INTERVIEW – COL. TONY SHAFFER – a CIA trained former senior intelligence officer and the New York Times bestselling author of ” Operation Dark Heart.”

TOPICS: North Korea, Camp David, and other WH updates

• Exclusive: Former CIA Director Brennan tells CNN that “Mr. Trump is putting our national security and our collective futures at grave risk.” Washington (CNN) Former CIA director John Brennan slammed President Donald Trump’s “dangerous” and “ugly” comments on the deadly violence at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia — writing a personal letter to CNN’s Wolf Blitzer after “The Situation Room” anchor spoke publicly about the fact that he lost all four grandparents to the evils of Nazism.
  

• Trump praises North Korea’s ‘wise’ decision to back off Guam missile threat.  North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made a “very wise and well reasoned decision” to delay any military action against the United States and back away from his threat to strike near the U.S. territory of Guam, President Donald Trump said today. “The alternative would have been both catastrophic and unacceptable!” President Trump wrote on Twitter.
  

• Donald Trump aide Steve Bannon says no military solution to North Korea’s nuclear threats. US President Donald Trump’s chief strategist, Steve Bannon, says there is no military solution to the threat posed by North Korea and its nuclear ambitions, despite the President’s recent pledge to answer further aggression with “fire and fury”. In an interview with The American Prospect, posted online on Wednesday (local time), Mr Bannon told the leftist publication the US was losing the economic race against China. He also talked about purging his rivals from the Defence and State departments. It has been reported Mr Bannon was not aware it was an official interview. Mr Bannon was also asked about the white supremacist movement, whose march on Charlottesville, Virginia, last weekend led to deadly violence. He dismissed them as “losers,” ”a fringe element” and “a collection of clowns”. In a separate interview with the New York Times, Mr Bannon said he welcomed the “race identity politics of the left”. “The left want to say it’s all racist,” he said.

• Trump to travel to Camp David for national security meeting