but on the other hand all these americans that are in charge of these intelligence agencies feel a great sense of responsibility to the nations and the people that are in those organizations. so resigning in protest leaves a gap, and there s no guarantee that the position would be filled with somebody who would defend those people and the nation as well as the incumbe incumbents. what i hear you saying, rick, is someone like dan coats, or mike pompeo, or the cia directo, if they were to leave, because the president represents a danger. is that what i m hear from you? i think there s got to be a consideration in their personal calculus, everything s going to have a different take on that, they have got to do the things that work for them as individuals but that s certainly a factor in their
reportedly had conversations with the president, the president urging those senior officials like dan coats, mike rogers, rick ledgett, we know mueller wants to talk to them, presumably about what the president told them pertaining to the ongoing fbi investigation and james comey himself, testifying, saying that i m not going to say whether or not obstruction of justice happened because that s something bob mueller is probably going to look at and turning over the memos as well. it would have made sense for the white house and the president s legal team to push back against the idea that the president is under investigation by saying look, there s no evidence of that or we haven t been informed of that or nobody knows for sure. but for the fact the president himself tweeted and had the president not tweeted that he is under investigation, in fact, it s not just that one tweet. every time he calls it a witch hunt, he confirms essentially that there is something kind of
outrageous, inexcusable and illegal. the paper also sources five people who say the director of national intelligence dan coats and mike rogers, the head of the nsa and his former deputy have agreed to be interviewed. the wall street journal reports that former deputy rick ledgett, wrote a member documenting a phone call. during the call, the president questioned the veracity of the intelligence community s judgment that russia had interfered with the election and tried to persuade mr. rogers to say there was no evidence of collusion between his campaign and russian officials. also this morning, the new york times reports that the nsa has been asked for any documents that might relate to its interactions with the white house and russia probe. as the paper notes, the collection of information doesn t necessarily mean prosecutors are building a case against the president. this at this point, joe, is all
remainder of the data could be secured and my bar for those assurances would be very high, more than just an assertion on his part. amnesty is not on the table at the moment but could it be? cnn senior white house correspondent jim acosta is at the who us this morning. hi, jim. reporter: good morning, carol. i think at the very least it s on rick ledgett s table, that official you just quoted there in the 60 minutes story, said it s worth having a conversation about in terms of granting edward snowden amnesty for the documents, classified information he leaked to the news media. i did talk to a senior administration official earlier this morning who emphasized that is that official s opinion, it is not the opinion of the administration or of this white house and i want to throw up on screen, carol, a quote that was given to us by the national security spokeswoman, kaitlin hayden, with respect to that interview last night on 60 minutes about edward snowden. there s been no cha