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Private meetings. got lunch with the vice president. got this intelligence briefing that happened today and r there are people who have told time magazine about these briefings, he just sort of poo poos what he hears in these. it is not like the obama administration where there was schedule of meeting after meeting, pool spray after pool spray and it was a much busier schedule. it is curious he s been spending so much time away from the cameras. he ll make up for it at the end of the week on thursday or friday. bring everybody in and talk for 90 minutes. whoa, look at all this access we have. we saw this last week and we re seeing it again this week, he s just away from the cameras, away from the public and we don t know what s going on with the schedule. you brought up the pdbs. we brought up the author, just extraordinary information he s getting from these senior intelligence officers on the president pay toengs or not. ....
Three networks. we know the president watches a lot of cable. one of the first questions andrea mitchell asked him was about the president s siding with vladimir putin over the u.s. intelligence you think it was a screw you? and dan coates very pointedly in his low, kind of understated way said that he disagreed with the president, wish he hadn t said that. wouldn t surprise me if the president called sarah sanders down to the oval office and asked her to put out that tweet. i m sure when ashley and phil do their reporting, it happens week in, week out. i am not always convinced the white house is that strategic white houses usually aren t. but this was too weird. they don t read their pdbs, they don t know a lot about history but they do watch cable tv. they absolutely do watch cable tv. this is a white house, this entire week has had every incentive to mobilize quickly. so maybe it s possible that on thursday they were finally able to distract from something, but ....
And that person was fired that day. of course. i mean, the thing that i don t understand about his memo is that it doesn t actually do anything. if they re saying the interim clearances are going to be wiped out, everybody has to go, but they keep kushner who s probably the most dangerous person who has the interim clearance, or has the most access to highly classified information, that s he sees the pdb. i never touched the it was we were very need to know. i m sure you guys were, too. and so for him, it s like, and also the additional protocols that, like, if you ve had an interim clearance since june, then you re going to be kicked out, like, it just one size doesn t fit all at the stage that they re in. they re going to end up with 100 people potentially who have no security clearance and this person, man, president, is going to be alone with no one around him just doing whatever he wants. he doesn t read the pdbs. he doesn t. so you are, you know, finger on the ....
The impact of the information? isn t the point of it for all of the information in it to have the correct impact that it should have on a president? well, that s right, lawrence. look. i wrote pdbs for president george w. bush and president obama. i briefed pdbs in the obama administration and i was briefed on pdbs in the latter half of the obama administration and what i can tell you is that chicken soup for the soul, the pdb is not. it is not an uplifting read. it is very rarely has good news. most of which you read in the pdb is bad news, devastating developments, it is dire analysis of the most important and challenging threats we face. and it s presented in the pdb precisely because the president has to deal with these issues. simple issues do not make their way to the president s desk. only the most complex and challenging ones do and it seems from this report today that president trump is not willing to grapple with these issues and in doing so he s not willing to ....
Situation with the president, can you imagine having to soften the impact of the information? isn t the point of it for all of the information in it to have the correct impact that it should have on a president? well, that s right, lawrence. look. i wrote pdbs for president george w. bush and president obama. i briefed pdbs in the obama administration and i was briefed on pdbs in the latter half of the obama administration and what i can tell you is that chicken soup for the soul, the pdb is not. it is not an uplifting read. it is very rarely has good news. most of which you read in the pdb is bad news, devastating developments, it is dire analysis of the most important and challenging threats we face. and it s presented in the pdb precisely because the president has to deal with these issues. simple issues do not make their way to the president s desk. only the most complex and challenging ones do and it seems from this report today that president trump is not willing ....