Former Joint Chiefs Chairman says White House "self-generating" crises
By EMILY TILLETT CBS NEWS
May 18, 2017, 9:24 AM
... Retired Admiral Mike Mullen, who served as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 2007 to 2011 ... said Mueller is highly regarded and has clear independence in order to get to the bottom of the investigation ...
As Mr. Trump issued a series of tweets Thursday morning reacting to the news of Mueller's appointment to the probe by calling it the "single greatest witch hunt of a politician in American history," Mullen says the discussion has become "so polarized" as one issue after another keeps coming out ...
"I don't have a lot of problems with the president and the administration disrupting D.C. because I think it has not functioned well for a long time, but there has to be a process, there has to be a way to get through the issues in some reasonable way," said Mullen.
Mullen added, "clearly there is one issue after another, and to the degree the administration feels it's under siege, they keep generating the crises" ...
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