have, guy, on this is that the defense sec taxer mark esper, says turkey was going to do this anyway. they were going to come across the border and invade. we had troops, not a lot, but we had u.s. fighters patrolling the area. they say they thought that erdogan, the turkish president, meant business. do you really think he was going to move in. no. there was a sense that the u.s. was just impotent in this situation. well, turkey was going to do what they were going to do, and we had nothing really at our fingertips to stop them. no options. i just find that hard to believe. i think many americans find it hard to believe. we don t have to say let s go to war with turkey without saying behind the screens, if you do this, there s going to be military consequences, economic consequences. i don t know if that was said, but it sounds like it was not. and i just keep coming back to this quote, it was a tweet from
so when you have all of this happening, donny, yes, it s dangerous, it s inflammatory rhetoric. it s also harmful to the president s own political standing at some point. republicans say, hey, we ve got save ourselves. we re not listening to a jeff flake op-ed. you know what we re doing? we re looking out for our own political backside. and this guy is taking us down. i agree with the political inevitability. but i want to go back to the civil war. dictators tell you what they re going to do. if this goes down bad for donald trump, he will tell people to take to the streets. he will do that. but they re wrong. if he will say he will literally, in his mind he twoow 25% of this country and he s going to say let s go to war that. was not a side bar. he s telling you what he s going to do. coming up, in the wake of the ukraine scandal, president trump s closest allies have risen to the moment with varying
leaked this idea to the new york times. what does this tell us about where john bolton is in this administration and how long he will be in this administration? john bolton is in mongolia. that s where he is. they sent him there, but it s the kind of metaphorically the second time they sent him there in a week. a week earlier on the iran deal, he was pushing let s go to war. trump was like you are a war monger, i m not going to go to war and patted him away and jokes about him. trump goes around and said he s a mad man. i m not like that. it s good to have him around. he goes off and sends him to mongolia. john bolton is the pretty face of american national security. that s it. there is nothing else going on there. trump likes to do it all one on one.
caving to north korea, which north korea it s not clear they accepted or if they did, they would cheat on it later. he tries to cheat into this story and his tweet included the story is not true. two, a direct message to the president, find and fire whoever leaked this idea to the new york times. what does this tell us about where john bolton is in this administration and how long he will be in this administration? john bolton is in mongolia. that s where he is. they sent him there, but it s the kind of metaphorically the second time they sent him there in a week. a week earlier on the iran deal, he was pushing let s go to war. trump was like you are a war monger, i m not going to go to war and patted him away and jokes about him. trump goes around and said he s
pressure, because he was part of the effort on sanctions with north korea ten years ago. when he sees what is put on north korea through 10 u.n. security resolutions. he ll see that as a good thing and won t want to take his food off the pedal. if the president wants a summit. he ll go with it. you don t think he ll change his mind and say let s go to war. if something goes wrong. if they show up at the summit and it turns out the north koreans are not willing to give up anything with regard to their weapons, then bolton will have a big part in plan b. that s scary. china has taken prominence. that region of the world, we have taken away tpp and they are levying sanctions against us. how much has president trump ceded ground to china. i think walking away from the