Live Breaking News & Updates on Afternoon Donald Trump
Stay updated with breaking news from Afternoon donald trump. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
U.s.-led liberal, global order that presidents from truman through obama, whether they were republicans or democrats all bought irninto. i think people like mcmaster, mattis, extremely well read, prepared. as douglas macarthur pointed out in his farewell address, it s the soldier who hates war more than others because he s seen the terrible cost of it. i m reassured by the presence of these mainstream figures around donald trump. mcmaster, mattis, and donald trump is right. the united states military is one of the most remarkable institutions in the world. it s hyper-competent. it s efficient, and i think that he likes the glow being associated with it that it gives him. yeah. i think the concern that a lot of people have, though, of course is that we have a civilian-led government, and donald trump has put together almost an aware of military leaders and has essentially said ....
Casualties. there has, in fact, been a surge in reported civilian casualties in the u.s. air campaign against the so-called islamic state. and under trump, a massive increase in u.s. drone strikes, more broadly, almost one every two days according to the council on u.s. foreign relations. today, tragically, marked the third time this month a u.s.-led air strike may have killed civilians or even our allies, with 18 syrian fighters alied with the u.s. killed in a coalition air strike in syria. the pentagon blamed partner forces. that news comes on the heels of last week s air strike in syria and now today the decision to launch the mother of all bombs. and we are just 84 days into the trump administration. i m joined by steve schmidt larry corb. larry, i m going to go to you first because there is a very strange donald trump relationship to the military. he claimed during the came papa ....
What really is the bottom line here is that you see, as i mentioned, different agencies moving to sort of reinvent how they do business on immigration enforcement and trying to, you know, sort of build the apparatus to deport more people. a lot of this also does depend on funding and right now congress is split on this. it does not seem likely it would be easy for them to get a lot of this funding. and it just so happens there s a nice private prison industry that is eager to provide those tens of thousands of spots. yes, people are lining up for the contracts if those were to happen. thank you very much for joining us. still to come, learning on the job when you re the president of the united states. we ll talk about donald trump s constantly shifting policy points ahead. plus a troubling report card for mar-a-lago in tonight s thing 1, thing 2 starting just after this break. hey allergy muddlers ....
But, you know, who the heck knows? you never know in congress. yeah, absolutely. thank you very much. appreciate it. coming up, donald trump s campaign promise of a nationwide deportation force. new reports say the administration is so eager to get started, they re looking at cutting corners to get there. that story just ahead. choose your civilization. china. america. korea. japan. europe. world war evony. evony: the king s return. download now. ....
These significant things like dropping this mother of all bombs, that he gets involved. general mattis is a great person, but you ve got all these military people here. they do not have the civilian perspective that our founders established by having civilian control of the military. so it really behooves him, of all presidents, to get more involved. his national security adviser is also a military person. yep. so really he needs to get some civilians in there. that s got to be him. and he s surrounded himself with all of these generals. donald trump seems to get an emotional charge out of being connected to the military. he didn t serve himself obviously during vietnam. he got deferments. but i mean is there a concern? i ll just put it that way, that some of what trump is doing is trying to get the approval that he gets from using the military, the sort of love from the media he gets, the sort of respite from the ridicule and attacks on his other aspects of his agenda by using t ....