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What Do You Mean Trump And Putin Are Meeting Again?

""SAY THAT AGAIN?": PROSPECT OF PUTIN WHITE HOUSE VISIT SURPRISES INTELLIGENCE CHIEF"

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Published on Jul 19, 2018

Stephen isn't the only person shocked to hear Trump invited Putin to the White House. So was Trump's Director of National Intelligence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nFP1kmGiGo

See Coats learn of the proposed Putin visit, from 3:29. Colbert says, Coats "was giving a live interview" when he heard the news.

Better here.

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Dan Coats' remarkable rebuke to President Trump
By Kate Andersen Brower
Updated 1304 GMT (2104 HKT) July 18, 2018
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/07/17/opinions/dan-coats-trump-statement-andersen-brower-opinion/index.html

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This is why intel leaders wouldn't talk to the Senate today

* Both Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats and NSA Director Michael Rogers testified before a Senate panel on Wednesday.

* The men declined to detail their conversations with President Donald Trump.

* One official told CNBC that there are two possible situations that could explain Coats and Rogers' silence.

Eamon Javers | @EamonJavers
Published 4:24 PM ET Wed, 7 June 2017 Updated 5:29 PM ET Wed, 7 June 2017

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So why wouldn't the intel leaders talk to the Senate Intelligence committee today?

A senior government official explained to CNBC Wednesday that the officials were in a tricky situation.

There were two logical possibilities, the official said: first, that the media reports are true and Trump did say
something that could be construed as inappropriate. The second is that the media reports are simply false.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/07/this-is-why-intel-leaders-wouldnt-talk-to-the-senate-today.html