well, on the thursday, i guess, after the election i was fired. he didn t have the very best people in front of him to be able to make a full and fair decision about. so in the end this is a monumental staff failure that failed the president and as a result failed the country. now, that s not a trump critic you re listening to. that is an early endorser who, of course, was in charge of transition saying, full stop, not the best people, and failure. now, as always, we report out what we re hearing and the white house has responded to this. and i want to show you their response which focuses on the idea that donald trump has assembled in their view, quote, an incredible team. but donald trump s staff has been riddled with rapid departures, a turnover rate much higher than predecessors in both parties. he s had trouble filling the holes that are then created. 693 confirm s are in place. you can see many other presidents were much higher, including obama, clinton, et
lobbyist for turning at this. doesn t that mean mr. vice-president that even if he didn t lie to you about what the russian ambassador said or didn t say that you would have had to fire him any way? let me say hearing that story today was the first i heard of it. i think it is an affirmation of the president s decision to ask general flynn s design. you have an attorney calling the transition saying, a person who is in line to be the national security advisor may need to register as a person for agent. it s a question of whether or not they gave them the advice they re supposed to. i believe that everybody has done what has legally been required of them. we ll start the lightning round with that, the realization that the former national security advisor, michael flynn retroactively registered himself as a foreign agent working for turkey as a consultant even as he was with the trump campaign and ahead of his vetting process
lobbyist for turning at this. doesn t that mean mr. vice-president that even if he didn t lie to you about what the russian ambassador said or didn t say that you would have had to fire him any way? let me say hearing that story today was the first i heard of it. i think it is an affirmation of the president s decision to ask general flynn s design. you have an attorney calling the transition saying, a person who is in line to be the national security advisor may need to register as a person for agent. it s a question of whether or not they gave them the advice they re supposed to. i believe that everybody has done what has legally been required of them. we ll start the lightning round with that, the realization that the former national security advisor, michael flynn retroactively registered himself as a foreign agent working for turkey as a consultant even as he was with the trump campaign and ahead of his vetting process
complicated world, fifth generation fighter jets that can easily create incidents that in turn could enable a crisis. in other words, this is a region that s going to be on the boil for years and years to come. there you can see the countries we re talking about, japan, china, the two richest countries in asia, but next to it lots of small countries that are many concerns. geoff, when you look at this, is it fair to say at the heart of what s going on, the motor that might drive a crisis, as china has gotten richer has become more expansive in its definition of what it considers its vital interests, what it wants to control in its region? absolutely. the last five years china s gone through an important transition saying, this our time. we ve built up this interest in the last five years. ecan start making a claim and that s underlying all of the different tensions that come to
considers its vital interests, what it wants to control in its region? absolutely. china has gone through a very important transition saying, this is our time. we ve built up this interest in the last five years. and this is coming to the forefront in the last two or three years. china has had territorial disputes wall these other countries. interestingly, they solved most of the land ones, but it s the naval ones that seem to be still at issue. why is that? that s because what china wants to do eventually to the south and east china seas is what the united states did to the caribbean in the 19th and early 20th century. dilute american influence in western asia so that china could expand its continental land mass into the adjacent blue waters. the south china sea has the potential to make china into a great military power in the way the caribbean gave the united