courage, you re seeing after senator flake of arizona came out with strong words for president trump, there s been a heightened kind of rhetoric coming from republicans like senator gardner of colorado and others who do not like the equivocal nature of the president s approach to charlottesville. but we don t see a full bore attack on the president from the republicans in part because they believe the president still, in spite of all of this controversy is speaking to a part of the party s base that is powerful and potent and they want to confront the president but they don t want the animate the base at this point still against them. ashley, over the your beat, you were around for the 4:00 p.m. hour of nicole wallace s broadcast today and i m going to play something she said in the moment on the air. remember as you watch this, this was the communications director for president bush 43 and a lifelong republican.
president s eldest son don jr. and paul manafort turned over documents related to that meeting. with all those russian sources that we heard about last summer. and this is the first word that the size of the document response from the trump campaign to the senate intelligence committee numbered in the tens of thousands of pages. that news just breaking in the last hour tonight from bloomberg. there is also news that broke in britain that the guardian story is one that i truly do not understand. i m perplexed by it. we re going to get an explanation as to what it means next. stay with us.
for-profit mission instead of having the u.s. military run it. sounds like an article, but this is our life now. joining me is exactly the person i can ask about both of these matters. courtney is a military reporter. thank you for being here. thanks for having me. i m guessing you ll be able to dispatch this one more quickly. is the trump administration, is the pentagon really seriously considering hiring eric prince of blackwater fame to run the afghanistan war as a private mission? so, you may recall that back in early july, the new york times first reported about steve bannon, one of president trump s close advisers, setting up a mission on a saturday at the sorry, setting up a meeting on a saturday between secretary of defense jim mattis and eric prince, the founder of blackwater and a high-level executive at dime core. the times reported that it was actually the white house was
change in north korea. that said, later in the week, rex tillerson said the u.s. would agree to talk with the north koreans provided that the north koreans agreed the end result of the talks would be them giving up their nuclear program. that was last week. now rex tillerson, same guy, has a whole different set of standards they would have to reach in order to get talks with the united states. he s changed his mind on that as well. now he said he would talk with the north koreans as long as they stop doing their missile tests. meanwhile, vice president mike pence is busy saying there never will be any talks with north korea. we won t talk with them on any terms. and then the president depending on the day says that kim jong-un is a smart cookie and he would be honored to meet with him. and the united states is prepared to rain down fury and fire and power like the world has never seen. also we ll strangle you with our wolf paws. no, that was the other guy. remember when trump said he w
when there were no ships sailing to north korea at all? north korea popping off official statements that threaten nuclear annihilation is something we ve acclimated to as a country and the world. the president making the same kinds of threats, we don t know if he means it, we don t know if north korea will believe that he means it. we don t know if this was a planned statement by the administration that it s been gamed out and anticipated, part of a strategy, or just something he felt like saying. remember when mike flynn was national security adviser? he came out in the briefing room and said, iran, you re on notice. nobody had any idea what it meant. it was completely dislocated from everything else the administration was doing with regard to iran. turned out it meant nothing. two weeks later mike flynn was gone, poof. is that what s going on here with the totally unprecedented threats to north korea? or is this part of a plan? where would we look for planning evidence, if it is a pl