Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. He said, any further information is classified. Today the white house actually did impose new sanctions on russia, but not for election meddling. The administration is penalizing the kremlin for using chemical weapons against an exspy and his daughter in the uk, a decision that congress had to push the white house to make. Meanwhile, republican senator rand paul is in moscow this week, of all places, apparently on his own summer Outreach Mission to the kremlin. The senator had been one of the few open defenders on capitol hill of President Trumps overtures to vladimir putin, the only defender at times. Today he wrote this about his visit. Quote, i was honored to deliver a letter from President Trump to president Vladimir Putins administration. The letter emphasized the importance of further engagement in va
some of the best and brightest in the field and all of them misread the situation and all the professional class guys like me misread the situation, too. a lot of us thought this guy is a joke, he s a clown, he s going to self-destruct. but we didn t reckon with the fact people were voting for a candidate who they thought was the character he played on reality television. 14 years in this building. 14 years in this building in a huge hit show for this network and for trump. and the misreads and the missteps, it s a gigantic leadership failure. and they ve compounded it by the fact that now he s in the oval office and now he s president and his behavior and his leadership and governance is such a train wreck they re trying normalize it and say this is the new way we do things. they ve had to walk away from every principle republicans have ever had or ever stated they believed in and we ve got a president who governs by rage tweets from the toilet at 6:00 in the morning. so the journ
movement in the republican party, it wasn t an easy transition. but i sleep well every night. i m comfortable with it. as opposed to some of those you ve chosen in the book, you go through the individuals attracted to work for trump. and you give them outside of a benihana you don t see a fillet job like this individually. do us the honor. one of the passages that really got to me, we ve excised a dirty word from the first sentence. this is your own writing. first two paragraphs on steve bannon. will you give us a dramatic reading? i will happily give you a dramatic reading. the brightest, hottest, weirdest blank star in the trump constellation from the moment of the donald s unexpected electoral victory was steve bannon. if you re looking for the white hot center of esoteric trumpism, bannon is the intellectual architect, once you get past the homeless drifter with a hitchhiker s head in his backpack affect. bannon, a man who looks like a spokesmodel for a new line of gout medica