talks in september. he talked about a meeting at camp david which was cancelled. but it s not clear what the status of the talks may be. thank you. glad to hear you re home safe. let s bring in our panel. washington post white house correspondent, l. times report, and john gantz, former speech writer to ash carter and the author of white house warriors how the national security council transformed the american way of war. the there have been so many fits and starts when it comes to talks with the taliban. where do you think we stand? the president did make some important news yesterday, as michael mentioned in saying that the talks have restarted. if, in fact, these are face-to-face talks between u.s. officials and taliban officials, that is a whole lot farther towards resolution of this deal
security council trends formed the american way of war. welcome to you. you know, you know the deal. three national security advisers now come and gone within essential essentially 2 1/2, 3 years with this president s administration. what do you make of this firing? like blaming a leopard for his spots trying to claim that firing john bolton was over his hard-edge views is akin to firing somebody for the first line of their resume. in addition, trying to say iraq is the reason a decision made 15, 16 years ago doesn t quite add up. there was a lot more to this decision including some of the ways that the president, national security adviser john bolton tried to handle the president on afghanistan and other decisions clearly had impact. not just the first hard-line you voos. what about the resignation of bolton himself? how he effectively destroyed the
contrast and one of the things we re going to be dealing with for a very long time is to go to some of the moan yen you mentio. we had a coherent in this country for about 75, 80 years. it was ferocious and pitched and even violent. but franklin roosevelt and barack obama governed in the same vernacular. president trump doesn t. do we want it to take root or not. here s another way of putting it from our friend from the justice department department. this week trump continued his feud with a dead man, picked a new one with bette midler, that he didn t serve in vietnam because it was far away and the moon was part of mars, cool, cool.
everywhere were left to wonder what on earth he was talking about, and as the 11th hour gets under way on a friday night. well, good evening, once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 869 of the trump administration. the president returns to the white house and his mill bpolit battles after a five-day trip to the uk, ireland and france. while onboard air force one on the way home, couldn t help himself, trump sounded like a man who couldn t wait to get back to work. he wrote, heading back to d.c. many great things are happening for our country. tonight trump announced a deal has been reached with mexico on illegal immigration and, the tariffs scheduled to be implemented by the u.s. on monday against mexico are hereby and definitely suspended. more on that just ahead. politico points out what it calls the harsh reality of what s ahead for trump who is, returning to a feud with house speaker nancy pelosi, also
about it a week ago tonight. it was in the report and people read it, but there s just something to hearing it. the recording was made public yesterday. i would urge people to listen to it. and it just has a different narrative impact when people hear the attorney for the president stuttering and pausing and being deliberate and very meticulous in the words he s choosing but ultimately, and in an almost mob boss like way, leaning on a witness, force or push a witness or at least hide behind national security as a means of trying to get information out of another witness. so under normal times it would be horrible and almost devastating to a presidency. all of this, and getting back to the john dowd voicemail, all of this, i think, leads to the conclusion that we need to hear from robert mueller, himself, or someone from the special counsel team. it s one thing to have a 448-page report that no one in america has read except you and me and nancy and jill, the folks on this panel, that s