we ve known about this pattern for decades actually and he seems to be teflon don, right? and we ve seen what happened to dr. blasey ford where she is not back at work and using her private funds and savings to hire her own security. we know that the supporters of donald trump are highly aggressive and some unstable as far as, you know, going after these women so for some it s a safety issue and he encourages that. i mean we ve seen this time and time again with the way he talks about his accusers. you know, betsy, it struck me, the singular role that ndas play in trump world, which is followed him into the white house, clifford sims who wrote the book engaged in a legal dispute with the white house over getting out of those ndas which the president has used to lock up almost everyone he comes into contact with. that s right. this story is sort of the extension of two lifelong trends for trump. the first, of course, being allegations of sexual misconduct and assault and the second
for decades actually and he seems to be teflon don, right? and we ve seen what happened to dr. blasey ford where she is not back at work and using her private funds and savings to hire her own security. we know that the supporters of donald trump are highly aggressive and some unstable as far as, you know, going after these women so for some it s a safety issue and he encourages that. i mean we ve seen this time and time again with the way he talks about his accusers. you know, betsy, it struck me, the singular role that ndas play in trump world, which is followed him into the white house, clifford sims who wrote the book engaged in a legal dispute with the white house over getting out of those ndas which the president has used to lock up almost everyone he comes into contact with. that s right. this story is sort of the extension of two lifelong trends for trump. the first, of course, being allegations of sexual misconduct and assault and the second being
the difference between those two price, between the fake price and the real price is actually money that they just pocketed themselves. so this is an important company in that country, right? a singular role in their manufacturing sector, and it s got important national security implications, both because the entity they were ripping off was their own military, but also because the ability to manufacture aircraft, particularly military aircraft is an important part of any country s national defense. and in south korea, that is a fraught issue at the moment for of course reasons. so, that scandal, what happened with that aircraft manufacturing company last year, that was always going to be a big deal scandal. but it end upped being more dramatic and tragic than most. the ceo of that company wasn t just fired in this scandal, he was arrested, and the vice president of the company killed himself as prosecutors closed in and started to uncover the fraud. now the company in question was
oval office. he is he is so powerful, so smart. he knows the inside game. he s a knife fighter, frankly, and the person who would be most isolated by this, in addition to pompeo who agrees with him more ideologically on north korea and iran, for instance, but not on the lack of need for diplomacy. the person most isolated by this i think is jim mattis. i think this is an enormous challenge for the defense secretary who has a good relationship, a singular role in this national security team because of the respect the president has for him but now he s really isolated. andrea, it s e s john heilem. i want to ask you to integrate your foreign policy chops and domestic policy knowledge and explain something for me. having watched donald trump over the course of the 2016 campaign and the way in which he talked, we often characterize him as almost an isolationist. the notion he was not selling hawkishness on the campaign