machine in his world view of thing. if your machine is like the chaos machine? yes. if it s the chaos machine. i m doing good chaos right now so this is all working for me, that s what that s all about. having ruddy come out and say what he says that s the trump whisper. that has been approved by trump otherwise he wouldn t be out saying that. this is laying down the tracks for what will come, and we all know what will come, shulkin is going to go, let s start the clock counting down now. they re trying to figure out what to do with carson and there s others out there as well. you have the president s team coming into shape the way the president wants it. that s fine nobody s begrudging that. just go ahead and pull the trigger and move on. can i play devil s advocate for a second, let s say david shulkin is going to go, let s
he has not made a deal yet and we are eight months into his administration. i don t think the democrats will let him make a deal. no, especially if it s a bad deal for working people. he needs to make a deal with the republicans. he needs to get republicans on board. can i play devil s advocate for a second. please. i think that yes all of those things are true. donald trump is reckless. he s his own worst enemy. he shoots his mouth off when he shouldn t. those things have been true as long as he s been in public life. including when he was running for office. these people have known his flaws, they have accepted his flaws. so i think it s possible to be disappointed in him while still supporting the idea of him. and of course then there s the question of, okay, who does he run against? these people need something to run toward, not just someone to run away but that idea you brought up. let s explore that. this idea that he s outrageous,
the risk to south korea, the instability that would result from some or the of u.s. strike, and the very definite uncertainty about how kim jong-un might react. remember, he keeps himself in power by convincing his supporters and his people that the u.s. is going to attack them this begins to play into his hands if there is the threat of that kind of attack. let me play devil s advocate for a second. we re not sure if it was part of a strategy or he just ad libbed it. let s say it was a strategy and he needs to be the one that kim jong-un is to fear. then you have rex tillerson trying to calm things down, trying to take the tension out of the air. secretary mattis also, to a degree, talking about how he wants to sovrl this in a
prosecutor without extraordinary consequences on both sides of the aisle. i ve talked to a number of my republican colleagues who have already indicated they would be prepared to act. one of the problems that democrats and republicans have voiced in the past about special prosecutors are they end up investigating they re first tasked with looking into a land deal, and the next thing you know they re looking into whether or not president clinton had an affair with an intern. there are similar republican complaints about the valerie plame leak investigation, who leaked valerie plame s name. it ends up being a fishing expedition and there are very few people in public life whose lives can bear that kind of scrutiny. to play devil s advocate once again, so bob mueller, let s say, is looking into president trump s finances. we don t know if he is or if he isn t. what would an improper payment
people, highly talented, extremely successful in the financial or business sector, who said no when they were asked to take a position in the trump administration for this reason, that they didn t want to go through months of divulging all of their financial assets and thousands of pages of financial disclosure. we really need to ask ourselves, do we want people of wealth to be in public service? now, i would make the case to you, jake, that the american people knew that donald trump was a real estate man. you asked a really interesting question earlier, when you played the devil s advocate about do we want a special prosecutor going through every financial transaction that donald trump has engaged in, in the last 10 or 15 years? this could be the kind of thing that could cripple and paralyze his presidency at a time when we have to deal with health care reform and tax reform. we re not talking about that tonight, we re talking about russia and these financial