crazier. what is most troubling are trump s angry reactions when he is given information that contradicts information or beliefs that he holds. two intelligence officers even reported that they had been warned to avoid giving the president intelligence assessments that contradict stances he has taken in public. that is alarming. and it would be a breach of their fid dish year responsibility as intelligence officers if they pull their punches, if they spun their advice simply because of fear of an angry reaction from the president. i don t want to see him do this, and it s dangerous that they would. this is where signals get missed. these intelligence briefings are important to advise the president and his senior leaders on what threats we have so that we can be prepared, so that we can be ready. this is serious business. and while we can say everything is fine now, the idea is to guard against future problems and future risks. so i m extremely troubled by the disfunctionality of this
create an impression that there s progress. i think that s why some of us think there they re suching for an ohm raj. if he goes ahead with the emergency option to get this baeltsz, they ll be trying to block him again. it will make progress of building any kind of fid tall necessary. he might do better in there department by trying to cut a deal. tough as it is to look at a shin yo object. thanks for starting our first friday broadcast for the now. it s the kind of thing you only
aircraft to support them. about 500 to 1,000 in each country, to keep influence. i think the issue was the instinctive withdrawal of 2,000, pullback 7,000, without thinking through the influence issue. melissa: there is still the possibility of doing that. you are talking about leaving behind in afghanistan, if he gets 14,000. to leave 500 or 1,000 behind it is a small fraction of that. there is still the opportunity to do that if the next chief comes in and talks him into that, no? yes, but we have to stop all this training of the afghans. we tried to do foreign it s called fid. we ve got counterterrorism. that s why it would be small. if you get into nation-building, which we failed at in iraq and failed in afghanistan, it just didn t work. however, we can go from point a to point b and kill things
condolences. then what michael flynn tells the fbi is you probably know what was said. so clearly there he knew that they already were very much aware of his conversations. the big question has always been and still to this day is why did michael flynn lie? we still don t have a full explanation. all the documents filed from the special counsel to his attorney, no one as ever explained why he lied. we know why michael cohen has lied. because he wanted to protect the president. others have lied to protect the president. we still to this day do not know why michael flynn lied. what s so interesting to me is the need for this addition an fi d additional fooiling aal fi mueller s team. why do you think they took this shot against flynn when they were building him up as a model
know, the democrats would like people to believe that they are legitimate asylum seekers. legitimate asylum seekers don t attack border guards. they don t throw rocks and bricks and rush the border. you have a situation where every day on the news now we are seeing how crucially important it is that we make sure that we believe up security on our border. and the president is not willing to give on this. he has been very 23eur78 and fid get the $5 billion. ainsley: president is firm on 5 billion. tells the washington post is he considering a plan b for the wall. did he talk about that in the meeting? did he say what his plan b would be? no. the plan is we have got to get $5 billion for the wall. we are in a situation now where we have actually provided funding for our military. we have provided funding for labor and hhs and same appropriations bill. that s been completed and signed. and the president has been clear that he is willing to shut down the government if we don t get this