the latest, ian smith, that s his real name, a former homeland security official whom the atlantic reports was an e-mail contact with white nationalists. in one conversation about an upcoming dinner, one man wrote, quote, so it s settled, we know 34 i home shall remain judenfrei. that means free of jews, which the nazis described. smith responded, they don t call ifreitag for nothing. i was going to talk to matt parrot. i should have time to drop by. this comes weeks after a white house speech writer was fired after revelations he spoke at a conference attended by white nationalists. here to talk about what s going on, michelle goldberg a the new york times and rosy gray who reported on those e-mails. there s the spectrum of people,
you want. the names of obscure hopefully racists and white supremacists in washington, d.c. it s interesting to me to sum up, yes. it s interesting this kind of underground exists and is bumping up against the trump white house which, as you say, is not that surprising, michelle goldberg and rosie gray. coming up, beto o rorke is catching up.
34 i home shall remain judenfrei. that means free of jews, which the nazis described. smith responded, they don t call ifreitag for nothing. i was going to talk to matt parrot. i should have time to drop by. this comes weeks after a white house speech writer was fired after revelations he spoke at a conference attended by white nationalists. here to talk about what s going on, michelle goldberg a the new york times and rosy gray who reported on those e-mails. there s the spectrum of people, lots of people who have lost their job in this administration for things they have written or said, facebook posts about the president or michelle obama or birth certificate.
explaining his reaction to the news. coats issued this statement. my admittedly awkward response was in no way meant to be disrespectful or criticize the actions of the president. rosy gray covers the white house for the atlanta. rosy, let s go back to that moment in aspen, 2,000 whatever miles away from washington, d.c. so there was a geographic disconnect there, sure. but what does that say to you about the way this administration is running, that the president s chief intelligence advisor was unaware that the president had woken up and decided he wanted to have another summit here with president putin? as you pointed out, it s remarkable that the nation s top intelligence official didn t have insight into this extremely important move the president is making, which is inviting vladimir putin to washington. and i think that it speaks to a long-running trends in this administration where there isn t necessarily a lot of coordination between president trump himself and what other
mitchell, it was days later. he still had been uninformed about what had happened in the first meeting, and that s where he found out what happened in the second meeting. there is no clear agenda that has been set. an agenda he should have been involved in as the director of national intelligence. so there are more questions than answers not just from voters and lawmakers, but from national security officials. rosy, you look at the comments that happened after that meeting, that summit. folks criticizing what happened there. we have polling from the washington post and abc news indicating that 50% of americans who were surveyed disapproved of what happened at that summit, yet as i mentioned there is another one the president wants to have here in the fall. what is the case the president has made, the administration has made for having yet another meeting of these leaders? they talked about having working group meetings, but this is jumping pretty far ahead yet again. you know, as