Between living near major traffic and getting dementia. Lets spend a few minutes looking at the relationship between donald trump and the Intelligence Community in washington, dc, brought into focus by a Senate Hearing, in which we heard from the director of National Intelligence and others. We have an update on this story. We now know that the current director, james clapper, we knew that he would be leaving and was going to be replaced, this is also interesting, theresa may, we understand, from the Prime Ministers Office, will be visiting donald trump in the spring. That is a story separate from the intelligence but it has come up and is worth passing to you, the Prime Ministers Office says that the uk Prime Minister will visit donald trump in the spring, we will keep you posted when we get more dates on that. Mentioning james clapper, his briefing on alleged russian hacking, he will meet donald trump tomorrow. Here is one exchange during todays Senate Hearing for you. The bottom lin
About the politics and International Diplomacy around this, because russia maintains this was that syrian air strike on a store of rebel held weapons, they hold the veto on the security council. There will not even be a resolution, probably, condemning this . Russia has consistently used its veto on the council to veto any attempt to castigate assad, given the fact that moscow is his biggest patron. Until recently, President Trump made clear his Main Objective in syria was to defeat Islamic State and he was considering cultivating assad as an ally and now this has happened, any attempt to cultivate assad or support Vladimir Putin becomes morally unconscionable for trump and at the same time he criticised president obama for being weak and he failed during the last chemical attack to abide by his promise to ta ke attack to abide by his promise to take action if assad breached the red line and he cited chemical attacks. He also said, whatever you do, do not go into syria . Do not ta ke d
Times i asked him again. He said he absolutely did not meddle in our election. He did not do what theyre saying he did. John roberts is reporting on this on a moving bus at this moment. John, its a fine distinction, but the president didnt say he believed putin. He said that he believes that putin means it, right . Yeah. There is a different here and the language is what is important. Were pulling this bus, by the way, up to the royal palace in downtown hanoi, where the president and the president of vietnam will hold bilateral meetings. The president did make a lot of news on Air Force One when he said that he talked to President Putin about whether or not Russia Meddled in the election. He got a denial from putin. Headquarters of raqqa fell. And the president and President Putin agreed they would find a way forward and political solution to syria under the framework of the u. N. Security council on syria. The two leaders saying that efforts to deconflict between the two militaries ha
These are potential criminal felonies. That is why the Mueller Investigation needs to proceed. There is always a striking thing that happened on the house side in these investigations in these matters, which is they never got their hands on the Phone Records. Never subpoenaed the Phone Records placed to an unknown meeting. Is that something you would like to see as a member of congress. I am a former prosecutor and if there was an allegation and i did not subpoena those records, i would have been fired. It was clear that they were not interested in trying to find evidence of collusion. Trying to do a whitewash of what happened. And i think history will not judge them kindly. Reporting yesterday about senator claire mc mccaskill. We are told it lasted 30 minutes. So very concerned about what is going to happen. You started off this interview by nodding to possible crimes committed if it is in
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Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. There is always a striking thing that happened on the house side in these investigations in these matters, which is they never got their hands on the Phone Records. Never subpoenaed the Phone Records placed to an unknown meeting. Is that something you would like to see as a member of congress. I am a former prosecutor and if there was an allegation and i did not subpoena those records, i would have been fired. It was clear that they were not interested in trying to find evidence of collusion. Trying to do a whitewash of what happened. And i think history will not judge them kindly. Reporting yesterday about senator claire mc mccaskill. How democrats last week put up a bill to provide election, security funding. The republicans rejected that. And it is clear that the House Republicans have completely gone derelict in their attitude to protect america. And hopefully voters will change. Top officials on election security. We are told it lasted 30 m