it comes from radiology stoollir friends at rolling stone making trouble and it has shook washington d.c. to its foundation. yesterday, nora reported general mcchrystal called joe biden apologizing, the head of the joint chiefs, apologizing and apologized to a man his staff called a clown from 1985, general jones. this serge is making waves. kn not only are apologies flying but the top u.s. commander in afghanistan has been ordered to appear at the situation room tomorrow. tell us you re mcchrystal, how did you guys gets him to tell all? we got a really unprecedented
accuracy of this article? no, i didn t hear that. from what i can tell from the general s apology, he didn t make any attempt to pedal it back. did you see almost famous? i was in almost famous. he s a fan. the kid made the whole thing up. this is the worst when you look at chain of command. it s not hol broobrooke, it s b. mcchrystal said he was disappointed with the commander in chief in his first meeting at the white house with an unprepared president obama. that is just stunning, that any general could make that comment and think he could survive, mark. i think you game out to the next step of this. the president needs remember, the big support the president has on capitol hill for afghan policy is not from his own party, but from republicans. he needs to come out however this concludes with a
the army. and we got on the iphone and talked to the editor and it was this headline, did morning joe drive the mcchrystal story? morning joe help put mcchrystal s words at the top of the national agenda? just to update you, we saw in a hot note last night, rolling stone was moving with a story on friday stanley mcchrystal had attacked the president of the united states as being ill prepared in a white house meeting, calling his meeting with the commander in chief painful. he also criticized the vice president of the united states, called the head of the national security agency, general jim jones for a clown, his staff called him a clown stuck in 1985. we can go down the list. he attacked just about everybody, richard holbrooke, some very unkind things to say about holbrook and said the ambassador to afghanistan had betrayed him, was basically in a cya mission. this was all explosive news and
this is a guy who has gotten a tremendous amount of publicity, a lot of profiles and used to favorable profiles and niece week called him a jedi knight. a jedi knight who took the light saber to his throat. so, mika, this is also a guy, he has had so many miscues, i have no idea why he was still there. remember in the 60 minutes interview, i was stunned he showed disrespect to bob gates, saying gates and the pentagon were dragging their feet. then, he was asked, when was the last time you talked to the president and the united states. any other general would say conversations between the president and myself is private, confidential. he came out and said, i haven t talked to him for three month, caused a stir for the president. he has not shown disciplined. he s not buttoned-down, to say the least.
news contributor who advised howard dean and john ed wards. good to have you with me. let s talk about the exit. a lot of people, general jones, rahm emanuel, sum you arers, oregon summers, orszag, people in the administration saying we re going home. is this an indication of people who are leaving what some would describe a sinking or at least a very badly damaged ship? i don t think so at all. this is normal after mid-terms to leave the administration. some of them are tired like david axelrod from doing a campaign. you know how it is. you get done with a campaign and they go back to what has been a tough economic situation for two more pressure cooked years. it doesn t surprise me that some of them are leaving.