defend frivolous lawsuits brought by supporters of president trump but also to worry about their personal safety and that of their families. i think everyone, myself, you, natasha, who goes out and says things critical of the administration has gotten death threats and they re silly until they re serious, until you get somebody going to comet pizza with a weapon because he believes crazy conspiracy theories. there s a reason we have laws to protect whistleblowers. usually it s just against career retaliation, and these people are taking real risks when they come out here. today i think their fear for personal safety is one they need to take seriously. and i m glad that many media outlets are being cautious about giving out details. natasha, in the a little bit of time we have left, you are our national security correspondent at politico. having read the whistleblower s
comet pizza, right down the street here in a moment. also coming up, the backlash against donald trump s pick to run the environmental protection agency is growing. this is a real punch in the face to the environmentalists picking this guy. and later, tonight, trump s edition of vintage trump and some of the most revealing things trump has told us the, including me, in interviews over the years. and hardball s coming up at the top of the hour, 7:00 eastern. re, the no.1 choice of dentists. compared to oral-b 7000, philips sonicare flexcare platinum removes significantly more plaque. this is the sound of sonic technology cleaning deep between teeth. hear the difference? get healthier gums in just 2 weeks vs a manual toothbrush and experience an amazing feel of clean. innovation and you. philips sonicare. save now when you buy philips sonicare.
you know, there are a lot of competent civilians, believe it or not. and i think they ought to maybe look at some additional people if they re not already comfortable with some people they already have. i think we may be going a little too far on this militarization side. if i can ask you about retired general michael flynn. he s come under fire for some of his tweets involving conspiracy theories about hillary clinton, including the fact he aare gued she was involved in everything from money laundering to sex crimes with children, that led to the scene we witnessed at comet pizza not far from our offices in washington, d.c. a couple days ago. the retired general barry mccaffrey initially strongly supported flynn but he had striking comments when he spoke to nbc news yesterday. i want to play those. i m not extremely uneasy about some of these tweets, which don t sound so much as if
endorsed him or david duke or any white supremacists were advocating on his behalf, he never said i disassociate myself from those people. hardly disconnect to say that by when he has people who are supporting him actively campaigning for him, if he doesn t disavow them he has repeatedly final word here to brian. let me give the final word to brian. i was going to say about this issue of twitter, for a man who s so well known for tweeting, has a great grasp of the medium, hasn t bothered tweeting about oakland today, never mind this issue of what happened at comet ping-pong, never mind the broader issue about racism and hate and harassment. i find it strange sometimes what he chooses to tweet about. he complained about the media today but none of these specific issues that are on the table. all right. thanks very much to all. next, trump s controversial phone call to taiwan. trump advisers today, one of them now saying screw them to china. and the breaking news, a judge
you had the president of kayleigh, that was to you. does president obama have the responsibility to say i disavow the 9/11 truthers? no. nayyera, your party has gone around with false, false, trump is racist, a xenophobic. if we want to talk about conspiracy theories, your party is responsible for it. sure, let s talk about what happened just in my neighborhood. comet pizza is a couple blocks away from me. this is very personal. actually a few blocks in the other direction, you had two weeks ago a bunch of white supremacists who held an event and said hail trump. this is actually in trump s new backyard, not something he disavowed, happen in his own neighborhood. usually when there are gun shootings in where a president or president-elect is, there is some sort of statement or denouncement of that or any kind of horrific attack. we haven t seen that. we haven t seen any time the kkk