On Friday’s New Day, CNN co-host John Berman brought on anchor and chief national security correspondent Jim Sciutto to continue the long tradition of media leftists colluding with Democrat campaigns. Sciutto, a former Obama administration official, hyped his new book, The Madman Theory: Trump Takes on the World, which he is conveniently releasing 88 days before the election.
Berman predictably gave the anti-Trump author a glowing review:
So new this morning, we're learning now that President Trump's unpredictable behavior led advisers to hesitate to give him military options amid escalating tensions with North Korea. We're learning this because of a brand-new book out from CNN anchor and chief national security correspondent Jim Sciutto, the author of the book out next Tuesday, The Madman Theory: Trump Takes on the World. I am holding a well-worn copy, Jim, in my hands right now. This reporting is fascinating, particularly as it pertains to North Korea.
In order to promote the campaign interests of his old boss, Joe Biden, Sciutto accused President Trump of being a warmonger:
This -- this happened at the height of tensions with North Korea in late 2017 where the President's military advisers hesitated to give him military options because they were concerned he might use them, and that would take the U.S. and North Korea on the path to war. This was something the military advisers were reluctant to do and -- and diplomats, U.S. diplomats involved in this. And, remarkably, John, in the midst of that, you had U.S. negotiators communicating to their North Korean counterparts that they did not know what the President was going to do, that he was unpredictable, out of concern, again, about what path this would lead the country on. This was not isolated to North Korea during the most tense moments with Iran in 2019. A similar dynamic, reluctance to give military options, worry that the President would use them, unjustifiably to some degree, but also, again, communicating to the Iranian side, the President's unpredictable, we don't know how he's going to act here, because they were worried about spiraling towards a conflict there.
This claim has little accuracy behind it. Trump has consistently railed against “endless conflicts”, and has worked to bring troops home. In fact, the same Democrats who praised President Obama for troop removal have attacked Trump for doing so. Ironically, they had little to say about Obama killing 3,797 people through drone strikes.
Sciutto then pushed contested claims that Trump does not read his briefs:
It became very clear that the President was not reading his briefing materials. His -- his briefers would come in and they could tell because when they began to discuss stuff that was in his briefing materials, it was the first time he heard it. So, under H.R. McMaster and his team, National Security Adviser, he devised a plan to boil down the briefings to just three bullet points on notecards hoping that that level of information would get through. What they discovered over time was that the President was only reading the first two of those three bullet points, so they adjusted again and then concentrated the most important information in the first two points and the third point became sort of a throwaway line hoping he'd at least get through those first two. Then they began to discover he wasn't even reading the first two. And, again, because they would brief him and as they brought up issues, it -- it was clearly the first time he was -- he -- he was hearing it.
The Obama stooge also defended his former bosses’ nuclear deal with Iran and brought up the debunked Russia collusion conspiracy:
We -- we should note, that the President has contradicted, the intelligence, his military advisers, not just on the Lebanon attack, but on intelligence about Iranian compliance with the nuclear deal, on intelligence about North Korea expanding its nuclear program. And, of course, most notably on Russian interference in the election. This -- this is -- this is a feature, not a bug of the Trump presidency, and that's one revelation from this book.
Ah yes, the Russia collusion myth. CNN is still pushing it despite that the Obama officials involved testified under oath that there was no collusion. Sciutto also couldn’t help but attack Trump for derailing his former bosses’ disastrous nuclear deal with Iran, which did basically nothing to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons.
CNN is all in for Biden, so it only makes sense for one of its Biden lackey employees to go on air and push lies about Trump from his very conveniently-timed book.
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Read the full August 7th transcript here:
CNN New Day
08/07/20
6:42:47 AM
JOHN BERMAN: So new this morning, we're learning now that President Trump's unpredictable behavior led advisers to hesitate to give him military options amid escalating tensions with North Korea. We're learning this because of a brand-new book out from CNN anchor and chief national security correspondent Jim Sciutto, the author of the book out next Tuesday, The Madman Theory: Trump Takes on the World. I am holding a well-worn copy, Jim, in my hands right now. This reporting is fascinating, particularly as it pertains to North Korea. What have you learned?
