my guest is us democratic party insider, jake sullivan, a key adviser to senior democrats, including hillary clinton when she was secretary of state, as well as on the campaign trail, last year. president trump has attracted a lot of criticism at home and abroad over his rhetoric and style of leadership, but is he not proving more effective in important foreign policy issues, like the fight against extremists, than the previous democratic administration? jake sullivan, welcome to hardtalk. thanks for having me. as a key adviser to hillary clinton, can give be objective about the trump administration? probably not entirely objective. i would have to put my bias on the table, that i spent two years trying to stop him from getting into the oval office. but i think a lot of the things that we predicted during the campaign about his lack of fitness for office have borne out over the last six months. so i ve tried to take a step back be as fair minded as possible in assessing what
my guest is us democratic party insiderjake sullivan. a key adviser to senior democrats, including hillary clinton when she was secretary of state as well as on the campaign trail last year. president trump has attracted a lot of criticism at home and abroad over his rhetoric and style of leadership. but is he not proving more effective in important foreign policy issues like the fight against extremists than the previous democratic administration? jake sullivan, welcome to hardtalk. thanks for having me. as a key adviser to hillary clinton, can you be objective about the trump presidency? probably not entirely objective. i would have to put my bias on the table, that i spent two years trying to stop him from getting into the oval office. but i think a lot of things that we predicted during the campaign about his lack of fitness for office have borne out over the past six months. i ve tried to take a step back and be as fair minded as possible in assessing what he s done. but
welcome to bbc news. a truck has been driven into pedestrians in the swedish capital, stockholm, killing at least three people and injuring many more. the swedish prime minister says everything indicates it is a terror attack. the truck is reported to have rammed a department store on drottninggatan one of the city s major shopping streets. the truck is reported to have been stolen at a brewery. police have advised people to avoid the city centre, and city s subway has been closed. witness say shots have been fired in another part of stockholm. sweden has been attacked and everything indicates this was a terrorist attack. the government is obviously informed all the time, we get continuous information. the government is doing everything to support the authorities who are working now. now we urge the public to be alert and listen, not at least on the police information. i would also say that according to the security police, we have at least two killed in this horrific terro
. if you want to list things to worry about, he said his father the president is surrounded by 37 appeasers. yes, he means people who just tell trump what they think he wants to hear, where the family gives him the right direction. what a perfect definition of a country run by a royal family, again, on the russian model, the romanovs, a bad example of having it all and blowing it. and that s hardball for now. thanks for being with us. all in with chris hayes starts right now. tonight on all in. you had a, you know, someone as despicable as hitler, who didn t even sink to the to using chemical weapons. communication breakdown. to draw any comparison to the hol oh cost was inappropriate. from foreign policy to the basics of governing, new signs of confusion and chaos in an understaffed white house. then
donald trump, as part of an investigation into potential links between russian intelligence and the trump campaign. more on this story coming up. but this comes a
this coming as president trump does appear to be going ut alone. essentially acting as his own lead attorney. this was according to sources who say the president feels misled and no longer wants anyone else in charge. it is a decision with massive implications, given the fact president trump s personal lawyer and ficker of a dozen years is under investigation and his documents have been seized by federal prosecutors. that means the president, who does not have a law degree, is trying essentially take over his own defense and today he went on offense on twitter about the russia investigation, tweeting slippery james comey, the worst fbi director in history, was not fired because of the phony russia veinvestigation. where by the way, there was no collusion except by the dems. of course, there s a huge problem with the tweet like that. and that is this. the president himself said last year on national television that comey was fired because of russia. regardless of recommendation,