all together, perhaps kelly made the decision that this needed to happen, went to the president, the president maybe was sounding out his friends and allies, and then the source also said to me the days of tolerating b.s. in this white house are over. wow. i think there s something to be said about pulling the band-aid off. this has been a difficult time in temples of personnel at the white house and having the right people in place. i mean, i hay to say this, but we could see more people go. you have a new chief of staff that wants to bring order, perhaps a more military type of structure, we could actually see more people go. there was the points about a star burning a little too brightly when there s really only one star, that being the president of the united states. we talked once upon a time about steve bannon and the caricature of who he was and what he
i think that if you believe the inside talk. the president was thinking about this for some time, had talked to general kelly about it for some time. what the time is, we do not really know. but what they are hoping is what you heard there. that it will bring some structure, some organization, some grounding of a military type of structure that general kelly is use to bringing and being empowered to be the gatekeeper. and that s really is the question. well the president to empower general kelly to be the gatekeeper in the oval office? those are the best chiefs of staff, those are the ones that control how the trains move in and out of the white house. and what kind of access is granted to the president. we do not know the answer to that he had to. there are a lot of powerful figures. anthony scaramucci has his own relationship with the president. kellyanne conway, obviously,
presidential campaign. he is 2 brother of betsy devos, the education secretary for donald trump. a lot of the contacts lead directly to donald trump. thaert. let s remember how erik made his money, blackwater, one would say this firm subject to acts of rurts abuses and other things in iraq. his background i describe him as when you re a hammer, everything looks like a nail. sort of a military type aggressive person, and so the amazing thing about the washington post story is not only that the meeting happened, erik had to have known his contacts with the trump administration, even if the meetings were benign, but also this whole notion of the back channel. i don t get it. it keeps coming up with the trump administration. they were about to be a president. it was about to be official.
that when the japanese came to us right before pearl harbor, in fact, that same day they said our negotiations are broken down. that s all they said. now, if you re on the other side of this war and you put out this war situation and you re some sane person who works with kim jong-un, if there is one, some sane old military type, if there is such a person, he sees the united states announcing that while negotiations have failed. they have failed after all these years and we have to go another route. you would think to tell the boss this is scary because there could be a first strike and he gets jittery. that s what i get scared about when countries issue ultimatums and put sanctions on like we did to the japanese in 41 and blow out. they just go crazy, you know, yamamoto has the fleet over here, planes attack us. you push a guy into the corner. this guy is a little nutty to begin with. i m even afraid about calling him that because he might hear it. it s that tricky and this guy tille
strategy actually is for all of this instability across the region? susan, your thoughts. that s what makes it so amazing that secretary tillerson has gone to asia on the first trip rather than reassuring allies we ve significantly ratcheted up the rhetoric and made the chances of a military confrontation more realistic at the same time we ve declared the ole policy failed without saying what the new policy is. the scary thing is watching something on roosevelt on an old tape the other day and realizing that when the japanese came to us, right before pearl harbor, in fact, that same day they said our negotiations are broken down. that s all they said. now, if you re on the other side of this war and you put out this war situation and you re some sane person who works with kim jong-un if there is one, some sane old military type if there is such a person he sees the united states announcing that while negotiations have failed. they have failed after all these years and we have to