citizenship question to the census. here for our lead-off discussion on a wednesday night, peter baker, chief white house correspondent for the new york times. the aforementioned nancy cook, white house reporter for politico. and general barry mccaffrey, a retired u.s. army four-star general, a heavily decorated combat veteran of vietnam and a u.s. ground commander in the gulf war among other distinguished roles. thanks to the three of you for getting us kicked off on a wednesday night. nancy, donald trump has been wanting to have something that feels like a military parade or a military display for more than two years now. something is going to happen tomorrow, but there seems to be a good deal of chaos around the way this is being organized. what are you hearing in terms of the concerns? well, really what the concerns are are that there s a question about will enough people show up. the white house and the republican national committee has all of these vip seats they ve been tryi
general, a heavily decorated combat veteran of vietnam and a u.s. ground commander in the gulf war among other distinguished roles. thanks to the three of you for getting us kicked off on a wednesday night. nancy, donald trump has been wanting to have something that feels like a military parade or a military display for more than two years now. something is going to happen tomorrow, but there seems to be a good deal of chaos around the way this is being organized. what are you hearing in terms of the concerns? well, really what the concerns are are that there s a question about will enough people show up. the white house and the republican national committee has all of these vip seats that they ve been tried to off load. originally they tried to give them to a bunch of high-end donors. now i ve been hearing even tonight after i published this story today that they re really willing to off-load them to anyone. one white house staffer that i talked to late this afternoon
here for our lead-off discussion on a wednesday night, peter baker, chief white house correspondent for the new york times. the aforementioned nancy cook, white house reporter for politico. and general barry mccaffrey, a retired u.s. army four-star general, a heavily decorated combat veteran of vietnam and a u.s. ground commander in the gulf war among other distinguished roles. thanks to the three of you for getting us kicked off on a wednesday night. nancy, donald trump has been wanting to have something that feels like a military parade or a military display for more than two years now. something is going to happen tomorrow, but there seems to be a good deal of chaos around the way this is being organized. what are you hearing in terms of the concerns? well, really what the concerns are are that there s a question about will enough people show up. the white house and the republican national committee has all of these vip seats they ve been trying to off-load. originally they trie
i want to update you on breaking news reported by the new york times that we have just been talking about here. president trump approved military strikes against iran as late as 7:00 p.m. on thursday, military and diplomatic officials were expecting a strike. officials said the president had initially approved attacks on a handful of iranian targets like radar and missile batteries: the operation was underway in its early stages when it was called off a senior administration official said. planes were in the air and ships were in position, but no missiles had been fired when word came to stand down the official said. with me to talk about this is general barry mccaffrey, a retired four star general, a heavily decorated combat veteran of vietnam, a u.s. ground commander in the gulf war, a veteran of that region, someone who knows it well, general i m grateful to have you here tonight. this is a remarkable development after a day in which the president said iran has made a
i want to update you on breaking news reported by the new york times that we have just been talking about here. president trump approved military strikes against iran as late as 7:00 p.m. on thursday, military and diplomatic officials were expecting a strike. officials said the president had initially approved attacks on a handful of iranian targets like radar and missile batteries: the operation was underway in its early stages when it was called off a senior administration official said. planes were in the air and ships were in position, but no missiles had been fired when word came to stand down the official said. with me to talk about this is general barry mccaffrey, a retired four star general, a heavily decorated combat veteran of vietnam, a u.s. ground commander in the gulf war, a veteran of that region, someone who knows it well, general i m grateful to have you here tonight. this is a remarkable development after a day in which the president said iran has made a mistake, and