esper would lose his trust and confidence in the secretary of the navy. again, all this is just happening. we don t know much more than what we ve seen in these accounts by spokes people. but if it is as reported that s a very significant event in this entire process and it s a very significant event just in terms of civilian and military control. as you point out, according to the senior official, spencer again went around his chain of command, namely mark esper, in order to have that direct line to the white house. why would he do that? i don t know. i mean, that seems so unorthodox. frankly, based on i don t know mr. spencer personally, but i know people around him. it doesn t comport with the reputation i have heard he had in terms of being a guy that can follow processes and trying to do things by the book. if this allegation is true, then it certainly would warrant mr. esper s deep concern and loss of
speech is flat out wrong when we re talking about the constitution. it doesn t comport with what an american president is supposed to do to start to qualify free speech. free speech is pretty absolute in this country. no, you can t yell fire inside a theater. generally speaking you can express behavior and it s odd that we re puking about things the president doesn t like. you could when it comes to things like hate speech, but still that falls move often than not. it s strange to have this conversation with what the president finds this distasteful on the coverage of himself. that s not where the epicenter is given the constitution exists and protects these very clearly. yeah, not to mention odd that he would host trolls and
ana? boris sanchez at the white house, thanks. i want to open up this discussion and with us cnn political analyst david drucker, also senior political correspondent for the washington examiner,er? military and diplomatic analyst retired animal john kirby and retired air force general cedric leighton. i ll start with you because you were at pentagon when bin laden was captured. what do you make of the president s remarks? a lot of planning and effort went to get bin laden. that mission was anything but easy and that mission was dangerous, lost a helicopter and it s not like we didn t take our eyes off of bin laden. he was very evasive and able to elude capture an killing, but it was a lot of effort that went into. i was a little bit alarmed by that. it doesn t comport with my sense of the history of how hard it was and how long it was that the effort was to get bin laden. colonel, in the aftermath
we are deep in the metaphors territory. this is beneath him. it is not consistent with his career as a prosecutor. he knows better, and it s disgraceful to invoke lynch mob in this circumstance. second thing, rudy guiliani is clearly playing the court of public opinion. he has no ability to set a clock with a september deadline. rudy guiliani knows that full well. so i don t think this hyperbolic play, this is designed to appeal to his base. it doesn t comport with reality into the investigation. it feels like the september 1st arbitrary date is more spaghetti they try to throw at the wall to see what sticks in terms of undermining the investigation. it feels like every day some sort of new effort at why it is not legitimate or why we should be suspect of it. however, on the flip side, does
exhibited by this president is bothersome, very bothersome to me. as far as his fitness, well r, lot of americans, 63 million americans voted for president trump. and so perhaps they re by doing so establishing a new standard for morality and ethics of the president. it doesn t comport with what i ve long adhered to and believed in, starting with my father, who was an army officer. so i have questions and concerns about it. darryl clapper, thank you so much for coming in. thanks, wolf. just ahead, stormy daniels shows a sketch of the man she says threatened her to keep quiet about an alleged affair with donald trump. why didn t she report the threat at the time? i would have had to tell an entire police department and the police reports are public record.