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Say he goes to china or mexico. hes going to have deputies who are there who have top-secret sci security clearances. he only has secret security clearances. what if they say something that is top secret in his presence that potentially could be awkward? >> to say the least, it could be awkward. its really untenable. i think personally that the president is going to do a waiver. i dont think its acceptable to the president to have his chief, you know, sort of guy, kushner, so handcuffed as you a...

Presidential daily briefing, he did have "fox and friends." >> he did. >> there is something -- >> he tweeted -- all right. let me put this one to you. feel free to jump in, jeremy. jeremy and i have known each other a very long time. we first talked on television when donald trump was in hot war with the intelligence community and part of the washington post reporting gets at that. so, let me hear from john first, then you, jeremy. post also reports that a person familiar with the briefing proc...

Let me put this one to you. feel free to jump in, jeremy. jeremy and i have known each other a very long time. we first talked on television when donald trump was in hot war with the intelligence community and part of the washington post reporting gets at that. so, let me hear from john first, then you, jeremy. post also reports that a person familiar with the briefing process said that at times trump as been dismissive of his briefers. shook his head and frowned the briefers were talking down t...

Because it would be hugely embarrassing to president trump if this ever were to come out. thats why people like this dont get jobs at the white house. thats the whole purpose of the fbi background check. >> yeah. theres a self-protection aspect of this typically as well. now, i think if you look at kellys statements and the statements of others, what they often referred to is kind of his, you know, versions of his pedigree, you know, his background and the fact he helped the paper process, and t...

Abroad. >> no question we should have the debate and a vote. i will say with regard to this incident and briefing, i think it is is incumbent upon the administration to provide regular briefings. they do come over and give classified briefings. but the latest ones have been on north korea, iran and appropriately so on big issues like that. it is critically important if there is an operation under way, there has to be a much better briefing process. >> and you have to be calling for it. because w...

Into a few categories. the first is strategic, whats going on, for example, with military modernization in places like china and iran. then the tactical, whats going on, for example, in the hunt for isis leaders in a place like syria or iraq. i think the story gets more interesting when you move after inauguration in january because guaranteed some time in the first months of his administration, there will be some kind of problem. for example, a firefight in syria, we just lost a military office...

Generic overview he got in the candidates briefing during the campaign. hes now getting, as far as we know, the presidents daily brief, which includes things typically like covert actions taken in secret by the u.s. government and the the u.s. military. actions designed to never be disclosed to public other other countries. top secret operations. top secret surveillance. unbelievably proprietary close held data that you and i will never know about, that even the vast majority of the upper-most p...

Taken in secret by the u.s. government and the the u.s. military. actions designed to never be disclosed to public other other countries. top secret operations. top secret surveillance. unbelievably proprietary close held data that you and i will never know about, that even the vast majority of the upper-most people in government will never know about. remember, the whole reason we got this briefing process in first place is because fdr freaking died right after he got re-elected in 1945 and whe...

Knowow, the presidents daily brief, which includes things typically like covert actions taken in secret by the u.s. government and the the u.s. military. actions designed to never be disclosed to public heher other countries. top secret operations. top secrcret surveillance. unbelievably proprietary close held data that you and i will never know about, that even the vast majority of the upper-most pele i in government will never know abou remember, the whole reasas we got this briefing process i...

Interesting nuggets from that off-camera briefing that wrapped a little while ago, we seemed to learn how the from ez gets his briefings. what did sean spicer have to say about precisely how it is that president trump gets these classified briefings? >> one of the questions that was posed to spicer today was whether or not this president is doing his homework and if americans can feel trusting that the president is getting all the necessary information he needs. this comes after some recent repo...