hot-headed. because this is inexcusable. and before you two go, the white house is disputing a quote from donald trump s recent interview with the wall street journal where it quotes him saying i probably have a very good relationship with kim jong-un. while the president is insisting he said i d probably have a good relationship with kim jong-un. press secretary sarah sanders is saying that the fake news is at it again. do you think it s a coincidence that he s clarifying this the day after the hawaiian missile scare? melanie, then kevin? it is curious that it took the white house this long to dispute a quote from the wall street journal, and one that they participated in, and we had the transcript. but, look, i think with in respect to the president s comments here with his relationship with north korea, we ve got a lot of questions. is he being strategic here? is he just sort of blustering. you know, just in general the policy with north korea, there s been a lot of questi
candidate trump whenever he gives interviews and is asked about whether or not he has a good relationship with any world leader his standard answer is always well i would likely have or i d have probably a good relationship with anyone. look i haven t heard the transcripts, so, you know, i ll leave it up to viewers to decide. melanie and kevin. hang with us, please, because we have much more to talk about on this sunday morning. yes, always busy. and the growing reports of an alleged affair and payoff involving a porn star and the president, and whether this is a story that will stick. but first, saturday night live featured a recently fired and fired up steve bannon, who once served as trump s chief strategist. the can of magic is still out there, steve bannon the bannon cannon, magic, magic, king of kingmakers, the bannon dynasty is dawning. uh-huh. and what are you doing now? i m working on a web series for crackle.
instrumental figure at the tail end of that campaign. he s going to be asked about whether there was contact with the russians. whether there was any coordination with wikileaks to get dirt on hillary clinton. and what did the president know, if anything, about that trump tower meeting. so there is a real risk here for the president. jared kushner, we also know bannon has made no secret about his feelings towards the president s son-in-law, so there really could be a risk for the administration here. and kevin what s your take? do you think there s a risk with bannon speaking on tuesday? if you read his on-the-record remarks in fire and fury which he has not refuted, yeah, there s significant risk simply because he is aggressive to melanie s point absolutely attacking senior administration level officials, including members of the president s very own family. the question is, is that commentary, or does he have facts, or does he have additional facts, and evidence to support what
has been tumultuous and he repeatedly calls kim jong-un little rocket man. how do these types of comments contribute to the 38 minutes of chaos in hawaii? well, look, i mean it is completely, completely inexcusable what happened in hawaii. there s likely going to be congressional hearings. there s likely going to be investigations. and yes, while the president is right to melanie s point that this is really the result of state government officials, the fact that the president of the united states is on a golf course, during 38 minutes of a false alarm, when americans are scrambling for shelter, they think a nuclear bomb is going to go off, and this is what s going on. i mean, this is a this is, to say that state and local government officials were flat-footed is an understatement. and the human error there s no excuse for this. there is absolutely no excuse for this. and likely the federal government splutly has a role here in oversight of these types of human errors. and kevin
melan melanie, let s start with you, while hawaiians were frantically rushing for cover the president did not release a statement, nor a tweet, in fact he didn t even leave the golf course. why would he keep quiet during all of this? well, let me just start by saying this is, i think, a huge wake-up call for most of america. this is not something that most of us have had to think about for many decades, or at least not certainly in my lifetime. but, to have the administration, first of all, pin this mistake on to the state agency, which is correct, in hawaii, but there s a lot of questions about what the administration and staff members and cabinet members, were they trained to handle this sort of thing? why weren t there protocols put immediately into place to protect the president? the reports that we re getting is that there was a lot of confusion. a lot of people were caught off guard by this. and certainly, it s inexcusable that these sorts of exercises and training were conduct