the word is conspiracy and we need to start calling it what it really is, which is conspiracy to work with the russians. and more importantly, obstruction of justice. obstruction of justice is a crime and it s an impeachable offense. that s what brought down the nixon administration. and there is plenty of evidence right now of obstruction of justice, and i think that flynn can give us even more. so, jill, the president not two minutes ago just tweeted this. i had to fire general flynn because he lied to the vice president and the fbi. he has pled guilty to those lies. it is a shame because his actions during the transition were lawful. there was nothing to hide. interpret that tweet. truth to that tweet and why put it out now from a pr offensive? well, most of the president s tweets are intended to go to his base. they are not going to the people
successful. most people think it s when not if. hallie, giving the thinning out of the democratic party in the house specifically, what are the elements the defensive elements president obama is going to rely on in talking to democrats about buck it up and stand with me. right. so i think there s a couple of ways you might see that happen. number one is procedural, trying to figure out if i way if they can to gum up the works. that is obviously a very long shot given what you pointed out, thinning out of democrats as you put it. you re going to see a lot of discussion, you re already seeing it, a, the people who will lose coverage. b, popular parts of the law. trying to do a pr offensive to the american people to get mostly fair these republicans in districts where maybe more democratic leading constituents or constituents who favor affordable care act or who benefited from it. you might see that full court messaging press, if you will to try to put pressure on republicans to not
that s why we end up today. phil, you mentioned before you think one of the things that s happening here is isis is losing ground in certain areas, so they re staging attacks like this in istanbul as a pr offensive. i feel like that s the same thing we heard a year ago in the paris attacks, and the year before that in a different attack, that s what was said then. isis keeps on losing territory and keeps on having the ability to carry out these attacks. do they need the territory to be a viable and lethal terror organization? over the long term they do. and by that i mean in my world as a counterterrorism guy, five years, ten years, 20 years. over the short term they do not. clear distinction here, john. people rarely speak about this. the distinction between ongoing territory and being a terror group. in the age of social media, owning ideology, in cyberspace, there s a bunch of kids out there who watch youtube videos,
the public will soon follow, custer goes on a pr offensive, writing a series of inflated articles about his past military exploits, hoping to rekindle his celebrity. the tactic works with the public, but among his men, it only worsens his standing. it was as if god himself was on my horse dictating the movements of battle. [ laughter ] well, there you go, boys. we re gonna be fine. we got custer and god, who will play second part in this play. enter! sir, my daughter s fallen quite ill. i should like to take some time to be with her at fort rice. this is my request for leave.
he was killed by isis in syria. let s talk about adam if we can. truly an incredible story. an american born in california to a jewish family brksecomes an extremely prominent and recognizable face for al qaeda. how did he make that transition? how did he end up this mouthpiece? he got in on the ground floor with al qaeda before really they d struck the world s consciousness with the attack in 2001. he converted to islam in 1995 went off to pakistan in 1998, goes immediately to al qaeda camps inside afghanistan. so he already at that stage is sort of in the organization building a level of trust, and then as al qaeda sort of goes on the pr offensive, you know, following that after the 2001 attacks, he becomes a very important person for them because he speaks english. he can appeal to that part of the world that al qaeda s trying to send its message to. this was a message that went