and once that confirmation comes through, the first american icbms leave their silos four minutes later. boy, okay. thank you, garrett, david, nia, appreciate it. i want to turn to james wolsy, the former cia director. we have been talking about the president s fiery rally. this is the former director of national intelligence, james clapper. having some understanding of the levers of power that are available to a president, if he chooses to exercise them, i found this downright scary and disturbing. this behavior and this divisiveness and the complete intellectual, moral and ethical void that the president of the
policy planning for the former secretary of state john kerry. john finer, former cia director under bill clinton, director james wolsy and john avalon. is the president rightly focussed on moving forward? not remotely sufficient. this is a meeting where he had a chance to sit down, not only show strength, but stand up for the integrity of the american system and it seems like he got rolled. whether or not you accept he accepted the results, tillerson said it is time to move on. this is an agree to disagree. we re not going to inflict any pain upon the russians going forward. the fact that we have announced a cyber working group is invitation to further mischief. this is a disastrous meeting with that result. director, last night we just saw james clapper. he said russia is preparing the battlefield. that is what they were doing. they were testing a lot of things out and 2018 is going to
weary as his explanation shifted on whether the white house had given him intelligence so he could provide cover to president trump s unsubstantiated charge that former president obama had trump tower wire tapped. on tuesday. stop for one quick said. no, not going to get into it. reporter: on wednesday. we re not going to talk about anything to do with this investigation. reporter: now, jake, another question tonight is whether or not mr. nunes will receive the top secret information that he and other leaders of congress get in the so-called gang of eight, and also we re learning tonight that intelligence officials had been resistant to giving nunes and the intelligence committee information that could help with the russia probe because they were concerned about the actions he took last month. we will see if his decision to step aside changes that all. all right. manu rogers on capitol hill. joining me to discuss this and the broader investigation, former cia director james
we can without hitting any russian units and so forth, some of the syrian capability. all right. ambassador james wolsy, we always appreciate your time, sir. good to be with you. high school journalists take on the high school principal after her resume caught their eye. what made them call out the very person that might suspend them from school. then he was the master of the insult. legendary comedienne don rickles passes away. we will look at how he made us laugh. stick around.
national security. it s not good for the country. welcome back to hardball. that was former cia director panetta reacting to the war of words between president-elect donald trump and the u.s. intelligence community. once he s sworn into office in three days, president trump will need to rely on these agencies for spy information to execute policies, and that requires both sides to heal the rift. cia director john brennan explained why he s taken such offense at trump s criticism of the intelligence community. quote, we don t expect our information and our assessments to be swallowed whole. it s when there are allegations made about leaking, or about dishonesty, or a lack of integrity, that s where i think the line is crossed. but in an interview in this network today, on this network, james wolsy, former adviser to the president-elect, said that brennan should tone it down. well, he s going to be the