it was amazing and then it became really sunny. then i walked off and it poured right after i left. it poured. tim o brien, you ve written the guy s life story. what have we learned? what we have learned is that donald trump is so counterfactual and in his own sort of reality bubble that he s willing and constantly denying the very thing that s right in front of him. and the reason he does it is in part because i think he s remorseless and he doesn t really have a conscience about telling lies. or misrepresenting what s going on. he does it routinely. i think what s catching up to him now, however, are facts and data. the difference between inauguration day and people throwing ponchos or plastic cloths over their heads while he s saying it isn t raining, and what s happening now at the national weather service is over the last two years he s gotten his hands onto the wheels of the federal government.
immediately. it was amazing and then it became really sunny. then i walked off and it poured right after i left. it poured. tim o brien, you ve written the guy s life story. what have we learned? what we have learned is that donald trump is so counterfactual and in his own sort of reality bubble that he s willing and constantly denying the very thing that s right in front of him. and the reason he does it is in part because i think he s remorseless and he doesn t really have a conscience about telling lies. or misrepresenting what s going on. he does it routinely. i think what s catching up to him now, however, are facts and data. the difference between inauguration day and people throwing ponchos or plastic cloths over their heads while he s saying it isn t raining, and what s happening now at the national weather service is over the last two years he s gotten his hands onto the wheels of the federal government.
kim jong-un, to denuclearize, which i think is virtually very unlikely. i just don t think that s going to happen. i think it put prime minister abe in a really awkward position. while the missiles weren t a direct threat to the united states, they certainly were a threat to japan and korea. not to mention, of course, the thousands of troops and their families that we have in those two countries. so, again, this is another example of the presidnt kind of being his own truth bubble, his own reality bubble, when the facts are that the north koreans tested ballistic missiles. what message does it send to kim jong-un, when the president seemed to diminish this test, which his own national security adviser says violated united nations resolutions? well, it shows kim jong-un how badly president trump wants a deal, and it also shows, encourages kim jong-un, i think, to stretch the envelope further.
regrettable for a lot of reasons. dan coats is an honorable man who believes in truth and telling of the truth and that s what he s been doing, and i think if he is fired, this conveys a terrible, terrible message to the intelligence community. in other words, don t tell truth to power. you got to hue to the party line and to the president s bubble, reality bubble, and not actual fact. and that is a very dangerous thing as senator king aptly said. yeah, when he was saying, you know, cook the books, shade the data. you know, the thing about this is, director, is that trump had a lot of people working around him that had a lot of bipartisan respect. right? people may not agree with all of them, but they were respected. right? they were supposed to steady the ship. h.r. mcmaster. john kelly. jim mattis. right? they re all gone. coats also respected on both sides of the aisle. if he goes, how big of a loss is it? when you look at that roster, gone, gone, gone, gone? i think on the heel
cites. exactly. so the oil that they have, he doesn t want to let go of the arms sales to them and he believes someone else will sell them the same arms. why lose american business. he s glossing over and pretending it doesn t happen. that s his own reality bubble saying this is the way it s going to be. are we going to learn more thanksgiving day or soon thereafter? we certainly could. at least is it relates to saudi arabia, i think this will be a situation where the president s hand is forced perhaps by a bipartisan majority on the hill because there is this sense that saudi arabia, to include mbs, the crown prince, has to pay. they have to account for what happened to this journalist and not just jamal khashoggi, but also that role in the thousands of civilian deaths in yemen. certainly this will be a story that we re watching this coming week, alex. okay. charlie savage, jay newton