mclaughlin he gave a statement and also tend to remain calm as investigations and launched into that incident i can you tell us a bit more about the cause of this tragedy what are officials telling you well local officials say that the cause of this particular tragedy was overloading of the ferry the ferry has a capacity of one hundred people but it was carrying. away more than that now the numbers of puts between three hundred to four hundred local media there in tanzania put some put the number to up to five hundred so this ferry with the capacity of one hundred people was carrying more than its capacity in people and also cargo and mentioned you know heavy bags of cement so that was the main cause of the of the incident according to local authorities a caravan of course what's so mind boggling is that this is the third major ferry disaster for tanzania why does this keep happening. basically a dairy to regulations of overloading and they are regulations on how much a ferry can take and how much you can put on board but implementation down on the ground seems to be one thing this i

john mclaughlin was more blunt on twitter. this would qualify the president's most serious assault on the justice system yet. former cia director, wrong on so many levels if he forces all the way through, it ought to be a resignation issue for someone in justice, period. then he ends with this question. maybe trump's intention? right? maybe that's the idea. people say no, he gets to fire him. or they say no, i will resign and protest, great, we have been looking forward to replace. here is how it is unfolded. monday night, trump gives the order to declassify all these stuff. on tuesday, the president said online that he was basically very excited about these declassifications. he said they would prove that really bad things are happening with the fbi. that was tuesday. wednesday, the president admitted he did not read any of these documents that ordered to be classified. even though he had not read any of these stuff, the reason he ordered it to be declassified anyway because he heard from people who he trust. these are docume

joining me now is john mclaughlin. it is always good to see you. is this a current republican administration which really has worked over turn every obama's initiative and getting antonspa the secretary of state of political reasons or is there a diplomatic concern here? >> i think there is a lot going on in this exchange. the policy on iran from the trump's administration is not working. that's causing a great deal of sensitivity on the part of secretary pompeo and president trump. back in may, secretary pompeo made twelve demands of the iranians and they're not doing any of these. it is part of what's going on. it is interesting that secretary pompeo's remark came the morning after the president have tweeted an angry shout at kerry. i think sometimes secretary pompeo tries to buy himself a little space with the president by doubling down what the president said. i think the secretary is in a difficult position and he's doing a good job but sometimes president trump makes it difficult for him and including, for example, on north korea. there is a

john mclaughlin's former cia director, he has been making the same argument this week as adam schiff has. this is his op-ed in "the washington post" about why trump must not declassify these materials. the last line of the op-ed is this, quote, if the president overrides his professional staff and insists on unredacted classified information, it would force some officials, sworn to protect sources and methods of intelligence and law enforcement, it would force some officials to consider resignation. john mclaughlin was even more blunt about that on twitter, quote, this probably qualifies as the president's most serious assault on the justice system yet. former cia director. wrong on so many levels for justice, law enforcement, intelligence. if he forces it all the way through, it ought to be a resignation issue for someone in justice. period. and then he ends with this question. maybe trump's intention? right. maybe that's the idea. people say no, he gets to fire them. or they say no, i resign in protest and he says great. been looking forward to replacing you. here's how this has un

here to break it down is republican pollster john mclaughlin. massachusetts big day today. why so important? >> many places like doing that had a republican governor. charlie walker is the most part the governor in the united states. liberal progressives in a box. that is going on across new england, republican governors in maine, vermont and one in connecticut and also the key thing is the fact he controls the taxes, keeps taxes down. heather: he has a primary today. the gop primary in terms of who he is facing. >> he will crush him. charlie will crush his opposition. he is very good, popular governor and strong republican base. he will win. heather: the democratic party? >> doesn't matter, they will lose. heather: who will win this? >> don't know. hasn't been good public polling in massachusetts. when you talk about senate races you will see the less public polling was in june. heather: why is that? >> they don't think, they look at general elections and for whatever reason media outlets don't fall is often. >> reporter: will people turn out for the race? >> probably a lo

global affairs analyst, john mclaughlin. barbara, we start with you, president trump tried to discredit the d.o.j. when we heard donald trump about this fake dossier. does this reporting give us information as to yet president had a bull's eye on orr? >> he lead organized crime efforts, drug task force investigations, he was a career figure at the justice department. it bewildered people see him focus og bruce orr, works hard, does his job. there have been previous contaktds with steele this adds another element. i don't know what extent president trump previously knew about this. why he may have an idea to discredit him and get him out of the justice defendant department, if he knew what was going on with the russian o oligarchs. >> late in the 2016 campaign, excuse me. >> well, at that point, the fbi had the investigation begun. the investigation had began. not with the steele dossier, as the president alleged, but i believe in may of that year, when the u.s. government learned from an awe straltian diplomat, that he had c

