as you re aware. you re the subject of the spy master steps out of the shadows. talking about how you ve increasingly become more vocal of taking on this president. noting you don t call him president trump. you call him mr. trump. why? i ve worked for six presidents. worked very closely and directly for three. president clinton, president bush 43, and president obama. all of them, i think, deserve the respect and admiration of the american people. continuing to advocate for his own and doing things that i think are contrary to many years of the united states global role as well as his continue d liability right now. i take issue with having a person in the oval office who doesn t represent those traits, though qualities that we shou
back. cuba doesn t have nuclear weapons aimed at the united states, capable of reaching the united states. so let s just step back and take a look at how we got here a why we got here, right? this president did not have the luxury that other presidents had in simply kicking the can down the road, whether it was president bush, president clinton, bush 43, president obama, all those gentlemen had the luxury of a lot of time to sit back and ponder what might work and what might not work. this president wasaced with a direct and immediate threat to our country and lots of other of our friends as this rogue regime developed nuclear weapons capable of reaching their countries and possibly our coast. so president trump was in a completely different situation than any other president in history dealing with this issue. dan, do you see van, do you
megan. what if she flunks? she just oil your royal news by the way. by the way, smashed it. and now the crown must be passed on. so everyone knows that i love perfect attendance. i had perfect attendance in law school. you weren t here yesterday. [laughs] my amazing record has been blown to shreds. i was out yesterday in washington, d.c., and it was really fantastic. i got to spend time with andy card, former chief of staff for bush 43, transportation secretary under bush 41, and chief of staff. he was also a special assistant to the president under bill clinton. what do we have in common? all three of us knew
generation with bush 43. whatever you think of his politics, his decisions with the war, the reality is bush 43 came in having lost the popular vote. he won the electoral college. his legitimacy was questioned. he stayed quiet largely for the first nine months until 9/11. he listened to advisers like cheney and powell and rumsfeld and condi rice, and he followed their advice. we can disagree with the politics, but he understood what he didn t know and he was disciplined. donald trump today is probably the most undisciplined president we ve ever seen. it s what we wrestle with in the body politic. i want to ask you about the vice president by way of reading this quote. republican officials now see mr. pence as seeking to exercise expansive control over a political party ostensibly helmed by mr. trump tending to his own allies and interests even when the president s instincts lean in another direction. so absolute adoration and fealty publicly, but behind the scenes,
generation with bush 43. whatever you think of his politics, his decisions with the war, the reality is bush 43 came in having lost the popular vote. he won the electoral college. his legitimacy was questioned. he stayed quiet largely for the first nine months until 9/11. he listened to advisers like cheney and powell and rumsfeld and condi rice, and he followed their advice. we can disagree with the politics, but he understood what he didn t know and he was disciplined. donald trump today is probably the most undisciplined president we ve ever seen. it s what we wrestle with in the body politic. i want to ask you about the vice president by way of reading this quote. republican officials now see mr. pence as seeking to exercise expansive control over a political party ostensibly helmed by mr. trump tending to his own allies and interests even when the president s instincts lean in another direction. so absolute adoration and fealty