briefers could confirm that you have ever received a comprehensive election security briefing in advance of the 2020 election. in response late today, the white house did not rebut that allegation or even address it, quoting the trump administration has instituted the d.h.s. and local officials to protect our elections. in september he signed an order declaring national security agency have named senior officials to coordinate responses to foreign influence. but that was only last week. beyond that what s missing is any sign the president considers this a national priority, or his leadership, or to add his voice to it or even any sign of his participation at all. the in fact, the president doesn t seem to consider foreign countries helping out to be a problem. your campaign this time, foreigners, if russia, if china, if someone else offers you
elections. but of course there are always going to be questions about whether or not the president himself does take it seriously, erin. kaitlyn, thank you very much. en and outfront now the chairman of the house homeland security security committee democrat congressman bennie thompson. chairman, i appreciate your time. you are demanding president trump get the same election security briefing you get as members of congress. -on sent a letter to the white house today saying you met with multiple agencies about this. and quote, none of the briefers could confirm that trump has ever received a comprehensive election security briefing. in advance of the 2020 election. why do you think that is? well, it s partly not believing that russia had anything to do with our election tampering with our election. but more importantly, at the particular briefing, those individuals who were asked, are you aware of any briefing, no one was aware. it went so far as to say, give
saying that we have no exit strategy and the lack of conclusive proof that the drone was even in international waters as opposed to the iranian territory all belie the president s approach here. you don t accept the u.s. position that that drone was over international waters not in iranian air space? our allies you ve been briefed. i have been briefed. i think that the iranians purposely shot down that plane. it s yet to be confirmed where it was. s you have doubts on the u.s. version? i continue to have doubts. i think the administration owes it to the american people to present that conclusive evidence. did you make that point to the pentagone briefers? i can t go into the
series of inconsistent statements made by the trump administration leading some democrats to approach the white house s intelligence with some skepticism. joining me now, kelly o donnell and washington post foreign columnist at nbc, david ignacious. it s great to have you on board. first to you outside that briefing, are we expecting this to be a strictly partisan reaction to what s heard in that room? or do you think there s some space for new answer coming out of here? well, certainly, the briefers are from the administration, the secretary of state is here, and we ve heard some democrats saying that they would like to have a representative or two from the intelligence committee in a briefing like this, so that it might be broader based. when you have all members, so you have republicans and democrats together. and i watch some unusual pairings go into this meeting,
rumsfeld insisted this would be a short war. the administration appears to have no strategy, the president vasalates between saying he cares about the nuclear file and most recently threatening on twitter to wipe iran off the map. because of those concerns, democrats have invited their own briefers, cia chief john brennan and official wendy sherman who helped to negotiate the iran deal. senator lindsey graham believes the briefings from the trump brass should reassure everybody. i ll be astonished if people come out of this briefing believing this is a trump problem, not an iran problem and we owe it to the troops in the field and our state department folks in iraq to send a strong message. and lastly, harris, the associated press is reporting no additional threats have been received from iran since the