insights and different inputs from people. he s never surrounded himself with a bunch of yes-men. that strength and diversity of opinions leads to the president martha: i understand, i ve got to go. but the question is will that strength and diversity of opinion stick around? is bannon there to stay? is reince priebus there to say? that s up to double donald trump. i haven t read anything that makes us believe anything other than the real shakeup going on in washington is the way donald trump is coming in as a disruptor. i know people want to write stories about process, personnel, who is up, who was down, who was in, who was out, but you have to go back to who president trump is and how he is always governed as an executive. he appreciates a diversity of opinion. he likes when people disagree or give him differences in viewpoints. he s never had a bunch of yes-men and yes women around him. and we all appreciate that. but you see him down there working with the president and
showed with general jack keane a little while ago. just a single shot of the situation room and will go to that double shot that we have appeared. the single shot, and will take a look at it in a minute, jerry kushner in the front row, right. this is in there as well. there is a lot of criticism over the recent weeks that these people were not getting the president s ear, that steve bannon and stephen miller who you see off to the corner on the right-hand side of your screen where the america first crowd. you ve got people criticizing the fact that they seemed to be sidelined. and those who will be happy about these changes. i wouldn t look at it that way. this is a commander-in-chief making good on the commitment that he stated during the campaign and since he s been president, martha, which he will confer with his generals. and by that, he also met his cabinet officials, his secretary. you see them in the room. this is a man who conferred with his national security team who got the
give weapons of mass destruction against americans. that is the number intention, number one goal, or bringing a chemical weapon or radiological through they like to do that as well. here you have this toxic civil war with all of these chemical weapons, sarin gas seven nerve agent is a horrible, lethal agent. i do question what the russians were doing. they said it was gone but it actually in fact wasn t. if that got into the wrong hands, that would be a serious threat to the american people in the homeland. martha: chairman michael mccall, thank you so much. good to see you as always. thanks, martha. martha: coming up here in the aftermath on the strike on syria, the media taking a very different tone today on president trump s leadership. we are going to show you how the pundits scored this decisive move. plus, does the strike signal and emergence of a trump doctrine. and if so, what does it look like? willie hopper, dash and ben
president trump briefly that morning and again throughout the course of this event at some point. once or twice. you two didn t see eye to eye on many things during the course of this campaign and a lot of that went back to his feelings about russia and your feelings about russia. what has changed in your relationship with the president in recent days? i think three things have changed the president. one, the enormity of the job. it s one thing to be a candidate, it s another thing to hold the awesome response abilities of commander-in-chief. i think the second is he surrounding him in a team that is stronger than i have ever seen who i know he listens to and he listens to and forming his views and his actions. the third of all, he was deeply moved by those pictures. all of us wear. it makes you cry. but i would also point out that it doesn t matter so much to mothers whether their babies
as soon as they fire the coach, they will say, this new guy is terrible. so donald trump has to be careful because the same war drums that for this intervention will turn on him if things in advance and if they go sour. so it all depends on what he does next. martha: there you go with the fast-forward button. you are probably right. what do you think? there has been a little bit of permission given to those who have been very critical of donald trump since he was first inaugurated to say this is something good that he has done. you had hillary clinton out there saying nice things about this, you had john kerry come out and say he thinks this is a good move. it s as if there is permission being given from the other side of the political aisle to bless this in a way that i think folks felt uncomfortable criticizing somebody on their own team when barack obama was president criticizing him for the lack of action. i think that has been part of the shift he is you don t have folks on