when you were in a job like this, how would you prep for a press interview? i mean, everyone keeps saying that they re glad he wasn t in front of the television all the time, me too, but couldn t he have been learning about this in other ways before the tv news conferences? you re not sitting around in that job with a channel changer sipping coffee and going from channel to channel. i mean, i think first of all, jim clapper s a real pro. and he i think had a right to expect somebody on his staff who is working on press issues would bring him up to speed before a meeting with the press on the highlights of the day, since maybe he saw a morning briefing or something. but this is this is a public relations glitch. this is not evidence of something fundamentally wrong. we don t spy on the british. we re not in the business of collecting intelligence from them. if we have a cooperative endeavor, if they needed some american help, some information from us somewhere down the line
of his job. i m not saying 24/7, but, james, let me ask you. when you were in a job like this, how would you prep for a press interview? i mean, everyone keeps saying that they re glad he wasn t in front of the television all the time, me too, but couldn t he have been learning about this in other ways before the tv news conferences? you re not sitting around in that job with a channel changer sipping coffee and going from channel to channel. i mean, i think first of all, jim clapper s a real pro. and he i think had a right to expect somebody on his staff who is working on press issues would bring him up to speed before a meeting with the press on the highlights of the day, since maybe he saw a morning briefing or something. but this is this is a public relations glitch. this is not evidence of something fundamentally wrong. we don t spy on the british. we re not in the business of collecting intelligence from them. if we have a cooperative endeavor, if they needed some
of his job. i m not saying 24/7, but, james, let me ask you. when you were in a job like this, how would you prep for a press interview? i mean, everyone keeps saying that they re glad he wasn t in front of the television all the time, me too, but couldn t he have been learning about this in other ways before the tv news conferences? you re not sitting around in that job with a channel changer sipping coffee and going from channel to channel. i mean, i think first of all, jim clapper s a real pro. and he i think had a right to expect somebody on his staff who is working on press issues would bring him up to speed before a meeting with the press on the highlights of the day, since maybe he saw a morning briefing or something. but this is this is a public relations glitch. this is not evidence of something fundamentally wrong. we don t spy on the british. we re not in the business of collecting intelligence from them. if we have a cooperative endeavor, if they needed some
people do not work for the u.s. government. it didn t seem to help, though. how did iran react? i think iran is unquestionably using these three people as hostages. they ve got the example just recently of north korea doing the same thing with some journalists. eventually north korea got former president bill clinton to come to north korea in a huge propaganda victory to get those people released. i think iran at least has that in mind, but in any case, along with other americans they still haven t released, they re there to be bargained away for an appropriate price in iran s view. in that release in north korea, is it known what north korea got in exchange? i think what they got was a channel to former president bill clinton, his wife being secretary of state. it s not a bad thing. i could imagine the following scenario: that former president clinton just had a wonderful wedding for his daughter, had some free time on his hands, the