composition today with chief travis just stephen bannon effectively removed from it. in a statement today, bennett returned the focus to this unmasking controversy saying susan rice operationalized the nsc during last ministry should so i was put on nsc to make sure it was the operationalized. referring to the new national security advisor has nsc back to its proper function. chuck, despite the use of phrases that are new to my ears, does his removal from the nsc represent a kind of a demotion for him? what should washington insiders who love to play the parlor game of testing people s relative power status conclude from this about steve banning? reporting of bob coston my paper who points out that he had sources saying the whole reason bannon was there was not too
you don t rush if you are the sitting president of the united states who avoided look agent this when he heard about it in 2015, september. when you are the president of the united states, you don t try to rush out a result in the last few week of your regime. that s how i feel. josh earnest said this yesterday. i thought this was over the top. the republican nominee himself calling on russia to hack his opponent. it might be an indication that he was obviously aware and concluded, based on whatever facts or sources he was he had available to him that russia was involved. the republican nominee chose a campaign chair that had extensive, lucrative, personal, financial ties to the kremlin. and it was obvious to those who were covering the race that the hack and leak strategy that had been operationalized was not being equally applied to the two parties. there s no evidence that
was involved. the republican nominee chose a campaign chair that had extensive, lucrative, personal financial ties to the kremlin, and it was obvious to those who were covering the race that the hack and leak strategy that had been operationalized was not being equally applied to the two parties. that is just remarkable. that is breath taking. i guess he s odd igsing to be a political pundit. that is disappointing to hear from the podium of the white house secretary. he essentially stated that the president-elect had knowledge of this. maybe even fanned the flames. it s incredibly irresponsible and i wonder if his boss, president obama agrees. he does. he said it on the daily show a couple of days prior that donald trump called for the hacking of hillary clinton emails. do you remember what he claimed
i ve been doing this obviously for a year and a half or so with him. frankly there have been developments this time that are unique to this time. first of all, he was actually consulted and asked ultimately to give the order to carry out the operation. and indeed he provided guidance and he held some things up until he was backbriefed on how his concepts were going to be operationalized. he has, rightly, when there s been incidents of innocent loss of life called into question what was done in those cases. then we have gone forward. did he endorse the operation? he has. he has acknowledged it. when, i have followed he has said he is the commander in chief of this operation. indeed, there have been articles about that. you re satisfied with karzai s look, i don t think in a relationship, even in a
up. let s see if we have rudy giuliani talking about funneling money. sorry, i m giving you a fact now that you don t know. it s not campaign money, no campaign finance violation. so they funneled it through a law firm? funneled through a law firm and the president repaid it. oh, i didn t know he did. he did, shawn. that s my favorite part. my favorite part of the whole year so far. but let me ask you, because we talked about i asked you if other women have come forward. associates of the president do not believe that there s only one stormy daniels. luckily for them there is only one of you, but they believe that there were many such arrangements and rudy giuliani seemed to believe that when talking about something that has clearly, in rudy giuliani s mind, been operationalized. the funneling of money doesn t sound like it happened more than