Lawrence ODonnell Quotes - Page 5

[Donald] Trump is now. And we don`t know what the rules are now.

Lieutenant General Michael Flynn ran the defense intelligence agency from 2012 to 2014. He served as a top national intelligence adviser to General Stanley McChrystal in Iraq.

Lieutenant General Michael Flynn would fit into that broader pattern.

National security adviser is not a position that requires confirmation. This is a pick that like [Donald Trump] Chief of Staff, he gets to choose on his own and have installed.

Michael Flynn is a very controversial figure for a variety of reasons.

[Michael Flynn is] controversial among many people in the national security establishment, many people in the Republican mainstream. The thing about this appointment that, again, goes to me is most.

National security advisors, like White House Chiefs of Staff, their job generally if they`re - if they`re competent and qualified and effective is to be honest brokers in the White House.

National security advisors are not there to be advocates, generally. They`re not there to be partisans, they`re not there to be ideologues.

Why in general, when you`re putting together a White House staff and putting together a good one, you`re looking for someone there who is not someone who`s going to be heavy-handed.

How much trouble did the Democrats cause for a particular nominee on the way to actually being confirmed.And usually it`s very little.

Senator Bernie Sanders saying in effect that he wants Washington to operate under the old rules, where someone like Steve Bannon would never be allowed to visit the White house, never mind work there.

169 House Democrats signed a letter to the President-elect [Donald Trump] urging him to "rescind this appointment [of Steve Bannon ] immediately."

Under the old rules, Steve Bannon could never get a security clearance. But there could be a new rule, the Trump Rule.

The FBI background check would show that Rudolph Giuliani had an out-of-control affair with his Press Secretary while he was mayor of New York.