david ignatius. former treasury official steve rattner and msnbc political contributor rick tyler. a lot to break down. "the post" broke the story, later matched by buzzfeed and reuters alleging president trump revealed highly classified information to the russian ambassador in a face-to-face meeting. according to the paper, the information considered so sensiti sensitive, details have been withheld from allies and tightly restricted even within the u.s. government. the foreign partner had given the u.s. permission to share the information with russia, and trump's decision to do so reportedly endanger z cooperation from an ally that has access to the inner workings of the islamic state. officials told "the post" trump revealed the city in the islamic state's territory where the intelligence partner detected the threat. "the washington post" is withholding the information at the urging of officials within the trump administration who warned it would jep diesz important intelligence capabilities. u.s.

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ignatius who founded the jesuits saw god in all things and all people if he lost to george mcgovern -- he was crushed -- the next day was an opportunity to see god and the next experience. and i got that sense from my mom as well, that not every day was happy. there's a difference between joy and happiness. think this pope, pope francis, has joy in his life, and his completely free and i think that sense of freedom, not attached to anything to use the ignatius concept of disordered attachment. he is not attached to anything and that sense of joy any mom and dad and i see'll n him is the reason i jumpedded in and did the pilgrimage so that's a long answer to your question but the since of catholicism that my mother and father lived and breathed every day and enjoyed every day, i'm trying to get that in my life every day as well. >> let's talk about his jesuit tradition. you talk in the book about the features of the order of jesuits and how do they -- talk about how they impact the pope as being the pope -- you messengered the first jesuit peep we have had. >> a really important part o

there is -- i have -- i side with david ignatius and have for some time.n foreign policy can be good sometimes. it put the chinese back on their heels. donald trump blasted the chinese for the entire campaign. they were enemy number one when it came to america's failing economy. there's just no doubt, he softened them up for the meeting at mar-a-lago and then he is what mika and i say he is in person when he chooses to be, one of the most charming people you will ever meet around a dinner table. that worked in that case. now he's talking about meeting with some of america's most intractable enemies which, again, as david says, not a bad thing. what i fear is that this man, who has absolutely no sense of history is surrounded by many people, many aides inside the wait house not on his foreign policy team who also have no sense of history, who don't know politics, who don't understand that australia has been by our side in every war since world war i, for over 100 years. they don't understand that. and not understanding that and in believing that the world b

david ignatius, they said it was a flt-out lie. the president was delusional for saying this.knew he had nothing to worry about. >> joe, this is one of those situations where the worst case actually seems to be happening. what the press has now told us himself was his motivation clearly going back months to get rid of comey and has said specifically that he was troubled by the made-up russia thing as he put it in his interview with lester holt. the president appears to have done something which is almost unimaginable, which is to. >> seek and get the most private details of an investigation that involves him and his campaign staff. the most striking pushback for me yesterday was the acting fbi director, andrew mccabe, going before the senate intelligence committee and saying, no, it is not true as president trump has said that james comey was rejected by his bureau. he gave a very tough and i thought convincing account of what's really going on. >> david ignatius, two more lies blown out of the water by andrew mccabe's testimony. one of them was the white house claiming that c

with us columnist and associate editor of "the washington post" david ignatius. john heilemann, senior political editor for the "huffington post," sam stein, national political correspondent for "the washington post" karen tim mull tea along with willie geist and mike barnicle in new york. so much has happened even in the past 24 hours, former fbi director robert mueller immediately takes over the justice department's investigation of russian interference in the 2016 campaign. he is now in charge of prosecutors and fbi agents in multiple field offices. deputy attorney general rod rosenstein made the appointment yesterday. rosenstein is overseeing the doj jeff sessions recused himself. nbc news was told the white house office was informed about the appointment of the special counsel after the order was find. >> stop right there. david ignatius, a lot of people have liked to say since january 20th, there's a new sheriff in town. when the white house is notified after the special counsel -- >> there really is a new sheriff in town. >> there really is a new sheriff i

richard, i asked david ignatius to comment on the last 24, 48 hours. what's your take away and what you're hearing this morning? >> take away, surprisingly uncharacteristically normal trip. what didn't happen is at least as important as what what happened. we're not talking about things associated with it. i think the saudis were prepared not just to roll out the red carpet but have this trip succeed. this was not barack obama. they wanted to send a signal it was a new chapter. i agree with what david said outreach to muslim world, change in language. the only thing widely discord ant against backdrop of iranian election for all of its constraints was something of an exercise in at least partial democracy and blaming iran for a lot of the ills what's going on it seemed to be leaving out one thing, the whole decision not to be critical of the sunni arab world. that's been one of the drivers of terrorism. you look at 9/11, the rise of groups like al qaeda, it's because of the flaws in the society. yes, the terrorist financing is one part of it, but it's

