Happenstance . Yes, absolutely. The irony of roger stone rejecting a conspiracy theory. And so today, april 13th, 2017, was the day that america woke up to the sudden knowledge that bombs have mothers. That all of the conventional nonnuclear bombs in the American Military arsenal have one big beautiful mother. And there she is. The bombs official name for Bookkeeping Purposes in the military is the gbu43. The letters on the side of the bomb describe its function, what you can expect from it. Massive ordnance air blast. But the military doesnt want us to call it the gbu43, or the moab. Names are important to the military. They name their bases after war heroes, after general, including
generals who have committed treason by fighting in the Confederate Army against the United States of america. The biggest u. S. Military base in the world, the one with the biggest Military Population is in fort hood in texas, named after Treasonous Confederate General john bell hood. But the militarys mo
only with russian intelligence perhaps by extension, but now a designated nonstate hostile intelligence agency. it s going to make for some very, very interesting congressional investigations and trials. there. are people in the trump administration, pompeo and tillerson who are trying to go legit, as activists who move from one country to another kind of work. and they are trying to hem the president in. one of the interesting questions, and we ll be studying this in political science for a long time, can you hem in the president? can you remove the president s agency and authority? because there is this group of now pompeo, now tillerson, before that mattis, before that mcmaster who want to encourage the president to golf more and watch more television and let them run the government. in other circumstances, that would look like a rather sinister thing. in this circumstance, it may look like the second best option. david corn go ahead, david. i was just going the say the
house staff, steve bannon and others, he doesn t like it when anyone near him gets too big. and right now mattis is very big, and tillerson is getting bigger, and nikki haley in particular is getting very big. how will the president feel about that tomorrow, next week, the week after that. david corn, isn t that a matter of how saturday night live treats it? if saturday night live says nikki haley is the brains of the trump white house, that s when the clock starts ticking? i would amend david s astute observation. it s not how people around donald trump getting big. it s how it s portrayed and perceived. and because that s really how he views the world. he views the world and how the world is viewing him. the reality doesn t matter as much. and if we talk about hemming in and mcmasters getting his hands around the national security council and mattis, we see it only takes trump seven seconds to say something or even less seconds to tweet something about north korea or somethin
trump jumping in both feet in certain things. but now you have general mcmaster and you the secretary of defense mattis giving strong indications that there has to be a certain way. most interestingly is nikki haley as u.n. ambassador has been far ahead of even mcmaster and mattis. and the strength of her statements about russia and syria. and so now it appears that it s coming together at least on these two points, even though as i contend, the attack on syria was a complete wash. we didn t destroy anything. we didn t destroy chemical weapons. we just showed that we knew how to turn the key and launch cruise missiles. so i think that the white house in some respects is coming together. and if these threats and statements about north korea are true, as we re going to talk about a little later, they had better get their acts together. because this is the sort of talk that will bring this nation io war or to a crisis that will, you know, resemble the paces to
council and mattis, we see it only takes trump seven seconds to say something or even less seconds to tweet something about north korea or something else that can be incredibly destabilizing. so you can hem in a guy to a certain degree. but when he is up at 6:00 in the morning, i don t think mattis or mcmasters or even his wife are looking over his shoulders. so there still is a lot of instability there. should nbc have some kind of corporate ethics officer in the saturday night live writings room saying please don t say anything about nikki haley overnight. no, no corporate interference there. but maybe for the sake of the country they should. we don t want those jokes. they re all patriots at snl. they re all patriots. that s right. they re right upstairs. david frum, a pleasure. coming up, nbc news exclusive reporting that the trump white house has a plan for a presumptive strike on north