right. get a better understanding of what s doing on. i think that s what s probably happening right now is members are trying to get information, trying to get a better understanding before they do comment on something. i think people have commented and i think people have hesitated to comment before they get the information so i don t think that s much of a story. since we have you here commenting, you ve been a defender on the president on a lot of things. other things like wiretapping. can you defend? he said look, i have the absolute to do this, discuss terrorism and humanitarian issues with the russians. the issue is when you look at the readout from the white house on this meeting with the russians, it didn t mention that at all. it just said they talked about syria and ukraine. here is what we know. we know obviously from the president that he did discuss that information. we know from general mcmaster that he says no sources an methods were compromised.
presidency. so when you look at why does it hurt the credibility, why does it hurt the intel sources, you have two different stories of what happened. and thankfully the president once again as he did last week with james comey, seemed to move everybody with his tweets closer to the reporting, as opposed to what came out of the white house. general mcmaster, a respect member of the military comes out and says, retired now, says didn t happen. the story is false. the president did not betray any secrets that were not made public. that is not what the allegations were in the washington post report. they want to the types of intelligence that was classified that he revealed with an agreement with the source of it that that wouldn t be done. now the president says, no, no, forget about it. i did say these types of things, but here is why i said them. why is that damaging to the
security adviser to the united states says the story is false. he didn t give up any sources or methods, which isn t the reporting. some could say he s parsing his words too carefully. the president this morning isn t saying that. he said, yeah, i did it. it s okay that i did it because i want to help russia get more involved with isis and it was the right thing to do. he s saying something different apparently. yes, it s just a tweet but this is the way the president likes to communicate most often. eagles saying i know, himes, i m concerned about it, you re not. my communication is more important. there s all this haze out there, hotline r. mcmaster as you point out enormously respected on capitol hill and elsewhere, he came out and said the president did not disclose methods. that may be correct. in there were locations described, you may in the knead to say, hey, chris in damascus gave me this information. our foes can figure this out. this gets to something larger and much more
wide acclaim across the spectrum. trying to figure out the president. ask the peel think the president is good for nothing, horrible, bad judgment. these picks represent extraordinarily good, consensus, bipartisan judgment. excuse me, just the root strength of mcmaster, in the book dereliction of duty, which begins a phd thesis, it s the difference between physical courage and moral courage field commanders to joints chief of staff. you speak to them. you speak when you think something has gone awry. also barnacle and mark hal pring host david ignatius. david ignatius, why don t you child in here, us being shocked and stunned, not deeply s lly sd but after a month have a team we wouldn t mind sending around the world. general mcmaster is the real
corruption inside the military, and he did very well at that. he s the complete package. now at the top anyway, admiral, appears we ve got for policy team taking shape when you look at general mcmaster, general mattis, general kelly as well and rex tillerson at state. as you look at that in total, what kind of foreign policy team has president trump put around him? he s put the absolute a team together. to david ignatius point a moment ago on russia, i think the next shoe to drop in this russian relationship is going to be secretary tillerson who knows the country well, famously has a personal relationship with putin. i think that could be very positive in a moment when the two nations are really swimming apart. yes, it s an a team. the question is will president trump take advice from it. because so far we ve seen so many contradictions in the foreign policy from one china