gonzo breaks in your area of expertise. so, thank you for doing this for us. happy to be with you, rachel. this is just astounding what s going on here. certainly the incident itself, whatever it might be, is extremely troublesome, but it s one more brick in the wall that the president is trying to build around himself to stonewall the congress of the united states and the american people from things that he has done as president and before he became president. in his own words, he said, under no circumstances will his people ever comply with a subpoena. well, here we go, one more step on that. and this could be extraordina extraordinarily important, because there are things at play right now that may very well have been the promise. one of which i ve been dealing with as chairman of the armed services committee. when you say the promise, we don t know in terms of what the washington post is reporting. that is correct. the washington post says it s trump s interaction wit
authority to declassify as he chooses. he s the ultimate power there. i m not saying that you couldn t share this kind of whistleblower complaint with congress as a result of some of the information being classified. and carol, to the point it s really interesting, the point you re raising about the gang of eight, obviously, again, the process in terms of intelligence oversight is that they re supposed to be able to see everything and they re supposed to be briefed on everything no matter its sensitivity. are there forgive my ignorance here, but are there issues where the gang of eight has been deprived access to information about the government s own behavior or toward the president s own behavior on the basis of privilege in the past? is that grounds on which things are kept secret even from them? i have not seen that before. i don t expect that it s impossible it s happened before. i m not aware of it happening before. of course i m drawing on fairly
department or the white house or both, were consulted and there was some issue of privileged communications outside the intelligence community, an agency other than the intelligence community, with some sort of privileged communications they felt made this that couldn t be shared with congress. that immediately screams out to a lot of reporters is this some sort of white house executive privilege, we don t know the answer to that yet. when i raise the issue of classified material, i m just saying that say the president provided, promised, suggested he was going to provide something that was very sensitive, say intel sources and methods. that would make a lot of people rear up their heads and be very concerned, if the foreign leader was an adversary or the information could be exploited, could put our national security or our allies at risk. still, the president has the
it s hard to say but i hope the republicans will stand up, get strong and support the president. he s a first president in our lifetime who s had the will and courage to stand up to the chinese and tell them they were not bully us around us or take advantage of a us and ruin the workplace for a lot of americans who had jobs and don t because we let the chinese cheat us out of these jobs. this is a time for us to be strong and don t go wobbly on us. i say to the members of congre congress, don t go wobbly. don t be such globalists that you sell out the american workers. stand with the president.s he has the t courage to stand up to china it is about time somebody has got it. there s no question about it. no one attempted to deal with this like this president has. good to see you.
we are all exhausted by the president behavior. it s time for them to start acting like a president and not a game show host. it s time to work collectively with the government and have patience and rise above. it s something he never seems to understand. he has failed at that. that s enough.dg this president, when you saye should be working with congress, all he s done from the day he s been elected, all they do is resist him. they are full of revenge because he wanted hillary clinton when you want to tell me about the democrats, just waiting to do something on immigration,