all of this? based on my conversations with trump advisers, the chief of staff have had intentions in recent months about the pace of deregulation at the department of labor. mick mulvaney coming out of the house of representatives, a conservative hardliner. he would like to see more done, has been frustrated with acosta at times and how things have proceeded on policy. the president is aware of this but he also likes acosta personally in the sense he sees him as a loyal, hard worker, someone who doesn t steal the spotlight from the president. at this moment some trump confidants say trump will let this play out, but if it plays out in an unfavorable way toward the secretary, he could walk away. we ve seen this with previous administration officials. this process takes its time and ultimately the official could step away. scott pruitt comes to mind, right, where the president dug in for weeks and weeks and weeks until he eventually just gave up. glen, i want to turn to you
he said the current situation is making it impossible for me to carry out my role as i would like. although my posting is not due to end until the end of this year, i believe in the current circumstances, the responsible course is to allow the appointment of a new ambassador. this is not entirely a surprise, of course, jeff, because you had the president lashing out at the ambassador, calling him wacky, calling him a very stupid guy, and so the sense was that the two just couldn t work together, and president trump, of course, had essentially disinvited him from a big dinner earlier this week that he was supposed to attend. so, again, this is significant because the united states has no closer ally than the u.k., but as you know, as we ve covered so closely, jeff, there have been a lot of tensions between the president and prime minister theresa may, the outgoing prime minister, so this just adding fuel to the fire. but again, essentially, the british ambassador saying, jeff, that it i
flaws in the system from 2016 and that may put more pressure on the trump administration to traoefp traoet this as a front burner issue. trump s former business partner felix seder said he cooperated fully. a committee spokesman said he did not cooperate at all and spoke to seder about this. what did he tell you? seder told me he did cooperate fully. he felt the house democrats were mounting a political attack on him. he spent a statement from his lawyer pushing back against his committee. the bottom line is what felix seder helped negotiate the trump tower in moscow. he is key to who knew what about that project. the house intelligence committee believes trump was deeply compromised and they want to pursue this. felix seder is a key witness. and i think they got a lot out of him yesterday. thanks very much to you.
first choice to be the nominee originally in that race. but this is something where just because you have money doesn t mean you re going to win. and jeremy peters, what do you think of this race? is this going to be the kind of thing that gets a lot of attention because those of us see amy mcgrath, she has a great back story, and mitch mcconnell is a well known figure. do you think she has a shot here? in any race where your opponent has the lowest approval rating as a united states senator, there will be a huge vulnerability there. whether or not that vulnerability is enough to squeeze mitch mcconnell out of office, i m very skeptical of at this point. what s interesting is the dynamic mcconnell finds himself in. in order to be the strongest candidate he can be, he s going to have to tether himself to president trump and president trump s record. that s not a comfortable position for someone like mitch mcconnell to be in. he is basically going to have to tell voters in kentucky,
right, and it had been a question of when, not if he would step down. what s the reaction from the white house so far, kristen? reporter: we had a chance to speak it mark short about this a short time ago, and he said, essentially, look, the writing was on the wall. this is what was anticipated because of the fact that you had these leaked cables. because president trump was lashing out at the british ambassador. take a listen to what he had to say. i think the reality was that in light of the last few days, his ability to be effective was probably limited so it was probably the right course. reporter: so i think you re going to hear more of that line coming from the administration, and frankly, from the president himself. the question becomes who will replace him and what type of working relationship will that person have? prime minister theresa may, by the way, has been largely supportive but support tifr ive this decision.