jinping. they are trial stabilize the two super powers secretary blinken, we are following that meeting this morning, former president trump and his attorneys ordered not to disclose evidence in the mar-a-lago classified documents case members of his administration ramp up their criticism. do you believe he lied to the justice department do i personally believe it? yes. he constantly engaged in reckless conduct. ukraine making gains in its counteroffensive against russia, recapturing a village in the southeast on sunday. carrying out a strike on rusch s ammunition depot deep behind enemy lines this morning, an increasing tensions between the u.s. and china. secretary of state antony blinken became the highest ranking official in the biden administration to visit that country. he met with china s president xi jinping for 35 minutes and had an hour s long talk with china s top diplomats. the u.s. is describing the meeting candid and constructive and the china foreig
he is like a defiant 9-year-old kid pushing the glass at the edge of the table to keep his parents to keep him him from doing it he is a petty individual who are always put hi interests ahead of the country s. his personal gratification of his, you know, of his ego. but our country our country can t, you know, be a therapy session for, you know, a troubled man like this joining us now nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken delanieian the boston globe columnist and others i thank you all for being with us b ken, bring us up-to-speed. this is called a rule 16 protective order that is absolutely standard and pro forma in a situation like this but this is getting a lot of
so, i think the white house s top line is not going to change, but there is a process that should be followed that deals with the counsel s office. and on that level they are trying to make sure that nothing that should not be included or something that should be included that is not is all sort of sorted out before the official release. ken, let me give you the last word. you mentioned norms yesterday. speak to your point that you started and take into account that list of whys for loyalty pledges. what i was thinking is, you know, what this underscores is these are traditions. the idea of the independence of the fbi and the intelligence community that are not loyal to the president. these concepts are not enshrined in law. these are post-watergate traditions. what donald trump is making us all realize is any president can shatter those traditions. and with the memo why would they want to is what i m trying to get at. why would he want to? he s decided it s in his own self-i
white house counsel? no, no definitive explanation. john kelly is taking a more central role both privately and publicly in this administration, including interfacing with, you know, with other agencies, doing the president s bidding, sometimes seemingly acting independently which has caused him to be reprimanded by the president on occasion. the white house has been pretty close hold as to what they expect how this to go the next few days, how they want to roll out if they indeed choose to release the memo how that will go or when. and as you said, they have not even confirmed the president himself has read it. ken, ashley and john, do me a favor and stay close to cameras the rest of the hour. i thank you all. ken, come back if you learn anything else about that house transcript from the teams pouring over. when we come back, the white house standoff with the fbi is playing out against daily questions about whether donald trump is about to say, you re fired to the man overseeing
and so it can certainly have a long-term negative consequence on either the life of an informant or a method of collection. ken delanieian, let me bring you the latest news from the gutter. devin nunes weighing in with this statement on the fbi s statement. saying having stone walled congress s demands for information for nearly a year, it s no surprise to see the fbi and d.o.j. issue spurious objections to allowing the american people to see information related to surveillance abuses at these agencies. let s actually stop right there and talk about that for a second because i m just maybe i m slow, but devin nunes, the chairman of the house intel committee is accusing the fbi of stonewalling for nearly a year, saying it s no surprise to see the fbi and d.o.j. this is the trump-led fbi, led by christopher wray, hand picked by donald trump, recommended by his good friend chris christie because he represented him in bridge gate. certainly no actor in a deep state. and d.o.j., led