presidency, that he s just not curious. i mean, if you asked me the details of health care, i m going to be honest with you, i may not know them, i m not president of the united states and i m not trying to sell my bill. if you asked me the con tours of the inner workings of the iran deal, you know, i could figure it out pretty quickly. it s the lack of curiosity. so in that vacuum steps politics and personality. not policy. and david s exactly right, we re just it s like, it s all sort of it s gossip. it s like i have teenagers. it s like that kind of drama. it s fire and fury and the calm before the storm. go ahead, david. in addition to everything that david and juliet said, you can imagine a scenario, maybe, if john kelly has been the chief of staff from day one, he could have maybe implemented his military very button-down style of chief of staff management from the beginning back in january. but to come in now with the tools that he has in his tool kit and reverse course
he saved this relationship. i mean, you look at the tensions, that was an extraordinary statement when tillerson said that this weekend. he succeeded. how long it lasts? i don t know. this is having an impact policy-wise. this iran decision he s going to decertify iran. he s kicking it down the road for congress to solve it. the tax proposal, no details and leadership from the white house. he dumps it on congress. and this is how the white house is functioning. and it s the short-term political points. there s no policies coming out of it. this turmoil, and i think all that time and energy, maybe there would be why is that? i, you know, well, vast promises during the campaign that he s keeping. why is that david, come on? well, some argue that the president doesn t have a detailed understanding of foreign policy or domestic policy. this was the issue with the health care debate. senators met with him and said he did not understand how the health care system worked, just to be
and who is whispering and controlling the president. they call the shots. barack obama called the shots. this is donald trump. he s not going to change. david, what is your reaction to the west wing turmoil with kelly? yeah, so i think david is right, but at least the component of this, i assume for general kelly has to be that he s been a long-time government servant. he wants, he has a sense of patriotism. the problem is that you get to a point where there s a fine line between staying with it because of your sense of duty and enabling what i have to assume he sees as conduct unbecoming on the part of his boss. i mean, you had today, in your last segment, to me that was making fun of people from puerto rico. i don t know any other way to say that, by the president of the united states, you have serious people in the white house. general kelly s a four-star general. rex tillerson is a former ceo with exxon, 40 years, and there s a mismatch because president trump is not one of the
going to be honest with you, i may not know them, i m not president of the united states and i m not trying to sell my bill. if you asked me the con tours of the inner workers of the iran deal, you know, i could figure it out pretty quickly. it s the lack of curiosity. so in that vacuum steps politics and personality. not policy. and david s exactly right, we re just it s like, it s all sort of it s gossip. it s like i have teenagers. it s like that kind of drama. it s fire and fury and the calm before the storm. go ahead, david. in addition to everything that david and juliet said, you can imagine a scenario, maybe, if john kelly has been the chief of staff from day one, he could have maybe implemented his military very button-down style of chief of staff management from the beginning back in january. but to come in now with the tools that he has in his tool kit and reverse course on the
i mean, all presidents have a huge influence in their white house. there s all the talk about aids and who is whispering and controlling the president. they call the shots. barack obama called the shots. this is donald trump. he s not going to change. david, what is your reaction to the west wing turmoil with kelly? yeah, so i think david is right, but at least the component of this, i assume for general kelly has to be that he s been a long-time government servant. he wants, he has a sense of patriotism. the problem is that you get to a point where there s a fine line between staying with it because of your sense of duty and enabling what i have to assume he sees as conduct unbecoming on the part of his boss. i mean, you had today, in your last segment, to me that was making fun of people from puerto rico. i don t know any other way to say that, by the president of the united states, you have serious people in the white house. general kelly s a four-star