actually foreigner. they are doing a sound check in front of our building. they will be live the 8:00 hour. today it is brought to you by our friends at lowe s and pg&e as you see right there. good morning, everybody. thank goodness it s fox. when we see the band out there. we know it s going to be a grit day a lot of fun free food for anybody who signed up. go on the website and get the free barbecue. we also know when we see that band it is friday. thank goodness it is friday. steve: tgif. brian: you would think they wouldn t even need to practice. i was listening to the whole able to tease. they were working hard this might be their best show ever because they have never been more prepared. think about this, they put all this work in since 1977. and then they practiced up until last night going on tour with kid rock and just got off the stage maybe this might be the perfect show. they might do a movie like they did with queen about their appearance on fox & friends.
government. if someone wants to declassify something, and the president of the united states is the ultimate declassification authority, but there s a review process in place , that its way up a chain according to published reports this morning, general kelly agreed that the memo should go through an nfc process, in other words the national security council will consider whether or not to declassify the information in this memo. the problem with that is the president apparently has already signaled what he thinks should happen. the person at the top of the chain has indicated according to that hot mic moment what he thinks should happen. nevertheless, this is the kind of thing that has to go a through a process to make sure everything is considered, to make sure that declassifying information doesn t institute damage to our relationships with foreign governments or
to promote a power plant. now, the private sector backers of the project include president reagan national security adviser bud mcfarland. moved to get federal approval including a draft that president trump could send to cabinet. and flynn forwarded the e-mail to national security council staff and instructsed them, quote, to essentially put it on white house letterhead and send to the white house for approval. the wall street journal indicates there s no indication that such a memo ever went to trump. and a white house told the post the nfc staff tamped down. declining to comment for both papers saying the power company did not make a specific request and was reading in response to mcfarlane being asked to prepare thoughts on the nfc process. all right. there s also ongoing pressure for congressman john conyers to
intelligence community now under president obama have to decide whether or not they are going to say yes to that. i have to say i feel a little different than i usually do about president obama leaving on this overseas trip to go to germany and greece and peru now that it s been reported that he s going to spend more time with the president-elect, he s concerned about his ability apparently to handle the transition and doesn t he need you more than we do right now? this is something that i learned in the years that i reported on the white house in washington, d.c., and my wife worked in the administration in the first day of the obama administration and folks that i know have worked in various administrations, republican and democrat, the learning curve is steep. no one s prepared for it. even just getting your head around the nfc process, like the nec process national security council? yes. that itself is a whole rubic s