Post-Trump, New U.S. Intel Chief Seeks To Rebuild Trust — And Fight Domestic Terror
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🗓️ 1 March 2021
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In her first interview after a month on the job, Haines tells NPR's Mary Louise Kelly "it has been a challenging time" for the U.S. intel community.
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| 0:00.0 | Four years ago when he claimed without providing evidence that the American intelligence community leaked the infamous steel dossier |
| 0:08.6 | Donald Trump said this I think it's a disgrace and I say that and I say that and that's something that Nazi Germany would have done and did do |
| 0:17.5 | I think it's a disgrace three years ago the president stood next to Vladimir Putin and suggested he believed him |
| 0:24.0 | over the American intelligence community when it came to Russia's |
| 0:27.6 | 2016 election interference I have great confidence in my intelligence people, but I |
| 0:35.0 | Will tell you that president Putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today and two years ago |
| 0:43.2 | The president suggested America's intelligence leaders were wrong about Iran, ISIS, Russia, North Korea |
| 0:50.4 | The president calling the intelligence officials he hired passive and naive |
| 0:55.0 | Suggesting in a tweet today they go back to school after they publicly contradicted him now after four years of a commander in chief who at times |
| 1:04.5 | Undermind and attacked the intelligence community. There's a new person in charge |
| 1:08.8 | I think it has been a challenging time particularly for the office of the director of national intelligence |
| 1:15.0 | Consider this of real hands overseas all 18 American intelligence agencies |
| 1:20.4 | She's the first woman to serve in that role and she has a long long list of things to do |
| 1:26.9 | Rebuilding trust and morale in those agencies. That's one of them. There's just been a lot of concern about the degree to which |
| 1:33.8 | You know analysis has been politicized |
| 1:38.1 | The new director of national intelligence in her first interview since taking the job for MNPR |
| 1:44.2 | I'm Mary Louise Kelly. It is Monday March 1st |
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