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Dust up over general milley who truly was encountered with a colonel kurtz situation and whether his enemies want to admit it or not, was the human guardrail in the pentagon, which was without a senate confirmed defense secretary. >> yeah, i mean, as you pointed out earlier on the show, something similar happened when nixon was falling apart at impeachment. but look, nixon on his worst day is socrates compared to donald trump. this guy is a luke tin. what do you do with a lunatic with nuclear we...

Week by the way, his already given elected republicans, fox news in pretty much all of twitter something to talk, about specifically, the actions of the joints chief chairman army general mark milley, that he took when trumps actions became unsound, bloomberg opinion columnist tim obrien said milley should not have been surprised at what he said to have witnessed. when he warns, the republican party continues to embrace and full-blown trump is a, much could still go wrong and we cannot rely on m...

Im not going to go as far as these other officials to make sure president trump was limited in the damage he could do. >> your team interviewed nikki haley and has gotten a reaction from john kelly. he wrote if providing the president with the best and most open legal and ethical staffing advice from across the government so he could make an informed decision is working against trump, then guilty as charged. >> thats john kelly not exact hi exactly denying what nikki haley alleged in her book. w...

Clinton by feeding information to christopher steele for the infamous dossier. he grilled robert mueller about his decision not to exonerate the president on obstruction of justice. he said that he didnt have the authority to either exonerate or not exonerate. wasnt within his mandate to do that and was pretty tough on the special counsel in that hearing, something that cheered on the president as he watched on television. >> jeremy bash, ive used this term before and i dont mean it as a pejorat...

Clinton by feeding information to christopher steele for the infamous dossier. he grilled robert mueller about his decision not to exonerate the president on obstruction of justice. he said that he didnt have the authority to either exonerate or not exonerate. wasnt within his mandate to do that and was pretty tough on the special counsel in that hearing, something that cheered on the president as he watched on television. >> jeremy bash, ive used this term before and i dont mean it as a pejorat...

Authority to either exonerate or not exonerate. wasnt within his mandate to do that and was pretty tough on the special counsel in that hearing, something that cheered on the president as he watched on television. >> jeremy bash, ive used this term before and i dont mean it as a pejorative, but dan coats was what we used to call a chamber of commerce republican in the state of indiana. could you make a case that he grew in this job and slowly realized his status as human guardrail, and what do y...

>> one more question about what you said and one last question for you. you said he doesnt believe in it. do you think he understands it? >> im not sure he does. as nick said, he thinks in every deal theres a winner and a sucker, i think he does believe that. i think thats probably as far as he goes. do you think hes really read -- >> no. >> tombs about the second world war. >> i dont think hes read anything, no. >> you know, if you said the name disrali to him -- come on, no. >> my last questio...

Terrifying. this is not something you can just ignore him. certainly military commanders may see were not going to listen to that thing he said in one news interview but as a citizen, hes our president. so the commander in chief, there are consequences. youre moving real troops, real people, real lives into harms way potentially based on something he said offhand. thats crazy. >> he also improvised the mattis firing, i believe you were in washington the day of that shocking development over a de...

Enthusiasm by the enemy were fighting. you make people who are trying to help wonder about us, and as they get bolder, the people were trying to helper going to get uncertain. we saw this in iraq. and im not seeing it in syria. i hope the president will look long and hard about what were doing in syria. >> remember it was last month that james mattis, seen by many as the last human guardrail on the trump presidency, resigned in protest over the decision to rapidly withdraw troops from syria. joi...

Acquiescence to republicans saying this is the only way out of the national emergency. i said cold and dark. >> cold and dark plis, maace. ma matt miller joins me. >> we know, most people know this shutdown was stupid. they were ready to pass a bill and send it to his desk right before the end of the year that would have solved this entire problem, funded the government going forward. theres another way out for them. they can pass legislation in the senate the house democrats are passing, overri...