National Security Adviser all together. Trump then asks the directors of National Intelligence to clear him of any guilt in the matter. When that fails, he fires the fbi director saying he wanted to rid himself of the russian thing. He then shared with the Russian Ambassador his relief having gotten rid of the fbi director. Thats a lot of obstructing, not to be obstruction. Thats hardball for now. All in with chris hayes starts right now. Tonight on all in what is the nature of what you saw in i saw interaction that raised questions. The russia plot thickens. It raised questions in my mind again, whether or not the russians were able to gain the cooperation of those individuals. A former cia director goes further than ever in describing what he saw, as the current director of National Intelligence wont deny the
about it. Usually hes the first out of the box. Let me ask you this. Its sort of remarkable, the color in this article. The sense you get is the president just sort of cualling
intelligence, the democratic party. the most striking take away is the national security story. on the eve of the president of the united states meeting with vladimir putin, in a bilateral meeting, he is wholly unprepared. he could not articulate the importance of western troops in europe, which is a consequence of russian aggression. he could not articulate a strong syria policy, what he might discuss with the president. he could not articulate a strategy on denuclearization. he could not articulate a strategy about crimea. fra frankly, when asked about the investigation that we saw yesterday, he questioned the intelligence community and shrugged off the fact that, perhaps, he d ask vladimir putin about it. this president is historically unprepared to what he is about to walk into with vladimir putin. is this a situation where you have vladimir putin looking at this, and as ambassador chris hill says, sees a man who is behaviorally pliable, and goes in knowing what he wants and how
these foreign trips will be interesting to see what he does when he gets back here to the u.s. and has to deal with the domestic arguments as well. ambassador hill, that s my question about counterterrorism here, which is, what do you see as continuity or as breaks. the musli bans one and two were blocked by the court and the first one rescinded. there s been an escalation in journalism strikes and other raids we ve seen. but what, to you, do you see as the hallmark so far of how this president has taken this approach in a different direction? well, i clearly this is someone who is kind of behaviorally pliable with whomever he s last spoken with. right. i think he found a lot to think about in saudi arabia. probably issues that he, frankly, had never thought about. i think he was kind of impressed and they showed him what they are doing about terrorism. he said, wow, you re doing the same sorts of things we re