attack is that came from the intelligence agencies. so as information has become available, as this investigation has continued, we re obviously making that information known. and i think the important thing, what the american people want to understand, are we taking the right steps to but there s also the question on whether or not you call this what it is on the day it happens. jay carney said it was self evident this was a terrorist attack. these people came to a demonstration with weapons and security was an issue at the compound. why not call it what it was? well, i think now based on the recommendations and the investigation of the intelligence community they made the decision to conclude that this was a terrorist attack. in the days after, that was not clear. and so, you know, this is obviously was a very, very fast-moving period of time. as i said, there s a great deal of interest in this. so we provided information that we received from the intelligence community as we g
available, as this investigation has continued, we re obviously making that information known. and i think the important thing, what the american people want to understand, are we taking the right steps to but there s also the question on whether or not you call this what it is on the day it happens. jay carney said it was self evident this was a terrorist attack. these people came to a demonstration with weapons and security was an issue at the compound. why not call it what it was? well, i think now based on the recommendations and the investigation of the intelligence community they made the decision to conclude that this was a terrorist attack. in the days after, that was not clear. and so, you know, this is obviously was a very, very fast-moving period of time. as i said, there s a great deal of interest in this. so we provided information that we received from the intelligence community as we got it. the intelligence community put out a lengthy document on friday that expla
attack. in the days after, that was not clear. and so you know, this is obviously, it was a very, very fast-moving period of time. as i said there s a great deal of interest in this. so we provided information that we received from the intelligence community, as we got it. the intelligence community put out a lengthy document on friday that explained the timeline here. and i think in the days after it wasn t clear this was a terrorist attack. as their investigation was, was conducted, and as they got more information, that s the demplgs th determination they made. the president has said that al qaeda has not had a chance to rebuild. that al qaeda has been defeated. there is an election on as we ve been talking about. and the president s challenger said plain and simple, the president failed to level with the american people and call this a terrorist attack because you had to be concerned about another terrorist attack from al qaeda in the middle east after the president said that al
the future. we have some special guests for our coverage. begin with david corinne, washington bureau chief following the russia probe and had a series of significant scoops and a book under his belt. i begin with this question, what is july 16th, 2018 mean in the russia probe? i think the question is whether we hit an inflection point. if you asked me did donald trump say anything new today he hasn t said before the answer is no. for two years during the campaign as president he has continually denied russia was involved, even after he was briefed as a candidate by the u.s. intelligence community and even after he became president after the intelligence community put out a more deeper assessment and said this had been done to help him. he is denied in the last couple of weeks. you know this. he put out a tweet saying russia says they didn t and he called putin, fine.
week after the intelligence community put out its report about the russian attack on the election. less than a week after that report came out, there was a two-day long meeting that was held in the see she will islands by madagascar. it was a meeting in the shashs for a representative for vladimir putin and an envoy from the trump administration. according to the post, this reporting first week of april, erik prince maintained at the time of that meeting that was authorized to act as an unofficial surrogate for the president-elect. he got that meeting and he spent two days in january in an island paradise meeting with a representative for vladimir putin. what did they meet about? what did they talk about? what took two days to get through? why did they have to meet in