Mark barnacle. Analyst and professor of Public Policy congressman harold ford, jr. Good morning. The Washington Bureau chief for the Associated Press julie pace and carol lee, a part of the nbc news team behind this mornings new reporting on what happened inside the president s meeting with top pentagon officials. Joe, we talked about this story in the campaign. That conversation was so it was so disturbing on so many levels. It was chilling and, of course, right after that, thats when you delivered your warning to the republicans first and to americans who would vote for him, saying if you vote for him, this was right i think during the Republican National convention or right after, at that time he was a candidate and a lot of people werent giving him a chance to win. But you still issued your warning and i can tell you the Foreign Policy expert i spoke with afterwards was rattled and the impression was, my god, the conclusion was, my god, could you ever imagine this guy getting his h
THERE was always going to be something of a scorched earth response by Donald Trump to leaving office after losing last November’s presidential election. Make chaos, create trouble, if I can’t have it then no one else can, has long been a leitmotif of the Trump political strategy even before he set foot in the White House. A long-recognised feature of extremism too has also always been a predilection to attack its own side. Few though within the US Republican Party could ever have imagined that Trump’s extremism would wreak the carnage that it has within their own ranks these past weeks.
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Exactly one week after impeaching Donald Trump, America on Wednesday will inaugurate Joe Biden as its next president. As the Republican Party finds itself cast into a political wilderness, Foreign Editor David Pratt looks at where the GOP goes from here There was always going to be something of a scorched-earth response by Donald Trump to leaving office after losing last November’s presidential election. Make chaos, create trouble, if I can’t have it then no-one else can has long been a leitmotif of the Trump political strategy even before he set foot in the White House.