Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats is Told About Trump's Planned Second Putin Meeting. his Reaction is Priceless. | Eastern NC Now

    Publisher's note: This informational nugget was sent to me by Ben Shapiro, who represents the Daily Wire, and since this is one of the most topical news events, it should be published on BCN.

    On Thursday, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats was asked by Andrea Mitchell of NBC News whether he had heard that President Trump planned to invite Russian dictator Vladimir Putin to the White House for another summit. His answer: a stunned face, followed by the incredulous, "Say that again?"

Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats informed on stage at Aspen Security Forum that the Trump administration has invited Vladimir Putin to the White House.

"Say that again," he responds. https://t.co/RBdhdILVas pic.twitter.com/TZal1Xb4Yi

— ABC News (@ABC) July 19, 2018

    He followed up with, "Okay...that's gonna be special." He was laughing at the time.

    Trump tweeted this morning:

The Summit with Russia was a great success, except with the real enemy of the people, the Fake News Media. I look forward to our second meeting so that we can start implementing some of the many things discussed, including stopping terrorism, security for Israel, nuclear........

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 19, 2018

....proliferation, cyber attacks, trade, Ukraine, Middle East peace, North Korea and more. There are many answers, some easy and some hard, to these problems...but they can ALL be solved!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 19, 2018

    Sarah Huckabee Sanders also tweeted that Trump had asked national security advisor John Bolton to "invite President Putin to Washington in the fall and those discussions are already underway."

    Trump's first summit led to headlines around the world regarding his comments supporting Putin's version of 2016 election events over his own intelligence agencies'. No wonder Coats is less than pleased.