Joe Biden's Political Aphasia Finally Presents Itself
A Palestinian Unwrapped a US Aid Package. It Didn't Go Well.
Netanyahu to Biden: I'm Taking Rafah, Destroying Hamas, And You Can’t Do Anything...
Nation’s Largest Corporate Mega-Stores Lobbying for Billions, Small Businesses & Consumers...
A Truth and Reality ‘Bloodbath’
CAIR Says Biden Will Lose, 'Allah Willing'
Israel As 'A Pariah' Among the Nations
Trump Romps Among Battleground Catholics
Biden's Speech Was Not the Win the Political Class Thought It Was
The Smell of Mendacity
'Bloodbath' and Pure Evil
Pathway to Victory
The Cautionary Legal Tale of Roundup
FDNY Won't Investigate Those Who Booed Letitia James, But Don't Expect Love for...
Joe Biden Is Back to Pretending His Granddaughter Doesn't Exist
Tipsheet

Video: Is Trump Skipping Too Many Security Briefings?

On today's post-Thanksgiving edition of Outnumbered, we discussed news reports that President-elect Donald Trump has only sat through two -- total -- national security briefings since winning the election. That's well off the pace of his predecessors, critics note, arguing that such briefings are especially important for a political novice with very little foreign policy experience beyond his own business dealings.  Here's a handful of details, including the insight that Vice President-elect Pence has been much more diligent on this front:

Advertisement

President-elect Donald Trump has had only two intelligence briefings since he won the election more than two weeks ago, intelligence sources told NBC News on Wednesday — a much lower number than his predecessors had and fewer even than Vice President-elect Mike Pence. A senior intelligence official cautioned that it was too early to gauge the significance of Trump's sparse briefing schedule, given that he is in the middle of his transition process. But the news, first reported by The Washington Post, will likely fuel critics who've questioned Trump's knowledge of foreign affairs and national security issues. While a team of intelligence analysts remains ready and waiting to deliver briefings to the president-elect, sources told NBC News that he has accepted them only twice. Instead, Trump has turned the briefings down to focus on meetings with potential Cabinet members, media executives and business associates. Pence, on the other hand, has received the briefings nearly every day, the sources said.
Advertisement

Is this controversy much ado about nothing, or fair fodder? Our conversation, via Right Sightings:

As I mentioned on the air, many conservatives have been vocally critical of President Obama's security briefing truancy rate -- including yours truly, on several occasions.

Join the conversation as a VIP Member

Recommended

Trending on Townhall Videos

Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement