pre-9/11 what you didn t have is the connective tissue of information between law enforcement and intelligence community assets. and the consequence is you re not seeing what is going on inside the country and it s not easy to connect that to outside the country. and that was noted in the 9/11 commission report. there s a lot of lessons learned after 9/11. a lot better sharing of information and intelligence, communication lines being more open, walls coming down. we re going to do whatever we can to stop terrorism. that is our goal. the metadata program were enacted to protect this country from the attacks we saw on 9/11. today i m pleased to sign landmark legislation is that is vital to the security of our people.
that s more conservative in nature. but we have tremendous agreement in this regard. this is an opportunity for to us show the american people that we can get to work again, that washington isn t totally broken, and it s certainly an opportunity for the president to lead. dan there is tom nichols in washington. is there any red line here for you that you wouldn t accept as the price of getting out? you ve been very clear that you think the president should just start the process, start pulling troops out. but as richard haas pointed out earlier, that means basically you re handing the taliban you re handing afghanistan back to the taliban. are there any lines you kwo would say we can t go past that? there are things we have to do if that s part of the deal and we wouldn t be able to leave? first of all, i wouldn t accept the overall premise that if we leave we re going to hand the whole country over to the taliban. pre 9/11, they never had full control over the country. you have
the air, the other people ball. and he has to throw that ball in the air in order to keep the witch hunt ball in the air. and, so, the juggling went on today when the president was asked, is russia still targeting the united states? dan coats has said that not only is russia still targeting the united states, but the situation is as alarming as the pre-9/11 signals the united states was picking up of a possible attack on the united states. that s how hard russia is still working at targeting and attacking the united states. and the president knows that. and the president believes that. he knows it s true. but if the president says that publically, then robert mueller s investigation is not a witch hunt. is russia still targeting the u.s., mr. president? press, let s go. make your way out. let s go. we re finished here. press, let s go. thank you very much,
them. he always throws another ball in the air, the other people ball. and he has to throw that ball in the air in order to keep the witch hunt ball in the air. and, so, the juggling went on today when the president was asked, is russia still targeting the united states? dan coats has said that not only is russia still targeting the united states, but the situation is as alarming as the pre-9/11 signals the united states was picking up of a possible attack on the united states. that s how hard russia is still working at targeting and attacking the united states. and the president knows that. and the president believes that. he knows it s true. but if the president says that publically, then robert muell mueller s investigation is not a witch hunt. is russia still targeting the u.s., mr. president? press, let s go. make your way out. let s go. we re finished here. press, let s go.
sitting in the situation room saying, this is something that s going to march across western europe and march over to our shores and we need to be ready. director, we often talk about how president trump hasn t done enough according to the intelligence committee to stop whatever russia is going to do next. do you think that president obama dropped the ball on this? i agree that he did not do enough, that he was slow to respond. actually, i think the intelligence folks would tell you they were slow to emphasize this to him. number one, it was an evolving plot line. you know, listening to that, alisyn, it reminded me a bit of pre-9/11, serious differences here. but in terms of the intelligence analysis, pre-9/11, we knew al qaeda was coming after us, but we thought they were coming after us in terms of u.s. interests overseas, not in the homeland. it takes this great leap now to believe that the russians have