kent describes being on the video conferences, i think it was reported before, but very fascinating, his testimony. definitely. the most compelling and maybe the most damning. and listening as the representative of the office of management and budget says mick mulvaney, acting chief of staff had at the direction of the president had put a hold on all security assistance to the ukraine. and they don t get an answer as to why. they get no answer as to why. it s not because the president decided we need a serious investigation of corruption. go back to the state department. you have to write a report about what s going on. but at the direction of the president. it s not about competing forces within the u.s. government squabbling. it s the president of the united states personally directing mulvaney to put a hold on the security assistance when the rest of the u.s. government had sworn off on it and appropriated funds. i think it will be hard for people to say this is just bureauc
the president and the white house. in this response, the federal government is certainly going to be responding for months and even years as all of this developments. we do know the white house is so far still planning for the president to go to texas tomorrow. it s not clear whether that will be san antonio, possibly austin. certainly a concern here that any presidential visit would require public safety personnel and they don t want to detract from the effort of first responders. the president over the weekend also participated in video conferences about this storm. he tweeted several times about the storm. but the president s focus has not been singular on harvey. over the weekend obviously it started out with the controversial pardon of sheriff joe arpaio. the president also tweeted, among other things, about the mexico and the fact that he
x, y or z they ve wired the white house until nixon. do we have has there been in any one sense? boy, we don t think there s been any one since. perhaps the closest that we d have to something like that are the video conferences that took place in the obama and clinton and bush years and the question is whether they were archived and if they were, they d be subject to the same jurisdiction as the tapes and perhaps there could be a presidential video conference project that we conduct like the recordings program. but, no, we don t think anybody taped like those presidents did from franklin roosevelt through richard nixon. and quickly, your interpretation of the president saying on the tapes, that that will come out in some time, in the near future. well, it s hard to know what he means by that. in the past, all the presidents themselves were involved in the
video conferences with the key cocommanders throughout there. it s always good to see you again, sir. again. there is an emphasis on familiarity. he knows this building. but to give you a sense of how much they like him here. buildi. to give you a sense how much they like him here. the story about him getting his hair cut at the pentagon barber cut, that makes the round and people like him. it s the kind of colorful detail we ve come to expert from you, hans. stay with us, thank you. some of the it s interesting, i feel like you worry some that mattis will be sort of out there if trump is making one comment on torture, there s the law on the other side then there s that middle ground. there s no doubt that trump has enormous respect for mattis and one has to wonder when he continues interview after interview to say here s my belief on torture. i believe it works. is he trying to box the general
currently has anybody inside the military or extremely focused on that but i think this enlistment issue is probably one we will be looking at going forward. i think you re right. tom fuentes, the fbi leadership is having a conference call with local and state law enforcement around the country today, right, on this issue, of suspected terror plots. what do we know about this? it s one of many continuing conferences like that secure video conferences with law enforcement, with the joint terrorism task forces state and local authorities, to just keep them updated that, you know stay awake, stay aware, this is going on. it continues to go on. isis recruiting is increasing. not so much at their that they re increasing their recruiting efforts, being received more by increasing number of people who are sympathetic to it or want to join it or may carry out an attack here as we ve seen in texas recent incident. i want all three of you please stay with us. we have much more coming up