national security council at the situation room, is that they don t want to have a meeting. why? because if they have a meeting with the president, he may not take their advice. he may not listen to them. they may recommend something to him and then he ll go in a different direction. that is a recipe for division. that s a rest cipe for leaks. that s a recipe for discord. instead the national security council sits in silence and there really is no policy making apparatus. the president is not asking his advisers for advice. if the output were sound, we could forgive it. but the output is suspiciously off base. north korea came up today. what did you make of what pompeo had to say about that summit, lest we forget? one of the things he said is that the north koreans understand what we require with respect to denuclearization. what he s not yet ready to say, and i m not sure it s fair to expect it, is that they agree on the definition of denuclearization. what i took away is there ar
take their advice. they may recommend something to him and he will go in a different direction. that is a recipe for division, for leaks. that s a recipe for discord. instead, the national security council sits in silence and there really is no policy making apparatus the president is not asking his advisers for advice. and again, if the output were sound, we could forgive it. but the output is suspiciously off base. north korea came up today. what did you make of what pompeo had to say about that summit lest we forget? one of the things he said is that the north koreans understand what we require with respect to denuclearization. what he s not yet ready to say, and i m not sure it s fair to expect it, is that they agree on the definition of denuclearization. what i took away is there are significant gaps between us and north korea. this is going to be a very difficult set of negotiations. and i don t think we should expect any quick wins. it s certainly premature for the president
him and then he ll go in a different direction. that is a recipe for division. that s a recipe for leaks. that s a recipe for discord. instead the national security council sits in silence and there really is no policy making apparatus. the president is not asking his advisers for advice. if the output were sound, we could forgive it. but the output is suspiciously off base. north korea came up today. what did you make of what pompeo had to say about that summit, lest we forget? one of the things he said is that the north koreans understand what we require with respect to denuclearization. what he s not yet ready to say, and i m not sure it s fair to expect it, is that they agree on the definition of denuclearization. what i took away is there are significant gaps between us and north korea. this is going to be a very difficult set of negotiations.
but we had much better defenses. i d been told that by a number of people. we had much better dens defense they couldn t. i think the dnc should be ashamed of themselves for allowing themselves to be hacked. they had bad defenses. i heard they were trying to hack the republicans too. but and this may be wrong, but they had much stronger defenses. so matt miller, former chief spokesman for the let s go ahead and say it, obama administration just department. what do you make of that, matt? there were a number of things he said in that answer that weren t accurate. but the point about extradition and not having it occurred to him before to ask president putin to extradite those 12 military can that be true? yes, because i think what it shows is the disconnect between him and the foreign policy apparatus and executive branch policy making apparatus on which he sits. he s the head of the executive branch, but you see throughout the russia investigation and the
they kicked the can down the road in one month in terms of the partial government funding bill, called continuing resolution, that will keep the government funded through january 20th. and senate majority leader mitch mcconnell saying at a press conference saying before leaving town that he feels that the d.r.e.a.m. er issue, daca issue they ll have enough time to address that sometime before march. kurt, let me ask you about this piece here, that is the press s frustration where immigration is, frustration with the policy making apparatus in washington d.c. how do you react to what you read in the times today? well, when you start off with the president saying something offensive and beneath the dignity of the office, it s sort of like, man, dog bites man. we are seeing this constantly. the rest of the piece i think is particularly important, because what you are seeing is, number one, significant chaos in the