and the nsc lawyers came back and said you have to say u.s. persons. you can't say the american people. which is of course, ridiculous. but there are just these considerations that are just different from foreign policy. >> a piece of trivia. when the president of the united states goes abroad, all of the public remarks he's going to make on that trip, whether it's two days or ten, those are all done and cleared and approved before air force one leaves the united states. so it is a real crunch for speech writing before. >> please tell us your name. >> as a former resident of south carolina, and charleston, i would like to hear you elaborate on his decision to sing amazing grace. >> do you know cody's story about this? go for it. >> we will tell our boss's story. i wasn't involved in writing the charleston speech, and i wasn't there. our director of speech writing tells the story that they were actually on the plane, heading down there, and the president said there's a fifty fifty chance i will sing. i think it was probably in the moment that he felt th

america was because when i arrived and when i say no one i mean no one in the white house from the nsc to the cia to the vice president of the president. no one shared with me. that they hadn't understanding about the severity. you you know, my feeling was they are not taking this as severely i mean as significantly as i think it's going to be and that's why we have to make these changes, but that was very disconcerting to me to find out i think that woodward interview was june or july of 2020. i was shocked on and still no one showed me that that actually existed so do this day i've never seen that document that talks about the severity the reason i knew it was going to be severe is you could see on social media that the hospitals were getting overwhelmed in january and at the same time china saying we don't think there's human to human transmission. so if i'm seeing the social media post the who should have been seeing the the social media post and they should have gone to the world and said this virus is highly contagious spreading rapidly and in significant illness. those over 70 a

america was because when i arrived -- when i say no one, i mean no one in the white house from the nsc, cia to the vice president of the president, no one shared with me they had an understanding about the severity. my feeling was, they are not taking this has severely -- significantly as i think it's going to be and why we have to make these changes. and that was disconcerting to me, june or july of 2020, i was shocked. i had never seen that document that talks about the severity. the reason i knew it was going to be severe is you could see on social media the hospitals were getting overwhelmed in january and at the same time, china saying we don't think there's human to human transmission. who should have been seen as social media post and should have gone said this virus is spreading rapidly and results in significant illness and those over 70. i am still surprised by that, the data was out there, it may not have been coming from china without the whole thing putting who presented us in every country, you weren't always reliance on just with the national reporting plus. after what h

the countries of vkontakte will coincide and there will be mutually acceptable acceptance, then our nscl not have to bypass all the hotels. there conditional banks and so on use the connect this will happen automatically according to the indian press questions about mutual. knowledge of maps, in particular, was discussed during the visit of the national security adviser of india to moscow on august 17-18 , he held a meeting with deputy prime minister minister of industry and trade denis manturov and other officials of the russian government, according to media reports, at the current stage, the parties are discussing options for mutual implementation services of interbank transfers of the indian single payment interface and russian system of fast payments, generally rupees. it exists even earlier than our payment system the world, in my opinion since 2012 and always hmm when representatives came here. so i met them at the conference, there was always some kind of joke, yes about the fact that the hand is very similar to our names, representatives, as it were, with this system of interac

but what we do know is if doj was going after this material, there were folks at the nsc, cia, dni that all said, we need this material back. >> because it's the material of the government. it's of the public -- american public. >> but forgetting about -- yes. we want the material back for the government purpose. but in order to send 40 agents there, i guarantee you that the cia, the defense intelligence agency, and the nsc are all looking at this and saying, we need this for our purposes because it's dangerous for this country to get out. >> right. so, why do you think donald trump wanted it? what was he going to do with it, george? >> you know, i think it's always a mistake to put in donald trump's mind a complex plan. he's completely impulsive. he's a sociopath. he's completely impulsive. and he's also a narcissist. and his pronouns are i, me, my, mine, and everything belongs to him. those were my generals over at the pentagon, this is my government. he's basically the e pit mization of the -- and he thinks all of this stuff belongs to him. >> he said that. he said, it's not theirs.

