meeting with the press on the highlights of the day, since maybe he saw a morning briefing or something. but this is this is a public relations glitch. this is not evidence of something fundamentally wrong. we don t spy on the british. we re not in the business of collecting intelligence from them. if we have a cooperative endeavor, if they needed some american help, some information from us somewhere down the line there could have well been some close cooperation. but that doesn t mean they re going to tell us exactly when they re going to make the bust. this is basically an internal british law enforcement matter, it sounds like. yes, it s terrorists, but that does not mean they tell us, you know, within the hour or whatever, that they re going to start arresting people. but i mean, people here did know. it wasn t that they didn t know, it s just that he wasn t briefed, right? maybe they knew exactly when. maybe what they knew was just the british were undertaking an
when you were in a job like this, how would you prep for a press interview? i mean, everyone keeps saying that they re glad he wasn t in front of the television all the time, me too, but couldn t he have been learning about this in other ways before the tv news conferences? you re not sitting around in that job with a channel changer sipping coffee and going from channel to channel. i mean, i think first of all, jim clapper s a real pro. and he i think had a right to expect somebody on his staff who is working on press issues would bring him up to speed before a meeting with the press on the highlights of the day, since maybe he saw a morning briefing or something. but this is this is a public relations glitch. this is not evidence of something fundamentally wrong. we don t spy on the british. we re not in the business of collecting intelligence from them. if we have a cooperative endeavor, if they needed some american help, some information from us somewhere down the line
of his job. i m not saying 24/7, but, james, let me ask you. when you were in a job like this, how would you prep for a press interview? i mean, everyone keeps saying that they re glad he wasn t in front of the television all the time, me too, but couldn t he have been learning about this in other ways before the tv news conferences? you re not sitting around in that job with a channel changer sipping coffee and going from channel to channel. i mean, i think first of all, jim clapper s a real pro. and he i think had a right to expect somebody on his staff who is working on press issues would bring him up to speed before a meeting with the press on the highlights of the day, since maybe he saw a morning briefing or something. but this is this is a public relations glitch. this is not evidence of something fundamentally wrong. we don t spy on the british. we re not in the business of collecting intelligence from them. if we have a cooperative endeavor, if they needed some
of his job. i m not saying 24/7, but, james, let me ask you. when you were in a job like this, how would you prep for a press interview? i mean, everyone keeps saying that they re glad he wasn t in front of the television all the time, me too, but couldn t he have been learning about this in other ways before the tv news conferences? you re not sitting around in that job with a channel changer sipping coffee and going from channel to channel. i mean, i think first of all, jim clapper s a real pro. and he i think had a right to expect somebody on his staff who is working on press issues would bring him up to speed before a meeting with the press on the highlights of the day, since maybe he saw a morning briefing or something. but this is this is a public relations glitch. this is not evidence of something fundamentally wrong. we don t spy on the british. we re not in the business of collecting intelligence from them. if we have a cooperative endeavor, if they needed some
highlights of the day, since maybe he saw a morning briefing or something. but this is this is a public relations glitch. this is not evidence of something fundamentally wrong. we don t spy on the british. we re not in the business of collecting intelligence from them. if we have a cooperative endeavor, if they needed some american help, some information from us somewhere down the line there could have well been some close cooperation. but that doesn t mean they re going to tell us exactly when they re going to make the bust. this is basically an internal british law enforcement matter, it sounds like. yes, it s terrorists, but that does not mean they tell us, you know, within the hour or whatever, that they re going to start arresting people. but i mean, people here did know. it wasn t that they didn t know, it s just that he wasn t briefed, right? maybe they knew exactly when. maybe what they knew was just the british were undertaking an investigation and it was going well.