i think as time goes by and president already mentioned some things that happened in that meeting, i think we will learn more but that is the president s prerogative. if he had asked me how that ought to be conducted, i would have suggested a different way. but that s not my role. that s not my job. so it is what it is. david sanger, to you, i mean, what is more concerning i suppose for the american people? one, the fact that the director of national intelligence didn t know that vladimir putin had been invited to the white house or that he still doesn t know four days after the summit what the two gentlemen talked about behind closed doors? it was a second of those two that i found most surprising, poppy. dan coats performance yesterday here was remarkable. first of all, he s the most understated, just give me the facts type. he rarely gets out in public to
the state department spokesperson also said she can t speak for the white house and sarah sanders left it wide open. she left it wide open, which is, in a word, astonishing. it would be like inviting drug cartels to help the d.e.a. investigate drug cases. chris, in an understated, professional way, said not a chance. look, the white house has to rule this out. we cannot possibly let russian intelligence officers into our investigations. they re the culprits. they re the bad guys. they re the ones who did this. the notion that we would be working with them on other things, sure, that s possible. maybe in a counterterrorism case, our interests align. the notion that we would be working with them on a counterintelligence investigation of something they did, that s nuts. the other thing, mimi and chuck, that happened is that another former fbi and cia director, judge william webster,
gifts and uses them as props on facebook live. i didn t know about the robe. i didn t get a robe. she offered me one of her chickens. i declined. it s a big great quality robe. probably the greatest robe i ve ever seen. big and plush. gold trim? no. this is from the kushner side of the family. it s simple. black and white. understated. no 12 karat gold or whatever line. they re yelling at me. do the prompter, willie. all right. here we go. this is my big break. hold on. okay. you got this. do i like okay? good enough. action. all right. here we go. that was the vice president. now there s new reporting that
very important i think to understand who they are. these are guys who are the storm. but you re never going to hear them talk about it. these are some of the most calm, understated, u.s. military commanders you are ever going to find. general votel, overseas the wars in iraq, afghanistan, and syria. that s a guy who made two parachute jumps into combat under fire. you ll never hear him talk about it. general tony thomas, overseeing delta force, s.e.a.l. team 6. never going to hear him talk about it. general milly, is skap relly, two general who have been commanding troops in combat in afghanistan. i ve been with him in afghanistan. my eyeballs were rotating. these are the two of the calmest guys you will ever find. i think the question is what do they think about what the president had to say. yeah. general hurtling, you have been
that is exactly the right response. muted, understated, don t pour fuel on the fire, don t be goaded into a military response that could lead to a catastrophic war on the peninsula. we have things we can do about this and we have responses we can make. the chinese are going to be there with us on this and together the u.s. and china and south korea and japan, we can have powerful diplomatic response to this that can pave the way possibly for negotiated freeze of this north korean program. to you david, back to that statement that came from the defense secretary, much has been said, an analysis of that short statement that it poured no more fuel, it did not add oxygen to a potential back and forth between north korea and the united states, but on the flip side there s the question of does this infur rate kim jong-un even more because he didn t get the