Good morning and welcome to the saturday edition of Morning Joe Weekend. It was a busy weekend, lets get to some of the conversations you may have missed. Had i been President Biden when the Justice Department came, i would have been it made me, President Biden the be gotten the person i pardoned, the little guy. I cant keep up with this. Stephanie is right here. I know she is. That is why i am saying, stephanie, i cant keep up with this guy. They are all saying Mitch Mcconnell says, oh we cant impeach him here, weve got to try. And now that romney is saying, we cant try, weve got to acquit. That is what was so stunning to me. For mitt romney to say, joe biden should have stepped in and pressure prosecutors like, what . Doesnt mitt romney support separate, but equal branches of government . I read mitt romneys book where he talks about being afraid for his family when he voted to impeach donald trump. He was afraid of president ial overreach, what trump could do, yet, when the tables a
away, and you let the person resolve them. we re now in sort of a backwards view, which is he has a right to the security clearance, and you have to show in a court of law or beyond a reasonable doubt that he has to be suspended. it s backwards. ambassador, i know you want to jump in. let me ask this question, and maybe you can answer, respond to her. the then-national security adviser michael flynn was allowed to sit in on top-secret meetings given by mike pompeo despite many warnings about him. you were the cia director. could you imagine being in possession of that information and not informing the president, continuing allowing flynn to receive those briefings? i think informing the president is a very reasonable thing to do. you re in a meeting with him, the way they were running this every morning, you ask to stay a few minutes after everybody else leaves and inform the president. so it may be something that the facts give rise to an assumption that something is being hidden
from the pentagon. good morning, barbara. good morning, poppy. troops at the ready in case there are retaliation attacks. this report has been in the works for months. the question now, of course, is how will the world react when it is made public. this morning, thousands of u.s. military personnel on heightened alert, anticipating the release of a report by the senate intelligence committee on top-secret interrogation tactics and torture of cia detainees. our own intelligence community has assessed that this will cause violence and death. reporter: marines are positioned in key areas, ready to respond to potential violent reactions directed at u.s. embassies and military bases around the globe. believed to be included in the report, details of waterboarding and other interrogation tactics in the years after 9/11. the cia believes the so-called enhanced interrogation techniques, including
this morning, thousands of u.s. military personnel on heightened alert. anticipating the release of a report by the senate intelligence committee on top-secret interrogation tactics, and torture of c.i.a. detain detainees. our own intelligence community has assessed that this will cause violence and death. the marines are positioned in key areas. ready to respond to potential violent reactions directed at u.s. embassies and military bases around the globe. believed to be included in the report, details of water-boarding and other interrogation tactics in the years after 9/11. the c.i.a. believes the so-called enhanced interrogation techniques including water-boarding provided key information that prevented other terror attacks, and led to the capture of osama bin laden. but the report questions the effectiveness of those procedures. critics of the $50 million