatever that was from don mcgahn and acted in accordance with it. whether that will change with the new white house counsel remains to be seen. mike: you worked in the justice department. i did. mike: how big of a loss is this to the white house? i know it s a really tough job but how big of a loss is this to the white house and also to the president personally? well, don mcgahn has done an outstanding job and knows the president well. he has served ably. but i have no doubt that the president will replace him with somebody whom he trusts. so the rumor at the moment is that emmett flood may be that person. he s the president s personal lawyer. by all accounts they have a good relationship. there are other people i m sure who will also have the president s confidence, who will be consid
and familiar with in the administration jenna: like who? you have heard people talking about john brennan, he s certainly a known quantity in the intel community, and he s been close to obama for the past four years, considered, i think, by the administration probably a safe choice in the sense that, you know, they re very comfortable with him, they know him, and they believe him to be, you know, on side. there s a couple others out there, it s not my position to speculate and came in names, but name names, but i can think of a couple who are now retired from the agency, one in particular who would be a terrific director, but the white house will be looking for someone they re comfortable with and believes jenna: how big of a loss is it for this country that general petraeus is no longer active duty, no longer serving the country? well, look, his service to the country, you know, can t be in question. and also his experience, his depth of knowledge. so it is a, it s a tremend
counseled. reporter: how big of a loss for the people she con selled? it is a big problem. reporter: and she brought up that they were caught up in thi immigration, but the politicians are not about to let go of the case. what makes you angry about the case? what makes me furious about this case is that we have handed this person, illegal ill yen and identified him as an illegal alien and told i.c.e. he had been twice convicted of duis and he posed a threat to the community, and they turned around and released him right back into the neighborhood. reporter: prince william s board is referred to i.c.e., and carlos montano has a long case. they say he had been convicted once for ducks ii, once for reckless driving, and once for