sought mostly by american companies and pulled out one for rusele and gave them one for trump s tariffs. they eventually withdrew that. now they re focused on sanctions relief. it concentrates on doing as much as possible secretly and as fast as possible. they told congress about this as we were departing for the christmas holidays. i visited personally with the secretary of the treasury and asked that there be an extension. we have asked for additional time for a thorough review. what we need to do is to have an intelligence assessment, classified assessment that determines whether mr. daraposka still has effective control of this company. the control was to change russian conduct. not to change things to help a thug like darragh poska. you say you have seen this document. what is in it that shocks or surprises you?
tolerated and not okay, and we are not agnostic if somebody orderred the murder of a american journalist in the consulate and that is not okay. and i wish that the president of the united states would make clear what the united states stands for in this world. speaking to that, the secretary of state was the former director of the cia and you worked for leon panetta, and you were at the cia as well, and how would the intelligence community responding to the the way that their private, you know, classified assessment briefed to congress that we have reporteded on and widely are reported as well, and how would they respond to this from mike pompeo yesterday? well, andrea, we are headed for the inexorable collision between the president and the cia, because when the new congress convenes the intelligence committees will be holding world wide thread
abortion what whatnot. apparently all they spent was five minutes on those issues. so they have wider subjects to discuss. syria, the ukraine, the middle east peace process. certainly many topics for the two men to discuss. always a great level of expectation when the leader of the u.s. meets with the pontiff. good to have you here talking with us about the pope. question is are approval ratings contagious, right? i think that would be helpful to him. want to move to the ukraine and the serious and growing concern that russia could be planning to invade the eastern part of that nation. there s a new report that has top officials in washington very, very worried this morning. let s go to barbara star at the pentagon. good morning, john. this new classified assessment says that it is more likely than
scandal surrounding general petraeus has overshadowed his testimony on what happened in benghazi on september 11th, and this is what senator john mccain had to say over the weekend. take a listen. they said they wanted to not give classified assessment of what happened, because they didn t want to betray sources. well, if classified assessment changed the unclassified assessment, then why in the world would you keep that information from the american people? well, as we look back hindsight being 20/20, is this the modern espionage, classified and unclassified documents being released and going public to fit a political thenarrative? well, i don t know about the fitting a political narrative precisely, but analysis is a lot different from assumption. and these days, when there are so much coordination that has to occur among the different elements of the intelligence community, what happens is that a caution sometimes overcomes