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Let me put this one to you. feel free to jump in, jeremy. jeremy and i have known each other a very long time. we first talked on television when donald trump was in hot war with the intelligence community and part of the washington post reporting gets at that. so, let me hear from john first, then you, jeremy. post also reports that a person familiar with the briefing process said that at times trump as been dismissive of his briefers. shook his head and frowned the briefers were talking down to i am h. trump laz demonstrated deep advertise trust of the intelligence community. he accused obam...

Like this isn't just about a president who doesn't read, but a president who doesn't tend to, what george w. bush and i'm sure president obama thought was the grave est aspect of the presidency. >> it's right. so, on those days when he didn't actually have a pdb session, we can assume he got no intelligence. that's very dangerous because on any given day the president can be talking to foreign leaders. he'll be making decisions that affect national security. what pdb editors do is tee up in the book that morning information that is specifically relevant to the president's day. and so to philip...

Last year that intelligence officials in some cases have included russia related intelligence only in the president's daily written assessment steering clear of it in the oral briefing not to upset trump. riddle me this. if the russia intel or intel pertaining to russia's efforts to meddle in our elections and it is only provided in writing, and he doesn't read, has he read anything about russia? >> no, and he said he doesn't believe the intelligence on russia and he's not willing to accept the consensus that russia meddled in the election and they particularly favored donald trump. and so thi...

Known as the pdb. they tailor their intelling jensen sessions for a president with a famously short attention span. augmented with photos, videos and gravgs. let's bring into the conversation jeremy bash, national security analyst, and chief of staff at both the cia and pentagon. i want to read you something your old boss said. leon panetta, said trump could miss important context and nuance if he was relying solely on an oral briefing. the arrangement also increases pressure on the president's national security team which cannot entirely replace a well informed commander in chief, he said. so...

A story that says trump read his briefing every morning and was very alarmed by it, we should have a special report. >> you know that i would. but let me just say -- let me just say really quick, i think that what's staggering is pompeo made a big display, and this is why trump likes him so much, right? it was a p.r. thing to say, well, we just added charts and graphs. we made it readable to him. we made it fun. that's b.s. he didn't read it. he didn't read it. >> he didn't read it. here's a man who doesn't read intelligence. we're not talking about opinions, we're talking about intelligence, ...