jeremy it was your former boss leon panetta i was quoting at the top of the broadcast when he said this may be the worst day in the history of the american presidency. do you expect resignation for starters and interest -- for instance, dni cotes? >> i got give credit to dni coates because he did stand up ft. for the u.s. intelligence community, the men and women who are working in very austere locations, risks their own lives, risks lives of the amts they are trying to recruit and protect and doing the hardest job we ask of american professionals. if the dni was not going stand up for them today, he would have a huge morale problem with the commander in chief driving a dagger through the heart of the u.s. with former kgb member vladimir putin. dan coates did stand up and say the right thing. i don't know how he does this job. i war there's going to be a long erosion from our intelligence officials and our country. >> frank, i'm going give you the last word because i don't want anyone in the audience to miss the message. you believe what we saw transpire today means a personal threat of

leon panetta hit it. i also think one should note something charlie sykes said just a few minutes ago, which i think reflects, perhaps expectedly, a sort of cynical orthodoxy. we've seen this before. we've been here again. we've had a whole day of cable news about this and that. we've said a million times this is beyond the pale but nothing has changed. for sure i think in the short term, and judges by some calls i made tonight to trump supporters in chicago said they were unchanged. certainly by looking as i did all day for my new job at websites this got less play than one would think. in janesville, wisconsin, the big story, 20% hike in water bill. go town to san antonio, a murderer released. chicago, a house fire. here in new york city, the downpour today. >> waterspouts spotted off brooklyn. >> at the same time, for all the reasons my good friend mentioned, sykes mentioned earlier why this may be interesting because it may ultimately provide the framework for a legitimate primary run by the republica

leon panetta, thank you, sir. always good to hear you come on and share your views. >> thanks, chuck. >>> up ahead, lordy, there's a tape. the latest on former trump fixer michael cohen's salvo against the president. here's a clue. the real news has nothing to do with what's on the tape. hi, i'm joan lunden with a place for mom, the nation's largest senior-living referral service. for the past five years, i've spoken with hundreds of families and visited senior-care communities around the country. and i've got to tell you, today's senior-living communities are better than ever. these days, there are amazing amenities, like movie theaters, exercise rooms and swimming pools, public cafes, bars, and bistros, even pet-care services. and nobody understands your options like the advisers at a place for mom. these are local, expert advisers that will partner with you to find the perfect place and determine the right level of care, whether that's just a helping hand or full-time memory care. best of all, it's a free servi

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john brennan and leon panetta. john brennan is a traitor, i will tell you why. he is the real traitor. what he did and what he has had recently about the president of the united states is despicable. he is personally responsible for the leaking of unmasked information, he was responsible for the sharing of false information to u.s. intelligence sources to get fisa warrants. he is personally responsible for the sharing of false information with american intelligence agencies, and he, i challenge him to a debate at the national press club for one hour, two hours, three hours about his role in the entire pre-election. about leon panetta, he should be ashamed of himself after what he did in benghazi when he kissed hillary clinton's fanny, now he thinks the russians may have something on the president to compromise him? shame on leon panetta, may he rot in hell. >> from what i'm understanding, we are still in the early days of investigating the domestic internal targeting of donald trump and his campaign. these are the early days. what we may find out is that the roo

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shame on leon panetta, may he rot in hell! >> sean: monica? >> from what i'm hearing, sean, we are still in the early days of investigating the domestic internal targeting of donald trump's associates and his campaign. these are the early days. what we may find out is that the root of all evil may have gone through james comey, may have gone through james clapper, may have gone through john brennan, may have gone all the way up to barack obama, or all of the above. we don't know yet. what we do know is that they were trying to inoculate these agencies like the fbi, the nsa, the cia, by comments like chuck schumer's saying they are sacrosanct, you cannot go after them. well, we are not supposed to be able to go after them because they are supposed to be above politics and this kind of corruption, and we now know they weren't. >> sean: this conspiracy -- you are right. how dare they -- we just laid out all the evidence, how much tougher trump has been on russia than obama. >> you know what? there's another guy, michael haden, the guy who never p

