notes in front of him. members took pictures, tom brennan of the new york times, whose photographs captured trump s happened written notation, allowing an easy comparison of what was delivered. on the top of page two, these words appear, quote, in saying as i have said before, that i accept our intelligence community s conclusion about russia s meddling in the 2016 election the president read those words verbatim, then he added what he had written in his own handsh there was no collusion the misspelling is his. he then continued to follow the script. in a key sentence in my remarks. i said the word would, instead of wouldn t the sentence should have been i don t see any reason why it wouldn t be russia. sort of a double negative. i have on numerous occasions noted our intelligence findings
secretary of defense is in a very tight spot. he s walking a very tightrope. on one hand, his positive, the president, has declared that the press is the enemy of the people. but on the other hand i think secretary mattis understands the pentagon is responsible for more than half a trillion dollars every year. there s million american sons and daughters in harm s way whether it s in war or war-in-training. we re in harm s way. the sengt understands he s responsible for all that have and has a responsibility really an obligation to explain to those mothers and fathers, to explain to those tax papayers what that s being used for. he has a tough thing to balance there.
one of the thousands of scary things about a potential nuclear war started on twitter. and now we re talking about north korea instead of i was going to bring up jared kushner s revelation about his private e-mail use and all these other stories that broke during the week. poo veebt, right? we both have young children. is your home a trump-free zone? yes. you don t talk about politics? we use yeuphemisms. like what? we don t say his this name. the kids know we got a lot of mail from trump when he was running and i was annoyed at the volume of mail, but i don t think they know he s the president. i don t they re not there s no tension in the house about it. so the parents can worry about north korea. yeah. they re mad at trump wbecaus of the mail. my almost 4-year-old daughter told me sometime during the campaign, she saw a picture of trump and said, oh, that s donald trump, we don t like him because he snds us a lot of
actually is happening on an island of 3.5 million u.s. citizens when you can t reach all the mayors, when you can t get to some of the towns because of the communication? and even so, in talking to the puerto ricans, yesterday, when we were talking to people trying to get reaction to president trump s tweets, many of them had not even seen the tweets because their cell phones aren t working. they re not aware of what s happening. they re relying on word of mouth or for us to show them pictures to bring in, you know, the headlines so that they can see from our tools because communication is just such a barrier right now, not just for first responders, for the government, but to carry out journalism. leila, stick around. i want to continue this conversation and broaden it out about the coverage of the past 11 days. i found myself onnering what s the correlation between the news media s attention and the president s attentionsome i know
is that president trump today? you know, his mood, his whims, for president trump he s a very personal president and he hasn t shown that he has he s putting his political will behind puerto rico the same way he did with florida and houston because frankly it s not politically beneficial for him to get behind puerto rico. instead, he spnds the entire weekend creating a faux controversy around the nfl. and that topic ends up dominating the newspaper coverage, the television coverage, and in a way he s basically diverting everyone s attention to a faux controversy when there s a real crisis on the frouground. when it became apparent it was a real crisis, he s facing the real situation and the accountability of journalism is how that has come to light. there s this optics issue, i kind of hate the word optics, but the president used it on friday about tom price, saying he didn t like the optics of tom