that. they couldn t have, lawrence. i worked in the white house as you said. people attack the president all the time and then you have to respond to it. when s so different is that people attacking the president are his closest advisers. his secretary of state calls him a moron. his national security adviser calls him an idiot. it s hard for the white house to muster a response to the white house. i think it goes back to what jennifer said. in the end, if it took the national security adviser eight months to figure that donald trump was an idiot then we need to introduce him to captain obvious because this is about the plainest fact about the trump presidency one could ever imagine. jennifer, you cannot dine out in america where more people voted for hillary clinton than donald trump and not here words like moron and idiot when people are talking about the president of the united states. that s one of the reasons these stories come with the credibility level that they
would have. and so, ron, when the white house is faced today with this issue of the national security adviser calls the president an idiot, they work on a statement of exactly what they re going to say. ron, you ve been in the white house. you know how they work on the statements and the samt comes out as simply those false comments represent the diametric opposite of general mcmaster s actual views. now, that is as weak a possible rebuttal statement. they could not have put together a weaker string of words than that. they couldn t have, lawrence. i worked in the white house as you said. people attack the president all the time and then you have to respond to it. when s so different is that people attacking the president are his closest advisers. his secretary of state calls him a moron. his national security adviser calls him an idiot. it s hard for the white house to muster a response to the white house. i think it goes back to what
for two long months attorneys for both sides hammered at the question, what happened to nancy cooper? the defense charged the police more than dropped the ball, their investigation was dishonest. the erasing of nancy s blackberry, for one thing, had to be intentional, said the defense. nonsense, said the prosecution. besides, they said they already found what they needed from that phone through other sources. we had her phone records so we knew everything she had done. we had the billing so we could tell how much texting she did or didn t do. we already knew all her friends. and the idea that police might have inserted the google map search on brad s computer, well, they couldn t have, said detective daniels. none of the people that work for me or worked in the department would have had the knowledge to go in and do something like that. the defense charged that
hell assure you they do not deserve our politics right now. we should be clear that the congresswoman for all intents and purposes was a family member. she actually knew la david johnson from the time he was a kid, created a program that he came up in, was there for a reason. it s not just any politician who s going to be sitting with a widow as she goes to retrieve her husband s body. let s call her what she is, in effect, a family member. and across the board, the soldier s parents, the widow, this close family friend, all of them said something went horribly wrong with that call. it is a tragedy, i think, that what appears to have been a misunderstanding you know, i mean, general kelly explained what the president meant to say. i believe him. it sounds very plausible. it sounds like it was misheard for a lot of different reasons. it s really a tragic shame that with maybe a follow-up phone call, general kelly says he heard his end of the conversation, they couldn t have cleared
could have pierced those doors, and in a subject like this, you need speed, surprise, which they didn t have, they couldn t have, violence of action and a fail-sale breach. getting him was the most important thing. a lot went into that window of examining in terms of multiple reports. having it at such a remote place, and knowing you were dealing with a madman and a canyon on the oth cannon on the other side. thank you very much. you are welcome. we re dealing with that part of the investigation. of course it matters how he got the guns and of course there s a discussion to be had. you should have it in the moment like this because this is when people are listening. but who survived? how they did it?