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'Playing Politics' podcast: Trump takes on intelligence officials

The president's worldview diverges sharply with the annual threat assessment. Hear the "Playing Politics" analysis from WCCO Radio's Chad Hartman and the Star Tribune's John Rash and Patricia Lopez.

January 30, 2019 at 9:36PM
From left: FBI Director Christopher Wray, CIA Director Gina Haspel and National Intelligence Director Dan Coats testify at a hearing with the Senate Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Jan. 29, 2019. North Korea is "unlikely to give up" its nuclear stockpiles and Iran is not trying to develop nuclear weapons, a new intelligence assessment says, directly challenging the president's assertions.
From left: FBI Director Christopher Wray, CIA Director Gina Haspel and National Intelligence Director Dan Coats testify at a hearing with the Senate Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Jan. 29, 2019. North Korea is “unlikely to give up” its nuclear stockpiles and Iran is not trying to develop nuclear weapons, a new intelligence assessment says, directly challenging the president’s assertions. (New York Times/The Minnesota Star Tribune)
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