that s not true. we got a bunch of liars around you guys and it includes the president. no, it s not and you should stop saying that because of all the things you say, you and andrew mccabe said today, may be true, may be true. the one thing we know is true, donald trump is the president. i got to go. when we learn more. not me. i have no exposure. when that probe comes out, i ll give you guys as much time as you want to discuss it s findings. i believe it s critical to the american people. the offer will always stand. great. let s see if there s a report to even discuss. that s up to you guys and that s up to you guys. the american people want their elected officials to focus on issues and my boss is. they want that report, kellyanne. let s see if the democratly controlled congress starts to. you have them say we re going to continue to investigation. the mueller probe, forget about the politicians for a second, the mueller probe
all hat and no cattle, because he can t deliver. to the most important powers of the presidency are the power to persuade and the power to invoke fear. that s been shrinking with the early stages of the trump presidency. that s exactly what we saw on display in two ways, both on the tax speech and what we saw with mattis. on that mattis moment, the chain of command is clear. the commander-in-chief who is the democratly elected civilian of the armed forces. there s a question of who controls, whose policy controls. it s the president of the united states. here you have a situation where the president says one thing and the secretary of defense says, no, he s wrong, out in the open. his secretary of state on sunday said i m not associating myself, in effect he said i m not associating myself with what he said in charlottesville. have you ever seen that? no, i have not seen it and neither has anybody else. this is unique so much with the trump presidency. we have never had a first
now, i m not here to judge whether he did or didn t. each person will have to judge for themselves, but i think there s a very serious case to be made that although the president went, give him credit for that, didn t make any big mistakes, but he sort of came and went and ran the risk of seem irrelevant. this is part of the problem he s having with his presidency, whether he is all show and no go. or as they would say in texas, all hat and no cattle, because he can t deliver. to the most important powers of the presidency are the power to persuade and the power to invoke fear. that s been shrinking with the early stages of the trump presidency. that s exactly what we saw on display in two ways, both on the tax speech and what we saw with mattis. on that mattis moment, the chain of command is clear. the commander-in-chief who is the democratly elected civilian of the armed forces. there s a question of who
will be beneficiaries of the relationship. up until this point, the united nations has a firm position with syria and bashar al assad. russia and syria are hoping under a trump administration there will be more wiggle room and flexibility. also with trump signals he will have a closer relationship with russia which can help as well. russia has said once donald trump does become president, he is welcome to become part of the negotiating process. until then, the united states and barack obama have been sidelined. ian lee, thank you. alison, new this morning, the united kingdom criticizing secretary of state john kerry for his comments on israel this week. a spokeswoman for theresa may said it was not appropriate to go after the political composition of the democratly elected government of the ally.
and cia would be wholly unacceptable to me, and i would make it my goal on day one of my tenure and every day thereafter to strengthen the trust between us. but trust may be out the door now. just look at the responses to feinstein s remarks and brennan s rebuttal yesterday from democrats. oregon democrat ron whieden, i m extremely troubled that the cia leadership has not responded to questions. this is simply not acceptable in a democratly. democracy. and mark udall, up for re-election this year, had tougher words. i ve lost confidence in director brennan, particularly because he won t acknowledge the misdeeds and misconduct of the cia. getting awfully close to seeing senators actually call for brennan to step down. now, this morning, nbc news is reporting that senator udall is putting a hold on the president s pick to be the cia s general counsel. right now, the white house is standing by director brennan,