good morning and welcome back to morning joe on this friday, december 30th, new year s eve eve. it is 9:00 a.m. on the east coast, 6:00 a.m. as you wake up out west. let s dive right in to a newly released batch of deposition transcripts from witnesses who spoke to the house select committee including members of former president donald trump s inner circle including former white house communications director alissa farah griffin. she spoke to the panel on april 15th describing her tenure at the trump white house as a wild eight months in her words. griffin revealed one serious and ongoing problem was a lack of organization. she described the trump white house in which jobs were filled with underqualified staff because more senior government officials would not take positions within the administration. griffin said any report about the trump white house being chaotic and operating without structure was, quote, more or less accurate. that included there being no competent gat
Im stephen sackur. After recent Terrorist Attacks, the uk is preoccupied with questions about how best to counter the jihadist threat. For politicians, the focus is on policing, intelligence and negotiating powers. My guest today has a different point of view. Her son was radicalised in birmingham, went to fight with the Islamic State in syria and was killed at the age of 19. She now offers support to other families facing the dangers of radicalisation at home. How best to slam the door on thejihadis . Nicola benyahia, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. I wonder what kind of impact the news of the last few weeks has upon you . Weve seen this spate of horrifying Terrorist Attacks in the united kingdom. The focus has been onjihadists inside the uk. This is very personal for you. I wonder what the impact is . Its been very difficult, especially because you have manchester and then recently london in close proximity. It really brings it home, how much of a problem there is and there are days
Im stephen sackur. After recent Terrorist Attacks, the uk is preoccupied with questions about how best to counter the jihadist threat. For politicians, the focus is on policing, intelligence and negotiating powers. My guest today has a different point of view. Her son was radicalised in birmingham, went to fight with the Islamic State in syria and was killed at the age of 19. She now offers support to other families facing the dangers of radicalisation at home. How best to slam the door on thejihadis . Nicola benyahia, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. I wonder what kind of impact the news of the last few weeks has upon you . Weve seen this spate of horrifying Terrorist Attacks in the united kingdom. The focus has been onjihadists inside the uk. This is very personal for you. I wonder what the impact is . Its been very difficult, especially because you have manchester and then recently london in close proximity. It really brings it home, how much of a problem there is and there are days
Im stephen sackur. After recent Terrorist Attacks, the uk is preoccupied with questions about how best to counter the jihadist threat. For politicians, the focus is on policing, intelligence and negotiating powers. My guest today has a different point of view. Her son was radicalised in birmingham, went to fight with the Islamic State in syria and was killed at the age of 19. She now offers support to other families facing the dangers of radicalisation at home. How best to slam the door on thejihadis . Nicola benyahia, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. I wonder what kind of impact the news of the last few weeks has upon you . Weve seen this spate of horrifying Terrorist Attacks in the united kingdom. The focus has been onjihadists inside the uk. This is very personal for you. I wonder what the impact is . Its been very difficult, especially because you have manchester and then recently london in close proximity. It really brings it home, how much of a problem there is and there are days
disintegrating as far as his brand and popularity, i don t see him disappearing, and i see him going back and running as an independent, a very different kind of independent, and he still holds that base. so, they have a problem. they have a major branding problem. i think if you polled 90% of republicans they old say go away, good-bye. they re stuck with him and with his grievance. and they have a problem for the foreseeable future. unless ron desantis can really rescue this far ti, this party is in deep, deep trouble. and the problem is, again, putting it in donny s terms, we ve been microtargeting. they keep microtargeting to people that are in the bubble. they keep trying to convert those who were already converted. they re talking to themselves. and so when you re losing the suburbs, when you re losing middle america, when you re losing swing voters, when you re just not going to win elections,