Happen. From the republican side today after defense secretary planned to impose furloughs, 800,000 civilian employees if the sequester hits, john boehner responded president obama is ultimately responsible for the military readiness and its fair to ask, what is he doing to stop his sequester that would hollow out our armed forces. Joining me now is kelly odonnell. The president will kipitch this program that includes 50 billion for transportation infrastructure and a Publicprivate Partnership to attract financing that they have as a partnership to rebuild america and cutting red tape to get permits. Sounds like a decent start. Those are welltested ideas. They like to see government deal with red tape and infrastructure is popular. Those are solid ideas that the president can try to campaign on, if you will. He has the power of the office and the reach of the office that gives him a Real Advantage in this debate over the sequester cuts. Being able to do those interviews across the coun
Florida. And p. J. Crowley, and state department spokesma and also brian bender, the National Security writer and editor for politico and finally last but not least, a former ambassador to a number of countries including syria, iraq and afghanistan. And im sorry, finally, john finer, form he chief of staff for secretary of state john kerry. We have a lot of great minds with us today and i appreciate you all being with us. Let me start with kelly. How is the u. S. Preparing to respond to north korea . I mention that had we got this reporting about a possible preemptive move. What are you hearing . With, the latest as the day progress itses here from white house sources is that there is a calm at this point. They are clearly aware of the importance of the anniversary to the north korean government and saying to us that it is unsurprising that they would pews anniversary for a show of military might. Theyve done it so many times before. At the same time the president wants to show a willi
Because of trump. Im not astonished trump would attempt to profit off the presidency we have seen that but the fact the military is enlisted. And that the military is apparently not peeping and not helping as congress is trying to do oversight on this. I mean, i feel like the astonishment thing its almost like clinical, lets try not releasing tax returns. Right. Lets see, okay im getting away with that, okay lets try not setting up a blind trust, okay. Lets try not divesting okay. Well lets try hosting official government events and World Leaders at my properties. Im goating away with all of this. Its finally no, mike if you are going to ireland youre staying 180 miles away from the meetings so i can get paid there. Were putting the g7 at doral and by the way military transport flights to kuwait, have to stop at the little commercial airport next to my golf course in scotland to spend their refueling dollars there at top dollar, a premium they pay to get refueled at a commercial airpor
That i did it, but it almost killed me. I said at the time i would never ever do another book again. In the interim i forgot that pledge. That is why i have now accidentally written this new book called blow out, constructed democracy, rogue state russia and the richest, most destructive industry on earth, cheery, right, i know. This book, blowout comes out in about three weeks, on october 1st, because you cant buy it yet, you can only preorder now, because you cant buy it yet, im not going to spend time telling you what its about, and why i wrote it, i will do it some other time. The thing i need to tell you about now because its time sensitive is that im going to do a little book tour right around the time that the book comes out. I say its a little book tour because im not going to a bunch of places. Its a short book tour mostly because i cant take time off work. I have this other job. Its hard to do these things at once, but this is the book tour. Im going to these eight places tha