Anything else, this man was not necessarily that person. However, my point was just to say that you can be lowlevel george, you can be low on the org chart and still be the guy who goes to moscow and was sending plenty of emails to people who were high level. High level, theres now it seems like there may be a fair number of people, including high level steve, mr. Bannon, who is for the first time, this is the first moment in which highlevel steve is being dragged into this investigation. First time weve heard his name in a material way and that story may be developing. Let me jump in on this. The point is that when you want to do something sensitive like this, its something akin to an intelligence operation which was what this was on the russian side and i would argue in ways even on the trump side. You do send a lowlevel guy. You dont send the senior guy. You send the low level guy because he attracts less attention. You do that with purpose. So im very much validating johns point bu
Peace process, but leaving the specifics up in the air. Why does it matter . Think back to how this year has unfolded. Powell positioned herself, when she came in, part of that wing or faction in the white house. Jared kushner, ivanka trump, but since then working to build rips with people like h. R. Mcmaster is someone that the president trusts and looks to in some of these big settings and high profile moments. And she has influence here in the west wing. That said there have also been questions about her own sort of positioning or the rumors or speculation of where she wanted to end up. She was widely rumored to have wanted to get back to new york. Her family is still there. Which is obviously potentially part of what plays into this. But i would note just a couple things here. Number one this may be just the start of what were now seeing
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Changer in this back and forth. Francesca chambers, north korea again. You do a lot of foreign travel. It has to be part of the buzz on the back of the plane every day that you are flying. I 100 agree with what youre saying. I dont want to be like accused of warmongering or scare tactics, but, look, this administration is looking at plans to be able to, if they had to, as youre saying here, to be able to go forward with some sort of a Military Option. I know they keep saying those are always on the table, but i am hearing they are trying to afford a Military Option if they had to, in march of next year. Again, hopefully, well obviously not get to where they would have to do that. When they say the Military Option is on the table, the Military Option is on the table. General dunford said at the aspen security institute, thats what you pay us for. We have plans. It is hard to think about the unthinkable, but we have plans. Desensitized, as james was saying, to so many of these things. We
Running the Trump Organization. It worked that way in the campaign and in the white house. People like gary cohn, one of his chief economic advisers, peter navarro, he would have them battle it out about tariffs. Navarros side ended in winning. Thats also been trumps longheld view about tariffs. Gary cohn later resigned, mostly because of that decision made by the president. But he is someone who, in our reporting, shows in recent weeks hes grown more and more frustrated with some of the advice from his straf. Hes also grown more and more frustrated more of his staff is leaving, but at the same time, he feels a little liberated, hes been telling people close to him that he wants to trust his instincts, trust his gut. He thinks thats what won him the election in 2016 and thats what he waunnts to rely on more and more in the white house, and were seeing that this week in particular, the decision on tariffs and the surprising decision on north korea. How much does that thrill you, that he