asking an american conservative why are these professional war paddler still around pundits like max boot and bill kristol got everything after nine eleven wrong but are still considered experts one thing that every late stage ruling class has been common is a high tolerance for mediocrity standards decline the edges fray but nobody in charge seems to notice they're happy in their sinecures and getting richer in a culture like this there's no penalty for being wrong the talentless prosper rising in exorbitant towards positions of greater power and breaking things along the way it happened to the ottomans max boot is living proof that it is happening to america the rise of mediocrity and the rise of experts that aren't experts but failures you know i think of the philadelphia flyers in the one nine hundred seventy s. they had a guy on their team then schultze who was the enforcer and when bobby clarke was threatened they said and this guy to intimidate and beat up anyone on the opposing team who try to interfere with bobby clarke so the liberals in america they consider themselves to be li

towards positions of greater power and breaking things along the way it happened to the ottomans max boot is living proof that it is happening to america the rise of mediocrity and the rise of experts that aren't experts but failures you know i think of the philadelphia flyers in the one nine hundred seventy s. they had a guy on their team then scholtz who was the enforcer and when bobby clarke was threatened and this guy out to intimidate and beat up anyone on the opposing team to try to interfere with bobby clarke so the liberals in america they consider themselves to be living in pedestals high above the masses and they're never wrong and they have the moral high ground an occasional a when their policies are exposed as fraudulent and without merit and to kowtow ing to the worst elements of core pocker see an empire. there don't want to deal with their unmasking they bring in a max or william kristol to beat people up their thought max boot him bill kristol or are thugs they're the enforcers for the left so they go in and they kick people in the game a bloody nose so again i want to po

asking an american conservative why are these professional war pedlers still around pundits like max boot and bill kristol got everything after nine eleven wrong but are still considered experts one thing that every late stage ruling class has been common is a high tolerance for mediocrity standards decline the edges fray but nobody in charge seems to notice they're happy in their sinecures and getting richer in a culture like this there's no penalty for being wrong talentless prosper rising in exorbitant towards positions of greater power and breaking things along the way it happened to the ottomans max boot is living proof that it is happening to america the rise of mediocrity and the rise of experts that aren't experts but failures you know. i think of the philadelphia flyers in the nineteenth seventies they had a guy on their team then schultes who was the enforcer and when bobby clarke was threatened and to intimidate and beat up anyone on the opposing team to try to interfere with bobby.

i mean i my name for him is always wrong max boot i mean from two thousand and three all the way to the present eve never got anything right but he goes on there is if he's the crown prince of truth ok. and they look at elliot abrams ok you know here's a guy convicted by. convicted for lying to congress about iran contra had to be pardoned and when he's challenged by a congresswoman about his past why should anyone believe him now i take away was oh but the story about the congresswoman is her anti-semitism alleged ok and hardly anyone said a word about it and echoing what michael said about congress clawing back some of its responsibilities not to speak of power to hold those accountable to a to account ok the media doesn't like that because the media loves itself and the media is the message not news go ahead robert well you're completely correct on that because in large part what the cable news has copied the model of e.s.p.n. and other sports show yes which is instead of just reporting what happened about the selection of what happened there doesn't tell you what happened it bea

shimon prokupecz, jack quinn, and max boot.s the author of "the corrosion of conservatism: why i left the right." good evening. mr. prokupecz. >> hello. >> we're expecting this sentencing memo tonight. this is the filing where mueller could potentially tell all ahead of this report. what might we learn? >> there's a couple things going on so people understand and what we're waiting for here. the prosecutors and special counsel's office is supposed to file this by midnight. they're supposed to have this in the court system by midnight. then the judge is supposed to review it. then at that point hopefully it will be made public. clearly, you know, there's a holdup here. we did expect this to come at any point. we still expect this to come, and it could come by midnight. so we don't know exactly what the holdup is yet, but clearly we're all waiting. and, yeah, don, this could tell us a lot. you know, we're hoping to learn a lot of things concerning the manafort investigation. we know a lot already, but there are a lot of questions

