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Adversary. they think were working with the kurds and occur the kurds of being a terrorist group. just a very big lapse in judgment. international diplomacy works on protocol. one of the things weve seen with countries like turkey and russia where we dont have note takers and we dont have translators, then they get their side of the discussion out before we do. in terms of our own messaging and communications thats not good, and in terms of having reliable policies that are based on notes, the f...

Thousands of calls from around the world, those requests would come through campaign staff, advisers, and other third-parties. according to this advice memo for the transition, trump must not accept these requests. requests must be methodically returned in a system of calls that will not create negative press stories. the president elect must have a classified intelligence briefing before conversations with foreign leaders and conduct the meetings only when a note taker and national security aid...

Elect and new president, but his son-in-law, jared kushner. its reported despite the protocols and well-earned reason there are national security standards around contacts with foreign governments like this, right, which require having a note taker there, and having national security aides involved and being briefed by people who are experts on the subject matter before you have those conversations, despite all of that well-earned caution, jared kushner reportedly, repeatedly took unstaffed meet...

Press stories. the president elect must have a classified intelligence briefing before conversations with foreign leaders and conduct the meetings only when a note taker and national security aid is press acceptable. th they suggested trump start with the u.k. and end with pakistan. they recalled quote, obviously all that just got tossed aside. because trump was excited that important people were calling him. trump spoke to more than two dozen heads of state before his campaign ever contacted th...

Talking to the chinese government without any other americans present, not even so much as a note-taker, can he prove that he didnt talk about his business interests? did the chinese record the meeting? again, whats being described are u.s. intelligence intercepts about chinese officials discussing what jared told them at these staff meetings. the chinese may be lying about what jared told them in these meetings. they may be concocting a plot to make it look like jared was conducting private bus...

Its an investigation that donald trump as president could have kept his hands off of. he didnt have to tweet about it, didnt have to talk about it, didnt have to engage in obstruction of notice. he could have allowed this investigation to take its course. and he chose not to. and this is a mistake very similar to the mistake richard nixon made in connection with watergate. but its -- i have to say a lot more psychologically deranged when you look at the tweets and the statements and the obsessio...

Former cobureau chief for the "washington post." both gentlemen, were happy to say, are nbc analysts. ambassador, you first, people want to know how a phone call could last 60 to 90 minutes. talk about the mechanics of this. youve been there for these. set the scene. i assume you have the principles, you have the president, probably a navy comes person, note taker, probably state department or nsc types in a perfect world and youve got simultaneous translation, which is time consuming in and of ...

Could last 60 to 90 minutes. talk about the mechanics of this. youve been there for these. set the scene. i assume you have the principles, you have the president, probably a navy comms person, note taker, probably state department or nsc types in a perfect world and youve got simultaneous translation, which is time consuming in and of itself. do you also have people holding up realtime notes to prompt the president what to say next? >> well, brian, ive got to confess, i dont know how this presi...

Say, are nbc analysts. ambassador, you first, people want to know how a phone call could last 60 to 90 minutes. talk about the mechanics of this. youve been there for these. set the scene. i assume you have the principles, you have the president, probably a navy comms person, note taker, probably state department or nsc types in a perfect world and youve got simultaneous translation, which is time consuming in and of itself. do you also have people holding up realtime notes to prompt the preside...

Hes going to keep searching until he finds someone to devour. if its not about russian collusion, then whats it about? and you can go forever and find something wrong, and i think this is a kind of witch-hunt in search of a witch and i think its a disservice to the country. >> youve been in the white house where there was an ongoing investigation that went from one thing to another. >> yeah, and its not fun. the problem with spicer being a note taker is not his problem. hes got time to review th...