joining us now, eli stokel, also with us max bood, and also with us, betty woodruff. so, max, did i just hear the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee refer to the president as chaos after his secretary of state has apparently referred to him as a moron? that s a pretty i m sorry on the day, lawrence. i would have to say, i mean, what can you do except kind of laugh? this is like a bad reality tv show. it is like what the heck is going to happen tomorrow? i mean, any other administration this would be unbelievable. for the trump administration, it s, you know, more of the same basically. it is. eli, the one reference in the nbc news reporting about this that i don t quite get is the part where it reports the people in the room to have been stunned
staff kelly are those people that help separate our country from chaos. and i support them very much. joining us now, eli stokel, also with us max bood, and also with us, betty woodruff. so, max, did i just hear the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee refer to the president as chaos after his secretary of state has apparently referred to him as a moron? that s a pretty i m sorry on the day, lawrence. i would have to say, i mean, what can you do except kind of laugh? this is like a bad reality tv show. it is like what the heck is going to happen tomorrow? i mean, any other administration this would be unbelievable. for the trump administration, it s, you know, more of the same basically. it is.
estate experience, as he likes to remind us. and there are buildings on every continent so i m not sure why you were so disrespectful about this. but they should be very concerned. these are complex issues. he s discovering things like allies are kind of important. and they should be concerned because the threat is growing on an almost daily basis. it s not clear they have a plan. eli, i think the worst kept secret in washington is that all is not well in rex tillerson s state department and that no one is really happy, including rex tillerson and i ve been told this week is in some ways an audition for nikki haley as perhaps a successor. well, i ve talked to administration folks offer the last few days leading up to the u.n., ga here in new york and a lot of them have expressed how miffed they are at nikki haley out there getting to freelance as much as she does, taking the spotlight, not just from rex but people in the administration who see her out there giving one answer that s
but what s a reason for people at the u.n., other countries to share the burdens defending and fighting terrorism, et cetera. but will anyone believe it because this is a guy who said so many things and comes down on so many different sides of an issue, there s been all this confusion about the position on the paris accord because they are saying, well, and the president is saying, we re getting out but might get back in. so there s so much confusion that even if he reads a speech that has been written for him from a teleprompter and delivers a clear articulation of some trump doctrine, i m not sure that many other people from other countries sitting in the room with the headsets on listening to it are going to take it all that seriously because sometimes even trump has a hard time speaking clearly for trump. so it s a huge world stage. it s like miss universe expoent ineral this week. and he loves to play on the big stage. but what eli was saying is absolutely right. there s the tru
nasty things. much the same way as i don t really believe he s pro-life. despite that s what you re supposed to say. didn t he say the u.n. has tremendous potential? if i didn t vote for trump we d have a president who would say that kind of thing. u.n.-loving a u.n.-loving president like hillary clinton. he also wants to imitate the french military parades. he likes military parades. so we have a president who wants to imitate the french. that was not what republicans expected. so trump is who doesn t love a parade, though. you obama people are going to love trump by the end of this. pro-u.n., pro-french. would love to work there. eli, what do you make in sort of your body of reporting about these real stumbles on the world stage. refusing to sort of articulate our commitment to article 5 which was the it went on for weeks and weeks and weeks after he failed to after he elbowed the prime minister of montenegro