THANKS, CHRIS. THANKS FOR JOINING US THIS HOUR.
ANYTHING GOING ON IN THE NEWS? ONE OF THOSE TIMES.
AFTER THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION WE THE TAXPAYERS PAY FOR THE
PERSON WHO HAS JUST WON THAT ELECTION TO SET UP OFFICES IN
WASHINGTON, D.C. TAXPAYER FUNDED OFFICES TO RUN
THEIR TRANSITION OUT OF, TO GET THEIR TRANSITION EFFORTS UP AND
RUNNING BECAUSE WE HAVE A NATIONAL INTEREST, WE TAXPAYERS
HAVE AN INTEREST IN THERE BEING A SMOOTH TRANSITION FROM ONE
OUTGOING ADMINISTRATION TO THE NEW INCOMING ONE.
I REMEMBER GOING TO A BRIEFING AT THE OBAMA TRANSITION OFFICES
IN EITHER LATE 2008 OR EARLY 2009 BEFORE PRESIDENT OBAMA WAS
INAUGURATED FOR THE FIRST TIME. I REMEMBER GOING TO THAT, JUST
LIKE GENERIC OFFICE SPACE. I REMEMBER THINKING IT WAS KIND
OF FUNNY TO SEE THESE REGULAR LOOKING OFFICE FOLKS I DIDN'T
RECOGNIZE DOING OFFICE THINGS AND MIXED IN AMONG THEM IN
SHIRTSLEEVES, LOOK, IT'S DAVID AXELROD, THEY, THERE'S THE
PRESIDENT-ELECT, THERE'S JOE BIDEN ABOUT TO BE VICE
PRESIDENT. THESE LOW-KEY OFFICES VERY BUSY,
ALL TAXPAYER FUNDED. THAT IS A STANDARD THING NOW,
EVERY PRESIDENT-ELECT GETS TAXPAYER FUNDED TRANSITION
OFFICES. AFTER THIS LAST PRESIDENTIAL
ELECTION IT WAS NO EXCEPTION. TAXPAYERS PAID FOR THE TRUMP
FOLKS TO HAVE LOW-KEY BIG CENTRALLY LOCATED TRANSITION
OFFICE SPACE IN WASHINGTON, D.C. JUST LIKE EVERY OTHER MODERN
PRESIDENT HAS HAD. WHAT WAS DIFFERENT THIS YEAR
WITH THIS PRESIDENT-ELECT IS THIS PRESIDENT-ELECT DID NOT USE
THOSE OFFICES. WE PAID FOR THEM ANYWAY BUT THEY
DIDN'T REALLY USE THEM. THEY USED TRUMP TOWER INSTEAD.
WHY NOT? YES, THERE WERE SOME TRUMP FOLKS
WHO WORKED OUT OF THE TAXPAYER FUNDED TRANSITION OFFICES IN
D.C. DURING THE TRANSITION IN NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER AND INTO
JANUARY BEFORE THE INAUGURATION, THERE WERE SOME PEOPLE THERE BUT
THE CANDIDATE HIMSELF WAS NOT THERE.
NONE OF HIS TOP PEOPLE WERE THERE.
NONE OF THE DECISIONS ABOUT THE TRANSITION AND THE NEW
ADMINISTRATION WERE REALLY BEING MADE AT THOSE TAXPAYER FUNDED
OFFICES. THERE WERE THESE INSIDERRY
HEADLINES AT THE TIME, TRUMP MARGINALIZES D.C. TRANSITION
STAFF, THOSE FEW SUCKERS IN D.C. THINKING THEY WERE RUNNING THE
TRANSITION, HOW, ALL THE REAL WORK WAS HAPPENING AT THE
PRESIDENT'S APARTMENT, AT TRUMP TOWER IN NEW YORK.
WE SHOULD HAVE SEEN THOSE HEADLINES AS ADVANCE WARNING WE
SHOULD THROW OUT THE WINDOW ANY NORMAL IDEAS HOW A NEW
PRESIDENTIAL ADMINISTRATION GETS SET UP.
