general. she warned the national white house council and said your national security adviser could be black mailed. the president then turned on the fbi director and said i hope can you see your way clear to dropping this thing on mike flynn and when comey didn t comply, the president fired him. robert costa, in the military flying business, they have what are called countermeasures, when they think they re going to get hit by an incoming missile, they release what they call chaff, often pieces of heated, shiny metal and designed to drive an incoming missile crazy and confuse it. there are obvious parallels to twitter and the communications strategy, which is part of my questions of this president. he was shot a lot of target chaff over the last few days. down over the numbers of targets, it was somehow strategic?
the fbi told the acting attorney general at the time. she warned the national white house counsel and said your national security adviser could be blackmailed. it was that investigation briefed to the president by the white house counsel and the president then turned on the fbi director and said i hope you can see your way clear to dropping this thing on mike flynn. and when comey didn t comply the president fired him. robert costa, in the military flying business, they have what are called countermeasures, when they think they re going to get hit by an incoming missile, they release what they call chaff, and it s really pieces of often heated, shiny metal. and it is designed to drive an incoming missile crazy and confuse it. there are obvious parallels to twitter and the communications strategy, which is part of my question of this president. he was scattershot, a lot of targets over the past few days. do you think it was normal or do you think that in the number of targets, in the
security service among her clients for years and successfully represented the fsb s interest between 2005 and 2013. remember putin ran the fsb. testifies the director and a kgb agent before he became president. joining me is former ambassador to russia who always helps us sort out, separate the weak from the chaff. the issue here is that he s not wrong. there are places that world leaders meet at events like this. this is not even like davos where there s regular folks and media hanging around. the movement in place like g-20 is controlled oopd it s entirely possible that these two leaders had other occasions to encounter each other. that s right. i attended several g-20 meetings as a white house official and then as ambassador with president obama. they are designed to have social time. that s normal. in fact, i would say that s good
americans should be concerned. this is simply one instance of a new virtually infinite number of instances of russian actions that intelligence related actions that have affected, meddled with our elections and involved russian intelligence with members of the trump entourage, that s the facts. everything else is bells, whistles, chaff, chatter and trying to take attention away from the focus. i played a hockey when i was in college, when somebody s trying to maneuver, they put a move on this way and that way. you look at the center of the person s chest, the heart of the issue. that s what we should look at, members who are associated with the russian government. the fact that donald trump senior was not in the meeting was a little like saying that
correspondent hans nicholls join us and jeremy bash, national security analyst, former chaff chief of staff at the cia and the department of defense under leon panetta. good to have you both. hans, those reports that some officials were surprised by the white house statement. kwhaf you lea kwh what have you learned? initially we started reaching out to all our sources at the pentagon and we didn t get any guidance. now, about ten hours later, a little bit after that this morning, we started getting very firm guidance and that is that the pentagon had detected through pretty solid intelligence that they saw something at the al sharat airfield, the same airfield april 4th they launched that attack, something suggestive of intent to use chemical weapons. now, basically, they re looking at one of these hangers, a hardened shelter. they re saying they see some activity. it s in this very shelter they think think store chemical munitions. it s the same shelter, one of several, they hit on