there will be a public process as chairman schiff and nancy pelosi has aid sa. the fact that they re trying to criticize the process and somehow start criticizing the kinds of things that they have actually been the leaders of is somewhat amusing. the whole thing is not amusing. the whole issue here is that the president has aabused the power of the white house. he has asked a foreign ally to dig up dirt on his political rival, interfere in the 2020 elections and, by the way, when would over almost $400 million of military assistance to ukraine that congress had already authorized. that is a betrayal of our national security. it is a betrayal of our constitution and certainly of our values and very, very dangerous. we have another week ahead of us of closed door testimony which, for me, is another week of standing in hallways. same thing for andrew desidirio
tell congressional leaders or house speaker nancy pelosi because he was afraid she might leak it. it s deeply insulting to the house speaker but also extraordinary, given that traditionally these kind of operations, top congressional leaders, the gang of eight, are confirmed. i talked to an aide who said exactly what you said, the fact that nancy pelosi would impact information like this and harm our troops abroad and impact national security is appalling. mike rogers, republican chairman of the house chairman committee was in loop for four months and, of course, that never got out. that is the standard protocol on capitol hill. i think this shows more broadly is the collateral damage from the impeachment inquiry. it s preventing the president from even having a basic working relationship with matters completely unrelated to impeachment and related directly to our national security as a country. the collateral damage is having a big effect on everything not related to impeachment.
it seems to mirror president barack obama s. walking to the podium in the middle of the night to inform the nation that the master mind hiepd the 9/11 attack was dead. stark difference to sunday morning announcement and extended news conference and shows the white house may have an uphill climb as the president tries to convince the american public that this moment is, in fact, bigger than bin laden. joining me now from stanford, brett mcguirk, presidential envoy for the global coalition to defeat isis in an nbc news senior foreign affairs analyst. i want to start with you giving us context here. how important was al baghdadi to isis overall operations? thanks for having me. bottom line, it s a landmark day for so many that made this happen. and i ve worked very closely and put on a lot of hours and days and weeks out in iraq and syria,
the president of iraq. we saw a clip of it last hour for an interview that aired on axios hbo. he told you he was concerned about what s happening in syria. five years of blood, treasure, effort. a lot of human misery went into defeating isis. this was not easy. and for anyone to become complacent about it is terrible. it s dangerous, tragic. it sounds like you re worried about what president trump has done in northern syria. the entire neighborhood is concerned about the implications of this policy. that s a striking statement from an important u.s. partner. to understand this, sala, president of iraq, is a very careful statesman. he chooses his words very carefully. he is one of the most pro-american leaders in the
avid twitter followers. on twitter you wrote about this, so says the guy who gave israeli intelligence to russians in the oval office. nancy pelosi had access to classified information for two decades and i don t know that she s ever been involved in a classified leak information. let s not forget, trump wasn t exactly in the loop on this either. this planning to get al baghdadi had been under way for quite some time. the president clearly wasn t read in on that. and now the new york times had a story this afternoon that he was not informed and so he wasn t in the loop. why? probably because he s the biggest leaker in town. and, lonnie, we know that the president, he said, leaned on lindsey graham and richard burr for some advice, chairman of the senate intelligence committee. how in a normal universe, normal white house works this process have played out? you would have had regular