BUT THAT INTERESTING NOVEL THING ABOUT THE WAY THE TRUMP FOLKS
HANDLE THE TRANSITION, THE ABANDONMENT OF THEIR D.C.
OFFICE, THAT ALSO HAD A REALLY SPECIFIC LOGISTICAL CONSEQUENCE
AFTER THE ELECTION, IF WE'RE SETTING UP THE NEW
ADMINISTRATION. IT MEANT ANYBODY WHO WANTED TO
MEET WITH THE INCOMING PRESIDENT AND HIS MUCH TO ADVISORS, WHO
WANTED TO LOBBY FOR THEMSELVES GETTING A TOP JOB IN THE NEW
ADMINISTRATION, UNLIKE PREVIOUS PRESIDENTIAL TRANSITIONS THIS
TIME WITH THE TRUMP FOLKS YOU COULDN'T DO IT IN A LOW-KEY WAY,
YOU COULDN'T SLIP OFF TO SOME LOW-KEY GENERIC OFFICE SPACE IN
WASHINGTON, D.C. AND MEET WITH THE TRANSITION FOLKS OR
CANDIDATE HIMSELF THERE. TO DO THIS WITH THE TRUMP FOLKS,
YOU HAD TO COME TO FIFTH AVENUE IN NEW YORK CITY.
YOU HAD TO FIND A WAY IN TO TRUMP TOWER.
FOR SOME PEOPLE, I'M SURE THAT WAS AN ADDED BONUS.
PEOPLE WHO WERE VERY HAPPY TO BE SEEN, MAKING THEIR TRUMP TOWER
PILGRIMAGE, WHO MADE SURE TO ENGAGE THE REPORTERS AND
EVERYTHING, WHO WERE CAMPED OUTSIDE THE GOLD ELEVATORS.
NOT EVERYBODY WANTS TO BE SEEN DOING THOSE SORTS OF THINGS.
SOME MEETINGS ARE LOWER KEY. FOR SOME OTHER PEOPLE WHO MIGHT
HAVE PREFERRED THEIR PILGRIMAGES TO SEE THE NEW PRESIDENT-ELECT,
THEIR TRIP, OUT OF D.C., AND UP TO NEW YORK CITY AND INTO THAT
VERY PUBLIC BUILDING, THAT ENDED UP BEING AN AWKWARD THING,
PARTICULARLY WHEN IT HIT THE NEWSPAPERS.
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION THIS PAST YEAR, NOVEMBER 8th, THAT WAS A
TUESDAY, WE HAVE OUR ELECTIONS ON TUESDAYS.
THE FOLLOWING WEEK ON THURSDAY THE WEEK AFTER THE ELECTION,
NINE DAYS AFTER THE ELECTION THERE WAS ACTUALLY A SERVING
OBAMA ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL WHO TURNED UP UNEXPECTEDLY AT
TRUMP TOWER. IT WAS ADMIRAL MIKE ROGERS, THE
HEAD OF THE NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY.
HE WAS APPARENTLY SPOTTED AT TRUMP TOWER LESS THAN A WEEK AND
HALF AFTER THE ELECTION. WHAT WAS VERY STRANGE ABOUT
THAT, MIKE ROGERS HEAD OF THE NSA, HE TOOK PERSONAL LEAVE FROM
WORK, HE TOOK A PERSONAL DAY TO LEAVE WASHINGTON, D.C. WHERE HE
WORKED RUNNING THE NSA TO TRAVEL TO NEW YORK PRESUMABLY ON HIS
OWN DIME, TO GO VISIT THE CANDIDATE THE PRESIDENT-ELECT AT
TRUMP TOWER? INCIDENTALLY, MIKE ROGERS, AS AN
ADMIRAL IN THE NAVY AND HEAD OF THE NSA HE'S IN THE MILITARY
CHAIN OF COMMAND HE ANSWERS TO THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF AT THAT
TIME WAS BARACK OBAMA. APPARENTLY MIKE ROGERS DID NOT
EVEN TELL PRESIDENT OBAMA OR THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION GENERALLY
HE WAS DOING THIS, HE WAS TAKING A PERSONAL DAY TO LEAVE D.C., GO
TO NEW YORK TO VISIT THE PRESIDENT-ELECT.
