for hillary clinton. they did not want to vote for the status quo and they voted for change. now he is giving them change. the question is, and i honestly, it s hard, because so much has happened in the first 26 days, but i do think it s too early to say this. we don t know if the change he is giving them is the change they voted for or the change they want. let s bring in washington post political reporter anne guerin. take a listen to what he said. if i had been asked to pick the team on national security around president trump i couldn t have picked a better team and i think that s very important. pre-flynn or post-flynn? i think that the flynn issue obviously is something that shows that in many respects this administration is in disarray, and they ve got a lot of work to
recognizes you re generally not best served when you create chaos but he has been a chaotic candidate when he was running and in the first week we ve witnessed similar chaos i think as well. you d like to say they were trying to set tell town today by that conversation. we don t know the specifics of their call but earlier in the day donald trump doubled down on his fierce talk toward mexico and it s i guess there s sort of a whiplash back and forth. the most recent this issue of mexico. and anne guerin, when you look at the issues and all of these foreign policy issues let s talk about the state department, the home alone aspects of it. lot of reporting yesterday some of which we were pushing back on, you did have a mass departure of top officials. this is traditionally done one of the big differences is that so many left on the same day and also that they are really way behind on even naming who would be the deputy secretary and who
begins and vice president pence has just completed his speech at the rally at the march for life rally, the first sitting vice president. joining me is anne guerin, washington post correspondent, jillian tett from the financial times. the rally is still there, they ll march, and hear from speakers the next couple of minutes. theresa may beginning her meeting with the president and this is after her speech to the republican leaders anne geurin yesterday she laying out her desire for a closer relationship to replicate, certainly had enough references to reagan and maggie thatcher, but of course president trump is very different from ronald reagan in a lot of ways and she s not maggie thatcher either but what she wants is a closer trade relationship because of the pending divorce from europe over brexit. anne? right, she s really offering an invitation to the trump
today on behalf of the so-called dreamers, the children of immigrants who president obama permitted to stay in the u.s., not to deport if they are enrolled in college or the military. i delivered to the president-elect and his senior adviser and chief of staff a letter signed by 14 mayors that put together from across the country about our doca students and they were working hard toward the american dream. they are something we should hold up and embrace. trump has promised to cancel the executive orders on immigration on day one. now he s indicating some flexibility in time magazine. joining me chris cillizza, msnbc contributor and founder of the fox blog and anne guerin, political correspondent. flexibility about the dreamers because they are children who have lived life in the united states after they were brought here. it does seem maybe there is a little bit of running room.
on in the meetings, and i do think excuse me that newt gingrich is on to something, and it is a little bit of hype. but we have to realize that this is a very, very important position. it would be great if it were a position that was filled that made people less fearful of how trump is going be governing glowle ballglow glowle globally. and stand by, noel and anne, and i want to go to oakland, california w a breaking story that we have been covering, and leaders are coming to the microphone. let s listen in. the sheriff s office, and captain melanie ditzenberger is here, and she would like to share to the community valuable information and also an update from sergeant kelly. we will answer a few questions, but we won t go into a lot, because we will have a 2:00 media availability, and press conference, and so we will be briefed, and we want to uptate you with the information.