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it would be bad infaaccurate, i would be true. there are plenty of exceptions to hearsay at the same time because the question is about its probity, how much value it is. he actually has some potential legal liabilities here that he should be very concerned about. because he is is a private citizen. there s no office of legal counsel memorandum protecting him from indictment for campaign finance violations, so i think it s not unusual that he would start to be start saying, wait, i m the good guy. but also remember his interview with laura engram when she says why you, why would the state department send you to ukraine, and he says i m donald trump s defense attorney, doubling down on the fact that he is there because he is trying to support and help this president, not as present as the man.
in the strait of hormuz there are going to be possibly severe consequences all the way around. and this administration has to figure out and tell its allies as well as adversaries this is why we canceled the iran nuclear deal, what we re supposed to get on the other side. still unclear what that s supposed to be. what would be a proportionate response here for the u.s.? you know, if i may first, alison, sarah made some very good points because the president is listening to laura engram, tucker carlson, tom cotton, none of whom are national security experts. they don t have the expertise. who he s not listening to is the cia director, the joint chairman of the joint chiefs, the secretary of defense, the acting secretary of defense, the secretary of state and some of the other people who should be providing input in term of a primary committee as what the
so there s a little bit of harm on both sides. i go back to the fact iran is a maligned actor. they do bad things, but there s a way to handle that as opposed to just throwing out sound bites and then saying don t worry about it. sarah, do you think this is the biggest test of president trump s time in office? it may well be. i m not sure we re there yet. i think we re days or weeks away. this has been escalating and i think you see also the tension within the republican party, which will be part of the test. you have tom cotton for instance urging action in iran immediately, don t wait for further aggression. a military strike. correct. and before this last drone strike or drone being shot down. and then you have tucker carlson saying no. laura engram somewhere in the middle. so a lot of these people who have the president s ear on the right are not in agreement.
i guess in that snapshot of that two hours of trump you can see the ultimate move of his almost daeks these g these gitantgantic moves in temperament. that is only shrouded in alarm. to the extent that they can push him into some level of normalcy, and remember they ve had some practice here because there s been a succession of international trips that have had some disasters. nobody challenged him on any level, and what would be the dynamic before his speech and before the interview with laura engram. who would be talking to him saying don t do this, do this? mick mulvaney has some limited influence here. the only real influence anyone