now has some framework, open lines of communication. so i think that is different. president trump made it very clear that he wants to end the 17 year long conflict, the longest in u.s. history. according to bob woodward s new book, his frustration with the stalemate in afghanistan boiled over during a top-secret meeting at the pentagon last summer. he reportedly asked mattis and other leaders, when are we going to start winning some wars ? he also went after senator john nicholson by saying i don t think he knows how to win. i don t know if he is a winner. there is no victories. it turns out general nicholson s last day in that post was the day before those exerts dropped. a little bit of a coincidence there, shannon. shannon: kristin fisher, thank you very much. twitter fans conspiracy theorist alex jones, that .
news to the statement calling the writer a coward. also just because they said it wasn t me doesn t mean it was the truth. and giving the phone number of the new york times. sara, please share that phone number with your boss. kellyanne conway just came out and said it wasn t her. how about her husband? her husband trolled the president a lot. if it were her husband, he would probably admit it. the white house is discussing every option now as you heard the president refer to to root out the author. according to the times, rand paul suggested forcing all trump administration officials to take a lie detector test. people close to the president have also talked about forcing senior officials to sign a sworn affidavit that could be used in court if necessary. in exerts of bob woodward s upcoming book fear told
gingrich. you know districts as well as if not better than anybody i know. i reminded this audience i was the mc the night you became speaker. it was the first time that the republicans took the house in 40 years. in mid-terms, the party in power at the white house usually loses 15 seats. some years it s more. some years it s less. there are 100 competitive races. 86 are deemed republican defend districts. that s a lot of defending. they have to win 61 of those seats does 3 of the 14 democratsic seats in play. look, we have 2 futures this fall. back in october of 2016, when you and i were among the very few people who thought donald trump could win and all the of these same exerts talking about the blue wave were convinced
specific investigations. even if it didn t have to be the president, right? in terms of my understanding of the protocol, if barack obama were to summon the head of the fbi and the attorney general of the white house to talk about the robert menendez, bob menendez investigation, democratic senator, that would be viewed as highly unusual, correct? yeah. so there are protocols in the justice department. while the justice department is part of the executive branch, the president exerts his authority over it usually on big policy questions, you know, on immigration, on our policy for charging all sorts of suspects, getting involved in individual investigations is sort of frowned upon. if he thought there was great fraud or waste and abuse at the justice department, sure, i guess you would want the president to get involved. but when it touches him, that makes it pretty unique. and others would point out, look, there isn t quite the evidence to back up the charge that he is making, at lea
were to summon the head of the fbi and the attorney general of the white house to talk about the robert menendez, bob menendez investigation, democratic senator, that would be viewed as highly unusual, correct? yeah. so there are protocols in the justice department. while the justice department is part of the executive branch, the president exerts his authority over it usually on big policy questions, you know, on immigration, on our policy for charging all sorts of suspects, getting involved in individual investigations is sort of frowned upon. if he thought there was great fraud or waste and abuse at the justice department, sure, i guess you would want the president to get involved. but when it touches him, that makes it pretty unique. and others would point out, look, there isn t quite the evidence to back up the charge that he is making, at least not yet about this informant. he is saying, well, this guy was embedded in my campaign and spied on my campaign. we don t quite see the