ignatius high school. was driving in the area when someone opened fire. ( darya ) bart police have made a second arrest in connection to the mob attack that happened last month. up to sixty teenagers were involved in the attack. the mob stormed a train at the coliseum bart station and robbed at least seven passengers and injured two of them in the process. ( mark ) closing arguments are set this morning in the trial of the man accused of killing morgan hill teenager sierra lamar. sierra went missing in march of 20-12. she was 15 years old. 26-year-old antolin garcia- torres could face the death penalty if convicted. ( mark )( darya )( robin ) checking bay area roads before you head out the door.. no major hot spots. richmond bridge drive less than 20 min from the toll to 101.bay bridge wb 80 is less then 30 min from the maze to sf. san mateo bridge less then 30 min from 880 to 101. (james)our mini heat wave continues as we're expecting another hot day today. another hot (james)our mini heat wave continues

he'll have to do the same. >> david ignatius, this is a lesson of washington. wins. 100 days in. he has a supreme court justice. beyond that in terms of legislation, washington has won so far. >> washington has won. this archaic system the president keeps complaining about is called u.s. constitution. this is our system of government. i'm sorry, mr. trump. that's what we've got. someone described to me this week an amazing meeting at the white house where the first hour was spent just complaining about the obama administration. they messed everything up. it's awful. what are we going to do. second hour was spent pretty much reconstructing the same policy that obama had followed in this foreign policy issue. i think there's a frustration that you hear on every issue. they don't have the ability to move through significant new ideas. so we see that. the president obviously in harrisburg felt campaigning is more fun than governing. governing is hard. so you saw a happy trump up in harrisburg making fun of the poor trudging news media down in washington. >> what ha

thank you for your time on this saturday, david ignatius.o me again, it was good. thank you. >>> still ahead, what about the little didn'tguy? hear from a small business owner and get his take on the bill passed by the house. ♪ everything your family touches sticks with them. make sure the germs they bring home don't stick around. use clorox disinfecting products. because no one kills germs better than clorox. if you have moderate to severe ulcerative colitis or crohn's, and your symptoms have left you with the same view, it may be time for a different perspective. if other treatments haven't worked well enough, ask your doctor about entyvio, the only biologic developed and approved just for uc and crohn's. entyvio works by focusing right in the gi-tract to help control damaging inflammation and is clinically proven to begin helping many patients achieve both symptom relief as well as remission. infusion and serious allergic reactions can happen during or after treatment. entyvio may increase risk of infection, which can be serious. while no

ignatius high school. police say the teen was not a student at s-i. he was driving in the area when someone opened fire. people who live nearby say they are shocked this happened in a neighborhood that's usually quiet and family friendly. ( anny @ flash ) right now police do not know what led up to the shooting and there is no description of the gunman. the teen who was killed has not been identified. ( mark ) bart police have made a second arrest in connection to the mob attack that happened last month. police are using surveillance video to identify and search for up to sixty teenagers involved in the attack. the mob stormed a train at the coliseum bart station and robbed at least seven passengers and injured two of them in the process. ( mark ) breaking overnight... a car

saint ignatius college prep is four blocks away and the administrators put the school on lockout during the shooting, parents were alerted by e-mail. >> what was your reaction to that? >> concerned because i know what things can happen, it doesn't matter what neighborhood, it can happen anywhere. >>> the motive is unclear. investigators hope witness account and possible security video in the area can help bring in leads. >> there was talk of a mention of a vehicle in the area at that time so at this time we're trying to see if there's anything related. >> a shooter remains at large. in san francisco, lillian kim abc 7 news. >>> investigators are trying to determine what caused through a fire that broke out in a homeless encampment. a viewer snapped photos of the damage. several tents and people's personal possessions were destroyed. no one was hurt. >>> happening today, state assembly helps are holding a hearing to discuss the recent audit of the university of california after the discovery of a very large secret fund. the state auditor found uc's president's office failed to disclose $

saint ignatius college prep is four blocks away and the administrators put the school on lockout duringshooting, parents were alerted by e-mail. >> what was your reaction to that? >> concerned because i know what things can happen, it doesn't matter what neighborhood, it can happen anywhere. >>> the motive is unclear. investigators hope witness account and possible security video in the area can help bring

