Page 9 - Interagency Process News Today

They dont want to leave stones unturned knowing this is the one big shot on impeachment. its a very long way of saying still nobody knows. they would like to get this done fast, but there is no deadline. there is no hard cap in which this process will stop. >> the president used a racistrope to try to express grievance of the day. more importantly, are they aware of how damaging the testimony appears to be? >> well wait for him to weigh in later. i was just talking to some officials moments ago....

It seems as though the investigators are bracketing in these conversations, theyre getting closer and closer. that really only works if you have good visibility. and the big question here is what will happen when nsc officials are called to testify? they were supposed to do it later this week because the funeral arrangements. that will be next week. tim morrison, they were at the center of the white house version of these conversations. were getting a really good readout of whats happened in ukr...

Everything he was involved in really throughout his career provided the back bone to this testimony to the point where i think we are seeing this as almost a pattern here. no one is questioning the vorasity of anything that hes said. what we have seen in the last few days and even more pronounced is republicans who are trying to poke holes in the inquiry are focussing exclusively on the process. no one has said anything that any witnesses have said including some witnesses for whom they had prep...

Leaving, and americans are evacuating our bases, bombing them as we leave or handing them over to the russians. and putin and erdogan will meet on tuesday, and thats really the main show in town. so i think that assessment is quite accurate. >> larry, who would ordinarily be advising the president ahead of decisions like this? give us a sense of how the administration might have gotten to this deal. >> so, in a normal administration, you have an interagency process where experts, guys like brett...

Broken down the trump foreign policy making process is. by the way, this is not just a ukraine story. i think you see the exact same thing happening with respect to this decision on syria, where instead of having an interagency process where the president sits in the white house situation room next to a secretary of defense, next to a secretary of state and the entire members of the nsc, hes sitting in his residence on the phone, based on his intuition or personal interests is a way to conduct f...

There is no good news. its all bad. >> tom, im going to put up the front page of tomorrows "new york times" one more time for emphasis so we can see the very simple wording they chose. turkey attacks u.s. ally in syria. and, tom, as we point out, as we always do when youre good enough to come on, the opinions you express are yours and not those of the war college. with that in mind, what does this say about the decision-making process in this administration? >> it says there is no decision-makin...

It means that theres no advice, theres no interagency process. cabinet secretaries dont matter. advisers dont matter. the intelligence community doesnt matter. if the president gets loose with the phone and somebody overseas gets to him, they can get what they want. thats what happened here. >> jack jacobs, these have been u.s. allies. they have gone into the fight and suffered, as we said, just grievous casualties. what does this say about what we always proudly regard as the strength of that a...

Administration? >> it says there is no decision-making process. it says if youre a foreign leader and you want something, you get the president on the phone and make sure that nobody else is in the room, on the phone or able to stop him. it means that theres no advice, theres no interagency process. cabinet secretaries dont matter. advisers dont matter. the intelligence community doesnt matter. if the president gets loose with the phone and somebody overseas gets to him, they can get what they w...

Is it so hard to make that connection? >> thats a great point. i agree with senator mcconnell. i want to say that on the record t . second, this decision does benefit russia and the withdr withdrawal of military assistant to ukraine, it benefits russia. its all part of the same package. whats really important here, the complete breakdown of the interagency process for making forge policy in the united states of america. who was on this phone call? who wrote the talking points for it? what was th...

A lot recently. this has been happening, in fact, throughout the entire century with our commanders and chief. -- chiefs. you can talk about barack obama, the constant complaint i heard from diplomats and democratic senators and foreign policy experts who were rooting for the guy was barack obama always believed he was the smartest guy in the room. he didnt want to hear from generals, he didnt want to hear -- he always believed he was -- im nol nt saying that, just telling you and i know you hea...