fear. i m disappointed chris matthews didn t catch it in the moment. interviews with kellyanne conway are very hard. they are. when there s incoming, she fires up chaff to misdirect the missiles coming at her. don t pay attention to the facts. i m throwing this up to distract you. i hope she sees something in this and they think about it messagingwise. a lot of of the base is refusing to let go of the idea that there was a mass care. sometimes a lie or a misstatement gets a life of its own. i haven t seen that part. i have seen them hold that up as an example that the vetting process doesn t work because these two iraqi terror suspects got in. they re right. and it was addressed. and it was in 2009. the system was changed as a result of that when they figured out they didn t have their fingerprints on a database, they changed the system. that s an important part of the story. the headline is sensational and disturbing.
daughter there. so what might be that process going forward? what might he be doing? of the faces you are watching here in the east room, the first event we re seeing for this new president, your thoughts? yeah. well as you said, richard, it is quite amazing to see all these familiar faces we all met to suddenly have these very senior roles in the white house. this was a fairly somber ceremony. he was fairly subdued. he spoke of the gravity of the situation and to have those 30 people stand and we have people we know very well from out on the campaign trail. kellyanne conway, the president s son-in-law now taking on this very big responsibility right there in the white house to advise him. steve bannon and reince priebus who will serve as co-senior directors there in the white house. steve bannon, reince priebus, the chief of chaff. reince priebus is the
with kim jong un in north korea. these are crises that are unfolding as we speak and they will unfold more to test the president-elect and pompeo. so he s got to leave partisan politics behind and focus on the non-partisan business of running operations and being a voice of clarity on non-partisan analytic focus in the oval office and in the situation room. well, and jonathan, to that point, if you want to be old-fashioned, and things are changing, but if you want to be old-fashioned, the position of cia director is one of intelligence and verified information, not one of policy-making. right. he is supposed to be a neutral broker within the vast intelligence community, and to filter out a lot of chaff and give the president the wheat, what he really needs to know
unfolding as we speak and they will unfold more to test the president-elect and pompeo. so he s got to leave partisan politics behind and focus on the non-partisan business of running operations and being a voice of clarity on non-partisan analytic focus in the oval office and in the situation room. well, and jonathan, to that point, if you want to be old-fashioned, and things are changing, but if you want to be old-fashioned, the position of cia director is one of intelligence and verified information, not one of policy-making. right. he is supposed to be a neutral broker within the vast intelligence community, and to filter out a lot of chaff and give the president the wheat, what he really needs to know every day to make very, very tough decisions about hotspots around the world. so it s really not supposed to
iraq at the type and his own defense secretary say contributed to the rise of isis. and the president s executive actions on immigration, gun control and climate change have ignored a storm of criticism. chris stirewalt tavis smiley says he remembers being there, and so do i. that feeling, whether you supported him or not, was this guy going to be different and unite the country and somehow find a way to separate the wheat from the chaff and bring us together? and now we have our answer. right. and you remember, we all remember, how about how washington, d.c. was seven years ago right now. the anticipation of change, people were exhausted by the bush years.