even leon panetta's not going to be able to discipline this. and you had some success and i think it would be interesting for this audience to hear a bit about how you did that and what rules you laid some discipline on a talented but undisciplined man. that?d you do sec. panetta: it wasn't easy. [laughter] sec. panetta: and frankly, i didn't want to do it. hads o.m.b. director and we just passed a very significant president that, by the way, provided $500 reduction deficit over five years. david: what's deficit reduction? we don't remember that. sec. panetta: the combination of that plus the bush agreement is balanced budget. so i was very pleased with the opportunity work on the budget appropriations bills. actually vice president gore, was a classmate of mine in congress, said i think the president wants you to be chief staff and i said, al, i'm much more valuable as o.m.b. director. besides that, i kind of knew the chaos in the white house. thing i knew, i was david,nvited up to camp and so i flew up to camp david and i walked into the cabi

now, former defense secretary and cia director leon panetta and john negroponte, from a director of national intelligence, discuss the future of global democracies this is . this washington post event two . as president trump begins a week of meetings in europe, we look at where democracy is showing resilience, and where authoritarianism is gaining ground. is gaining ground. our experts will also talk about how americans -- i would like to thank our presenting sponsors, the democracy fund voter steady group for their support of today's program. please welcome joe goldman, president of democracy funds to the stage for summer marks. [applause] >> good morning, it is really an honor to be able to support this important conversation we are having today. for those of you who are not familiar with the democracy fund, let me talk about our. it is a bipartisan foundation. we were created by the founder of ebay. since our inception, we have given away about $100 million in grants. these funds have gone to organizations working on a wide array of issues, from reviving our public square, to strengtheni

although i would grow with leon panetta's comments. we don't know for sure yet. you can do counterintelligence assessments and say what explains this. there are splngss that are straightforward as to why trump behaved that. i believe it does point to kompromat. >> and that was a tipping point for a lot of people for whom it was merely a theory and then convinced by the performance in helsinki. ambassador, turning to you there was a lot of discussion about ambassador mcfall being part of what the president called an incredible deal. he walked it back and said he disagreed with it but there was a discussion about the russians able to interrogate mcfall and others. and the mueller team being able to interrogate russians who were indicted. which wasn't a fair deal considering that many people thought the crimes were trumped up on the americans. as a former ambassador yourself how did you feel about the fact that this was even being discussed? >> well, the whole proposal was ridiculous from the very start. first of all, the idea woe gain any insights about the russian

this is we have panetta. -- is leon panetta. that footage is from july 29, 2010. he says at the time there are guys into 100 al qaeda all of afghanistan. lo and behold, one of the documents out of bin laden's compound includes a status update on their fighting in afghanistan, written just eight tv and saidpanetta: that. the white house did have this file later in may 2011, and it never changed that erroneous assessment. what panetta said there stands for about spears. what is the -- stands for about six years. the author to bin laden writes, "our groups been -- in afghanistan have been the same as ever." he goes on to list eight provinces. strong "we have very military activity in afghanistan. i americans and nato are being hit hard." he said one battalion has 70 fighters in it. just one al qaeda battalion had more than the low end of the estimate leon panetta is getting for the entirety of al qaeda in afghanistan. he goes on to explain how they are working with various taliban figures. that is a key point. several other things i won't get into here. very quickly

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former defense secretary and leon panetta says the president should not have let kim off the hook at their senate. >> they are continuing to develop their nuclear capability and basically sending a clear message that they aren't that willing to give up all of their nuclear weapons. >> reporter: president trump having declared na north korea is no longer a nuclear threat. now learning what presidents clinton and bush could have told him. north korea drives a hard bargain and cheats. >> we are keeping on trouble in the tropics on multiple fronts. the remnants of beryl brought bad weather. but meantime tropical storm chris is lurking off the coast, not expected to be threat, but is causing high surf and rip currents along the coast for the next few days. >> a major announcement from starbucks. the coffee chain revealing plans to do away with all single use plastic straws. from all 28,000 of its stores worldwide. nbc business correspondent jolene kent has that story. >> reporter: tonight the world's largest coffee chain phasing out plastic straws by 2020 becoming the largest beverage com

when you hear leon panetta, and i think leon panetta is widely respected across the political divide in our polarized country, say hey, his behavior is mighty peculiar. it is not explained except by the idea that somehow somebody has some leverage over him, whether it is the money or finances. i noticed pickup on the idea that congress can say let us see your tax returns, mr. president? let's get this out-of-the-way so we know that you are not somehow financially indebted to the russians. >> jesse: juan says, dana, that it has to be something that the russians have on trump to explain his behavior. couldn't you also say trump is not living in a cold war world and he thinks his outreach to the russians is going to make the world a better and safer place. >> dana: you could say a lot of things. i wonder if democrats have somehow some poll tested information. you can see when the bat signal goes out and they all use the same language. republicans do that too but in this case, they were focused. just last week when brett kavanaugh was nominated at the supreme court, it was all about heal

