in north korea, made a disastro disastrous, weak, and incomprehensible bad deal with iran. reporter: different speech, but same point. that was the president s national security speech a few weeks ago. but the general idea here is still the same he clearly looks at all of this in the middle east and in iran in particular in the broader context of that nuclear deal and what it has or has not accomplished. and over the last 24 hours, we ve seen the white house trying to strike while the iron is hot here and continue to drive that wedge and make that point that the iranian people aren t necessarily our enemies, but the leadership there in the context of that deal, maybe this is an opportunity for them to learn a lesson of some kind. at least that s what the trump administration appears to be telegraphing. garrett, how fully informed is this administration s policy toward iran? we heard from the national security focus speech a few weeks bag, the president not shy about his grievance
handle national intelligence cases in particular they will handle national intelligence cases that excuse me, national security cases that have an intelligence component to them. you ve heard about fisa warrants and the fisa court. there s also specific national security rules and law about that. that stuff fisa stuff tends to be handled through the eastern district of virginia. so national security focus. national security and intelligence focus in particular. on paper, because of that, it makes sense that if these cases around the trump russia investigation, if they get consolidated they would be consolidated there in virginia. it makes sense on paper. makes sense in theory. in practice, though, it is a little weird because the u.s. attorney in the eastern district of virginia, the prosecutor who runs that district, is somebody who s kind of famous now, right?
the rising threat we face. kimberly: it s interesting that president trump is very aware of this. he s aware of the threat here, he s aware of the front abroad. he made this a key, focal point of his campaign. it s a part of the things, people want to make america safe, national security focus and foreign policy. he emphasized that when he was away on this recent trip, strong messaging, saying drive them ou out. that s what you need to do as a leader. you did show strength for the past eight years, we weren t doing that. we were leading from behind. president trump is putting us in the front again and putting my focus. he had dashed after the attack in manchester, he threw the special operations community and they went out and did a raid. sometimes, you have to do that. i for an eye. i like that he s doing that. also, this goes back on the leaks we ve talked about. the cia and the the they need to get back on fighting terrorism and less being in the political agenda and political
despite the rising threat the we face. kimberly: kris, sure seems like president trump is very aware of this he s aware of the threat here. he s aware of the threat abroad. he made this a key focal point of his campaign and it was part of the things people want to make america safe, national security focus and foreign policy. he emphasized that when he was aware on this when he was away on this recent trip, strong messaging saying drive them out. and that s what you need to do as a leader. you have to show strength. the past eight years, we hadn t had that. we were leading from behind. president trump is putting us forward. we re leading from the front again. he s immediately after the attack in manchester, he threw the speciallys operations the special operations community in there. he threw the seals in the raid. the cia and the nsa need to get their folks back on fighting terrorism and less on being in the political agendas and political arena. that s where i see we need t
the rising threat we face. kimberly: it s interesting that president trump is very aware of this. he s aware of the threat here, he s aware of the front abroad. he made this a key, focal point of his campaign. it s a part of the things, people want to make america safe, national security focus and foreign policy. he emphasized that when he was away on this recent trip, strong messaging, saying drive them ou out. that s what you need to do as a leader. you did show strength for the past eight years, we weren t doing that. we were leading from behind. president trump is putting us in the front again and putting my focus. he had dashed after the attack in manchester, he threw the special operations community and they went out and did a raid. sometimes, you have to do that. i for an eye. i like that he s doing that. also, this goes back on the leaks we ve talked about. the cia and the the they need to get back on fighting terrorism and less being in the political agenda and political