around vladimir putin and see the reaction inside the intelligence agencies. i mean, ken dilanian reported earlier that the declassification order from the white house is being met by some inside the office of the director of national intelligence and the justice department is perhaps the suggestion, hey, maybe take a look at whether or not this should be declassified. i don t think that s what the white house means, but i have to commend the men and women of the intelligence community and the justice department for what appears to be a principled and patriotic rebellion and you see this time and time again and i don t know how many times the president is going to fall for it. like them giving a ball of yarn to a kitten and say go play with this while we actually do serious national security work. i don t want to get too excited about a rebellion, jeremy bash. how far do you think they re willing to take the rebellion? it s my impression the intelligence community usually tries to du
all my life. i have never seen a storm that sat almost us for almost 48 hours. bill: you ve been lucky. i have. bill: it s a beautiful town. there have been a lot of threats over the past 20 years. they dodge, bob and weave and miss you. this one has not and did not. when you were trying to tell people pay attention, what sort of reaction did you get from them? i think most people heeded the warning seeing what happened in houston and the caribbean and in florida and puerto rico last year. people have heeded the warnings. we were frank with them once the storm was upon us we weren t able to get emergency personnel to them until after the storm passes. people have moved out of the area. the other concern we have once the storm passes a lot of people want to come back into the area quickly to come back home and what we re concerned about is that. bill: thank you so much. these are amazing things to
whether they agree with him were not politically, you kind of love the guy. i always loved interviewing him because unlike most politicians he would actually answer my questions. yes he waited. most politicians sort of bob and weave and they do the whole muhammad ali rope-a-dope and evade the question. but john mccain wouldn t do that. i just want to say he would love that reference because he was a sports fan through and through and i think the last time that i saw senator mccain, he was here. what was he talking about in the green room, put boxing. when we talk about him, i think he would like the fact that we are all smiling and remembering that part of his personality, that incredible sense of humor. because i know that you knew him as well. and let me speak from a navy perspective. i m an officer in the reserves
at these meetings that we go about the whole of government effort. i m tired of that term. i said i don t want to hear that. whole of government means none of government. i want some specific leadership on forming a cyber doctrine or a strategy, so that our adversaries know if they strike us, they re going to be hit back. if we, all we re hearing is about patching and protecting the state election systems. if all we re doing is trying to be defensive, it is like being in a boxing match with your hands behind. you can bob and weave and duck. eventually you ll get knocked out. the best way to protect ourselves is deterrence. that people have to understand, they re going to pay a price if they strike us. right now we re a cheap date. there are no consequences. no results. and i m a sort of broken record on this. my poor colleagues on the armed services committee say there goes king again about this
we ll be hearing about shortly about russia. that was a cliffhanger, i guess, seemingly suggesting that this administration is doing something tough on russia. they just don t want to talk about it. we ll see if that ends up being true. the credibility is not what it would be normally in an ideal situation. the press secretary is simply trying to bob and weave around what the president said and could not back up the question of how the trump campaign, or the trump presidency in a year has been tougher on russia than obama in eight years. she said that definitively. that is not true. what are you thinking? you can argue, and it is a fair criticism to say did the obama administration act quick will or strongly enough with russia? and that s a criticism we ve heard from republicans and democrats. when you compare the trump administration response, this president s response and the obama administration s response,