IT WAS THE "WALL STREET JOURNAL" FIRST TO REPORT ON NSA HEAD,
MIKE ROGERS, PLAYING HOOKY THAT DAY.
THEY WERE ALSO FIRST TO REPORT ON WHY HE MIGHT HAVE DONE IT,
THE PROSPECT THE PRESIDENT-ELECT MIGHT GIVE MIKE ROGERS A BIG
PROMOTION, HE MIGHT GET PROMOTED NOT JUST FROM BEING HEAD OF THE
NSA AND HEAD OF THE CYBER COMMAND THE PROSPECT HE MIGHT BE
THE NEW DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE.
WITHIN DAYS WE GOT NEWS JUST HOW REMARKABLE A PROMOTION THAT
WOULD BE FOR ADMIRAL MIKE ROGERS, NOT JUST BECAUSE IT
WOULD BE A BIG PROMOTION BUT BECAUSE TOP DEFENSE AND
INTELLIGENCE OFFICIALS THAT HE HAD SERVED UNDER IN THE OBAMA
ADMINISTRATION ALL APPARENTLY AT THE TIME WANTED HIM TO BE FIRED,
NOT PROMOTED. IT WAS ONE OF THE STRANGER
THINGS ABOUT THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION WE LEARNED ABOUT
DURING THE TRANSITION. THIS WIDELY REPORTED DRAMA
WHETHER OR NOT THE HEAD OF THE NSA WAS GOING TO GET FIRED
DURING THE TRANSITION, WHETHER THE HEAD OF THE NSA WAS GOING TO
GET CANNED AFTER THE ELECTION BUT BEFORE THE NEW PRESIDENT WAS
SWORN IN. THAT WOULD BE DRAMATIC AND
STRANGE ENOUGH EVEN AT THE SAME TIME THAT NSA DIRECTOR WAS NOT
APPARENTLY TAKING OFF HIS UNIFORM OR DISREGARDING HIS
UNIFORM AND TAKING A PERSONAL DAY TO SECRETLY MEET WITH THE
INCOMING PRESIDENT AT HIS PENTHOUSE APARTMENT IN NEW YORK
TO TALK ABOUT MAYBE BECOMING THE TOP INTELLIGENCE OFFICIAL IN THE
WHOLE GOVERNMENT. IT WAS VERY STRANGE.
THAT WAS THIS VERY STRANGE STORY ABOUT THIS IMPORTANT PART OF THE
INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY AT AN OTHERWISE PRETTY DRAMATIC TIME.
NSA DIRECTOR MIKE ROGERS HAD APPARENTLY BEEN RECOMMENDED FOR
FIRING BY OBAMA'S DEFENSE SECRETARY, ASH CARTER AND BY
JAMES CLAPPER, DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE.
THEY REPORTEDLY THOUGHT HE HAD DONE A BAD JOB AT THE NSA AND
CYBER COMMAND. NBC NEWS SAID MIKE ROGERS WAS
EXTREMELY UNPOPULAR AMONG THE NSA WORK FORCE AT THE TIME.
WOULD HE BE FIRED? WOULD TRUMP PROMOTE HIM EVEN
THOUGH OBAMA WAS MAYBE ABOUT TO FIRE HIM?
INTERESTING QUESTION. IN THE END, WHEN ALL WAS SAID
AND DONE, WHAT HAPPENED IS THAT MIKE ROGERS KEPT THE NSA JOB
INTO THE NEW TRUMP ADMINISTRATION.
HE DID NOT GET FIRED FROM RUNNING THE NSA.
BUT HE ALSO DIDN'T GET PROMOTED TO BE THE DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL
INTELLIGENCE EITHER. THAT JOB WENT TO DAN COATS,
FORMER REPUBLICAN SENATOR FROM THE STATE OF INDIANA.
