Very happy to sell to friendly governments all over the world. And that is what allowed this to happen in 2014. Look carefully at that picture. Yes. That is a roof punctured by the top tail fins of a bunch of airplanes. This is 2014 in japan. They had a really big snowstorm and there was this 60yearold aircraft hangar and Maintenance Facility that had four p3s that belonged to the navy. The roof cannot deal with the weight of the snow, the roof collapsed, the hangar collapsed and all of the planes got squished but not before their tail fins poked through the ceiling. So, yeah, that was a very expensive snowstorm crushing all those planes. That same kind of plane, a p 3c owe ryan was on role last wednesday in the South China Sea when it had what the navy is calling aen unsafe encounter with a Chinese Military plane. Now, this is not one of those things where they send a little fighter jet out to do barrel rolls around our Surveillance Aircraft or something. It was the u. S. Plane involved here but this was the chinese plane. Look at that. This is the plane that was involved in the unsafe incident on the chinese side. This is a weird looking plane, isnt it . Its also a four engine turbo prop plane, sort of potbellied, sway bellied. Its got a sharp little pug nose. And then its got this big thing that sticks off the top that looks like a solar panel from the 70s before we knew how to put them on right. Its like the least aerodynamic radar r. A. But that was the plane involved on wednesday of last week. That weird looking plane, or one just like it, quote, crossed the nose of a u. S. Navy p3 owe ryan. It was in International Air space. It was on routine patrol and this lumbering strange looking chinese plane that looks like a big billboard on its back crossed right in front of the navy o ryan. The american pilots in the o ryan had to take a hard turn and alter their course abruptly in order to avoid a midair collision and came within 1,000 feet. There are a couple of weird things about this. The first, these are not the kind of planes that you expect to be involved in an incident like this. These are big both of them, big lumbering Surveillance Aircraft that have been flying for decades. They are both turbo props, right . The o ryan virtually unchanged since the 1960s. That chinese plane, its actually a derivative of a soviet Union Aircraft from back in a previous century when we had a soviet union. So these are old, big, weird lumbering planes to be involved in something thats this close of an encounter. Another thing thats strange about it, we didnt find out about it until two days after it happened. This unsafe encounter and having to take the evasive action reportedly happened on wednesday. The pentagon did not make any announcement until friday. The Chinese Military has still made no announcement about it at all. But if you are keeping a list of things to worry about and wonder about these days, i think its fair to say you can go ahead and put this on the list. And i mean, you know, keep it in context. Theres a lot going on right now. We just got a new treasury secretary tonight, steve mnuchin, sworn in moments ago. Another Goldman Sachs guy. His dad worked for Goldman Sachs, too. The labor secretary nominee looks like he may be crashing and burning. Well have the latest on that coming up in a few minutes tonight, including the weird Oprah Winfrey part of it. The big parlor game that the beltway media is playing, that the Trump Administration appears to be delighted to play along with, is whether the president will fire his National Security adviser mike flynn. Whether or not you enjoy the will he or wont he apprenticestyle whos going to get fired drama that the white house, real stuff, out in the world, there are some serious kareening going on right now by our government. Whether or not the National Security adviser is going to be fired and the Washington Post just broke some hot new news about that well have the author here to explain this new development, whether or not mike flynn is going to get fired, hes the National Security adviser. He heads the National Security council and the National SecurityCouncil Still doesnt have most of its staff. And late on friday night, we learned that one of the senior directors in the National Security council, somebody who mike flynn had brought on board to the nsc with him, has now had to leave that post, leave the National Security council all together because he was denied his request for a security clearance. We dont know why he was denied his request for a security clearance but hes out. That seems like a big deal. Whether or not that is distracting to the National Security adviser, whether or not its distracting to him to have the president of the United States dangling his potential firing for everybody elses enj enment for days now, there is also National Security stuff going on that does increasingly feel out of control, even wildly out of control. So we had this incident last week with the chinese plane and the american plane coming within 1,000 feet of each other in the South China Sea. This was last week. This was wednesday. The last incident, before this one, between the u. S. Military and the Chinese Military in that part of the world, you might remember, it was in early december. Do you remember this, right after our president ial election, barack obama was still president. You may remember then President Trump took a phone call from the president of taiwan. And from chinas perspective, thats the diplomatic equivalent of the United States throwing a drink in their face and then cursing their mother and leaving the toilet seat up. Thats like it was rattling to them. And is surprise. And at first, our american shock about that was that we didnt know if our new incoming president actually understood the magnitude of what he had just done by taking this call from the president of taiwan. We have a sort of deal with china where we dont recognize the government of taiwan. When he took that call, we didnt know if he understood that. Did he just blunder into this . His initial comments about taking that call are basically, ah, whats the big deal . President of taiwan . She called me. She had nice things to say to me. It would have been rude for me not to answer. Eventually they realized that was not going to fly. They had to give some indication that the president knew what he was doing. And so a few days later they rolled out a new explanation. They rolled out a new explanation saying that the incoming president knew exactly what he was doing and actually what he was doing was just driving a very hard bargain. I fully understand the one china policy but i dont know why we have to be bound by one china policy unless we make a deal with china having to do with other things. I understand it. But why do we have to be well turn it into a deal. Right . That was december 11th. Hes not yet president. The incoming president , the president elect at that time saying, one china policy, i dont really plan to abide by it unless i get something for t you can forget the cornerstone of 40 years of relationship between the United States and china. You can forget this one china policy so painstakingly crafted in the 1970s to allow us to have diplomatic relations with china, were going to throw that out of the window. That doesnt apply unless we get something for it. Well, within five days of those comments, remember the chinese navy stealing a u. S. Military underwater drone from the South China Sea . Remember that, leading to another tense standoff, the chinese a reportedly agreed to give the drone back after they kept it for a few days and then the president elect said we dont want it back. It was very awkward and strange. Nobody knew what was going to happen. Ultimately, donald trump was sworn in the