WE ARE SEVERAL DAYS INTO THIS INSANE FEUD THAT HAS DEVELOPED
OUT OF THE MILITARY SITUATION IN NIGER A COUPLE WEEKS AGO, IT'S
GONE THROUGH MULTIPLE ITERATIONS AND THE LATEST ONE WE ARE ON IS
THERE'S A CONCERTED EFFORT COMING OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE TO
DISCREDIT THE CONGRESSWOMAN, FREDERICA WILSON, BECAUSE SHE
HAPPENED TO BE PRESENT FOR A PRESIDENTIAL PHONE CALL TO THE
WIDOW OF A SOLDIER SLAIN IN THE FIELD.
AND THE WILLINGNESS TO
PLAY FAST AND LOOSE ABOUT FACTS WITH BEACHES THAT HAVE BEEN
GIVEN COMING NOT JUST FROM DONALD TRUMP WHERE WE WOULD
EXPECT IT BUT OUT OF GENERALS LIKE JOHN KELLY IS CERTAINLY
DISAPPOINTING, SO WE WILL SHOW HOW THE MOST RECENT ATTACK BY
JOHN KELLY DURING HIS EMOTIONAL SPEECH YESTERDAY ABOUT WHAT IT'S
LIKE TO BE A FATHER WHO HAS LOST A SOLDIER IN COMBAT, WE WILL
BREAK DOWN SOME OF THE MISTRUTHS THAT WERE SPREAD.
BUT IN CASE YOU DIDN'T SEE IT HERE IS JOHN KELLY.
>>THE CONGRESSWOMAN STOOD UP, AND IN THE LONG TRADITION OF
EMPTY BARRELS MAKING THE MOST NOISE, SHE TALKED ABOUT HOW SHE
WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN GETTING THE FUNDING FOR THAT BUILDING, AND
HOW SHE CALLED THAT PRESIDENT OBAMA AND HE GAVE HER THE MONEY
TO BUILD THAT BUILDING, AND SHE SAT DOWN.
WE WERE STUNNED,
STUNNED, THAT SHE HAD DONE IT.
EVEN FOR SOMEONE THAT IS THAT
EMPTY A BARREL, WE WERE STUNNED.
BUT NONE OF US WENT TO THE PRESS
AND CRITICIZED.
NONE OF US STOOD UP AND WERE APPALLED.
WE JUST SAID OKAY, FINE.
>> THAT'S A TOTALLY ORGANIC NOT PLANNED NARRATIVE WHEN YOU USE
THE EXPRESSION EMPTY BARREL THREE TIMES IN A MINUTE.
ALSO
SAYING STUNNED SHE WOULD LISTEN IN ON THE CALL.
THERE'S A
COMPLETE LACK OF INTEREST IN ACTUALLY UNDERSTANDING THE
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THIS CONGRESSWOMAN AND NOT JUST THE
WIDOW BUT THE SOLDIER WHO WAS KILLED, IT WOULD ALLOW YOU TO
UNDERSTAND WHY THIS PLAYED OUT THE WAY IT DID THAT THEN WE WILL
GET TO THE SUBSTANCE, WE WILL PLAY THE SPEECH THAT SHOWS HOW
WRONG HE WAS, BUT THERE IS THIS INABILITY IN THE WHITE HOUSE TO
UNDERSTAND WHEN YOU'VE MADE A LITTLE ERROR AND SIMPLY KILL IT
JUST BY APOLOGIZING, MOVING ON, THEY HAVE TO DOUBLE DOWN AND
DONALD TRUMP'S NEED TO DO THAT DRAWS IN PEOPLE LIKE JOHN KELLY
INTO GIVING A SPEECH LIKE THAT THAT I'M SURE HE HAD NO INTEREST
IN GIVING.
BUT HE SAYS THAT SHE'S AN EMPTY BARREL,
GRANDSTANDING, APPARENTLY THIS RECENT SITUATION IS JUST AN
EXAMPLE BECAUSE YOU CAN GO BACK AND SEE OTHER EXAMPLES LIKE WHEN
SHE TOOK CREDIT FOR THIS FBI BUILDING.
HERE IS THE ACTUAL SPEECH SHE GAVE THAT SHE WAS ALLUDING TO.
