so this idea that somehow if this happened in bush s last year, 43, you would have allowed him after the primary sean was afoot to pick somebody and put him on the court and defied history is just laughable to me, given what you ve done. senator schumer and a few others led a wholesale filibuster of everything bush 43 in his first term. i was in the game of 14. we lost two judges as a result of the deal, but the extraordinary circumstances test held until 2013. and in 2013, with the concurrence of president obama, because i called him and asked him, please don t do this. he said, i ve got to, y all have been unfair to me. i don t think the facts pore that out, you changed the rules for everything below the supreme court. you had a chance to grab power and you grabbed it. so when you complain about garland, it s the arsonist complaining about the fire. joining me now for our daily
certainly expect him to do the right thing. the controversy right now is not good. i certainly acknowledge that, but i will leave it up to devin nunez to do the right thing. i believe he will and we need clarity here. congressman chris collins, always appreciate your frankness. you don t duck many questions and i appreciate that. let s bring in tonight s panel from the new york times and contributor, with bush 43 s political director. the washington post columnist and editor. sarah fagan, devin nunez needs to do the right thing. he wouldn t outline what that was. he doesn t want to get ahead of the chairman. they will have to determine what the best course of action is for the investigation and his role in it. it could mean a lot of things. it could be opening up whatever information he may have gotten to the members of the committee
on their side of the aisle when he walked in a bunch of them left before he was to the back of the room. brian: i always remember the first time i can always remember clearly sitting on the couch bush 43 walked. in the first time seeing the president as president. when president obama walked n 2009 and to see president trump come in and after this marathon campaign that last add year and a half of every the daily intensity that brought us in oftentimes on weekends just to cover this and to see him walk in last night, i was wondering what he was thinking but he looked so composed. ainsley: really hit home. this is all over he is the president of the united states. ainsley: when we sat down two days ago he said his grade for messaging was a c or c minus. we asked him when are you going to make that an a? he said i m going to start tonight with this speech. he really did. everyone last night on all of our shows after the speech most of our comments were
presidents. a couple things jump out at you. take a look at this. 84% for donald trump in his own party, 84% support. how about other presidents at this point in their presidency, this early point? well, what do you see? george w. bush less than trump had with his own party, bill clinton, less than trump had with his own party, george h.w. bush less than he had with his own party, reagan,less than he has with his own party. the only modern president with a higher approval rating within his own party at this point as president barack obama just two points better. this is the dilemma for republicans. they look at that democratic number, independent number say, hey, trump is in political trouble right here. not much room for error with him. but that kind of support from republicans, 84% republican office holders look at that and it does have to make them wonder sort of like the election results when he won a victory they never saw coming. is he more in touch with my base, with my party s
denounced our current president during the campaign. so the pickins are probably more slim than they ought to be, but there s good people out there. you know, steve hadley, who was national security advisor for bush 43, dave petraeus, i would urge civilian given the fact secretary of defense superb public servant jim mattis is military background, they need to go talk to harvard kennedy school and find out who is a defense intellectual they can bring in. let me ask you about one of the candidates so we know this individual s a candidate because donald trump said so. he put this on twitter today said general keith kellogg who i ve known for a long time is very much in play for nsa as are three others. we can put up a list here some of the other names tha are being circulated right now. you se kellogg s name. he s currently the acting