this is what i believe mr. cohen is referring to. as a reckless mentally unstable president of the united states who cozies up to putin and seems to be betraying the national interests. colonel jacobs, walk us through what it means when you lose two generals and chief of staff and now in defense secretary as i was reading and i have it here a letter that sounds like an ousting. you have a right to a secretary of defense whose views are better aligned and it is right for me to step down and a two-page kind of rebuke. your analysis, sir? i ve known general mattis on and off for a long time and the fact he would stay in his post until relieved. he s been relieved. he won t quit on of his own volition. this is an arrangement that was dictated by the president of the united states. let me stop you there and then let you continue, colonel. you re saying that your understanding giving your
he should have told me. even my enemies say that jeff sessions should have told you that he was going to recuse himself and then you wouldn t have put him in. he took the job and then he said i m going recuse myself. i said what kind of a man is this? all right. elisabeth and then katty kay. elisabeth, i mean at this point this looks like a completely nonfunctional white house with a raging unhinged president whose clearly disregarding the truth and trying to save himself while there s a massive investigation on pertaining to our national security and our election process, we have a president who cozies up to putin, helsinki, north korea. at what point do people with any sense of moral compass or any knowledge of history, national security and foreign policy step up at this point?
congressmen have responded to that, there is a much lower percentage of republicans who support that kind of behavior than supported anything beforehand. i think what we and, yet, they re not they didn t come up to the forefront. not many republicans said that was it. thats what the last straw. the insulting of our allies and cozying up to putin. what is it going to take to get republicans to step up and say this is dangerous? i think the point here is this is a question about patriotism, not partisanship, ali. this is a question of asking americans, the american people regardless of what part of the association is to put their country ahead of their party, to do what is right to protect our democracy which is definitely under attack by this foreign country that has had electronic warfare that is what the head of the fbi described it as, electronic warfare against the united states and we need to
for the rest of the world to recognize he annexed crimea. we saw reports he wanted to recognize that russia annexed crimea and he said he was open to discussing that with putin and most recently we saw during not only his rally, but also during the g-7 summit last month when he indicated that these u.s. allies are not paying their fair share and doing what they should be doing. he s alienating the u.s. s closest allies like canada and germany and france is and cozying up to putin. it s mind blowing. classic bully boy behavior from the school yard. you take your friends for granted because you think they need you and you can kick them around, but you look at the other bully and you say that guy i admire. this is the pattern with trump.
wanted to recognize that russia had annexed crimea and he said he is open to discussing that with putin and most recently, did we saw, not only his rallies but during the g7 summit last month when he indicates that, you know, these u.s. allies are not paying their fair share. and you know, he is alienating some of the closest allies like canada, germany, france. and cozying up to putin. it is classic bully behavior from the schoolyard. you take your friends for granted. they all need you so you can cook them around. and you look at the other bully and say that guy i admire. that is the traditional pattern with trump. he genuinely likes putin.