heavy one in their first match in the first official match of the new season of the miners in kyiv , nsciy played to a goalless draw with metalist 1925. also on tuesday, luhansk zorya confidently beat poltava vorskla 3:1 . alita newcomer veres beat odesa chornomorets 1:0 and another upl newcomer, kryvbas, also scored 1:0 today, another match was played, which was interrupted three times due to an air alarm, and once for 2.5 hours. 2:1, i will add that dynamo kyiv will play its first round match on november 16 against ingul dnipro. on the same day, it will meet with alexandria . the representative in the group round of the champions league this season and shakhtar donetsk will be him, on the other hand , dynamo kyiv stopped their performances the day before . kyiv in the return match of the playoff round of qualification lost to lisbon benfisov , this time with a score of 3:0, and all goals were scored before the break first, nikolas and medi won the fight on the second floor of artem besedin, later oleksandr syrota missed with a fatal mistake, passing a pass to rafitsiev, and two minutes

teams that remained in the european tournaments learned about their future opponents, in particular, at nsc kyiv olimpiyskiy watched the draw of the champions league together with the shakhtar players, our football expert yevhen perestenko for shakhtar captain taras stepanenko - this will be a european company already at 12:00 but the coach of donetsk , ihor luchovych, for the first time in his career, will go to the coaching bridge in the champions league before the start of the draw, both made their prediction, who they will get the opponent for 100%, they did not guess the future opponents, the coach of shakhtar predicted only one real madrid to name the spanish grand will play with the miners in the group stage of the champions league for the third year in a row, in addition to the spaniards, the ukrainians got the german arbeleicide and the scottish celtic, the first match yavychevich's team will play 6 in september in germany , he is the champion of grand, the best club in the world and everyone wants to play with him, everyone wants to try it, you are at your level and playing in suc

joining me is the nsc coordinator, john kirby. we know there is a lot moving today. kirby will provide updates on security assistance for ukraine, the grain exports out of odessa and other foreign news of the day. he will be with us for 15 minutes or so and then we will and his portion and get to the other parts of the briefing and i will take questions after that is everybody ok and settled? kirby, it is all yours. kirby: good afternoon. today i think you were tracking the ships in odessa under the recent deal between the united nations, turkey, and ukraine welcome this important step and hope to see more ships departing in the coming days. 26,000 tons of corn. russia has effectively blocked ukraine's ports since the beginning of this. we encourage russia to meet its unimpeded exports of goods from the black see to ease the flow of goods elsewhere. national security advisor, jake selin, antony blinken, and the chairman joint chiefs of staff spoke with ukrainian counterparts for the u.s. support to ukraine as the ukrainian people continue to stand up to russia and to

. >> well, let me just note that the nsc spokesman john kirby respects the decision of the speaker toto taiwan. you did mention ukraine. i did want to talk about this. china being taiwan gives you russia v. ukraine vibes in the accepts that you have a big powerful nuclear power that covets a country or a land that wants to be independent of it and in the case of ukraine is independent of it. it's its own country. in the case of taiwan, is there a real threat that china would do what russia is doing to ukraine to taiwan? >> i think there's a threat that china would do it. not right away, not in the next couple of years perhaps, but i think the threat has grown, that at some point next three, four, five years, the chinese might move in and try to reclaim control over taiwan. having said that i think the big question is how the u.s. and how the u.s.' allies will respond to that, and i think the response might we will look like you. i think the analogy is a good one because i think the united states is committed and has since the beginning of the one-china policy and the idea of defending

john kirby of the nsc told me this weekend that the u.s. remains committed to getting u.s.int there. but the thing that we can do as americans for our afghan partners and allies, as you mentioned, 80,000 have come to the united states. they currently do not have the capacity to work because they are here under humanitarian parole, and their status is uncertain going forward. so there's legislation the afghan adjustment act which would allow them to get green cards and put them on the pathway to work in this country and eventually become citizens. and these people who, you know, who interpreters and others who fought alongside us, they might not be american citizens, but they're american heroes. and we still have the opportunity in this country to do right by them. so the afghan adjustment is critically important. >> many of those heroes, as you describe them, remain back in that country and under severe threat, some of them in hiding because of threats from the taliban. early on in this, veterans groups were doing yo eyeoman's getting them out, sometimes on planes, over the