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>> you know, i think leon panetta said it best, for whatever reason. because it is hard not to arrive at a conclusion like that given what he's doing to this absolutely crucial alliance. and by the way, it's not just crucial to them, it's crucial to us. we have relied on allies really since our inception as a country. and for him to just kiss off our main allies is incomprehensible. and by the way, i've been in that situation where your principal at the table is saying crazy stuff and you are just desperate to have scotty beam you out of there because it is painful. and you could see all his staff members trying to look at their shoes under the table. >> it was remarkable. john meacham, walk us through. can you give us some perspective on this moment right here, more than 70 years ago as nato was formed, now 70 years later you have the sense as you watch this today that we may be witnessing some history here. this may, in fact, be the end of the nato alliance. >> well, it could be. one hopes that -- one benefit here is europeans are accustomed to convu

so, this is leon panetta, cia director for obama at the time. that footage from july 29th, 2010. and he says at the time that there are only 50 to 100 al qaeda guys in all afghanistan. that is it all in afghanistan. lo and behold subsequently came out of bin ben's compound includes a status up tate on their fighting in afghanistan, written eight days before panetta got on tv said that the u.s. government did not have this file at the time panetta made assessment. it did have the file months later in 2011s right? it never changed that erroneous assessment. so what panetta says there stands more than six years, or about six years. now what is the assessment? eight days before panetta gets on abc, what does al qaeda's assessment say about their presence in afghanistan? the author to bin laden our groups inside afghanistan are the same they have been every season for many years. he lists eight different provinces that al qaeda is fighting us. this is what he says. we have very strong military activity in afghanistan, many special operations and americans and nato are being hit hard.

leon panetta says the president should not have let kim off the hook at the summit. >> they are continuing to develop their nuclear capability and are basically sending a clear message that they aren't that willing to give up all of their nuclear weapons. >> reporter: president trump having declared north korea is no longer a n threat learning what president's clinton and bush could have told him. north korea drives ard argain and cheats. andrea mitchell, nbc news, michigan. >>> we're keeping on eye on troublen the tropics. a flash flood risk continues into tonight. the good news, drier weather is expected there for tomorrow. >>> in the meantime, tropical storm chris is lurking off the carolina coast, not ct ex to be a threat to the u.s. mainland directly but it is causing high surf and dangerous rip rrents along the coast for the next few days. >>> a major announcement from starbucks today. the coff chain jumping on a trend growing around the country by revealing plans to do away with single-use plastic 28 straws from al00 of the stores worldwide. nbc news business correspondent jo ling k

i cannot think of anyone who is ,ore appropriate than my guest secretary leon panetta. he has served in so many different capacities. helping our country as a member of congress. committee chairman, director of the office of management. the office of management. captioning performed by vitac a institute, which is doing good and all sorts of partisan and bipartisan ways. mr. secretary, i want to get >> mr. secretary, i want to get started by talking about the thing that's on all of our minds. i want to repeat the injunction, ask us questions from the audience or from the live stream audience, send them to #postlive and we will process them and put them to secretary panetta. mr. secretary, this morning we watched president trump arrive in brussels, just, you know, practically smoke coming out of his ears. sat down to breakfast with the nato secretary general, jens spott stoltenberg and talked about how germany was a captive to russia and all the familiar lines about how germany is not paying their w way. i always thought when we thought about the future of democracy we sh

. >> and leon panetta, the former cia director under president obama, calls it probably the most tragic day in the history of the presidency. but the president does have his defenders. we'll get to washington for that side of the story in a moment. >> but first the new interview with vladimir putin released overnight. >> translator: i really wish for your american listeners to listen to what i say. >> reporter: in an interview that quickly turned tense, fox news' chris wallace confronted vladimir putin on interfering with the u.s. election. putin refused to look at a copy of robert mueller's indictment which charges 12 russian intelligence officers with hacking into democrats' emails. >> you smile. let me finish. they say that these units were specifically involved in hacking into democratic party computers, stealing information and spreading it to the world to try to disrupt the american election. may i give this to you to look at, sir? here? >> reporter: the russian president goes on to deny any meddling. >> translator: russia as a state has never interfered with the internal affairs

