Page 29 - Interagency Process News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

What's your main takeaway from this extensiver ten-tenser b t had? >> he came from texas where he lived the last 50 years or so and no government experience, i think he was very reflective of the fact he had a little bit of a rocky year trying to get his sea legs and get it know how to work for this president and i think really trying to say, like, i'm here now, i'm learning the ropes, i'm getting to know washington, i'm getting to know the government interagency process. and i'm going build on that. i think he knows he needs to engage a little bit more with congress, build that political cons...

Serve his needs with information. i do think one of my roles is to always give him all sides of theish yus, even when i know it's not the side he wants to consider, i think it's part of making good decisions, i know he at least has had visibility to all aspects of the decision he's about to make. that's my role as secretary of state to provide him that full 360 visibility of what these decisions mean for our foreign affairs with allies and partners and adversaries. and i think what comes out sometimes, what people see then, they think that is conflict when it's not. it's a normal process of ha...

>> the best policy for a person sitting in the white house whether you're the president, or you're the white house counsel, to leave the justice department alone, unless you're talking about general policy matters and how to allocate resources and budget tri matters and best practices for the white house counsel, not to be directing the attorney general to do any particular thing in any particular case. and especially when you come to issues like ethics and recusal. and how things should be handled. they should be handled by the book. generally speaking, when i was united states attorney we ha...

That's where you have an interagency process. you have principals' meetings that are run by the white house designed to sort out where there's a tension in objectives or a tension and a competition between agencies. it's quite possible in this case that what you had was a debate over some of these possible designations or possible prosecutions. and the way the decision was made went against those who were on the dea side of this. and perhaps that's what's leading those who felt that they were moving ahead, they feldt they had an operation -- they felt they had an operation that could be fulfil...

States with terror money. they did know that, correct? >> if you look at his tweets, he is saying that's not true. that the interagency process involves the intelligence community, state department treasury, folks like him on the sanctions policy group were monitoring this very closely. and they did not agree that the obama administration suddenly changed its policy. now, if the obama administration did, that is problematic. but the problem is this 50-page plus story with lots of details is really just based on the testimony of just two people. and that's problematic. so it needs further inves...