Dear Leader get's pulled back from another precipitous decision

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https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/shields-and-ponnuru-on-brett-kavanaugh-allegations-russia-probe-declassification-delay

Amna Nawaz:

On Monday, President Trump announced he's going to be declassifying a trove of documents and text messages related to the Russia probe.

Today, he backtracked, right? He tweeted a couple of tweets, basically punting to the Department of Justice, say they're going to review before we take any action here.

Ramesh, what happened over the last week?

Ramesh Ponnuru:

Well, there was a lot of pushback against the idea of declassification, particularly the idea of a kind of thorough and unselective and undiscriminate — indiscriminate declassification.

But, look, the president has a dysfunctional relationship with his Justice Department. We know that. We have known that for some time. And I think this is just one more instance of that happening, and another instance of his making a grand statement, and then not following through.

Amna Nawaz:

Mark, what is your take?

Mark Shields:

We're reviewing publicly the education or limited education of Donald Trump.

I mean, he learned this week from allies, from very important sources within his — the United States government who he has to trust that this is bad — bad policy, that what you're doing is, you're not simply revealing secrets. You're compromising sources, and that collection of intelligence is dependent upon a network of relationships, of trust, of belief, of confidence that you're not going to be made public.

And allies just — among others, just told Donald Trump, this is just an absolute reckless risk. And sources within his own administration, important figures, stood up on this. And I think that's — that that's what happened.

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