it ends. but the other side is frustrated, they re angry. they want it to end yesterday and it s just not going to happen. i m trying to give you a new title and new job. but thank you. i appreciate it. president trump still trying to cast doubt on russia s interference in the election even though his own intelligence agencies long ago concluded that s exactly what russia did. i want to talk about this with national security analyst james clapper. there he is on your screen. good evening, sir. thank you so much. thanks, don. it s been a very interesting day especially when the comes to, you know, russiaa and what s been happening on capitol hill. so the president continued to attack on the russia investigation this morning. russia continues to say they had nothing to do with meddling in our election, he then said, and what about the 13 angry democrats. will they list their conflicts with crooked h? how many people will be sent to jail, and persecuted on old
sessions or mueller, the president could fire them. i would not recommend that. that would set off a political crisis, the likes of which we haven t seen since watergate. they re simply trying to discredit rosenstein and mueller so that whatever they found find will then be questioned in the eyes of the public they may have been successful in that at the moment, and that s unfortunate .i hear a lot of complaining about fisa. all the complaints about fisa we re hearing about now, we had an authorization in fisa at the end of last year and i didn t hear any of these comments. we could been taking up these issues when we were reauthorizing the law. this is mostly political more noise, more smoke than anything else. you know rod rosenstein, how do you think he s feeling to noo eight? i got to tell you, don, i have never seen him get angry. he s always been calm, cool, collected. today i saw him get angry,
well, it shows you the dangers of this job. and i think you re right. so many people throw out terms about journalists and say really derogatory things about journalists, but our jobs are very dangerous and many times we go into a war zone. this turned into a warson today without anyone having to go overseas and put on flak jackets. i served in a war zone and it didn t feel like this. i got a couple of of threats today after the shooting. people saying i don t deserve to breathe air and why am i alive. and they send it to our newspaper and they send them to other newspapers. and that s the new reality in which we live. and honestly, don, i have to tell you, we ve joined the ravgs of russia and third world nations where reporters lives aren t safe. and that s not right. julia, i want to know what stood out to you. they re talking to a person of interest right now. they said that their criminal investigation division is doing that.
le the shooter filed in 2012 six years ago, claiming defamation after the story the newspaper ran about an arrest that he was charged with in to connection to some harassment case. and ever since then, it appears that he s had this long standing dispute with the newspaper. police are executing a serge warrant at his home. this has been a long standing dispute. what in particular may have occurred within the last few days or today that caused him to come here, open fire as police said targeting victims inside this news room, killing five people, don.
and yes, we ve got the rhetoric out of the white house, but again, we re dealing with a mental health issue. interviewing the family, interviewing the friends, interviewing everybody that knows this guy, trying to find out and get a better picture about, you know, indicators, flags. you know, the days right before this occurring. because this went on for six years. for six years. i guarantee you, there s something there over the past few days that maybe someone could have picked up on. that s got to be the last word. i ve got to run. thank you so much and. and brian, listen, i m sorry, i know you knew these folks before than any of us. sorry for your loss. it s all right, don. thanks, man. the prayers to them. absolutely. thank you so much. we re going to have more on today s deadly shooting. when we come back, senator cory booker joins me. he says he s gearing up for a fight when it comes to the