NOW, TODAY, ON THE EVE OF THE FIRST PUBLIC APPEARANCE BY THE
FBI DIRECTOR, SINCE THAT FBI DIRECTOR WAS FIRED BY PRESIDENT
TRUMP, TODAY, THESE TWO FIGURES, CONTROVERSIAL ADMIRAL WHO SNUCK
OUT FROM HIS JOB WITHOUT PERMISSION FROM THE OBAMA
ADMINISTRATION, WHICH WANTED TO FIRE HIM AT THE TIME, AND THE
FORMER SENATOR WHETHER GOT THE TOP INTELLIGENCE JOB DESPITE
ADMIRAL ROGERS GOING TO THOSE EXTRAORDINARY LENGTHS TO LOBBY
FOR IT DURING THE TRANSITION, THESE TWO UNUSUAL FIGURES TODAY
OPENED A WHOLE NEW UNEXPECTED FIGHT IN THE INVESTIGATION INTO
THE RUSSIAN ATTACK ON OUR ELECTION LAST YEAR AND THE
QUESTION WHETHER THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN COLLUDED.
>> I'LL ASK BOTH OF YOU THE SAME QUESTION.
WHY ARE YOU NOT ANSWERING THESE QUESTIONS?
IS THERE AN INVOCATION BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
OF EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE. IS THERE OR NOT?
>> NOT THAT I'M AWARE OF. >> THEN WHY ARE YOU NOT
ANSWERING? >> I FEEL IT'S INAPPROPRIATE?
>> WHAT YOU FEEL IS NOT RELEVANT.
WHY ARE YOU NOT ANSWERING THE QUESTIONS?
IS IT AN INVOCATION OF EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE.
IF THERE IS, LET'S KNOW ABOUT IT.
IF THERE IS ANSWER THE QUESTIONS.
>> I STAND BY THE COMMENTS I MADE.
I'M NOT INTERESTED IN REPEATING MYSELF, SIR.
I DON'T MEAN THAT IN A CONTENTIOUS WAY.
>> I DO MEAN IT IN A CONTENTIOUS WAY.
I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY YOU'RE NOT ANSWERING OUR QUESTIONS.
WHEN YOU WERE CONFIRMED BEFORE THE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE YOU
TOOK AN OATH DO YOU SOLEMNLY SWEAR TO GIVE THE COMMITTEE THE
TREAT THE COMPLETE TRUTH SO HELP YOU GOD.
>> I ALSO SAID THOSE QUESTIONS WERE CLASSIFIED AND NOT
AVAILABLE IN AN OPEN FORUM TO DISCUSS THOSE CONVERSATIONS.
>> WHAT IS CLASSIFIED WHETHER YOU SHOULD INTERVENE IN THE FBI
INVESTIGATION. >> I STAND BY MY PREVIOUS
COMMENTS. >> MR. COATS, THE SAME QUESTION,
WHAT'S THE BASIS FOR YOUR REFUSAL TO ANSWER THESE
QUESTIONS TODAY? >> THE BASIS WHAT I PREVALENCE
EXPLAINED, I DO NOT BELIEVE IT IS APPROPRIATE FOR ME TO --
>> WHAT'S THE BASIS. I'M NOT SATISFIED WITH I DO NOT
BELIEVE IT IS APPROPRIATE OR I DO NOT FEEL I SHOULD ANSWER.
I WANT TO UNDERSTAND A LEGAL BASIS.
YOU SWORE THAT OATH TO TELL US THE TRUTH, THE WHEEL TRUTH AND
NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH AND TODAY YOU ARE REFUSING TO DO SO TO
TESTIFY BEFORE THIS COMMITTEE? >> I'M NOT SURE I HAVE A LEGAL
BASIS. >> TODAY DAN COATS AND MIKE
ROGERS SAID THEY WOULD NOT TELL THE UNITED STATES SENATE, WHICH
IS INVESTIGATING THE TRUMP RUSSIA AFFAIR AND THE COMMITTEE
THAT OVERSEAS THEM IN THE SENATE, THE INTELLIGENCE
COMMITTEE OVERSEAS THEM. THE INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES HAVE
TO ANSWER TO THAT OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE.
