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People around trump are equally liable as he is. donald trump seems to have been picking people who are corruptible or corrupting them. you see when people leaves their limit of what they re able to do to debase themselves, they go where? you saw dan coats who would have been in the position to receive in whistle blower. he s gone. andrea mitchell announcing him that donald trump was going to invi invite putin. onto the point of pompeo, let me just play you what pompeo is doing. what he s actually doing now to help push this anti-biden narrative. i hope that we will. i hope if vice president biden engage in behavior that s inappropriate, i hope the american people come to learn ....
The middle of? joining us now is jeremy bash served as chief of staff to the cia director and chief of staff to the secretary of defense. mr. bash, thank you very much for being here. thank you for being on the show, so late at night in particular. good evening, rachel. the times is reporting mike pompeo was briefing mike flynn with the president even though the cia, cia officers have reviewed those transcripts, they were in on the granular information about flynn that led to the serious concerns about flynn. just top line what is your initial reaction to this news? a couple things, rachel. first of all, they aren t cia secrets being briefed to the president. they are intelligence community secrets that include information from agencies, not just cia but nsa and national gio intelligence agency. it s the job of the director of national intelligence and the briefer there in the presidents daily brief to provide this ....
Information for the president. mike pompeo the cia director was attending several briefings. i don t know if it was daily but often so we need to be careful. not like he walks in and tells the president here are all the cia secrets. i think your overall point is sound, rachel, which is that if he and the career professionals at the cia s counter intelligence center in congestion with the conversations with the fbi had concerns about the trustworthiness of mike flynn, somebody in the room, they would have talked to the president about it and the ordinary course the cia director or somebody else would have gone to the president and said we got this issue about mike flynn. it turns out that as of january 26th, we know the president was informed by the white house counsel because sally yates had gone to him. it was in my view a duty of the president to allow mike flynn not just to be in the intelligence briefings but be involved in any national ....
The paper tonight gives this timeline, quote, cia director mike pompeo was sworn in three days before sally yates went to the white house. by that time, cia officials had attended meetings with fbi agents about mike flynn and reviewed the transcripts of his conversations with the russian ambassador. intelligence officials knew a sally yates later told congress they were looking at quote a compromise situation. a situation where the national security advisor essentially could be blackmailed by the russians. at the fbi, at the justice department, at the office of the intelligence and yes, at the cia career officials agreed that mike flynn represented an urgent problem. yet, nearly every day for three weeks the new cia director went to the oval office and briefed president trump on the nation s ....
Security conversation if we thought if the united states government thought he could be blackmailed during the 18 days. on the point of pompeo s responsibility and i ve become increasingly interested in the role in the various investigations and sort of refusal to answer questions about the investigations because he does pop up in the middle of the object of intense focus right now. what the times is reporting is that cia officers had reviewed the actual transcripts of the conversations between mike flynn and russian government officials, that they were in on basically information that led the justice department to give this dramatic warning to the white house. if that s true, if that reporting is accurate and there were people at the cia who were in on that information, if their career officials at the cia shared concerns, it is possible mike pompeo was insighted and didn t know that? unlikely. what is more likely he was briefed about it and what we ....