know, i ve said this before and i ll say it here, that the intelligence community, i believe, will continue to tee up truth to power whether the power listens to the truth or not, and they ll continue to do that. i hope they do as, of course, the media tries to do as well. no matter what anyone calls it. thank you so much, director clapper, i appreciate your time. thanks. and outfront next, trump s acting attorney general, matt whitaker, facing a new probe tonight. this is into his finances. we have new reporting on how he received thousands of dollars in donations right after joining the justice department the significance of that. and the president authorizing troops on the southern border to use lethal force if necessary. could that happen? our guest, senator jeff merkley. so, that goal you ve been saving for,
people as possible trying to forge strong alliances and very progressive house democrats like al a alexandrea cortez is strong. but i do want to point out here that out of those 16 signees, 14 of them are men. only two of them are women. it is hard to look at this without seeing that sort of disparity. i asked michael steele, former rnc chair, if he thought these attacks on pelosi were gendered and he responded to me that people at the end of the day do have a problem with women in a position of power. a group of senate democrats have launched a legal chance against trump s appoint of matt whita whi
classified information transmitted. gene robinson let me go to you. this is sounding familiar. that s what hillary clinton said at the u.n. press conference, nobody trusted her. it s not the press s responsibility to trust the white house and certainly not the responsibility of the press to trust the attorney for a public figure who tells us we ve released all the information that s relevant, which is what abby lowell said and cheryl mill said. nobody in the press or the republican party trusted them. said thank you, we ll verify, actually. same thing with classified information. we don t know. but we knew one thing, gene, ivanka trump was on notice. jared kushner was on notice. the entire trump administration was on notice that this was a violation of public record laws. and why were they on notice?
account, almost always for logistics and scheduling concerning for her family. to address misinformation being peddled about miss trump s personal e-mail she did not create a private server in her house or office. but that s irrelevant. she created an e-mail account, a domain account with her husband right before she went to the white house, which is what hillary clinton did as well. well that seems like a thought out act. hillary clinton created, set up a system where she could move personal emails. now whether the server was at home or whether it was somewhere else actually seems very irrelevant to the fact that the intent was to set up a new private e-mail account. in 2016. in 2016 before going into the white house. weren t they screaming lock her up about temp males. for a year and a half. they claimed there was no
hillary clinton. it was the person itself who got to decide what was personal and what was significant enough to let people see. so we ll see if republicans are aggressive in going after this. but this is why the old term elections have consequences is there. now you have a democratically controlled house of representatives that may be interested in pursuing this. democrats would have to make a decision whether or not this should rise to the top of their level of concern, given all the other things they have to be it s on the list. it s on the list, but i don t know where it is in terms of the list. it reveals that perhaps the critique of hillary clinton s e-mails wasn t perhaps principal, it was simply political. but one of the things that comes to view, at least for me, is that the underlying concern about hillary clinton was a concern about the clintons generally that they thought themselves above the law. and here we have ivanka trump and the trumps giving us evidence that