the less experience version? they said this is the version that works. it s the rolls-royce version. it all fits together like a puzzle. it s an anti-climb device if you look at the steel on top. we actually built prototypes, and we have i guess you could say world-class mountain climbers. this wall can t be climbed. this is very, very hard. we had 20 mountain climbers. that s all they do. they love to climb mountains. they can have it. me, i don t want to climb mountains. plus it s designed to absorb heat, so it s extremely hot. you can fry an egg on that wall. so if they re going to climb it, they re going to have bring hoses and water, and we don t know where they re going to hook it up because there s not a lot of water out here. nobody is going over the wall. going over it is virtually impossible. i guess maybe one of the greatest pole vaulters in history can get over the low one, but it s going to be very painful when they land. the president talking about his wall to take us
because more and more people fear that going to the nsc is going to kind of taint them as a political operative. this is the kind of thing o brien is going to have to confront and deal with and try and regain some support and kind of a rallying cry to get people because they provide so much positive and important information for the president. franco, please assure us that there are career and military staff, that there is a machinery of the nsa within national security within the west wing and that job one for him is going to be getting his arms around that. i mean certainly there is, you know, that machinery that it s there. there are republicans and democrats in the office doing that work who still believe in supporting the president, in supporting the opinion, giving him all the information that he needs to make the right decisions. but there s no question that from the people that i m talking to, they re also having a harder time getting the best of the best talent.
he s going to run it the way it s traditionally done and you re dealing with the intelligence community and the military, diplomats, foreign leaders, managing the president, managing big egos, that is an enormous challenge. i don t know that he s had that kind of managerial experience or that real depth of experience in government and foreign policy. but at the end of the day, it may be that getting along with president trump better than john bolton and h.r. mcmaster did and getting along with other people in the administration, notably including mike pompeo and jared kushner is sort of the key to success, at least by the relative standards internally of this administration. franco, the fourth guy, same job, 28 months. what does it say about talent? well, it says that it s very hard for them to keep the talent. i mean president trump has gone through these national security advisers very quick and in historic fashion, and o brien is coming at a tough time. not only is it a tough ti
last thing before we go here tonight, as you may know, the president likes talking about walls, pretty much any wall. but more than likely what he sees as his wall, real or imagined, along the mexico border. so there he was today at a section of wall on the california side that s been made higher. it gave him the opportunity to talk about his wall. i wanted them to show you the interior of parts of the wall. so you have the rebar. you have the outer crust, and you have the inside is concrete, and it s hardened concrete. after the wall is up, we pour concrete. it s a very powerful concrete. the concrete, you see it right here. concrete goes into the tube. again, the concrete is poured after it s up. they pour it through funnels. a lot of technological advances have been made with concrete. if you think you re going to cut it with a blowtorch, that doesn t work because you hit concrete. i said fellas, how about doing
is there reason to believe there s permanent record of the conversation? absent that opens the door of deniability. there s a record of this call. calls made by presidents to foreign leaders are always witnessed or always others who participate or witness or record the calls. in previous administrations, those notes would end up being distributed across the national security community to keep other people and other government employees apprised of what was discussed and what was decided. this white house has curtailed that practice significantly in part because of a story i wrote early in trump s presidency in which he disclosed classified information to russian officials in the oval office. what is the short lesson on whistle-blower laws? i know they are written for a reason, and that is the hope that no matter who the person and no matter how explosive the charge, it is supposed to, if