Was an attack on the saudi all fields. it was not an attack on the u.s., so the question here is now where did they go and mike pompeo is on the ground there to determine that path forward. now, there is a lot tore learned at this moment, thank you for that. boris, fill us in on robert o brien in the midst of all this, the president s new pick for national security adviser. reporter: kate, o brien was named special envy hostage afares in 2018. a senior white house official telling cnn president trump wanted someone who is a consensus builder and not a showboater. the president clearly unhappy with john bolton who he saw as someone that would frequently speak to the press about their disagreements, someone who sort of had made a name for himself with his views on foreign policy, in this case going with robert o brien, he se more as na source told jeremy a consensus builder. he comes from mike pompeo s state department, an influence
That there will be prosecutions. no. that s why it s so important that he was the guy that was named a. couple of other things about his career. first of all, he seem to be a modest guy. he doesn t give press conferences, he doesn t do leaks, he s not a showboater, and he believes people that have done wrong like the fbi agents that dan mentioned, it s no excuse if you re powerful, you can t break the law. but at the same time, he s not someone who s going to gin up a case. he, apparently, is not a thuggish prosecutor in that way. he s hard-nosed but supposedly a straight arrow, and i think that s a what we need in a situation like this to provide the public with a little bit of comfort to think that somebody apolitical is taking a look at this. paul: huge chunk of the public, tens of millions of people suspect that, in fact, law enforcement officials and intelligence officials did attempt to surveil and undermine
no. that s why it s so important that he was the guy that was named a. couple of other things about his career. first of all, he seem to be a modest guy. he doesn t give press conferences, he doesn t do leaks, he s not a showboater, and he believes people that have done wrong like the fbi agents that dan mentioned, it s no excuse if you re powerful, you can t break the law. but at the same time, he s not someone who s going to gin up a case. he, apparently, is not a thuggish prosecutor in that way. he s hard-nosed but supposedly a straight arrow, and i think that s a what we need in a situation like this to provide the public with a little bit of comfort to think that somebody apolitical is taking a look at this. paul: huge chunk of the public, tens of millions of people suspect that, in fact, law enforcement officials and intelligence officials did attempt to surveil and undermine
Unpopular with most people. he had the very poor performance on wednesday. that was a poor, poor performance. he was grandstanding all over the place. he is a showboater. that same comey that the president didn t like, history has stressed him into the probe where weissmann works. and comey was quite public at the time in his praise for weissmann. i d like to thank andrew weissmann, deputy director of the enron task force who is standing around the room some place. i want to thank and congratulate andrew weissmann, let me thank the enron task force, in particular andrew weissmann, t head of the enron task force. he and his brilliant team were in houston today where their harsch hard work continues. you can you see weissmann off to the side while comey talks. he often avoided those microphones. that hard work as comey put it led to some hard calls like whether prosecutors should single out just bad employees or indict entire companies. now that s controversial because if it send
Month. they sat on it. if this that letter had been sent when they were reviewing them, then hillary clinton most likely still would have won the election. they were dropped when all of these women came out on sexual harassment charges on donald trump and i said and i think it was like probably a month, month and a half beforehand. i said you know if they had dropped these ten days before, said it in real-time if they had dropped these ten days before, he wouldn t recover from it. so comey drops a letter ten days before. and i m sorry, i don t know what s going on in james comey s mind, i know he s a showboater, but anybody that knows anything about politics knows, you drop something like that ten days before there s no recovering. it s, you know, in a different way, it s like the