do you still have confidence in gina haspel and dan coats to give you good good advice? i disagree with certain things they said. i think i m right. time will prove me right, probably. this is about the president s own freud with his own intelligence agencies. it reached a new level today. he s lashing out after the directors of cia, fbi, national intelligence, contradicted their boss views about national security. in stark terms, right there in front of congress and the american public, yesterday, the president ridiculed them as passive and naive and suggested they go back to school. trump met with those same intelligence chiefs in the oval office today. what must that have been like? to express his displeasure in person, we presume, about the conversation according to tonight s new york times interview. mr. trump said the intelligence chiefs told him their presentation was misinterpreted. they said, sir, our testimony
trump krarcharacterized the thrs very brave and he called them three major players. the president also retweeting this image today showing among others two former presidents. former justice department officials mueller even the president s own deputy attorney general rod rosenstein behind bars asking when the frietrials treason again. the president said during this interview that he would declassify certain documents that he says would be devastating to his opponent ifs the democrats go after him in the next term. he was going to declassify these documents this past september. he talked about it but he says in this interview that his attorney told him to hold off because it will be politically bad to do so then. wolf. thank you. let s get some more on the breaking news.
him or his staff? what did you think about that? it s theater of the absurd. the fact that the person second in line to the president of the united states feels the need to address this by saying he would take a lie detector test. where is trust within this administration? who would assume that the vice president would feel the need to say something like that to clear the air? obviously, the dysfunction that s talked about in this op-ed and talked about in this book is bearing fruit openly and publicly with the president s own vice president. and i want to get your thoughts on the recent developments in the case of maria butina, alleged russian spy who stands accused of attempting to infiltrate conservative american political groups. is that something that the house intelligence committee should look into? should you be looking into her activity? and has it happened? well, she was one of 40 witnesses that the democrats on
identify one is because there is not one to be had, based on what we see right now. they re grasping for straws of the espionage act, saying if you disclose any information that may show some disloyalty to the president or the troops in some way or the military forces, then surely you are guilty of a crime. but in reality, your democratic duty is to criticize the government, and the espionage act was never intended for you to be completely compromised if you choose to do so. and so i don t see any classified information there. but they re desperately trying to find that. also, the doj is full of thousands and thousands of employees who work on hundreds of thousands of cases. which means that the president would like them to focus on one singular vendetta, and that would compromise so many powerful and important investigations if they were to do so. and mark preston, the vice president really wants to make it clear that, you know, he s willing to take a lie detector test to prove that
i m not in position to understand fully or talk about what happened in helsinki. i ll turn it over to the national security director. the issue was discussed and in fact president putin said the first issue that president trump raised was election meddling. reporter: still so many questions about that helsinki summit and that private meeting between president trump and president putin. but one thing has changed as we end this week here, there was a unified message from the u.s. government about russian election meddling. but that unified voice missing the president s own. he has yet to use his own megaphone to draw attention to the election attack. jeff zeleny, cnn, new jersey. the u.s. government suggests a new method for reuniting children and parents separated at the southern border, but that idea is being highlied. we ll tell you about it coming up here. plus, the souvenir t-shirt