that a pullout would entail in order to finally wind down some of these policing and nation building operations in the middle east that the united states has been trying to do since 9/11 and sort of spinning its wheels. at some point we have to leave. but it may be a bull in the china shop having to do it. i was really struck by that. i very much see the points you re making. how about you, ann? what stood out to you? alex, i would agree with charlie that the foreign policy comments were newsy, all of the above on the president s views in syria. but also like he said about the testimony this past week from his intelligence chief, that this wherein they disagreed him on iran and north korea, the president talked today in that interview about how, while it s fine, we can disagree, but when they tell me how wonderful iran
calling for northam to resign. but almost the entire establishment is urging him to step down. joining me now the former mayor of new orleans and president of the national urban league and host of the hutchison report. gentlemen, thank you for being here. hi alex. earl, it seems at least of the writing on friday night, you agreed with moran. you wrote, quote, it s the easy and seemingly racially correct thing to do to join in the chorus and denounce northam as an unreconstructed bigot and shame continue to do political good in office. earl, first of all, can you expand on your argument. do you still hold that premise after the 24-hour flip, if you will, between friday to saturday? well, the flip was definitely troubling where he did walk it back and said, well, maybe it s not me.
attached to the campaign and others, george papadopoulos and so forth. roger stone was attached to the trump campaign in 2015 well ahead of the prominent time for the president trump campaign but remained a loose and informal adviser. so the notion that this is somehow not connected to the campaign really doesn t make sense and what the president was saying there but it s also notable he is deferring to the attorney general, at least at this point, about how much the public will know about the findings when robert mueller is done. alex. kelly o., thank you so much from florida. joining me now, journalist laura basset and dana milbank, columnist with the washington post, a welcome to you both. dana, your overall impression from this wide-ranging interview. ? what stood out to you? it s hard to pick something that stands out because bumping from topic to top tick president has a tendency to say one eye-raising thing after another.
new england patriots facing off in the mercedes-benz arena in atlanta. but here to check with some of the nfl controversy is ron mott outside the stadium. welcome. we have critics of both the pre-game and half time entertainers in some way. explain what s happening there. alex, it seems like every super bowl there s some sort of off-the-field issue the nfl is having to contend with. this year the nfl had trouble attracting big-list artists, african-american artists in particular who didn t want to perform on this international stage because how they knelt t nfl has treated al qaeda in the arabian peninsula eated al qa arabian peninsula - colin kaepernick. he brought attention to inequality and it didn t sit well with people, including the president of the united states so colin kaepernick is now out of football at what should have been the prime of his career and entertainers are saying they want to have solidarity.
him. because it allows anyone to speculate about anything without being disproved by having the tax return in hand. did russia money play a role in his rise to success as a businessman? on and on. lots of unanswered questions that continue to linger out there because of his refusal to release his tax returns. so i applaud my colleagues in ways and means. it s long overdue. i hope we get the tax returns and release it. representative jerry connolly. thanks for joining us. my pleasure. thanks, alex. one of the first times you hear a long-time democrat saying don t rush to judgment on a resignation. not long ago, ronda started here.