david ignatius has written on the russia investigation, we'll get to that piece in a moment. i think the question is for you because you know everybody really well. obviously we have clear concerns about the qualifications and the personality and the psychology of this president. what does this latest move tell you about the abilities of his -- and the qualifications of his -- and the mental fitness for the job of his press secretary, his chief of staff and i'm sorry, the influence of jared and ivanka which seems to be nowhere and also his foreign policy team. where are these people? why can't they do anything? where were the voices of reason? are there any? >> you're not going to have anybody, first of all, walking to the white house from the foreign policy team telling him not to do this. >> why? >> because they're the foreign policy team. you a group of people close to trump, and the truth is, and heidi, you report there all the time, nobody tells him no. when i tell him nobody tells him no, nobody tells him no. >> who is the troubling thing about that premise. there are m

david ignatius, very ugly with his economies about edward snowden. david gregory when he ran "meet the press" had glen green walt on his show would and was extremely critical for him being a conduit for the information from edward snowden. when diane feinstein wrote a report about torture and abuse she was on wolf blitzer's situation room and accused of having blood on her in other words revealing the information about the cia torture and abuse. so the think i would like to leave you with at this point dish do want to leave some time for questions and comments -- is our democracy right now is in trouble. we're in a very beleaguered state. there was an article in the "new york times" about two weeks ago about-i love this word -- guardrail, the guardrail of democracy and how the system is working. well, two observations. one, the system will only work if people make the system work. the system can't work on its own. and, two, i would argue the system isn't working the with a i would like it to work. look at the intelligence committees created in 1970s

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, ed o'keefe is the cbs news contributor and covers politics for the "washington post" and david ignatiush ponnuru is a columnist. what do you make of the trip? >> the speech was the capstone. the president didn't say anything surprising but the language was very different perfect the trump we know that campaigned. he was inviting partnership, not drawing sharp lines. the white house has worked very hard to prepare this trip. for all the questions about the flip-flops and the difference of trump then and stand now. have to stand back and look at the symbolic importance of this. the president represented many americans who were suspicious and angry at saudi arabia and the problems in the middle east that are represented. they're seeing their hero go to saudi arabia and embrace the saudi leadership. similarly the saudis and others were suspicious of the united states to riyadh to meet the president. and i think the trump administration is also make bet the younger saudi leadership that this is a change agent ready to try to move in a different era for saudi arabia and the region taking adva

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. >> washington post columnist david ignatius joins me now. david, thank you very much.hat was your reaction when you saw the president proposing a meeting with kim jong-un and freelancing an invitation to duterte from the philippines without the guidance or advice of the secretary of state, state department, national security adviser? >> andrea, initially like all of us i was surprised, even shocked. last weekend we had trump warning about a major conflict with north korea. we have had subtleties of saber rattling, threats of war. i have to say for the president to open the way toward possible peace talks with the north korean leader to address the denuclearization of the korean peninsula which is the goal he's brought in china as his partner in pursuing, i don't think that's the craziest idea in the world. flattering him, calling him a smart cookie, it's so much like trump. he's been on a flattery tour recently with xi ping, duterte, kim jong-un, a phone call with erdogan of turkey. he operates in hyperbole, bragadocia of himself and flattery of others. would it be use

david ignatius is a columnist for the "washington post" and ben domenech is the publisher of "the federalistith you, coming off of what a second -- secretary gates says, he feelsry assured by the policy team the president has around him. what do you make of that? >> bob gates is a steady voice of continuity. he's been around since the reagan presidency. he has that depth and clarity. and he's right. trump chose a national security team that's first rate. a lot of them are people that gates recommended. rex tillerson was a gates' proposal at the state department. james mattis, a general widely admired. secretary kelly in homeland security was bob gates' military adviser way back when. h.r. mcmaster came up in that broad school that gates helped trump preside over. i thought i heard secretary gates say that on domestic policy he is troubled as he looks at the comey firing. he finds elements that... the obvious point is that president trump and the senate need to respond to this week that we've had by choosing someone to run the f.b.i. who is in that category of strong, steady, reliable nationa

. >> what do you make, by the way, david ignatius from "the washington post" said that this visit is -- he compared it to president obama's trip back at the start of his presidency to the arab world, the big speech he made in cairo at the time, reaching out to countries that a lot of people thought america were enemies while trump treating these countries as our friends what do you make of the larger implications of this visit? >> there's a big difference in the approach. president obama was trying to speaks to the arab people and the muslim people in the world and his tack was that there had become a gulf between leaders and the people ins they countries. president trump is taking a different approach, kind of a return to realism, which is, if a country's interest like saudi arabia or bahrain, align with the united states, we're going to do business with them, cooperate with them, and so it's a much more, i would say, sober look at how you exert american interests in the region. i would say for the crowd that favors human rights, a little bit more of a problem but it's a different a

