Not just a friend, just a good guy, a friend for a very long time. Thats what the president said. And the two of course do seem particularly close in photo after photo. Here they are greeting the tesla ceo, elon musk, in the state dining room as trump signs an Executive Order about the oil pipeline industry. And this, trump speaking on the phone with vladimir putin, and who is there . Steve bannon. And then when they worked together in the white house, check this out, their offices, steps apart. In fact the only person who sat closer to the president of the United States than bannon was President Trumps soninlaw, jared kushner. Even the official chief of staff, reince priebus, sat farther away from President Trump. And of course as trump knows well from his real estate days, power is all about location, location, location. Slamming bannon, though, was only part of the white house operation today. The Press Secretary tried to rip the book itself and its author, Michael Wolff. Could you
Himself of south korea is not in any way suggesting that trump should just accept. Be cautious, first engage at a lower level and trump is like no, i want to do it, lets announce it now. The south koreans end up making the announcement in the driveway in front of the white house. On every level, this is unprecedented, and yet on every level, this is par for the course and what we should expect with President Trump. Normally presumably you would have had the president say, lets think about it. Sure. Lets convene a National Security council meeting. Even president moon jaein, the south korean president all for engagement and negotiation, offered to meet with kim jongun he said if the continues are right, let me think about this. Ill get back to you. President trump normal situation should have done convene a meeting and talk about pros and cons of having such a Summit Meeting with kim jongun, and then coordinate the policy and
then announce it. So stanley, whats wrong with trying this .
Changer in this back and forth. Francesca chambers, north korea again. You do a lot of foreign travel. It has to be part of the buzz on the back of the plane every day that you are flying. I 100 agree with what youre saying. I dont want to be like accused of warmongering or scare tactics, but, look, this administration is looking at plans to be able to, if they had to, as youre saying here, to be able to go forward with some sort of a Military Option. I know they keep saying those are always on the table, but i am hearing they are trying to afford a Military Option if they had to, in march of next year. Again, hopefully, well obviously not get to where they would have to do that. When they say the Military Option is on the table, the Military Option is on the table. General dunford said at the aspen security institute, thats what you pay us for. We have plans. It is hard to think about the unthinkable, but we have plans. Desensitized, as james was saying, to so many of these things. We
Almost everyone in power claims to believe it. The push to war in syria, by the way has united politicians have both sides. Lindsey graham and howard dean typically agree on very little. Not much at all. But today they are both calling for war in syria. Graham is ghanelding massive attacks on the syrian military, dean is going even further than that on twitter, he called the president , quote a wimp for merely sending thousands of troops and launching tons of bombs at syria. Thats not enough for howard dean who you may remember once ran for president as the peace candidate. Tonight he wants total war in syria. Television pundits, of course, strongly agree. This morning the Foreign Policy team over on Msnbc Exexplained that its far more important for american troops to fight in syria than it is to secure our own border here in america u watch. There is no question that now all these years later is Donald Trumps challenge. He has to take action. He has spoken to macron. What he ought too
Strucktive and cooperative engagement with russia. As we know when the United States and russia are working together and getting along its good for the world and its good for peace. So its an opportunity again for the two World Leaders to come together and talk about a variety of topics. You know, mercedes, it is amazing. There is so much to talk about. We can do it with the positive news for an hour. With what has happened with north korea now meeting with putin, the Supreme Court justice. I mean the president is on a roll. Mercedes schlapp so good to see you again. Thank you so much. He is. All right. And while the trump agenda saw a lot of progress this week, the deep state continued to collapse and deputy a. G. Rod rosenstein was in the hot seat. Take a look at this. Why are you keeping information from congress . I am not keeping any information from congress. I want to know why you wont give us what weve asked for. Sir, i certainly hope your colleagues are not under that impressi