were evan perez, that he mike indict indicted, people want to know that. the democrats could overreach, but you have to see what s in the report. and the white house knows the order of battle here. for months they were expecting this, that bill barr would release the statements, and they had been doing the reserve looking at precedent, and the white house expect a federal judge making the decision on this. the white house lawyer answered questions in writer, but never appeared orally and never answered any questions. that s a huge win. they were able to muzzle the president and only give a vetted answer. it was discussed in the court of public opinion and he avoided that, as did his son, by the
trump. i don t think jenle kelly with all of his dignity, when he tried to erase her from the scene, please leave the building, had any idea of what kind of order of battle she had. it is fascinating. this is one of the crisis that trump has responded to most strongly. an existential threat to the whole trump m.o. which is about being slippery with the truth. x one day, and y the next. you never know, but when there is hard evidence, you can t do that anymore. it throws a wrench into the whole thing. if you are trump and you think you are the smartest guy in your family, i think that is fair to assume, he thinks so. and these people in his family and then he finds out that lara bush got taped, his daughter-in-law and he is already worried about don junior
of the american government. nothing could be further from the truth. but it tells you something about this being a real tense environment. you go to all your technical means of intelligence. satellite, electronics surveillance. you be sure that all the assets of the u.s. government and our allies around the world are being used to understand military what the order of battle is, exactly what assets they re moving closer and into the crimea. but spider marks is quite right. this is an invasion. it is what it is. and to sort of threaten that in june we won t show up to the g 8 isn t really tells you we don t have a lot of leverage over the russian. let s remember the president and the white house need vladimir putin and russia on iran and the negotiations, they need him on syria, they need him as we begin to remove assets out of afghanistan. we re not the ones holding the power here. and i think that you see that in
thousands of lives, american and the iraqi, it took a trillion dollars. that s what it takes to take a tribes with flags state and turn it into a chance for some kind of decent democracy. that s not something we re in a position to do. no. and the u.s. has learned a lesson from iraq. i m a little less convinced than tom that these are complete nonstates, tribes with flags. what i m struck by over the last decade the way the states have held together, despite enormous stresses. you still got iraq and still have a lebanon and syria. what our forces, in particular what our cia officers are doing right now, is to try to figure out the order of battle. who are these people? how strong is al qaeda in iraq in the syrian fighting? that s really been their most important job the last few weeks, is to get to know these people, get to understand their
june. panetta was asked whether it was true and he declined to comment. he didn t deny it. you say this is essentially panetta trying to get the word out publicly because we are trying to deter israel from doing it in this manner? the obama administration has put unrelenting pressure on israel not to use military force and i think they are worried they are not succeeding. as we have seen from recent comments from senior israeli officials. they know how close iran is to nuclear weapons and they don t plan to lets that happen. having failed privately to stop the israelis i think it administration is going public. perhaps next secretary panetta will say what he thinks the flight path will be or order of battle will be. megyn: the administration is taking criticism for doing this. pete king had this to say.