Frank Gaffney
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The multiple things being done at once are not like anything I lived through in the Bush administration. I think someone could just look at it dispassionately and say, okay, this system isn't doing what I want it to do for me if I'm the president. But I'd be lying if I didn't say there's also these inputs that come from the political world, the media world.
The movement world where there's questions that get raised and presidents sometimes weigh that in. And ultimately, whether you like it or not, all of these jobs are at the pleasure of the president. You are switchable from day one or day 1000 and you don't get to know. And so I like Mike Waltz. I think he's a pretty smart guy, shrewd guy. The signal thing didn't look good.
The movement world where there's questions that get raised and presidents sometimes weigh that in. And ultimately, whether you like it or not, all of these jobs are at the pleasure of the president. You are switchable from day one or day 1000 and you don't get to know. And so I like Mike Waltz. I think he's a pretty smart guy, shrewd guy. The signal thing didn't look good.
The movement world where there's questions that get raised and presidents sometimes weigh that in. And ultimately, whether you like it or not, all of these jobs are at the pleasure of the president. You are switchable from day one or day 1000 and you don't get to know. And so I like Mike Waltz. I think he's a pretty smart guy, shrewd guy. The signal thing didn't look good.
I didn't understand why that happened the way it did. Was it a firing offense or worthy of moving or was it a symptom of other things that were just not clicking? But ultimately, the national security advisor's job is to be at the center of a tough, competitive coordinating process. It needs to flow. It needs to click.
I didn't understand why that happened the way it did. Was it a firing offense or worthy of moving or was it a symptom of other things that were just not clicking? But ultimately, the national security advisor's job is to be at the center of a tough, competitive coordinating process. It needs to flow. It needs to click.
I didn't understand why that happened the way it did. Was it a firing offense or worthy of moving or was it a symptom of other things that were just not clicking? But ultimately, the national security advisor's job is to be at the center of a tough, competitive coordinating process. It needs to flow. It needs to click.
And if change was required, the people on the inside would know better than I would. Yeah.
And if change was required, the people on the inside would know better than I would. Yeah.
And if change was required, the people on the inside would know better than I would. Yeah.
It would be very, very unusual if Secretary Rubio did this long term.
It would be very, very unusual if Secretary Rubio did this long term.
It would be very, very unusual if Secretary Rubio did this long term.
It's a pleasure to be with you, Mike. Thanks for having me.
It's a pleasure to be with you, Mike. Thanks for having me.
It's a pleasure to be with you, Mike. Thanks for having me.
I don't know what to make of it, honestly. The idea that we are continuing to have such discussions is frankly a bit of a puzzlement to me as well. We know for sure that the only thing that comes out of these things is delay and more work by the Iranians on their nuclear weapons program, which of course they deny they have, but we know they do.
I don't know what to make of it, honestly. The idea that we are continuing to have such discussions is frankly a bit of a puzzlement to me as well. We know for sure that the only thing that comes out of these things is delay and more work by the Iranians on their nuclear weapons program, which of course they deny they have, but we know they do.
I don't know what to make of it, honestly. The idea that we are continuing to have such discussions is frankly a bit of a puzzlement to me as well. We know for sure that the only thing that comes out of these things is delay and more work by the Iranians on their nuclear weapons program, which of course they deny they have, but we know they do.
And it's made more worrying by the fact that easily over a year ago, we were told they were only a couple of days away from having a nuclear weapon. At some point, that ceases to be in prospect. If it wasn't before now, the idea that we want to have further discussions with these guys, at the risk of it being in the near future,