Page 14 - Director Level News Today

Trump folks replaced the person they had running their national security council transition, replaced him with somebody new, they replaced him in mid-december but that person didnt start meeting anybody from the obama administration until january. well, you know, its the holidays. now the national security council at the director level, point people for these issues and places in the world, theyre poised to empty out and theyre does not appear to be anybody in place to step in and take over thos...

Trump folks replaced the person they had running their national security council transition, replaced him with somebody new, they replaced him in mid-december but that person didnt start meeting anybody from the obama administration until january. well, you know, its the holidays. now the national security council at the director level, point people for these issues and places in the world, theyre poised to empty out and there does not appear to be anybody in place to step in and take over those...

In washington the nuclear talks were right on lake geneva theyre continuing at pace and in fact an accelerating pace. these talks this week were originally meant to be at the political director level, thats a level below secretary of state state, about you now face-to-face meetings added between secretary of states john kerry and his iranian counterpart. beginning tonight theyre going to meet multiple times tomorrow on tuesday and into wednesday and youre also hearing from u.s. officials in effe...

That doesnt work, is leading towards -- >> war. >> -- opening up the pandoras box of the prospects of military confrontation. >> the choices are not great. they will have another chance november 20th to take a crack at this at the political director level. thanks very much. im sure well be back to talk about this in the next couple weeks. coming up, its a far lesser christmas miracle but one you will be thankful for when its time to mail out gifts this year. sunday delivery from the post offic...

Senator tim johnson, says he wont decide until he hears from kerry. we have the next round of talks already set for november 20th but those are going to be at the political director level, not the foreign ministers or secretary of state. a sign we could maybe have some time before they reach a deal. >> john kerry will not be going back to geneva. >> unless his aides say theres a reason for him to go back and theyre really close. >> thanks very much for that report. lets dig a little deeper right...

Build their case and youre going to set up road blocks, youre going to have a tough -- try to continue the negotiations. youre going to have more loud protests from allies such as benjamin netanyahu, but they have agreed to a second round of talks. but interestingly, this will be at the political director level, not the minute material level. i did reach out to a member of the team this morning who said it will start at the political director level, but who knows how it will end. you might see s...

What happens now? >> thats exactly right. and this delay gives time to the opponents of this agreement to build their case and to set up roadblocks. youre going to have a tough case for the administration on the hill pushing back on new sanctions while they try continue the negotiations. you are going to have more loud protests from allies such as benjamin netanyahu the but they have agreed to a second round of talks. it will be another round of talks on november 20th. this will be at the politi...

All of syrias chemical weapons, a development president obama today called, quote, a huge victory. >> this binding resolution will ensure that the assad regime must keep its commitments or face consequences. >> reporter: military action, however, is not part of the u.n. resolution. in fact, no specific sanctions. if syria does not comply, the security council would have to vote again, or the u.s. act on its own, a step president obama has so far avoided. the two presidents spoke through an inter...

Im always careful in terms of what i can say. just because the government tell youls something doesnt necessarily make it true. boy, does that sound dark or what? >> guys from the cia sounding cynical like that, im shocked. when youre at the cia, having this discussion about transparency, that is a sort of theoretical conversation. where are those decisions made? how far up the ladder at the cia do you go? is it the deputy director, the general counsel, before somebodys saying, this cant get out...

joint chiefs chairmen mike mullen and defense secretary bob gates expressed strong concern for safety of the s.e.a.l.s. each of them gave a stark warning. >> from my perspective, it is time to stop talking. and we have talked far too much about this. we need to move on. its a story that if we dont stop talking, it will never end. and it needs to. >> im very concerned about this. because we -- we wont to retain the capability to carry out these kinds of operations in the future. and whe...