things done that republicans and conservatives have wanted to get done for a very long time and so they re willing to look the other way for the character short comings and all of the rest and if you talk to people on the republicans on the hill, they sound like jerry maguire and talking to cuba gooding jr. in the movie, help me help you. just stop making yourself into a spectacle. stay out of the headlines and do all of this other stuff and people will defend him. but he can t help himself and it creates a huge problem on the right because they just want him out of the headlines. and we know that trump hates bad headlines about aides. we see him reacting that to ronny jackson and react that way to tom price, the former hhs secretary and coy go through the list of the people that left the administration but it is only a one hour show. corrine, how do you see this playing out? pruitt is getting bad headlines for weeks and weeks and yet president trump is standing by his man. becau
cares about. and corrine, we learned jackson wasn t vetted before nominated. obviously it is a different but president trump brought the phrase extreme vetting into parlance when talking about refugees coming to the country. but he doesn t even believe in basic vetting for cabinet nominations. that is exactly right. and he s so ill-prepared for the office and doesn t understand what the agencies do to have nominated someone who would be the head of the second largest agency a $200 billion budget which is the agency behind the department of defense. that is a big job. and ronny jackson is just ill prepared and should not have this job. and to what the guest was saying, donald trump is the king of tribalism. he always talks to his base. everything he does is talking to his base. not to the people of the country, because it is a small and shrinking base and that is how donald trump operates.
we think they are? they certainly i think caitlyn is right about the body language issue. if you watch it with the sound off and sometimes it reminds me of like champ kind from anchor man telling ron burgundy, i like your musk. there is a certain weird thing going on there. but i think ultimately it is sort of an alpha male thing and this is a person beyond politics an the dominant male and you see it in their interactions and also it is a very it is a long-standing trend in french politics as well, this idea from being without from without the system and you find it in american politics more as well. and corrine, when president trump was standing with macron, he brushed something off his coat. this is a very odd moment. take a listen. it is a great honor to be here. but we do have a very special relationship. in fact i ll get that little
intelligence agency. the document says, gates and person a were directly communicating in september and october 2016, person a has ties to russian intelligence, service and has had such ties since 2016. gates told him mueller that person a was a former russian intelligence officer with gru. one former cia director says the investigation is speeding up, not slowing down. you can see the pace picking up. we re seeing a great body of evidence that the president, his family, his business, his campaign had a lot of contacts with a lot of russians which may be entirely innocent, but now we re seeing bob mueller explore each of those linkages. corrine where does this take us at this point. mueller focusing on gates and using him to explore collusion? right. it takes us backwards and forwards, really.
weigh in, that s going to have a fallout. an interesting sort of follow-up to the very public and active role they played in the nra debate. thank you. a shift on gun control part of the chaos of the white house this week. the question now, can the administration get back to business as usual? careen jean pierre, michelle barnard. corrine, let s start with you. i draw from the story of the chaos in the white house. describing president trump s zigzagging positions on gun control. i guess you could say the first zig at the meeting in the white house. what s your sense of the president s position on gun policy and republicans today? look. when it comes to donald trump and the republicans, they re owned by the nra. that is not going to change. when you look at how much of financial support donald trump