Matt Lauer wants to be a girl????
Posted on 10/19/2017 11:50:22 AM PDT by drewh
Interviewing former CIA Director John Brennan on Thursday’s NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer seemed to suggest that military leaders would launch a coup d’etat against President Trump in order to prevent nuclear war with North Korea. In response, the Obama administration official didn’t discount the notion.
“Over the summer, the President said that he would unleash ‘fire and fury’ on North Korea....is this a president who doesn’t understand the gravity and the seriousness of that issue?,” Lauer asked early in the exchange. Brennan warned: “I think his comments have been rather provocative, and it has served to increase tensions, not to de-escalate them.”
Fellow co-host Savannah Guthrie fretted: “...you said at a forum last night that you thought the chances of some kind of military conflict with North Korea had now risen to either 1 in 4 or 1 in 5, so 20-25% chance that that could happen. Is that because of North Korea’s actions, because of the U.S.’s actions and rhetoric, or both?” Ranting against the President, Brennan declared:
I think it’s a combination of the two. I think the caustic and bellicose comments that are coming out of Washington, and Mr. Trump on his tweets, really has led to an escalation in tensions. And I’m concerned that there could be some type of clash between South Korean and North Korean forces that could escalate.
Following Brennan’s dire prediction, Lauer raised the possibility of Trump being physically restrained and detained in the event of a conflict:
Well, let me ask you this, and I almost feel weird asking you this, but you’ve read the same stories that I’ve read. You know the key players around the President in Mattis and in McMaster and John Kelly. The stories are going around out there that if the President inches closer to some kind of a nuclear confrontation with North Korea, that those guys are gonna do something. They’re going to lock him in a room, they’re gonna tackle him. You’re smiling, but these are the stories that are out there. And that they will prevent him from carrying out any action that would cause that. How do you – is that all nonsense?
Brennan seemed to confirm Lauer’s outlandish scenario: “No, I think the military leaders...know the risks of escalation. They know just how dangerous the situation is and I think they are governors on the President’s instincts to continue to try to intimidate and bully.”
Lauer pressed: “You’re technically not answering the question. Would they take some action to prevent the President from carrying out an order?” Brennan replied: “The President has unilateral authority to be able to authorize military action....Secretary Mattis can either try to talk him out of it, disagree with it, carry it out, or not.”
The morning show anchor touted: “Because in July you said it is the obligation of some executive branch officials to refuse to carry out some of those orders that are inconsistent with what this country is all about.” Brennan explained that he was referring to “the firing of [former FBI Director] Jim Comey,” and worried: “We are a country of laws, and sometimes I feel that Mr. Trump feels that it is Trump’s laws that trump others.”
Guthrie wondered: “If you’d been in your old job and you had been given an order that you thought was dangerous to this country, would you have flouted an order?” After saying that he would have resigned over a presidential order to resume waterboarding of terror suspects, Guthrie urged: “Do you think Mattis and Kelly and Dunford and McMaster would be willing to do the same if circumstances warrant it?”
He assured her: “They are patriots, all of them. And they understand the gravity of the situation. They understand the gravity, and I don’t believe Mr. Trump does.”
Wrapping up the softball interview, Lauer teed up Brennan to slam the President one last time: “Real quickly, based on what you know about the situation in Iran, if the President rips up that Iran nuclear deal, does he risk, in the short term, owning a nuclear Iran?” Brennan predictably agreed: “I think he runs the risk of escalated tensions in the Gulf that could redound to our detriment and to potential risk to U.S. military in the region.”
One topic that was completely ignored in the five-minute segment was the recent bombshell revelation of a Russian bribery plot being uncovered by the FBI before the Obama administration approved a nuclear deal with Moscow.
I hope Matt Lauer’s reaction scares the hell oit of the Chinese.
Plan 25th began a week or two ago.
It’s concerted.
It’s also lunacy. More idiocy and fantasy.
Funny how this imbecile didn’t ask this when Teleprompter Boy was in charge.
John Brennan? Isn’t he one of B-HO’s muslim buddies? Both trying to tear down our country!
Why is Matt Lauer even asking for his opinion? Doesn’t Matt Lauer care about the security of our country?
They are scared to death that if NK drops a nuke on us Trump is gonna start a war.
“Over the summer, the President said that he would unleash ‘fire and fury’ on North Korea....is this a president who doesn’t understand the gravity and the seriousness of that issue?,”
Yep, our President randomly says things like this out of the blue and there’s no context. I didn’t think I could hate the msm more.
Att Lauer once again shows what a stupid idiot he is to even ask such a question......”the President said that he would unleash ‘fire and fury’ on North Korea....is this a president who doesn’t understand the gravity and the seriousness of that issue?,” ....
The question itself showed his utter egg brain!
Lauer was just begging for a chance to get that question in, so he goes with yesterdays news...
Matt Lauer could be the darling and HERO-of-the-day by ‘tackling Trump and lock him in a room’.
Don’t worry Matt, our military will STILL protect your sorry ass if we go to war.
Or not.
All these people were a-okay with Hillary Clinton advocating policies of confrontation that would almost certainly lead to war with Russia. A-okay with that.
John Brennan? Isn’t he one of B-HO’s muslim buddies?
Yes, over eight years Obama did all that he could to help our enemies and install traitors like Brennan at all levels of the Federal Government. Our government has been completely corrupted.
Hey DNCRNC MEDIA COMPLEX, use the 25th on Trump, and we will use 22s, 38s, 45s, and various other calibers on you,
Idiots like Matt Lauer deserve to have dictators like Kim Jong Un rule over them. They just can’t stand living in a democratic Republic, can they?
Matt Lauer wants to be a girl????
Lauer is a pathetic provocateur
Lauer needs to keep it zipped, he was the one who forced his newsreader to work at Access Hollywood in Los Angeles after he knocked her up at the Italy Olympics... (allegedly of course)
Matt, you want a war, just try a stunt like that.
This is why Comcast/Xfinity should be forced to divest NBC
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