following month, january 20th. After he was sworn in, the chinese president did not call. Despite all the other world leader conversations, the new president had, china made no overtures. That, in turn, led to a bit of graveling from our new president , 11 days after the start of the chinese new year, the white house sent belated happy new years greetings to the chinese president and the chinese people. And then on friday, he did finally take his call with the chinese president and the white house put out a statement about it. Quote, the two leaders discussed numerous topics and President Trump agreed at the request of president xi to honor our one china policy. At the request of . President trump throws the one china policy out the window and puts it at less than zero and just as suddenly, he capitulates. If china wants that back, they have to give us something for it. And then it goes into effect. At the request of the chinese president. So what we get out of that big bargain is nothing. That was the big deal. You want this thing, youre not going to get it unless you give us something and what we want for it is nothing. You can have it. What kind of a negotiation is that . What was that about . Why bother provoking china . Why bother provoking that country in that way at the very outset of your administration if youre going to take it back when they ask. It was really strange. I mean, that is where we were heading into this weekend, this bizarre, unfocused, unforced display of american weakness by our president. That was friday. And then on saturday, north korea tested a brandnew Ballistic Missile they claim is capable of carrying a nuclear warhead. And at the time of that north Korean Missile test, the president was having dinner at his florida club with the Prime Minister of japan. Japan is one of the countries most threatened by north koreas military and blij rans and Nuclear Capability and so far heading into this new presidency, our president s take on north korea has not always inspired confidence. One of the papers called the other say and they said, would you speak to to to the leader of north korea . I said, absolutely, why not . Trump would speak to him. Who the hell cares . Ill speak to anybody. Who knows. Theres a 10 or a 20 chance that i can talk him out of those dam nukes because who the hell wants them to have nukes and theres a chance. Im only going to make a good deal for us. Wait until you see what kind of deal i got with china. When north korea tested on sunday night and the president was with the japanese Prime Minister, he decided that they would work it out there at dinner on the terrace at maralago in front of all of the other guests attending the dinner as well. They did not leave and go to a secure facility. They did not take steps to isolate themselves. We all just got to see it unfold on facebook while paying club guests documented the american and japanese reaction to the latest north korea missile test on their cell phones because they were allowed to see it happen and post it on their social media feeds. It happened in front of them. The white house insisted that nothing classified was being discussed at that dinner table in front of all of those guests. The white house said even though it looked like there was people scrambling around and paperwork, they were reading things, discussions involving multiple aides and translators, the white house says today that whole discussion was not about north korea at all. It was just about, quote, reviewing logistics for the press conference that happened later that evening after the dinner. For the record, here was Donald Trumps complete participation in that press conference. You can see why the logistics must have been really hard to work out. Thank you very much, mr. Prime minister. I just want everybody to understand and fully know that the United States of america stands behind japan. Its a great ally. 100 . Thank you. [ speaking in Foreign Language ] thats it. You thought there was going to be more there for a second, right . No. That was it. All of the scrambling, all of the aides, all of the documents, all of the conferring and translators, it was nothing to do with north korea. It was to plan the very complex press conference. I want everybody to know that the United States of america stands behind japan, our great ally, 100 . That was it, full stop. Thats how they left it on saturday night at the situation room. I mean dinner. And now tonight they careen back into traffic again because nikki haley put out a formal statement tonight on behalf of the u. S. Government also responding to the north Korean Missile launch after the comments from the president on sunday night and the comment tonight from nikki haley threatens war over that Missile Launch. We call on all members of the Security Council to use every available resource to make it clear to the north korean regime and its end ablers that these launches are unacceptable. What actions are you threatening here . Actions against not only north korea but enablers. They mean china. What actions is the u. S. Government now threatening against not just north korea but china tonight and does that threat from the u. N. Ambassador have anything at all to do with the president just saying we love japan, good night, is his official response to the Missile Launch and the same president doing a 180 on his most important china policy the day before that with no explanation for the uturn. Was that near miss between our plane and a Chinese Military plane last week an accident or was that a provocation on purpose . Is there anybody running china at the National Security council . Tonight, we have a new treasury secretary, a new va secretary. Tomorrow well get a former wrestling executive confirmed as yet another cabinet secretary. In california tonight, nearly 200,000 people have been evacuated in the face of very worrying failures at the lastest dam in this country. And the National Security adviser might be getting fired. The acting attorney general before she was fired warned the administration that the National Security adviser might be vulnerable to russian blackmail. Weve got that story next. Theres a lot to keep an eye on. But on National Security, on the potential for military conflict with other countries, this white house is short circuiting and starting fires all over the place and careening incoherently from one position to another. And in a world where you can always see the news coming, there was no snowstorms destroying the aircraft in japan, no insane autocratic dictator shooting off missiles. If it was a world where stuff was predictable, we could afford to be another incoherent but to have the United States be the source of this much chaos and incompetence, that really is new on this earth. And i dont know how were going to deal with did in terms of our domestic politics but increasingly with each passing day, i dont know how the rest of the world is going to deal with it either. 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Call today. Comcast business. Built for business. So we have some breaking news tonight that goes to the question not just of whether or not the National Security adviser is about to be fired but it also goes to how many people in the new administration knew the kind of trouble that National Security adviser Michael Flynn was in. How many people knew about that and when they knew it. This is brandnew reporting from the Washington Post published just before we came on the air tonight. Its headlined Justice Department warned white house that flynn could be vulnerable to russian blackmail. The acting attorney general informed the white house that Michael Flynn mislead officials about the nature of his communications with the russian government and warned that the National Security