WATCH: CNN Airs Brutal Montage Showing Trump, DNI Chief Coats Contradicting Each Other on ISIS, NK
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In light of the divide between President Donald Trump and Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Dan Coats, CNN set up a montage on Wednesday to illustrate how the two of them are operating on completely different wavelengths.
When Coats and several intelligence chiefs testified before Senate Intel Committee on Tuesday, they offered foreign policy assessments that seem to break from several of Trumps statements. The president is keeping this going in his latest tweets, contradicting Coats on multiple points regarding the defeat of ISIS and North Koreas steps towards denuclearization.
As such, CNNs montage highlight several portions of Coats testimony that cleanly break from the presidents public statements.
National security analyst David Sanger followed the montage by remarking on how Trump isnt just ignoring intelligence findings, but more or less deciding that they arent true. Alisyn Camerota characterized it as foreign policy by feeling rather than by facts, noting how Trump often talks about his friendliness with people like Kim Jong Un and Vladimir Putin.
You just couldnt have been more stark with the people who have seen the facts and have seen the actual Intel saying, no, this cannot be based on feelings,' Camerota said. What exactly what the president is saying, its the opposite of whats happening on the ground.
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Video at the link.