ashley parker, republican strategist and msnbc contributor steve schmidt. and with us at the table, zerlina maxwell, direct aror of programming for sirius xm. elise jordan, time magazine columnist and former aide in the george w. bush was and joel bennison is back, former adviser to the clinton campaign. ashley parker, so i heard from four folks in and close to this white house. i heard that the president was, words i can t say on tv. i heard the statement released was dialed back from his gut reaction if you will, and one of the first things they did was produce those logs that sarah huckabee sanders revealed. it was discovered of the 17 visits that the author of the book michael wolff made, at least 14 of those were instances where he was waved in, which is the process for applying for a
jared just kind of flits in and does the arab stuff. wow. steve, elise and joel are still with us. steve, i want to get into something else with you. so much of this is steve bannon s effort and maybe he envisioned a second career as a psychiatrist. but so much of it is psychological analysis of jared kushner, of his father, his father s prosecution by chris christie. jared kushner, he attaches to jared kushner deep distrust of the fbi. this is from wolff s book. they write about charlie kushner going crazy because they get down deep in his bleep about how he s financed anything. the rabbis with the diamonds and all the bleep coming out of israel. he s frozen on 666 fifth avenue. when it goes under, he s wiped, gone, done, over, toast. these are unsubstantiated
are closest to him. at the end of the day, they have no loyalty. i think back to the george w. bush white house and even in the days of the leak investigation, the aftermath of hurricane katrina, everyone was so loyal to the mission, to the man, to the cause, to service. and there wasn t this back-fighting going on where literally knives are pulled out at the trump white house for everyone. and that s something that s captured in this book about how so many of these top advisers demean the president on a regular basis. it s like, if you really do think he s a moron, if you think he s unfit if you think he s unhinged and crazy, why are you working for him and attaching your reputation to him? and joel, some of the more serious allegations in here, it doesn t matter what sarah huckabee sanders says about them. she calls it a fiction but it doesn t matter because just about everybody in here will be asked to testify under oath with the risk of jailtime or
jong-un, yet he still proceeds. as elise said it is the grisliest military scenario. show we have to use our military might, i guess what he s suggesting talking about big buttons that work it is the grisliest scenario. there are tens of thousands of american lives at risk. there are potentially hundreds of thousands of south korean lives at risk. a white house adviser today told me that when a tweet like this goes out, members of the foreign policy team do go in to the oval office and explain, we don t care about kim jong-un s feelings, and you probably didn t insult the size of his button, but you made south korea, back to your point, joel, very nervous. right. i think that that s what keeps me up at night. the fact that the president doesn t quite grasp the enormity of his responsibility. not just to the american public but also globally. i think that it s irresponsib irresponsible that s an
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