communicate to china don t misread the situation, take it easy, it would have been a dereliction of duty not to have made those zblaucalls. two more points. i don t know how meadows and pompeo knew what milley was doing and guys like cruz and rubio didn t know that. you know how close all these players are. you were there. and for them to sit quiet, especially secretary of state pompeo when he was told directly, according to general milley, and say this looks bad, this looks bad, don t you see that as shameful of him? yeah. look, in situations where we ve made a decision that you re going to have a chairman of the joint chiefs call to his counterpart, and i participated in several of those, you discuss it among the principles of the nsc, informally, phone calls and whatnot, and there s generally
chinese leadership worried that in this kind of chaotic environment they saw, they might be subject to a wag-the-dog-style attack. esper and milley both concluded absolutely correctly that if the chinese leadership is in that kind of mood, they could make a miscalculation. they could also believe that we were in disarray, and they might seek to take advantage of it. so the notion that through a number of different levels that the you asked government would communicate to china don t misread the situation, take it easy, it would have been a dereliction of duty not to have made those calls. two more points. i don t know how meadows and pompeo knew what milley was doing and guys like cruz and rubio didn t know that. you know how close all these players are. you were there. and for them to sit quiet, especially secretary of state pompeo when he was told directly, according to general milley, and say this looks bad, this looks bad, don t you see
said, don t misread the election in new york as a reason not to do anything on medicare. that would be negligent. the other thing democrats need to keep in mind is you had a third party tea party candidate, democrat himself but he ran under a tea party who spent $3 million of his own money and siphoned off 9% of the conservative vote which would have tipped the election in the other direction. i don t don t believe the new york race was on the ryan proposal. well, getting 47% for a d in that district is till pretty good. let me ask you about the ryan plan. what bugs me about the ryan plan is when you are 65 you can take care of yourself in most cases. some have bigger health problems. by the time you re 75, it s precarious. by the time you re in the late 70s, early 80ss, the health care is a big part of your life, meeting them. then the republicans have the ryan plan and say we will give you this voucher. it won t cover everything because you will probably have
listen to what president clinton said, don t misread the election in new york as a reason not to do anything on medicare. that would be negligent. the other thing democrats need to keep in mind is you had a third party tea party candidate, democrat himself but he ran under a tea party who spent $3 million of his own money and siphoned off 9% of the conservative vote which would have tipped the election in the other direction. i don t don t believe the new york race was on the ryan proposal. well, getting 47% for a d in that district is till pretty good. let me ask you about the ryan plan. what bugs me about the ryan plan is when you are 65 you can take care of yourself in most cases. some have bigger health problems. by the time you re 75, it s precarious. by the time you re in the late 70s, early 80ss, the health care is a big part of your life, meeting them. then the republicans have the ryan plan and say we will give