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susan glasser, max boot. max is the author of "corrosion of conservatism: why i left the right." eller's report is said to be finished as early as next week. how important is this, mr. boot? >> obviously it's hugely important, don, but the question is how much are we actually going to find out? i think this is the mystery that all of america has been waiting almost two years to find out, which is what did the president know and when did he know it, what did he do wrong, if anything, what can be proven? these are monumental questions. this will determine in many ways, i think, the fate of the trump presidency but only if we get the full story. and i think that's the big mystery. you know, we don't know how much of it is going to be released by attorney general barr, and he has a lot of discretion under the regulations to release very little of it, and i hope that we would press everybody -- the entire country would press him to release as much as possible because i think we need to have that information, and it goes well beyond the question of who mueller has decided to charge or n

i want to bring you now, frank bruni, jeffrey toobin, and max boot. max is the author of "why i left the right." good evening. >> hi. >> how are you? you can't believe this story, can you? >> you know, it's interesting, bezos published this on medium.com. it's interesting he didn't publish it in t"the washington pos post". he published it on this independent website, and i had to read it a couple of times even towns what was going on, because it's complicated. >> it is complicated. >> so what happened here is that the "washington post" is investigating how bezos' photos and texts leaked to the "national enquirer." and the "national enquirer's" upset about that and they are saying to bezos, in your investigation, you have to say that we did not act out of political motivation or we're going to publish these photos. >> political force. it says, politically motivated or influenced by political force, is what it said. so they're wanting -- >> and as far as, you know, certainly based on the history of the "national enquirer" in the trump era, that would be

back with me now, frank bruni, max boot, michael higginbotham, and tara setmayer.m, i want to ask you about this tweet of the president's directed at senator elizabeth warren. see you on the trail, in caps, liz, seemingly referring to the trail of tears or referencing the trail of tears that forced the relocation of native americans, that killed thousands. if it wasn't clear enough, here's what don junior added -- savage. love my president. racist plain and simple? what do you think? >> yes, it is, and it's sad. president trump has a picture of andrew jackson up in the white house. andrew jackson was the president at the time. he championed the indian relocation act, which resulted in the march of cherokee indians on a thousand-mile march in cold weather without food and clothing, proper clothing, and many, many died in the trail of tears. the reference is racist. it's a sad one. it's inappropriate, and the president needs to take a higher ground here. this is -- the references to pocahontas, it's denigrating to american indians, and i think you have to look at wha

i have global affairs analyst max boot. he's a senior fellow and ha garks ar, i want to start with you. to ben's point about power vacuum and, you know, yes the reduction in the caliphate which is obviously a massive step -- positive step in the right direction, but i also remember talking to clarissa ward, one of our chief correspondents in syria is saying the problem is ideology. you may physically, you know, kill off some of these isis soldiers but it's like if you have this mentality in the hearts and minds of so many villagers across this country and how do you battle with that? >> that's the age old question. we'll be debating that answer or the answer to that question for years to come. when it comes to this issue, the problem i think that the administration is not focusing on is that their being narrow minded. they're trying to say, all right, the coalition has regained a lot of the territory that isis controlled and to be fair, a lot of the territory was regained. that is very significant, because a lot of their fu

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. >> joining me now, max boot. he's on the council of foreign relations and a columnist for "the washington post." good to see you. so how high are your expectations? or do you feel like this second summit will be very much like the first one? >> my expectation, fredricka, are firmly in check. i don't think this will be an exact replay of the first summit because there was a general feeling that very little happened there beyond the fact of the summit itself, that north korea has not delivered on denuclearization. and president trump is desperate for foreign policy success. he really, really wants to audiocassette away from hanoi and proclaim he has a great deal. i would expect there be more action, at least cosmetically. i think there's a good chance you'll see a peace declaration ostensibly ending the korean war. i think you may see some stated concessions from north korea such as a willingness to disable parts of the nuclear facility. you may well see president trump relaxing sanctions. for example, allowing sou

