lieutenant general michael flynn to serve as his national security adviser. flynn had trump s ear on national security matters during the campaign and helped drive the president-elect s policy on his approach to russia as well as his posture against islamic terror. flynn has had a relationship with vladimir putin shown here seated next to putin during an event celebrating the 10th anniversary of r.t., which is the state backed russian broadcaster. flynn has made controversial statements in the past. fear of muslims is rationale. please forward this to others. the truth fears no questions. he later apologized after retweeting an anti-semitic tweet this past july and known as a hot head. is that a fair assessment? from all of the reports i ve seen, it s interesting. there s a tale of two general flynns. there s a general flynn that barack obama appointed. the general flynn who got some
playbook. why are you doing it? we go back to 2010, 2012. how many house races. 68 since 2010. you ve lost 68 since 2010? 68 seats since 2010. smallest majority since 1929 in our caucus. if you take state and federal officials, democratic officials, smallest number since reconstruction. if that s not a call for doing something differently, i don t know what is. is that nancy pelosi s fault though? i love nancy pelosi. she s a friend of mine. she s a mentor. she s in our family. but we have to talk about how we move forward. i think everybody bears some responsibility. if we want to win the house back and pick up 30 or 40 seats northern florida, southern indiana, michigan, wisconsin, where there s a big blue firewall fell, we need someone that can go to these districts. i go to these districts and promote the economic vision that we need in order to get those
moderate that. mitt romney would signal to the world that there was somebody there who was measured and was going to not necessarily do things out of some ideological conviction that were rash perhaps. that s exactly what i ve been saying. he s the disruptor in the middle. he does not need giulianis and boltons disrupting on the outside. he needs people that are steady. by the way, again, flynn, let s talk about general flynn. it s confirmed. general flynn makes the appointment of somebody who is temperamentally sound like mitt romney all the more important. whether romney would have the weight there have been secretaries of state that have not had the ear of the white house. john kerry. or colin powell. michael flynn will have president trump s ear. that signals to me a better
trump, you couldn t say it with true 100% certainty. hallie jackson, thank you very much. wow. okay. chris cillizza, eugene robinson we shall see. okay. and jon meacham. i m just being honest. this is what you got. i just don t think there s any way you would get a guy that has that much problem and is that disrespectful to the president-elect and has every day. there are more stories about him doing what hillary clinton and bill clinton did. so why in the world would they open up that michael flynn gave paid speeches to russia and his links with turkey. some of those issues are there. taking money from foreign governments. you don t want to pile on that with somebody else. michael flynn and jeff sessions, just always going to be in his cabinet. these are jobs that don t have to be confirmed. it doesn t make sense.
let s talk about some of the positions out there. nbc news confirming that lieutenant general michael flynn accepted donald trump s offer to be national security adviser. smart choice? good choice? any concerns for you? first, i think it s very likely that there will be announcements in several areas later today. later this morning. lieutenant general flynn is probably one of the brightest choices that you could ever ask for for nsa. if donald trump goes out and makes some of these things official. one of the things that i think you all understand is that president-elect trump until he says it s official, it s not official. that s been the way he s run his business. the way he ran his campaign and way he ll run his r administration. you look at the people that have come in and out. fred smith. all of these people with foreign policy experience. top flight all of the way around. best and brightest coming in and