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Head of the government? particularly when you know the head of that government runs everything in that very large and very powerful country. and what do you make of it? you talk about the high confidence that you have in the assessment and definitiveness of the briefings you receive from the intelligence community. what do you make of the fact that the soon to be next president of the united states, donald trump, does not believe the assessment of the intelligence community as it is in fact ridiculing those findings? well, i have just learned that mr. trump, president-elect, is taking more intelligence briefings. if they are the pdbs, we don t see that. that s the one thing on the intelligence side of our committee work that we do not see. only the president sees that so if he has a similar briefing that we have had from director clapper, from others at the ....
Eight years. i don t need that. but i do say if something should change, let us know. eric: that is president-elect donald trump firing back at critics saying he does not need those intelligence briefings as you heard every day because he says, he is a smart person. and he does not need to hear the same thing twice. so, what does it really mean to our national security if the president skips the pdbs? marianne marsh, former advisor to secretary of state john kerry joins us. katie pavlich, townhall. com. start with you. you heard him say that he doesn t need to hear same stuff every single day, is he off point or off base? everyone is entitled to their own opinions but not their own facts. that is what donald trump is doing here to deciding to shun these briefings. tough ask yourself why? it is clear he has been openly contemptuous of all the intelligence agencies throughout the campaign and since the election. so he either doesn t want to know the information that they re sharing wit ....
Presidential daily briefing. what does it mean if you skip some of the pdbs. is he correct? we ll have a fair and balance debate. that is next. i don t have to be told, i m like a smart person, i don t have to be told the same thing and same words every single dayç for the next eight years. when you re close to the people you love, does psoriasis ever get in the way of a touching moment? if you have moderate to severe psoriasis, you can embrace the chance of completely clear skin with taltz. taltz is proven to give you a chance at completely clear skin. with taltz, up to 90% of patients had a significant improvement of their psoriasis plaques. in fact, 4 out of 10 even achieved completely clear skin. do not use if you are allergic to taltz. before starting you should be checked for tuberculosis. taltz may increase your risk of infections and lower your ability to fight them. tell your doctor if you are being treated for an infection or have symptoms. ....
On the trail, that this will be a constant during the trump presidency. i believe your hunch is correct. that s what dana bash and her sources have been telling her as well. we ve also been learning today, credit to jim sciutto, about how mr. trump has not been taking as many pdbs, presidential daily briefings, as past president-elects, we know mike pence is taking five or six a week, he s taking about one, some folks within the intel community are worried, are you worried or does he have 42 more days until he puts his hand on the bible and then smooth sailing? i m a bit concerned. you are. i m concerned because he s the first president that we ve elect bhod has neither any past governmental experience or any military experience so common sense would dictate, you d think, that he d be the one erring on the side of more ....
today for the first time ever, the central intelligence agency is releasing ennmasse, declassified copies of the pdbs. some 2,500 documents from the kennedy and johnson administrations. the cia director announcing the cia let out of its clutches more than 2,000 daily briefs from the kennedy and johnson administrations. these were all classified before today, and now they re out. they are an historical treasure trove. what did we learn? joining us now is the nbc news presidential historian. micha michael, it s great to see you. thanks for your time tonight. my pleasure, rachel. do we know what explains why they were kept so highly classified? are we seeing things here that are mind blowing? is that are very different than what we would have expected to see? ....