whistle-blowers that it s treasonous and you should be treated with the way spies were once treated, which by the way was execution, it s utterly inappropriate for the president to do that. that in and of itself for me is misconduct by the president. what s your biggest concern here? is it the president s misconduct? is it the national security issues where congress had approved aid to ukraine for a very specific reason because ukraine is fighting a war against russia, adversary. what s the thing that stand out to you? sure, there are a lot of concerns here. there s national security, there s election. yesterday admiral mcguire, who is the acting director of national intelligence, he testified the greatest challenge to national intelligence is the saint at th sanctity of our elections. that s fundamental to our
one of the reasons is because he likes that these people are temporary. he feels that he has more control over them. they don t know whether they re going to be around long or not. we have seen that over and over. and it, you know, sometimes he quickly announces someone, and sometimes he doesn t. and robert costa, back to the republicans, protests that they are losing again, the institutional memory of a multidecade career professional in sue gordon. that s regardless of how much support she could have had within the organization writ large to be the next dni. all eyes tonight on chairman burr and the senate intelligence committee. he and chairman schiff and the house democrat were encouraging the white house to stick with ms. gordon. she was a reliable set of hands to help guide this administration and this president, chairman burr issued a statement tonight saying he s supportive of admiral mcguire, he is keeping watch. will this be politicized, will
and it, you know, sometimes he quickly announces someone, and sometimes he doesn t. and robert costa, back to the republicans, protests that they are losing again, the institutional memory of a multidecade career professional in sue gordon. that s regardless of how much support she could have had within the organization writ large to be the next dni. all eyes tonight on chairman burr and the senate intelligence committee. he and chairman schiff and the house democrat were encouraging the white house to stick with ms. gordon. she was a reliable set of hands to help guide this administration and this president, chairman burr issued a statement tonight saying he s supportive of admiral mcguire, he is keeping watch. will this be politicized, will admiral mcguire or whoever the president chooses to be the nominee for dni, will it be a political pick. this charged moment, senate
well as a professional manner, and the named acting director, joe mcguire, i know him, i respect him. he was the head of he is the head of the national treasure center, but he certainly does not have the breadth of experience and depth of experience that sue gordon has. i think it is very discouraging to individuals in the intelligence committee that sue gordon will not be serving in the acting capacity. speaking of the times we re living in, you have to live with the the notion that a lot of people will always believe it was a tweet from don trump, jr., that alleged you were best friends with sue gordon that some will always believe was a major force in disqualifying her in the president s eyes to take the top job. well, i don t take anything that don jr. says seriously.
they wanted her to lead the community. she was deputy director of one of the premier intelligence agencies, the national geospatial intelligence agency, and the number two leader of all 17 components. she has energy, she has wisdom, she has judgment, and i think fundamentally, brian, to understand what happened to sue is to understand what donald trump has done to the intelligence community writ large. he started his presidency by standing in front of the cia officers memorial wall and talking about how many times he had been on the cover of time magazine, he didn t compare intelligence community professionals to nazis and took the word of vladimir putin over the cia in his assessment of what happened in 2016. this was the latest insult, the latest effort to undermine, ignore the judgment of intelligence professionals. what is your knowledge of the new acting guy, admiral mcguire.