about the president. in the sense he has taken issue that intel leaders did not give him credit for taking down the caliphate in syria, did not give hem credit for eliminating nuclear testing and the ballistic missile testing in north korea. well, intel leaders don t do that. that is up to the policy leaders to exam how well policies are doing. what the intel leaders focus on and only focus on. this is the threat today. what is the threat tomorrow? past policy successes is not their thing. martha: i want to play sound bite from the helsinki news press conference in july. watch this. president trump: i m sure you heard over the years and i campaigned that getting along with russia is a good thing, not a bad thing. this is interesting. the alliances are get stronger diplomatically and militarily
diversify in the coming year driven in part by china and russia as they respectively compete more intensely with the yates and its traditional allies and partners united states and its traditionals allies and partners. this was a headline now to talk about this general jack keane chairman for the institute of the study of war and fox news senior strategic analyst. good to have you with us. get your reaction to the debate. president trump pushing back on the intel folks about their assessment. dangerous? it s not uncommon for intel leaders to disagree with the policy leaders. this hassed in every administration. but what is different about this, the public nature of that disagreement. that the president issuing a sweet did. i think it reveals something
administration s policies might be distancing itself from our allies, which would be very dangerous indeed. but, yeah, i mean to allude to an often famous quote, the president is entitled to his policies, but he s not entitled to his own facts. and the united states intelligence community s job is to bring him facts, and then the assessment of those facts. i ve seen many times where decision makers, senior policy leaders, and even the president of the united states has said, okay, intelligence community. i understand what you re saying, but i m going to go in this direction. that s fine. that s the president s prerogative to do that as the executive. but when you say things like, you know, well, yeah, you know, iran is not paying any attention to us, and the intelligence community says, well, actually they are, and when the facts are refuted by your own, you know, systems, your own civil servants who you pay and spend a lot of time and effort to get this information for you, you can t
would be dangerous indeed. but yeah, i mean, the rule to elude to an often famous quote, the president is entitled to policies but not facts and the united states intelligence community s job is to bring him facts and then the assessment of those facts. i ve seen many times where decision makers, senior policy leaders and the president of the united states said okay intelligence community, i understand what you re saying but i ll go in this direction. that s fine. that s the president s prerogative to do that as the executive but when you say things like, you know, yeah, iran is not paying any attention to us and the intelligence community says they are and when the facts are refuted by your own, you know, systems, your own civil servants you pay and spend a lot of time and effort to get this information for you, you can t just turn around and say well, no, i got a different set of facts and they will drive my policy. it s really we haven t seen a situation like this that i can think
global leaders, some of them to take the stage that day two of davos, including german chancellor angela merkel and shinzo abe. the move less optimistic than last year as policy leaders worry about the slowdown, trade tensions and climate change. cnn s julia chatterley is live in davos. julia, a lot being made of who is not there at this confab of the world s richest and most important. reporter: yeah, christine, you hit the nail on the head, i think. the elephant in the room is simply who isn t here. the rifts that you mentioned, the u.s./china trade war, the brexit and donald trump and theresa may simply aren t here. we re talking about solutions to problems where the leaders aren t present to give us an idea here. i think the big debate right now, everybody talks about the