and highly experienced diplomat, former ambassador to afghanistan and senior adviser to mike pompeo, abruptly announced his resignation, i think it really just shows the extent of the despair as well as discontentment that exists within the great department of state. let me talk about mike mckinley, a career ambassador recalled from brazil to be the personal counselor or adviser to mike pompeo, which also led to a lot of good feelings at the state department because he was so well-regarded. he traveled with mike pompeo, he was an adviser, he was supposed to be the link with the foreign service, now resigning. and we understand it to be as a protest measure. yes. and it will be very interesting for the congress to find out from ambassador mckinley what he has experienced, what he has seen happening in the highest levels of the department of state and how he has decided to leave after such a distinguished career and virtual disgust of what s been going on. we ll have to wait to see o
according to politico and the washington post, said after this dressing down of the staff members, and you can leak this right now, so she was very clear that she was not happy with the way jerry nadler conducted that hearing. yeah, she wanted to put some distance between the management of that hearing. in terms of her overall impeachment pushback strategy, i actually think this does her some favors, it demonstrates she wants to be tough on the people around the president who aren t being honest but i think it also reflects that her entire thought about impeachment from early on has really actually, you know, been confirmed and been affirmed by the lewandowski hearing and about some of the other things around the mueller report that did not necessarily go the way of the democrats. i ve actually reached out to some folks from pelosi s office to get feedback as to what happened. i haven t heard anything from them yet. but what i have heard is a lot of chatter on capitol hill about
i reached up also was just here he voted at this station that i met this is in seoul which saw a lot is at stake particularly for his party as you rightly say it this is the hardest fight the a.n.c. has had to fight yet. it is the most difficult election simply because there is just so much discontentment among south africans a lot of people i m happy with the slow rate of progress and added to that the amount of corruption that has taken place under the previous and see president jacob zuma so a lot is at stake for this party he spoke out on the polls and he addressed the media he talked about the fact that he is going to take care of things that corruption that he s going to create jobs that he s going to bring investment that is needed in this country he talked about not wanting another generations of south africans to live in poverty. in an alley in downtown johannesburg i meet rico he s twenty seven doesn t have a job and sells drugs to earn a living i can enjoy his book ok i was
letting the president down. exactly. i mean, there is so level of discontentment, i think it s fair to say and it remains to be seen just how high that is at this point. but rudy giuliani s job since he joined the president s legal team last year seemed to always be this kind of role of a spokesman rather or more of a spokesman than an attorney. and i think he has gone out there and said a lot of things about the investigation, many of those comments that had to have been walked back. and i thought, i mean, it was only it was less than a week ago or it was about a week ago when he went on chris cuomo s show and said i never said there was no collusion between the trump entities and russia. and i think a lot of it, whether there s a grander strategy here to kind of obscure the facts for the public while we wait for the mueller investigation to conclude, you know, i ll leave that to others to speculate. but it is just kind rof remarkable how often he has to go up there and clean up
discontentment in the country. they can blame the west, it helps them. it helps the regime in terms of having an excuse to clamp down here to give some sort of argument. so you know, nice, subtle, reminders about the need for democratic reform in the country is important. but showing some sort of sign the united states is going to immediately intervene will actually jonathan wachtel, always good to have you. thank you. freezing temperatures in new york city s times square to moniker the nypd is stepping up security to make sure that they are all safe as a way for the new year s eve ball to drop! brian is live and has been for days now. the city prepares for the crowds. what is the latest? look, it is not only security preparations but also preparations for the big