calling people on the nsc and saying, hey, do you know anything about this? how do you think that affects the sort of mindset inside trumpland and what is the meaningful impact on that in terms of this investigation. >> yeah, i meanof first thing, donald trump had a rally against the fact that he no longer controls the justice department and these are no longer his appointees anymore and normal investigative step, the kind of steps a prosecution takes when presented with a claimut when ty are investigating somebody, they want to make sure it was true, they would try to vet it, that's not unusual. itth seems unusual, because of e way that trump had been, treat in the past, or because of the perception of his power, or his visibility, and what is truly unusual, that all of these things are happening, these questions are being asked, ofng former president. >> yes. i mean i think there is a sim question, of why trump took them, right? i mean we don't know why he won't give them back. we're not exactly sure why he took them in the first place, but maggie haberman,

the house republican report set to release it's pretty scathing and you have the new report from the nsce weekend and it's a blueprint for what house republicans plan to do if they take back the house after the midterms and what they want to do to bring members of the biden administration on the hill before congress to answer questions about the planning of this withdrawal. so the report essentially argues that the biden administration that they did not prepare for or plan enough for the ultimate withdrawal of all u.s. troops and u.s. diplomatic personnel from that country and they argue that there was not urgency in the administration's planning. so the military, the u.s. military, they pre-positioned troops in afghanistan planning for a non-combatant evacuation, but the report argues that literally up until days and even in some cases hours before kabul fell to the taliban, biden administration officials were not planning. they didn't have that same sense of under enzi that the u.s. military did. as you mentioned, hallie, the national security council is pushing back on this report and

but here is a doj calling people who are on the nsc and saying, hey, do you know anything about? this >> yeah. >> how do you think that affects the mindset inside trump blind land. and what is the meaningful impact in terms of this investigation? >> yeah, i think we are seeing down trump run up to get the facts that he does not control the justice department. and these are not his appointees anymore. so, they are actually just taking incredibly normal investigative steps, the kind of steps that prosecutors would take if presented with a claim, when they are investigating something, and they would try to make sure that it's true. -- it seems unusual, because of the way that trump has been treated in the fast past, or because of his power of invincibility. and it's true that all of these things that are happening -- questions are being asked of the former president. >> if only there was a simple question, katie benner, of why trump took them. we don't know why he won't give them back. we are not exactly sure why he took them in the first place. but maggie haberman, your colleague a

he still had colleagues who he was talking with at the nsc. his point was, even if you accept their claim that he can just stand over a document and say, it's declassified, there has to be a log of it, a record of it. there has to be some receipts, essentially, so people know what's declassified and what's not. he made another point, if this stuff is all declassified, it's now subject to public records request. all of us could try to get it. i'm not sure that material actually falls into that group. >> trump is trying to open a line of communication with merrick garland? it's kind of foggy here. what's going on? >> donald trump has a very long history of trying to sort of both negotiate with prosecutors looking into him. this has been going on for decades. and also to try to send a friendly word, quote, unquote, to people writing about him or looking into him or whatever. this appeared to fall into that category. he had an intermediary talk to somebody at the justice department and send a message and the message was, you know, the country is -

for house intelligence when it was run by republicans by devin nunez, then he ended up in the trump nsc, then at the director of national intelligence office and he finally ended up in the pentagon in the closing months of the trump administration. he has been very aggressive on defending the president. he was designated as one of the president's liaisons with national archives post presidency and now is working for truth social which is the president's social media website, which he placed when he was kicked off twitter. so that is kash patel in the national security arena. andrew weissman can you bring us up to date on what more you are seeing in this extraordinary affidavit? >> following up on that point about kash patel, what is pretty clear here is when we get to paragraphs 52 and 53 of this 37-page document, what the government is doing is they are alerting the court to what is called brady information. they are alerting the court to information that could be on the other side so that is why they attach a letter from one of the president's counsel and why they make a reference as

