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>> thats right, and its very frustrating. you think that the intelligence communities have been presenting intelligence briefings to the presidents even before they were sworn in as candidates. at a certain point, both candidates received daily intelligence briefings in case one of them wins so they understand whats going on in the world. what you see in trump is hes not been interested in understanding the way the world works. he does not ask follow-up questions about the consequences of the co...

Now, i dont think anybody expects john bolton to be an honest broker. we know hes a real idealogue. then it lands on the white house chief of staff. but at the end of the day, as im sure anyone would tell you, that t at the cia, its really only the intelligence community that can give him that raw data and that analysis that he needs to understand the world. >> and, john walcott, your reporting follows a week in which the president publicly attacked the leaders and presumably everyone working wi...

Services faced when they testified last week on the hill, is do i tell it straight or do i try to maintain my access to this guy? jim mattis at defense had that problem, john kelly and h.r. mcmaster had that problem, and where are they now? >> but, john, on the intelligence briefers, would they just be replaced? if an intelligence briefer tells president trump something he doesnt want to hear, and then maybe does it repeatedly a couple times, would that briefer be replaced by another briefer, or...

He has to change the minds of people who have already made up their minds that he does not deserve reelection and that they definitely are not going to vote for him. donald trump did nothing today to change any of those minds. and these leaks from inside the trump administration this weekend will do nothing to change those minds. one of those leaks reinforces the image of donald trump as a reckless man in a job where recklessness presents a danger not just to americans but to the world. john wal...

Present and very much a danger still. >> were going to keep that top of mind as we continue on. thank you, sir. with me, john walcott, a correspondent for time and just wrote this extraordinary piece where he spoke with a number of high level intel officials. so john, thank you so much for joining me. welcome. >> a pleasure, brooke. >> so you say that senior intelligence briefers are breaking two years of silence to warn that president is endangering american security, what they say is willful i...

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working with the highway administration, came up with a method of doing it which is called design build to. you design it while you are building it. you do it simultaneously. in the process, they cut the time from nine years to 4.5. they also cut the cost by close to zero billion dollars. yes, -- close to a billion dollars. yes, it will enhance the olympics. gao has included its total in its calculation of the cost of the olympics, but it had to be done, it was a logical expense of the...

beginning. they have been scouring the scene for evidence of what happened. they do know that the windows had bars on them. they left the victims trapped. an endless waits at the same, but it was too late for a four- year old girl. >> we saw the flames coming out the front windows in the side windows. >> a neighbor watched the raging flames in horror, trying to comfort the mother as her -- as she screamed for her baby left inside. the d.c. fire battalion chief says there were two adult...

interested -- if someone were to call me and asked me if i were interested in being the public editor or ombudsman, how would i respond. i said, i would be interested in talking about that. >> why would you be interested at that time? >> well, being an ombudsman is a difficult but intriguing job. it was before i had run. "the new york times" is kind of the pinnacle of the newspaper profession, i believe. i thought it was an unusual opportunity and i was interested in it. >> what happen...