as will other people. we may eventually find out what this is all about but not at the moment. steve: within two hours somebody is going to be there at the white house, right? yes, scott morrison the prime minister of australia is going to be here for the first australian state visit since 2006. there will be a number of special guests here as well. including greg norman and rupert and murdock. more to come this morning at 9:00 when the prime minister arrives. brian: one of them is a good golfer. i will get background to find out which one. he has a great drive. ainsley: thanks, john. steve: keep in mind, this whistle blower filed this report with the inspector general of the intel community on august the 12th. that was over a month ago then they kicked it around and sent it to the department of justice and said we do not have to hand it to congress. the reason the whistle blower said it was serious
2001 authorization and use of military force against iran. what do you think of that? i think it is insane and pompeo has been laying this groundwork for a while, too. he had a number of comments over the last several months pointing to the 2001 authorization. this was the post 9/11 authorization that allowed us to go after al qaeda and their associated forces. that phrase, you guys in the obama administration used that all over the place including all sorts of groups that didn t even exist at the time of 9/11. and people are right to raise those concerns. i would have preferred to repeal that 2001 rule all together. the fact is congress wasn t keen to do that. but put it aside. iran, 20 years later, is a shia majority country. al qaeda is a sunni terrorist organization. they are not allies. to say the post 9/11 authorization used to punish people for the 9/11 attacks is going to justify legally a war against iran is crazy. trump s policies just like the trade war with china alre
john, something you wrote, congress should apply is the same standards established by trump to trump. can you expand on that? sure. several years ago when barack obama was president, he used an executive order to extend a number of protections to immigrants. and particularly with concern for the dreamers. whether he did that in 2014, he did it because he was having trouble with congress. congress wasn t moving on an issue. and donald trump s reaction to that was to say that republicans must stop him. that they must act to prevent him from doing this and then in an interview with fox news, he suggested that the president s actions remember president obama s actions, on a relatively popular and i think many people wohl agree necessary initiative to stabilize concerns as regards deportations was certainly
i don t know, we had secretary mnuchin on. he said we made some progress last week. what struck me listening to the speech last night was the extoent to which the president s trade agenda is the centerpiece of his second half of economic agenda. he said the word trade ten times. he said the word tax four times. remember that middle class tax cut before the election? he said we re going to get it before the midterms when congress wasn t even in session. it s not part of his state of the union. i heard a lot of peter navarro in that speech and not a lot of kudlow an has set last night. do you remember where he found peter navarro? jared kushner found him in an amazon search searching for an economist who had points that backed up the president s views. i don t know how we could say there s no larry kudlow or kevin has set. those two men are standing with and behind the president. that is true. the extent to which there s
indicated. so what is the strategy? that s where we re all a little bit befuddled here and it s totally predictablpredictable. and congress wasn t consulted. you have france saying we re going to stay the course because we don t believe that isis has been decimated and members of his own party have come out to scold the president on this move. why don t you think there was more consultation, coordination on this? why do you think the president did this unilaterally? i think it s impulsive. he s had a bee in his bonnet for a period, even campaigned on it. but after consulting with the military personnel in that