Screaming overheard in Cabinet Room meeting between Spicer, Bannon and Sanders after Russia intel

[47of74]

Source: Raw Story

Reporters at the White House on Monday overheard yelling between White House press secretary Sean Spicer, chief White House counsel Steve Bannon, deputy White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and White House Communications Director Michale Dubke, prompting staffers to turn up TV’s to drown out the back-and-forth.

According to BuzzFeed’s Adrian Carrasquillo, the officials walked into the Cabinet Room of the White House shortly after news broke that Donald Trump revealed classified information to the Russian ambassador and Russian foreign minister during a closed-door meeting last week.

Shortly after the meeting, Sanders told the press corps the White House would not comment on the report further. So far, the administration has offered only a tepid denial of the Washington Post report. During an emergency press conference Monday, National Security Adviser HR McMaster insisted, “The story that came out tonight as reported, is false.”

He added the president never revealed sources or methods, but did not address the issue of revealing classified information.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/screaming-overheard-in-cabinet-room-meeting-between-spicer-bannon-and-sanders-after-russia-intel-revelation/

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Oh to have been a fly on the wall...

[Feathery Scout]

1. Heh. Spicer probably *wishes* he had been fired last week.

[docgee]

51. My first inclination is to feel sorry for the guy, but

if Spicer can do that job and not hate himself enough to quit (especially after SNL pointed it out to him last week), then he is just like the rest of those fascist dunbfucks.

[mahina]

55. Anyone else read the OP to mean they're all standing around screaming?

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Not at each other. Just AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I'm sticking with that understanding.

[GP6971]

2. This sounds liike a preschool enviornment.

Immature. With this attitude and behavior, they're running out of victims of their bullying.

[mpcamb]

45. What I wanna know: Is anybody calling trump an idiot to his face? And if not, why not?

[orangecrush]

3. This was mentioned on Rachel tonight

Shit hitting fan bigly.

[tenorly]

4. They should specify that it was Hickabee Sanders. For a second, I thought it was Bernie.

What I wouldn't give to have been a fly on the wall. C'mon NSA! Leak those suckers!!

[47of74]

8. Well according to LBN rules we have to use the exact title of the article.

[tenorly]

12. Certainly. I wasn't referring to you, 47of74.

I was referring to the good folks at Raw Story.

That said, if the NSA or any such agency could leak those private White House shouting matches, we - and the nation - would be very grateful indeed.

[orangecrush]

9. ...

Bernie is probably throwing shit at his t.v.

[tenorly]

13. If only they had debated! A Bernie Sanders -Donald Trump shouting march would be, well,

[orangecrush]

20. ...

[Liberalagogo]

5. Remember all that screaming that went on in the Obama White House?

Yeah, I don't either.

[C_U_L8R]

6. Props to the first reporter to ask Spicey

If there are tapes of the yelling match

[orangecrush]

10. Duzy!

[ProudProgressiveNow]

21. +1 nt

[Rollo]

7. I'm not sure it's considered necessary to reveal the name of a source...

...in order to compromise that source. The nature of the classified intelligence may be enough to uncloak one or more sources.

Here's an interesting example: During WWII the Brits had cracked the German codes, and knew that a massive German air raid was planned to hit the historic city of Coventry. However, the British leadership (Churchill) decided that the code breaking ability would be compromised if the citizens of Coventry were warned and the city evacuated beforehand. So no warning was given and the city was devastated with many deaths and casualties. A Brit I met in the '70's mentioned the matter, and after some discussion, said, "Yes, Churchill was a bastard, but then we needed one".

As it turned out, however, I later learned, the German leadership didn't pay much attention to reports from their informants in England, and couldn't believe that their codes had been broken, and had Coventry been warned it probably would not have compromised the code breaking.

Well, it's an interesting story and might have some similarity to this latest. We do seem to have a bastard in the White House these days, the only problem is, that he's giving away the keys to the kingdom for basically nothing. I guess he could be the anti-Churchill.

[Grammy23]

11. I wouldn' t say he did it for nothing.

He made a deal with Putin (and who knows who else) and he's just keeping his end of the bargain. The betrayal of America has just gotten started. Who knows what will happen next? Not sure I will rest easy tonight.

[Rollo]

28. Eat more beets!

(Infamous Soviet domestic propaganda after a record beet harvest)

[Solly Mack]

14. They're fighting over who gets to babysit Trump tonight.

[cstanleytech]

16. I suspect its more about fighting about whos fault it was for not having

a babysitter assigned to Trump that day for the meeting so he wouldnt reveal shit like this.

