memo. is it your understanding that the president will approve the release of the memo as soon as, what after the state of the union address? no. how the process works is the intel committee, open it up so all members can see it. they then took it to the fbi, walk through it. they have to send it to the president. he has five days to review it, to decide yes or no. he doesn t have to take the five days? no. he has up to five days. whether he decides yes or no after reading t can t predetermine what he s going to do. he has to read it, look at it. really? you don t think it s a feta com plea that he s going to say, okay, release it? not at all. his attorney also look at it. remember we re separate but co-equal branches. we do our work, the executive branch will look at it now. we went beyond and reached out to the executive branch early, walked through what was in it, to see if there was anything they wanted redacted, anything they disagreed with.
like several thousand have been approved and 12 have been declined. pretty good success rate in front of a judge. are there legitimate questions about it? for sure. is this political effort that s going on right now the bipartisan, sober assessment of the way the fisa court works? i think you could pretty much say no. don t take my word for it. filter out if you can then i ll shut up what you heard from republicans and i heard from democrats earlier today. appointed by president trump, issued a letter to nunes last week saying one, extraordinarily careless to release this against classified information but two, more importantly, we are unaware of any misuse of the fisa process. justice department, we ve not seen evidence of this. i would listen to them and tune out the other. isn t it also especially significant, appointing you all that, obviously, this would be the president if he does dana asked is this a feta com plea
effort to get north korea back into a diplomatic dialogue. right now, the north korean view seems to be build up the nuclear power until they re at the stage that roughly pakistan is at and then basically present it to the u.s. as a feta com plea. the president s rhetoric has had very little impact on the situation, whether it s locked and loaded. kim jong-un has proceeded along the same line. one thing that might have an impact is a tweet that president trump sent out about south korea. their talk of appeasement won t work. they only understand one thing. there s also talk about cutting off trade from south korea. how might that tweet read if you are kim jong-un? i think if you re kim jong-un, one way to read that is to think you re finally having effect on fractioning the u.s./south korea alliance.
may be a feta com plea. this idea of the fighting that s heating up, that maliki believes he is fighting a war, not talking about some sort of political peace offering or olive branch in order to get the united states to cooperate with him. self partitioning, will this end up what some in the iraqi public want? over the course of the last decade or so, there definitely have been natural fractures that have happened in the iraqi society. the population center has shifted as the government of prime minister nuri al maliki has in the southern part of the country. the reality on the ground is now reflecting an increased division among the sectarian groups. here in the kurdish region, they have definitely solidified their control on this territory.