actually has. that is a problem. i think the shoot from the hip style that brought him to this point, and it ended up not serving him well. martha: standby. thank you so much. we will come back to you but we want to go to the white house and get further response, kellyanne conway, counsel to the president, has been in the process of listening to this, as it came in, with the president. kellyanne, good evening to you. how did the president react when he he said he thought on tv. what it was first reaction? the white house counsel was in there, as well. totals with the dancers inside. you saw the initial reaction, he said see you in court. the nation s safety is at risk. this is what it has been about from the beginning, keeping the country safe. not just a promise he made as a candidate, it is his duty and responsibility as president of the united states and commander in chief. in fact, he has promised to do it under the statute. this ruling does not affect the merits at all. it
which you can t really campaign on. that s commander in chief. i think that s going to be one of the areas where people may have concerns about him and were sort of his shoot from the hip style on twitter, you know, could not only be at issue with countries around the world but also with reassuring americans. sara, reassuring americans and reassuring i remember leaders are two different things. when donald trump, the president-elect, is looking at the way to manage messaging, is he taking what may have worked before but does not work when you re sitting in the white house, the it s okay to question dominant theories but do that behind closed doors and work through that there, don t do it on twitter? well, we ll see, but here s what we do know. china has been a rising adversary now in the post cold war era for decades, and not much has been done to curtail that. and so for the foreign policy we ve seen over the last decade
tonight donald trump sending his children to the crucial battleground states. and trump s sons have found themselves at the center of their own controversies in the campaign. reporter: donald trump s children, the softer side of the trump brand. for my fair, impossible is just the starting point. admired even by hillary clinton as she acknowledgecknow the last presidential debates. i respect his children. his children are incredibly able and devoted. and i think that says a lot about donald. reporter: potent surrogates, often dispatched to defend and echo thinker father throughout the campaign. people want the country back. reporter: but trump s sons have also inherited the shoot-from the hip style of their father. an examination shows donald trump jr. has mocked arabic
he kept up that connection with a shoot from the hip style that could be called performance art. the problem is the gamble trump took on both accounts, he bet that his anger was donald trump his act kill lee heel. one never guided by the notions of a political career. and he counted on his wild stream of consciousness speaking sometime to be wild and provocative without ever going over the edge. donald trump stands in danger of being overthrown, not by his republican allies, but by his own failure to plot a course that would gird him when the conquest for power would grow mortal, and that is now. and that is hardball for you. all in with chris hayes starts right now. we have breaking news at this hour, a bombshell report
anti-trump candidate that emerges from the field, and i think bush wants to be that person. for the story to be framed as trump versus bush, as owe poised to trump versus the rest of the field is good for jeb bush. ultimately this race is going to come down to voters deciding whether they want an experienced candidate like jeb bush who has a record, a governor of a big state, or they want an outsider like donald trump who takes pride in his shoot from the hip style. if they do want an experienced candidate, on that note, i m sure you ve seen this national review report, it says some major republican donors are underwhelmed by the field so far, including jeb bush, and they re holding out for your former boss, mitt romney, do you think those donors could change his mind, get him into the race? no. mitt romney has made his decision, he s not reconsidering it, he s friendly with many of the republican candidates who are running, he feels there s a