of 2009 when president obama and secretary clinton opened up a back channel with iran that david ignatius written about. back channels are, therefore, not radioactive. what is the bombshell in "the washington post" report and that we have to pay attention to is the idea that anyone, but especially jared kushner, would want to use russian coms to communicate. i began my career in the department of justice as the counter intelligence special assistant, and that is so mind bogglingly dumb that i can't credit it. i can't believe that anyone would say let's use your stuff if they knew anything about counter intelligence. so my line, jacob, is that everyone has got to dial back the wildly speculative rapid judgment of everything until and unless robert mueller steps up to the podium and says we have a real case of a real breakdown, including allegations that it has been broken by jared kushner on the fs86. i just don't think we have a predicate for that. >> let me ask you the same question i asked congressman rooney and i'll use the dreaded "if," don't hate me. >> if. >> if this does prove to b

now, as we pivot to news, i want to read from david ignatius's piece in "the washington post." he writes, brzezinski would have been appalled but not surprised by the results of trump's group of seven meeting on saturday after which german chancellor angela merkel said the era when america could rely on american leadership was over. brzezinski's worries about trump grew out of his belief in the interdependent world that the united states had made. having seen western values and freedoms crushed in poland, he was protective of them. trump's populism was abhorrent to this son of polish aristocracy. but it wasn't just that. brzezinski didn't think trump understood what a precious creation he was jeopardizing by so wrerecklessly challenging th institutions of the west. >> there was a lot of fallout about that foreign trip. in a tweet president trump talked about his trip being a great trip. bob corker said it was executed to near perfection. it wasn't he added president trump should be commended for the trip's success. james mattis also defended the president's tough talk. andrea m

with a name like sullivan i'm sure john will bring in an irishman's with, charm, gift of gab and ignatius in this to the job, all important qualities of diplomat, he's a man of integrity, i know he will serve secretary tillerson, men and women of the civil service and this nation well and i urge you to support his nomination. >> thank you for coming and supporting someone, you are glad to be here to support if you could return to your other duties. with that i would like to go ahead and have a voice and block the foreign service officer list and ambassador and previously laid out, senator coons has signified he stepped out but all in favor say i. all opposed. thank you so much. >> let me thank mister sullivan for his willingness to serve our country again. he seems to always want to come back to public service and we appreciate that very talented person who has a distinguished record and we thank your family who are willing to share you with our nation because in the position you have been nominated for it will take 110% of your time and effort, the challenges are great and as chairman co

. >> final question, there was a report in "the washington post," i think it was david ignatius, several weeks ago. in essence, saying that the failures of the north korean launches are directly attributable to the u.s., is that anything that you want to talk about here? >> no, sir, it's not anything i want to talk about here. thank you. >> okay. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >>> admiral harris, thank you for being here, as pacom commander, did you participate in authoring the 2016 force structure assessment? >> i participated in the run up to that. >> okay, the assessment called for the forestructure called for a 355-ship navy. in that regard i want to follow up on a line of questions and drill down on that. actually, what the fsa said is that in a perfect world unconstrained by the budget, the requirement is 653 ships fleet wide. but by accepting risk and understanding the financial restrictions that we have, the requirement is 355 ships. i want to help you get the ships you need. i want to help the navy get the ships they need. and so when i'm told 355 ships is a requirement, i believe

david ignatius at "the washington post" wrote a column about the obama back channel and he said thishways. but none of all the hype and hysteria that we're seeing with jared kushner. abby: find our own narrative. they have the power to say whatever they want to say. >> indeed they do. abby: think about secret back channels done in secrecy. the money that was paid to release the prisoners in iran. >> right. abby: even that moment when president obama was in russia telling the president there i will have more flexibility after this election that was all done in secret he thought. >> yeah. president obama wished it had been in secret. it was a hot mike moment. you remember this was in the heat of the campaign, the election of 2012. and we're talking about missile defense policy and president obama leaning over to president medvedev saying putin needs to give me some space because after the election i have more flexibility. the american people and american voters might have liked to know what that meant. abby: then he goes to mitt romney let's go back to the 1980s. >> then he was down pl

what's going to be decided, as david ignatius said this morning in a column, we don't know. process. it's got lots of logic to it. people are able to bring their points of view in. there have been some meetings involving decisions and president trump listens. >> hey, bob, it's willie. you've obviously studied and chronicled so many presidential administrations over the years. as you look at these first 100 and change days at this point, how much steeper has the learning curve been for president trump than previous presidents you studied. how does it size up? >> well, it's substantial. but we've had lots of presidents who have come on the scene, obama, george w. bush, clinton, who didn't have this federal government experience. they probably learned quicker, "but there was lots of stumbling. i'm trying, if you think about a book coming out in 2018, what actually is done, what happens. there are going to be some really big decisions made. as karl rove always says, it depends on outcomes. do those things work in national security, in domestic policy, in the economy? we'll see.

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