phantom threats and he s putting up walls to protect against them and those walls on the southern border would only divide us and destroy the symbol of america being welcoming. but he s not allowing us to have the walls that we need for our true threats, the walls of a cyber defense against russia, the walls of an alliance of nato to counter any threat from russia or other countries. the walls that we would need economically to take on china. the president, you know, has us afraid of threats that are not there and turns us against each other. and we are almost defenseless against emerging threats that could truly destroy us economically and securitiwise. jason johnson, let s listen toing? that nancy pelosi said today about this conflict between the president and the intelligence chiefs. the president just doesn t seem to have the attention span or the desire to hear what the intelligence community has been telling him. so for him to make this
president believes face us are phantom threats and he s putting up walls to protect against them and those walls on the southern border would only divide us and destroy the symbol of america being welcoming. but he s not allowing us to have the walls that we need for our true threats, the walls of a cyber defense against russia, the walls of an alliance of nato to counter any threat from russia or other countries. the walls that we would need economically to take on china. the president, you know, has us afraid of threats that are not there and turns us against each other. and we are almost defenseless against emerging threats that could truly destroy us economically and securitiwise. jason johnson, let s listen toing? that nancy pelosi said today about this conflict between the president and the intelligence chiefs. the president just doesn t seem to have the attention span or the desire to hear what the
we don t do that. dan, from a secret service standpoint, it s obviously a different kind of priority, the priority i m assuming the secret service would err on is the side of security. right. and we don t have to worry about ministry in our case. but, yeah, it s a unique problem with this pope, anderson. if i had to try tyreeage the issues and problems securitiwise would be his randomnesswith the president of the united states who has a commensurate threat level, he s not random. if the president says i want to stop at a lemonade stand, foshs, we want it to look extemporaneous, we set that up in advance. there s no jumping out of the car. nothing happens randomly. with this pope, i really respect his own bravery for putting his own security second. next thing you know, all the agents are scrambling to look for hands pause hands shoot, not eyes. there are very unique problems
throughout since this has happened. i think this is probably the most solemn evening that we had seen here. yeah, it just wrapped up just a short time ago. i think part of it is, as you say, respect given to the fact that reverend pinkney was here and the wake was being held, also to things being prepared securitiwise to the president s visit tomorrow. what do you think we re going to hear from him? i have think race is going to be key. this tragedy to him is personal. he knew reverend pinkney. it was crucial for the 2008 campaign in south carolina. race has been something the president has been reluck cant to talk about. but, as you know, this week, had a very whether you know the conversation about that. normally, he is the comforter in chief. but because he is the first black president, race is goirng to dominate. there could also be the issue of
up-to-date information and so that we can figure out what we have to do securitiwise. what we have to do intelligencewise. what we have to do with the military. what we have to do diplomaticwise. what we have to do on the public apfairs front. that works for the chief of mission and i can t emphasize that enough. we re not there to subsume any activities. the experts on the team are, know that the real experts are in the embassy and they work for the chief of mission to do that. my time is drawing to a close. i ll end there and await your questions. thank you. we really will have, you re pretty soft-spoken. you have to get a little closer. thank you, mr. chairman. thank you, ranking member. thank you members of the committee. i m a career public servant. until the aftermath of benghazi i loved every day