general of the united states. caitlin collins reporting, at the same time he was calling him an idiot, weak, disappointed, he did a terrible thing, disgraceful, wish i had picked somebody else. those are strong words from a president about a member of his cap net. at the same time, he asked the attorney general to reverse his decision about recusing himself going back to when he brought him to mar-a-lago in palm beach. it s remarkable. i know he said and tweeted all those things, but to see them, we are not talking the attorney general from the democratic administration. this is his hand picked guy. he was the first senator to endorse donald trump s candidacy. they had a huge rally in alabama. he s the attorney general. this is one of the top, premier cabinet jobs. you know, i think there s no conclusion other than the one you made. because donald trump knows how difficult it would be, i think,
politically. i think these are unforced errors they don t need to invite. cut dr. jackson loose and go on with the day. i don t think folks are looking at the political calculations here. i think the white house doesn t like to lose. i think the president comes one a good idea. he thinks. because he wants people who are he comfortable with now in these cabinet jobs. you know he said i tried it once didn t like those other guys. now i m getting the people i want. ronnie jackson is someone he liked. clearly the process was shore circuited, really short circuited. and now they re suffering the result of it. so if jackson wants to go through it he ll have the confirmation process. but that could be really difficult. and i think when you vet the doctor in the white house it s different than a cabinet member. yes. and i think now we re looking at confirmation. and everybody who is a veteran everybody working in the veterans administration wants in taken care of. and it is urgent.
one point on this chris, one vet something extremely important. when i left the sanders campaign and worked for a convention, they vetted me. the convention team before i could go to work as a consultant. clearly i had been vetted on the sanders campaign but they vetted me again because that s the work you did before bringing someone on. this is just a part of the political process and the trump folks aren t doing. that secondly in terms of i find it interesting that a lot of allies at the white house are saying that the confirmation process has to go forward. that could be really damaging to the kwhous politically. i think these are unforced errors they don t need to invite. cut dr. jackson loose and go on with the day. i don t think folks are looking at the political calculations here. i think the white house doesn t like to lose. i think the president comes one a good idea. he thinks. because he wants people who are he comfortable with now in these cabinet jobs. you know he
according to several officials i ve spoken to, that may have gotten him on worse footing instead of surer footing. pruitt is really doing exactly what the president wants him to do at the epa with environmental regulations. the president had promised that they would be cut to favor business. that s what pruitt has been doing. it s not like a replacement would exactly be easy to confirm. right? right. there s been a groundswell support from conservatives today. you saw rand paul tweeted his support to the president, a lot of other members of the hill are calling the white house to support pruitt. you re hearing a lot of activists, tea party types, folks, big donors who like pruitt s agenda supporting him pretty voracious ly. that said, the president could still make a move. the point you made about not being able to confirm someone quickly may be the biggest deterrent to making a move here. you have several cabinet jobs. you have cia, veterans affairs.
able to answer. it should matter in that it is important for both people who work in the government, people who work outside of the government, people from other countries, to know what hat ivanka trump has on. that s why you don t get to wear two hats or shouldn t. that s why we have anti-nepotism laws. these laws hold for cabinet jobs, they hold for agency jobs. there is a legal understanding they do not yet hold for white house jobs which means ivanka trump and jared kushner with work in the white house. this is a perfect example, both her trip and the question she was asked about her father s conduct are a perfect example of why these anti-nepotism laws do exist. you can t be the president s daughter when it is easier for you, and an adviser other times. you re either one or the other. you can t have your cake even eat it too. that s what ivanka trump is doing. that s why there are laws in place, though not governing the