had other than that it was favorable. but kelly s response to all of that is, i never said he s an idiot. very precise in his denial. i think this book obviously carries a fair amount of liability here, the difference in having bob woodward report things and having wolf and others as we ve seen over the course of the last year michael wolff. yeah, there s a significant stature gap there. i don t think we ve all seen bob woodward report on the obama administration very unflattering tones with the bush administration. bush at war towards the ends of 06 cycle when i was working that was a devastating book and this appears to be along those same lines. maybe some of the political impact however may be blunted because of all of the other books that have come out over the last year and a half. it seems to me that the american people have processed an awful lot of this before woodward came on its baked in you think? i do.
republican members of congress for this very reason. they believe that secretary mattis would save the republic, well, you know, blessings to secretary mattis according to this book he s doing his job. i do think this has far reaching political implications and if the president s base isn t swayed by this book. okay, what will they be swayed by at this point? congress is a political branch of government. there are many questions that come raised into this book. there s an oversight that congress is not currently exhibiting, they re not exercising and is this book another thing on the list that congress has to take a look at, either before november or after november. the question remains on the table. so the story in the book according to cnn it has to do with secretary mattis saying that president trump has the grasp understanding this has to do when president trump is questioning why does the u.s. have to pay for such a large troop presence in south korea, mattis says, quote, we
cabinet officials suggesting that president trump is dangerous and not up to the job temperamentally. gary cohn the former economic counsel director seeing a draft letter that he considered dangerous to national security in the oval office desk would have withdrawn the u.s. from a critical deal with south korea, it would in his views jeopardize a national security program to detect north korean missile launch within seven seconds. woodward report, i stole it off his desk, i wouldn t let him see it. he s never going to see that document. got to protect the country and apparently this is not the only time this has happened. rob porter has described in the book taken things off the president s desk and this is just a small part of this. that or what the defense secretary james mattis said after a meeting that the president educational level for certain things was on a fifth or sixth grade level according to what bob woodward says in this book. you saw that statement from sarah huckabee
about it. that that is coming on the day that this should be a day that the administration is focused on having their nominee on capitol hill trying to confirm, they re having to respond to these questions, these allegations in the book. isn t it better for the administration that we re hear talking about a book, with all due respect to bob woodward, its going to go up the best seller book and disappear and brett kavanaugh will be confirmed and serve until its if i m in the white house that s a pretty good deal. brett kavanaugh is not just quietly moving, senate democrats on the judiciary committee definitely put up a fight today and are still putting up a fight so much so that we haven t even heard brett kavanaugh s opening statements and it is almost 5:00. its dark in the west wing but its not that dark that they would be thankful for a book where defense secretary says the president has a fifth grade education. he s a moron and snatches things off his desk.
there is some where between 36 and 42% of the people who are very close very determined to support president trump at all, that s not a lot of people by historic standards but i don t think bob woodward s book is going to change their opinion. here s the thing, it may not just be the president s base. there are a lot of voters in the middle of the road who voted for president trump because they thought he was better than the other option. they may not think that after reading what these seasoned military leaders have said about president trump and his decision making so that s one aspect that could be as a result of this book. the other is that the president what does he do? how does he go to a meeting or a meeting on syria with the defense secretary james mattis seeing that he said these things about the president that james mattis has not denied we should note since this book came out several hours ago, how does the president work with him? how does he work with john kelly who