wolff continues saying, quote, these challenges have included dealing with off-the-record or deep background material that was later casually put on the record. sources, who provided accounts in confidence and subsequently shared them widely, as though liberated by their first utterances. a frequent inattention to setting any parameters on the use of a conversation, a source s views being so well-known and widely shared that it would be advisable not to credit them and the almost samizdat sharing. gob-smacked retelling of otherwise private and deep background conversations. wolff also notes, and everywhere in this story is the president s own constant tireless and uncontrolled voice, public and private, shared by others on a daily basis, sometimes virtually as he utters it. now, with all that in mind, let s get to a key passage in the book. this is aboard air force one, according to wolff, president trump returning from an overseas trip, this is after the news of the trump tower meetin
isis-backed elements or are we training the army of niger. do you think the administration has been forthcoming on this? the first we heard from the administration about it at all was yesterday at a press conference. has the administration been forthcoming enough, senator? i don t think so. i think the administration has to be more clear about our role in niger and our role in africa and other parts of the globe. they have to connect it to a strategy. they should do that. i think the inattention, you know, to this issue is not acceptable. again, you did hear the president yesterday when asked about it why he called the family members, he said he was writing letters, and he suggested past presidents have never called, and he does more than that. what was your reaction to his
they cut off power as a safety measure. and as bad as havana was hit, the east coast took a bigger pounding before it turned its sights north. french president, emmanuel macron, is heading to st. martin and st. barts on tuesday to oversee relief there. cnn s jim bitterman joins us from paris to talk about it, mr. macron not necessarily going to be get ago warm welcome. no. in fact, it could be quite hostile from what we seen, michael. basically a lot of people who have lived on the islands have come back to france we saw a military flight yesterday with a number of people who can complained about the inattention of the french government to their plight. the fact they had to wait five days for food and water.
really talented foreign policy representative for our country. i will say, though, in this meeting if it wasn t nefarious in any way and no one is making that leap, but the president again it might have been an inattention to detail, a lack of care for the way things are done but president trump exposed himself and our country in that meeting by going in there without a translator on our side, by going in there privately and now leaving putin with his own ability to translate what happened in there. he exposed himself. he does it all the time. and you wonder what he s thinking. up next in the word of one republican senator, quote, it s an insane process. the washington post s bob costa explains how mitch mcconnell lost the health care fight and alienated his own members in the process. that s ahead on morning joe.
shouldn t care about what s happening on cable news networks, wherever they are. so there s no doubt in my mind that american leadership is challenged by the president s inattention. america first should also still imply that america is a world leader. and the president hasn t yet proven that to be the case. steve, whether it be, you know, the tweets or the ongoing investigation involving, you know, russia, the president s going to be meeting face-to-face with the russian president vladimir putin. how do all of these things potentially influence what kind of interaction those two are going to have? well, it gives putin a little bit of a leg up because he knows that president trump is distracted in his own backyard. he knows that he s losing the confidence in the american people and it is just dealing putin a much stronger hand than