>> THE BRAND-NEW FEDERAL BUILDING THAT WILL HOUSE THE FBI
HAS BEEN BUILT, AND THE FBI APPROACHES MY OFFICE.
CONGRESSWOMAN WILSON THE RIBBON-CUTTING IS SCHEDULED IN
FOUR SHORT WEEKS, THE DEDICATION IS ON THE GOVERNMENT'S CALENDAR
AND CANNOT BE CHANGED.
ONE PROBLEM, THE FBI WANTS TO NAME
THIS GORGES EDIFICE AT THE SAME TIME IN FOUR WEEKS.
EVERYONE
SAID THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE.
IT TAKES AT LEAST EIGHT MONTHS TO A YEAR
TO COMPLETE THE PROCESS THROUGH THE HOUSE, THE SENATE, AND TO
THE PRESIDENT'S OFFICE.
I'M A SCHOOL PRINCIPAL, AND I SAID
EXCUSE MY FRENCH, HELL NO, WE ARE GOING TO GET THIS DONE.
IMMEDIATELY I WENT TO ATTACK MODE, I SAID MR.
SPEAKER, I NEED
YOUR HELP, THE FBI NEEDS HER HELP, THE COUNTRY NEEDS HER
HELP, WE HAVE NO TIME TO WASTE.
HE WENT INTO ATTACK MODE, AND IN
TWO DAYS HE PULLED IT OUT OF COMMITTEE, BROUGHT IT TO THE
FLOOR FOR A VOTE, REPRESENTATIVES PRESENTED IT, WE
ALL VOTED AND I DASHED IT OVER TO THE SENATE AND PUT THE
SENATORS ON NOTICE, PUT IT ON YOUR RADAR.
SENATOR NELSON AND
SENATOR RUBIO, WHO I BELIEVE HAVE REPRESENTED OF HERE TODAY,
THEY HOTLINED IT TO THE SENATE FLOOR IN JUST TWO DAYS, AND
GUESS WHAT?
THE PRESIDENT SIGNED THE BILL INTO LAW THIS PAST
TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 2015, WITH A BANG, BANG, BANG.
IT'S A MIRACLE
TO SAY THE LEAST, BUT IT SPEAKS TO THE RESPECT THAT OUR CONGRESS
HAS FOR THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION, THE MEN AND WOMEN
WHO PUT THEIR LIVES ON THE LINE EVERYTHING A DAY. AND TODAY WE
ARE PROVIDING A BOOST --
>>IT GOES ON LIKE THAT BUT WHAT YOU SEE IS THAT SHE IS TALKING
ABOUT THE PROCESS, AT THIS DEDICATION, OF GETTING SOME
ADDITIONAL FUNDING, AND TO THE EXTENT THAT SHE IS
GRANDSTANDING, SHE'S ALSO GIVING CREDIT TO BASICALLY EVERYONE
ELSE ALONG THE WAY.
>>SHE IS QUITE INCLUSIVE.
>>IT WAS AN ANECDOTE ABOUT FINALIZING SOMETHING FOR THE
BUILDING, AND NOT WHAT GENERAL KELLY SAYS, CLAIMING SHE GOT THE
MONEY TO BUILD THE BUILDING.
YOU COULD SAY SHE'S GIVING A
RAMBLING ANECDOTE, THAT'S WHAT POLITICIANS DO UNFORTUNATELY,
BUT TO SAY THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF HER TRYING TO TAKE CREDIT FOR
EVERYTHING AND TRY TO DISCREDIT HER, SAYING YOU CAN'T BELIEVE
SHE REPRESENTS THIS WIDOW WHO HAS COME OUT AND CONFIRMED THAT
TRUMP SAID WHAT HE SAID, TRUMP'S OWN PEOPLE HAVE CONFIRMED HE
SAID IT, AND THEY ARE ATTEMPTING TO MUDDY THE WATERS AND
CONFUSE YOU ABOUT THE WHOLE THING.
>>JUST AS A TESTAMENT TO THE ANECDOTE SHE WAS GIVING, JAMES
COMEY WAS AT THAT CEREMONY AS WELL, AND IN HIS PREPARED
REMARKS HE DISCUSSED THE IMPORTANCE OF IT HAVING A NAME
FOR THE DEDICATION AND HOW QUICKLY THE CONGRESSWOMAN WAS
ABLE TO PROVIDE THE INITIAL BOOST TO GET THAT TO HAPPEN, IT
WAS A BIG DEAL FOR THEM.
