The White House chief of staff spoke with CBS News’ Major Garrett for “The Takeout” podcast
CBS NEWS CHIEF WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT MAJOR GARRETT INTERVIEWS ACTING WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF MICK MULVANEY
WED. MAY 8,2019
WASHINGTON, D. C.
MICK MULVANEY: Regarding the supposed provocation—very minor. These were very minor projectiles, they were very short-term—
MAJOR GARRETT: How about the rhetoric?
MULVANEY: The rhetoric is not—
GARRETT: Pompeo, Bolton?
MULVANEY: No. Listen, the rhetoric—I’m more concerned about the rhetoric coming out of North Korea. These missiles, whatever they were, whatever you want to call them, they were very small. And not aimed at Japan, not aimed at Guam, they were aimed up the North Korean coast. So it was a very non-provocative provocation, if there is such a thing. So–
GARRETT: You’re looking for ways to describe it as such, it sounds to me.