NEVERTHELESS AS HEAD OF NSA AND DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL DEPENDENCE
DEPENDENCE -- NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE SAID
THEY WOULD NOT TELL ABOUT THE CONVERSATIONS WITH THE PRESIDENT
AND WHETHER THE PRESIDENT ASKED EITHER OF THEM WHETHER THEY
WOULD OR COULD DO ANYTHING TO CHANGE THE COURSE OF THE RUSSIA
INVESTIGATION OR TRY TO CHANGE PERCEPTIONS OF THE
INVESTIGATION. THEY WOULD NOT ANSWER.
BOTH MEN HAVE BEEN DESCRIBED IN MULTIPLE PRESS REPORTS BEING
ASKED ABOUT OR PRESSURED ON THAT ISSUE BY THE PRESIDENT HIMSELF.
WHAT EVER YOU EXPECTED THEM TO SAY ABOUT IT I DON'T THINK
ANYBODY EXPECTED WHAT THEY DID TODAY.
SENATORS IN BOTH PARTIES TODAY CLEARLY WERE FLABBERGASTED THEY
FLAT OUT REFUSED TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.
>> I WOULD SAY WITH INCREDIBLE RESPECT FOR YOU, I AM NOT ASKING
FOR CLASSIFIED INFORMATION, I AM ASKING YOU WHETHER YOU WERE
ASKED -- >> I UNDERSTAND THAT AND WILL
NOT GO DOWN THAT ROAD. >> YOU'RE NOT INVOKING THE
PRIVILEGE AND IT'S NOT CLASSIFIED.
THIS IS OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE. WHY WOULD IT NOT BE APPROPRIATE
FOR YOU TO SHARE THAT INFORMATION WITH US.
DIRECTOR COATS YOU SAID IT WOULD BE INAPPROPRIATE TO ANSWER
WHETHER THE PRESIDENT ASKED FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE IN BLUNTING THE
RUSSIA INVESTIGATION. I DON'T CARE HOW YOU FELT, I'M
NOT ASKING WHETHER YOU FELT PRESSURED, I'M SIMPLY ASKING DID
THAT CONVERSATION OCCUR? >> AND AGAIN, SENATOR, I WILL
SAY THAT I DO BELIEVE IT'S INAPPROPRIATE FOR ME TO DISCUSS
THAT IN AN OPEN SESSION. >> YOU REALIZE -- OBVIOUSLY,
THIS IS NOT RELEASING ANY CLASSIFIED INFORMATION, YOU
REALIZE HOW SIMPLE IT WOULD BE TO SAY, NO, THAT NEVER HAPPENED.
WHY IS IT INAPPROPRIATE, DIRECTOR COATS?
YOU CAN CLEAR AN AWFUL LOT UP BY --
>> I DO NOT SHARE WITH THE GENERAL PUBLIC CONVERSATIONS
THAT I HAD WITH THE PRESIDENT OR MANY OF MY ADMINISTRINISTRATIVE
COLLEAGUES WITHIN THE ADMINISTRATION I BELIEVE ARE --
SHOULD NOT BE SHARED. >> I THINK YOUR INWILLINGNESS TO
ANSWER A VERY BASIC QUESTION SPEAKS VOLUMES.
>> IT IS MY BELIEF YOU ARE INAPPROPRIATELY REFUSING TO
ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS TODAY. >> OUR DEFAULT POSITION WHEN
THERE'S A JUSTICE DEPARTMENT INVESTIGATION WE DO NOT DISCUSS
IT PUBLICLY. THAT'S OUR DEFAULT RULE.
>> IS THAT THE RULE FOR THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
AS WELL. >> I DON'T KNOW WHAT --
>> THAT IS WHAT THE QUESTIONS ARE BEING ASKED ABOUT, REPORTS
THAT NOBODY HAS LAID TO REST HERE THAT THE PRESIDENT OF THE
UNITED STATES HAS INTERVENED DIRECTLY IN AN ONGOING
INVESTIGATION AND WE'VE GOTTEN NO ANSWER FROM ANY OF YOU.
