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this is a july 2017 nsc meeting where the president reportedly voiced his impatience with the status of the fight. quote, trump dressed down his generals and other advisers for 25 minutes, complaining that the united states was losing according to woodward. the soldiers on the ground could run things much better than you, trump told them. they could do a much better job. i don't know what the hell we're doing. he went on to ask, how many more deaths, how many more lost limbs, how much longer are we going to continue to be there? we continue to be joined by former cia director john brennan. that struck me as the most presidential thing. that is plausibly and conceivably what other presidents would say to other commanders complaining about the pace of the fight. except i'm guessing you have a difference with the way trump carried it out? >> yes. i've heard basically those questions with a different tone and thrust uttered by other presidents. these are the types of questions that presidents and national security members need to ask, how long are we going to commit troops, how long are

if i like walk by one nsc a cal fire or any firefighter that needs help or something with a hose or something, i help them. they help us, too. we're here to help each other and major everybody is safe. amy: how much money do you make? folks one dollar an hour. amy: when you're fighting a fire? >> yes. one dollar an hour. last night, how long refighting the fire? 20 hours.y we probably made $22. amy: what do you think of that? >> i think we should make -- of course i would say anybody that got the job that you think you should make more. i always does i thought we were getting two dollars until i came to fire camp. it is cool, though. we are making money for something we would probably do for free anyway just for the cut. it is all right. i would prefer, yes, we get more money, of course. anybody in a working position would want to make more money. amy: you are saving the state, to say the least, a lot of money. some would say $100 millllion he or. >> i don't know. of course, i'm sure. i mean, some people -- we look -- the time cut is more than the money to us. we would rather make the money,,

in one nsc meeting, a year after trump was in office, the secretary of defense has to tell him -- because the president is complaining about all this money we're spending on u.s. forces abroad. james mattis says to him, we're doing this to prevent world war iii. here's the problem. this has not been treated seriously enough. and the things, some of the things trump did and does jeopardize the real national security. >> according to bob woodward, not only has the president put national security in jeopardy, he's fundamentally unable to tell the truth. as the book asserts, trump's former lawyer john dowd ultimately concluded the president can never testify before robert mueller because, in dowd's view, he's a liar. and here's woodward. >> what dowd concludes in the end is that president trump can't testify because he can't tell the truth. >> so that's what he mean by clearly disabled? >> yes. >> it's an inability to tell the truth in dowd's view? >> and he actually has a practice session with the president on january 27th of this year in the white house, and the president goes ballistic. he

when i was 17, we sat in the same seats for the 1972 nsc chairmanship game. in 1995, when i was 30, when kyle ripped and the won's first consecutive game and broke the unseemly unbreakable record. a lifetime of friendship forged in stadium seats over hotdogs an end beer. my daughter's, margaret and liza will be in and out of the hearing rooms over the next few days. they are strong girls, dedicated students, outstanding athletes. in the time that you last saw them at the white house ceremony on july 9th, i am pleased to report that margaret has got her braces off, and has turned 13. margaret is the sweetest girl that you will ever know. as for eliza, i tell her every night that no one gives a better hug than liza kavanaugh. finally, i thank my wife, ashley. she is a strong texan. a graduate of the university of texas at austin. she is now the popular town manager of our local community. this is not exactly been the summer that she had planned for the family. i am grateful for her love and inspiration. ashley is a kind soul. she always sees the goodness in oth

i attended a lot of nsc meetings. we made jokes. you don't put in a memo, jokes. >> that is not a suggestion that a deputy attorney general who really is in control of the situation makes in a serious manner because it's never going to happen. but i don't think he was joking. the takeaway is he was not in control of the situation at the time. he's faced a few tests, more than any deputy attorney general in the history with the possible exception during watergate. he failed the first one when he wrote the comey memo. eight days later, another one, and he passed when he appointed bob mueller. he's facing the next big test. will he step down quietly or if trump really wants to get rid of him, will he make him fire him? it's a critical test for his legacy and independence of the justice department. it would be a massive step for him to step down voluntarily now. >> talk to me about the idea of wearing a wire. that's also in the report and if he's offered to resign or fired, that was also the substance of what that story revealed, that i

was partnered with hillary clinton for messaging strategies, and nex tot her is lauren who has the nsc drirector for china and korea relations at the state department. and also, ambassador kathleen stevens. as you know she had a distinguished position of am s ambassador of state and served as ambassador to the korea, and so we will turn to the summit, and work with ambassador chung and if you could give me some of the thoughts of thou inter-korean summit went. >> well, it has not done good than harm. and with the u.s. negotiating leverage as a whole, but the message that it sends is that the rok puts great importance into the inter-korean relations, and so this is one that is sending a message that could be sent out and if you are looking at the specifics, and some specifics that i think that, you may have had attention to is what they agreed on denuclearization, and what it mentions is the nuclear faci facilities, but that should be part of the denuclearization of course. and i don't see much in addition to what was already declared in singapore or earlier in pe jo peyongjong. and it

