Page 17 - Interagency Process News Today

Certainly support it if he felt that was the best way. >> are there advantages in terms of sending any terror suspect to guantanamo? >> thats a question we would have to dive into deeper and talk with interagency process before answering that. matthew? >> thanks, sarah. the president said last night that he ordered dhs to step up quote already extreme vetting. im wondering if you can tell us specifically about what extreme vetting entails? and if there is any indication ta it might have had impa...

>> jon: thank you, william. take you now to the intelligence chairman holding a press availability to make an announcement regarding the intelligence committee in the u.s. house. lets listen. >> well keep you posted with further details. let me go to mr. desantis filling in for mr. gowdy today. >> we do have a witness who was a confidential informant who wants to talk about his role in this and were in contact with the justice department to release him from a non-disclosure agreement. if that do...

Whether or not there was an fbi investigation. was there a doj investigation? and if so, why was congress not informed of this matter? so thats -- that will be the start of the probe. it will be two different committees who will be looking into this and we will keep you posted with further details. let me go to mr. desantos who is filling in for mr. gowdy today. >> thank you, mr. chairman. we do have a witness who is a confidential informant who wants to talk about his role in this, and were in ...

Take you back a step. you were deputy national security adviser. before president obama, who you served would make a statement about north korea, either at a news conference or in a written statement, what would go into making that kind of a statement? >> this is the most dangerous flashpoint in the world, so every word that a president speaks about north korea is usually carefully crafted and vetted with the secretary of defense, the secretary of state. we would preview any new language with ou...

In the last few weeks indicates that trouble. im really worried. >> youve witnessed, worked for different administrations, watched different presidents operate. how anomalous was this? >> incredibly for the greatest power in the world. and lets look at something else. right now our tacit ally, india, and china, the second greatest power in the world right now, are on the border ready to go to war, 100 meters apart. not only that, china has built a corridor through kashmir making it look like it ...

To say them out loud in front of television cameras in front of the world was an es ka whattory step that went further than they had expected. >> lets just hit pause and talk about how abnormal this is. george w. bush had a lot of feelings about the iraq war. im not holding that out as an example of anything but in terms of a paper process when a president makes a statement about a nuclear adversary in the walk-up to what may be a military conflict, i mean, you covered the white house in which i...

To pakistanser sovereignty than india. we have a real problem there. in 2002 colin powell had to go deal with them and they had to talk in order to avert a nuclear exchange between these two powers. were not even looking at that right now. were letting so much go by the way because were concentrating on trumps rhetoric. >> all right. come lawrence wilkerson. thank you. >> thank you. >> ill joined by the former deputy secretary of defense. how would they derrell who should make what kind of state...

And polished up and not good enough for him. thats not going to help him in the court. >> the first ban was a wreck. he didnt even go through the interagency process. >> no. unable to let go of something, whether its his spat, whether its the word travel ban. was it sensible, what was he trying to do? is he trying to appeal to the base? maybe its much more elemental. i said i want a travel ban. im going to use this word and thats what it is. its a basic, almost child-like, im right. >> he was re...

>> its binary. it is coming from the russian side and mr. putin hinted they had a recording. it turned out the translation was a little funny. wasnt an exact recording. and typically there are note takers inside these meetings. we know there are note takers because the initial "new york times" story about, the intelligence leak about, the isis plot that they gave fro a foreign intelligence asset who latere learned was israel. they tried to clean up some transcripts and it went through an interag...

Saudi arabia, you know your subject matter with some pride. are they involved? >> you know, i dont know the answer about the desk officers. i know you know your presidential history and there are some who used to call them directly. that practice has largely been abandoned over the last couple presidencies for this interagency process that i know that dina powell and h.r. have tried to replicate inside the white house with sort of the logical inputs from state and d.o.d., but i think sadly the e...