harmful i think to the country. ned, you worked for the nsc and cia, we re seeing an intel community pushing back, whether after the firing of director comey. we heard a lot from the fbi and unnamed sources there. yesterday the nsc saying wait a minute, we can t let this pass, talking to the washington post. this is not a president who has ever had a good relationship with the intelligence community and, in fact, even before he was president as the republican nomin nominee, he casually dismissed the findings of all 17 agencies that russia meddled in the election. as the president-elect, he compared the intelligence community to nazis, accused them of leaking. on his first full day in office we went to cia headquarters and stood in front of cia s memorial wall that marks the 117 officers who lost their lives and bragged about crowd sizes, talked about
senior director for the national security council ned price and law professor from george washington university, ned turley. what are the ramifications within the intelligence community? what are their possible deresponses and state of mind right now? probably a bit of confusion. they want to understand the context, they re going to be in damage control. they want to make sure the source of this information doesn t get compromised. they want to make sure they continue to get that information. as you heard david ignatius say a few minutes ago, they want to make sure the ally supporting us on the ground is not spooked and certainly will continue to provide that information. how in the world would they not be spooked when you have the president of the united states telling the russian foreign minister it s important just to give people context, our side trying to kill isis, their side trying to kill rebels trying to