Is the president paying for the flight back from hawaii . Personal travel the first family will appropriately fund in line with past president s. Viafirst lady will travel government aircraft preview are accurate in your description that this was a government aircraft. You are accurate in your discretion that this was her decision to remain in hawaii. Kids, you know that telling your spouse they can spend a week away from home is a big presence. Not that we dont love our kids. Acknowledged her birthday. We will see what we can come up with. I have to run to a meeting. [inaudible] on the disclosures issues . The president will speak about those issues prior to the state of the union. On january 28. Sometime between now and then he will address those issues. Great to see you all. Good luck. [laughter] missed any of our coverage of today possible i tells briefing, it is available on our website. O to www. Cspan. Org live at the brookings institution, a group of analysts a group ofas that
Guardian. Lets just start with the nsa stuff, since it is the big issue right now. Can we talk a little bit about how the introduction of the snowden leaks has changed the way we are doing business and how much harder were easier it has been . It has cut both ways. I have not been writing much on the snowden documents themselves, but i have been writing on related nsa issues in the midst of all the snowden revelations. I found as many people, less inclined to want to share information. There are probably at least as many at this point who now feel i do not know if it is emboldened or they just feel it is an issue that will get more attention and it is worth their while to share what they know with reporters, whether context or Additional Information and detail. I think on balance it has led to a greater amount of information that reporters are learning, even beyond the snowden documents. The government is behaving somewhat differently from the way it did. The nsa is setting up a whole
Prize for him. He planned for republicans to run on his deal making prowess with north korea as their midterm message and most importantly the north korean summit in june was the president s excuse for not sitting down with special Counsel Robert Mueller for an interview. Heres giuliani on fox news just a couple weeks ago. If mueller said to me tomorrow, bring him in two hours like you want, no questions you dont want, and were pretty much ready to clear him. I could not go to the president of the United States and say, take two days off to get ready for that and screw the whole thing with north korea. How can any american do that . Hes our president. He is going to negotiate, i believe, a nonnuclear situation on the Korean Peninsula maybe not. It would appear based on todays news that mr. Giuliani might need a fresh excuse. Also happening today, a high stakes and largely unprecedented meeting at the department of justice with members of congress about the fbis use of an informant in t
Briefings. Jillian scandal free presidency, that claim from former pres. Obama but what about the billion dollars he sent iran. Fox news continues right now. Rob it is friday. Looks like vehicle day on the east coast. You are watching fox and friends first on friday morning. Jillian thank you for starting the day with us. Lets get to a fox news alert. Willing to talk to the us, quote, anytime, hours after donald trump calls off the singapore summit. Rob Griff Jenkins live with the latest. Reporter when north korean officials failed to show up at a meeting in singapore, then issued threatening rhetoric sending mike pence, the pres. Decided it was time to pull the plug. I believe this is a tremendous setback for north korea and a setback for the world. If and when kim jong un chooses to engage in constructive dialogue and actions, i am waiting. Reporter the pres. Penned a direct letter to kim canceling the summit but leaving the door open for future talks. North korea is willing to sit d
It is friday, may 259. Im Yasmin Vossoughian alongside louis burgdorf. Well begin with the big news regarding the Korean Peninsula and were learning more about the circumstances behind President Trumps sudden and surprise cancellation of his june 12th summit with kim jong un. Multiple officials now telling nbc news among the reasons the president was worried that kim would beat him to punch and cancel the meeting first. A senior white house official also saying that north koreas threat this week, that it was ready to meet the u. S. In a Nuclear Showdown and quote, make the u. S. Taste an appalling tragedy also had a big impact. The summit would have never been able to work under these circumstances. The North Koreans also stood up a u. S. Prep team for a planning meeting in singapore last week and less than 12 hours after the President Trump and his top advisors began contemplating cancelling meeting trump personally dictated the three paragraph leader to kim. Involved in those discuss