you said you have no damage assessment within the nsc underway regarding the documents found in the fbi search at mar-a-lago, and i guess my question is why? to my understanding, there's an intelligence directive that calls for these damage assessments to be conducted when there's an actual or suspected breach of classified information. i understand not wanting to get involved in the justice department's investigation, but why isn't the administration assessing what potential damage may have come from these documents? >> i will read -- i will reiterate what you heard from my colleague. we will not comment on any of the contents of the ongoing independent justice department investigation. again, you heard this from me. you have heard this from others. when it comes to that, we would refer you to the department of justice. >> i was not asking you to comment on the justice department's investigation. i'm asking you whether there is an assessment going on just to understand what, if any, damage has been done to american national security? >> yeah, and i am answering your question. when it c

. >> john kirby from the nsc, thank you very much, sir. >> my pleasure. >> i want to bring in nbc's seniorspondent, keir simmons and peter baker with the "new york times," who has served in moscow as well as keir, of course, most recently interviewed vladimir putin, a year ago, june, before the geneva summit. so, keir, first to you. your take. nine years is a very tough sentence. she pleaded guilty to, you know, what would have been a misdemeanor if that, back here. but this is the russian system. what is the prospect for a prisoner deal now? >> well, andrea, i think there are real prospects, but i think you can expect the kremlin to negotiate the way the kremlin does. you'll remember, you and i spoke some weeks ago after i interviewed dmitry peskov, the kremlin spokesperson and in that interview, i put to him that brittney griner was a hostage. he denied that she was a hostage and quickly segued to say, awe, but our viktor bout, who's in prison in america, this arms trafficker, he is a hostage. and the way that dmitry peskov put those two cases together left me in no doubt, if there was a

one former obama nsc adviserdv saying pelosi's visit wasis not in america's best interest. why not? l take a look. so i think this is a trip which does not serve us interests. it's because of secretarype speaker pelosi's desire toak go. people of the administration were not enthusiastic about us at the start.at but unfortunately, speaker pelosi apparently decided to proceed and required the president biden her to calls off, which he did to not>> only did joe get threatened by president xi even worse than that, allnlyoe of china of thre. joe sold china one million barrels of oil fromf our strategic oilro reserves.he why would we do that when we'rec paying record high gas pricesor by the way, why does he now want to lift tariffs on china? whatff have they done deservehe such treatment? here with reaction, the author of the dying citizen is as senior fellow at the hoover institution, victor davis hanson. you know, professor, i don't like a weak america. i don't likee to have a weak american president. i don't like america being threatened by the president in china ort the running russi

he was sending it to the commercial economic counselor, the nec with the nsc they'd have sensitive information, but nothing is sensitive according to the things trump had. was there resignation that trump was squirrelling a. >> i think it's that's a fair reading, it comes after the january 6th attack on the capitol and it comes after weeks of trump denying that he lost the election, and it feels as though the ability to pack up his office and give these records back would be on his part, a concession, and in fact, he felt that he did not want to give up his power including his refusal for the transition to be in a timely fashion. at this time there are few people outside of the white house who are willing to talk to trump about this matter and it does fall to his chief of staff, mark meadows and again, as we saw with the january 6th hearings, it is unclear based on testimony whether or not we had might pull to donald trump at that moment and it is unclear whether anybody felt that they could control him, and that said, what is important is that everybody knew what should have happened includin

and before i left that time, and before i came back to work at the nsc. i had to be so detailed to make sure anything i'd written on in a meeting with a top official that that was submitted. and really, they did a good job of scaring the death out of me if you broke that law that you would not be right with the authorities. and just to take those documents so cavalierly down to mar-a-lago, it still is just jaw-dropping. said that, how many years is it going to be before we really know what's in the documents that they're classified? i do think the content of the documents is going to matter in terms of how it's going to shape public opinion. and i am a longtime proponent of changing the way the government overclassifies everything over everything, because so much of it is antiquated and unnecessary for the standards of how we classify. and i wonder if there isn't a big boom or a big there there, that yet again it's going to be another story that donald trump does not face the consequences that anyone else who had committed the act that he did would face.