[Solly Mack]

17. True

[lastlib]

40. Re-phrased: fighting over who HAS to babysit tinyhands....

"Your turn--You do it!" "NO! I did it Friday! it's YOUR turn!".......

[7962]

53. You mean who has to CHANGE him nt

[Solly Mack]

54. ew

[renegade000]

15. Der Untergang II: Tangerine Boogaloo

Looking forward to seeing the dramatized recaps of this administration in the future... assuming we all make it.

[sakabatou]

18. Chickens with their heads cut off

[ck4829]

19. Dramatization of the event

[47of74]

23. Yep....

[not fooled]

22. "Game of Thrones for Morons"

Per Foreign Policy magazine.

[mdbl]

39. too funny

and true!

[laserhaas]

24. McMasters the Genius

He sees the Titanic sinking and he jumps in to swim under the ship, to try to keep it afloat.

[bora13]

25. it's recess time in the white house

3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th graders all getting there recess on!

[SunSeeker]

26. So many embarrassing leaks--there are a lot of unhappy campers in that administration.

[not fooled]

47. At this point

Anyone who joins the dump admin has highly questionable judgement.

No one with the talent and brains to be effective should want to board the S.S. Dump now that it's a sinking ship.

Early on in this maladmin, you could attribute working for him to the glamor of the WH and the opportunity to be close to puke power, well if you're a soulless asshole. But NOW? Who will want to work for this guy?

[DallasNE]

27. McMaster's Military Background On Display

Rather than tackling the issue head-on McMaster threw out a straw man then whacked down his own straw man. He knew exactly what he was doing. The actual question remains unanswered.

[C Moon]

29. Was it moaning and screaming? Ew!!

[Garion_55]

30. that could just be an orgy.

never know with this crowd.

[Marie Marie]

31. Oh thanks for THAT mental image....

[47of74]

33. Yeah right before bed too

[Judi Lynn]

34. Sorry, couldn't help this:

[center]

[Marie Marie]

35. Gaaahhhhh!

Thanks to the orgy reference, I can't stop myself from the horror of picturing this slob naked. I gotta stop visiting DU right before bed!! And I accept your apology but - eeeeeewwww eeeeccchhh.

[manicraven]

36. Looks like he's been sleeping under a bridge and guzzling whiskey.

[onecent]

41. OH HELP!!!!

[47of74]

32. Thank you.

I need a shower or ten now.

[manicraven]

37. Maybe they were fighting about whose turn it is to hide in the bushes!

How can anybody defend tRump with a straight face?

[mdbl]

38. LOL

[LanternWaste]

42. Amateur Hour on the Potomac

Amateur Hour on the Potomac has quickly turned from a farcical burlesque into something dangerously incompetent. He's too cavalier with the office. He needs a time-out.

[riversedge]

43. McMaster needs to resign. He has lost all credibility

[Sunlei]

44. instead of paying 5 "spokemen' trump should get off his TV watching ass and do the daily pressers.

[Shell_Seas]

46. Hahahaha!

[Sunlei]

48. even Kellyanne was caught saying she only lies for the money. So Ms Huckabee is a screamer?

[montanto]

49. Oh, what a shit show.

[louis-t]

50. I only have one thing to say.

[DFW]

52. You probably would have heard an English version of what the German flies heard in April 1945

Something like this:

[47of74]

57. Yeah, I'm doing the subtitles in my head right now...

...they involve der Führer Jr. stabbing the original der Führer in the back by betraying him to the Russians.

[DFW]

58. In my haste, I posted a link to a clip without subtitles.

I live in Germany. My wife is German and we speak German at home, so I don't even notice it when there are no subtitles.

Here is the scene with English subtitles (the real translation, this time!)

[Flaleftist]

56. We have a bunch of fucking amateurs and hacks running the country.

Every day another story comes out showing it, often multiple times a day.

[nitpicker]

59. From the BBC

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39940153

(snip)
National Security Adviser HR McMaster stood on a driveway outside the White House on Monday evening and tried to explain a delicate situation to journalists.
(snip)

Not long afterwards, reporters gathered in a hallway of the West Wing, hoping to find out more about what had happened. While we were standing there, senior members of the White House staff walked quickly past us and filed into a meeting room.

One of my colleagues said he had seen Stephen Bannon, the president's senior adviser, and Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, walk into the room.

Behind closed doors, the officials started speaking in loud voices, and a moment later someone turned up the volume on a television, so that we couldn't hear what was going on inside the room.
(snip)