and survived. we don t have pictures or intelligence of what goes on in those labor camps. depending on how this goes, the humanitarian side of this is important. there are things that are going to be painful and reality of what north korea does to his own people. not just democrats. remember bob corker said with regard to north korea, he s putting us on a path to world war iii. where is his aapology. i think one is owed to the president. harris: president trump is announcing the united states will withdraw from the iran nuclear deal. iran responding that it s prepared to continue spending on its ballistic missile program. so what s next. the public confirmation hearing wrapping up moments ago.
news but, you know, lawrence, where i think we are is at an inflection point. the sources that i spoke to close to the president concerned that about his stability. the calling the white house an adult day care and were royed that the president was putting us on a path to world war iii gave sources around the president comfort to come forward and talk about what people at the highest levels of the republican party are talking about in private which is that this president is erratic, he s lashing out, his moods are dark. stays up late at night calling to people. people say he repeats himself over and over again. rambles in conversations. this is a situation where general kelly and those in charge of our national security are doing the best that they can to manage the president of the united states and i think that s a historic problem that in my political lifetime and i imagine yours we have not seen before. there is an extraordinary passage in your article which i want to read word f
mark meadows is one of the leaders of an extremist group in the house of representatives that as i say claims to be the ultra conservative group in the house of representatives and after republican senator bob corker said that people in the trump administration spend most of their days trying to prevent the president from putting us on the path to world war iii, mark meadows said it s really easy to be bold when you re not coming back. senator corker is not running for re-election and that s why mark meadows said he was bold. mark meadows ran for the house of representatives promising to be bold. promising to be honest. you can substitute the word honest for bode. in that mark meadows quote because that is what he means. it is really to be honest when you are not coming back. mark meadows was not quite bright enough in that moment to realize what he was saying about himself and what he was saying about senator corker.
and that president publicly describes the meeting as great? this may be one of many such meetings that republican chairman of the foreign relations committee says he has heard about that have led him to this conclusion. i think secretary tillerson, secretary mattis, and chief of staff kelly are those people that help separate our country from kay why is. and this week senator bob corker described the trump president s chaos as putting us on the path to world war iii. joining us now, george mitchell, former u.s. senator from maine. senator, i ve never seen any conditions like this. i have never heard of meetings like this. you ve been at this longer than most people i know. have you ever in a meeting where somebody referred to a president as a moron? no. i think it s most unfortunate. but, lawrence, that segment demonstrated we are at a dangerous moment in our history. the president made many controversial statements during the presidential campaign, many of which he s reversed. n
the pentagon briefing prompted tillerson to call the president a moron. after the meeting broke up. and some advisers were gathered around. official this is attended the two-hour session said it included a number of tense exchanges. tense exchanges with a president, the secretary of state apparently regards as a moron? and that president publicly describes the meeting as great? this may be one of many such meetings that republican chairman of the foreign relations committee says he has heard about that have led him to this conclusion. i think secretary tillerson, secretary mattis, and chief of staff kelly are those people that help separate our country from kay why is. and this week senator bob corker described the trump president s chaos as putting us on the path to world war iii. joining us now, george mitchell,