shulkin s press secretary saying also today there are no personnel changes to announce at the department of veteran affairs. president trump has made clear that he expects the department s sole focus to be on providing quality care to america s veterans who sacrificed to keep this country free and safe. let s bring in former deputy chief of staff for the department of housing and urban development, eddie, princeton university professor and msnbc contributor. thank you, both, for being here. i want to start you on this. what s your read on what is coming out of hud? i mean, look, from my understanding, dr. carson has spoken with the president and is pretty secure in his role that he will not be going anywhere from my understanding. kn with that said, let s be honest, richard. we both know no one really knows what the president s thinking. correct. he s shown himself to be extremely unpredictable, he can say something to someone because he likes them then the next day he changes
cabinet at that department. he s tried to put that behind him. he was testifying on capitol hill. earlier this last week now, rather. trying to put that behind him. but from a policy standpoint on the issue of something from the business community, cares a lot about richard, fannie mae and freddie mac, gsc reform, this type of noise coming out of that level of the cabinet does provide economic uncertainty in terms of the timetable to get some of these policy proposals does, that, of course, impacts the economy. yeah, it s been a nervous market the last week, watching the headlines. associated with this, natasha, the interview i was discussing at the top of the hour, stormy daniels on 60 minutes an hour from now. we might get what s happening in the cabinet after the interview airs as we ve seen in the past. focus, first of all, the stormy daniels about to happen tonight. her lawyer coming out very, very strongly against the president. yet the president not responding
something that is utterly ridiculous and absurd to attempt to change the narrative, attempt to change our focus from stormy daniels to whatever it is he seems fit so we re not talking about the alleged affair by this woman or alleged payout by his person or attorney. you were probably listening to the discussion with barbara mcquade. what is your reflection on the statement she was making about why the legal team is in flux, since we re talking about the two cabinet secretaries which seems also to be in question here? well, i think the legal team is in flux because of their client, right? i mean, donald trump is unpredictable. i think dowd left because he realized that trump was not going to listen to him. that the decision to attack mueller explicitly went against his counsel. i think the debacle around the two lawyers who were supposed to join his team reflects in some ways the chaos.