do that or should not and signature rounding himself with this legal team, his economic team and his national security team who ll say exactly right, trust your gut, do what you think is the right thing to do and live with the kwercconseque. does this match the reporting that the president is finding himself comfortable with the con figure of the job that he s plainly happier and subsection of that question, what about the staff and what about the folks who work for him. there is an in verse correlation. as the president is finding himself more comfortable and his staff is finding himself less comfortable. the president is embolden more and doing what he wants. this is a president that s going to do what he wanted. the truth is the staff just does not know what s going on. for instance, when the president announced the bill ceremony, an hour or so before, the staff did not know the president coming do
getting rid of people who tell him you can t do that, you shouldn t do that, that s not a smart thing to do, and surrounding himself increasingly with his legal team, his economic team, and his national security team with people who will say you re exactly right, trust your gut, do what you think is the right thing to do, live with the consequences. ashley, does this match the reporting that the president is finding himself more comfortable within the contours of the job, that he s plainly happier? and subsection of that question, what about the staff? what about the folks who work for him? there s sort of an inverse correlati correlation, right? as the president finds himself more and more comfortable, his staff finds himself increasingly less comfortable and dismayed. it s frupt president is emboldened. he is trusting his instincts more, and he s doing what he wants. i mean, basically, this is a president who was always going to do what he wanted but it s just coming into sharper
the ringing? the weird ringing. kind of a seasonal sounding ringing. all right. now here s another clue. here is texas governor rick perry signing the bill at that bill ceremony. everything looks kind of normal. but wait, wait, wait, wait. who s that guy? who s that guy over rick perry s right shoulder? what s that guy with the funny hat and the long white beard? yeah, that s santa. rick perry, in fact, stacked the room with a whole bunch of stunt santa clauss for the bill signing. what just happened in texas is that rick perry signed a bill, he had a big ornate signing ceremony with sleigh bells ringing and santa clauses all over the room to sign a bill that makes it not illegal to say merry christmas in texas. seriously. well, it might be june, but folks at the state capitol today are getting ready for the holidays. today governor perry signed legislation that will let teachers and students use greetings like merry christmas or happy hanukkah in schools.
once all is said and done, one world trade will stand at 1776 feet with its antenna and it refers to when the declaration of independence was ratified. again, a bill ceremony later today with so many people who have been watching this go up for many, many years now. back to you. nbc s catherine craig reporting for us. that s going to wrap things up for me this hour. i m going to see you back here tomorrow 181:00 a.m. eastern time. until then follow me on. now with alex wagner is coming up next. hello, happy monday to you, thomas. lots of new things this week. new strategies coming from the campaigns. will the tweaks help in november or just muddle the message? and case you ve been asleep for the last 48 hours, president obama told some jokes over the weekend. we will discusses the best lines from our comic in chief and discuss mitt romney, merry
now here s another clue. here is texas governor rick perry signing the bill at that bill ceremony. everything looks kind of normal. but wait, wait, wait, wait. who s that guy? who s that guy over rick perry s right shoulder? what s that guy with the funny hat and the long white beard? yeah, that s santa. rick perry, in fact, stacked the room with a whole bunch of stunt santa clauss for the bill signing. what just happened in texas is that rick perry signed a bill, he had a big ornate signing ceremony with sleigh bells ringing and santa clauses all over the room to sign a bill that makes it not illegal to say merry christmas in texas. seriously. well, it might be june, but folks at the state capitol today are getting ready for the holidays. today governor perry signed legislation that will let teachers and students use greetings like merry christmas or happy hanukkah in schools. those are members of the lone star santas club. they came to the capitol to give their backing on this