good morning, everyone. it s friday, december 21st. nervous? merry almost christmas? can t get there soon enough. i m ayman mohyeldin. we ll get to the defense of secretary james mattis in a moment. first we re now 701 days into the trump presidency and we want to begin by recapping a week of an administration apparently unraveling from within. as probes expanded into more of the president s political business and foreign ties on friday, his search for a new chief of staff failed resulting in an interim pick. on saturday, the secretary of the interior abruptly resigned hoping to ward off investigations from the newly empowered house democrats. the president lashing out on twitter calling his former attorney a rat and bashing the fbi. on monday, the markets continued their slide into the worst december since the great
2016 election. on friday, ryan zinke resigned hope to go ward off investigations from the newly empowered house democrats. that was followed by the president lashing out on twitter calling his former attorney a rat and bashing the fbi. on monday, the markets continued their slide into the worst december since the great depression. the senate intelligence committee reported that social media povts by russians aimed at helping trump continued into his administration. this time, attacking robert mueller. monday saw indictments in a turkey scheme involving former national security adviser michael flynn, who on tuesday cuesed by a judge of selling outs his country. and warned to cooperate more with the special counsel or face jail thyime. then on wednesday, president trump tweeted seemingly ow of the blue for a full withdrawal
within. as probes expanded into more of the president s political business and foreign ties on friday, a week ago today, his search for a new chief of staff failed, resulting in an intimpick. one who we found had to call trump a quote terrible human being right before the 2016 election. on saturday the secretary of interior o bankruptly resigned, hoping to ward off investigations from the newly empowered house democrats. that was followed by the president lashing out on twitter, calming his form were attorney a rat and once again bashing the fbi. on monday the markets continued their slide into the worst december since the great depression. the senate intelligence committee reported that social media posts by russians aimed at helping trump continued into his administration. this time, attacking robert mueller. monday saw indictments in a turkey scheme involving former national security adviser michael flynn, who on tuesday
fronts, and the president s opinion is extremely clear on that front. i don t see any reason to go beyond that comment at this point. it is a great question. why does this president call his former attorney a rat for admitting his lies while seeming to give his former national security adviser a pass for his lies? lies, lies, and more lies. lies that the president himself said way back in 2017 were the reason he fired flynn. he didn t tell the vice president of the united states the facts, and then he didn t remember. and that just wasn t acceptable to me. i fired him because of what he said to mike pence. and last year after flynn s guilty plea, the president tweeted this. i had to fire general flynn because he lied to the vice president and the fbi. i had to fire general flynn because he lied to the vice president and the fbi.
he is a rat the way that he has said that michael cohen is a rat for cooperating with the prosecutors? look, we know michael cohen to be a liar on a number of fronts, and the president s opinion is extremely clear on that front. i don t see any reason to go beyond that comment at this point. it is a great question. why does this president call his former attorney a rat for admitting his lies while seeming to give his former national security adviser a pass for his lies? lies, lies, and more lies. lies that the president himself said way back in 2017 were the reason he fired flynn. he didn t tell the vice president of the united states the facts, and then he didn t remember. and that just wasn t acceptable to me. i fired him because of what he said to mike pence. and last year after flynn s guilty plea, the president tweeted this. i had to fire general flynn