Trump: 'Body language' of intel briefers showed me they weren't happy with Obama

Donald Trump, asked Wednesday about whether anything in his two classified briefings from U.S. intelligence officials had shocked or alarmed him, quickly said "yes."

"Did you learn new things in that briefing?" NBC moderator Matt Lauer asked him during the network's primetime "Commander in Chief Forum."


"First of all, I have great respect for the people that gave us the briefings," Trump began, going on to detail their regional expertise. "But, yes, there was one thing that shocked me."

"And it just seems to me that what they said [to do], President Obama and Hillary Clinton and John Kerry -- who is another total disaster -- did exactly the opposite," Trump added.

"Did you learn anything in that briefing -- again, not going into specifics," Lauer pressed, "that makes you reconsider some of the things you say you can accomplish, like defeating ISIS quickly?"

"No, I didn't learn anything from that standpoint," Trump responded. "What I did learn is that our leadership, Barack Obama, did not follow what our experts, and our -- truly, when they call it intelligence, it's there for a reason -- what our experts said to do."

"And I was very, very surprised. In almost every instance, and I could tell -- I'm pretty good with the body language -- I could tell they were not happy," Trump said. "Our leaders did not follow what they were recommending."