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Gen. Michael Hayden on Tuesday slammed Donald Trump for using a meeting of his top military leadership to vent his frustrations about the FBI and special counsel Robert Mueller, remarking that Hayden's former colleagues "wanted to crawl under the table" during the president's comments.
Trump on Monday called the FBI raid of longtime personal attorney Michael Cohen "an attack on our country," something CNN's Don Lemon points out he never described Russian meddling as. The CNN host asked Hayden what he makes of that.
"Yeah, it just jumps right out at you," Hayden began. "The president certainly-I mean, we all have this failing-but I think the president has this in a special way: He sees all things through his own personal lens, and with regard to the Russia question, he keeps seeing it with regards to his own legitimacy as president."