a deal with is 101 criminal defense when you re dealing with a cooperating witness. on the other hand, because this is the president of the united states, not a lawyer or a p department calling this person a liar. this is essentially the department of justice. the head of the d.o.j. calling this person a liar. maybe things are difference when you have the power of the white house behind you. is the president, she commander chief. he also has millions of nowers down there that he can t control. he is always this kind of control that there is a notion where she carrying a tremendous amount of weight. it is a lawyer, accused of being a witness of threatening an
allies. when he said to assassinate bashar al assad, he said, no, forget about it. he played multiple roles. he puts a yes man in there. goodness knows what s going to happen and i think at this point, we see pure undistilled trump. impulsive, weird, you feel for the first time that we have a commander chief not on our side. it is, and malcom nance, this is strange and the letter that general mattis, you know, released was pretty straightforward and pretty damning. it didn t contain praise for the president which he usually wants and requires and didn t contain a any, it was straightforward. my views on treating allies with respect and also being clear eyed about malign actors and strategic competitors are strongly held and informed by
interesting position where he basically seems to revere the military commanders. he puts generals in civilian positions like the defense secretary and ambassador positions. and yet, at the same time, he doesn t seem to have a familiarity or comfort level with the kind of things that normally come with a commander chief that would be understanding the role of military at the border. that would be visiting troops in afghanistan or iraq which we has not done almost two years into office. that would be going to arlington national cemetery on veteran s day. those types of things have caused him backlash among some veterans of the uniform, and i think his continued quarrels with people like mccraven have also caused him to lose some support among military folks who otherwise are happy with this administration because they
re-elected. maria, what do you make of that? there are plenty of republicans saying bring it on. keep coming out. actually i think lindsey graham portrays a little fear, a little desperation on behalf of republicans. i do think president obama is going to get out there and mobilize not just our base, but all of those decent americans, whether they re democrats, dependents, republicans who have not come out and voted before because perhaps they didn t think their vote counted. what they are seeing now from this commander chief from the lack of efforts from the most corrupt administration we ve had probably in our history is that america s future, america s civility, our very own democracy is on the line, on the ballot. it s going to take all of us together to be able to bat down the bullying, the insults, the
he did not look forward to the 92 length elections. the long camera in the dining room was locked in on the head table when president bush was overcome by nausea and fell forward. it appears he lost consciousness as he toppled over on his host. this man who had overseen the sock landing of the cold war, who had been commander chief for a brilliant victory against iraq will be viewed as a weak leader. he vomited into the lap of the jane fees prince ame minister a was caught on time. the primaries were about to begin. when i get the flu, i do it in a very dramatic, dramatic way. but it was so embarrassing.