mainstreaming much of this anti-immigrant, anti-black, anti-muslim sentiment in the past few years and steve bannon, was his chief advisers, number one book he recommends is a novel camp of saints. it s an a fictional racist novel which warns about brown immigrants invading and overtaking europe. notice the connections. let me just read the president s message. my warmest sympathy and best wishes goes out to the people of new zealand amp the horrible massacre in the mosques. 49 innocent people senselessly died with so many more seriously injured. the u.s. stands by new zealand for anything we can do. god bless all. that from the president at 4:41 eastern time this morning. appreciate your time. we need to go to the ground where the reporter chelsea daniels with the new zealand heard is back with us. chelsea, we are hearing the horror stories, victims, dozens injured. victims as young as 3 and 5
the specifics is really a major, major problem. it shows a person unfit to carry out the responsibilities of the presidency and his senior advisers keeping information away from him because they were worried as to what he would do with that information. i know. there s so much shocking material in this new book and according to the book, the president had trouble grasping basic national security concepts. his own secretary of defense said the president had the understanding of, quote, according to woodward, a fifth or sixth grader. how can the president conduct foreign policy, national security if he doesn t even have the confidence of his most trusted cabinet secretaries? and we re hearing this confirmed by other chief advisers to the president. the fact that they had to try to orchestrate different events and tell the president he shouldn t speak to different people, that
sekulow, represents president trump, telling nbc news and others john dowd and ty cobb are fully engaged and continue to represent the president, office of the president. beyond that, here s what the washington post is reporting, that they say president trump is not consulting with chief advisers including john kelly and don mcgahn on choices or comments about the probe. he s instead watching television and calling friends according to this person. harry, is that irenvironment yo can see someone like ted olson signing up for? very much not. it was no surprise that ted olson would decline, though he s totally the kind of sober lawyer s lawyer that trump desperately needs here as opposed to joe digenova. you might be surprised but an engagement with president trump is no no great prize for lawyers around town. olson is not the first one to turn him down. he, himself, trump, is a controversial figure.
and i think we have every right to ask, given this information, what in the world is going on in that white house? what is going on with hope hicks? it is not normal in the white house to be able to take a colleague in the open. they re adults. can she date him? yes. is it ethical to date a colleague in the white house? no. is it ethical for the president to rely on his daughter and son-in-law as chief advisers? of course night. it is so arrive with weird relationships that wouldn t meet the standard in any other white house. and by the way, what is going on with melania? she only speaks to americans through their fashion choices. there is some craziness going on. we don t know everything that is happening, but it is clearly not on the up and up. we also deserve to know
of his chief advisers, go out and hawk other wares to the public. this is a presidency out for the profit. it s not out for the noble goal that i think i grew up with, the reason i went into public service. the reason i went into the government was because i wanted to help people, i wanted to do good, and there was something to be benefitted for everyone from public service. what worries me is what is a 12-year-old kid to think today watching this president who has nothing good to say about uplifting your goals, trying to help the rest of humanity? i mean, this isn t a democratic or republican kind of thing. i mean, george bush, senior george bush, george w. bush, they had a goal. they had a different way of getting to a final end, but they had the notion that you go into public service because it was a noble cause, and you re helping your fellow persons.