ryan, this week tillerson said trump was underprepared for the meeting with vladimir putin at the g20 summit. then yesterday we had some reporting here on cnn about how trump spends his time on air force one. as he s heading to japan, think about this, they say he s really not sleeping, but he is spending time watching hours on tv, and calling friends back home. he also tweets about joe biden, apparently. what should trump be doing in order to prepare to tackle this trip? i mean, traditionally what presidents do in the run-up to one of these trips, and different presidents have done it in different ways, but at the very least they have pretty substantial briefing books where they re learning they might be learning about the psychological nature of the people they re going to meet with. they re let these about the differences that they have on important policy issues. they re learning about the goals of the meeting, right? i mean, all the stuff of foreign policy that an american
the president said. there s a world it s possible she didn t know. you think that is possible. it is possible. it s not likely. part of t part of the level is she wanted to study briefing books. why is she is in white house? what does she do? that s fwraet question. there were reports early on after the president was elected that he wanted his son and law and daughter to have high level clearances. the president did a tweet, november 16th that he wasn t doing that. what ended up happening a couple of months later, they joined the
it is, however, hard for me to fathom still why the president not only said to me that he didn t have any involvement in this but that he didn t think he could legally. part of cnn s report is ivanka trump wanted high-level clearance so she could study briefing books on foreign trips. why is she in the white house? like what does she actually do? in terms of foreign trips it s a great question. the way it was described to me by a couple of people who were familiar with the evolution of jared kushner s clearance problem be remember, we were told early on, i went back and looked at this recently, there were reports early on right after the president was elected that he wanted his son-in-law and daughter to have high-level clearances and the president did a tweet november 16th, 2016, that he wasn t doing that. another typically false news story. what ended up happening a couple of months later, they joined the white house, they both put in for security clearances. the way it was descr
but, and you know this because you ve covered the white house, if you work in the white house and your father is the president and your husband is running middle east peace. can you be in the conversation? can you be in the conversation and can you look at briefing books on an airplane? all sorts of stuff, particularly if you re a married couple and you do presumably talk to each other and her father is the president so the the fact that she wanted the clearance makes sense even though her job under normal circumstances would not would certainly not require it. there is a wall even if it s your spouse, right? there should be. gloria borger, kim wahle, thank you so much. the battle over border security is heating up as secretary kist jen nielsen defends the president s emergency declaration before congress. i ll be getting reaction from a republican trying to rein in that presidential power, and the
but why should you have to tell him? do you think a, he would care or b, that it would really penetrate? he obviously doesn t read his briefing books, he sort of doesn t take in information that s contrary to what he wants to believe. he clearly does feel a rapport with this man i think because they have kind of similar personality types. i think he envies kim jong-un and the lavish deference he gets as a totalitarian dictator. would like the americans do gymnastics in his honor the way north koreans do. this man, one of the biggest mega stories of the past two years has been his disloyalty to kind of america. but we see there s no individual american to whom he will be loyal and to whom he will stick up for. you see first with khashoggi, a resident of america, he gets murdered and the united states basically throws up its hands and says this really isn t going to affect our relationship with saudi arabia. now an actual american citizen