is there any significance to the timing of this being released by a president who has been, to say the least, at odds with the intelligence community? not per se. i mean back when oliver stone made his jfk movie in the early 90s congress didn t want to grapple with this release issue so they booted it 25 years later and lo and behold it s today. trump had a decision open or close. for him, he s kind of at war with the cia and fbi so he doesn t want to hear their internal complaints about embarrassing information. it won t bother president trump any. he went to the side that s going to i think appeal to his base, which is release. why would it be embarrassing? just hypothetically speaking for the intelligence community? well, one thing i do thing for a living, meaning i ve read a lot of cia and fbi files, and you re amazed what keystone cops they often are, misspellings of names, wrong locations, bad
the release issue and how large a hurdle has that placed in your effort to get a framework agreement by the end of april? well, with respect to the troop deployment, i think i ve already answered it. we have ideas. we have some proposals that both sides made. and it s really important for the appropriate consultations to take place before there s any discussion about that. but in the end, obviously the troops are in russia. they re on russian soil. the question is not one of right or legality. the question is one of strategic appropriateness. and and whether it s smart at this moment in time to have that number of troops massed on a border when you re trying to