[Adviser is] the ones who do the job very well are the ones who lay out the range of options, filter down the range of options that are available to the president, lay them out in an honest, brokerage way and then let the president make the choice among those options.
Lawrence O'DonnellEverybody in Washington wants one of these jobs studies this book. It`s called the Plum Book because the people in Washington turn the pages looking for the plum that they want, the job that they want.
Lawrence O'DonnellThe truth is that people - many people are concerned about this, but this is not the first time in America this has happened. There were a significant number of people who didn`t want Jewish refugees before World War II, or even during World War II.
Lawrence O'DonnellMichael Flynn not exactly cut from that cloth. Someone who has very strong views about almost everything in the realm of national security and defense.
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