Often, Loyalty Means Telling People Things They

One Of The Toughest Battles In Intelligence Is Combating Conventional Wisdom.

Soviet Foreign Ministers Would Come In To See The President All The Time, Routinely. Jimmy Carter Stopped That After The Invasion Of Afghanistan. Ronald Reagan Resumed It In 1984, I Think. And So The Fact Of A Meeting Like That I Think Is Not That Big A Deal.

I've Spent My Entire Adult Life With The United States As A Superpower And One That Had No Compunction About Spending What It Took To Sustain That Position. And It Didn't Have To Look Over Its Shoulder Because Our Economy Was So Strong.

I Didn't Think This Whole Business With Director James Comey Was Handled Well. So There Are Sort Of Day-to-day Aspects Of The Operation That I Think Are Really Troublesome. And I Know That There Are A Lot Of People In The Country Who Have Lots Of Issues With Decisions That Donald Trump Has Making On The Domestic Side.

I Don't Think Any President That I Worked With Has Ever Said 'pretty Please.