for a perspective on th and other foreign policy developments, we're joined by leon panetta. secrttary pa always nice to have you with us. >> nice to be with you. >> there are reportshat pecial counsel robert mueller bs now looking into tweets from president trumpt attorney general jeff sessions and also former fbi director james mey. and then separately federal investigatorshave asked to interview alan weisselberg, the chief financial roof for the trump organization. what is your reaction to all these developments this week? >> i think it's an indication that bob mueller is rinching that in his investigation where he is looking pretty closely at the rpresident. wiards to issues of obstruction and probably issues of collusion as well. i think the tweets, obviously looking the tweets, think the purpose of that is to determine whether or not you cat pullether an obstruction case based on those tweet i think clearly looking at his finance guy relates to tracking the money and whether any of that money leads to russia. >> and i wanted to also ask you about th week's senate hearin

we heard from leon panetta, who served as defense secretary and cia director during the obama administration and john negroponte, who served as director of national intelligence under president george w. bush. this runs about two hours. >>> good morning. thank you for joining us. i'm jennifer lee, director of events at the "washington post." this morning we'll be talking about the future of democracy, both here at home and around the world. as president trump begins a week of meetings with world leaders in europe, we've gathered key voices from government and diplomacy to discuss the places where democracy is showing resilience and where authoritarianism is gaining ground. our experts will also talk about how americans view the health of our nearly 250-year-old political system. before we begin, i'd like to thank our presenting sponsor, the democracy voter group for study of today's program. now please welcome joe goldman, president of democracy fund, to the stage for some remarks. >>> good morning. it's really an honor to be able to support this important conversation we're having today. fo

now, you mention in the election, and the former cia chief who became defence secretary, leon panetta, even said about that, "i think when putin conducted the cyber attacks during the last election, he felt he could get away with it without any kind of response." again, it's that criticism that there isn't a belief that president obama was going to do anything. well, the fault i find in our response over the russian intervention is when we did make a public statement and a warning about it, we focused on the cyber attack, that they hacked the dnc, the democratic national committee, they released these emails. there was this massive information war taking place where they're creating and disseminating huge volumes of fake news about hillary clinton that is flooding the social media feeds of tens of millions of americans potentially. i don't think we gave enough of that context to people. i don't think it was as much about punching russia back, we did that, we imposed sanctions and expelled diplomats. i think where we could have done more was on conditioning the public on what russia wa

and frankly, i'm very surprised that somebody as rationale as leon panetta would have said that. ainsley: well, the president saying it's trump derangement syndrome why the left is tweetin treating him ths way. he tweeted some hate the fact i get along with president of russia rather go to war than see this it's called trump derangement syndrome. >> you do remember that on the left they had four different sets of signs to oppose any of the four people that trump picked to be the u.s. supreme court justice. so, it gives you some glafer, they wake up in the morning and know trump has done something wrong, they just don't know what it is yet. they know they will be outraged. spend the day being outraged they don't know what it is they are going to be outraged by. i want to go back. this was a very important moment for this president. if he had not fixed this. if he had not had that talk in the roosevelt room. if he had not gone on to reinforce the american intelligence system, i think we would be in a much bigger mess right now. i'm really delighted that he took a serious look at it

now, former defense secretary and cia director leon panetta and john negroponte, from a director of national intelligence, discuss the future of global democracies this is . this washington post event two .

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panetta won't be able to discipline this. and you had some success and i think it would be interesting for this audience to hear a little bit about how you did that and what rules you lay down to impose some discipline on a talented, but undisciplined man. how did you do that? >> wasn't easy. [laughter] frankly, i didn't want to do it. i was 0mb director and we had just passed very significant budget for the presidents-- president and by the way provided 500 billion in deficit reduction over five years. the combination of that plus the bush agreement is what produced a balanced budget, so i was very pleased with the opportunity to work on the budget and work on a preparation bills and, you know, vice president gore who was a classmate of mine in congress that i think the president wants you to be chief of staff and i said al, i'm more value bill in this position and the size that i kind of in the chaos in the white house and so the next thing i knew i was being invited up to camp david and so i flew up to camp david and iid w