>> I DON'T KNOW THAT ANYBODY HAD A CLEAR EXPECTATION ABOUT WHAT
THEY WOULD GET FROM THE ACTING DIRECTOR OF THE FBI, DEPUTY
ATTORNEY GENERAL, HEAD OF THE NSA AND DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL
INTELLIGENCE TODAY, ALL OF WHOM ARE SOMEHOW CONNECTED TO THESE
MULTIPLY SOURCED REPORTS THAT THE PRESIDENT HAS TRIED TO PUT
HIS THUMB ON THE SCALE WHEN IT COMES TO THE TRUMP-RUSSIA
INVESTIGATION, THAT H HE HAS EITHER TRIED TO SHUT THAT
INVESTIGATION DOWN AND GET INTELLIGENCE FOLKS AND LAW
ENFORCEMENT FOLKS TO MAKES PUBLIC PRONOUNCEMENTS ABOUT
THOSE INVESTIGATIONS AND SOMEHOW EXONERATE HIM AND CHANGE THE
PUBLIC NARRATIVE ABOUT IT. I DON'T THINK ANYBODY KNEW
EXACTLY HOW THEY WOULD ALL ANSWER AS TO THEIR REPORTED
ROLES IN WHAT THE PRESIDENT HAS DONE ON THAT INVESTIGATION BUT I
DON'T THINK ANYBODY EXPECTED THEY WOULD ALL JUST SAY, NO, I
DON'T REALLY FEEL LIKE ANSWERING YOUR QUESTIONS.
WELCOME TO THE NEXT STAGE OF THE INVESTIGATION INTO THE TRUMP
RUSSIA AFFAIR, WHERE APPARENTLY THE ADMINISTRATION GETS ITS ACT
TOGETHER TO THE EXTENT ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS WILL
STOP ANSWERING QUESTIONS ABOUT IT FROM CONGRESS.
WHETHER OR NOT THOSE OFFICIALS CAN EXPLAIN THE BASIS ON WHICH
THEY ARE REFUSING TO ANSWER. I KNOW THERE'S A LOT GOING ON.
THIS IS NEW. THIS IS BEING OVERSHADOWED TODAY
BY THE ANTICIPATION SURROUNDING FBI DIRECTOR JAMES COMEY'S
TESTIMONY TOMORROW MORNING. WHAT HAPPENED TODAY, NO, I WON'T
ANSWER AND DON'T HAVE A REASON WHY, THIS IS A REALLY BIG
TURNING POINT IN THE OVERALL QUESTION WHETHER WE AS CITIZENS
WILL GET TO THE BOTTOM OF WHAT HAPPENED HERE.
IF ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS JUST START SAY, NO, I'M NOT GOING TO
ANSWER, NO, CONGRESS HAS NO AUTHORITY TO LEARN THIS STUFF,
NO, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DON'T GET AN ANSWER TO THESE QUESTIONS
NOT BECAUSE THEY HAVE ANY LEGAL REASON NOT SAY BECAUSE I'M JUST
NOT GOING TO SAY, THAT'S NEW FOR THIS ADMINISTRATION.
THAT'S NEW FOR THIS INVESTIGATION THUS FAR.
IT'S A BIG BIG DEAL, THE FIRST HOW THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IS
GOING TO FIGHT THIS NOW THAT THE PRESIDENT HAS ITS NEW EXTERNAL
LEGAL COUNSEL COORDINATING THIS FIGHT.
IF THE ANSWER IS, NO, YOU DON'T GET ANSWER BECAUSE WE DON'T FEEL
LIKE ANSWERING YOUR QUESTIONS, I'M NOT SURE CONGRESS KNOWS HOW
IT'S GOING TO FIGHT BACK AGAINST THAT NEW STRATEGY.
I DON'T EVEN KNOW IF CONGRESS WILL FIGHT BACK AGAINST IT BUT
THAT QUEST
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