Tom Nichols

The latest, by way of restricting technology that Ukraine's military relies on, a program called Starshield, an extraordinary new reporting that advances a story we led this hour with yesterday.

Reuters confirmed a comment made by our friend, Ambassador Michael McFaul, on this program yesterday.

Quote, "The order to limit a satellite system used by Ukraine for battlefield communications and drone operations came from inside the White House, according to two US officials and a Western official briefed on the matter.

The official said leaders at the Defense Department received a message that the SpaceX Starshield service for the Ukrainian military needed to be slowed.

They say it's the same as it always has been.

I think that shield's the same as it always has been.

To which another friend of this program, Tom Nichols, says this.

Quote, "Either this is true, which would be a terrible sign that the president is not in control of his own Pentagon, or it's false, in which case the president is lying about a crucial national security issue for some reason." End quote.

We are listening for whether he takes questions from reporters, and we will take you there if he does.

But for now I wanna bring in MS Now White House reporter Laura Barron-Lopez, along with Tom Nichols, staff writer at The Atlantic, Tim O'Brien, senior executive editor of Bloomberg Opinion and an MS Now political analyst, and Andrea Flores, former DHS official and White House advisor, and the founder of Securing America's Promise.

So Laura, you have about 600,000 people who've already voted early in California.

The administration is 0 and 26 in lawsuits seeking voter rolls.

New questions today about the firing of former ambassador to Greece, Kimberly Guilfoyle, and how Trump's administration operates.

On the surface, it seems Guilfoyle had to go because of corruption, begging a Republican donor to pay a $100,000 debt, according to texts published in the Wall Street Journal.

But Tom Nichols has a different theory.

As he puts it in The Atlantic, quote, "Guilfoyle was pushed out because she was an embarrassment.

Joining us at the table, Princeton University professor and political analyst, Eddie Glaude.

Tom is still with us.

Um, I was sitting here during one of the dignified transfers, and you watch, um, as families grieve and as elected officials, um, stand there to receive, um, their service members, their constituents, and this administration has the audacity to lie to the American people about what this war has actually cost.

Right.

He's the founder of the Public Integrity Project.

And with me at the table for the hour, lucky me, staff writer at The Atlantic, Tom Nichols, is here.

He's a professor emeritus of national security affairs at the US Naval War College.

It's good to see you all.

It's projection, because they've been lying to the American people from the beginning And we need to ask questions and so the, the media has to do its, do its job in spite of all of this.

All right, Eddie, I'm gonna ask you to stay with us.

Tom Nichols, what a treat to have you here-

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Radical leftists like Tom Nichols.

yeah right yeah you know tim miller right yeah exactly but i think that the more common never trumpers the sort of national review didn't like trump because they thought that he might actually be an economic populist you know that he might actually you know sort of shift the republican party to the left economically once it was clear that that was not true again once you you know got rid of the most unpopular parts of that agenda then basically people could you know they'd wait, this is a vehicle we can use.

This is somebody we can use to transform the Supreme Court, to sort of get our tax cuts, to at least take some wax with the Affordable Care Act and so on.