new york. right. and the way he played the media and people in new york city, he s take than to the world now. well, except it s not working. it will be very interesting, elise, to see what happens when lindsey graham is when this is revealed to be nothing but a sellout of all of our allies. well, joe, mine, you re exactly right. i think what you see is all these things conflating. i ve been talking to current and former diplomats who are out traveling the world. and even in ukraine i spoke to a former diplomat who s meeting with officials, students, businessmen. what are they looking at right now? they re not even thinking about what s going on with the impeachment inquiry, they re looking at what happened to the kurds. and they re saying, if the president did that to the kurds, what is he going to do to us? are you going to abandon us? we really need you. in afghanistan, if you look at social media, i ve been talking to some contacts in afghanistan, it s all about support f
be the sad aspect of what s going on in the world. in 11 days, 11 days in october, this october, the president of the united states has made the united states of america irrelevant in the most volatile, dangerous region in the world. he has. admiral, let s move to that part of the story yesterday. the president of the united states, again, not even getting played, just trying to find any fig leaf he can to hide the fact that he s betrayed our closest allies on the battlefield. he s empowered iran, he s empowered putin, he s empowered assad. he has undercut the kurds. he is the man who has reinvented isis. precisely. and, you know, a way to think of this as i watched that press
damaging if not disastrous for a president, he has all of them. he s got the ukraine situation where many of his state department people and even some of his closest allies are going to go in and testify truthfully about what happened there. he s got the situation in syria which the average american may not follow all of the great detail that ayman just gave is, but they get the big picture, that we abandoned the kurds, we ve sat will up to a dictator in turkey and embraced him. and he s got things like the doral which we talked about is the most extraordinary violation of the emoluments clause that you could even imagine occurring. it s not two restaurants in washington suing him like happened before. this is real stuff. and so and you ve got the impeachment inquiry which is now going to bring all this together. and so i just and then you see trump reacting the way he does, which to lash out more and more to say crazier and crazier things, more and more lies, and he thinks can he
responses, the one i like is jim mattis because humor has a way of working itself into the conversation. it s that kind of thing that we need. both of those are appropriate, i think. long term we don t want to see lots and lots of senior retired military leaning into the political system. we are in extraordinary times. i applaud what my good friend mcraven has done and mattis, two very good approaches and both sensible. all right. retired four-star admiral thank you very much. his new book is out now. and after a quick break, we ll put more meat on the bones of all these huge stories which, by the way, the day started yesterday with the gut punch of the death of elijah cummings. it was an incredible day of news
. we re going to announce today that we re doing the 46th g7 summit on june tenth through june 12th at the trump national doral facility until miami, florida. how is this not just an enormous conflict of interest when the president holds the g7 at his own resort skblais skeptical. i was. i was aware of the political crit sthax we d come under for doing it at doral which i is why i was surprised when the advance team said this is the perfect location do this. i get the criticism, so does he. he would be criticized regardless of what he chose to do. but there s no issue of him profiting on this in any way, shape, or form. it s constitution s negotiation. when the constitution does not address profits, it addresses any present, as in a gift, any emole meant, as in cash, of any kind whatever, i m quoting the