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panetta saying they must have something on him now you've gone too far. >> nancy pelosi to. >> on the other side for republicans, when you say this cures at all, you also lose credibility because it doesn't change the rest of the stance o the rest of the conference pretty want to warn both sides, sort of take a breath before yo go to the extreme in your analysis of what happened here. because you just undermined the rest of everything else. >> and you're point and i'm curious what you have to say about this, we'll democrats capitalize on this so much to their own detriment russian mark . >> i think there are a lot of important questions to ask and think we're asking some of them and we're talking about what happened in the meeting that wa behind closed doors as well. that was pretty alarming. i see we will see how this develops. there needs to be sort of some actionable oversight. i think that is the middle we are talking about. rather than saying, running around with her hair on fire, versus singh was not do anythin at all, his comments fixed everything. i think we need to figure out

i remember talking to leon panetta about how great these soldiers were. i've been to a naturalization ceremony in baghdad with joe biden. >> very moving. >> very moving. that was before daca, but these are great people. thank you both. a lot to talk about, a lot to worry about. thank you, ambassador, general. >>> coming up, race against time as rescuers rush to save 12 boys still trapped in that cave in thailand. stay with us. (vo) we came here for the friends. and we got to know the friends of our friends. and we found others just like us. and just like that we felt a little less alone. but then something happened. we had to deal with spam, fake news, and data misuse. that's going to change. from now on, facebook will do more to keep you safe and protect your privacy. because when this place does what it was built for, then we all get a little closer. parts a and b and want more coverage, guess what? you could apply for a medicare supplement insurance plan whenever you want. no enrollment window. no waiting to apply. that means now may be a great time to

leon panetta says he has a very fundamental concern. >> the president of the united states has to protect our country from our adversaries. i worry that this president for whatever reason is not operating with the awareness of how much an adversary russia is to the stability of the united states. >> and as they say, that gets your attention. former secretary of state john kerry issued a strong statement that reads in part, i've never a president say anything as strange or counterproductive as president trump's harangue against nato and germany. president trump makes public adversaries out of our friends and turns our adversary who has been attacking america's democracy into his fawned-over alley. he goes on to say the president set america back this morning. he is steadily destroying our reputation in the world. there was also pushback from members of trump's party today. no open criticism mind you but largely measured responses. >> he wants to make sure that they get to the full percentage whether it's 2% or something that they need to be spending, in other words, put your money where yo

brian williams will ask former cia director leon panetta if he agrees with former cia director john brennan, that donald trump's comments yesterday with vladimir putin were nothing short of treasonous. that will happen next on "the 11th hour" with brian williams, which starts right now. >>> tonight, the president >> tonight the president stumbles while attempting a walk back after a global drubbing for the siding with putin at the summit. he said he got a word wrong and said he agrees with the intel finding that russia hacked our election and adds it could also be other people. tonight the president is back to calling the meeting a great success while his white house struggles to contain the mess created in helsinki. we heard from the mueller investigation asking for immunity for five people so they can testify against manafort at his trial next week while the russian woman with ties to the nra is due in court in

joining us right now is leon panetta, the former cia director, mr. secretary, thank you for joining us. do you have a problem with president trump inviting the russian president vladimir putin to the white house for a second summit in the fall? >> well, it races a lot of concerns, first of all, we don't know what went on in that one-on-one meeting between president trump and president putin. and i think the president yos it so the american people to explain just exactly what they talked about and whether or not any agreements were made. unless that is cleared up i don't quite understand why he would again invite putin to this country, particularly at a time when we're aware that the russians are interfering with our election process, and this meeting would take place just weeks before the midterms. so it just doesn't make a lot of sense in terms of the kind of diplomatic strategy that most presidents would implement at this point in time. >> it was pretty shocking that the director of national intelligence dan coats didn't know about this invitation,

you think of leon panetta, he was not mentioned among the list or anybody even as far back as george tenet. does trump has the power to pull security clearances of his critics? would this be unprecedented for a president to do something like this? >> you know, i spent a good chunk of yesterday speaking to experts in security clearance law, and there does seem to be a little bit of question about whether the president has the full authority to do this just because it has never been done before. no one i spoke to had any recollection of a president unilaterally himself trying to pull somebody's political -- somebody's security clearance, much less in an act of political retribution. these folks and former intelligence he officials, you have people on both sides of the aisle raising alarms about the idea of politicizing this tool. security clearance is intended to give people who are the most trusted in our government, the heads of intelligence agencies, the heads of national security agencies, the information they need. the idea that the president would be targeting this process is som