acting cia director, john mclaughlin, called this, probably qualifies as the president's most serious assault on the justice system yet. maybe trump's intention? this is issue here. the president is asking for stuff that's part of an ongoing investigation according to congressman schiff, he's asking stuff that's seen by law enforcement as a red line. stuff that can't be publicly released. is that why he is asking for this information? is he doing it so that fbi and justice department officials will say no, that's creating a pretense for them to fire those people. alternative alternatively, is he pushing those people resign in protests so he can put in more. bloomberg reports that they're currently planning redactions and looking for a path that would keep information secrets despite the president's order to let it all out. watch this space. -computer, order pizza. -of course, daniel. -fridge, weather. -clear skies and 75. -trash can, turn on the tv. -my pleasure. -ice dispenser, find me a dog sitter. -okay. -and make ice. -pizza delivered. -what's happened to my son? -i think that's j

heather: here to explain how the lower courts having major impact on our everyday lives, john mclaughlin, thank you for joining us. appreciate it. all of this hoopla over brett kavanaugh, people not necessarily paying attention to the movement in the lower court. >> the most informed voters are. think of the last election when donald trump won the election and 74% of his voters said it was the most important or an important issue as to the point of federal judges so that put them out for the president, very important because some people didn't like him after the primary but they were saying we got to vote for him because it will affect the supreme court and federal court. these courts decided over generations, where does life begin, what is the priority, a major impact, who the president would be, whether they hear or not here. heather: we heard the president say there were record number of appointments so far. we can show people, compare that to president obama at this point, george w. bush had 14 appointments, donald trump had 26 appointments so far. >> with another 11 vacancies in his

former acting cia director john mclaughlin called this probably the president's most serious assault on the justice system yet. if the president pushes this all the way through, it ought toby a resignation issue for someone in justice. maybe trump's intention. this is the issue here, the president is asking for stuff part of an ongoing investigation. according to congressman schiff he's asking for stuff that's seen as a red line, stuff that can't be publicly released. is that why he's asking for this information? is he doing it so that fbi and v officials say no, so he can put in more pliable replacements? as for how current officials are expected to respond from this current order from the president, bloomberg reports they're currently planning redactions, looking for a path that would still keep some of this information secret despite the president's order to let it all out. -♪ he's got legs of lumber and arms of steel ♪ ♪ he eats a bowl of hammers at every meal ♪ ♪ he holds your house in the palm of his hand ♪ ♪ he's your home and auto man ♪ big jim, he's got you c

joining me now, global affairs analyst john mclaughlin. former acting director of the cia. and security reporter charlie savage. thank you for being here on labor day. >> great to be here. >> appreciate this very much. charlie, give us a sense of the big picture here. your colleagues reporting on these developments, that he was under the view of the fbi, and then you have the other names, including bruce ohr, with the doj, coming under a microscope, as well. >> this is one of the complicated stories with a lot of names, down in the weeds. the question is, why are we talking about this and why right now? why are we talking about it is because bruce ohr is a senior official in the justice department. worked on organized crime for years. he had a series of contacts with christopher steele, the british intelligence agent who was hired ultimately by democrats to research trump's ties to russia during the 2016 campaign. produced the famous dossier. and because trump and his allies in congress and in conservative media outlets have been in the sustained campaign, through many iter

mclaughlin." our debate topic was capital punishment and i'll let you guess who was pro and who was con. and, of course, as i already flagged, many current aclu leaders continue to criticize and litigate against attorney general sessions position and the doj's position on many important issues. but on the essential issue of campus free speech for the past year attorney general sessions and the doj have been important influential allies in some cases and i look forward to their continuing and expanding that role in more cases involving diverse voices and views and i especially appreciated the explicit invitation from both jesse and from jesse puncio and john gore for those of us who are aware of violations of free speech on campus to bring them to the attention of the justice department. i should note that i encourage the doj to do even more work on campus free speech, not only because i hope it will siphon off doj resources from other cases and issues where the aclu is on the other side. when doj

let's get the read on all of this from bush 43 brad blakeman and danielle mclaughlin. john, the market thing, we try to tie them to events and that's a stretch, but it is remarkable today climbing through all of this, why? >> yeah, maybe because it's enured to the chaos at this point in washington. kavanaugh dustup probably is less related to things that the market is concerned about anyways, right? they'll say that's the supreme court. big question is why isn't this market reacting more to or taking a negative view what's happening on the tariff front. neil: what's that amazes me. >> me, too. maybe we haven't seen it yet, hasn't completely digested. we don't know the broader impact on industries, companies have to raise prices. consumers who may not be able to afford the raised prices. we haven't seen it play through the economy and maybe the market is standing by, we've got a great tax cut, earnings are up, we're rocking and rolling. neil: danielle, i have a theory on the trade thing, john is the expert, my crackpot theory is i prepared my parents for my report card