said laura: internal review. i believe that. yeah. this is donald trump s own state department. we don t control the state department! laura: 77,000 employees work for the state department. i think we have established it pretty clearly on the show, going back to the reagan administration that the state department sometimes isn t the biggest friend of conservative policies. this is, like, in the complaint that republicans have. i agree the secretary should stand up for his ambassadors, which when this is not. laura: if an ambassador does not like a president s policy or principles, you have a duty to quit. instead, they burrowed in to be little state department spies. sorry. we won the election. talked the john bolton. i do frequently. i m waiting for him the company shall and why he said it was a drone deal, mulvaney, he
i believe that. yeah. this is donald trump s own state department. we don t control the state department! laura: 77,000 employees work for the state department. i think we have established it pretty clearly on the show going back to the reagan administration that the state department sometimes isn t the biggest friend of conservative policies. this is, like, an old complaint that republicans have. i agree the secretary should stand up for his ambassadors which when this is not.s laura: if an ambassador does not like a president ssi policy or principles, you have a duty to quit. instead, they burrowed in to be little state department spies. sorry. we won the election. talk the john bolton. i do frequently. i m waiting for him the company shall and why he said it was a drug deal, mulvaney, he wanted no part of.
there was a frustration. most of of the members would never serve in the majority party during their congressional careers. if you don t think you can win the majority, how will you win the majority. the old bulls in our party decided they could live with the democrats and get a certain percentage of each bill and help change the direction without the coming majority. that was the concept that we hoped to break up and we believed the only way you made a realho difference and brought rl conservative policies to the country was to be in the majority. i was the one person with the drive and determination and persistence that we might eventually get there. he was somebody who aspired to leadership, and then others joined him and his conservative
republicans, that was a very strong moment. i thought buttigieg s line of the night was, if we go with a bunch of far left policies, they re going to cause a bunch of crazy socialists. and if we go with a bunch of conservative policies, they ll call us a bunch of crazy conservatives. i thought that was a solid line. look, i want to go there. the clear intent was to spark fights. you go after you, and you over there, go after that one over there. that was that seemed to be the point of the moderation, and so in all that fighting about policy, i m not sure any of the candidates got that much of a chance to be presidential, to show leadership. i have to interrupt you, eugene, only because garrett haake has now nabbed jim ryan. reporter: you talked about providing health care for
scott pruitt scandal. that s good. do you think so? at this rate. i was going to say. give us a sense, give some context and perspective. is what scott pruitt is doing in terms of buying tactical pants and polos and some of these things, is that normal for a cabinet member and even normal for somebody almost $5 million worth. according to the feedback we have seen from lawmakers even within the republican party and the president himself and some administration officials they don t like what s going on here. the question is how long can this possibly go forward and you talk to some republicans and they say, well, you know, the epa administrator is implementing the policies of the president, conservative policies as they pertain to the environment, but on the same token you do have some saying this is just untenable at this point and there is a question, too, of how a replacement could get confirmed in this body. so that could be some factor leading into it really seem