be the national security adviser, i didn t think it would last. i thought it would go longer than 23 days, but he just doesn t have the skill set. and i don t say that condescendingly because i don t either. most professional intelligence officers just don t have the right skill sets, the political acumen particularly, i think, to be an effective national security adviser. there are a couple things i want to talk to you about before we run out of time. i want to get to two things you said. you said you think that folks in the white house were surprised because they thought he was going to back out of his agreement, right? do you think that they are starting to believe their own lies or their own conspiracy theories or what they re hearing that people are saying rather
i think it s a combination of two things. one, some hubris. and, two, i think mike frankly was just in over his head. he was a great tactical intelligence officer, but as soon as i heard he was going to be the national security adviser, i didn t think it would last. i thought it would go longer than 23 days, but he just doesn t have the skill set. and i don t say that condescendingly because i don t either. most professional intelligence officers just don t have the right skill sets, the political acumen particularly, i think, to be an effective national security adviser. there are a couple things i want to talk to you about before we run out of time. i want to get to two things you said. you said you think that folks in the white house were surprised because they thought he was going to back out of his agreement, right? do you think that they are starting to believe their own lies or their own conspiracy theories or what they re hearing that people are saying rather than just the fa
we look up at it adoringly or look down on it con condescendingly, but if you look straight at it. john, we as your friends were so proud of you yesterday. it was such a beautiful eulogy. i don t know how well were you were able to connect as you delivered it, but president george w. bush had the shoulder shaking with laughter at the right times. congratulation owes a job well done. as we look back on the presidency of george h.w. bush and certainly you did a great job looking back at his life and there is no contesting that he was a great man. is there a reassessment, do you think, and not just in the last couple of days, but in the last several years of his presidency? often a one-term president can be dismissed as a blip on the
said the president s position on the wall had evolved. he talks publicly kind of condescendingly about the president, which has annoyed the president before. we know that he did he s also purported to say in the nbc piece that the president doesn t know anything about daca, and i think that sounds close to the truth because the president was ready to make a daca deal with the democrats it was bipartisan, about youabut a lot democrats were driving it. that kelly had to put up a roadblock too. both stories have the ring of truth to me. speaking to people close to the president over time, these are the sorts of words and descriptions that come. there s a reason people don t want to put their name on them. because he ll be mad and won t talk to them. but we ve all heard it. it has a very clear ring of truth, we all have spoken to people who know the president well who have said those words. if john kelly flatly denies he called the president an idiot, i believe him.
we re very comfortable with. why did nikki haley not get that message? i m not going to go through specifics. she was left twisting in the wind. that s the problem. she wasn t left twisting in the wind. this was a fluid situation. the situation changed. nikki is a terrific spokesperson for the administration. situations change. you shouldn t read too much into this. these guys have got to stop talking condescendingly about nikki haley. she s one sharp politician, probably better than any of the other guys. be right back. goes here. test drive the ztrak z540r at your john deere dealer and learn why it s not how fast you mow, it s how well you mow fast. nothing runs like a deere. save 250 dollars when you test drive and buy a john deere residential z540r ztrak mower. tired of wrestling with seemingly impossible cleaning tasks?