Principle of war. I think its one of the great principles. The element of surprise. You can take a force thats not nearly as strong and with the element of surprise you can wipe out a much more powerful force. I dont pretend to be a general or admiral or anything else but i just every time i see, i see president obama get up, ladies and gentlemen, we are sending 50 people to iraq. 50. So thats bad in two ways. Number one, its such a low number that the enemy is saying is that all. And number two, when you think 50, those people now have a target on their back. They want to find those 50 people and they look for those 50 people. When Hillary Clinton says no boots on the ground, now, whether you want boots on the ground or not, you shouldnt say it because she said there will be no boots on the ground. Shes very strong because politics, it sounds a little better to say no boots on the ground. But by doing that, she is empowered the enemy. Empowered the enemy. And i think she possibly mean
No. And the new bipartisan push to fix not repeal obamacare. I predict that president will get a win in health care. And all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Breaking news from the Washington Post minutes ago. From the infamous 2016 meeting at trump tower in which don junior was told coget information on hient Hillary Clinton via the russian government. President trump deck tated his sons misleading statement on meeting with the russian lawyer. Joining me now, phillip rucker, who just broke that story for the Washington Post. Phillip, my understanding is the original plan when the first news of the meeting broke is for don junior to get out ahead of it and issue a statement that wouldnt be contradicted and the president intervened to do what . Thats right, chris. Advisers around the president and around donald trump junior thought he should offer a fairly full and complete statement acknowledging what happened in that meeting and what happened is the pre
To fix not repeal obamacare. I predict that president will get a win in health care. And all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Breaking news from the Washington Post minutes ago. From the infamous 2016 meeting at trump tower in which don junior was told coget information on hient Hillary Clinton via the russian government. President trump deck tated his sons misleading statement on meeting with the russian lawyer. Joining me now, phillip rucker, who just broke that story for the Washington Post. Phillip, my understanding is the original plan when the first news of the meeting broke is for don junior to get out ahead of it and issue a statement that wouldnt be contradicted and the president intervened to do what . Thats right, chris. Advisers around the president and around donald trump junior thought he should offer a fairly full and complete statement acknowledging what happened in that meeting and what happened is the president overruled them. He took m
Down to augusta, georgia to atlanta, georgia to where Tropical Storm irma was visiting its wrath. Trees were down every quarter of a mile a big tree across the road. All the way to atlanta. Atlanta hartsville airport, the worlds Busiest Airport hopelessly disrupted today. Thousands of flights canceled. Southwest had no flights, delta a handful. They canceled over 3,000 of their flights. The Rapid Transit in atlanta was closed all day today. Monday. Now were down in fort benning, the sprawling army base that straddles the georgia alabama line. Irma passing through here now. This is the back side of the storm. Not much going on. Before i talked to the Garrison Commander we were at the chattahooche river there was tremendous flooding back in the day 1990s and then in 2009 Hurricane Irma came by and really visited some real wrath on the peach tree state. Now you have a situation where here in fort benning they are gearing up to help in the relief effort. Before we get there at the chattaho
Ill talk to one psychiatrist who says sometimes leaders perform bet we are a touch of Mental Illness. Speaking of which, are the president s seemingly unhinged belligerent tweets to kim jongun making so many anxious actually a strategy, and one thats working . Plus, after california legalizes pot, Jeff Sessions immediately bogarts it, empowering u. S. Attorneys to start enforcing federal laws against the drug. Where will this end . Ill ask former congressman ron paul. Heres one of his recommendations. Mr. President , why dont you fire this guy . Why dont you fire Jeff Sessions . One thing President Trump is getting credit for is the war on isis. Are they still a threat in 2018 . Ill talk to graeme wood, author the provocative essay which explained what isis really wants. And its the first major awards ceremony of the me too era. Besides the actresses all dressing in black, how else will tomorrow nights Golden Globes cope . Ill ask red carpet expert Melissa Rivers. One of the most talke