A House Divided

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🗓️ 6 May 2017

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Three months into the Trump presidency, where does the relationship between the President and the intelligence community stand? Donald Trump is no longer quite so regularly combative in his tweets and public comments about the various intelligence agencies, but the White House-intelligence community relationship is still far from normal under this very unusual presidency. Here to ponder the question are former NSA and CIA director General Michael Hayden, former acting and deputy director of CIA John McLaughlin, and former deputy national security advisor for combating terrorism Juan Zarate, who spoke with the Washington Post’s David Ignatius in a recent event at the Aspen Institute.

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1:36.0	whatever tensions are there between the president and the intelligence community.
1:40.0	Frankly, I think the intelligence community sets that aside.
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