white house for you as a reasonable republican, i think you describe yourself, to say that i would rather have a democrat in office? i do not support political strategies that are based on segregation. and that s essentially what donald trump is pursuing right now, political segregation. and if we continue to try to politically segregate the vote with incendiary language that has been used towards different populations in the country, i think that that s just not a viable long-term strategy. it s what the republican 2012 autopsy was fighting to say, this isn t viable long-term. it s what the texas gop from 2010 to 2015, they did brilliantly by not playing into that, and by being a more encompassing party. the republican party has to go back to that if they want to have a future. wendy, is this a sea change for texas? i think it is. and, you know, to elise s point, i think not only do we see donald trump doing that at the national level, but we certainly see ted cruz doing it too.
some regards. reporter: and so the question is whether democrats are not only going to be able to take that sentiment from some of these republican voters but carry that across statewide. will ted cruz be able to hold on to those republican voters like georgia, but also at a congressional district level. there s those three districts that democrats won in 2016, but are currently held by republican incumbents. do democrats have enough along with some of those republicans in order to win those seats. vaughn, i always love having you on, because you talk to people and bring us people and what they think. elise, jumping off from there and talking about the republicans who might not be so happy about donald trump down in the lone star state, there were a lot of republicans in 2016, moderate republicans who found donald trump to be abhorrent, but they still went and voted for him. is the last year and a half, a little bit over year of the administration going to change their actually c
president trump, his visit to the cia yesterday. some say it only, you know, puts salt in the wounds. how do you see the relationship between the president moving forward and the intelligence community, whether his nominees get through or not? well, i think a lot depends on whether those nominees get through. if they all do get through and right now the indications are that they will, then it will be a lot smoother than it otherwise would be, but in the situation where they don t get through, it s going to be really tough. and i think it s tough already just because of the pronouncements that were made during the campaign, all the things that have come out and as elise mentioned, the mention of waterboarding. the cia and the military intelligence agencies follow the army field manual when it comes to waterboarding, which means there is no waterboarding. and it is considered to be torture. therefore, it won t happen. and you know, those are the kinds of things that become really impor
ashamed of himself for his, quote, despicable display of self-aggrandizement in front of that memorial wall. cia director nominee mike pompeo was at that speech but sean spicer says pompeo should have been there in an official capacity. i d also note that it s a shame that the cia didn t have a cia director to be with him today when he visited because the democrats have chosen senate democrats are stalling the nomination of mike pompeo and playing politics with national security. all right. i want to bring in our national security panel, elise labatt, cedric layton is a former member of the joint chiefs of staff and a cnn national security analyst and a former secretary for the department of homeland security. welcome to all of you. elise, you first. fill us in on this fight to get
fast-mvoving developments. the u.n. security council considering a resolution on israeli settlements and what they are considering keeps on moving right now. want to bring in cnn global affairs correspondent elise labatt for the details. the u.n. security council was supposed to vote today at 3:00 on a resolution condemning all israeli settlement activity, calling on israel to stop it, calling it illegal. very tough resolution that after years of using its u.s. veto to protect israel at the united nations, we understand the u.s. was going to abstain and not use its veto or let it pass. secretary of state john kerry was expected to lay out his vision for mideast peace in a speech before the vote. you know secretary kerry very involved in trying to bring peace to israelis and palestinians when he first came to office, wasn t able to do that. we understand that vote has been