IT WASN'T OUT OF LEFT FIELD, IT WAS
PART OF THEIR PREPARED REMARKS.
GOES BACK TO THE FACT THAT THIS
IS A REFLECTION OF, AND I KNOW THIS IS AN EASY GO TO BUT IT'S
ALSO TRUE, OF WHAT TRUMP'S M.O. IS, TO CASH IN ON OTHER PEOPLE
AND MAKE THEM SUBJUGATE THEMSELVES.
AT EVERY EVENT KELLY
SAYS NOT A SINGLE WORD, HE JUST POINTS TO THE PRESIDENT AND
CLAPS AND EVERYONE CHEERS AND HE WALKS AWAY.
HE HAD TO GIVE THIS
SPEECH, JUST LIKE TILLERSON HAD TO DO IT THREE WEEKS AGO, I
DIDN'T SAY HE WAS A MORON.
>>AND THEN EVENTUALLY HE CASTS THEM OFF.
>>HE BURNS THEIR CREDIBILITY DOWN AND MOVES ON, THAT'S
OUR AFFECTION OF HIS OVERALL APPROACH.
>>I WISH THERE HADN'T BEEN THIS WEIRD TENSION IN THE NEWS BUT I
THINK IT'S IMPORTANT ESPECIALLY FOR TRUMP SUPPORTERS TO
UNDERSTAND THAT, FORGET ABOUT THE JOHN KELLY AND THE WILSON
THING, THE DISRESPECT GIVEN ROUTINELY FROM DONALD TRUMP TO
THE GOLDSTAR FAMILIES AND ALL THAT, THAT IS IMPORTANT, I DON'T
KNOW THAT IT WILL PENETRATE AND HIS SUPPORTERS WILL BE AFFECTED
BY IT, HE'S BEEN ROUTINELY DISRESPECTFUL TO THE MILITARY
FOR MANY YEARS AT THIS POINT, BUT HOPEFULLY ONCE THIS HAS BEEN
RESOLVED WE CAN GET BACK TO THE REAL STORY WHICH IS WHAT
ACTUALLY HAPPENED IN AFRICA, HOW WE GOT TO THAT SITUATION.
NOT
JUST WHAT HAPPENED THAT NIGHT, BUT WHY THAT SITUATION
DEVELOPED.
LAST NIGHT I BELIEVE RACHEL MADDOW TALKED ABOUT SOME
OF THE POLICY DECISIONS THAT MIGHT HAVE LED TO THAT, HAVING
TO DO WITH CHAD AND SOME OF THAT, BUT THAT'S AN INTERESTING
SITUATION.
THE REASON WE HAVE THIS TENTED IS BECAUSE TRUMP
REFUSED TO GO ON RECORD ABOUT WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED ON THE
GROUND, AND IT MIGHT WELL BE, I SAW THIS EDITORIAL, DON'T MAKE
THIS SITUATION INTO TRUMP'S BENGHAZI -- BUT I THINK THIS IS
EXACTLY LIKE BENGHAZI.
NOT WHAT BENGHAZI BECAME, BUT WHAT IT
WAS, A MILITARY SITUATION THAT
GOT OUT OF CONTROL, THERE IS NO
HUGE CONSPIRACY, THERE'S JUST IRRESPONSIBILITY AND POOR
DECISION-MAKING.
AND TRUMP MADE IT SO MUCH WORSE BECAUSE HE REFUSED TO BE
FORTHCOMING.
>> WHEN THIS WAS FIRST HAPPENING I THOUGHT, I HOPE THE PRESIDENT
WILL ASK ABOUT WHY OUR TROOPS ARE THERE AND WHAT THE MISSION
WAS ABOUT.
THAT'S NOT WHAT HAPPENED, IT ENDED UP BEING A
WHOLE QUESTION OF HOW COME YOU WAITED SO LONG TO CALL THE
FAMILIES, IT TURNED INTO WHAT WE'VE JUST BEEN TALKING ABOUT.
BUT THE SPECIFICS ALSO OF HOW TRUMP HAS TARNISHED, AND HOW
KELLY AND THIS ADMINISTRATION, HAVE TARNISHED THIS
CONGRESSWOMAN, HOW SHE WAS LISTENING IN ON THE CALL.
