On the Trump-Bibi meeting and future prospects for peace, tomorrow 530 am @msnbc.com

My team. Mayhem tonite in the Poly household!

Watching this all night

On @msnbc.com 11 am bloc to discuss this plus other UNGA news….https://apnews.com/article/trump-erdogan-white-house-visit-396fa12409880baa28982d93c73f53f1

Don’t forget to listen before the weekend’s out - @mpolymer1.bsky.social Amber Rudd and I have a vigorous exchange of views about the Trump visit to UK! and we get an insider’s insight into the last days of Biden and the Harris campaign - just tap here @crisisroompod.bsky.social

My wonderful co-hosts do love triggering me about European groveling to Trump, and now it's King Charles turn! A rollicking @crisisroompod.bsky.social episode.... (and I'm live from Anchorage, Alaska too....field work, never ends.....)

🔥 The @crisisroompod.bsky.social interview with former French Ambassador to the US Araud is one of the best we have done. Candid, frank, illuminating-it gives an extraordinary window into how European officials must deal with Trump. A class on diplomacy-and perhaps the perils of sycophancy?

Listen here 👉🏻 linktr.ee/thecrisisroom

🚨PSA: New Episode Alert Why is the Home Office a political graveyard? Amber, @markurban.bsky.social & @mpolymer1.bsky.social break down the chaos - plus ex-French Ambassador Gérard Araud on how to handle President Trump Listen to The Crisis Room on @globalplayer.com 🎧 #keirstarmer #trump

Per a former Mossad official: “The targets are evil. The world is a better place without them. The timing is political and stupid.” (FWIW, exactly what I said on @msnbc.com ‬⁩ and on this site moments after it occurred www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Piece of WTC that I still hav, and look at everyday. With the phrase “Like this rock, we will endure.” From walking thru the wreckage just days later, years spent in South Asia and the Middle East, burying friends who made the ultimate sacrifice. A day that changed everything.

Israeli officials said to doubt success of strike on Hamas leaders in Doha https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-officials-said-to-doubt-success-of-strike-on-hamas-leaders-in-doha/

A Russian attack in Poland. And the Israelis try and take out the HAMAS negotiating team. Both are indications of total failure of US foreign policy. No other way to read these 2 developments. We appease Russia by our inaction, and ok Israeli intransigence on ending the war.

Midway point to the week, and not a moment too soon. It’s Wednesday with @waytooearly.bsky.social: ☀️ @jonallendc.bsky.social ☕️ @mpolymer1.bsky.social 🌅 Danny Cevallos Why are you awake? Email [email protected]. #waytooearly

In sum: Just? yes. Inevitable, at some point? yes. Brilliant fusion intel and strike capability? yes. But for the hostage families?....maybe not a good day. Aside from the cheerleading from elements in the US, I imagine many Israelis will be conflicted on this.....because the hostages.

Hostage families on Israel's Qatar strike: 'Time is running out' to bring them home www.msnbc.com/chris-jansin...

Just sent out this post. Three times in the last two months, people have tried to blame the outrageously pro-Putin steps taken by the Trump Administration on a third level bureaucrat in the Pentagon. This has to stop. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

It Doesn’t Seem Wise to Let Trump Decide What War Is www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...

Seems rather significant if u r a China hawk, no? www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Finding great peace in (finally) picking this up again…half way thru….

Comments @djrothkopf.bsky.social and @alonpinkas.bsky.social ? 😉

Just returned from quick overnite trip to NYC, and in my backpack are H&H bagels and a black and white cookie… righteous treats.

‘She’s been the most vitriolic attack dog’   Just before Angela Rayner resigned, Amber shared how she thinks Rayner should handle the scandal - and whether she can make a comeback   Listen to The Crisis Room on @globalplayer.com 🎧 #angelarayner #labourparty #resignation

Superpower suicide.

Quite prescient ….

My take: Real gangsters don’t flex nuts. 😉This is all stupid theater. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/u...

Need to learn: “…legal authority used to justify the strike, estimated weight of narcotics on board, whether U.S. forces attempted to interdict, board or otherwise communicate with the vessel, and if its crew was first warned before the boat was struck” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

In my years long (and eventually quite public) battle with debilitating chronic pain after a TBI, I was very fortunate to spend several hours with Sanjay Gupta. He gets it. Highly recommend. 🙏 www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...

☕☕☕ I'm up, heading in to the studio!!!!

Just back from Portugal.....540 am hit time tomorrow, @msnbc.com .....excited to be back.....huge week of foreign policy issues ahead!!.....(have jet lag, easy wake up tomorrow 😉)

Batshit crazy. In the world of stupid, immoral, grotesque, embarrassing comical, fantasy land stuff, devoid of any reality, epic in its cringe, this plan gets an Academy award for all of that. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

“Spanberger is the future of the Democratic Party if we intend to reclaim the White House from MAGA and be viable again in the Senate..”. www.wsj.com/politics/ele...

Hard NO to this idea. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

In the age of Donald Trump, has the rules-based order become redundant? This week, Amber, @markurban.bsky.social & @mpolymer1.bsky.social debate whether Trump is paving the way for more politicians to break the rules Listen to the Crisis Room on @globalplayer.com 🎧 #Trump #MAGA #politics

Amateurish, embarrassing, it’s a Grade B movie in the making. Intel pros r mortified….

Anerica is losing its first line of defense. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

It’s accurate to blame this on DoD. But they work for one individual, who ultimately is responsible. If Trump allows this to happen, which seems to be the case, that is quite telling, no? Where is Rubio, the ostensible NSA? Supposed to coordinate policy across the govt… www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Kudos to WSJ Ed Board, to say what so many cowards in GOP ntl security circles r scared to. www.wsj.com/opinion/john...

It sure does. From the great @shaneharris.bsky.social …. www.theatlantic.com/national-security/archive/2025/08/bolton-raid-trump-retribution-deep-state/683990/?gift=3_isfPUpVHwKI0co1coCrEclUBkvfTBSsOGN_6gVGxc

"Today's 'reform' process—­at State and elsewhere across the federal government—­bears much more resemblance to Mc­Carthy’s costly excesses than to any other era in which I’ve served. And it’s much more damaging." --Former CIA director and career diplomat Bill Burns in @theatlantic.com.

This will not only chill analysts now working in the intelligence community, it will dissuade smart people from coming to work for the intelligence community. This is self-sabotage of national security.

Seems like a good idea 😳 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/u...

From the great @juliaioffe.bsky.social , puck.news/witkoff-trum...

‘Flying Blind’: Trump Strips Government of Expertise at a High-Stakes Moment www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/u...

Zelenskyy emerged unscathed from his meeting with Trump - but has anything changed? Amber, @mpolymer1.bsky.social & @markurban.bsky.social discuss what Putin will make of the meeting and how Brits could react if UK troops are deployed to Ukraine Listen to The Crisis Room on @globalplayer.com 🎧

America is less safe. And the cowardly silence on these purges from GOP foreign policy hands (who know this is outrageous) is quite telling… economist.com/united-state... from The Economist

Russia is at war with us. When we do nothing, they laugh and continue. Weakness loses. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/w...

This is insane.

The amazing thing is that while Europeans are slapping themselves on the back for their dealings with Trump, what he has done is take sanctions on Russia off the table and put giving Ukrainian territory to Russia very much on the table.