He met with four candidates over the weekend at maralargo. One man has won out. Thats h. R. Mcmaster. Hes a career army officer. He graduated from westpoint and served in iraq an afghan stand currently the director of the Army Capability center. Hes now President Trumps next National Security advisor. A man of tremendous talent and experience. I watched and read a lot the last two days. He is highly respected by everybody in the military. Were very honored to have him. Mr. President , thanks very much. Id like to say what a privilege it is to continue to serve our nation and look forward to the National Security team and protect the interests of the American People. Two of the other finalists also got job offers today. Lieutenant general Keith Kellogg who had been serving as the acting National Security advisor. He was offered as chief of staff of the National Security council. John bolton, the former ambassador to the u. N. , he will be offered a job in some capacity. We dont know wha
Family and culture in crisis, jd, lets get right to you, showing the president has a dismalratine rating, showinge is at 44 , is this why were seeing a white house scramble . Obviously not good news for the president. Not only scrambling its jd. Im sorry. Yeah. Well like you said, don, its definitely not good news for the president so far. I dont know if i describe them as scrambling for a win, but the problem with his Approval Ratings is it doesnt give him any solid way to govern. You have to negotiate from a position of strength and its hard to do that when youre at a 4445 Approval Rating. David, since youre ready to go, this is for you, this poll shows that 66 of americans think the president has done a poor job of putting together a team of top advisers, 50 of the public doesnt think he is keeping his Campaign Promises. What does it say . Is he a dealmaker in chief or the dealmaker he promised out on the campaign trail . Well, first of all, don, he has been slow on making appointme
Minions on the House Intelligence Committee voted to release on monday. Drafted by staffers working for the chairman of that committee, trump supporter devin nunes, it moves that a trump associate was wrongly surveilled by the Justice Department and the fbi. But republicans have a bigger goal in mind here. They say it shows corruption in the fbi that is worse than watergate. Proving that special counsel Robert Muellers investigation is based on a fraud. With reports indicating the president could use this document as a pretext to fire Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein who obviously oversees the special counsels probe, a top democrat says its release could spark a constitutional crisis. Well, now in an unprecedented move, the fbi is going public with their objections. And is challenging the very content of the memo itself. Today they released a statement saying we have grave concerns about material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memos accuracy. At 5 00 p. M. Yester
Whom did he vote for in the 2016 election. Mccabe said he didnt vote at all according to the officials. Mick cave found the conversation with trump disturbing. Trump vented hissing ander to mccabe to the new acting fbi director about political donations to mccabes wife who ran for the Virginia State senate in 2015 as a democrat. Her campaign received several hundred thousand dollars from a Political Action committee controlled by clinton ally and then Virginia Governor terry mcauliffe. That campaign happened before mick cave become comeys deputy. Today Sarah Huckabee sanders didnt deny trump asked that question how mccabe voted. Does the president make a habit of asking career government officials their voting habits . Not that im aware of, no. Did he ask Andrew Mccabe how he voted . Look, the president and Andrew Mccabe have had limited and pretty nonsubstantive conversations. I cant get into the details of what was discussed. I wasnt there. There are wide spreads reports of his retir
Governing process here where hes indicated all along that hes wanted this wall money but it seemed like he would give in at some point here, except, you know, hes seemed to wake up today and finally said no, im not going to do that and, you know, you had a meeting at the white house this afternoon with paul ryan, Kevin Mccarthy and the Freedom Caucus leaders, mark meadows and jim jordan. They emeshrged from the meeting and it was clear trump was serious about the wall money in some fashion. Obviously this isnt something thats going to pass the senate. I know it just passed the house. And the reason i think it passed the house is because at this point its just sort of a political vote. Theres no real practical policy considerations here, in fact, a lot of guys who would have voted for this i dont think would have voted for it in normal circumstances if they thought this was actually going to become law. So it goes to the senate what do you mean by that . Why are people voting for it . I