Retired Gen. H.R. McMaster is out with a new book detailing his time as former President Donald Trump’s national security advisor, and while the book is not by any means an ode to Trump, it is also not the typical anti-Trump book that MSNBC’s Morning Joe has become accustomed to. On Tuesday’s show, the assembled cast admitted after their interview with McMaster that this “surprised" them.
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There were also less flattering recollections of Trump and after the interview, co-host Katy Kay asked Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson about the conflict she was in McMaster’s answers, “And what is the role of somebody in H.R. McMaster's position? And he called on his, kind of, military background and said, well, it's not the role of a military officer to say who you should vote for. But I thought that he's trying to, kind of, thread a needle there, I thought.”
Robinson agreed, “Yeah. I think I'll go further. I think there's just a stark contradiction in the position that he's taking… he details these episodes and incidents that are really frightening and at the very least, unsettling and question the man's fitness to hold any office, much less be commander-in-chief. And so I don't think there's a tight rope there. I think if that's what you're going to tell us, then you should own up to the fact that that's what you're telling us.”
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