also max boot, the author of "the corrosion of conservatism: why i left the right." good evening.tart with the sdny issuing this subpoena to the president's inaugural committee. can you give me the significance, max, of this investigation? >> well, it's potentially hugely significant because we know that the trump inaugural committee, don, raised and spent over $107 million, about twice what president obama spent on his inauguration, and it's not clear where the money came from or where it went. only about 60% of it has been accounted for, and if you read the cnn story, what it suggests is that there are massive questions about all that spending because the allegations include false statements, mail and wire fraud, money laundering, disclosure violations, laws prohibiting contributions by foreign nations. there's a lot of suspicion that foreign individuals in particular who were trying to curry favor with the trump administration gave a lot of money to the inaugural committee. so you have to add this to the growing pile of investigations that are after president trump and the vari

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back with me now, laura coates, max boot.e're joined now by brian care am, who was at the president's event today. was that -- i mean, when he said that, were you all like, what did he just say? that he didn't need to do it? that means it's not an emergency. brian, let's talk about this. welcome to the conversation. i just want to play this moment from today's presser in the rose garden. you tried to pin the president down on his facts or where he get his information. >> where he got them. >> yeah. here's this. >> i'm asking you to clarify where you get your numbers because most of the dea crime reporting statistics that we see show that drugs are coming across at the ports of entry, that illegal immigration is down, and the violence is down. so what do you base your facts on? >> come on, let's go. no, no. you get one. you get one. >> well, the second question. >> sit down. sit down. you get one question. i get my numbers from a lot of sources, like homeland security primarily. and the numbers that i have from homeland securi

here to discuss, juliette kayyem, renato mariotti, and max boot, the author of "the corrosion of conservatism right." so let's figure out why they're doing this. it's very interesting. good evening. let's discuss. i'm going to start with you, renato. the defense team is saying that the case isn't about murder or drug cartels or a madoff-style ponzi scheme. they're arguing for a lighter sentence in the d.c. case. what do you make of their argument here? >> you know, i have been representing clients now for years, and before that i spent a decade as a federal prosecutor. and when you're in the white collar criminal defense world, you know your clients in real trouble when your argument is, well, he didn't kill anybody. that's basically the lowest level argument when you're a criminal defense attorney. you got nothing. you don't have the facts. you don't have the law. you have no sympathy on your side. so you say, well, he didn't kill anybody. >> nobody died is the other one, right? yeah. >> there you go. pretty much. >> yeah. >> that's what this is. the whole dissenting memo seemed like a despe

>> max boot, thank you kirsten powell powers as well. see what he's working on for cuomo primetime at the time of the hour. chris? >> we're taking a look at this national emergency declaration from the political perspective. we're going have a member from each side, a democrat who wants to stop it and a republican who thinks it's a good idea. that is the sum total of the republican party. we know there is a rebellion going on. we know there is resistance. how real is it? we'll take that on. we're going add both sides and see if there is any part that we agree on, because this is something we haven't seen before. so we're going take that on, and then legally, we've taken the time today on the team to go through what the options are and what the realities are. but one thing we know for sure, the minute he does, this anderson, the democrats will have a precedent that some president will bring back to haunt the republicans. when and where? does the president care? who knows. >> climate change or something else. >> that's right. >> chris. tha

asking an american conservative why are these professional war paddler still around pundits like max boot and bill kristol got everything after nine eleven wrong but are still considered experts one thing that every late stage ruling class hasn't comment is a high tolerance for mediocrity standards decline the edges fray but nobody in charge seems to notice they're happy in their sinecures and getting richer in a culture like this there's no penalty for being wrong the talentless prosper rising in exorbitant towards positions of greater power and breaking things.

