have we ever figured out the difference between these two administrations, we re watching now our president and he s not perfect. i m going to argue about immigration later today, but they at least did what they said they were going to do. this president came in and said i m going to get bin laden, he put a purpose together, he put a plan together and put a team together and then he doubled down and made the team even stronger. the other administration said we re going to get the people that knocked down the buildings on 9/11 and then he goes off in some totally other direction. will we ever know buy. yeah, we discussed it before, it s the one affirmative decision they made that was sort of out of the main stream, didn t have to be made was the decision to invade iraq. but that said, to be fair, look, a lot of the work that led to the killing of bin laden was done by intelligence community
the killing of bin laden was done by intelligence community professionals and military professionals that transcend both administrations, the piecing together, if you follow how the trail was put together, how they developed the information on the courier, piece by piece, pebble by pebble, as former cia director mike hadden said, it took years. before you go soft on these guys, let me say something. 2005 when they were building this mcmansion over there, their equivalent of chappaqua, building their equivalent of this guy, do you think if we had had him in his crosshairs, wouldn t we have noticed it? do you think they could have built that mcmansion and their equivalent of chappaqua, don t you think we would have noticed he was there? well, look, it is not what we have been told this last week is that we didn t really find
difference between these two administrations, wre watching now our president and he s not perfect. i m going to argue about immigration later today, but they at least did what they said they were going to do. this president came in and said i m going to get bin laden, he put a purpose together, he put a plan together and put a team together and then he doubled down and made the team even stronger. the other administration said we re going to get the people that knocked down the buildings on 9/11 and then he goes off in some totally other direction. will we ever know buy. yeah, we discussed it before, it s the one affirmative decision they made that was sort of out of the main stream, didn t have to be made was the decision to invade iraq. but that said, to be fair, look, a lot of the work that led to the killing of bin laden was done by intelligence community professionals and military professionals that transcend both administrations, the piecing together if you follow
administration can see the names of the trump team individuals or that they were the ones that were being discussed. have you brennan, clapper and ben rhodes who we remember famously bragged about the echo chamber and how easy it was to put out a message when he wanted to to the press and have it take on a life of its own. i doubt you re going to confirm whether you think ben rhodes is behind this but do you have thoughts on that? what i know is the intelligence community is the one who makes the decision when they are asked to unmask someone s name if there s enough information if they should do so. take the white house and susan rice and ben rhodes out of the conversation. if the intelligence community professionals decide there s value in unmasking someone they ll grant the requests and we have seen no reports there were partisan political motives