Trump: No longer picking GOP's Ratcliffe for intelligence chief; Officials say Trump was concerned about confirmation
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown
CNN
3.2 • 865 Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2019
⏱️ 36 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Happening now breaking news denied President Trump pulls the plug on his pick to be |
| 0:07.6 | D&I the director of National Intelligence saying he's saving Congressman John Radcliffe from media slander, but Republican |
| 0:15.2 | senators complain to the White House about Radcliffe who's also accused of pumping up |
| 0:19.6 | his resume as a federal prosecutor. Does the president vet his nominees. |
| 0:25.0 | Crossing the threshold with more than half of House Democrats now backing an impeachment inquiry. |
| 0:31.0 | Speaker Nancy Pelosi says that President Trump will be held accountable, but will |
| 0:35.6 | she let the ball start rolling on impeachment? Lack of agreements. |
| 0:40.4 | President Trump pulls out of a nuclear treaty with Russia after pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal, |
| 0:45.6 | the Paris Climate Agreement and more. Is this what Donald Trump meant by the art of the deal? |
| 0:51.9 | And Putin's poison. |
| 0:53.6 | After a deadly nerve agent attack on British soil, |
| 0:56.6 | President Trump is forced by Congress |
| 0:58.9 | to issue new sanctions against Russia. |
| 1:01.1 | Why does Vladimir Putin keep picking poison as his weapon of choice? |
| 1:05.6 | I'm Wolf Blitzer, you're in the situation room. This is CNN breaking news. |
| 1:15.0 | Breaking News. |
| 1:19.0 | Breaking news, President Trump says he'll no longer nominate Republican Congressman John Radcliffe as Director of National Intelligence. |
| 1:26.0 | The President says he's saving Radcliffe from months of slander and libel, |
| 1:30.0 | but the reality is that GOP senators voiced concern to the White House about to pick, |
| 1:36.0 | and sources say senior administration officials also had reservations. |
| 1:41.0 | Ratcliffe, who lacks intelligence experience won the President's favor with a sharp attack |
| 1:46.3 | on former Special Counsel Robert Mueller. |
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