MSNBC’s Brzezinski claims current administration will do irreparable harm, ‘it’s going to be ugly’
By Edmund Kozak; LifeZette:
What might otherwise have been a reasonable discussion on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” about President Donald Trump’s effect on NATO and conflicting visions of America’s role on the world stage was quickly plunged into hyperbole by co-host Mika Brzezinski on Monday. Brzezinski insisted Trump’s election would be judged the most damaging event in American history.
“There is going to be damage done,” Brzezinski said. “We’re not just going to survive,” she said. “It’s going to be ugly.”
Brzezinski’s comments came during a discussion about Trump’s approach to NATO and his vision of American leadership in the international arena. Co-host Joe Scarborough expressed befuddlement at Trump’s apparent indifference to “a world structure that allows the U.S. to be the most powerful, the most economically driven, and the most influential across the globe.”
But noting a conversation with a college professor about Ronald Reagan in which the professor said, “‘America is strong enough to survive even two terms of Ronald Reagan,'” Scarborough said. “But you know what? We’re strong enough to survive one term of Donald Trump.”
“We have a 240-year-old brand and they know … this is about Donald Trump … and [the international community has] been through some pretty bad things dealing with the United States of America before,” Scarborough said. Brzezinski, however, wasn’t entirely unconvinced.
“We need to go for break,” the increasingly impatient Brzezinski insisted. “I’m thinking this is worse, and I think you’re wrong.”
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Fmr. FBI Supervisor: Comey Likely Behind Three Anonymous Stories
Fmr. FBI Supervisor: Comey Likely Behind Three Anonymous Stories
By Brendan Kirby; LifeZette:
President Donald Trump is not the only one upset that former FBI Director James Comey used a friend to place an anonymously sourced story in The New York Times.
James Gagliano, a retired FBI supervisory agent who in his own words has been an “absolutely unequivocal and full-throated” defender of Comey, suggested that it was inappropriate for him to give a friend memos he wrote following conversations with the president. That friend, a Columbia University law professor, then shared portions of the memos with a Times reporter.
Comey acknowledged in testimony last week before the Senate Intelligence Committee that he leaked the memo and did so hoping that it would trigger the appointment of a special counsel.
“I was struck and troubled last Thursday when I watched the two or three hours that he testified in front of the Senate Intel Committee, and the part that bothered me the most was the admission about the leak and the way that it happened,” he said. “It wasn’t even a situation where the director went to a New York Times reporter. He actually gave it to a surrogate, a memo.”
Gagliano said it was the third of three incidents where it appears Comey anonymously placed stories in the press.
The first occurred in March when reports appeared that Comey was enraged that Trump had tweeted a suggestion that wiretaps may have been placed at Trump Tower in New York. The second occurred when news outlets reported that Trump had demanded a pledge of loyalty from Comey.
“I hate to say it, but I think those three stories probably originated from the FBI director,” he said.
After CNN anchor Poppy Harlow interjected, Gagliano acknowledged that he was speculating and could not say for sure that Comey was the source of the other two stories.
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