. >> is that the nsc is not supposed to be, have a congressional relations person. as you know the white house has a whole congressional group to it. and one of the things that was going on, was, the whole issue about the panama canal. and also a middle east arms sale. and, brezezinski felt that some of the white house congressional people were not tuned enough into the national security aspects of it and so he asked me to come on and it was a fantastic job. i loved it and i sat in on every meeting that president carter had with members of congress and i really, i loved it and i knew, worked on all kinds of issues and i was known as somebody who knew less about more subjects than anybody else in the government, you know. so i loved it. >> in those days it was pretty well-known zbigniew brzezinski, national security advisor, secretary of state cy vance didn't get along in terms of their philosophy. vance resign ad of the failed hostage rescue effort. the next was ed muskie. your former boss as secretary of state. your current boss as national security advisor. maybe

there is somebody, and this person speaks as if this is not some midlevel nsc staffer. this feels like somebody who may have a west wing address, not just an eeob address. the difference is working actually in the white house versus working in the big building next door, which is you might as well be working 20 blocks away. >> ruth mentioned earlier in the green room, there are always tells in the op-ed. the tell here is the discussion of 25th amendment. the only time i talked about it was in the reagan white house when associate counsel, john roberts had to write the 25th amendment memo on how to put president reagan under. it's a very complicated piece of work. if anyone is talking about the 25th amendment they actually have experience. >> you think it's a lawyer? don mcgahn in the blue room. copy of the constitution. >> ruth and shane, what struck me -- so many things struck about the op-ed. but the person quotes another colleague. and that to me is sort of -- well, first of all, if you're trying to stay anonymous, that's not the easiest way to stay anonymous because

cabinet member, senior white house official, not casting suspicion on someone like head of the nec, the nsc. logically, someone that senior and comport with the notion, have to be someone that senior to reliable assert those kinds of discussions had taken place in the administration nap wouldn't be a junior official at the veterans affairs department that would be in no position to know about those things. >> you certainly would hope not. you would hope it would you one of eight or nine top officials. david, heard quite a few people saying the real news isn't who wrote it but the fact 1,000 people in the administration could have wrote it. if you had been in washington, d.c. as you have and we have a good bit since donald trump was sworn into office, this sort of talk, very loosely in elite circles of policy leaders and officials and journalists from day one. >> i think that's really the one message. it's that although we have a list of denials, the very fact that it's known that there are many, i'd say a half dozen or more, people who have doing what this op-ed describes, have been trying

i got put intok, applications for analysts and nsc. electronic intelligence. then i got to the point where they wanted me working on communications intelligence. that is where i began doing analytic systems for bill's organization as well as all foreign language transcribers. headss where i butted with the corporation, the nsa corporation. inexpensive means of building a transcription system. i wanted to digitize it. tom was a contractor at the time working on a project for nsa. it was a contact -- contract with gte. they were milking the government for hundreds of millions of dollars with his long-term program that was not going to get delivered for six years. , i balked at it. i butted heads with the director of nsa. below to. -- bill odom. time, my management backed me up. they backed me up to the hills. we fought tooth and nail. odom got fed up with us and go biters and wrote a memo saying, there's going to be peace in the family. he said, no more competition. my chief at the time was george kotter, a deputy director. he told me, go underground. i went und

in one nsc meeting, a y trump was in office, the secondary of defense h to tell him because the president'sout all this money we'rending on u.s. forces abroad. james mattis says to him, wre doing this to prevent world war iii. now, the idea that the secretary of defense has to tell the president that all of these actions are designed to prevent the ultimate catastrophe and then mattis goes on and says, you know, if wep don't k these programs, which are very sensitive, the only option we have will be the nuclear option. >> let's talk about you a little bit because we live in an era where the president talks about fake news. he called this fraudulent. anything that is unflatring to him, he generally calls fake news. it is mostly anonymous sources in here. why should people trust you? >> but the incidents are not anonymous. it gives a date. it gives a time. who participates. most often, the president mself and what he says. let me xgo down. you have john kelly, the whitef house chief staff calling the idesident an iot. saying we're in crazytown. that's auote. john kelly says, that never happen

ahead to minnesota to play the vikings big test against the vikings to the nsc temperature game.he 49ers have key players including quarterback richard sherman and mike mcginty. a first-round offensive lineman kicker kickoff is at 10 a.m. on ktvu fox 2 news. the raiders open up their season monday night football hosting the la rams. the question of the day is this. who do you think will have a better 2018 record, the niners or the raiders? >> i am not guessing. like no guesses from dave. 60 percent of you say the 49ers and 40 percent estate the raiders. >> frank mallicoat is in san mateo. people there -- what people there are saying about the nfl season. morning. >> reporter: good morning. we are at niemi's coffee shop. it has been in san mateo for 50 years. it started in the 30s and i have three gentlemen from the united airlines enjoying a meal before they go to work at sfo. i have chris come a time -- tom, and myron. prison, you look like you could play a couple of downs right now. >> i would love the opportunity. >> i think the raiders get a shot at it. there's an opportunity

i want to thank the nsc for their hard work and dedication. >> thank you, alex. >> andrew, thank you and for this opportunity to speak. i want to say it is a unique opportunity moving forward with changes to put forward a brand new chamber focused on u.s. government and foreign governments and the industrial sector to advance industries globally. it's an honor to be part of that initially and my executive director, ben schwartz is here in the front row. as andrew kindly pointed out i have 33 years of experience in arms transfer with friends and allies globally. what has changed in that 33 years, the united states and its industries, although having incredibly capable military equipment is not the only game in town. you're seeing emergence of chinese and their military industrial complex and we're seeing russia continuing to advance some in the global market as well as friends and allies who created military industrial complexes. when i started in this business 33 years ago we had a very strong corner on the market and no longer the case today so there is a paradigm shift. pursuant to