JIM SCIUTTO (CNN ANCHOR; CHIEF NATIONAL SECURITY CORRESPONDENT): This -- this happened at the height of tensions with North Korea in late 2017 where the President's military advisers hesitated to give him military options because they were concerned he might use them, and that would take the U.S. and North Korea on the path to war. This was something the military advisers were reluctant to do and -- and diplomats, U.S. diplomats involved in this. And, remarkably, John, in the midst of that, you had U.S. negotiators communicating to their North Korean counterparts that they did not know what the President was going to do, that he was unpredictable, out of concern, again, about what path this would lead the country on. This was not isolated to North Korea during the most tense moments with Iran in 2019. A similar dynamic, reluctance to give military options, worry that the President would use them, unjustifiably to some degree, but also, again, communicating to the Iranian side, the President's unpredictable, we don't know how he's going to act here, because they were worried about spiraling towards a conflict there. It's a remarkable instance of distrust in the President's decision making from his own advisers.
BERMAN: There's a lot in this book, Jim, and everyone should go out and read it as -- as soon as they can. One of the things that jumped out to me, and, again, you spoke to a lot of the people involved here, is that they had to pare down what they would tell him every day because they knew he wouldn't get that far.SCIUTTO: Yeah.
BERMAN: They basically knew he wouldn't get to number three --
SCIUTTO: Yeah.
BERMAN: -- on a list of information?
SCIUTTO: Well, this -- this was early on in the Trump administration. It became very clear that the President was not reading his briefing materials. His -- his briefers would come in and they could tell because when they began to discuss stuff that was in his briefing materials, it was the first time he heard it. So, under H.R. McMaster and his team, National Security Adviser, he devised a plan to boil down the briefings to just three bullet points on notecards hoping that that level of information would get through. What they discovered over time was that the President was only reading the first two of those three bullet points, so they adjusted again and then concentrated the most important information in the first two points and the third point became sort of a throwaway line hoping he'd at least get through those first two. Then they began to discover he wasn't even reading the first two. And, again, because they would brief him and as they brought up issues, it -- it was clearly the first time he was -- he -- he was hearing it. Why does this matter? Of course, we want our leaders make informed decisions here. And you have a president who often doesn't take in that information, but also, at times, ignores it, dismisses it, disagrees with it, says he knows better than his briefers or even intelligence agencies. It's a remarkable dynamic.
BERMAN: Or sometimes he invents things, Jim, which brings us to this week.
SCIUTTO: Yeah.
BERMAN: Because I think one of the most under covered stories of this remarkable week has been when the President went out there, after the Beirut explosion, we just had Arwa reporting from there, and at the White House, in the Briefing Room, said he was told that it was bombs, or a bomb that caused this explosion. He even said that -- that military advisers told him that. And we can't find any evidence that anyone told him that.
SCIUTTO: Yeah.
BERMAN: What went on there?
SCIUTTO: It -- it's not clear where -- where that came from, right? And it is, as you say, not the first time the President has claimed something that, well, either turned out not to be true or -- or -- or had no basis. And it matters, right, because in the midst of that, tensions very high in Lebanon. They always are in that region, particularly now. There were suspicions, you know, did -- did -- Israel -- Israel carry out attack -- an attack? And when you have the U.S. President say, well, hey -- heck, it might have been an attack, that, of course, puts people on alert here. And that -- that is a dynamic, John, we -- we should note, that the President has contradicted, the intelligence, his military advisers, not just on the Lebanon attack, but on intelligence about Iranian compliance with the nuclear deal, on intelligence about North Korea expanding its nuclear program. And, of course, most notably on Russian interference in the election. This -- this is -- this is a feature, not a bug of the Trump presidency, and that's one revelation from this book.
BERMAN: Jim Sciutto, great to have you on. Congratulations on your work. Again, the book is The Madman Theory: Trump Takes on the World, out next week.