guts they think he's unfit to be president temperamentally intellectually morally jennifer rubin max boot david frum these are the people with whom john bolton and elliott abrams agree donald trump is literally shooting himself in the foot almost with but by appointing these people the reason he's doing it is because as can take he also craves acceptance and approval when he dropped the famous moab in afghanistan just a few months into his administration i think was april twenty seventh he was praised by all sides in the media including the vicious washington post new york times this is how you get to be viewed as a great president you listen you know cons and start wars that last forever ok he part of donald trump wants to be a war president the only explanation i can think of that allows him to bring these people in who violently opposed him who would have been fit in following in the hillary clinton administration and now they're running him around by the nose because he was to appear presidential i just don't get it because in every other sense piece of matter our fight hours to be be

shimon prokupecz, susan glasser, max boot. max is the author of the corrosion of conservatism, why i left the right. let's listen to what andrew mccabe, the former head of the fbi said to anderson tonight. watch this. >> do you still believe the president could be a russian asset? >> i think it's possible. i think that's why we started our investigation, and i'm really anxious to see where director mueller concludes that. >> that's such a stunning statement. >> yes, it is and flies in the face of trump's mantra, which is no collusion, no collusion. and we've also heard from former doctor directors of the cia, i mean this is unprecedented in american history but something you have to take seriously because in fact there has been more evidence of collusion that's come out just in the last few weeks. for example, we know more about paul manafort's meeting with constantine kilimnik who's suspected of ties with russians. manafort apparently shared polling data from the trump campaign. we know from the indictment of roger stone that

shimon prokupecz, susan glasser, max boot. f the corrosion of conservatism, why i left the right. let's listen to what andrew mccabe, the former head of the fbi said to anderson tonight.

here to discuss, max boot, and michael dantonio. good evening.ves to talk about himself as the ultimate dealermaker here. watch this. >> i am a great dealmaker, that's what i do. i have made deals that should have been disasters in to among the best deals. we are going to make the best deals. >> i am a dealmaker. i do very well, i make great deals. >> he's a great dealmaker. help me understand this. i am serious. he wanted $5.7 billion. they offered him $1.6 billion for 65 miles of wall. now he's getting $1.375 billion, less money, fewer miles. >> he also got to have history's longest shutdown and take the credit for it and put the country in that misery and stand his presidency with it. not only has he failed in this deal, he made his political position worst. he made himself a laughing stock for the country. this is the guy who had to have someone else invent the name of his book, the art of the deal. that was not his deal to name the book. he goes bankrupt and he declares himself rich. he makes a bad deal and declares a good deal. this is all

max boot is a senior fellow at the council on foreign relations and so, max, is this alarming to you?ng that despite what the president continues to say about isis being defeated, might he actually take note of it? >> he should take note of it and it is alarming and this is very consistent with what the intelligence community said in their worldwide threat assessment released on tuesday which said that islamic state still commands thousands of fighters in iraq and syria and around the world and it will, quote, exploit any reduction in counterterrorism pressure to strengthen its clan des sent presence. obviously president trump is intent on reducing the counterterrorism pressure because he wants to pull the u.s. troops out of syria. this is why leaders in the pentagon are very opposed to doing this because they know that islamic state is still a threat. it has not been eradicated. it has tens of thousands of fighters. >> this is all coming out. so that's on isis and syria. i really wanted to ask you, too, about this inf treaty and how the u.s. is suspending the nuclear arms treaty with

bill kristol, max boot, john bolton.y of these people want to repeat the iraq war o a larger scale if they can in syria, libya, yemen, venezuela, iran itself. they've learned nothing. they may get their chance to do it again. before they do, they ought to write a book report on the army war college report. isis has been all but destroyed in syria, followers who abandoned the west and went over there to help are trying to slink back home. this is one of them, fled the u.s. to join the caliphate and marry an isis fighter now wants to return without punishment. >> i thought i was doing things correctly for the sake of god. when i came here and saw everything with my own eyes, i realized, i made a big mistake. i know my future -- >> do you think you re-dee serve punishment for what you did? >> maybe therapy lessons. maybe process that will ensure that we will never do this again. >> tucker: therapy for joining isis? as is the case, the u.k. dealing with the same problem but worse over there. their former isis bride is not so

