in charge of anything. this is the most obvious thing in world history. though country puts terrified people if charge. in charge. there is no animal species that does that. the whimpering dog will let the pack. no, they get to the back. he follows the big brave dog. how far are you from nature to put a terrified old guy in change of coronavirus? this can t continue. nature writes the rules and we don t. biden certainly doesn t. i we are not in charge of those rules. these are the laws of nature. we are subject to them and we
in world history. though country puts terrified people in charge. there is no animal species that does that. the whimpering dog will let the pack. no, they get to the t back. he follows the big brave dog. how far are you from nature to put a terrified old guy in change of coronavirus? what? no, i mean it. so here is the upside, this can t continue. nature writes the rules and we don t. biden certainly doesn t. nature writes the rules, period. we are not in charge of those rules. they applied to the romans and they apply to us.
during the president and trump administrations until december of last year. he s now an msnbc senior foreign affairs analyst. i m curious your reaction to that. do you think he s doubled down to what he used that abu bakr al baghdadi is dying like a whimpering dog. i think it s come out that nobody knows such information so the president s making that up. if you want to say he s trying to delegitimize baghdadi and the fact that his claim to lead this caliphate is totally false, but obviously, president trump was doing that in a very crude way that i don t think is particularly effective. is it effective or is it not helpful? might it be effective to our detriment in terms of safety? well, in terms of safety, i think you have to look at what s happening in syria and this is far more important. look, the raid carried out in syria by our special operators, and i worked with them for many years, these men and women who
this is obviously a major accomplishment. the president s engagement with the media is surprising to me. this is a high risk period with increased risks of retaliatory attacks and increased risks to human intel on the ground. the level of detail that president trump went into in that press conference increases the risk to sources who may still be on the ground. it s unprecedented when you think about how much detail he went into. are you saying it s irresponsible? it is irresponsible, it puts sources at risk and it s unnecessary at this point, he could have much more succinct. typically you have these talking points scrubbed by the intelligence community to make sure they don t have the unintended impact of inspiring more attacks. he described bagdadi as a whimpering dog but it s clear while the intelligence community played a big role in implementing this raid, it does
he was trying to get across. i think that s why he used that language, going out like a whimpering dog, pretty much to attack this man. anyone listening to president trump describing this man s death, he wanted to make sure that he was shown as dying as a coward and not as a great leader. i want you to pick up on this and weigh in on the two different presentations there. do you think any of this had to do with the fact that osama bin laden had been be baked into the cultures around the world because of 9/11? he was a big deal. almost everybody knew his name. not everybody necessarily knew the name of al baghdadi. was the president trying to prop that up? yeah, ailthe way you frame t is exactly right. osama bin laden is someone we had been trying to take down as a country and, of course, globally the anticipa-terrorist