Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Gates, and said well, you couldnt have had manafort paying that those attention or you wouldnt have been able to steal so much money. That has to influence the jury. Thats a scary statement he made. Hes gone way beyond what anybody should have expected of a judge. In the meantime, jill, i notice your pin youre wearing, nixon lodge. That was from his first Unsuccessful Campaign for president. Today is the 44th anniversary of his resignation for obstruction of justice among other things, and while it may foretell the future, it certainly inspired my pin today to remember what happens when you obstruct justice. Well, let me ask you about that, because i know you must get asked all the time about sort of the way that these two may be similar and the ways that they may be different. What do you tell people . Well i actually think this situation is
Interviews with political figures and news updates. Finish line in the special, or whether he actually inspired more democrats to turn out and whether it was john kasich coming in late that helped persuade people in the suburban districts, in jackson county, well, its okay to vote for him because governor kasich is popular and he says its okay. The fact of the matter is a race that is so close that it looks like its going to go to an automatic recount, there are many factors. For President Trump to take credit, theres no way for him or any of us to know that that was the decisive factor. I think what this race shows is two things. One, its that President Trump, because of his unpopularity and his chaotic leadership style and the constant drama and chaos around him, is putting into Play Districts that never should have been competitive in the first place. The second is that you just dont know how much of an asset trump can be to candidates, and not because of his lack of
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troops right back there at greater cost to american lives and greater costs to what may happen, anything unforeseen. this is a situation where the president made the announcement. obviously, nobody knew about it. mattis resigned. what kind of decisions are being made when the defense secretary who is the main person in these kinds of policies doesn t know anything about it? this is again the president making snap decisions, not listening to those around him, not listening to what should happen. someone like mattis wasn t going to stand for it. it is unprecedented that a secretary of defense would resign like this. so the 200 is better than nothing, but, you know, we are trying now to get our allies, britain and france to substitute. they don t want to substitute. if we are not going to be there and do what we need to do with them as allies, they are not going to pull our chestnuts out
advice of his closest national security advisers but without informing many of them or also u.s. allies and partners in the field. does the u.s. have a decision-making process today for key and national security decisions? i don t know. i don t think anyone knows, which tells you there s probably not a great process for getting these decisions done. and that s what so upset mattis in this particular case. we ve seen this before. we ve seen this movie before. if you remember, you know, trump was giving away things in the north korean negotiations that many of the national security space said please don t do this. you re giving up all your leverage and mattis had to get dispatched to japan and saying we re not doing joint training exercises. we re still with you. that was a problem. mattis wasn t there and certainly the national security apparatus was not giving that
now he s being replaced relatively soon, january 1st, by the deputy defense secretary. talk about that, your thoughts on what s happened here in the last 48 hours. well, i think this entire country counted on mattis being the adult in the room, the man that had the knowledge, had the insight, had the understanding of what is going on in the middle east, as well as in asia. the fact that you said that, the adult in the room, do you think that is a contributing factor as to why mattis is leaving now? that the president hearing that kind of vernacular repeatedly over the last couple of days made him mad? read the resignation letter. mattis wasn t fired. mattis resigned in a letter that clearly laid out the differences of fundamental policy that he has with the president. for example, mattis believes that we have to work with our allies, nato and other allies around the world. the president didn t. the president precipitously