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that they know bad things about him. good reason to keep really really really good files. you never no who will end up being president of the large western country. adam davidson, reporter for the new yorker. now time for last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening. good evening, rachel. boy am i glad i ve never done business in russia. doesn t that all sound obvious when you hear it that of course it would work that way. well and the fact the thing i have learned from adam davidson s reporting at the new yorker is you don t have to be perfect but you do have to look to see if you are really obviously doing dirty business with people who everybody knows are dirty. and it doesn t matter if that s okay in their country. it is not okay in the united states if you re an american company or american businessman doing that. just willful refusal to look and recognize dirt you are wallowing in, that s enough to get nailed in this country under our lawes. and it is absolu ....
presented with another opportunity to be presidential and he chose to offer a factually inaccurate tweet. at least 13 people are dead after a van deliberately swerved on to a pedestrian mall in a popular tourist district. two people have been arrested. isis has claimed responsibility and there s police activity in a town south of bars locelonbarce. spanish police are calling it a raid. we ll bring you details as they become available. today president first tweeted his he condemnation of the attack and offered help. then minutes later, there was this. study what general pershing of the united states did to terrorist when s caught. there was no more radical islamic terror for 35 years. to study that, you ll have to go into your spam folder and find the e-mail forward from your many bloomberg reports the president is abandoning plans for an advisory council on infrastructure after two others disbanded yesterday. meanwhile in congress, momentum is growing for a formal resolution. ....
we will not talk about numbers of troops. that is new for the american presidency. at no point tonight did the president clarify anything about what would actually change militarily for the united states in afghanistan. if this speech is meant to be interpreted as an increase in troop strength in afghanistan, it s the first time a president has announced an increase in troop strength without actually announcing an increase in troop strength. as commander in chief, i have determined that it is in our vital national interest to send an additional 30,000 u.s. troops to afghanistan. after 18 months, our troops will begin to come home. these are the resources that we need to seize the initiative while building the afghan capacity that can allow for a responsible transition of our forces out of afghanistan. and here is how president george w. bush described the military surge that he ordered in iraq. so uch committed more than 20,000 additional american troops to iraq. the v ....
can baker succeed where johnny man sell failed? ronny jackson withdrew his nomination to be the next va secretary will not be returning in his role as the president s personal physician. two senior administration officials, nbc news has not confirmed that reporting. jackson faced intense criticism this week after the top democrat on the senate veterans affairs committee, jon tester, released a document summarizing allegations against jackson by current and former colleagues. those allegations included overprescribing pills, drinking on the job, and creating a hostile work environment. president trump responded in a tweet yesterday writing, quote, secret service has just informed me that senator jon tester s statements on admiral jackson are not true. here s what the president had to say at his rally last night in michigan. senator jon tester of a really great place, montana, who voted, by the way, in favor of sanctuary cities who is weak on the border, didn t vote for tax cu ....
his family, extraordinary success. great doctor, great everything. he has to listen to the abuse he has to if i were him, actually, in many ways i d love to be him. but the fact is, i wouldn t do it. i wouldn t do it. what does he need it for? to be abused by a bunch of politician that aren t thinking nicely about our country? i really don t think personally he should do it. it s totally his. i would stand behind him. totally his decision. okay. now trump tapped jackson for the job after firing at that time previous head of the va, david shulkin who came on this show after his firing and told me trump s political appointees at the agency conspired against him because he refused to move quickly to privatize the va. jackson does not have the sort of resume that would prepare him to lead the va with its more than 375,000 employees. before his nomination, he was most famous for his remarkably rosy assessment of the president s health which included references to trump s inc ....