1999-2000, carries the bags, carries the cigar case, carries the cokes, diet cokes, and then after president clinton leaves the white house, he stays with clinton. he headed off for goldman sachs, he could have taken a regular, successful business route. he stays with president clinton, stays in that role of assistant, travels all around the world with him, just hundreds of cities, dozens of countries, on the private jets for all these years and becomes basically the main guy. yeah. if you want to get bill clinton to come to your event or get him, you go through doug band, basically. exactly. so, what s the problem here? scandal is in the headline of your piece. like, to justify the use of that word to me. well, the use of scandal was a bit of a headline writer s irony, but no, but there is a problem, and the problem is that there s been increasing overlap, really, between both for doug band and for sort of bill clinton and clinton land as a whole, overlap between the great pub
fratty cabal that alec s writing about right now. but i am interested and troubled by the choice that hillary has made strategically to join the family foundation, because that brings her in, and now it s clinton they re all there, and in some ways, the narrative is things got out of hand, bill sort of let doug band run wild. now hillary clinton, who did a great job managing the state department, is back in town. chelsea clinton s going to whip things in shape. josh, is that your sense of the way the story s being presented or understood? no, not at all. what was so striking to me about alec s piece was it showed that this idea of an advisor run amuck is really endemic to both clintons. we look back at the 08 campaign now and remember it as this glorious obama triumph, but what really happened was that hillary s senior advisers were so busy trying to amass their own power and personal fortunes that they stopped paying attention to what was best for the campaign and ultimately go
jerry, you were in somalia. there s footage of you being on a rooftop with incoming fire from al shabaab fighters, basically. what do you make of the conflicting reports about whether al shabaab or al qaeda did it, and who is al shabaab and how are they different from al qaeda? right, well, first of all, al shabaab was a group of relative nobodies in 2006 during the bush administration. they were a sort of outlier in a group called the islamic courts union, which was largely made up of, almost exclusively made up of somali actors. and these actors meaning players on the scene in somalia. and al shabaab was the sort of group among those that sort of had the most allegiance to al qaeda or affinity for osama bin laden s message, but they had no political sway whatsoever domestically within somalia. the u.s. partnered with the ethiopian military in 2006-2007 and staged an invasion of somalia, and they dismantled this government of the islamic courts union, which was the only government t
jerry, you were in somalia. there s footage of you being on a rooftop with incoming fire from al shabaab fighters, basically. what do you make of the conflicting reports about whether al shabaab or al qaeda did it, and who is al shabaab and how are they different from al qaeda? right, well, first of all, al shabaab was a group of relative nobodies in 2006 during the bush administration. they were a sort of outlier in a group called the islamic courts union, which was largely made up of, almost exclusively made up of somali actors. and these actors meaning players on the scene in somalia. and al shabaab was the sort of group among those that sort of had the most allegiance to al qaeda or affinity for osama bin laden s message, but they had no political sway whatsoever domestically within somalia. the u.s. partnered with the ethiopian military in 2006-2007 and staged an invasion of somalia, and they dismantled this government of the islamic courts union, which was the only government t
he s backed himself into a procedural corner. there is no game plan. again, when you are taking yourself outside of the process so far that you can t wrap back around into it, you have this problem where you re standing there alone, which is where he is right now, and where even the base that you have inside the membership, inside the club, is not feeling it. so, here s my question. obviously, this helps him with the conservative grassroots. oh, yeah. if he is hated, if john mccain hates him and we re beating up on him on msnbc, this is all oh, he s loving it. here s my question. the gq profile, the fascinating thing about ted cruz is he is a creature of the grassroots, but he is as much a creature of the american elite as any single politician in american today. the guy is credentialed up the wazoo. and when you read the quotes in gq about i won t study with anyone who didn t go to harvard, yale or princeton, that doesn t play very well with the conservative grassroo