300 billion, upwards of 500 and 600 billion dollars planned over decades. it was vital to their future as a company to have the deal and he invested the time to make it happen. now he ll change his portfolio. he has many issues to deal with regarding russia and the rest of the world. let s not forget that. he wasn t thinking about north carolina. he wasn t thinking about the nato alliance. where there wasn t oil, exxon mobil was not involved. that s the challenge for him now after four decades of focusing on other issues. should president obama have responded more aggressively against the russian hack months ago when the intelligence community first learned of it? my own view is yes. they should have responded more aggressively. the dnc should have responded more aggressively. the media should have covered the story. you know, that front page story in the new york times today,
containing state department e-mails. how do you read this? it looks like there is a discrepancy here, right? abedin said earlier this summer she was under sworn deposition she thought she handed over all of the devices that had communications, but there were two laptops, one blackberry and a bunch of documents she did hand over. right. exactly. she handed over a lot of information. and if we give her the benefit of the doubt here, the most charitable explanation is she forgot or didn t realize or she wasn t thinking in terms of her husband s hardware, computer hardware as well as her known. there is an explanation that is feasible that doesn t involve huma doing anything insidious or deceptive, but even the most charitable explanation is a problem. when you work in government you have to keep track of these things, especially when it is state department communications. so, amy, look, you co-authored the book hrc. you have some insight into the huma and hillary relationship. t
that leads to point number two, the peep that are good at politics surround themselves with people who tell you what their real problems are. they re not yes people. so how d you figure that out? i ve been around people who ren t that way. that s how you learn it. what you want is somebody to say, you know, i know why you want to do that, but if you do that, you re going to go to jail. how s that for a start. that s right, like, this is bad news for you. and i think he surrounded himself by people who didn t tell him no and didn t deal with his real weaknesses or vulnerabilities. do you buy the argument? rick, you know politicians. sometimes they are not calculating. they just are angry. do you think that scene at the white house correspondents when president obama just humiliated trump, do you think he decide ds to run that moment? some people say in that big documentary, in the front line documentary, pbs, they say that was the moment he said, i m going to take this guy on.
me to show up in tank and drive around in a tank. pictures in the tank at least two or three times during the campaign as well. but they used it in a commercial. the documentary, above the fray was produced for nbc. will, the question i ve always wondered about, did dukakis know how stupid he looked? this was totally overshadowing a major foreign policy speech he was giving that same day. he wasn t thinking about whether or not to wear a helmet. and as he says in the film, george bush had worn a helmet and ridden around in a tank on camera before as well. so they weren t thinking about optics. he should have thought about the fact that george bush sr. had been shot down twice by the japanese when he was still a teenager. negative campaigns can really, terrible, hillary clinton is running, they re going to be negative. is it the negativity of the campaign or the failure of the campaign playing defense. what is it that s critical?
will, the question i ve always wondered about, did dukakis know how stupid he looked? this was totally overshadowing a major foreign policy speech he was giving that same day. he wasn t thinking about whether or not to wear a helmet. and as he says in the film, george bush had worn a helmet and raidden around in a tank on camera before as well. so they weren t thinking about optics. he should have thought about the fact that george bush sr. had been shot down twice by the japanese when he was still a teenager. negative campaigns can really, terrible, hillary clinton is running, they re going to be negative. is it the negativity of the campaign or the failure of the campaign playing defense. what is it that s critical? not responding to a charge or an attack against you opens up the door for more attacks. ultimately, the idea is to keep the focus on the other guy, the opponent. and that s what dukakis failed