explosive. it could be something as simple and offhanded is that that would explain the entire story. is it a hanging offense? no. is it a mistake? yes. it could be a problem dealing with our allies. i can t see it as being a permanent breach since it wasn t deliberate. is a political matter, i think this feeds not into some russia corrupt relationship story but into a story that has to do with donald trump and his ability to pull things off, the competence question. that was raised last week by the ham-handed handling of the comey fire which was something he had every right to do and many people in both parties thought he should do or at least thought should be done. but the handling of it was slipshod, careless, and made him look bad. now comes this. this would be another case, if it s true, where he didn t know enough to know what he shouldn t say which goes again toward an image of amateurism
explosive. it could be something as simple and offhanded is that that would explain the entire story. is it a hanging offense? no. is it a mistake? yes. it could be a problem dealing with our allies. i can t see it as being a permanent breach since it wasn t deliberate. is a political matter, i think this feeds not into some russia corrupt relationship story but into a story that has to do with donald trump and his ability to pull things off, the competence question. that was raised last week by the ham-handed handling of the comey fire which was something he had every right to do and many people in both parties thought he should do or at least thought should be done. but the handling of it was slipshod, careless, and made him look bad. now comes this. this would be another case, if it s true, where he didn t know enough to know what he shouldn t say which goes again toward an image of amateurism
makes our president look good. with regard to some of the remarks about the more visible threats in the world, north korea being preeminent perhaps right now, from what secretary tillerson has said, from what the president has said, from what allegedly transpired in florida with president xi, i see so much rank amateurism at work here, just your remarks about the easter ceremony and no one being notified, it s clearly indicative of a white house that not only is low on people, it s low on experience and talent. they can t seem to even manage the grounds of the white house let alone such significant issues as russia and syria and north korea and on and on. one challenge has been just simple coordination on what acy the syria policy is, and it does seem today that they approached something closer to a consensus. you had secretary of state mattis saying this was about
and, again, this real sense that the foreign policy of this government is essentially up for grabs for whoever sort of moves first or most strongly in the public eye. and what that means for other states that are attempting to make strategic judgments about how to interact with us. it means that they re terribly confused, including our most prominent allies in the world. we don t know. they don t know exactly what s going to happen at any given time. i remember very vividly how this happened with the bush administration in the first term when dick cheney was more or less running everything, and no one knew what was going to come out until dick had made up his mind. this was very disconcerting for our allies. well, at least mr. cheney was competent, experienced, and an extremely good bureau craft. this is amateurism, and amateurism looks to the world just like what it is amateurism. colonel, do you think that there s any danger now of
i remember very vividly how this happened with the bush administration in the first term when dick cheney was more or less running everything, and no one knew what was going to come out until dick had made up his mind. this was very disconcerting for our allies. well, at least mr. cheney was competent, experienced, and an extremely good bureau craft. this is amateurism, and amateurism looks to the world just like what it is amateurism. colonel, do you think that there s any danger now of escalation in syria if, for instance, there s evidence of more chemical weapons attacks, that essentially a line s been drawn that has to now be backed up no matter what? i think we can take mr. putin at his word. there are going to be, i think he said, more fake chemical attacks. i don t take that as disingenuously as maybe other americans do because i have seen no intelligence that convinces me that the provenance of those