max boot is here to discuss. he's the author of the book it's called the corrosion of conservatism, why i left the right. i should know that by heart by now, right? >> thanks for the promotion, don. >> so the u.s. is going to pull out of this u.s. treaty, signed in 1987. >> yep, the inf treaty. >> what do you think? >> as you know from my regular appearances here i am not normally a fan of president trump. this one is one i think what he's doing is justified because this is treaty where the russians are genuinely cheating. and this is not a fake fact donald trump has made up. now, he has made up the fact the iranians are supposedly cheating on the iran nuclear deal. we know that's not true because his intelligence chiefs said it's not true. but the intelligence does show that the russians are cheating on this treaty. and it was president obama and his administration that first called them out in 2014, and they have not come in compliance with it. >> nato has been supportive of withdrawing from this treaty? >> i t

and max boot is a columnist for "the washington post" and a cnn global affairs analyst.good to see all of you. >> hey, fred. >> ron, you heard steve miller on the air maintaining the president's move is about defending the country. but does the white house still have to prove an emergency, especially when it means reallocating money that congress has already designated elsewhere? >> i mean, as chris wallace, you know, pointed out to steve miller today, the number -- the level of crossings is down dramatically from earlier in this century. the undocumented population peaked in 2007. it's about a million and a half lower now. and even before you get to the president's language on friday, it's hard to look objectively at where we are and say this is an emergency situation that is different than what we have faced. now, it is likely that the house democrats, virtually certain they'll pass a resolution of disapproval. it will not be shocking if the senate can get three, four, five republicans to join and pass a resolution of disapproval. whether they can get enough to overcom

max boot agrees with that.f bezos employees at "the washington post" and of course florid toady. wrote a column defending bezos' new itself is, the headline was "jeff bezos stands his ground." " stands his ground! like joshua chamberlain at the battle for the round top. may our grandchildren revere his memory and speak his name. but for pure anxiousness, no one went further than "new york times" technology columnist karen swisher. swisher has been sucking up to billionaires since before the guys who run over were even bor born. if flattering the powerful was an olympic event, karen swisher would be mark spitz. according to swisher, bezos' behavior since he left his wife and kids for his mattress has been "admirable," a "heroic moment," from "the most important tech missionaries in steve jobs." it goes on like this. for an entire column. at one point, this is the best, swisher frets that jeff bezos' privacy has been violated by the "national enquirer," which by eethe way his troop, but telliny she didn't spend a

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let's bring in cnn global affairs analysts susan glasser and max boot to talk about all of this.down comment on kim jong-un from the president because in the past he has said that they've exchanged these beautiful letters, love letters, basically have what he said because, quote, we fell in love is what the president has said about kim jong-un. so is this visit just for lack of a better word a romantic visit or should we expect some real progress out of this? >> well, he did mention last night that they still have a very, very good relationship. so is that equal to love still? irrelevant don't kno i don't know. he's trying to calibrate expectations. but essentially we're still dealing in this second summit with president trump and chairman kim. we're dealing with the president has declared victory and forced everyone for the better part of a year to try to fill in what that victory means and they have not succeeded. and so you have this extraordinary spectacle like the secretary of state yesterday on cnn bobbing and weaving when confronted with president trump's own words. he cam

the old max boots falling off a ledge and him falling center.conservative firebrands moved to the certainty. then michelle who is left of me on one side and me on the other side. then there is none of this. we could have interesting conversations about whether alexandria ocasio-cortez tax is 70%, 75%. msnbc, this panel, four years from now, having a discussion about the fine points of, you know, whether work fair was successful or whether to bring back full-on welfare. where there is a good argument for it. in other words alexandria ocasio-cortez and even bernie sande sanders, there is a robust voice there. you claim socialism if you espouse it with the assaults on other people, elizabeth warren, for her native american jam -- >> issue. >> are legitimately stinging. there is something you have to cover for. if you share socialist views, for any of us who grew up with real socialism, preberlin wall falling socialism, the idea it would create, first of all, green at all was seen as an elitist as opposed to a labor issue. creating more middle class