THERE'S A SENSE THAT EVERYONE IS SITTING AROUND AND SHE'S
LISTENING IN ON THE EXTENSION --
>>THE
WIDOW PUT IT ON SPEAKERPHONE, SORRY, SHE GETS TO DO THAT.
>> SHE WAS DRIVING TO PICK UP THE CORPSE OF HER DEAD SON, AND
THE CONGRESSWOMAN WAS ACCOMPANYING HER, AND THE CALL
CAME IN AND IT WAS ON THE SPEAKERPHONE, THERE'S NOTHING
DAMNING ABOUT THAT SCENARIO, AND IT EXPLAINS THE RELATIONSHIP
BETWEEN THE CONGRESSWOMAN AND THE FAMILY AND THE FALLEN
SOLDIER.
BUT THE FACT THAT IT HAS BEEN POLITICIZED, TO USE THE
OVERUSED WORD, BUT IT'S APPROPRIATE -- BUT ALSO THAT IT
HAS BEEN USED TO SOMEHOW TARNISH THIS PROUD FAMILY AND THIS
CONGRESSWOMAN, IS ABHORRENT TO ME.
>>THIS WHOLE SITUATION IS IMPORTANT BUT I AGREE, AT SOME
POINT THE REAL STORY, EVEN OUTSIDE OF THIS INCIDENT, IT'S
THE CONTEXTUAL BATTLE GOING ON IN THIS REGION, I BELIEVE TODAY,
I FORGET WHO IT WAS, A SENATOR, MAYBE LINDSEY GRAHAM, TALKING
ABOUT HOW THE WAR HAS SHIFTED TO AFRICA, IT'S COMPLICATED,
MULTIPLE COUNTRIES BORDERING NIGER HAVING TERRORIST GROUPS
THAT ARE ALIGNED WITH ISIS, PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THAT,
THERE HAS TO BE A CONVERSATION ABOUT THE NUMBER OF TROOPS
THERE, HOW DO WE ACCESS IF IT HAS BEEN SUCCESSFUL, ARE WE
SIMPLY GOING TO LEAVE THEM FOR YEARS ON END?
HOW MANY TROOPS
ARE THERE, IS IT 100 OR 1000, THAT SEEMS IMPORTANT.
AND WE ARE
STILL WAITING FOR INFORMATION TO COME OUT ABOUT THIS PARTICULAR
INCIDENT, IT WILL COME OUT, THERE IS AN INVESTIGATION
ONGOING, BUT IN PARTICULAR THE PRIVATE CONTRACTOR THAT SENT THE
RESCUE, THE HELICOPTER, IF IT WAS THEIR FAULT FOR LEAVING
BEHIND A SOLDIER WE NEED TO KNOW THAT, AND WE HAVE BEEN LONG
OVERDUE FOR A LARGER CONVERSATION ABOUT THE ROLE OF
PRIVATE MILITARY CONTRACTORS IN OUR OPERATIONS, AND MAYBE
THIS COULD LEAD TO THAT.
>>I'M GLAD YOU MENTIONED PRIVATE CONTRACTORS BECAUSE QUICKLY,
THERE IS A BIG MOVE, ERIC PRINCE, THE BLACKWATER HEAD,
THEY ARE THE BIG CONTRACTORS WHO MADE OUT LIKE CRAZY ON THE IRAQ
WAR, HE'S PUSHING FOR THE PRIVATIZATION OF ALL OF THESE
WARS.
THAT WE CONTRACT ALL OF THESE DIFFERENT THINGS OUT.
THAT
NOW IS THE TIME TO PRIVATELY CONTRACT ALL OF THESE DIFFERENT
SKIRMISHES AND WAR THEATERS OUT. AND THIS IS THE MINISTRATION TO
HELP HIM DO IT.
IF EVER THERE WAS A TIME IN THIS COUNTRY WHEN
WE WOULD HAND OVER THE KEYS TO OUR MILITARY TO PRIVATE
CONTRACTORS, IT IS NOW.
SO KEEP YOUR EYE ON THAT BALL IS THIS
ENTIRE DEBATE CONTINUES.
ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE
MILITARY, KEEP YOUR EYE ON THE PRIVATE CONTRACTOR PART OF
THAT EQUATION.
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