for a while. he s done all these outrageous things and this administration just accepted it. so i ll ask my colleague, bob woodward. bob, do you have a sense is it the trump family and kushner family s kfinancial interest wih the gulf states? i don t have any evidence of that. but it s important to always listen to what trump says. and he s saying this is about money and contracts. and if you go to the internal debates in the white house, which i spend some time on, trump always raises money. it s about the money, the u.s. is spending for forward deployed troops in south korea, europe, the middle east, and he thinks somehow that s for those countries and it s not part of
resident being killed in a consulate in saudi, there s a problem. u.s. intelligence knows that the saudi government was out to get this the washington post columnist. what is he up to here? well, if that s the case, and let s presume that it is, i think he s looking to not have culpability. what is the first job of the president of the united states? to protect american citizens and american residents. and he let everybody down. the fact that they may not have known in this advance and not warned the saudis, not called solomon, what s the use of having a personal relationship with someone if you don t say, hey, dude, you can t do this. and this personal relationship we have found is one sided. the saudis get whatever they have. all they have to do is flash a picture of donald trump up on a
kasie could be their sister. thanks. kasie, we need the rock, we need the rock t-shirts with the tour dates on the back. that s what s coming next. bob woodward you ve been so closely associated with the washington post, one of the most important journalistic institutions not only in this country but across the globe for so long now. i got to ask you this morning what are your thoughts about a colleague of yours, a man who contributed to the washington post, who lived in virginia, who was applying for a green card, who was a resident of the united states of america, possibly being lured in, when our intel community knew that this operation was being thought of and hatched by the leader of saudi arabia, and then possibly murdered and cut up and disposed of? well, see, this is the risk that the trump presidency takes.
country, of our company. would you build a trap door that if you mess up and something happened and you fall and you end up next to the una bomber. you have to remove that trap door. and i think the way the universe works is perfect. yeah, that s the president of the united states. ahead on morning joe we ll talk about yesterday s surreal scene with rapper kanye west in the oval office. plus the turkish government has reportedly told u.s. officials it has audio and video recordings to prove that the washington post columnist jamal khashoggi was killed inside the saudi consulate and president trump chooses arab a
title of your incredibly great book from 2008. than 2400 americans have died there. 17 years after 9/11 we said it many times on this show, there were kids in diapers on 9/11 who would walk on patrol in afghanistan today. is there an end in sight in that country, in that forever war? no. think so, unfortunately. i mean it s a tough situation right now. you got the government kabul and the american troops are largely there training the but the afghan government, you know, their writ extend much further than kabul city limits. lost control of much of the side.ry pulled out today that government i think would quickly and i it s a really tough think there are no there are no simple answers there. situation is not very right now.