briefs which is the crown jewel of our $80 billion a year intelligence apparatus. we spend a lot of money on this. in the pentagon budget it s a rounding error, but it is people risking their lives. the nsa eaves dropping on communications around the world. all so the president can have the best information. past presidents have not always taken an in-person briefing. nixon never did. obama didn t even do it every day, but obama had a national security meeting to discuss classified intelligence after having read every day the daily intelligence brief. it is an honor to get a piece in that. it s like a daily up in of intelligence. if you get a piece in front of the president it s a career maker and trump is ignoring it. then he goes into the briefings when he has one and challenges the premise of the things that intelligence officials are telling him. when they try to convince him, yes, the cia has assessed the
increasing, this is the time when he needs these high caliber people around them. how will he find them. what does he have to say to convince them to come work with him? i don t represent the views of a war college. i don t think there is anything he can say at this point. it s been two years, initially you had a group of people that said, okay, it s a new administration, if the president of the united states, no matter whether you agreed with him or not, in the campaign, if he calls you and says i need your help, you say yes. two years later, no matter what he might say now. he letters people as blame sponges, as targets for when things go wrong. and who s going to want to take that job. i mean, it s not a career maker, it s a career ender. i think it tells you something about how far we ve come, how far we ve fallen that the chief of staff to the president of the united states is considered a toxic job that no one wants. when you speak about this
not paying his lawyers. but not the situation, in most instances like, this law firms would be tripping over themselves to try to defend the president, to represent the president in some kind of case. that s not the issue that trump has. the more witnesses, the more people who get embroiled, the harder it is to find a law firm. you talk about difficulty. is it that they re worried he won t tell the truth? he is a lousy client. that s the truth. he doesn t take your advice. i think john dowd discovered that. he didn t want joe degeneral he have digenova on the team. paying is an issue. they re afraid that believe it or not, representing the president in this case could cost them business and could cost them attorneys. a complete 180 from any other presidency where working the white house would be a career