the government is still closed and the president is still alone and still venting on twitter, lobbying atta lobbing attacks. the president had to go silent to preserve secrecy in security but even in the middle of a war zone, the president playing defense, justifying a snap decision to leave syria against the advice of his soon-to-be former pentagon chief. one year ago, i gave our generals six more months in syria, said go ahead and get them. it turns out it was really a year and a half ago. i said go get them. we need six months. go get them. they said give us another six months. i said go get them. then they said can we have one more period of six months? i said nope. nope. i said i gave you lot of six months and now we re doing it a different way. we re not the suckers of the
that is clear. the president of the united states is being asked to approve over this weekend whether they put out a memo whether he had a hand and his people had a hand in creating. it s a joke. it gives him a window into the evidence into the russia investigation. he is a potential subject of that. it s a compromised investigation. we re going to talk about a constitutional crisis. it seems to me the constitution has always been turned on its butt. we ve got a chairman of a committee on intelligence which has been a bipartisan committee. they re basically there to work together and find out if our intelligence committees are doing their job. it s a tool of a president playing defense. that s the right way to think about this in terms of going on offense as the best defense. think about what the memo is, it s sort of a three-part set. first of all, it looks at the use of steele dossier information or information from steele in this application and portrays that as a scandal be
them in as they go along. and jeff sessions who has had a number meetings today, his spokesperson said he didn t list them all because the fbi said, oh, you had so many, you don t have to list them all. let me go to ari melber, our legal correspondent. let s talk about weapons in this fight because it s a fight for, i would argue, from the prosecution s side to get the truth, from the other side i to probably avoid getting to too much of the truth. the weapons are, of course, incarceration, prosecution. you take a guy like michael flynn. if he failed to honorably answer questions on forms, even if kushner was late in getting his straight answers in about meetings, you try to pressure people and scare what you could do to them if you throw the book at them. and of course you have the subpoena and the possibility of contempt of congress, contempt of the government for not participating in our legal process. look at all that and see where is the president playing defense? why does he ha
they plan to move all u.s. troops from afghanistan by 2016. the president playing defense on foreign policy at west point. president obama used his speech to try to explain the porn policy agenda but wound up sounding more defensive and confused. america has been stronger relative to the rest of the world. those who argue otherwise and suggest that america is in decline or seen the global leadership slip away are either misreading mist ohistory or engn partisan politics. here s the bottom line. america must always lead on the world stage. the president s critics say it presented a peak policy posture for america. it is a particularly sad day in america when the president of the united state feels
chief white house correspondent ed henry live at the white house for us. ed, what is the president saying today. the president playing defense, doing it at an event in d.c. at an elementary school. trying to talk about education and domestic priorities. he took a question on ukraine. he wanted to weigh in on this. he heard this criticism he s been weak on the world stage. the president in conjunction with secretary of state john kerry who at the moment was in kiev pushing back hard against russian president vladimir putin. trying to send a unified message that it s not the administration that looks bad, it s putin that looks bad. kerry saying at one point putin vaded another country. the president also trying to put pressure. listen. strong belief russia s action is violating international law. president putin seems to have a different set of lawyers making