very different timelines when it comes to the appointment of a special counsel when it comes to the handling of classified documents. merrick garland appointed a special counsel to investigate the handling of some classified documents. his appointment follows the development that a second set of classified documents were found, these in a storage space in the garage of president biden s home in wilmington, delaware. the president s lawyer said it was a small number of documents. watch. on january 5th, 2023, mr. laush briefed me on the results of his initial investigation and advised me that further investigation by a special counsel was warranted. based on mr. laush s initial investigation, i concluded that under the special counsel regulations, it was in the public interest to appoint a special counsel. as i have said before, i strongly believe that the normal processes of this department can handle all investigations with integrity, but under the regulations, the extraord
will be alarm bells all over western europe. we will be alarm bells all over western euroe. ~ :, will be alarm bells all over western euroe. 9 ., , ., europe. we have focused through the week on the europe. we have focused through the week on the bricks europe. we have focused through the week on the bricks summit, - europe. we have focused through the week on the bricks summit, which - week on the bricks summit, which is expanding today. six new members coming in. they are the counterbalance, i suppose coming to the washington led g7 and the international orders that washington has set out. and that is in american interests but the isolations and we saw in the first world war or second world war, if that were be repeated over ukraine, will be the ramifications of that? , 9, , ramifications of that? they would be chaos in the ramifications of that? they would be chaos in the western ramifications of that? they would be chaos in the western camp - ramifications of that? they wou
your new reporting is this indifference when he s briefing him on the consequences. he is explaining how this escalates. and it s the indifference to death that i ve never seen so starkly. we knew that trump had indifference to suffering in the spiked wall he wanted at the southern border and the nukes he wanted shot into mexico. but the indifference in your telling of kelly s efforts to educate him on the horrors and the heinous nature of war feels like an inflection point for kelly. look, no person understood the horrors of war maybe in the senior ranks of the u.s. merica military officer to lose a child in the post-9/11 wars. and he s trying to explain to trump what this could look like, what a dmz with north and south korea firing on each other could look like, how this could all spin into ways that could lead to missiles flying all over the place.
explain. and this is something that s come up in other reporting before. but trump did not understand that the generals were not going to be loyal to him. if anything, and this is i think one of the reasons we ve never really heard publicly from john kelly, john kelly takes very seriously the divide between the military and the civilian. and he took an oath to the constitution, and he was going to be loyal to the constitution. trump had no comprehension of this. he thought that the generals should just be loyal to him. he brings up this thing. he says why aren t you loyal like the german generals. and kelly knowing german history you talking first world war or second world war? it was clear to kelly that trump was talking about the second. to kelly, trump is talking about nazi germany inciting the generals. kelly says well, the generals tried to kill hitler. and kelly has the facts and trump doesn t have any way to respond to it. that s one example of how kelly found trump so limited
thoughts on all of it. but this thing on germany isn t angela merkel s germany. it isn t germany of the first world war. it is specifically hitler. here it is. on the flight to france on air force one, trump showed his lack of basic knowledge about world history. who were the good guys in world war i, asked kelly by any definition we were the good guys. any time you have a question about who the good guys are, if we re in the war, we re with the good guys. well, trump responded, hitler did a lot of good things. trump attempted to convince kelly of his reading of history. germany he told kelly was only able to gain economic dominance in europe because of hitler. these meetings with neo-nazi adjacent folks are not one-offs. this is a world view that donald trump held and holds, jeremy. absolutely. and if you look at some of the people who attack the capitol on january 6th, they wore t-shirts that said camp auschwitz and