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It seemed a tripling down on his decision as president to withdraw the united states, the military forces from afghanistan. but you cant have both, we planned for every contingency, but the truth is it unfolded more quickly than anticipated. those two things dont actually go together. and its leaving that unanswered i think leaves this opportunity for legitimate criticism that i think the president is going to probably need to continue or at least get back to and try another take at getting thos...

0 that they are the ones that have protected our nation for the past two decades by taking the fight to the terrorists in iraq and afghanistan, and not allowing them to attack our homeland. and, unfortunately, we see the resurgence of the taliban and the reconstitution of al qaeda in afghanistan. so i worry about the homeland. but that is the very first thing that our president needs to communicate is to these brave men and women, a heartfelt thank you. the second thing is how are we going to ev...

The house homeland security committee. bennie thompson. mr. chairman, grateful for your time today. when you listen as you did right there to the former president over the weekend doubling down, tripling down, i dont know what to call it, on the big lie in the context of your investigation, do you feel any burden to look back to bring people in to document, again, unfortunately, that the election was fire? trump had every chance to challenge it. he lost in court. do you feel that because of what...

The president is clearly feeling the pressure from the impeachment inquiry, but one source says trump is going for broke on his discredited biden conspiracy theories. here to discuss, anthony scaramucci. anthony, good evening. >> its good to be back. >> so tonight lets start with this. a source close to the white house, as i said, says the president is going for broke. >> yeah. >> what do you make of his strategy, his demeanor, his behavior? because this is only one week into this inquiry. >> we...

Tripling down, thats the presidents strategy. so today by declaring and calling for china to investigate his political adversary, thats full-blown trumpian gaslighting. hes trying to do that in the open to sort of anesthetize everybody to it. so what im concerned about is we predicted the meltdown, we predicted the -- literally the nervous breakdown the presidents having. but what im shocked by is that there are 53 senators that really havent come out and spoken out. im just shocked. i would lov...

"washington post," who has a great front page story this morning all about this. so now we know why the birmingham office sent out a true tweet saying alabama was safe. they did the right thing. they warned the public not to take trumps tweet seriously. this is not sharpiegate. forget about the sharpie. this is lying about a hurricane gate. he shared incorrect information about dorians path once, twice, three times last sunday. and when tv networks pointed this out, he wasted the week trying to ...

I just wonder your thoughts about how the trump team is spinning this map snafu and fund-raising off of it, trying to capitalize off of it. >> trying to capitalize on it. weve seen that before, but nothing on this scale for something like this where the president -- >> not embarrassed. >> well, in actually trying to get over the embarrassment by not only doubling down, tripling down, but this is just a reminder to a lot of people out there. listen to your local weatherman and weather report. the...

Tripling down, not able to admit a mistake into really another way to call it all fake news. so in that sense, it fits the overarching narrative that is always part of this white house. >> we mentioned the statement that came out in the last couple of hours from noaa. in that statement, noaa also reprimanded the national weather service in birmingham, which first corrected the president last sunday, saying their tweet, quote, spoke in absolute terms that were inconsistent with probabilities from...

This week, as the storm has continued all week, were talking about a sharpie. what is the sense of folks around trump in the white house? do they think he is achieving something here, or are they saying this is something he should not be doing, in their view? >> well, he is turning this story into really a roundabout way to attack media, which is kind of the overarching narrative of this white house. now its that the reports about his mistake are inaccurate. hes trying to get all these ways to s...

Classic trump doubling down, tripling down, not able to admit a mistake into really another way to call it all fake news. so in that sense, it fits the overarching narrative that is always part of this white house. >> we mentioned the statement that came out in the last couple of hours from noaa. in that statement, noaa also reprimanded the national weather service in birmingham, which first corrected the president last sunday, saying their tweet, quote, spoke in absolute terms that were inconsi...