Welcome. I want to thank you for joining us today. Im cliff may. Our methods founder and president and were really pleased to have you here today joining us for this event cohosted with the center for a new American Security to mark the release of michael gordons. Excellent new book degrade and destroy the inside story of the war against the islamic state. From barack obama to donald trump. Because michael has had exceptional access to top u. S. Officials and military commanders. And because of his extraordinary firsthand reporting from the battlefields, hes produced a must read book on this historic conflict. We were very proud to have michael with us inhouse at fcd for a period while he was working on the book. And we understand you also spent time at cns during the same. Were all happy to see it on the shelves today. Its available for purchase at all. Major booksellers online, im sure. And for those of you here in person, in the back of the room at the conclusion of todays events. M
Conflict. We were very proud to have michael with us inhouse at fcd for a period while he was working on the book. And we understand you also spent time at cns during the same. Were all happy to see it on the shelves today. Its available for purchase at all. Major booksellers online, im sure. And for those of you here in person, in the back of the room at the conclusion of todays events. Michael gordon currently as the National Security correspondent for the wall street journal. In addition to his latest book, he is the coauthor with the late general bernard trainor, a wonderful man of three definitive histories of the United States wars in iraq. Full disclosure. Ive known michael for a rather long time. I wont tell you how long because he looks so young and may not want to admit his age. But this clue we were in the same bullpen at the New York Times in the previous century. He wasnt astonishingly good. Reporter i could tell you stories. And by the way, reassuring to note, hes still a
11 million undocumented workers in this country is, quote, neither possible or humane. That would be a major departure from the build a wall donald trump that weve heard so far. Trumps camp tonight pushing back saying their candidate said nothing in the meeting that he hasnt said before and a separate trump supporter at that roundtable tells cnn he didnt get the impression that trump was open to legalizing undocumented workers. Heres what trumps new Campaign Manager, Kellyanne Conway, said this morning. Let me play something from what mr. Trump has said previously. Listen to what he said back in november. You need to have a Deportation Force. Will they get ripped out of their homes . How . Theyre going back where they came. If they came from a certain country, theyre going to be brought back to that country. Thats the way its supposed to be. Does donald trump still support that . A Deportation Force, removing the 11 million or so undocumented immigrants . What he supports, and if you g
Torch and tablet and changes her hair. Good morning. It is friday, october 21st. Didnt go really as expected. You got to know your crowd. Well have more of that coming up. With us on set, msnbc political contributor rick tyler and Political Writer for the New York Times nick confessore. Reminds me of Correspondents Dinner that didnt know the crowd and sat there and stared. Awkward. Trump started out hes not good at that. Lets just say that. That requires selfdeprecation. He had a small hands joke. He had a small hands joke. The joke about mill it became a campaign speech. The room started booing him. Im sure well play that later. We have that coming up. At a rally in ohio yesterday, donald trump addressed criticism that hes received from his suspenseful and answer at the debate to whether he will absolutely accept the result of the election. He clarified he would accept the result if its a clear one. Ladies and gentlemen, i want to make a major announcement today. I would like to promi
If we let the Clinton Cartel run this government, history will record that 2017 was the year america lost its independence. Thats true. Thats true. It will not happen on our watch. Okay. This is serious stuff. That was donald trump this evening in grand junction, colorado. He has talked about this election being rigged. And many of his supporters say they are prepared to act if he does not win. Our correspondent jacob rascon spoke to a group of Trump Supporters at his rallies today, colorado springs, jacob is now in denver for us. Jacob, its been proven that if you want to record the trump phenomenon, you best stay out of new york, washington, and los angeles, you will miss the story entirely, boy did you find the story where you were today. And to be clear, brian, we talked to dozens of supporters, nearly every swing state in nearly every stop that donald trump goes, and they dont all agree on what should be done if he loses, but whats clear is that theyre becoming increasingly frustr