Defense secretary and the termination earlier this week. V a tweet from President Trump. . Hy did that happen guest there has been a lot of friction between secretary esper and the president over the last few months. There was some concerns from the white house that esper was not loyal enough, not telling the president what he wanted to hear and was not helping him. Hear and was not helping him. One of the friction points was the issue of the lafayette one of the friction points was the issue of the Lafayette Square the Infamous Press appearance where the president walked out of the white house after protesters were cleared out and posed in front of the church across the street. Of conversation about the military taking on a more active role in responding to those racial protests and finding some way for the military not just a guard but active duty military to be involved and there was pushback on that. It was not appropriate. Just burrow into some of problems the president had with e
Tweet from President Trump. Why did that happen . Been a lot ofas friction between secretary esper and the president. There were some concerns from the white house that he was not loyal enough, was not telling the president what he wanted to hear and was not helping him. One of the friction points was the issue of the lafayette square, the Infamous Press appearance where the president walked out of the white house after protesters had been cleared out imposed at the church across the street. There was a lot of conversation about the military taken on a more active role in responding to those Racial Equity protests and finding some way for active duty military to be involved in secretary esper pushed back on that. He says it was not appropriate. Apparently that started to burrow into some problems the president had with his performance and his attitude. I colleague megan meyers and got a chance to sit down with secretary asbury before he left, in his final days when it looked like he wa
Postelection standoff between the Trump Administration and the Biden Campaign. Day and it 8 45, leo shane discusses the fallout from the defense secretarys firing. A week ago this morning, the results of the 2020 election were unknown. By saturday morning, joe biden had garnered enough electoral votes, and was declared the winner. President trump and his republican allies have been contesting that, but states are standing by the results, and legal efforts so far have yielded no change in votes. Good morning. It is veterans day, november 11, 2020. This is washington journal. We will talk about the continuing standoff in this first hour. We want your calls this year. If you are a supporter of joe biden and Kamala Harris, the line is 202 7488000. Supporters of donald trump and mike pence, 202 7488001. All others, or if you did not vote, the line 202 7488002. Also, send us a text if you would like. It is 202 7488003. Tell us your name and where you are texting from. Andwitter cspanwj faceb
Congressman bob barr is with his deputy serves as president resd Law Enforcement Education Foundation. The question we ask our viewers in the first hour of our program today was are they concerned Political Division inth this country will spur violence for after the election . How would you answer that question . Guest its a question we should never really have to ask but the state of the country date is such that it is a relevant question to ask unfortunately. We have seen the past six months or so significant violence erupting in cities from coast to coast and in americas heartland. It does raise the question in peoples mind how much of this violence, if any, i is related o the political environment and whether it will continue after the election. None of us really have an answer for that but i worry a great deal that for example, it President Trump is elected those who are opposed to him which seem to be many of those engaged in violent acts will continue their violence. But its dif
Legal views. Blican bob barr is with us now, he is currently the ceo of the Law Enforcement Education Foundation. The question we asked our viewers today for the first hour was are they concerned the Political Division in this violenceill spur before action or after the election, how would you answer that . Guest its a question we should never have to ask, but the state is such that it is relevant. We have seen over the past six months or so significant violence erupting across it is coasttocoast and then the heartland. The question is how much of the violence is related to the political environment and whether it will continue after the election. None of us really have an answer to that. But i worry a great deal that if President Trump is elected, those who are opposed to him, which seems to be many of those engaged in violent acts, will continue their violence. Say, anddifficult to its unfortunate to say that we are in a situation where the question has to be asked. Guest host what d