mentioned previously, but what we are starting to see is the rest of the story coming out. there are two standards. 14 hillary clinton, she got a pass. and one for donald trump who doesn t get a pass and doesn t get a break on any of it. it s a coordinated effort to make sure that they do it. here s the other interesting fact. when you talk about robert mueller and andrew mccabe and names that you ve made household names, those are two individuals who actually wanted a job with this president and the minute they didn t get it, they started investigating him. it s time that we hold people accountable in washington, d.c. sean: let me go to sarah. look at the developments with the release of the closed-door testimony of orr, page, strozk, developments that we all knew. sarah, we know that the media bought it hook, line, sinker. they were fed phony information,
wrong. now it s all being corroborated. great reporting on it as he mentioned previously, but what we are starting to see is the rest of the story coming out. there are two standards. one for hillary clinton, she got a pass. and one for donald trump who doesn t get a pass and doesn t get a break on any of it. it s a coordinated effort to make sure that they do it. here s the other interesting fact. when you talk about robert mueller and andrew mccabe and names that you ve made household names, those are two individuals who actually wanted a job with this president and the minute they didn t get it, they started investigating him. it s time that we hold people accountable in washington, d.c. sean: let me go to sarah. look at the developments with the release of the closed-door ohr, page, strozk, developments that we all knew. sarah, we know that the media bought it hook, line, sinker. they were fed phony information, disseminated phony information. they did it to influence. my quest
beginning to recognize ever more the issues that are faced the material that comes through their processes. we cannot as a government direct them what to do but we are spending every effort we can to work with them to provide answers to this question. i think it s a team effort and one of the things that jumped out at me is how much more we re connected than the last time i was in this space. i have one of mike s people that sits in my inner team and vice versa and we re dealing with each other everyday. so team work within the intelligence community and partnership with the private sector which is the other big change i ve noticed. there s more forward leaning engagement with the private sector in terms of trying to share information and raise awareness on their end because we can t fully police social
community of common destiny which basically means a retreat from western values of democracy and freedom and openness towards some other model that benefits them and their pursuit of this a appears to be military, trade, economics, information and media. the tools they use are everything from hacking into companies and critical infrastructure and defense contractors, everybody you can imagine to using our immigration system against us to even our universities and that s where i wanted to begin this week. let me ask this, i d start this with director coats. is it your view the united states today as a government is prepared for the scale, scope and magnitude of the challenge presented by this plan that china is carrying out? we have full awareness of what the chinese are attempting to do on a global basis. there s no question that what
sharing information with the private and public sector. it also i think involves almost a whole of government. with the legislation being looked at in terms of the cfius process we need to go beyond what the current process is in terms of evaluating. we coordinate our intelligence to provide policymakers and those making the decisions with the best intelligence we can relative to the situation and so we think we view this as a top priority and it s ongoing because i mentioned the chinese are pervasive on this and we ve seen it happen throughout both the public and private sect or.