within the halls of the pentagon there, courtney, how much are they concerned about the level to which our allies are ticked off about this because of compromising information that s been released so, you know, when you talk to officials about it, they insist that they ve spoken to allies, they have been making all of these calls, and that everyone is there hasn t been any real friction. that it seems that they have been appreciative of the fact that the u.s. is coming forward and apologizing and being forward leaning about this once they found out about it. that being said, there are some really awkward conversations that have had to be had about this, and probably are still going to you think about the documents about the south korean government, there s about to be a state dinner here very soon. awkward. extremely the reality is even if it doesn t cause some big diplomatic ripple, it does cause it s awkward and the
doing stupid things with a boa in his tidy whites. this is about the effort the try to buy access to the guy who is now the president of the united states. i come from an intelligence background. you give people money, you try to get them on the take from you so you can leverage that later down the line. to tammy s point, they were making investments here in the immediate access after biden was no longer vice president but there s no reason to believe that the access is gone or any of the possible compromising information they may have gotten access to from these int interactions wouldn t be leveraged for foreign policy. we have a compromised president. when you see what s going on with the biden family, everything they said trump was doing, biden was doing.
mcquade called a crown jewels of our national security infrastructure. that prospect should terrify everyone regardless of party affiliation. it should. i will just take one example of what s out there in the press this washington post reports about a foreign nuclear weapons program. this is not like a momentum that donald trump had this is a report, presumably prepared not just for donald trump, but for people who need to know about that foreign countries nuclear weapons program. the information in the document, which is certainly more than one page, would include sources and methods of intelligence gathering. multiple sources and methods of intelligence gathering, perhaps signals intelligence, intercepts, and perhaps information derived from human sources, who were out there in the world, now, today, wondering whether or not somebody might have compromising information they provided to the u.s. government, whether or not they might be in danger. these are the questions that a
about a foreign nuclear weapons program. this is not like a momentum that donald trump had this is a report, presumably prepared not just for donald trump, but for people who need to know the information in the document, which is certainly more than one page, would include sources and methods of intelligence gathering. multiple sources and methods of intelligence gathering, perhaps signals intelligence, intercepts, and perhaps information derived from human sources, who were out there in the world, now, today, wondering whether or not somebody might have compromising information they provided to the u.s. government, whether or not they might be in danger. these are the questions that are on the forefront, i m sure, of the minds of the people of the doj and the only question that seems to be at the forefront of the mind of this judge is how she can run political interference for donald trump. i think we have to call this what it is. this is not normal. it is not like a lot of prec
looking at this document and being sceptical of it and try to run down the information. once people are out there saying, i hold in my hand the secret document compromising the president and i m not going to show you what it is, that to me was a situation which, well, actually, we ought to show the audience what it is. with caveats by saying, here s this document, you know it exists, better that you see it then you are just told that there is a secret document with compromising information about the president. but it will burn your eyes out if you look at it. but. we published it saying we had not been unable to stand it up or knock it down but there were errors in it and you should be careful. two questions here, the question of whether you should ve published it, which you just addressed, and a secondary question about whether publishing it impacts on trust in the news media because the reality is many americans are saying that the volume of attention and particularly the liberal us