they didn t feel the need to go to the press about them then. maybe because defense secretary jim mattis was in place then. there is some noise that mattis was preventing trump from taking the worse and most reckless of his prorussia steps in national security and foreign policy and again, i do not mean to suggestion they know who the sources are but you can tell from the substance of the reporting and also from its tone these are very senior people somehow trying to pull a fire alarm here and the timing i think has to be part of our understanding for why these administration officials are now coming forward and anonymously giving this information to the times. reporters are julian barns and cooper and put a flashing red aero on the timing in the report. they say quote, now, the president s repeatedly stated desire to withdraw from nato is
is black ice and debilitating storms that bring everything to a halt. news days are like the weather. today was a stormy day in the news cycle, which is something we re getting used to in this political climate that surrounds this unsettling presidency. but today, today was not just like a normal stormy day in the news in the trump era. today was like a whole bunch of storms stacked up one after the other plus ten earthquakes. what we usually think of as the realm of things that can affect the news cycle in any one day. today was just nuts. it started very late last night, actually with the new york times reporting that president trump repeatedly within the last year has told administration officials that he wants to destroy nato, that he wants to pull the united states out of nato. the north american treaty alliance, north atlantic treaty
leadership put a lot of pressure on them to vote now. now that they ve seen 11 others have voted this way, yeah, i think we have a real shot. you, the timing on this is remarkable. in the context of the mueller investigation, we have a lot of dangling threads when it comes to deripaska, the manafort case, the question of whether or not deripaska is an important part of manafort and the core question of whether there was collusion between the trump campaign and the russian government. we ve also had a couple of really disturbing revelations in the open-source press in the past couple of days. the new york times reporting that the fbi opened a counterintelligence investigation into whether the president was working for the russian government, as president. the washington post reporting this weekend that the president went so far as to coffin skate the notes from his own translator when speaking with vladimir putin. the times last night reporting that the president has told admini
right to the crowd but that s a controlled environment. tomorrow through central park, that will be a time he wants to get closer to the crowd. for all the security and immense challenge a political leader and religious leader. he would be sadly, just lay it out there a tremendous terrorist target. that s the context they are dealing with. the new york police say on new years eve they deal with 1 million people in times square. it will be 90,000 people in the park tomorrow this is a challenge feels very much up to. and the pope mobile, those people were not prescreened, they were waiting with backpacks with them. central park tomorrow everybody has to go through airport style screening. and that s when he has the opportunity. that was a screened crowd so a different kettle of fish. jim sciutto, thank you. we ll talk to jim now from the sacred to secular, trump tower steps from here and while the news is focused on pope francis, no doubt about that and message of love there is n
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