They have been completely set back 20 years because of this administration. he could have fixed a lot with his words, with his actions and with the plans that he has inside this administration that i know about, okay, so it s there. they can t even address it. that s arrogant. that s mean. that makes me want to go march even more. you go, girl. so you have to stop looking at it politically in des moines and all that. that s bs. you have to let me do my job. go ahead. let me tell you what my job is. do your job. my job is to tell people what s going to happen in the future. that s fine. i disagree. this conversation started with you asking why donald trump couldn t do that. that s how you ended it. what could he have done? all i said was that s not what friday and saturday was about. friday and saturday, let those who have ears to hear hear, what friday and saturday was about were both sides talking to
You kept oil you wouldn t have isis, because that s where they made their money in the first place so we should have kept the oil. okay. maybe you ll have another chance. you unequivocally state this administration will not send more troops into iraq to, as the president puts it, take the oil. i m not going to talk about what we may or may not do. president the is clear he doesn t telegraph forward taking options off the table. that s not a good negotiating skill. that s not how he works. there s a reason he s been successful negotiating, he does it in a way that doesn t telegraph to people what he takes on or off the table. secretary robert gates, his book a passion for leadership is now out in paper back. mr. secretary, thank you so much for being here. obviously too early to assess this president. that was quite a disturbing saturd saturday. what is your take, first of all, on donald trump s cabinet picks
We re going to continue to cover what we feel is the news. that s not something that s going to go away. the white house can, again, disagree with it but we re not going to take kindly on being lectured on what the story should be. speaking of more news we haven t talked about pompeo voted in as cia. gets very high marks. he really does. it looks like marco is backing down on tillerson. so he s going to have tillerson, who was, you know, pushed by robert gates and condi and jim baker. and pompeo, who even donald trump s toughest critics say is going to be great at the agency. then you ve got general mattis who is considered an all-star by everybody. general kelly. general kelly is in there, too. it s a strong, strong team. you mentioned robert gates. still ahead on morning joe, robert gates joins us here on set. we ll get the former defense
Power here. can theresa may begin on her own or need to get approval from parliament. ruled 8-3 parliament does have to weigh in. lawmakers will vote whether or not article 50 of the lisbon treat y, this kicks off two-year process of negotiating uk s european divorce. now, theresa may wants to do this by march. this morning she said they were sticking to that timetable. it is expected to pass. 52% of the people voted to leave eu in june. the fact public mandate makes it difficult for lawmakers to go against the tide. most of may s conservative party supports leading and opposition labor party said they won t block article 50. might slow a bit but brexit under way. guys, stay tuned on friday when theresa may meets donald trump at the white house. lucy, you believe, lucy you believe it will pass parliament? no one is opposing triggering article 50, including the opposition. what they might try to do is
Questions of these trade deals. we have said, let s have a trade deal in asia. let s have a trade deal with columbia. donald trump is doing what at least i believe and what the workers believe our leaders have needed to do for 40 years. guess what, the protest, millions of people, there are no signs about tpp. the interesting thing is most of donald trump s policies made a lot of sense. that s probably the reason he got elected. the issue people had with him is the other thing that you guys were debating earlier in the show, why was the news reporting it, that at the same time he was putting forth, cutting fat, the federal jobs, the tpp that nobody could argue with, at the same time the president of the united states was out and out lying about the immigrants changing the election. that s what people it s the temperament issue. the thing keep going back on, why are we covering this? why are we covering this?