Or do you want the president who looks at the ally and the ally says no don't do that and then we say oh okay we don't want to make an ally upset. Which president do you want? I don't see the argument here for the president who's going to do what other countries want us to do. That's pretty much giving away our sovereignty. If we want our country to be run for the benefit of our country that requires a president who tells our allies to go pout in the sand sometimes. Not every time but sometimes. I feel like that's the president I want. Not just this president but every time. Do you want the president who's going to go along with the pack? Doesn't feel like the president I want.

What about President Trump's chumming up to Putin and Kim Jong-un and even President Xi? Would you rather have a president who doesn't talk to our adversaries but does do whatever our allies want? I don't think so. Would you want that president? I think that is exactly the president I don't want. I want the president who will talk to our enemies because that could be helpful as part of the process and one who will go against our allies when it makes sense for the United States. I feel like Mattis is shooting blanks here because he's describing a world that I prefer and he quit from it. To which I say he doesn't look like a guy who could work with Trump. He looks like a guy who didn't have the tools. I hate to say that because Mattis has been a great patriot and tremendous public servant and soldier and warrior and all that so I have a great respect for him. But he does not look like a personality you would want in the same room with Trump. Yeah I'm just not sure they could work together. So I don't see a big problem there.

Lawrence O'Donnell got embarrassed because he reported some poorly sourced story that turned out to be fake news about some Russian billionaire co-signing a loan for Trump. Just completely untrue. And he embarrassed himself. But the funniest part is I watched a clip in which there was a double screen and Lawrence was explaining to Rachel Maddow. It was the first time she'd heard it so that's the fun part. So Rachel Maddow didn't know the story yet and Lawrence O'Donnell was telling her the story and says that his reporting or his one source, he said it was just one source so he was sort of broadcasting that it wasn't reliable yet simply by saying it was one source. But he said that you know when he said th