About this already tonight on msnbc. Presumably you have heard some buzz about this today and tonight since this broke. Since the wall street journal published this. Im already sort of against my better judgment that im talking about it at all. The reason i dont want to spend too much time on this. I feel like this is kind of mean i feel like this is kind of mean. Not mean to greenland. I feel like somebody is trying to make the president look dumb. So us talking about it, i feel like were being complicit in that other persons mean trick. We dont know who that other person is who is playing this joke on President Trump. The way the wall street journal describes it is as such. At a dinner with Associates Last spring, mr. Trump said someone had told him at a round table that denmark was having financial trouble over its assistance to greenland. That person suggested that he should consider buying the island. What do you think about that . The president asked the room . Do you think it wo
No president has ever had to hire four Different National Security Advisors in less than three years. But after President Trump fired his third one yesterday, or he resigned, or something, today what i guess has been the john bolton wing of the Trump White House started emptying out in the wake of boltons departure himself. Boltons assistant at the National Security council was fired or left today. The two senior directors for Strategic Communication at the National Security council were also fired or left today. We are also following some emerging reports that some other National Security staff may be out, either fired or just leaving now that President Trump has shed his third National Security advisor. There is certainly no sign yet of who else might come in as trumps next National Security advisor. Amid speculation that maybe President Trump will decide he doesnt want anyone in that job. I mean, the National Security advisors job is to coordinate the whole policy process in the whi
I feel like this is kind of mean. I feel like somebody is not mean to greenland, i mean, mean to the president. I feel like somebody is playing a joke on the president and he doesnt know it. I feel like somebody is trying to make him look dumb, right . So us talking about it, i feel a little bit like were being complicit in that other persons mean trick. Now, we dont know who that other person is whos playing this joke on President Trump. The way the wall street journal describes it as such. At a dinner with Associates Last spring, mr. Trump said someone had told him at a roundtable that denmark was having financial trouble over its assistance to greenland. That person suggested he should consider buying the island. What do you guys think about that, the president asked the room . Do you think it would work . And you know what, that is a mean thing to do to a gullible person. I mean to say to them like in all seriousness totally deadpan, hey, you know, big guy, you could buy greenland.
Security and u. S. Politics news. It is unsettling that it is on this anniversary that were reporting on the consequences of there being no National Security advisor again. No president has ever had to fi hire four different National Security advisors in less than three years. But after President Trump fired his third one yesterday, or he resigned, or something, today what i guess has been the john bolton wing of the Trump White House started emptying out in the wake of boltons departure himself. Boltons assist at the National Security council was fired or left today. The two senior directors for Strategic Communication at the National Security council were also fired or left today. We are also following some emerging reports that some other National Security staff may be out, either fired or just leaving now that President Trump has shed his third National Security advisor. There is certainly no sign yet of who else might come in as trumps next National Security advisor. Amid speculat
Secular Advent Calendar of president ial scandals. This a good day to have a former highlevel National Security official to give you some perspective. President trump has only been in office, like, 2 1 2 years. Hes now looking for his fourth National Security adviser who i think if he finds that person will actually be the fifth person to whom he has offered the job. But today was, like, a banner day for all of them all at once. Start with the first one. President trumps first National Security adviser mike flynn, he spent today in federal court where he learned of his new probable sentencing date. The date on which he will find out if hes going to jail after he pled guilty to a felony for lying to federal investigators about his secret contacts with the russian government. Now, today was sort of a good news bad news day for mike flynn. Starting with the bad news, it just maybe this is just me, it does seem to me kind of ominous that the likely sentencing date he got today in court is