a purple heart recipient, director of government relations at vote vets.org, i want to thank you for your service, and for giving us some of your expertise tonight. what do you think is most important for people to know about what we re up against in afghanistan now? thank you very much for having me on, ari. i think what people are going to see tonight is first and foremost a reality tv show huks ter. we ll see through the lens of neilsen ratings in somebody whose numbers and poll numbers continue to go down, especially in the wake of equivocating on not seizing white supremacists and believes if he merely changes the script or throws in a plot twist for a major character, that he can somehow have more viewers, or be more popular next week. do you think the addition of troops could be constructive for the mission? there is not a military solution to afghanistan.
Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20170821:22:52:15
comparemela.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from comparemela.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
and he is certainly correct this is something that he can choose to do or not do. so for folks who say, maybe we need to change that, congress could mandate this much the way campaign donations are federally mandated. that s something that gets bipartisan outrage when you look at the stranglehold that sometimes people feel special interest has over our politics. if you don t disclose the donors, you can go to jail. that s been a powerful incentive. in this case, we haven t required that as a country or as a congress. so he s well within his rights to do that. i think the flip side is it will maintain this sort of cloud. you talk to white house aides. they feel there s a frustration, negativity around some of these issues. they hunker down at times, it s fair to say. and the flip side would be put it out once and a lot of that cloud would dissipate. sometimes a cumulus cloud has to rain before it goes away. weatherman ari melber, thank
donald trump, doesn t look like that s going to happen for sure. chris jansing, thank you much. i want to flash back to something that happened at a debate between president trump and candidate then candidate hillary clinton on the trail. this raised speculation relevant to this discussion about taxes and what we do and don t know. listen to this exchange. the only years that anybody has ever seen were a couple of years when he had to turn them over to state authorities when trying to get a casino license and it showed he didn t pay any federal income tax. that makes me smart. so that raised some questions about whether the president had paid federal income tax, how much, at what rate. ari mel ber is joining us now. we know from this two-page 1040 from a single we are from back in 2005 that indicates president trump did pay taxes. it also does not tell us a lot.