Stronger ties and present a united front against china, russia and north korea. The Faulkner Focus and im john roberts in for harris. The setting for the summit camp david. President s Retreat In The Woods of maryland. Historic grounds have witnessed major strides in american diplomacy. National Security Council Spokesman John Kirby with this. This is the culmination of months and months and months of work not just by the United States but by south korea and japan to improve their relationships. They are operating more together. They are communicating more together and looking for ways to deepen their own cooperation because they see much of the same things we see in terms of the threats and challenges. So there is a lot of common interests, common shared goals here that we will pursue. John he referred to the decades of disagreement between japan and south korea. One headline says President Biden looks to cement a fragile truce. Mike pompeo says the true gamble is the impact on china.
Traction because of moments like that. by the way, iowa and new hampshire has a history of humbling frontrunners, it happened many times before and may see it again in january. john: yesterday we had a leaked debate memo from folks associated with the ron desantis super pack never back down suggesting what desantis has to do in the debate is support trump and take a sledgehammer to vivek ramaswamy. is this just the folks who are associated with that super pac and the organization behind it playing a little cya to say to ron desantis if you fall flat we tell you what to do. it turns out people don t like ron desantis and 100 million super pac leaking memos to say hey, don t be yourself and be different and attack a guy you haven t even recognized
I don t think he enjoys being brought into the political fray. in fact, i know he does not enjoy it. so when you talk about making referrals he doesn t have any prosecutorial power, so a referral to do what? to investigate? because if he finds criminality, he has to refer to the department of justice, which he did, apparently with comey and which he did with mccabe, but i think horwitz i think we are going to appreciate his work on the fisa report, but i don t think he wants to be brought into political squabbles about was going to be referred for criminal action and who is not. shannon: especially when his job is completely apolitical in nature. in the meantime, trey gowdy supposed to be buried shannon: for a lot of people in washington, supposed to be. great to have you with us in the meantime. yes, ma am, thank you. shannon: so far as far as we know the doj is not pursuing charges against former fbi director james comey for leaking memos. it s unclear whether the gra
Brought into the political fray. in fact, i know he does not enjoy it. so when you talk about making referrals he doesn t have any prosecutorial power, so a referral to do what? to investigate? because if he finds criminality, he has to refer to the department of justice, which he did, apparently with comey and which he did with mccabe, but i think horwitz i think we are going to appreciate his work on the fisa report, but i don t think he wants to be brought into political squabbles about was going to be referred for criminal action and who is not. shannon: especially when his job is completely apolitical in nature. in the meantime, trey gowdy supposed to be buried shannon: for a lot of people in washington, supposed to be. great to have you with us in the meantime. yes, ma am, thank you. shannon: so far as far as we know the doj is not pursuing charges against former fbi director james comey for leaking memos. it s unclear whether the grand jury is moved to indict his
Doj report failed to contextualize comey s decision. i want to read this to you. when a president summons the fbi director to demand loyalty, and then urges the director during a second conversation to drop a criminal investigation against an ally, we are not in normal territory in procedures. there was a lot of talk about that context. is that important here? was that important for the doj to consider? i think it s fair to say that should have been taken into account, why comey did what he did. but i will point out there were other channels comey could have used to request the appointment of special counsel short of taking the measures that he did leaking memos, taking they will out of the office and that sort of thing. so i think while it is important to understand the context, i don t know it will fully justify what he did. comey does feel it is clearly